The Kalida venture. [volume] (Kalida, Ohio) 1841-1865, 1851-09-12
WHOLE NO. 545. ei

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total failure. passed nursery, from I,
which had been cast out very large.
brusb-leap Of young peach trees---iheIe I
being no sale for them. ! presume
that further from The lake influences, in
the interior of the State, fruit culture is
as successful as in any other new State,
and that as experience deyelopes the
peculiuliiies Of the climate much that is Y,
now complained Of will cease 10 be mat
ter of complaint The raising Of wool,
cattle, hogs, and horses, and in fact 1.-Two
stock of every kind must prove profitable 4
here. So far it has been entered upon
il mas been found so. And as the sei-
Tiers acquire capital, and get over the
difficulties ipciden. to,a new and rapid
settlement they will 60 more and more
into the breeding of stock, &c. Clearing
a farm here is rather quick process
costing about $3.50 or SO per aero.
On Mr.. Leonard's farm we found team
|of fourteen oxen attached to prairio
plough, which threw up broad deep !
sod cutting through underbrush, roots,
&C., with force truly surprising 10 me. p
From three TO four acres per day ! was
told could in this way be turned up. All
that was then required was TO harrow il, !,
when it is ready Sor seeding, sJ.;.,
Kenosha, at which ON returning from
the country. we made a couple OF days i
stay, is very peasant city, with apopul. I,
alton ranging from 8 10 1000 persons, Il
has no natural harbor, but-3 or piers
running out into lake Michigan, at which
vessels stop. In this il does not dff.r |,
from Waukegan, Racine, Milwaukee, or
Sheboygan. Kenosha has some beauii.
ful private residences, a very elegant
Court house not quite finished, but the !.
general character Of its buildings mark
its recent existence. II is surrounded
by rich prairie country, we'll settled, i
and with an apparently prosperous popul
alton. II has plank rood running north
about 20 miles, and others in contempla-
ton. The inhabitanIs, judging from the
few with whom made acquaintance arc
quite intelligent, and really en,erprizing !
in more than the mere physical sense
making progress in the world Of thought.
Icalled on G. L. ,ShoIes, Esq, the
editor Of a new monthly paper, "Tho
Truth Seeker" of which received the.
first number. 1t is devoted TO Reform,
to Free Enquiry, and in fact TO all ques-
tions which concern Humanity, as such.
MI. s has been until lately the editor ofl
the Democratic paper here, is we'll educat-
ed, practical printer, an able thinker,
and close reasoner, though being pro- !;
gressive in the largest sense of,hat term, a
lie adopts opinions which are not likelyrs
soon 10 become common. Tho rappers had
just been at Kenosha, VIXEN ] came, and
had made m1ny converts. The editor Of
the Truth Seeker, by his paper credits ihesl
phenomena as spiIitual intercourse, and Il
does not, as many do, consider il an exhi-
bition Of phaze Of mesmerism. The !,
latter is my view Of the matter iIl
have heard Of nothing which the reputed
spirit Iappers have done or said which
may not be referred to mesmersm, and
satisfactorily accounted for on the theory
Of IFS probable principles, being reallya
delusion Of The seLses. ] do rot say
that il is SO, but that this is my opinion.
The influence of imagination seems in-sa
adequate wholly to produce such iescltsi
as have been stated to me to have taken
place BY persons worthy Of credit.
seems to require greater stretch Of
credulity to believe that ignorant, as
some Of the mediums unquestionably are,d
:h.y can deceive highly intelligent
persons with more signal success than
jagglers Of twenty years practice iind,v
than TO believe that there il something Of
reality in the matter, though evincing
mere terrestrial phenomena, and having
no spiritual character. lido not say that
il is impossible that these manifestation,
should prove to be spiritual, but the char
acter Of the exhibitions, Of the mediums, y
SO called, and The exhibition for money
the fact that no adequate purpose SAM
svered by the manifestations, ihs very
rappings themselves, 50 clumsy mods.
Of communication, scarcely rising y shs
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