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2 NOTICES OF NEW PUBLICATIONS. Books Received to Oct. 3). Dana's Housetoil Book of Pootry Physic and its Phases, Pariyto's Frederick the Great, Vol. 1 ruey Due Nort D. T. Stoddard Revision Forester's Field Sports Constitutional History of the United Btates, New York to Delhi? Vestiges of the Spiri ‘The Chuzens’ Manua Buekle’s History of Civilization ia England. The Life and Adventures of Kit Carson, ‘The Waverley Novels. Ticknor & Fields’ edition —Wood- stock & story of Man, {Made Mev ne New Testament—Coljins’ Paragraph Edition. Toowis’ Natural Philosophy Gerald Griffin's Works. Vol, 10. The Ballads of Ireland. ‘The Maritime Ports of Ireland. ‘The Statestnanu’s Manual. New edition. ‘Stevens’ History of Methodism. ‘The Municipalist, in two parts. Way tand’s Sermons to the Churches. Abbott's Richard 1 Abbott's Richard D1. Arts of Beauty, By Lola Montez. Waverley Novels. Ticknor & Fields’ edition. The Woods Tavern, or Sam Slick in Texas, Bionde and Brunette, Now Engiand’s Chattels Belle Brittan on a Tour. The Two Sisters. Agnes. Ernestine, or the Heart's Denying. Irene, or the Autobiography of an Artist's Daughter. Shammah in Pursuit of Freedom. Spurgeon’s Gems. Play and Study. Life and Landseape. My Lady Ludlow: a Novel. Life of Sumner L. Fairfield. Lawrence's Visitation and Search Religious Aspects of the Age. Faber's Tales of the Angels. Mormoniad Motherless Children Anwsthesia. Tilden & Co.'s Book of Formulw. American and European Druggists’ Directory. Concentrated Organic Medicines. Ove. Hurd on Habeas Corpus. Cobb on Slavery United States Military Laws, 1776-1858. Felton’s Decimal System. Haswell's Mensuration. Davenport Dunn, by Charles Lever Tur Lire asp Apvexrvnes or Kir Carson, the Nestor of the Rocky Mountains. By De Witt C. Peters, M.D.,U.S. A. W.R.C. Clark & Co., Broad- way. The success which attended the publication of Gordon Cumming’s African adventures encouraged a host of imi- tators, whose ambition had previonsly never soared to literary fame. Thus Gerard, Bonneville, and numerous other sportsmen and trappers, have all favored us with elaborate accounts of their experiences on the desert and prairie. Their books, though not always veracious, are gen- erally readable, for narrativesof peril have a certain at traction of which no defects of style or vrairemblance can casily divest them. One of the best works of this elass that we have met with is that which is now before us. Compe- tently edited, and free from the egotism inseparable from ca- reers Like that of the mountain guide and trapper, it is in- structive, amusing, and we believe trustworthy. Kit Car- son's adventures have been 80 bound up with the explo- rations of menu who had characters to lose, and who are stil! living to coutradiet any Munchausen-like tendency on the part of the pero, that we may assume the narrative of Dr. Peters to be as reliable and accurate as any work of the sort can be. It has in any case the merit of enchain- ing the attention and of agreeably passing away the time Destowed on its perusal, FREDERICK THE SHCOND, CALLED THE Great. By Thomas Carlyle. Vol. 1. Harper Brothers. ‘The expectations excited by this book have not been dis Worthily has the most original thinker aud the most eccentric writer of our time done justice to the most original and eccentric ruler of the Un. til Mr. Carlyle commenced his present task, it might with truth be said that we possessed no authentic or reliable biography of the Great Frederick. Seen through the light which he has been enabled to throw on his qctions, we begin to have a clear conception of the character of this emtraordinary man. The laborious research and personal investigation of records and localities which Mr. Carlyle has undertaken, in order the more conscientiously to do justice to his subject, stamp the work with an authority ‘and importance which place it in the foremost rank of historical publications Tux Hovsenoty Boor or Poerry. Collected and Edited by Charles A. Dana. Appleton & Co. In the preface the compiler says:—The purpose of this book is to comprise within the bounds of a single volume whatever is truly beautiful and admirable among the minor poems of the English language. In executing this design it bas been the constant eudeavor of the editor to exercise a catholic as well as a severe taste, and to judge every piece by (ts poetical merit solely, without regard to the name, nationality or epoch of its author.” This is well stated, and bad Mr. Dana possessed the candor, the impartiality and the taste to execute bis own very excellent design, be would have given usa valuable book and one that is much needed. But, alas! his performance ica melancholy failure in nearly all the cardinal points of excelieuce which bis well written preface leads us to look for For instance, how does it happen that in his long list of living American poets there is pot to be found the name of single Southern man or woman? How did he pass names as Gilmore Simms, Albert Pike, Otway and George Cutter? Why should book such beautiful poets as The gong By Mrs. Gask! appointed. by such Curry, Heury R. J he leave out of b ksou of Steam,” by Cutter; “The Lost Plead,” by Simms, and “The Armies of the Eve," by Otway Curry, wh finds room for a large number of Northern noboties, who have never been heard of as poets, and, what is worse, have scarcely written a line of respectable poetry? Are we asked to believe that these omissio Jesigned? No man who knows Mr, Dana's partialities and preja re not dices will for a moment besitate to say that he bas wilfully uflicted a wrong upon the public, and has made the insult even greate ons of entire impartiality. We might possibly f him a want of judgment in his sc ectious—we might even go so far as to pardon his deluded pre + for tus abolition and Fourierite associates, but we cannot pardon hie boldness in declaring that he has L every piece by ite poctical merit solely,’ when there Jence that he has not done so, It may not be a sin man to be wanting im taste and judg. ment, but it is both asin and « shame for bin to endeavor to pass off base for sterling metal Mr. Dana bas not only made this unjust and odious dis tinction between Northern and Southern authors, but he has kept up the spirit of bis partiality in h ec from the Northern poete themselves, by avoiling every one of them who is known to entertain timents and ey mpathies averse t on fanaticism Among these fe George P. Morris, whose songs have cor je him as well known as any tainly American poet g or dead, and whose “Woodman Spare that Tree” is equal to any cong in this volume, whether from ancient or modern poets. He hae also shunned Charles Sprague, Jobn G. Sane, Robert Conrad, John Neal, Dr. Bethune, Charles G. Leland, Thomas Dunn English, the author of Ben Bolt,’ AH. Doganne, William Ross Wallace, W. H.C. Hoame most distinetly American of all our poots, wt y others who have certainly written better poctry than a great deal that appears in Mr. Dana's volume. Bout, ales ' they happen not to be “all right on the negro qu And while he rejects such standard songs those of George P. Morris, he finds room for “An Egyptian Serenade,’ by the abolition lecturer, George W. Curtis—which, by the way, is not quite poetry, nor is any more than it i Yankee or Dutch; but Mr. Curtie be. longs to Mr. Dana's school of womans rights and free love philosophert, which accounts for bie presence in the book, although he himself bas long since abandoned, ag uscless, al] ambition of being considered a poet. ‘We also miss such names ar Paulding, Hillhoee, Mre Sigourney, Mra. Osgood, and @ great many others, to the number of over sixty, which are well known in connes tion with American poetry. We should not complain of (hese omissions if Mr. Dana had given us as good poctry as can be elected from those in their place—but he has hot, He presents ue euch names as Harriet List, Maria Lpwell, Rose Terry, Humphrey McMaster, W. C. William gon, Thomas Hill CG Fenner, W. B Glazier, and many shore, mostly from New England, of whom we oever a it Egyptian, | NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1858, heard before, And the specimens which Mr. Dana offers us from these young people are generally such as to make us regret that we could not have been allowed to remain in blissful ignorance of their existence a little longer, AS an example, take the following verse from somebody of the name of Withiamsoo: — An August evening, on a bi That over! Isat in the still ai Whose face shone fairer than the crescent moon, “No doubt t ituation had its charm’? to the fortu- nate Mr. Williamson, and possibly it might have been agrevable enough to Mr. Dana, had he been there, but the description of it above given is neither poetry nor prose. Mr. Dana evidently anticipates that an objection will be raised against his book for his omission of established names, and to meet the case he says in the preface : “But it is believed of those on which the unanimous verdict of the intelligent bas set the seal of indisputable greatness, none, whether of English, Scotch, Irish or American ori- gin, will be found wanting."’ If “the inte! ‘nt’ moans Mr. Dana, and four or five dozen other members of the lit. tle mutual admiration chque who, to the great misfortane of American literature, assume to contro! its destiny, then perhaps his assertion is not out of the way: but if the in- tolligence of the people is meant, nothing can be wider of the mark. Of the fifty-three names he has in his book as American poets, upon whom, according to himself, “tho intelligent have set the seal of indisputable great- ness,” only twenty are kuown at all as poets, while thirty-three are entirely destitute of poetic fame. And he has lettout not less than thirty upon whom the intelli- gence of the people bas ‘‘set the seal of greatness’ quite as “‘indisputably’’ as upon any he has retained. It is the people, and not afew self-constituted critics, who give or withhold fame; and this effort of Mr. Dana to disparage established names and force into their places an unheard of crowd of abolition fledglimgs will have no other effect upon the public mind than to awaken indignation and dis- gust at such yartisan boldness. The selections from foreign poets contain many pieces of undoubted excellence, while thereare a number of very inferior merit. But we miss the admirable songs of Thomas Lodge, as we do also the names of such poets as Parnel, Prior, Denham, Otway, Crabbe and Congreve. If he had left out thirty of the thirty-five dull poems he has inserted from Wordsworth, and put in their place afew such sparkling songs as “ Love in my Bosom like a Bee,” by Lodge: “Cupid and Ganymede,” by Prior; “The Poet's Complaint,” by Otway; and the “Birth of the Muse,"' by Congreve, his book would be much improved. We also miss many of the fincet Scotch songs, such as “Behave Yourscl’ Before Folk,” by Alexander Rodger; “ Logan Braes,”’ by John Wayne; “ Roy's Wife,” by Mrs, Grant, and the ‘‘ Making o° the Hay,’ by Robert Nicoll. Tue same thing may also be said of his selections from Trish songs. Had he left out one-half of the hundred poems he has inserted from American poets of abolition tendencies, which are not particularly good, he would have had space for a great many of the sweetest gems of song, native and foreign, which are crowded out of his volume. As it is, the book is far from being a fair or full represen- tative of the best poetry of the English language; and, what is worse still, some of the finest songs in the volume are mutilated by the hand of the editor. In the last verse, for instance, of the charming song, “We parted in Silence,’ by Mrs. Crawford, Mr. Dana inserts ‘color’ for “odor” in one line, and “o'er” for ‘round’? in an- other, which are evidently not typographical errors, but intentional alterations of the text, very much to its det- rimeat. We notice a number of poems put down as anonymous, the authors of which are well known, ani others which are credited to the wrong authors. Thus, Mr. Dana accre- dits Freneau's well known song of *Alknomook’’ to Anne Hunter, of Scotland. There are many other faults and mistakes which we could point out in this volume if it were worth while to occupy more space todo so. As a literary performance the book is a failure, evineing an absence of the candor, impartiality, patient research, and taste which are indis- pensable to the just performance of such a task. It would seem that the compiler entered upon the labor of making the book with an intention of surprising well informed men by his independence of public opinion. In that view only can his performance be deemed a success. ‘The publishers have performed their part most credita- bly to themselves, which, we regret to say, is the only good thing we can conscientiously say of the work. Puysic axp 17s Puases: London, 1858, British literature, like that of the Greeks, is not without ite sanitary poets. As Lycophron and Nicander of old sung the healing power of drugs, so Garth, Akenside, Armstrong and Darwin have written on theart of presery- ing health. We bave now a new aspirant to poetic famo— the author of “Physic and {ts Phases’’—a man who, to extensive medical knowledge, adds some pretensions as 4 satirist. The practice of physic, as all reflective men must know, has tog long been made a mere ‘ art and mystery,” simply empirical, without any scientific basis or great leading principles to guide it; and thus, as ow author very justly observes in bis preface, the physicians of our epoch, some- times onone plea, sometimes on another, but seldom or never assigning the true reason, bave been gradually more or less reversing their whole treatment of disease. The poem is throughout a bitter satire on the cliqueism of the profession, which, heaven knows, has attained a towering beight already; and thus the author says:— Reason and sense, where things are out of joint, Must call in ridicule, or lose their point; While sage professors argument withstand, Science amd satire must go hand in hand. In the new system recommended by our author the principle of dualism is made the basis; and though the stomach, the liver and the lungs have been considered the great origin of disease, he sets forth the brain as the prime mover of the whole system, and as the lines are very forcible and to the point, we need no apology for extracting them :— Placed on an eminence. o'erlooking all, The brain, lord paramount, begins the ball— Prociaims the tune, and whea the music answer K mre, st step. with all the dance tine, and marks the moods and mazes That give life its fitful flows and phases Through brain, when struck with fever, men succumb; To brain drugs speak—to make disorder damb ‘The condition of the brain, indeed, and its temperature, are the great bases on which the chrono-thermal theory of Dr. Itekson, advocated by the author, reposes—and this he eloquently defends against all the resistance of the schools. The brain, in short, is the principle of sensation, by whieb all the other viscera—whether lungs, kidne: yancreas or liver, throat or stomach—are governed in their action through the animal system, Again, as all things proclaim the unity of life, there is @ similar unity im disease, all forme of sickness being but forms of fever, of which ague is the type, bark and qui nine the general remedies: and even those who would not admit the chrono-thermal theory have been compelled to acknowledge that the grand object of modern chemical inquiry is to prove that disease ie a unity, with a variety of phenomena, and that its causes are reducible to a fow elementary forms. Aud yet, continues the poct Alet pbron— — in the teeth of truth and common Rehold how doctors daily. on pretence To cure sick men, with calomel destroy Enough to make the sextons jump for joy— No matter what the vietim’s 8ex or age . . * * * °, Nothing will make these pedants change their course— Still calomel, calomel—first and last resource | In this doctrine we fully agree; for certainly there ie no medicine in the whole pharmacopa that has been so shamefully