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The House having under con sideration the joint resolution (S R. No. 11,) extending the time to construct a railroad from the St. Croix-river or lake to the west end of Lake Superior and to Bay field Mr. Knott said: Mr. Speaker-If I could be ac tuated by any conceivable induce ment to betray the sacred trust .reposed in mo by those to whose generous confidence I am indebted fSr the honor ot a seat on this floor; if I could be influenced by any possible consideration to be come instrumental in giving away, in violation of their known wish es, any portion of their interest in the public domain for the mere promotion of any railroad enter prise whatever, I should certainly feel a strong inclination to give this measure my most earnest and hearty support; for I am assured that its success would materially enhance the pecuniary prosperity of some of the most valued friends I have on earth; friends for whose accommodation I would be willing to make almost any sacrifice not involving my personal honer, or my fidelity as the trustee of an express trust. And that fact of itself would be sufficient to countervail almost any objection I might entertain to the passage of this bill, not inspired by an im perative and inexorable sense of public duty. But, independent of the seduc - tive inaffueices of private friend 8hip, to which I admit I am, per haps, as susceptib!c as any of the gentlemen I see around me, and the intrinsic merits of the meas ure itself are of such an extraor dinary charactor as to commend it most strongly to the favorable consideration of every member of this House, myself not excepted notwithstanding1, my constituents, in whose behalf alone I am acting here, would not be benefitted by its passage one particle more than they would be by a project to cul tivate an orange grove on owe bleakest summit ot Greenland's icy moutitains. [Ijaughter.] Now, sir, as to those great trunk lines of railway, spanning :he continent from ocean to ocean, I confess my mind has never been fully m:Ide tip. It is true they may alford some trifling advan tage to local tradia, and they mayv even in time become the channels of a more extended commerce. Yet I have never been thoroughly satisfied eithier of the necessity or expediency of projects promising such meager results to the great body of our people. But with re gard to the transcendent merits of the gigantic enterprise co ntem plated in this bill, I never entertain edthe shadow of adoubt. [Laugh. ter.] Years ago, when I fir-st heard that there was somewhere in the vast terra in-ogn'/a, somewhere in the ble-sk regions of the great Northwest, a stream of water known to t:he nomadic inhabitants of the neigh borhood as the river St. Croix,~I became satisfied that the construction of arailroad from that raging torent to some point .in the civilized world, was essen stial to the happiness and prosper .ity of the American people, if not -absolutely indispensablo to the -perpetuity of republican institu tions on this continent. [Great Jaughter.] I felt instinctively that abhe boundless resources of that pro ilific region of sand and pine shrub .bery would never be fully devel ,oped without a railroad construct -. - ed and equipped at the expense of :the government, and perhaps not ithen. [Laaghter.] I had an abid d g presentiment that, some day .or- other, the people of this whole .country, irrespective of party af Lliations, regardless of sectional iprejudice, and 'without distinction of race, color or previous condi tion of servitude,' would rise in -heir majesty and demand an out let for the enormous agricultural productions of those vast and fer tile pine barrens, drained in the rainy season by the raging waters of the turbid St. Croix. (Great Jaughter.) These impressions, derived sim :ply and solely from the 'eternal fitness of things,' were not only .strengthened by the interesting and eloquent debate on this bill, to which I listened with so much pleasure the other day, but inten sified, if possible, as I read over this mor-ning tho l vely colloquy which took place on that occasion, as I find it reported in last Fri day's Gltobe. I will ask the indul gence of the IHouse while I read a sufficient, in my judgemert,to place the merits of the great enterprise contemnlated in the measure now under discussion, beyond all possible controversy. The honorable gantleman from Minnesota (Mr. Wilson,) who I believe is managing this bill, in speaking