Madison Express (Newspaper) - February 15, 1840, Madison, Wisconsin AD I SON EXPRESS PK IN TED AND P U I L I SHED WEEKLY BY WILLIAM W WYMAN J SATURDAY 15 NUMBER 12 From the Examiner Western Monthly Review Iowa Territory Condition and Increase jtY JK blc found in the erate regions The rich grain of the Staies the vine of ern Europe the of the West Indies and the mulberry warm to the and well repay the agriculturist for toil Already are the domestic staples -n f 1 til y i I greet the readers o from region the A still called by the inhabitants of u ic States although to locate tho term tho inquirer for the whereabouts of if the from Ii wa miner bi it i- o in the vicinity of the the shadow Mo wh a good humored smile would re rd his if h i the of ihc words to of the Territory In trull if the torni be applicable ao I K bi to of national from try enquirer not to ii her have IK the v c1 of il nor can v to walls el brick and i.-n.bL'in their dee but we boast a v and iy i f to-day el ibr ciU n now command and when of the growth of Ohio Illinois Th's may seem re hardy assertion but recent tacts huve proved its correctness nor ia it matter for wonder hut it should be so Tho agriculturists oi tho old States ha e neglected tie cultivation of great -t of the country ard lent their attention to matters more as A oil aa immediate ler of an elk did these primitive artisans first excavate the mineral and afterward by means of furnaces of their own tion and construction did they reduce it to its metallic state and it is said by seme that their process was as effective in ex- all the lead as is that of their white successors at the present though ours of course is upon a much larger scale and consequently more ex- This part of the country was formerly inhabited by the Renards or Pox Indiana About the year 1786 Du a Frenchman from Cannda came among them and succeeded in ob- permission to work the mines which previously had discovered On the day of September 3783 a regular council of formally confirmed to him who call La Petite or the Little writing turns The isii J wild in of a muni a day tho building rp of cities where the v heal should bo plant i thriving town handsomely situated he Mississippi Du Reverend Bishop ind one of the Judges ef the Supremo of the territory as well as that of members of all the learned ably ever ill so great the en- anc energy of tho American peo the Territ It stands upon very some upon the banks of the e is the residence of the Right the time the link between j and a lew miles above the mouth ishop of that see the Marshal Lake Michigan and the Mississippi is ad- j of Turkey river some distance up which aons A finer agricultural country than that ying north and west of this place tho i length ten minting at tho city fastidious farmer from the Delta of situated at he junction of the Ohio and he Nile could scarcely be supposed to rivers and which is now un- ire Saw and grist mills arc found in dcr contract at various points roaches to ill directions but yet many spots as within aboi t ten miles of Du A dcd to the chain we shall enjoy the are situated mines of load taat have spectacle of one continuous line j worked to a considerable extent by the In- of from Maine to Iowa dians but they have hitherto The Central ed to yer to the owing hundred and fifty miles in ably to superstitious notions con- Iho city of Cairo in heir minds wilh ho revelation as any are still open to the of the emigrant Emigrants whoso inly knowledge of this region has o been derived from a superficial glance it a map of the United object to nd tho next uad -A corn Tl is slate of things a door to tlie importation of arran There iu 120 enough produced the north for uc and direct their oo M fur r 11 and i i i H well hi ill J our attention io ic injurious ia being in j o ed in ni i ir with fh In ar tVo can at rates ir permission having ence io the mines discovered by the of In 1810 Du Buque died and the curious traveller may find his grave most romantically situated upon the m it of a bluff overhanging bo- som of Ihc great Father of crowned with and ing a picturesque view of the nanio and does honor to The spot is now hi his cedar cross placed at the head of a stone tomb which the careful c f his In- dians friends and faithful rs had Hie foreign trad T wo good covered with of the but bo prog i3 tlu r 01 t The of the time of the v the ruder le ili point an article sin wo find il to oar to receive i i the return D i on ot 1 to n upon e i Sour i mv i n to no v hero of or tho than i advantage to the I ast country at and the a Th home tho a new for their goods of protection is th facts plainly attention rapid sg out of these has given to n any of is Iowa an ae of population aid oi ill Here i3 bo of as the r almost parallel a few of them wilh a iso in KJ doing th sonic future iy we v ill the ibr the al readers of the libra miner country Rock io in our Editor of the wa Sun the mosl harming thai ever tho eye k hold Hero has clearly the Queen C ily of ho Fur be built II is of itself 5 i ji to fpe ik in of the There are however other mines nov in operation along