abused, or so complicated and aggravated dis ease, ae all the forms of mercury, which, as our tables of | mortality could tell, have awfully shortened life and yrought on premature old age and imbecility. ‘The third and fourth books of this satirical poem are de. voted to the unfolding of the principle that fever is in one ‘way or other the basic of all diecasé; and this gives rise to a diseustion about temperature, periodical pauses, inter. mission, and other principles, symptoms, &e., all of which | are ultimately traced to the action of the brain, and are to be treated simply by medical agents that work upon that | moet important organ. To deseribe in detail all the points on which this clever poem descants would exceed the limite which we are ena. | bled to give to it, and we must rocommend the reader who wishes to obtain a more complete acquaintance with the chrono thermal theory to read it for himself, together | with the valuable notes in the appendix, as well, also, ag Dr. Dickson’s admirable work on the “Fallacies of the | Faculty,’ from which we make no apology for making the following extract, as to the present very unsatisfactory etate of modern medicine:-—‘Medicine is little better than a copy of the exploded navigation of the ancients, Taking bie bearings less by the observation of the fixed stars than by every little eminence and prominent locality, the Ancient mariner cautiously, yet timidly, crept along the shore whereas, with the unerring compass for his guide, the seaman now steers his bark boldly upon the boundless ceran, Despising the localisms that formerly guided bit salle, he now completes hie voyage to the dis. | tant port in as many days ae it formerly occu Pod bam wocks or moutha, Keeping ia view (ug principles here laid down (by the author), the physi- cian may im like manner, with a few rare exceptions, entirely di: pense with tho anatomical landmarks of his art, if he be nol startled with the novelty of the |i: ht by which we have endeavored to dispel the !ur! ness that has bithe o cluded the feld of me ticins, Taking cor- poreal u rity end totality for his rudder and compass, the brain an . 1 erves for the ocean and seas on which he is to act, tem «ature and remi't ney for his tide and seasons, constitul on and habit for the rule by which he must 00- casiona!!y change his tack, he may now rapidly accom- plish eids which, by groping among the intricacies of nomencl: ture or by a vulgar attention to mere localities, he can en'y imperfectly attain by the reiteration of long and painful processes—he may thus with case obviate difficulties which he previously believed to be insur Rn Oantabie."” Alciphron, like Dr. Dickson, dealssome very hard biows at the magnates of the faculty; and ag there is the best reason for supposing that the very uncertain practice of modern physic richly deserves the severest strictures, those blows, good temperedly given, can scarcely be termed too hard. In short, it is ample time that some- thing were done to improve modern medicine, and society is largely indebted to Dr. Dickson for having put the axe to the root ef the tree, Tar History or Crviuization 1x Exciann. By Henry Thomas Buckle. Appleton & Co. Vol. i. ‘The introduction to Mr. Buckle’s work, which occupies the whole of this volume, has already stamped his name with celebrity. It displays all the qualities which are re- quired ina historical writer—a spirit of calm and dispas- sionate investigation, philosophical acumen, independence of judgment and patient research. If the remainder of the work be executed in the same admirable and painstaking atyle, it will prove one of the most valuable contributions that bas ever been made to historical literature. A Journey Dre Nortu, Being Notes or A Rest- penck IN Russta. By George Augustus Sala. Ticknor & Fields, Boston. This lively volume has already been made familiar to some of our readers through the pages of Blackwood. Mr. Sala has succeeded in daguerreotyping the internal life of Russia with a fidelity and graphic truthfulness which have been attained by few writers. New York to Dexmt. By Robert B. Minturn, Jr. Appleton & Co. ‘This volvme, written before the outbreak of the Tadian mutiny, will disappoint many who will seek in it a revival of the thrilling interest connected with its incidents. As it was not Mr. Minturn’s fortune to witness them, he is, of course, unable to satisfy the curiosity of those who may take up his book under this erroneous impression. As a picture of Indian society previous to the attempt to over- turn British domination, and as a key to the political causes in which it originated, it possesses, nevertheless,an interest almost equal to that of a narrative of the events of the war. We theretore strongly recommend the book to all who are desirous of studying the problem which is now puzzling English statesmen, viz: the means of con- verting the Hindoo and Brahmin races to Western notions 0! civilization, and of attaching them firmly to Christian rule. Tur Maritime Ports or Iretanp. By Anthony Marmion. Dublin, 1858. P.M. Haverty, Fulton street. This, though a work professing to treat exclusively of the geographical and commercial features of the principal Irish ports, is, in reality, a compilation of valuabie statis- tics relating to the industrial and commercial resources of Ireland generally. No other publication that we know of gives 0 complete and accurate a history of the past as well asfpresent condition of Ireland. Her status previous to the union, by which many of her most valuable manu- facturing interests were crushed, if not entirely destroyed; ber struggles to drag along an unequal competition with imperial rivalry, under the pressure of heavy burdens and iniquitous laws; ber final triumph after nearly three- quarters of a century of suffering, unparalicled in the his- tory of nations, over the baleful influences which had pa ralyzed all her efforts, and reduced her to a condition of the most abject pauperism, and her restoration to a healthful and self-sustaining position, in which she is already be- to make herself valued and respected, are all set forth by the aid of figures, which leave no room for the suspicion of exaggeration. Mr. Marmion’s book makes its appearance at a timely conjuncture, when the partial suc- cess of the Atlantic telegraph, and the promising aspect of the Galway line of steamers, are beginning to direct the attention of capitalists to the commercial and industrial capabilities of Ire and. Tur SratesMan’s MANUAL PROM 1789 TO 1858, Compiled by Edwin Williams and Benson J. Lossing. 4 volumes. Edward Walker, 114 Ful- ton street. The new and revised edition of this valuable standard publication brings down its contents to the present day. Mr. Lossing, the present editor, bas carefully carried out the original plan in his additions, whilst at the same time he has introduced some improvements necessitated by the constantly changing aspect of public affairs. No pri- vate, much less political, library should be without this work, for the information which it conveys can only be found scattered over a vast variety of publications, the examination of which, supposing them to be easily acces. sible, would consume more time than the majority of people would be inclined to bestow on them. E. Hayes. Tur Bauiaps or Ireuann. Edited by Boston, P. Donahoe; New York, P. M. Haverty, Fulton street. This is one of the most complete collections of Irish lyrical poetry which has as yet been published. It em- braces all the best ballads that have been written within the last half century, inclurting the least exceptionable in sentiment of those penned by the flery spirits of the Young Ireland school, Grraup Guirrtx’s Works. Vol. X. Sadlier & Co., William street. ‘This volume, containing the life of Gerald Griffin, by his brother, and a selection from his correspondence, closes the present edition of his works. The publishers deserve the thanks of the American public for making them ac- quainted with the writings of this delightful novelist. NEW MUSIC. Amongst the recent publications of Mr. Horace Wators we notice the duets “Kind Words can Never Die,” “The Angels Told Me 80;"’ the quartette “Oh, Give me Back my Mountain Home; the song “The Wilds of the West,” «The Palace Garden Polka,” “The Swinging Schottische,” and ‘Reichs Empire Quadrilies.”’ Mr. Daly, of Grand street, has published a clever com- ition, entitled the ‘Atlantic Cable March.”’ by Mr. R.@. : mmingham, which is dedicated to Captain Hudson, Cyrus Field, W. E. Everett and John Mullaly, Esqs, PINE ARTS. Mr. Brady's last semi mouthly issue of political portraits isa finely executed imperial photograph of the Hon. Henry A. Wise, The perfection to which Mr. Brady has brought his instruments and chemical preparations now enables him to throw off impressious almost as perfect as engray- ings. Asplendid lithorraphed portrait of General Scott has just been published by Mr. Konrad Huber. The likeness Je perfect, and th wtion of the work gives the idea of a fine line engraving. It is of large and well adapted for framing. ‘The Messrs. Schultze, of Boston, have sent us a large sized tinted litherograph view of the Cathedral of Cologne, as it will be when complete. The details of this magnifi- cent building are seen to the greatest advantage in the Mesers. Schultze’s plate Goupil & Co, have published a lithograph of the casts of Thorwaldeen’s statues of the Twelve Apostles, whieh were destroyed in the Crystal Pal ‘The same publishers have also ieened a tinted litho. graphic view of the Palace, as it stood previous to the ire. Our Panama Correspondence. Pawama, Oct. 19, 1858. Return of our Minister from Beuader—Case of Rev. Frede- rick Crowe in San Salealor—Hardships and Sufferings of a Baylist Minister ancl his Family, de., de. Among the passengers by the Moses Taylor is Hon. Phito White, late United Statee Resident Minister near the Go- vernment of Eevador. Not long since Mr. White had a cor- respondence with the Minister of Pern accredited to Bucna- dor, respecting the navigation of the Amazon river, &e., and as it has never appeared in print, I send you herewith Mr, White's despatch to that functionary, dated May 25, 868. 1 also enclose copies of a correspondence between Dr. Foot, her Britannic Majesty's Consul at Sonsonate, San Salvador, and Rev. Frederick Crowe, a Bay Mis. who bas recently been expelled thateountry. The reverend gentieman s case seems to be a hard one, but as to that you and your readers will be able to judge for yourselves, after ——- the correspondence. Mr, Crowe and his wife arrived here on the 7th instant, in great destitution, having come passengers on board the steamship Columbus, their passages being paid to this forther—by the Salvadorian government. By the assistance of the American Consul at this place, the agente of the Pacific Mai! Steamship and Panama Railroad companies, and a few otber charitable persons, Mr. Crowe Tie wi re are enabled to proceed to the Unite@Ftates. They sailed from Aspinwall on the 17th in: in the Panama Railroad Co.'s brig Arabella, They are really ob- jects of a, Aside from the crue! treatment they have received at the hands of the authorities of Satyador, Sz have excited great sympathy here—from the faot of their being valetudinarians, and in extreme want, ‘The friends of the American Bible Union Society in the United States, in whoee cause Mr. Crowe has assidnoust; labored in Central Amoriea for a number of years, wil no doubt, have their sympathies aroused in his: behalf when thew came to know al! the facts connegted with his ¢xpuleion from San Salvador, SEWARD AND SLAVERY. Another Abolition Pionttestn Grom our Black Republican ° SPEECH OF WILLIAM H. SEWARD, AT ROME, OCTO- BER 29, 1858, When Senator Seward arose he was siastic cheers, long continued and spoke substantially as follows:— Feiow Crnzxxs—Personal interests necessarily mingle themselves under a free government with ali political or public transactions. Such interests, however, are subor- dinate and tem while policies and principles survive and endure. It has been my custom, theretore, always to refrain from the discussion of juestions in con- nection with political topics. Idepart from this rule in the present case, because I am obliged to know, although T have tried to be ignorant of the fact, that doubts are en- tertained by a portion of the republican electors of Oneida county, whether they cannot, consistently with the inte- rests of the cause of freedom, permit the return of a demo- cratic member to the House of ives from this Cony district. It will appear hin the sequel that such a result cannot wisely be permi evenif there were no other reason than the fact that the member 80 to be returned is a “democrat.” But it seems to me to be not only not improper, but also a duty which I owe the republican candidate to say more. think that no one now questions my own fidelity to the cause of human freedom it rene of my counection with public affairs. (Cheers.) Your kind re- sponse enables me to assume this. During all that period Mr. O. B. Matteson, your present representative in Con- [tape has been intimately connected with me. I bear ia is Debalf willingly and gratefully the testimony that at ‘Washington, at all times and under ail circumstances, he has been faithful, I further sey that he has been able and efficient there. 1 perform a pleasing duty, moreover, in dec! here, in the presence of his constituents, that under all circumstances Mr. Matteson render- ympathy, support and aid of a trusty, reliable and de nd. Igo yet further, and declare that being acquainted with the facts and circumstances of the vote of censure which was passed upon him in the House of Representatives, it was my conviction at that time, as it is my conviction now, that that vote was unsusteined by any adequate evidence, was unjust and partial, politi- cal and partisan, and dictated by the hostility of the slave interest, in retaliation for the vigorous and successful re- sistance to that interest which he had made. It was natural under such circumstances Mr. Mat- teson should desire and think he bad a claim upon the republican electors of his district for a re-noraination aud a re-eleotion, which would prove a popular vindication against a judgment incurred in their service, but of course that was one among many elements which entered into the question of a nomination for member of Congress at the coming election. The republican clectors of Oneida were rightfully the judges upon the whole question em- bracing all its details. I designedly and cautiously re- frained from interfering with the discussion of that subject, because jealous freemen could not and ought not to tole- rate suck interference from any quarter. And the electors from every district in this State have a special claim upon me to practice non-intervention in such personal contests and conflicts. You have decided that the interests of the cause in this district will be best promoted by the election of another member of the party, Mr. Roscoe Conkling. It is my duty to acquiesce in that decision, and 1 do ac- q ce in it without regarding the subject as open for review or further consideration, As it has been pleasant for me to bear my testimony in behalf ef Mr. Matteson, so it ig an occasion of sincere pleasure to speak in terms of the highest respect and estecm for the gentleman whom you have nominated to be his successor. Mr. Conkling, as you are aware, has been known to me longer than to your- Selves. He was born, I think, certainly he was reared in the town in which I live, and his parents and family have been for near twenty-five years among my most intimate personal friends. I saw in his childhood and early youth the indications of that high order of genius and talent which he has since developed among yourselves. While lremarked those indications with pleasure, it would be unjust to withbold the further confession, that when divi- sions occurred which carried many friends into courses and associations diverg ng from mine, Mr. Conkling re- mained in the course which I thought was the wise and