of the character of the county through which this rail road is to pass, says this: 'We want to have this timber brought to us as cheaply as possi ble. Now. if you tie up the lands in this way, so that no titles can be obtained to them-for no set tier will go on these lands, for he cannot make a living-you de. privc us of the benefit of that tiri ber." Now, sir, I would not have it by any means inferred from this that the gentleman from Minne sota would insinuate that the peo ple out in his section desire thia timber merely for the purpose ol fencing up their farms so that their stock may not wander ofl and die of starvation amiong the bleak hills of the St. Croix. (Laughter.) I read it for no such purpose, sir, and make no such comment on myself. In corrobo ration of this statement of the gentleman from Minnesota, I find the testimony given by the hon orable gentleman from Wisconsin, (Mr. Washburn.) Speaking of thes lands, he says: 'Under the bill, as amended by my friend from Minnesota, nine tenths of the land is open to act ual settlers at two dollars and a half per acre; the remaining one tenth is pine timbered land, that is not fit for settlement, and nevez will be settled; but the timbez will be cut off. I admit that it iE the most valuable portion of the grant, for most of the grant is not valuable. It is quite valueless and if you put in this amendmeni of the gentleman from Indiana you may as well just kill the bill for no man and no company wil take the grant and buid the road. I simply pause here to ask somi rgentleman better versed in tht sciences and mathematics than . am, to tell me if the timberec lands are in fact the most valuabl( portion of that section of country anid they would be entirely value less without the timber that is or them, what the remainder of tht land is worth which has no timbei on it at all. (Laughter.) But further on 1 find a most en. tertaining and i.Istructive inter chang of views between the gen tleman from Arkansas, (Mr. Ro gers,) the gentieian from Wis consm,.(Mr. Washtwrn,) and th< (Pentleman from Maine, (Mr. Pe ters,) upon the subject. of pin lands generally, which I will ta the patience of the House to read 'Mr. Rogers-Will the gentle man allow me to ask him a ques 'Mr. Washburn, of Wisconsin Certainly. 'Mr. Rogers-Are these piin lands entirely worthless excep for timber? Mr. Washhurn, oif Wisconsin They are generally worthless f~o any other p)urp)ose. I am perfect ly familiar with that subject. These lands are not valuable fo) purposes of sett.leiment. 'Mr. Farnsworth-They will be after the timber is taken off. 'Mr. WVashburn, of Wisconsin No. sir. 'Mr. Rogers-I want to knov the character of these pine land.h 'Mr. Washburn, of Wisconsin They are generally sandy, barrer lands. My Friend from the Greer Bay State, (Mr. Sawyer,) is pei fectly familiar with this question and he will bear me out in what. say, that these pine timber land are not adapted to settlement. 'Mr. Rogers-These pine land to which I am accustomed, ar generally very good. What want to know is what is the di: ference between our pine land and your pine lands. 'Mr. Washburn, of Wisconsin The pine timber of Wisconsin get erally gr.ws upon barren, sand; land. Tihe gentleman from Maine (Mr Ptrs,) who is familiar wit: pine lands, will, I have no doubt say that pine timber grows get erally npo n the most barren lands 'Mr. Peters--As a general thing pine lands are not worth muel for cultivation.' And further on I find this preg nant question, the joint produc tion of the two gentlemen fron Wisconsin : 'Mr. Paine-Does my frien< from Indiana suppose that in an3 event settlers will occupy and eu] tivate these pine lands ? 'Mr. Washburn, of Wisconsin Particularly without a railroad? IYes, sir, 'particularly without: railroad.' It will be asked aftea awhile, I am afrand, if settlers wil go anywhero unless the govern muent builds a railroad for them t< go on. (Laughter.) I desire to call attention to oni) one more statement, which I thini, suffiient to settlc the question. It is one made by the gentlemar from Wisconsin, (Mr. Paine,) wh< 'These lands will be abandoned - for the present. It may be that; at somne remote period there will 1 spring up in that region a new kind of agriculture, which will cause a demand for those particu lar lands; and they may then come into use and be valuable for agriciltural purposes. But1know, I and I cannot help thinking that 4 my friend from Indiana under sta.