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What reliable statistlcian!, -
We have thus shown that Illinois exceeds
Upper Canada III population. and in tho pro-
duction Of those great staples, wheat, eorn,
beef and pork, which 60 to make up the agr:
cultural wealth Of a country; and We may add
that she su1passes botA canadas in the number
aud extent Of her railways. Her position IN
the Union Of the States is commanding one,
and her soils are as fertile-as proved By re-
peated ana1ysis-as any the sun shines upou-
Her $1,000 square miles Of territory, when
taxed to its full capacity, will be found capable
Of sustaining greater population than the
40, 900 square miles Of the Canadas.
In taking leave Of this subject, VIC have
few words to offer upon the perverslons Of Ar.
Hatton: He is at the head Of statistical. bu-
| ,eau; and We hare right to demand that in
dealing With facts and figures, he shall ezer-
else IN answering truthfu1ness. He has no
right to h1sly statistics to subserve tempo
rary purpose. Protesting, in Coethe's Ian
guage, to give cain "oypcsitiors Of the true"
he attempts to give currency to the false; and
ours has been the task to expose this Abogus'
coin and nail it to tho counter. While pro
Tossing to refute the SANDERS Of Mr.. Calssa,
upon his own country, he has committed libels
Of the grossest kind upon . neighborins one-
His whole article is characterized by Fsck-
1essuess Of statement and hardhood OF asser-
ton which must inpeach his yezacisy with Ill
honorable men:
Come We now to the most lugubzious pa't
| Of our task. Oue Of the Spectator yezacicNs
correspondents describes tho prairies as ono
vast, trembling mass Of peat with here and
there an island, or tussock for person to tie
to. Our friend Mr.. Twodaggers speaks
these "wretchcd lands,-the very nursery
+ fever and agtle-as IN arid wilderness" TheFE
, is q slight discrepancy between these two Of
servers in the physical features Of the pr:iries
) but "it is Of no consequence, thank you,
. as Mr. Tools said--either will suit the pus
: pose Of the Spectator. Those who are aispos
). ed to believe that they arc semi-iluid mas
: Of mud can do 80, and those who nre dispose
to belicyc that they consist Of arid, rarche
| plains, they also can do so. This IS 1fe
n :, country, and down with those who would il
: terfarc with ones belief Now, We have II
o peatcdly traversed the entire length both I
+ Illinois and Canada; and wo assert witho,
d the fear Of successful contradiction, that thel
le j., greater amount Of marsh for the first twel
ty miles out Of Detroit, On the line Of the Gzc'
" Western Railway, than along the whole II
miles Of the Illinois Genital. The nurseries
> for fever md ague must therefore be few,
- But Mr.. G. Lindsey has mado the fever ar
" ague bis speciality, and has studied it, ns Hot
- ard studied human misery, by visiting the
fected districts. Permit It's to tender to Iii
our profound telicitations that lie has sol
" through the ordeal Of exposure to fever n,
y aguc, pneumonia, typhoid, and the terrible co
u eestiye chilla, and has come out uuscathe
- aud nov, through the columns Of the LEAD
the world is put in possession Of bis err
~ riepces with Deioc-like truthfulncss.
Ao would seem that be saw only a single "a
and that was Of man who came to the VT
% an invalid. twelve years ago. The rest {
80 pends on hearsay. The prevailing diseas
e here arc bilious, which in most cases read
~ yield to medicine; while in Carada consun
~ tion ia tho great scourge which sweeps
~ more than two thousand Of hex people anu
IL, Ar. Hutton is careful to make special
ference to every page in Nr. Cairtfs bo'
-. where the phrase "fever and ague' occu'
~ and whenever Mr.. Lindsey, il his Ulyy<se
~ ~ wanderings paused, he appears to have ma
- It ito staple Of his conversation. To his e.
- every fog that arose was laden with malar
=: to his sense Of feeling every cooling bret
~ was the premonition Of d eongestiye cI'
- Death lurked in every pool, and qnivered
: evcry leaf After these dolefal accounts in
Leader, his readers will be somewhat surpl
- edto learn that Illinois, Us proved By the cen:
returns Of 1850, is in point Of salubrlty
-. above tho average Of that Of the United Stat
and that it would be just as ridiculous for
s to warn an IDinoian who had any regard
49, his kealth not to visit Ohio, or Kentucky.
Wv Masss chusetts, or New York, as for Mr.. Lin
9, ley to attempt by considerations like these,
~ prevent his countrymen from coming here.
-, 4 man may view beautiful sandsc'
- through blue goggles, and a ghastly, uneart
~, tint will be communicated to every object
~. mau may wander along beach where aga
=. and corneliaus and amcthysts predomins
and bring away only the 1usserless and val
H. less pebbles a. characteristic Of the shore.
=. With such yiews, Nj. Lindsey tsaver
-. Illinois. Ills object was to draw pict
-. with gloomy, funereal tints, that his count
a men might have no desire to sec the origi'
40 Suppose that We were to visit canada- In
I'm err village where we pause, we describe &c
49, victim Of consumption. We describe tie =
~, and wasted form, the hectic flush, the rattl
~. cough, the blood settling about the nails,
flutteripg pulse, and all the symptoms vi
attend the going out Of life's candle. Tho
tant reader would infer that you were rac
~ ~ consumptives; and the editor Of the Lea
~. w. would have you infer that every inhabItan
80 -. Illinois was gorged with bile. 1le delight
."' cloas over the manifestations Of suffering
4 ~" manity, and deals with those dread my
ries, Disease and Death, to serve sm
pu,posc, Hosarth's wicked apprentice is
tho only instance Of person caught ganh
on q tombstone.
1t is time to draw these remarks to cl