true one, and perseveringly adhered to my own fortunes in political life. After bearing this testimony of Mr. Conkling it remains for me to declare that I earnestly and with my whole heart desire the return of Roscoe Coukling to the House of Representatives. First, because the choice is between him, as a true friend of freedom, and another who, in my judginent, will be unfaithful to that cause. I do uot re- flect upon the personal integrity of the opposing candi- date, but I rat belongs to the democratic party of the State of New York, which is faithless to that cause. If he should accept service in that cause he must be untrue to the party by whose suifrages he was elected. In the choice between that cause and that party, I know no rea- son to suppose that he would choose the distinction of martyrdom for freedom’s sake. Secondly, 1 desire Mr. Conkling’s election, because he will bring’ into the dis- charge of his Ligh trusta true devotion to the cause of justice and hamanity, as well as confessed and superior ability. Such men will be wanted more in the Congress of 1859 and 1860 than ever before. Lentered Congress as a representative from this State in 1849. The State had then thirty-four members in the House of Representatives. Of these, thirty-three were returned by the same political organization which con- ferred the trust upon myself, and all were pledged to the same policy, viz.:—the exclusion of slavery from the ter- ritory of the United States by the extension of the Wilmot proviso over the territories just then acquired by the dis- memberment of Mexico, The thirty-fourth member was a democrat, but the overbearing force of public opinion forced hita into our association, so that practically the entire delegation from the State was committed to that policy. Seven or eight months elapsed. Gen. Taylor, the chief of the party, fell. A panic seized upon the party and the country, and at the expiration of that short period only fourteen of the representatives of New York re- mained firm in the field. 1 then said : this demoralization will have its time, but within the period of ten years the people of New Risas wchavat aueetene At the expn- ration of (hat time u u the higer law, which is only to say, (hat there ie a. God on hamens. and they will then be ready to strike a low for freedom and hu- pray which all will be recovered has been so shamelesly Uetrayed and lost. That period has . That blow is to be struck in the Congress of 1859 and ‘60. In resuming that great battle, I con fess that I desire the county of Oneida to send its ablest and strongest map, standing within the probabilities of an election at the present juncture, for he will be wanted there. You have decided that Roscoe Conkling is that man. Let him, therefore, I pray you, be elected. Fellow citizens, the time for decisive action is at hand. The season for argument has passed, I shail therefore confine myself to the duty of prescnting three incidental topics to your consideration. first will be to indicate, as Il understand it, the stage of the coutest with the slave power at which we have arrived; second, the issues for i we are contending; and thirdly, theyway of the ttle First—The stage of the contest to which we have ar- rived. It ix commonly supposed that we are in the hot- test part of the battle, but this I deem a grave error. We have in fact only completed the organization of our army im the free States. But this is and im- portant—all important advance in the str and, as you wil soon see, is more than the battle. fama A has in fact conquering an riot reeted with enthu- 4 repeated. ing through land for more than thirty, I might say oy years; not of its own or . OF pow. er, but with the strength, force any jer Of the demo- cratic party of the United States, yen the democratic party would have been unable, however, to bave given it this suceessful career of conquest, if it had been op- pored and resisted by any adequate, earnest and well or ganized combination. But as we can ail see now, though ‘we did not perceive it then, that nee tical combination was wanting. There was no party in the country that had the courag \) the conseience to appeal to the just instincts of the American people and defy the democratic hosts of slavery. Houbtiess many of you were whigs, as T was. remember how earnestly, laboriously and patiently we labored to bring that great, patriotic and intelligent combination to espouse and become the champion of the cause of human rights: how we labored at times with apparent suecess, and tore often hoping against hope, until the yoos 1862, to bring the whig party up to the poing of assuming that neble championship; and how. at its last National Convention at Baltimore, the party at last placed itself upon the treacherous platform of learery, and instant Ty went down, leaving only wrecks and ruins to float for a while upon the political ecean. Others of you ‘were democrats—imbued with & of to slavery. You remember and there, in the presence of an app nation, laid down the platform of fr and free men; how you repaired to the Empire State, and there lai! new temple of freedom, and said, “Lo! te stone which the builders rejected, the same is heen ner.” You need not be told how, year of 1852, the platform and foundation of this new and enthusiastic free soil party disappeared, leaving not a wreck or even a relic behind. From that time onward until 1866 and 1866, the irrepressible hostility to slavery, inherent in the American people, foand no organization, no combination, no party, no association which dared to give it utterance. Then, however, were seen at least the germe of the republican party. Wise, considerate, far sering men discovered in those germs an! their future developement, the organization which was required hy the exigencies of the country, and through ite agency @ epeedy and complete, reeovery of all that bea tren lost. republican | aty is now practically organized and rev Sor action, freed from all the elements of hesitation Timiauy, ‘cowardice “or caution, whichever term may be preferred. It embraces the true friends and faithful believers in the eauee of humanity in all the States, drawn from all former political parties. See how strong, nnited and firm a 7 it presents in Maine, consolidated under the lead of Harlin and Fessenden, in New Hampstire, under the dircetion of Hale and Clark: in Massachasetts under the lead of Wilson and Adams: in New York, o Horace Greeley and Preston King in Pennsy!vania, under the lead of Cameron and Campbell: It will be the show of the next two years to witness { organization of this same republican party within the slave States, under the dof brave and true mon, such Frank P! Blair, of Missouri, and Cassius M. Clay, of remaing of organization as a national party to be effected ix as sure and certain ax what bas already occurred and is now so distinetly seen Thave eaid that when the organization should be effve tive the battle would be already half won, and so in tru it has already happened. In 1866 we wore organized all the free States except A ay bet gone Tndiana, New Jersey and California. During the last year we have com. pleted our organizations in those States, and the elections which have already occurred in them have brought to the republican party accessions, which if they had occurred in 1866, would have sceured a republican Congress and a republican administration. To speak as rapublican Congress is already secured if onty the of New York, whieh bas hitherto led in this great strug. gic, shall not now forsake and abandon the contest and betray the canse of freedom. You, the clectors of Oneida, constitute one thirty tnird part of the State of New York. You can answor better than T whether it is better to adhere to the cause under circumetances so auepicions, of to betray it and thae draw down upon the State the reproach and contempt of man. kind. Tt meet nevertheless be remembered that we not only ‘engage in this contest under the disadvantages of an or ganization new, untried and incomplete, but also of