(ds, that for :ie present,and fbr many years to come, these pine lands can have no possible value ot.hur than that arising from the pine timber which stands on them.' Now, sir. who, after listening to this emphatic and unequivocal testimony of these intelligent, competent and able-bodied wit- 1 nesses, [laughter,] who that is not as incredulous as Rt. Thomas him self, will doubt fPr a moment tiat the Godhe of Americ-t is to he found in the .4a !i1Y lc n' I I upon the pit. Croix? (L:. have the liardh. seat on thi. il . . - excepting the pitie a . i he tire region would not produce vegetation enough in teri years to fatten a grasshopper. (Great lau(hter.) Where is the patriot who is willing that his country should incur the peril of remain ing another day without the am plest railroad connection with such an inexhaustable mine of ag rieultural wealth. [Laughter.] Who will answer for the conse quences of abandoniag a greati and warlike people, in possession of a country like that, to brood over the indifference and neglect of their government? [Laugh ter.] How long would it be be i fore they would take to studying the Declaraion of Independence and hatching out the damnable heresy of secession ? How long befbre the grim demon of civil dis cord would rear again his horrid bead in our midst, 'gnash loud his iron fangs, and shake his crest of bristling bayonets ?' [Laughter.] Then, sir, think of the long and painful process of reconstruction that must follow, with itsconcom itant amendments to the constitu tion ; the seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth articles. The six teenth, it is of course understood, is to be appropriated tothose blush ing damsels who are day after day, beseeching us tolet them vote,hold office, drink cock-tails ride astrad dIe, and do everything else the men do. [Roars of laughter.] But, above all, sir, let me implore you to reflect for a single moment on the deplorable condition of our country in case of a foreign war, w ith all oir ports blockaded, all our cities in a state of siege. the gaunt Ipectre of famine brooding like a hungry vulture over our starving land ; our coimissary stores all exhausted, and our famishing ar mies withering away in the field, a helpless prey to the insatiate demon of hunger; our navy reu Sting in t:.e docks for want of pro rvisions for our gillant seam~en, and we without any railroad corn -muunication with the prolitic pine thickets of St. Croix. [Great laughter] -IAh, sir, 1 could very well un derstanid why moy amiabhle friends from Pennsylvania, [Mr. Myers, Mr. Kelly auid Mr. O'Neil.] should be so earnest in their sup)port of this bill t.he other day, and if their honorable colleague, my friend, .Mr. Randall, will pardon the re mark, I will say I considered his criticism of tbeir action on that occasion as not only unjust but lungenerous. I knew they were looking forward with that far reaching ken ot enlightened states Imanship to the pitiable condition in which Philadelphia will be left unless speedily supplied with rail sroad connection in some way or Sother with this garden spot of the Iuniverse. [Laughter.] And be. sides, sir, this discussion has re lieved my mind of a mystery that has weighed upon it like ani in cumbus for years. I couzld neve understand bet .r' .. te9 so much eXeitena--o: .1 r :. ,last Congress over t~ he- ag asi ii Sof Alta VTela. I col.ii over on.i Iderstand why it was thlat somet ofi our ablest state-sment and most dis-I ,interested patriots should enter tain such dark forbodings of the untold calamities that were to be. fall our beloved country, un'less we should take immediate posses-. sion of that desirable island. But I see no"' that they were laboring~ under the mistaken impression that the govern ment would need the guano to manure the public -lands of the St. Croix. [Great laughter.]ihaebn -Now, sir, I repeat,Ihaebn satisfied for years that if there -was any portion of thedinhabi tedl Sglobe absolutely in a saffering con Idition for want of a railroad, it -was these teeming pine barrens of SSt. Croix. (Laughter.) At what particular point on that noble stream such a road should be com menced, I knew wais immaterial, and so it seems to have been con-, sidered by the draughtsman of this bill It might be up at the spring n, or dwn at the foor.-log, or the~ vater-gate, or the fish-dam, or Mywhere along the bank, no mat er where. (Laughter.) But in what direction should it run, or, vhere it should terminate, were dways to my mind questions of nost painful perplexity. I could ,onceive of no place on 'God's rreen earth' in much straightened :ircumstances for railroad ficilities is to be likely to desire or willing 1 o accept such a connection.