The north Iowa times. [volume] (M'Gregor [i.e. McGregor], Iowa) 1856-1857, 1857-05-08
Correspondence.
CoNconD, N. H., April ID, 1857,
Ed. Tunes :

NONCOUD, ~. uS april Ia, 1901,
Ed. TIMES:
Perhaps you away on tothcr side of the
would like to know how 1--WE
apples swim" here in the heart of the .Old
Granite State Well we are alive, mos. of us.
You need not think by that, that we live in a
remarkably healthy State (though we in fact do)
for there are but few Of us left, the rest have
gone South CT West. SO there arc only few of us
to get sick with anything EXCEPT "emigration
fever" and that disease has prevailed 80 long and
carried off 50 many, that like the old woman's
Ecls, "we've got used to it," More of this amen.
Now for the news Of the day. Though our
Mountain tops arc yet white with snow, ii has
mostly passed away from the lower lands and
they soon will be ready for the tiller's hand
Lately we have had quite warm weather, which
has been great Improvement in this high laii-
tude, as Baron Stcubcn said, I've have nine
months winter and tree months d---n cold
weather." .ErE...,. .|.. .. .
Business of most kinds opens dull-prices Of
all that enables us to live ard have being, are
at hish.water mark, o. mile above it, with a
fair prospect of growing no better fast The
drain. which emigration West has made on the
telling sincw of tie East, has made labor of all
kinas here high. Many being able to realize
better pay, rushed into hoc-manufacturing Until
hey have ovcrdone the thing and gorged the
market Meanwhile tlsepriccs of Leather have
been constantly rising, until now unmanufactur-
ed stock is worth nearly as much as when made
up. This has brought many small dealers to
stand still, an eventually many will be thrown
out of e;nployn ent. Sugars and all those articles
which serve pecially to swceten up human en-
istence, arc ye high as in fact all the necessities
Of life are. ..
In fact. with extravasan,e folly and fashion, a
man. and especially married one. can, Al this
section, hardly afford to live. Sugars, pkcc from
IL to Is cts. per II ordinary Molassej55 to GO,
.syrurs from 10 to 81 and upwards, fams Is to
l6 cts. lard same. butter % to 25, bbney 25cts
pork, moss, Is, -four from So to i'd and other
articles in proportion. Considering t,at We are
not far from the ssa-toard, YOU see wAare in for
it somc, if not more. ..
In New England great interest has bee taken
in the t:ial of TIE Rev. J. S. Kallcch of Boston,
one of the famous "thiee thousand"-thc offence
alleged was crim-con with married lady, an old
schoolma'e Of his. The Jury disagreed. though
the evidence was very strong against him with
next to nothing to rebut It's force, except the fact
that he was Minister! Mr.. Kalloch is a very
fluent and eloquent speaker. and during the last
campai gn he took the stump and acclaimed fo-
temperance and against the i,nmoralitics which
he said, arose from the peculiar institutions down
South. 1t was admitted by him, that on the
night of the alleged crim-con, he bought two
heavy portions Of ,caishey and drank tAcm and
paid S.. In the minds of the pcopl., who un-
prejudiced, have digestsd the Who'll, matter in
the H. ht of common sense an reason. he has a.
most unanimously been convicted. they regard
the dsagreements Of the jury (so;le of whom
were of his faith) as rco;ca! of III old plea of
1.-The benefit of Clergy" Another of the same
class has rCn away from Conn, an case of the
same kind has occurred in Massachusetts,. This
with the Dalton divorce case, which arose frorl
another Grim con and the trial of the State Pris-
OH murdercrs, enables us to beat the rest of the
Union in filth and crime
From Vermont, Connecticut, Massachusetts.
Rhode Island and our own State an urbroken
FOOD of emigration, s;ll rails Westward! 1t is
taking away our active. entcrprising-our choi,-
est citizens. Their loss and that Of sthe sinews
of war which they carry with them, drains
heavily on our prosperity. 1t issappns the vitals
of Eastern prosperity and pocer. 1t is an alarm
ing fact, but her own sons must admit, that in
these, New England is already in her dccadenee.
Hitherto, from her compact population, CONNER
cial advantages and countless avenues Of learn
ing, she has welded an influence much greater
than her size would warrant. Once. through her
mighty mind, in either House of Congress, she
had st;ong influence on the policy Of the Ma
ton. Eut Iow how are the mighty fallen ?'-
she sends demagogues and tricksters to occupy
the place of Statesmen, and with this new order
Of things her political influence has GONE, and
all her other influences in its wake.
If this is of interest enough to publish, I'll
pick the nib and try again.
r..s Yours, GRANITE.