thin steam which is cne most and in the affording power to any extent and navigable Ibr steamboat 3 to the forks Coal ia said tu have been found upon it above the presort boundary ine Sonic of tlu finest farms in Iowa a situated upon river rci of the Territory as fur up as the alls of Saint bo- ing the of our personal ties of c: in this oi ier points the as fair as any other portion of and af soon as it subject to will be up wilh an ioun population its rapidly as its branch of the Charleston and Cincinnati to about one Ii and twenty of which will undoubtedly secure its early to t on account of its apparent one on the tori miles above mentioned from the East consequent as they would give to Du un- upon its remoteness from that lino of railway to the of er But they forget or are not aware Charleston South and to the hat a continuous line of steamboats hundred oi ier points the runs from Du Buque via New Orleans main trunk by various branches j ii ind New York to Liverpool and Bristol I In tho vicinity of lover in i England besides from Du of nature be in Buque to Pittsburgh Pennsylvania where j ing whoso watora it connects with the great chain of possessed of petrifying properties roads and canals across that State to the sea board The means afforded by these At some of tens of matter converted nio stone acme instances where the IULS trickled are j becc mo known abroad boate of rapid and luxurious travelling down the sice of an bank its are such that I shall not be at all ed if parties of pleasures should this m er be seen at the of St Antony channel hrs originally been over grown a of moid which by the constant percolation of which will heave come all the way from j water hay sivo has now 3 move L Tlu lowr of Du Buque v hich in 1833 was hunting ground Hence fie elegant cathedral stone of churches in brick its atre jail or general's office towering warehouses splendid stores hotels brick mansions a large double steam a printing em- ploying Boino ten or twelve individuals a a temperance society a museum a a tri- i weekly mail from tiie cast a snail from St and a mail from the north a mail boato run L school a dies aro hero alao to be in addition to a incorporated by i its A splendid new too is io built hero season brick the i ibr manufacturing hieh close to the town and the the d oa being aa ordinarily bo tiie rises at last rill is deviated icto a new bed the city of Lou con by steam Tho ex- cursion would occupy only from five to face until sis and would be of the most varied worn Jeff r and interesting that could well be ca ined In addition to the facilities of j ing the ok ore to afford an apt wilh all parts of the world i tion of appearance cf chilled lava afforded her by the steamboats of the on the of a of one of arrivals average one j Ovid's metamorphoses running every whose splendid converted nto stone dations many of them rival in i and comfort those of he of Western or tho British Ru Buque has oilier and important channels of inter- the limes jnc rock at depth of course in process of many feet in tho The United States arc engaged in singular lion precisely making a road from on Lako I section of petrified honey comb too are here found f agate and illy juio oilier in Michigan to place toward which A correspondent of the Daily an appropriation of ten dollars Advertiser on a tour through Wisconsin has been granted It is j in j to its Iv anticipated regular line of mail stages will be to run upon this road during the sent at their made from Du I have become convinced during our visit that this Territory be within a say five at most fc Peters is lie northerly on the banki of tho treat Father of ard as any other It upon ho military reservation attached to Fort on the west ide of river and just above tho of the stream iVom which it takes its The is and built of stone of which material rounding houses are Tho combined appearances of these objects added to the and around with the f prairie ia Ju rear and a noble ate or two tho river in altogether produce an fect of tho kind and induce tins admiring to doubt evidence of his senses and question tho possibility of he scene he beholds being situated ai a remote post two thousand miles to t ic interior as it does so much ho of an oid rogio i east But so it is rnd such vast scale uj on which our beloved has been projected by the Creator of the crops of norn barley etc and tables of ail arc produced here as in any pa -t of or land TUB F arc Tne of sis on ig c on th tj -j ro the ft of the now lings of brick appropriation of thirty one of the important States of the Union dollars toward the of a road It has ibr an hieh tlie oye delights lo up to JJa in addition to the many fine erected the appearance of an old settled placi Her business ia ilia production of tiie various lead ces in the surrounding neighborhood is from or pec on the c nst Michigan to in of Iho of will thcr n connect and u ifb a ono of the i very to hnu this largo ci toen superior quality hem an article of high estimation in Louis Her of large of every of utility and ury that be form a and from latter place to be