-I J,aughter.) I knew that neitheri Bayield nor Superior City would iave it, for they both indignantly ipurned the munificence of the overnment when coupled with uch ignaminious conditions, id et this very same land grant die >n their hands years and years igo, rather than submit to the de -radation of a direct communica ion by railroad with the piny Xo(ds of the St. Croix ; and I v timt -sh%Vt the enterprising .. .d ..Z o; those vianit young19 1 4 -t.o efuse t tak, would .:.;T*;"arms tr ot hers. witt . I-- .:.* - !erVV es or cupidity Ii,w-c. as I have said, sir, I was itteriy at a loss to determine &-here the terminus of this great nd indispensable road should be, intil I accidentally overheard some ,entlemnen the other day mention be name of "Duluth." (Great aughter.) Duluth! The word 'ell upon my ear with peculiar and ndescribable charm. like the gen lc murmur of a low fountain steal ng forth in the midst of roses, or ie soft, sweet accents of an an yel's whisper ir. the bright, joyous Iream of sleeping innocence. Da uth! 'Twas the name for which ny soul had panted for years, as Lbe heart panteth for the water brooks. (Renewed laughter.) But, where was Duluth? Never, in all my limited reading, had my vision been gladdened by seeing becelestial wordin print. (Laugh Ler.) And I felt a profounder hu miliation in my ignorance that its Juleet syllables had never before ravished my delighted ear. (Roars >f laughter.) I was certain the Iraughtsman of this bill bad never eard of it, or it would have been Jesignated of t,bo termiii of this road. I asked my friends about t, but they knew nothing of it. [ rushed to the library and exam ned all the maps I could find. Laughter.) I discoverc' in one >f them a delicate, hair-like line, diverging from the Mississippi near a place marked Prescott, which I supposed was intended to represent the river St. Croix, but I could nowhere find Duluth. Nevertheless, I was confident it existed somewhere, and that its discovery would constitute the rowning glory of the present con tury, if not of all modern times. (Laughter.) I knew it was bound to exist in the very nature of things; that the symmetry and erfection of our planetary sys tem would be incomplete without it (renewed laughter); that the elements of material nature would long since have resolved them. selves back into original chaos if there had been such a hiatus in creation as would have res:'lted from leaving out Duluth. (Roars of laugh ter.) In fact, sir, I was overwhektned with the conviction that Duluth not only existed somewhere, but that wherever it was it was a great and glorious place. I[ was convinced that the greatest calamity that ever befell the benighted nations of the an cient world was in their having passed away without a knowledge of the actual existence of Duluth; that their fa.bled Atlantis, never seen save by the hallowed Vei~on of inspired poesy, Was, in fact, b4t another name for 1)uluth ; that the golden orchard of the Hlespe rides was but a poetical synonym for the beer gardens in the vicini ty of Duluth. (Great laughter-) L was certain that Herodotus had died a miserab,le death because in all his tiravels and with all his geo genp-ihit:al r -arch he had never a*d l.iuuth. (Laughiter.) 1 'ne tti if the immortal spirit or ?I.,unerz co'id l',ok dIown from ano(thaer he.avenu than tha.t created by h,is own eclestial genaius un!Y the long lines of pilgrinis fronm every nation of the aarth to the gushing fountain of poesy opened by the touch of hisi magic wand, if ie could be permitted to behold the vast assemblage of' grand and glorious productions of the lyric art called into being by his own inspired strains, he would weep tears of bitter anguish that, instead of lavishing all the stores of his mighty genius upon the fall of Ilion, it had not been his more blessed lot to crystalize in death Igersong the rising glories of Du lth, (Great and continued laugh ter) Yet, sir, had it not been for this map kindly furnished by the Legislature of Minnesota, I might have gone down to my obseure ad humble grave in an agony of, despair, because I couid nowhere nd Duluth. (Renewed laughter.) aad saich been my melancholy fate, 1 have no doubt that with the last feeble pulsation of my br-aking beart, with the last faint exhalation of my fleeting breath, I