The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1860-07-16

HERALD OF the 10Th ul, +, from the pen Of our
special reporter, under Il Re above heading We
have received several scor. Of communications
from parties in Illinois, 10 wa, Wisconsin, and
Minnesota. All the writer's ,nsider the article
in the main able and thorough but each ono
takes exception to some partit 'ular statement
which affects his peculiar interest :.
One or two residents of Southe IN and Gen.
trail Illinois are outraged at the sta tement thai
quinine is an article of common u In their
region. They say that fever and ass care an
known in their part Of the country, bu they
shsh-shake t-t-tterri-b-bbly 90 over the way"
A correspondent from Southern Iowa insists
upon the HERALD giving notice 10 the e, xtea-
sion of the Burlington road through Iowa. low
ia running order - far = Ottumwa; also tot be
quality Of the land in Southern Iowa, which 70
says Is the finest in the State The difference ,
between our correspondent and ourselves Is, va
suspect, slight but decided he has probably
Iowa land TO sell we have none. We hope hist
land Is ~ good - he say 1t Is, and II 1t be- -
will probably be able to sell itata profit with
out our aid. A. to his promises vigh fseaed<1
the prosecution Of the 0tfnnWa road, she pub
lie at large viii be glad to see them realized;
though we doubt very much whether any of the
Iowa roads will be this fall in running order
as far west as the Mississippi and Missouri.
dozen or more gentlemen owning land in
Minnesota insist upon filing three or four of our
columns apiece with elaborate essays upon
the merits of that thriving young State.
They had better plant corn. There is an mex
haustible market at very fair rates for corn, and
quite light demand for puffs of Minnesota. We
think, on the whole, that we were quite liberal
to that State We said it was producing very
large quantity-some said 1000, 900 bushels
of fine wheat, and that immigration was flowing
thither freely. We said that the crops there
looked finely, and that-barring the rust-the
people would be rich there next summer. True,
we added that within the State limits there was
large amount of pretty hard land, and that in
winter the thermometer fell to thirty degrees
below zero, which can hardly be called genial
temperature for outdoor enjoyment But, af
ter all, this is quite true as Minnesota friends
know perfectly we'll; and why get into a rage
at the facts being fairly stated
Our most savage correspondents, however,
hail from Wisconsin. OF that lovely State we said
that IT was mainly settled by people who bor-
rowed Eastern money and didn't pay it back;
who built fine houses, and grand cities and long
railroads with other mems cash, and then pass
ed laws to declare their debts invalid and of no
consequence; who went systematically to work,
several years ago, to divert traffic from its natu-
raj channel into unnatural ones, and who, in
this insane pursuit, had ruined themselves and
everybody who hSk trusted them. These plain
statements of fact appear to have proved I'M
palatable in the meridian of Milwaukee, and
we are visited with several quires of mingled
abuse and statistics-the whole calculated to
prove Wisconsin great State, her people the
honestest on the earth, and Milwaukee the hub
of the Western universe. We shall reply by
few more plain facts.
Milwaukee owes about $2500,O0O mnin,y
to Eastern people. About 81 100000 of this
was borrowed to build the railways which have
made the city what ii is. The whole of this
debt is practically repudiated. Several cou-
pons are overdue on the city bonds, and the
bondholders have never been able to obtain the
faintest shadow of promise from the city that
the least effort would be made to raise money
to pay the interest. Committees of bondholders
have gone to Milwaukee over and over again to
beg and implore the City Council to take some
steps to preserve their credit and fulfil their
bargains; they have been met by threats of open
reputation in the courts. No proposition even
Of compromise has ever been made by the city,
Its attitude has been that of the defiant thief,
who knows that he cannot be arrested In his
sanctuary. When we add that these remarks
apply not only to Milwaukee, but to Racine,
Kenosha, Beloit, Watertown, and to every city
and county in Wisconsin that ever had credit to
borrow Eastern money, and that the regulators
enjoy the full confidence and protection of the
courts and Legislature of the State, we think
we shall have said enough to justify not only
the structures we made, but remarks of infinitely
greater severity.
The people of Wisconsin had better pay their
debts, and not write letters to the papers. Al
ready retribution presses upon them In the
shape of lost credit, decaying trade, declining
population. In few years, II the present dis
honest course be persevered in, the cities Of
Wisconsin will have become deserted villages;
immigrants will avoid them as plague spots; no
man will trust Wisconsin trader; no farmer
will send his produce to cities which have
cheated all who trusted them; and the Wiscon-
sin people will bethink themselves when II Is
too late, that Honesty would have been the
better policy"
RATIFICATION MEETINGS AND THE PRoFEs-
SIGNAL SrousxES.-There are great trouble and
dismay among the professional politicians and
spoilsmen at the difaculty experienced Ia get
ting the people to attend at decentralization
aud other public meetings.
These political humbugs have lost all their