a con- stitotional limitation of the power of that organization Auere are w bag siAye States 5,290,009 slaves. The slayg: pposing poli All such just hostility t prov holders who vote for these slaves balance the votes of 21,000,000 freemen. This constitutional coucession of ad- vantage to the slave States is equal to two-thirds of the delegation of the free State of New York in Congress, or to the representation of a large portion if uot the whole of New England. Let it be remembered, then, in all tuture contests that the constitution neutralizes and withholds Sete field this large division of the forces of the free Again, it is customary to regard the representation from the slave States as being unanimous in favor of the | imterests of slavery. And practicaily the assumption is true. Slavery compels and secures unity of purpose and concert of action among all the representatives of the slave States; it lolerates no divergency or separation. On the other baud the free States thus far have sent to Con- bend delegations by which large portions prove to be as | levoted and faithful to the interests of slavery as the representatives of the slave States themselves. [f the free States were united by a bond as close, and the action of their representatives was directed by a will as intense a3 that of the slaveholders, their unanimity would have terminated this contest in favor of freedom long ago. Second—I am to say a word or two BOW concerning the issues particularly involved at this stage of the struggle. You would naturally suppose that the duty before us 1s to make some new acquisition of free territory, or at least to gain back some free territory which has Jost to sia- very, to gain some affirmative constitutional position or to retrieve some such position which has been lost. You never made a greater mistake in your lives. Byerring has been lost which can be lost, except the enjoyment freedom and the exclusion of slavery within the free States. Slavery remains stronger than ever in ali the slave States, and freedom of sposch, freedom of the pres, and freedom of upon the sibject of slavery are actually unknown in those States. Slavery remains in the District of Cieenlie, dahon vemains in all the arsenals, docks, and nary yards of the United States, and upon all the bed your national ma- rine. By the Dred Scott decision the Supreme Court of the United States, in which your Executive and ep qu- thoritics acquiewwed, slavery exists in Kansas, New Mezico Uiah, Oregon, Dacotah, Arizona, and upon every foot all the remaining domain of the United States, paramount any popular power or sovereignty existing therein, and para- meat even (0 all the authority of all the departments of the jederal government, Th retrieve these losses will be the work of a future The work of to-day is to obtain securities for fair play this great contest. Fair play was al! that was left to James Buchanan and shi administration to afford us. He promised us miserable right—the remnant of all other valuable rights, Even that promise was broken, and that right has been treacherousiy wrested from us the first year of the administration of James Buchanan. ‘The President, without rebuke from Congress, and with the acquiescence of the Senate, successively removed Governor Walker and Governor Stauton for yielding to the people of Kansas a free, fair and impartial election. When the people of the State of Kansas by such elections repudiated the slavery Lecompton constitution, and ayow- ed their unalterable determination to remain a commu- nity of free mex, the Cougress of the United States re- manced them to remain indefinitely a slaveholding Terri- tory. Elections for slavery are held valid and lawful; elections for freedom are deemed invalid, idle and futile. Have I uot said truly, then, that our first’ conquest must be the recovery of fairness and equality between freedom ana slavery inthe conduct of the administration, and of legis.'alion at Washington ‘Thirdly—It remains to speak of the way of the battle. Hitherto onr contest has been with the slaveholders them- selves. The war on ther side was organized by the rap- resentat.ves of the slave States, and was conducted in the name And on the responsibilities of the slave States them: selves. But this at last has ceased. The slavenolders are intelligent, redecting and sensible men; they have fovnd out that this cannot be made a land of universal slavery. They bave found out at last that it is only aggres- sion on their part which produces such violent resistance in the free States, as to render the solution of the great probiem of slavery either diffcult or dangerous. y ure subdued in spirit. They would if they could become passive, and relinquish the contest for a majority of slave States and for ascendancy in the Union. y know, in- deed, that the existing slave population of 3,200,000 is is quite inadequate to supply by its reproduction the arca of a vast continent with slave labor. That it may be re- sisted, repeiled, overborne in the contest by the native reproduction of free labor from a stock of 20,000,000 na- tive born American citizens, augmented and reinforced b; immigration from Great Britain, Germany, Switzerland, Sweden, Norway and Spanish America. Division is apparent in their counsele, and if there be ultra and vilemen among them their action is rendered nugatory and harmless by the dissent and resistance of couservative and moderate men. Thus you see tho and menaces of disunion in that quarter have died ay; and that henceforth we might ee forbearance, toleration and patriotism on the part of the slaveholders if they were left free to act for themse! It is natural that it should beso. Slaveholders are a property holding class. Interest persuades them to moderation. Left to theinselves, they would not even be a partisan or politi- cal class. ing quiet, and looking for safety to public repoee and tranquillity, they would be inactive, as all property classes usually arc, But anew force bas inter- vened in their behalf. The interested amd superservice- able tenders of assistance and aid call them and stir them up to new efforts to sustain a declining cause and make it wn new fo is that portion of the democratic is new force is o which is found within the free States. The ciavebeldens ‘were content with their great acquisitions secured by the compromise of 1850. But for the foreign intervention of which I bave spoken would have submitted to the organization of new free States within that part of the an- cient territory of Louisiana covered by the Missouri Compromise prohibition of 1820, But the democratic party of the free States roused them. from their sleep and offered them and forced upon their acceptance, whether they would or not, the great boon of the abrogation of that prohibition and the establishment. of anew siave State in the Territory of Kansas, It was not within the capacity for self-denial of the siaveholders to refuse such a boon. They accepted it with hesitation and reluctance at the hands of their Northern aliies. Theneeforth the way of the battle between the siave States and the free States became entirely —— day. Ticneeforth the war was between the representatives \- dom in the free States, and the interested allies and” sup- porters of slavery in the free States. So, when the people of Kansas’ after & memorable struggle, marked with the atrocities and many of the sufferings of civil war, a year ago threw off the Missouri usurpation, and unmistakabiy pronounced for freedom and a free State, the slavebolders tically withdrew from the contest.’ But James Bu- chanop, the newly elected free State President of the United States, mage nyo and as his first administrative act procured ¢ Supreme Court of the United States & decree pronouncing slaveholding to be a normal condi tion of all the Territories of the United States, whatever might be the temper and disposition of the imbabit- ing those Territories, and encouraged the slaveholders through the action of the Lecompton constitution, to insist upon Maintaining slavery in Kansas in detance of the popa- lar will. It then became stil) more be ate that retainers of sia- slavehoiders themselves, freedom very in the free States, and not constitated the party with whom the friends of beuceforth were tocontend. This new and unexpected state eden snd anatglce. "Eke same ting was a same was of the Revolution. The British asterted their jurisdiction over the 3 2 5 F i g z i a i Eg i their by open war. of Saratoga, it apparent that those pretensions could pot successfully be maintained, they wisely pro- posed to retreat, conciliate ‘and were nol allowed to do so. listed by that time in in case of the success of the to the merey of the victors. Their interested appeals to the faith of the British government hindered and delayed for a long period the acknowledgement of American Inde- pendence, ‘The case of these retainers of slavery also finds a parallel in that of the Swiss mercenary soldiers of fortune, who constitute always the body guard of despots in Europe. ners cf slavery in the free States abuse the cre- of the slaveboliers by evermore promising them phs over the re nee Which they encounter ferstood then henceforth, that our contest is not with the slavcholders, but with the abcttors and re- tainers of slavery among ourselves. Let us constitute # (00 committees of vigilance, and detect and ex yor these retainers to condign punishment. We shall have no difficulty in finding them. Whenever we see a citizen of a free State obtaining recommendations to the ident of the ited States for acabinet place or a foreign mission let us be aasnred we have found one who is achief in this conspiracy. There is one or more of suchin bi pd from five to a hundred ora thousand jom bourse. Seize them seure inopen day. You see at once ant in numbers, They constitute led in every cv 1 t0 eX re insign an incenevderable and Insignificant portion of the la of the free States, rhaps out of three or or ten in of Oneida aty, shunning the public uncorrupted people, large towne and ¢ gaze of an honest they congregate chiefly in sities, and are there “ac tively engaged, though unseen, In baffling and defeating the efforts of freemen to reverse the action of the federal government, You see at once that they are within our reach and within our power, What shall be done with them? Our fathers dealt summarily with their proto t They confiseated their estates. and sent them with letters commending them to the protection and favor of the Britich government which they had eo faithfully rerved. What do you say, fellow citizens, in the present case? Shall we send the retainers of slavery whom we detect among ourselves to the slave States, commending them severnily to their patrons for a plantation, with an te number of elaves? 1 see at once that this woult Such an occupation would require industry and Weaith and for. not do. labor, which are not within their line. tune are acquired with diffienlty in slave States and with the employment of slaves. These retainers of slavery porene their politieal avocation because they are either unwilling or unable to sustain themselves by industry. in fice tates, They would perish in slave States. That vocation, however, i# likely to come toa spood: end. Iti manifest they must seek a new fleld in whic to porsve it, ‘There are three other great ahem | nations, in each of which the agitation for the removal slavery ie just begun. One of there is Brazil. The demo- cratic retainert of slavery in our midst wonk! find a field for thoir accustomed employment in that cmpire. Doubt- jest they will be able to discover that the Union existing there is endangered. They might secure places and pon- sions for saving it from a opeety dissolution. ‘The agitation of slavery begun in Russia, at the in. stance of the Emperor “If our democratic retainers of slavery could be landed in the ports of the White Sea, y might render a useful service inthat empire, If thei services should be rejected by the slaveholders of Russia, there still remains open to them a field for useful and ac: tive duty in Turkey, where a ds Tous agitation of e! very is already begun, Livers! fewsrds ‘will, doubtless, be offered toa of men whom a has qualified for intervening with effect by? vent a disaster £0 great as the abolition of the peculiar had established and with such decisive advantages in empire ‘ellow citizens, 1 have thus shown place, poi epe for my Poy Ud Onekia may be represented by a sentative of the cause of freedem in the next 4 have shown you that the organization of the republican army is now effective so far as is necessary for bmn | in the struggle for the recovery of what ba: mn lost; ane Thave shown you that our contest hereafter is not with the clave power, distant and iracceesible na it is, but with an enemy lurking among ourselveR, I baye omy W Aad all your power; slavery | ‘that the result of this engagement is already determin »4, with the exception of one conti y—the 1ey, that the State of New York, which has imstituted thus warfare, may desert and betray it now, on the eve of its complete success. 1 will not — suffor cif for a moment to believe that it cam be so betrayed and deserted, If New York on Tuesday Xt shall maintain the ground which she has held so \ with such distinguished honor, the next Congress the United States will belong to the republican party, 2 Tt vemain only in 1860, to secure the we de- poriment, and with that achievement, the Supreme Court will recede from ts untenable ition. Free States will thenceforth be organized without resistance. All that hes been gained by the slave power in violation of the constitution walt be relinquished, Peace and harmony will once more return, and this great problem of the re- mova! of slavery from our land will abide its solution ia a | constitutional way, and under the moliorating influence of | the spirit of the age, without convuision in any State, without danger to the Union, and without injustice to any ‘one of the 30,000,000 of inhabitants living under the - tection of the beat of constitutions that human wistom bas ever devised. | Opening of the La Crosse and Milwaukie Rallroad—Its Present Position and Future Prospects. ‘The forma! opening of the La Crosse and Milwaukie Rait- road took place on the 14th instant. On that day a train of eighteen care, drawn by two powerful locomotives, left Milwaukie for La Crosse. The excursion party consisted of about five bundred invited guests, and there were pre- sent people from all parts of the country. The most in- , tense enthusiasm prevailed throughout, and at every Stopping place along the line the most lively demonstra- tions of joy were apparent. Notwithstanding the lengta of the train and the delays at different points, tho entire distance was run in about ten hours, over a road oqual te any in the country for strength and solidity of construc- jon. The highest grade on the line is forty-three feet to he mile, but most of the distance is nearly a teve! and very straight, The contractor, Selah Chamberlain, Exq., thas more than performed his duty in this respect. He has given the company a road equal in every respect to tho New York Central or Hudson River—one capable of the highcet speed, with the most economical wear and tear. The country through which the La Crosse and Milwaukie Railroad passes is beyond all question the finest this side of the Mississippi river. For the first forty miles west of Milwaukie the road passes through a rich wooded conntry, the soil of which is very fertile, and where clearings have bee made fine farms are located, This section is cut up into small settlements, and the inhabitants ure principally Germans, who high!y oultivate small farms. and produce in the aggregate large crops. From Horicon, the junction with the Horicon Railroad to Portage, the La Crosse road passes through a rich prairie country. For miles om each side of the road fieids of wheat extend, and the yield per acre is immense, The soil is easily cultivated, and the increase in population is seen in the villages rapidly springing up in every