should have whispered, "Where is Duluth ?" (Roars of laughter.) But, thanks to the beneficence of that band of ministering angels who have their bright abodes in the far off capital of Minnesota, just as the agony of my anxiety was about to culminate in the fren- 1 zy of despair this blessed map was placed in my hands; and as I un folded it a resplendent scene of in effable glory opened before me, sueb as I imagine burst upon thei enraptured vision of the wander Ing peri through the gates of para dise (Renewed laughter.) There, there for the first time, my en ebanted eye rested upon the rav ishing word -Duluth." This map, sir, is intended, as it,: appears from its title, to illustrate* the position of Duluth in the: United States; but if gentlemen will examine it, I think they will concur with me in the opinion: that it is far too modest in its pre tensions. It not only illustrates the position of Duluth in the United States, but exhibits its re lations with all created things. It even goes further than this. It lifts the shadowy veil of futurity and afford-4 us a view of the golden prospects of Duluth far along the dim vista of ages yet to come. If gentlemen will examine it they will find Duluth not only in the center of the map, but repre sented in the center of a series of; concentric circles one hundred miles apart, and some of them as much as four thousand miles in diameter, embracing alike in their tremendvus sweep the fragrat savannas of th3 sunlit Suth, arid the eternal solitudes ol snow that mantle the ice-hound North. (Laa;hter.) ilow th-sc vireles were produced is perha: one of those primordial m-.teries that the most skillful palplogi.t wilt never be able to explain. (Re newed laughter.) But the fact is, sir, Duluth is pre-eminently a cen tral place, for I am told by gentle men who have been so reckless of their own personal safety as to venture away into those awful re gions where Duluth is supposed to-hi,, that it iq sm 4-ty in th centre of the visible universe that the sky comes down at precisely thesame distance all around it. (Roars of laughter.) I find, by reference to this map, that Duluth is situated somewhere near the western end of Lake Su perior, but as there is no dot or other mark indicating its exact lo cation I am unable to say whether it is actually confined to any par ticular spot, or whether "it is just lying around there loose." (Re newed laughter.) I really cannot tell whether it is one of those ethe real creations of intellectual frost work, more intangible than the rose-tinted clouds of a summer sunset; one of those airy exhala tions of the speculator's brain, which I am told are ever flitting in the form of towns and cities along those lines of railroad, built with government subsidies, luring the unwary settler as the mirage of the desert lures the famishing traveler on, and ever on, until it fades away in the darkening hori zon, or whether it is a real b',na fide substantial city, all "staked off," with the lots marked with their owners' names, like that proud commercial metropolis re cently discovered on the desirable shor-es of San Domingo. (Laugh-1 ter.) But, however that may be, . see it stated here on the man that it is exactly thirt.-nine bun' dred and nino.j miles fr-om Liver pool, (laughter); though I have no doubt, for the sake of oonven ience it will he moved back ten miles so as to make the distance an even founr thousand, (lReneweod laughter.) Then, sir, there is the climate of Duluth, unquestionably the most salubrious and delightful to be fo,und' anywhere on the Lord's earth. Now, I have always been under the impression, as I pre sume other gentlemen have, th-t in the region around Lake Supe rior it was cold enough for at least nine months in the year to freeze the smoke-stack off a locomotive. (Great laughter.) But I see it re-i presented on this map that Duluthf is situated exactly half way be twveen the latitudes of Paris and Venice, so that gentlemen who have inhaled the exhiiaurating airs of the one or basked in the golden sunlight of the other may see at a glance that Duluth must be a place of untold deiights, (laughter) a; terrestrial paradise, fanned by the balmy zephyrs of an eternal spring, clotbed in the gorgeous sheen of ever-blooming flowers, and vocal with the silvery melody of nature's choicest songsters. (Laughiter.) In fact, sir, since 1 have see-n this map I have no doubt that Byron was vainly endeavoring to u e some faint conc-eptionI of thme deli cious charms of Duluth when his poetic soul gushed fr-t.h in the rippling strains of that beautiful rhapsody "Know ye the land of the cedar and vine, Where the flowers ever blossom, the beims eve- .hine - Where the light wings of Zephyr, oppressed with perfume, Wax faint o'er the gardens of Gut in her bloom ; Where .he citron and olive are fairest of fruit, and the voice of the nightingale never is mute; Where the tints of the earth and the hues of the sky, In color though varied, in beauty may vie?" 