across Territory of Iowa to State line not united in any the Stilted The emigrant or traveller v ho COITUS to find a ai cl howling will be The water er is greater than that of in part 01 the continent cs ever the tyo of L ke all interior of 10 the hero is rir h l A National too has 1 doubt if is another spot where such been commenced under tho auspices of inducements arc held out to T 1 1 I J 11 anJ stive in- nay in from all L of iho is he and every tion of land I and a ieb reward for ant and moderate oil The i the general government uniting Lake Michigan wilh tho Mississippi at or near Du An appropriation by Con- gress having been made for the purpose the enterprising to men of small tal of any and indeed to all ses of cute men whether rich or about above Peters and in amplo compensation ibr the Ii no required in a visit em It is that a laudable of g heir respecting the of this migl iy Republic Iu a lot already in- a route r number of our to worship at this which perhaps here ia other of our co more emphatically ving of appellation can no where be more appropriately cd or with more butes of 1 or native and il beauty How many upon the su-vey location of this most An industrious coming here i annually flock to participate in already been i v iih one hundred may lay the the aod A i York K1 asid of v iroin are bright sp is in this which our n Uono and IhL ii o e lathe beauty of esting improvement it as will Le rl Cr to i cisi nil ih v t rul d and I io the de- lete tur 3 of the north and cast TLc oris the SCL ior per have pictured in the all in to e a no endowed to tho rich v Us in cf its rivers to iho wauls 01 irv v ivy to mnp of ih wa that ihc country wilh mo capable of oat bolh on tho i all tho L had n imagination reading a Happy in but which I never d to JOG in tiro The H giant even here fifty miles above St d to be over a mile and of hundred ouf i rie plough to and are j ol an and comfortable Ail tius and more too has the work than ais short peri- od insufficient to have obliterated from the streets ihc of the recent red owners of the soil It is needless to add that any farther attempt at comment upon the unparalleled here afforded of the magical transition from rism to refined civilization Iowa tone with scarcity until of whole of Iowa and tlu soul or boc y are exhausted hi our at incalculably great tic towns while such a field as this ia unwieldly bodies find I spread out invitingly before them is proof hence arc longer in advantage of V iJJ 13 where presents to the eye oi the anv applicable to their would bo m the individuals and ed would bo m the extreme a v ide it below which may be formed from the knowledge Duque and about i ve hundred miles of tho fact that some of the veins of ore thus sometimes from unavoidable or un- Thc Mining operations at Du Buquo can foreseen Circumstances the former are only be considered as ia their earliest tributary to the later to an A rich field is lent so rreat as ultimately to amount to here presented for the iion of capital and science an idea of cither of a lazy disposition er a depraved tasio Jt argues a discreditable want of spirit and Du goes the ry Tho chief pressure ia for hands to space with the enterprise oi any place in low iho head o ot na 15 IT 1 T i alls 01 i then sneaks of allon at th serious national evil er carries wilh it its ing a lesson for future use worth all its costs however great arc a tho she b-v rijo of the va i number of its of first bo arc peopling this Dr situated upon tho bank of the direct Iy site he corner of and u most interesting ion of greater and jnore tant in its s than nny of wh ch an excellent th p the now or retarding of ia this field its are idly jr Tho n ost remote points are being ard forced to tr bute the commerce of the becoming every day more valuable and wide This state of things is natural th exports of Iowa increase as its its staples arc sought rich mines of have received the over the worn-out veins of tho States her so that licr for exporting being enlarged the result must be a degree of imports large home capital and as its consequence enlarged harbor for the upper part of tho town nd of depth foi of one thousand tond hurt ion is the scat of tice for Da country The i of the country surrounding this P ace to its paramount cs render Du Buque convinced by practical Illustration thai ia it would already worked and only a few fett be- case in point Our Government is now the have yielded at the rate convinced by pro of seventy-five dollars or upward per so ag economy man per day for every hand engaged ioe justifiable in incurring the direct out- xr a sum to defray the cost of constructing its own benefit roads upon all the leading routes No reasonable doubt can exist that so soon as are introduced to enable miners to penetrate the earth to the depth of a few hundred veins will be found of greatly in creased value In addition to many other valuable minerals will tr vii ri out Union But ihc powers which it is vested by the constitution arj cf the pco Io Among various buildings m or Society is ia the state The bane now going up is a largo steam