Mineral Point tribune. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1854-1858, 1857-06-16
The STATE OF Wisconsin.

The Chicago Democrat presents our
advantages in the following language:
IN very few years Wisconsin Will
contain population numbering over a
million, dispersed throughout territory
adequate to support and employ a humber
OF inhabitants much greater than that
which the Empire State now POSSESSES
The State has now about 700 miles OF
railroad IN operation and in less than
three years twice that number of miles
Will be completed. TIE value of the real
and personal property within It's borders
cannot be less ,han ninety millions Of dol
lars; and nowhere VIII the investment Of
capital pay a better interest than there,
whether III buying and improving lands,
IN building mills and railroads, or employ
ed II the business Of mining. The ben
eHcent measures adopted by the State
Government and the General Govern
ment, to provide the State with an abund-
ant school fund, VIII be, to future gener
ations, of very great advantage, providing
the lands and revenues can hereafter be
secured from the rayages of plumbers
The Judlclous expenditure of this fund
will IN few years place 1t in 4 position
inferior TO that of no State in the Union
for educational facilities. The state has a
soil equal, for farming purposes, to that
Of any other; Of mineral, 1t has copper,
iron and lead; of timber, it has pine.
hemlock, maple, white oak, black oak.
ash, elm, hickory, black walnut, and some
other varieties, IN abundance. The sur
face Of the country is rolling, and plenty
of milI-siles can be found on anv of the
large streams, especially upon those in
the northern and central portions Of the
state. Millions of acres Of good farming
land IN this state are now awaiting settle
ment that can be purchased at 81 % per
acre. We confidently believe that the
enterprise Of the Northwest will construct
railroad through Wisconsin and Mn
nes0ta, round to the northern-most bend
Of the Missouri, and over the Rocky
Mountains to Puget's Sound before a
railroad will traverse the Rocky Noun
talns by any other route. This northwest
ern country presents better inducements
to Northern aud Eastern men than they
VIII meet with IN many other localities
In this direction great portion Of the
Eastern emIgrants are now tending.
L L intense
beauty Of the artic armament can hardly
be imagined. 1t looked close above our
heads, with It's stars magnfied in glory,
and the very planets twinkling so much
as 10 battle the observations of the astron-
omer. | have trodden the deck when the
life of earth seemed suspended-its move
ments, It's sounds, its coloring, its compan-
ionships; and as looked on the radiant
hemisphere circling above me, as If rem
derlng worship to the unseen Centre light,
have CALCULATED in humility of spirit.
:" Lord, what Is man. that thou art mind
full of him z" And then have thought Of
the kindly world we had left, with It's re-
volving sunlight and shadow, and the
others stars that gladdened 1t in their
changes, and the hearts that warmed to
US there, till | lost myself in memories of
those who are not, and they bore me
back to the stars again. Dr. Kane.
NEGRO WIr.-How much do you charge
to marry me and Miss Dinah g
"Why, Clem, III marry you for two dol
lars"
Two Dollars-whatye charge to mar
ry white folks massa g.
1--WE generally charge them FIVE dollars,
Glenn"
Well, ye marry Us like white folks
and I'll give ye five dollars
Why, Glenn, that's a curious notion, bat
as you desire it, I'll marry you like white
folks, for FIVE dollars"
The ceremony being over, and Clem
and Dinah made one, the magistrate asked
his fee.
''Oh no, massa, We no come to the gree
ment-ye no kiss the BRIDE"
/ Get cut Of my office, you black rascal -
And so Glen got nlaFreied for nothing