'Laughter.) As to the commercial resources of Duluth, sir, they are simply it imitable and inexhaustible, as is shown by this map. I see it stated here that there is a vast scope of territory, embracing an irea of over two million sqare miles, rich in every element of ma Lerial wealth and commercial pros perity. all tributary to Duluth. Look at it, sir, (pointing to map). Here are inexhaustible mines of gold, immeasurable veins of silver, impenetrable depths of boundless forest, vast coal-measures, wide, extended plains of richest pasta rage, all embraced in this vast territory, which must, in the very nature of things, empty the un told treasures of its commerce in to 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 territory that the enterprising inhabitants of Duluth intend some day to enclose it all in one vast corral, so that its com merce will be bound to go there whether it irould or not ? (Great. laughter.) And here, sir, (still pointing to the map), I find within a convenient distance the Piegan Indians, which of all the many ae Dessories to the glory of Duluth, I consider by far the most inestima ble. For, sir, I have been told that when the small-pox breaks out among the women and chil dren of that famous tribe, as it sometimes does, they afford the finest subjects in the world for the trategical experiments of any en terprising military hero who de ires to improve himself in the no ble art of war (laughter); espe Dially fL - any valiant lieutenant general whose "Trenchant blade, Toledo trusty, For want of fightiug has grown rusty. A.A - ,tadmiirr raCK 0o somet>ody to hew and back." (Laughter.) Sir, the great conflict now ra ging ir; the Old World has pre. sented a phenomenon in military science unprecendented in the an nals of mankind, a phenomenon that has reserved all the Lraditions of the past as it has disappointed all the expectations oft he present. A great and warlike people, re nowned alike for their skill and valor, have been swept away be fore the triumphant advance ol an inferior foe. like autumn stub ble before a hurricane of fire. For aught I know the next flash ol of electric fire that shimmers along the ocean cable may tell us that Paris, with every fibre quivering with the a.rony of impotent des pair, writbes beneath the con quering heel of her loathed in vader. Ere another moon shall wax and wane the brightest star in the galaxy of nations may fll from the zenith of her glory never to rise again. Ere the modest violets of early spring shall ope their beauteous eyes the genius oi ivilization may chaunt the wail ing requiem of the proudest nation ality the world has ever seen, a~ she scatters her withered and tear moistened lilies o'er the bloody tomb of butohered France. B~ut ir, I wish to ask if you honestly and candidly believe that the Dutch would have cver overrur: the French in that kind of stylei General Sher'idani had not gont over there and told King Williart and Von Moltke how he had man aged to whip the Piegan Indians And here, sir, recurring to thi map, I find in the immediate vicin ity of the Piegans "vast herds a buffalo" and "immense fieldsofrie't wheat lands." (IIere the hammer tell) (Many cries: "Go on !" ".GC on !") The Speaker-Is there objectior to the gentleman from Kentucky continuing his remarks ? Th< chair hears none. The gentlemar will proceed. Mr. Knott-I was remarking sir, upon these vast "wheat fields' represented on this map in thn immediate neigh borhood of' thn buffadoes and the Piegans, and was about to say that the idea o there being these immense wheal tields in the very heart of a wild erness, hundreds and hundreds o miles beyond the utmost verge o civilization, may appear to somt gentlemen as rather incongruous as rather too great a strain on the '-blankets" of veracity, but to my mind there is no difficulty in the matter whatever. The phenom enion is very easily accounted for h is evident, sir, that the Piega sowed that wheat there and plow ed it in with buffalo bulls. ((Grea laughter.) Now, sir, this f'ortu nate combination of buffaloes ani Piegans, considering their relativtn nn)oitin to acrh othe nditf this map, satisfiei me that Duluth B is destined to be the beef market of the world. Here, you will observe (pointine to tho map), are the buffaloes, dir rc reetly between the Piegans a)o hi Duluth, and here. right on th( road to Duluth are the Creeks. 