Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1868-03-12

MNNtFAonWNG IN 81 LnUIs-ouR WA
TER NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. As
PECT A FRIr NnLESs NAN
GUANT-VEINONT.
81 Lows, Mareh !, 1875.

This city is remarkable alike for its 20
sition, It's solid structure, it. rapid growtl
in wealth and population, IL is situate,
midway in the great Mississippi valley
between the headwatcrs OF the Mississippi
river and the Gulf of Mexico. Fif,eei
hundred miles in any direction from 81
Louis places one near the boundaries o
TIM tHitUd STATES, II We throw out SuCi
extremes as our Russian possessions, ST
Louis has lG,i00 miles Of steamboat nayi
CATION,
MANUFACTURING IN Sr louis.
New England people sometimes imagin,
that they do all the manufacturing in tn,
country This city alone has -,nanufac
turcd in the past year about fifty million
dollars worth Of goods; and has paid be,
tween eight and ten million dollars 70,
skilled labor. Among the items we no
tice seventeen million pounds Of sugar
and four million pounds of candy, and
nearly two hundred thousand barrels Of
castor oil, Some Of our German popula.
ton drink beer, YOU can Judge, for last
year We manufactured two hundred and
twenty-six thousand barrels Of lager beer
Our STEADY Drink
is the Mississippi river, The waters that
flow by ST Louis travel between 5000 and
200 miles before they reach us, Thick
and muddy as it appears, it is delicion.
water, and when the sediment is deposited
is As clear as crystal
The well water Of IL cities is un.
healthy; but running water like this,
settled or unsettled, is regarded from long
experience to be perfectly wholesome.
although the stranger first drinking it
may feel the effects of it for a few days.
Members Of my family have drank it
fnr x..ars- and nnthing nlsa-nn. nrn. 70
or ooifee-and have experienced no i'll
effects from it.
Ispeak of this particularly, because 50
many New England people coming West
imagine that they must take it 'half-and-
half"-half whisky and half water
fear the New England people find too
eady excuse for indulgence in strong
thinks, from the Western water and eli
nate. Since ] had the pleasure of meet
ny the HERALD corps in Rutland, last
summer, large
EMIGRATION To MISSOURI
ias come. The Hannibal & st. Joseph
Railroad Company, in North Missouri, has
old more lands in the last four months
han in the previous four years George
J. Harris, the commissioner, informs me
hat in two months they sold S250,0O0
worth of land He has now between
100000 and 10000 acres Of choice lands
Any letters inquiring con-
,erning these lands, or requesting circu-
airs, will be answered by Geo S. Harris,
Hannibal, Mo.
POLITICAL ASPECT
Our Missouri Republicanism is sharp
and decisive Radicslism. We have as
little patience with sugar-eoatcd con-
as with frank and outspokeIi
rebellion. The loyal men Of Missouri are
bound TO triumph. The old aristocratic
slave-holding regime that cast its fortune.
with the South, and attempted to ruin the
State, has been completely overthrow
We legislatc rebels away from the bal.
lot-box, aad let loyal men, only, vote. II
would be no detrinent if you in Vermont
even, did the same thing There are in
New England as mean copperheads as we
hang in Missouri Men who have sym.
thized with the enemies of their country
md thus prolonged the unnatural con-
est men who have reioiccd secretly in
disasters to the Union forces. in times
If peril, are not fit to enter upon the sa-
cred, patriotic work Of choosing the of
Rcers that form the government of this
nation
Thanks to the grand common sense Of
the people, we have been saved from dis
and destruction. And the
same popular verdict will be rendered on
he next Presidential campaign for none
nut the true and the tried
\ FRIENDLEss MAN.
However you may regard Andy John
,on in the East, he has no friends in the
West or the South. The meunest copper.
head despises him the conservative dis
trusts him; and the rebel hates him,
while he invokes the Indignation or the
contempt Of every loyal Republican in the
and "A mean white in the start, he
pandered to the South and played false to
he hopes that he there created. He
oined the loyal people for the sake Of
personal ACKNOWLEDGEMENT, and betrayed
hem at the first opportunity, and spewed
sut Slliut oI utuducutu treason ana ma
ignant treachery through the White
House, eonsecrated in the sentiment Of
he nation to all that is decent, patriotic
md respectable. Mrs. Cobb may be his
friend but, here in the West, he is des-
pissed too universally and too heartily to
receive any other consideration than the
neanest criminal may demand.
Missouri, in the Chicago convention
hat % nominated Lincoln, solitary and
alone cast her vote for GRANT, and this
'he will do again, but not solitary and
alone. All differences of opinion will be
and the great and silent sol
iier, the true patriot, borne by the ballots
If free people into the White House,
will purify and regenerate the adminis-
ration and redeem the nation from the
liso1oca nf A Johnson