Litchfield enquirer., 1857-01-29

happiness will tempt you to sin, with the false suggestion that, there is something unmanly in goodness. & Be warmed in timel Cast not away a jewel whose lustre now gllds with a soft mrld radiaee, the. whole of life. Do not tamper with it--do not endanger it. Resist the be gaaaings of crime. Let nntarnis!led truth and Ahonor bright the self respect, ofa gentleman ! tue conclence of Christian,a rule your inter course. with men; let nasullied purity of thought and deed, respectful courtesey and manly deco- rum rgidly guard your conduct toward, your language about the other Sex. Bear in mind continually the opening strain--the first sounds that reach our ears from the harp of the inspir- ed Psalmst, borne along down through thirty centuries, as the anthem of the Church of God
 -Beatas ale qai non abiis.' Blessed is he who hath not walked in the counsel of the ungody.
 ..,.. .-.r..r Rer. 7. v. Tyler. A Pramising Territory.
 Cor. Gorman in his messa ge to the Minncsota
 Legislature last winter stated the population of the Territory, at 0,00o, as shown by the cen sus taken ol the Summer previous. At the opening of navigation in spring it was estimatod at l20, 900. and soon after the close of nav sa- tion, it is set down by a St Paul parcr at 900 00o. There may be some ex.,ge.ation in this last account but we thiuk not much Minne- sota has been regarded as the land of promise for three or four years back throughout the Eastern States. and the tide of emigration setting toward it during the last Spring and Summer has been far greater than ever before caused partly by diversion of several thousand in that direction who would have gone to Kan sas had 1t not been for the troubles there, but chiefly by the encouraging accounts of the re- sources of the Territory given by their settlers to friends at distance, and those of travel CTS through it, communicated to the newspaper Such accounts are always liable to the suspi- cion of being rather warm colored, but, we be- lieve that as general thing the natural advan tages of Minnesota have not been overstatcd. Tine more widely it becomes known the higher stands its reputation in the public mind
 The settlement of two hundred thousand peo pie during the short space of ten years in a Ter ritory more than fifteen hundred miles from the seaboard, which; up to that period had only been roamed over by sayages, is an extraordiI- ary fact in the history of emigration even in this country, and it becomes all the more inter- esting when we consider the character of the population, which for energy, industry, and so- Der household virtues, will compare favorably with that of the best portions of older state. As We should expect from such a people all of the best institutions of older communities keep pace with the general improvement of the couu- try Every village has its school house and its church, and at St Pauls and ether large villages the foundations of education are laid on Q gen erous and broad scale.
 At its present rate of increase, Minnesota will have population of at least half d million in 1860. In two years CT less, Chicago will be iu direct railroad communication with St. Paul furnishing grand highway of travel into the heart of the Territory, and by that time anoth- CT railroad will in all probability have penc;rat ed Southern Minnesota from Iowa. if not more than one Meantime, also, a railroad will be c,rried forward from St. Paul to Lake Supe- rior throwing open vast region to settlement and improvement. These works constructed, the progress of settlement will be wonderfully rapid, and we can hardly set any limita to the population of the Territory at the end of twea- ty years.-CAieaeo Press. -..