01 Now, sir, when the buffaloes are ar sufficiently fat from grazing on qt those immense wheat fields you O see it will be the easiest thing in ra the world for the Piegans to drive tb them on down, stay all night -*th iS their friends, the Creeks, a-. tO into Duluth in the mor7 . e (Great laughter ] I think hi them now, sir, a vast herd of bua- bl loes with their heads down, their P( eyes glaring, their nostrils dilated. iS their tongues out, and their tails curl. C ed over their backs, tearing along f toward Duluth, with about a thou. er sand Piegans on their gras bellied ar ponies, yelling at their heels! [Great laughter.] On they come! tb And as they sweep past the Crocks th they join in the chase, and away they all go, yelling, bellowing. Ju ripping, and tearing along, amid w clouds of dust, until the last buf- ar falo is safely penned in the stock- so yard of Duluth. [Shouts of laugh- tC ter.] Sir, I might stand here for hours de and hours and expatiate with rapture upon the gorgeous pros pect of Duluth, as depicted upon g this map. But human ;fe is too ku short and the time of this Huse kr far too valuable to allow me to linger longer upon th delightful theme. (Laughter] I think every - gentleman on thisflorisas well sa - hi isfied as I am that Duluth is des tined to become the commercial p metropolis of the universe, and ki that this road should be built at fa once. I am fully persuaded that to no patriotic Representative of the ti American people, who has a prop- t er appreciation of the associated if1 glories of Duluth and the St Croix, ' will hesitate a moment to say that v( every able-bodied female iln the in land between the ages of eighteen de and forty-five who is in favor of "women's rights" should be draft- 'C ed and set to work upon this reat work without delay. [Roars of laughter.j -Nevertneless air, it grieves my very aoal o--Do CM a polled to say that I cannot vote for the grant of lands provided f for in this bill. w A h ! sir, you can have no concep- 10 tion of the poignancy of my anguish a that I am deprived of that blessed privilege! [Laughter.] There are two insuperable obstales in the W way. In the first place my con- al stitutents, for whom I am acting here have no more interest in tHis road than they have in Ihe gieat - question of culinary taste now per haps agitating the public mind of p Dominica, as to whether the illas trious commissioners who recently left this capital for that free and en- it lightened republie would be better r fricasseed, boiled, or roasted, [great s laughter]; and in the second place these lands, which 1 am asked to give away, alas~, are not mine to d bestow ! My relation to them is simply that' of tru.Nee to an ex- t press trust. And shall 1 ever be- - tray that trust ? Never, sir. Ra ther perish Duluth! [Shouts of laughter]. Perish the paragon of cities! Rather let the freezing cyclones of the bleak North west bury it forever beneath the ed-e dyiDg sands ofthe Iaging St. Croix! [Great laughter).a WASnisGToN, April 3.-A bill b has been prepared by a prominentg Northern lie .ublicani, and approv ed by miany Southern Representa- a~ tives, which will be proposed as a a substitute for tho Ku Klux bi" It provides, first : That any Sta. oateer whose duty it is to affo equal protect ion to all eitizens, d~ clining or neglecting to do so, wihi be liable in damages. Seconid, such offleer is also criminally liabl.-' Third. persons abetting or advis ing such delinquency on the part of the State officer, will be liable ~ to civil antd criminal prosecution t in the Federal courts. Fourth, a marshals serving writs in accord anece with this act, may call the posse comitutus. and if the resist ance is too strong. tae President may enforce the writ by the armye and navy. d Great excitment was caused at t~ Fort Shaw b~y the buffaloes cross.. e ing Sun River just above the fort, e in immense jinimbers. The garri- e son turned out, and slaughtered e themn by hundreds. It is supposed they were driven across by a baind 1of Sioux Indians, who are said to t be moving in the direction of the r fort. The buffaloes rubbed