The miners' express. (Dubuque, Iowa) 1849-1854, 1852-03-31
SPRING.

pleasing face. The gloom and frosts of wintet
have subsidized and we are once more reminded
OF the chat,cring of the birds, the whistle of the
Steamboats, and renewed aud redoubed &C ivty
among the business men of our City M-r-
chants are beginning to dsplace old goods, for
new ones, builders and mechanics are active in
arranging the preliminaries for extensive and
unexamped improvements in our city, and gen.
eral joy and activity 2ervadts all classes and all
trades
Among our merchants who a'e now receiving
goods are Messrs Emerson & Shields, p Wa
Piles &. Co., Farley q Christman, X. C. NAPLES
4 Co, and G. w. Burton. There may be 9th.
ers, but ii so, they have not come to our knowl-
edge.
Owing to the heavy losses of our farmers lasr
season, less business was done among our Mer-
chants, than probably would have been, had we
escaped the severe drenching floods of that pc.
Rod
Let us hope, that our farmers are not soon a.
gain to encounter such season; and relying
upon this hope, let us be assured that the pres
ent years business will far exceed any former
year.
Light profits, quick Gales and cash receipts
(or its equivale 1t is the true theory of trade.
and no class of men understand the principle
more thoroughly than our merchants. We do
not believe there is town North Of st Louis,
or West of Chicago, that sci lis goods as cheap
as they are sold in Dubuque. It's an establish
ed fact that many articles of merchandise are
retailed as cheap in this City, as in the retail
establishments Of New York and Boston We
know OF but one reason which can justify this
result, and that is, that the expense of do.
ing business here, is much less than there
| CIRCUMSTANCES MAKE GRE AT MEN-Historv
records many distinguished men--men who have
risen from comparative obscurity, to the most
exalted eminence. This result, in majority
of instances, has been brought about by force
| of circumstances. Great and trying events
have arisen, in which il became necessary for
men to act a conspicuous part. And it is at
such times, that history points to where those
men have been found. Generally TO the mid.
die class Of society.
From the numerous and elaborate articles of
the Herald, bestowed upon Mr.. Thomas Rogers
past experience would seem to admonish US that
he has reached the eliminating point of his
glory and that he is not without his admirers to
do the honors of impartial history.
But seriously, what object is to be attained by
pursuing Mr.. Rogers, after the meeting is past,
tho cit cooloA of Ia c..
the people assembled attained, and the Railroad
bill as good as plst' 1t seems to US that our
neighbors are struggling hard 10 manufacture
mountain out of mole hill.
There is one more point to which We may We
ry properly address a remark or two. Our com.
munity is of moral and religious character,
alive to that high toned sense of honor, and dig.
nfed by that modes.y, which should belong to
every well disposed and well regulated society
Addressed to such a community, we find repeat.
ed and unmanly illusions made to the domestic
relations of Mr.. Rogers. The least spark Of
manly and moral sensblity with those who con.
troll the columns Of public journal, should pro-
tect at least the genter members Of every fam-
ly' from being dragged before the public, to af.
ford food for the gossip and ridicule of the vu!-
gar Whatever may be the differences existing
between Mr.. Rogers, and the editors of the Her.
aid, they should disdain the low and debasng
vocation, OF desecratng the domestic shrine, to
reach the object of their fierce hatred. Our re-
marks may not be well received by our neigh
bors, but they must pardon US, when we remind
them, that we cannot be silent, when they dis.
regard every moral and social restraint, which
should attach 10 the character o: an upright and
virtuous community.