Mineral Point weekly tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1859-1868, 1865-10-18

and was considerably astonished at being
informed that there was no such thing in
the Territory. When the Governor came
'up stairs to see how she was progressing
in her new home, he found her CRYING for
vezation, and, upon learning the cause.
went down among the evening loafers of
the bar room, inquiring for servant, and
desperately offering seven shillings a day
for the commodity in question. But the
bystanders only laughed IN his face and
informed him that 81 a day would not
procure what was not in the country, and
advising him to give hintto his wife to
that effect He finally did SO; and, after
much demurring, Mrs Governor did her
own work perforce, doubtless with benefit
to her health, if with detrimant to her
pride
The employment in which the present
emigrants viii engage Wi be in accord
ance with their varied qualifications and
desires. i number Of them are highly
educated and good musicians. and these
are to teach their requirements, in schools
or otherwise, to the children of the set
tiers Others viii engage in sewing and
other light branches of female industry
while, probably, still more numerous
class vi l live out as servants and house
Keepers among the farmers and residents
Of the towns.
THE INDIRECT ADVANTAGES OF THE ENTER
PRISE.
Certainly, far greater advantages will
be extended to them in this youthful and
growing country than they could hope to
win in the populated districts of
hardy New ENGLAND, and the moral in
fuence which they will indirectly work
upon the young men Of the Territory IS
even more important and worthy of ex-
tensiye considerations than the mere ad-
vancement Of their own condition. Mr..
Mercer has been long a -esident of the
Territory, and the necess tv of some such
scheme as the one which he has in .ur-
ated, has been the result Of a careful OH
ser alton Of the character of his fellow
residents
A large portion Of these are young men.
who arrive in the Territory with excellent
habits and n laudable ambition to succeed
in their vocations of pioneers. But the
almost total lack of female society
and influence soon makes itself felt, and
m many cases they degenerate into care
loss, thriftlcss and prodigat habits. which
are dangerous, to say no more. The gray
smoke of the settlers hearth curIes from
the rude chimney of his lonely cabin, bat
the one form which can make the house
hold picture eweet and complete isahsent
and though the grain may spring from the
fresh-tilled fields with tropical lgxurancc
and aocks multiply on the sunny slopes Of
perpetual verdurc, the home of the settler
is no more than a bivouac, and his life no
better than cast-away's
It is especially with a view to remedy
this eval that the Emigrant Agent was
dispatched npon his mission. He is con-
fdent that the Introduction of strong
element of female society into the Ter>
yitory viii exert a home influence, more
efTcacious in eIevating and purifying the
morals of the inhabitants than any amount
of tract giving and sermonizing.
And, although the principal object Of
these young female emigrants is not dir
ectl7 "to Get married of, probably most
of them will find permanent homes, low
ing hearts and protecting arms in the
brilliantly d"wuiug future Of the great
Northwest. At any rate, we cannot but
regard with interest and solieitude the
great steamship Continental when she
clears from this port next week, and
streets FIR the open sea with her precious
cargo Of youth and beauty, and hopeful
maiden-lives, to bear them, under Provi-
dence, through sun and storm. to the dis
tant Territory by the Peaceful Sea, where
their children and their childrens cl lid
rem Wi | rise and flourish nobly, as the
star of Empire takes its westward way.