the telegraph poles down faster than the men could reset them. a A rich man named .Budd has lately (lied in London, leaving ti $100,000 to his sons, on condition C that they shall never wear mous- b taches. Otherwise, the property r< is to be applied to charitable ob- b jects. The boys watch the bud-! e l ding promise of hiraute adornment; i on their upper lips, and when ever s a sprout appears, -'transplant" it . rotber Deep Concern and Brother Ever Needy. Did you ever see these bre,: n meet, 4nd hear theta talk ? I tre. Brother Deep Concern has hear the arrival of his new preacher, d off he starts to form his au taintance. After talking awhi: er matters and things in ger, 1, the topic that has agitate1 e church so deeply and so long, cautiously approached-that pie of all topics with certain, aracters in all the churches. It Ls wrinkled your brow, and tro ed your heart, and engaged your m many a time, Mr. Editor. I a great topic at the General )nferenees, at the Annual Con rences, at the Quarterly Confer ices. at the Church Conferences. id at the District Conferences. Slowly, gravely. prudently, Bro. er Deep Concern moves up tt, e question, just after taking hi it and cane ;n hand to leave,and %t before sL:ining the good-bye, ith BrotheriEverNeedy. "How e 3 on getting along at the par nage in the matter of something go on, my brother?" Brother Ever Needy makes :a linereply. Now for Brother Deep Concern: "If you should need anytirnz, t in a tight place, or the like,i,,, re to come to me and let nit low2" He bows. and a, Brother Ever cedy looks atter him he feels - well, like many a preachec is felt. A little less questioning into th stor's condition, (I mean of this nd,) a smaller number of thii mily of Deep Concerns who ilt be approached by the pastor:in nes of such embarrassment'a-i at under consideration, and an iprovement in systematie, busi ,gs-liCte, Scriptural support, i* ry much needed just now, aid. most instances, if not all. justly served. Believe me, Brather Deep. Cqu rnM, when I tell you that Brother ver Nedy never has too much. ArISTARCIiS. ,ntmnghrlei ah mlook.u_1 r an omnibus. The sangwne an expected to find a plis:em'an hen he wanted one. Tfie ied a us man believed the assir"fe of' cab-driver that .a long treuit as needful because the siiiets ere being paved. The lazyina lowed his fire to go out, ratbor inn ring the bell for somebody t-, ike it. The cheerful maw.en yed the half hour that hespent, waiting for his dentist. _-,hv inctual men served out sQup.for even expected guests, when o.ny iroe of them had actually a;ved the appoined hour for ca.ting The hasty man sat dow,ri tot ad "Paradise Lust," and fl?ter ards was heard to boast thafr he, >t through it at a sitting. T'he >peful man twice gave-amah~ river a sovereign for a sbingr. Id twice cherished thedess'ion lat it would be returned 4-ain. ho manm of fortitude swas -aufti ently brave to open .hisuf4on t >or himself when lie sa.w the4ax 3.therer, the gas man, andi the ite-colctor knock at it. .im Lutions man never went a ile w-ay from home without ;Lkmin s unbrella with him, andyt ting cork screw, pen and'.iok,:wd a Il-stamp in his pocket .iThe uttonous man. by bribery, went ,foreband to the supper-room, d devoured tihe liver-wings of I the fowis displayed thceThe eckless man wats bold enough to. ke his wihe downm Regent s~treet. d tell tier that he ha'1tteni GNENr.RAL LEE'S I>EATK G.-l4:r r BRoKEN HEARTM.4),s B. I. adison and A. T. Barwa at ~nding physicians of Gteeal-Lee. >nltri bu ted to the .Rich mond andt ouisville medical journal.s ade iled account of his' late .ke'kns ad the treatment pm-sned. heyIi' im up the easte as fbliowr 'General Lee d of a t1'rken cart, anid its s 's were-'snay ed at AppomAtox! lwntefer aee to the p)roxliate ause fhis eathi, we are of opinion theat it 'as due to passive congeston of ie braini, not proceedimze fir riought to produce. apopieay.or ffu'sion. There was no. psr ridence of acute softening gf the arebbrits, or of enmbolism. Jhere -as no paralysis of mnotioiiof sell ition, but marked debit.f froms ae first. JIis symptom~s,'in 'many aspects, resembled conedssiom, rithout its attendant eghecop'. 'he treatment was based upon the bove diagnosis. Allen McClean, -a young Kien .iekian, residing in - Campbell ounty, had been quit e dissiapattd. ut "got religion" at a.etdi stival, and regarding himself: etter prepared to die 'thjan I rer would be again, he went " es Liekin?t River, aud aft r~ ngirhg "I Waut to- be an'A ngel.'