direction. All along the line pre- ations were going on for the cultivation of a much greater breadth of land than usual for the spring crops. A few years will see these prairies covered with large and comfortable farm houses,and immense barns, filied te their capacity with grain. There can be xo limit to the product of this region, aud the winter wheat here growa commands a better price than any yet offered in the East- ern markets. At Portage, a distance of ninety-five miles from Milwaukie, we found a large and thriving city. It is quite an old, settlement for that section of country, and numbers several thousand in- habitants. This is the half-way stopping place between Milwaukie and La Crosse, and is destined to be a point of considerable importance. The land grant road from Madison will, when completed, connect with the main line at this place, and doubtiess before many years elapse a railroad will be constructed from Portage in a northerly direction for opening up the immense resources of the region located north of the line of the La Crosse road. From Portage west the country is comparatively new. There are along the line several growing villages, some of which are already of some magnitude, but their growth bas up to this time been entirely independent of railroad influences, Kilbourn City, Lisbon and Sparta are situated at most favorable points, and must become large places. The water power at Kilbourn City is equal to any manufacturing point east of Lake Michigan, and being lo- cated about half way between the lake and the Mississip- pi river, it has great advantages for the distribution of its products. A few years must give Kilbourn City a large population. The agricultural centres throughout the west- ern section of the La Crosse Railroad are already impor- tant places, and must become active business points for the surrounding country. At Greenfield the tunnel passes through a high ridge of rock a distance of thirteen hun- dred feet. This is a studeudous piece of work, and one which long delayed the completion of the tine. The energy of the contractor, Mr. Chamberlain, was equal to the task imposed, and it was finished long before the appointed time. Upon emerging from the west- ern opening of the tunnel the road enters upon the La Crosse valley, and from that point to the Mississippi river passes through the most beautiful country in the world. This valley ts about ten miles wide, bounded on the north and south by a ridge of bills. The soil is exceedingly rich from the lowest to the highest points, and capable of the most extensive cultivation. Along this river range there isa series of valleys, all of about the same width and length, all tributary to the La Crosse Railroad. The soil is a heavy, rich black loam, and grows wheat and corn in great abundance. The country throughout is sufficiently wooded for farming purposes, and, take it all in all,a diner Crosse Railroad from the country immediately the line must in a few years be immense, Its geo- eal peatin piven he control of the products of millions of acres of land, and such land cannot be found the line of any other railroad cast of the Mississippt With a fine climate, with products the grains for breadstuf®, with an area, and face, the future fall o¢ hopes and Une owt extravagant calculations cannot fail of 1. La Crosse, the western terminus of this road, is on the Misieeippi, at the Junction with the La Grosse Biack rivers. It is a city now numbering about seven thousand ighabitants, and is growing very. . Here- tofore it bas been comparatively shut out from the world. The opening of a ratiroad, therefore, bringing it in direct communication with the rest ot mankind, is an event of Vast importance to every citizen, and it must give an im- pulse to business euch as bas never before been realized within its history. La Crosse is now the highest point on the Mississippi river touched by a raiiroad connecti with the waters of Lake Michigan. This fact is of it river. i sufficient to turn the attention of the commercial commu. nity to ite favorable location. It gives it contro! of the Upper Mistiesippi business, and makes it tH® great cen tre of distribution over the great Northwest. All the cittes of Wisconsin and Minnesota bordering on the Missis- sippi_are now tributaries to La Crosse, and by this route St. Pont, St. Anthony, Minneopolis and Prescott, are brought full twenty four hours nearer New York. By the La Crosse Railroad the distance between St. Paul and New York can be easily made in less than three days. The trade of the Upper Mississippi is in- sing with wonderful rapidity, and will be in a years second in importance to no other section. An extensive system of railroad improvements has beew inaugurated in Minnesota, and as the principal fines are un- der contract to Selah Chamberlain, Keq., their satisfactory completion within the appginted time is guaranteed. Mr. Chamberiain is well named the Napoleon of railroad con Thronghout the financial panic and revulsion past year he never faltered a day in his operations La Crosse and Milwaukie Railroad, but steadily on the work and completed the line three months jhe stipulated time. Je is alse the moet honorahl ecjentions man in bis profeesion, for he does every- ell. His work on the LaCrosse line is an evidence of this. There is not a better constructed railroad in the United Stator, and a speed of thirty and forty miles yur can be made on it with ease and perfect safety. tad ite La Crosse, on the Miealastypt river, is La Crescent, us of the Southeru Minnesota Railroad. tthe Southern Minnesota Railroad extenda in a western direction to Mankato, on the Minnesota river, and then tn a southwest direction to the Sioux river This entire length of road is no more or less than an exten- sion of the La Crosse, and mast throw an immense trame over that road to reach the waters of Lake Michigan, About fifty miles of the Southern Minnesota Railroad are now graded, and the rails will be laid in time to give an outlet to the crowing crops of that section. - bona, a point in Minnesota on the river aboot forty miles above La Crosee, will be the eastern terminus of the ‘Transit railroad, a line connecting with the Southern Mia- hesota Kaiiroad ‘at Rochester, a point about fifty miles ack from the Missiseippi river. This is another tributary to the La Croste Railroad, as it fs only over that line that the products of the country back of Winoua can reach lake pavigation The rapid growth of St. Paul, St. Anthony and Mineo apolis, ie beyond al! precedent. The excursionists left La Crosee on the steamers Northern Belle and Northern Light, ‘and after a fine run reached St. Pan! on the morning of & day which for mildness and beauty would have been crog- itable to a much lower latitude, The courtesy and urbanity of Capt. Hurd, of the Northern Belle, made the trip par- ticularly pleasant to those who were fortunate to be urider his care: and his epiendid boat was the theme of preise ineveryhody’s mouth. A trip up the Upper Mississippi river, under such circumstances, is in- deed one of pleasure, and every year must add largely to sommer tourists inathat direction. A trip to the o St. Anthony and the Falls Minnehaha is well worth the attention — of most faehionable clasees, St. Pan! contains about fifteen thousand inhabitants, and is located at the head of steamboat navi- gation on the Lower Mississippi. St. Anthony eontaina ‘about ten thousand inhabitants, and js situated at the foot of steamboat navigation on the Upper Mississippl. ft will therefore be & hat they both occupy it post tions, and their grow#h must be rapid and i cach other, The great railroad system of Minnesota con tree at these points, and opens to them the interior of that immense State Then agrietitural point of view Minnesota, ie destined to outstrip every other in the Union. Its area ig immence, its soil of tho most wonderful fertility, ite | climate «ep idle of Fastern States, ite 1 products compe ier ¥ known in New Pngland and New York, and im quality exoged aby thing ever seem