Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-02-07

it, exact location am unable to say
whether it is actually confined TO any
particular spot, or whether " IL is just
lying around there loose" Renewed
laughter. / really cannot tell whether
it il one of those ethereal creations Of
Intellectual frost-work, more intangible
than the rose-tinted clouds Of summer
sunset; one Of those airy exhalations Of
the Spectator brain, which | am told
are ever fitting in the form of towns
and cities along those lines Of railroad
built with Government subsidies, Turing
the unwary settler as the mirage Of the
desert lures the furnishing traveller on,
and ever on, until it fades away in the
darkening horizon, or whether it is a
real, bona ide substantial city all
staked of, with the lots marked with
their owners names, like that proud
commercial metropolis recently discov-
cred on the desirable shores of San Do
mingo. Laughter. But however that
may be, ] am satisfied that Duluth is
there, or thereabout, for | see it stated
here on this map that it is exactly thirty
nine hundred and ninety miles from
Liverpool [laughter] though | have no
doubt, for the sake Of convenience, it
will be moved back ten miles, so as to
make the distance an even four thousand.
lRenewed laughter. lsdaE sH
Then, sir, there is the climate of Du-
luth, unquestionably the most salubrious
and delightful to be found anywhere on
the Lord earth. Now, / have always
been under the impression, and pre-
sumo other gentlemen have, that in the
region around Lake Superior it was cold
enough for at least nine months in the
year to freeze the smoke-stack off a loco
motive. Great laughter. But | see it
represented on this map that Duluth is
situated half way between the latitudes
of Paris and Venice, so that gentlemen
who have inhaled the exhilarating airs
of the one, or basked in the golden sun
light of the other, may see at glance
that Duluth must be place of untold
delights [laughter]; terrestrial pare
disc famed by the zephyrs of gorgeous
spring, clothed in the gorgeous sheen Of
ever-blooming flowers, and vocal rsith
the silvery melody of natures choicest
songsters. Laughter. In fact, sir
since have seen this map have nc
doubt that Byron was vainly end .eavor.
ing to convey some faint conception oi
the delicious charms of Duluth When his
poetic soul gushed forth in the ripping
strains of that beautiful rhapsody:
a. Know ye the land of the cedar aIid vine,
Where the flowers ever blossom the beams
ever shine;
Where the light wings of zephyr. oppressed
with perfume,
Wax faint O. er the gardens of GuJ in her bloom
Where the citron and olive are arrest of fruit
And the voice of the nightingale never is mute
Where, the, tints Of the earth, and the hues Of
In colors though varied, in beauty may vie. .
Laughter. r
As to the commercial resources OF
Duluth, sir, they are simply inexhausti-
BILE, as is shown by this map. | see ii
stated here that there is vast scope OF
territory, embracing an area of over two
million square miles, rich in every ele-
ment of material wealth and CONNER
cial prosperity, all tributary to Duluth.
Look at it, sir lpointing to the map]
Here are inexhaustible mines of gold,
immeasurable veins Of silver, impenetra-
BILE depths Of boundless forest, vast coal
measures, wide, extended plains of rich
est pasturage, all, all embraced in this
vast territory, which must, in the very
nature of things, empty the untold trea-
sures of its commerce into the lap of
Duluth. Laughter, ]
Look at it, sir pointing to the map
Do not you see from these broad, brown
lines drawn around this immense terri
tory that the enterprising inhabitants Of
Duluth intend some day to inclose it all
in one vast corral, so that its commerce
will be bound to go there, whether it
would or not? [Great laughter. And
here, sir, Lstill pointing to the map, /
find within convenient distance the
Piegan Indians, which of all the many
accessories to the glory of Duluth, /
consider by far the most inestimable.
For, sir, | have been told that when the
smallpox breaks out among the woUien
and children of that famous tribe, as it
sometimes does, they afford the finest
subjects in the world for the strategical
of any enterprising mill
tary hero who desires to improve himself
in the noble art of war [laughter], espe-
cially for any valiant lieutenant general
whose a. .'laHT
"Trenchant blade, Toledo trusty,
For want of fighting had grown rusty,
And eats into itself for lack l3
Of somebody to hew and hack. I
Great laughter. p. u..I
/ was remarking, sir, upon these vast
" wheat fields represented on this map
in the immediate neighborhood of the
buffaloes and the Piegans, and was
about to say that the idea of there being
these immense wheat fields in the very
heart of wilderness, hundreds and hun
dreds of miles beyond the utmost verge
of civilization, may appear as rather in
as rather too great a strain
on the BLANKETS Of veracity. But TO
my mind there is no difficulty in the
matter whatever. The phenomehon is
very easily accounted for. 1t is evident,
sir, that the Piegans sowed that wheat
there and ploughed it with buffalo bulls.
Great laughter Now, sir, this FORUM
ate combination Ofbufaloes and Piegans,
their relative positions to
each other and to Duluth, as they are
on this map, satisfies me that
Duluth is destined to be the beef market
Of the world. lIsrf rallf5I I.f
Here, you will observe [pointing to
the mapl are the buffaloes, directly be-
tween the Piegans and Duluth, and here,
right on the road TO Duluth, are the
Creeks. Now, sir, when the buffalOes
are sufficiently fat from grazing on those
immense wheat fields, you see Il will be
the easiest thing in the world for the
Piegans to drive them on down, stay all
night with their friends, the Creeks. and
90 into Duluth in the morning. [Great
laughter.J ] think i see them now, sir;
a vast herd of buffaloes, with their heads
down, their eyes glaring, their nostrils
dilated, their tongues out, and their tails
curled over their backs, tearing alsng
towards Duluth, with thousand Piegans
on their grass-bellied ponies, yelling at
their heels IGreatla laughter.l On they
comel And as they sweep past the