The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1854-05-29
Another Letter by the Dog Train Mail.
From the Cleveland Herald, May 25.l

EAGLE RIvER, May L, 1854.
The Lake has been clear of ice week, and boat.
are expected every hour. In the woods there is YET
remaining about foot of snow, but in open ground.
it has gone, and few weak, yeowish green samples
OF vegetation are peering through the dry leaves.
The forest that for so many months has beer
without the presence of living things, echoes to the
voices Of birds.
During five months that the ground was mantled
in deep SHOWS no signs of life broke in upon the
solitude of nature over this broad expanse Of winter
except an occasional red squirrel or pheasant
Even the bear had retired to some old tree top or
hollow log, to live, as it is said, upon his own re-
sources, by sucking his paws. What pity the hui
man race could not sustain themselves thus The
bear has now resumed his wanderings to the great
apprehension of Cornishmen and pigs. The truth is,
be is hungry. Robinred-breast has also come up
from bis winter below and now enlivens the shores
Gulf Of Mexico.
The winter has been without rains and the spring,
thus FAR, without storms. Along shore the winrows
OF grounded ice that were piled up last fall by the
November tempests, have nearly all disappeared
They now present long lines that look like sand
rdges, owing to the mixture Of sand with the ice.
The wave again breaks on the shore after having
been held In check by surface of ice for five
months and the monotonous roar of its diminishing
nipples as they are exhausted on the beach, again
dweDs upon the ear, like the voice of returning
companion.
sleigh-bells no longer Jingle along the roads-in
iact me mud is so deep and the roots and stumps
possible.
But the sun is powerful, pouring directly down
nom Inc zenith, being now well advanced TO its
northern limit in the Summer solstice.
III this lake the ice Is driited to the West end
ana not TO The East as 1t IL in Lake Erie. Two years
lntc yessels cond not reach Fond du Lac until the
llth OF June on account Of eastcry winds that held
The ice there in large fields.
Inc emigration to that part Of the lake is likely to
le large this season. Parties have already LETT here
,p thatlegion on foot, through the woods to the
Cntonagon, in order to be first on the ground.
III the railroad projects now before Congress suc-
ceed htavy settlement will soon follow. The. re-
ources OF that pant OF the lake for farming are
wealth.
On the North shore, from Fond du Lac to our
boundary at Pigeon river, the Indians st own the
country back to the British line IL is the same from
tie falls OF ST. Louis river West to the Mississippi
But Indians are feeble opponents to the advance of
whxe men who take fancy 10 their country.
TIE Indians are ready to cell but want a large
price. There Is no difficulty in buying their claims:
but after they are bought, to get them oil Is q Sc
nous matter. These fellows understand inesse and
trickery far better than we do.
After the bargain is concluded, and a heavy paw.
ment made, a thousand subjects of misunderstood.
ing present themselves. They don't want their rice
lakes disturbed and flooded by tue lumbernen who
are the hIst people on the ground after an Indian
treaty. They did not think the government would
really need the land, but cxpecte 10 huns there as
usual. Their young men and squaws don't like to
leave their villages for another country. The Mace
to which they are to 90 don't suit them especially
II vhiskey Is tooiar of, or entirely wautjng They
hnaly reluctantly consent to CO. and the QoysrIl.
ment pays 10 TO 70 dollars head % tranapoft them
tlltBcr but Ike young kittens no matter how far
'hey are carried, II let loose back they come.
AURORA BoREALIs.