New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1858-01-21
circular saws, &C., one printipg-otscs from which
issues weskH paper, ten stores and warehouses,


generous sprinklng Of mechanics shops, 70 greg
skops, and last, though not Hast, two confortnoh
churches, and one union school house. "A by 10 feet
and two stories high, With lecture room. recitation
room, &C.
II is no Sigh, evidence Of the energy and elasticity
Of Sew-England character a. developed in the
z NAL West, 20 note the fact that during the pres
ent season. when that terrible army of ocusts settled
down upon our cultivated fields and destroyed every
yestige OF crop, when in utter hOpelessness of reap
ing where they had sown, our farmers threw down
:" the shovel and the hoe'-it was then, instead Of
sts-sy folding their hands in despair they went res
outely 10 work preparing the soil FOR an ndestruct.
lille harvest, rch in its mental aud moral results.
The schoohouse and one Of the churches were
erected side by side-the first al cost of 5000,
the latter at cost of $1,000 500 was
gwen "a a bonus 20 start a weekly paper; from
$500 TO 800 was contributed TO cut road l3O miles
through the forest 10 the rich praiTes that stretch
away toward the golden West and the Missouri
River and over which the tide OF emigration IL How.
ing with unexampled rapidity. Well, the locusts left
us as suddenly as they came; they went "a though
they appreciated the sentiment " Devil take the
hndmost'-bsd luck 10 EN-.
Close at the heels Of the locust plague came the
the crisis" think you call 1t; about the causes OF
which your Doctors in Wall street and on Change
seem 10 disagree. With an abundant harvest we
might have laughed at "hard times but really, usder
the circumstances, matters looked serious men VINO
had paper money in their pockets at night on waking
up the morning found oDehalf of II worthless, tor
present at least and the probability was that the
remaining half would be knocked into pi the ar
rival Of the next mail. Exchange the East CON-
msnded from to- y cent premium; gold the same.
Minnesota had no currency Of her own. What was
good from abroad was picked up blythe merchants and
bankers TO pay freight bills, and 10 remit to Eastern
creditors. Corner lots were drug in the market.
Money was worth from to , q cent month and but
precious little at that. Men looked at each other in
sstonishment-s few quailed and shrauk at the pros
pect-some fewer still basey skunk away, and may be
found at present hanging around the old homestead at
the East too lazy TO work. but not too proud to become
beggurly dependents on the bounty of friends.
But Sir, the great body of our population threw of
their coats bid speculation "good-by for time
and planting themselves on their claims of loo acres
bid defiance to hard times and the blues and to-day
through our forests and our praires the clear
ringing strokes Of the az and the sharp crack of the
rife tell of honest independent labor, and of joyous
manly sport Our people were becoming crazy in
their haste to get rich by speculation andtheir present
discipline will prove of ncacu'abe advantage in the
lessons of economy, OF industry, Of seldependence
il teaches.
To the enterprising, sefrelying young man, who i
not afraid of hard work and pryation and who wishes
to carve out for himself fortune, and 70 help mould
and fashion society to high and nobepurposes, Mime
sofa offers many inducements. To the tmid, the
luxurious and the indolent she offers none. J. T. B.