antidote in w hich will furnish fo yet but Hi j and the promises are good CITY or tho 4th day of May the appointed by iho Legislature selected this new to bo tho capitol of the Territory it is on the east bank of the Iowa river near the of Johnston county and t from both the north and south enda of iho surveyed portion of the of our fashionable whose knowledge of the country is so far from perfect that the name even of he Falls of Saint An is comparatively n to them and yet the facilities for thorn by means of splendid are not surpassed by those oi nny resort in the older tions of ii e Union Those who visit these Falls al generally stay no longer than ihc hoat in hev are although tolerable nay be procured at Peters by those who feel disposed to cultivate the ty for enjoying tho of tho it is in iion a hotel at Fells for ho of the sing numbers now them during warm season A not adequate to the adoption of Ii ij about seventy miles from course excepting where the general Burlington seventy-six from Du Ruque less be discovered in tho interesting re- still owns the right of soil and and forty tho nearest gion surrounding Du Buque sovereign This is the case point on t 10 Mississippi Ita hiiuation is On tho Groat river a within the limits of Iho Territories and a very beautiful one having an few miles south of Du Buque an Congress has now entered j of timber i car it and a fine of ultimately to blc of wh ch tho capitol is to be of copper tin chrome iron gyp upon a plan whereby ultima and dim have been cure to tho United States thi sum and porcelain clay have been found cur e free use the most important place in i of capital to render them a source of vast a Lead ore is fe ind in abundance i profit to such as may have the in the in liU of town and to apply it in preparing these articles for and are only waiting for the introduction forever of a grand national d wa commercial facilities and improving and for many miles ot every side of it and yet as it n ay appear so gantly prodigal of favors hero to man has nature been t lai the finest minei in the world are only concealed from by a surface of soi as rich the mine ral it covers the first lead ore Get ever found the of Noi th America v as that at Du increasing manufacturing interests Bui j and such was its and equal in importance to the other resources that the Indians became miners and cf the country is its fitness for ters at an earlier dty we now have j i -i vv nn purposes Tho soil of Iowa is ted tD the growth of nearly every the means of tools than ihc hor i of a buck or the from Lake Michigan to tho Pacific Ocean the entire action of Congress at its session of been limited to The iron ore is so pure that it the one solitary measure alone of is susceptible of being polished by th sn the commencement of this noble of value of the public lands along this projected work will repay the cost of its construction tenfold thus leaving UH i JJ almost like a piece of fine casting The American enterprise Us memory would supply of gypsum is believed to be have been immortalised The enhanced as is that or the porcelain clay and the same remark would in all be true if applied to the other erals named but is yet their extort has to the nation the dear gain of not been ascertained Great water way in extent and forming er ia afforded by the and when completed the greatest some very remarkable caves filed with singular arc found near its banks in Jackson county not far from the seat of justice thereof and fare in the world ted upon a very magnificent scale The country is well adapted to j and lead ore is said to have been discovered in the neighborhood con- sequently those who do not object to the distance from the will find locations for farming and purposes in the vicinity of Iowa It is upon the western frontier of the Terri ory so far as it has yet been surveyed but the rapidity with which tho settlements progress toward the setting sun will soon vender its central from oast io west as it has before been ob- served to be in the opposite direction Such are the t A town is the possessed by this means of capitol of Clayton county and tho most over any other yet that l northernly within the organized limits of thit project ii v ill delightful resort in lie from cares oft ie world for of und tho invalid bo tea jy healthful breezes L delicious who of Saint Anthony are jot of the he abounds f meadows and high bluffy give d grandeur to ho landscape The wide extended with groi se and ith mat y ki of with and their shores covered beautiful of cornelian and of shells offer great attritions to i and the man of taste Toe savage cr n bo hire seen in his wildest state and an 1 i dance will be no rare currence In 1 do nrt b Hove a few weeks or months could bo spent mcro r any where if proper dations bo hud than at tho Falls oi Saint An The volume of water continually pouring ever the barrier to its progress and send ng up as it were to God them oft us his handiwork contracted as voice of the cataract naturally is with the quiet of tho surrounding scenery and the beautiful repose of tho far stretching combine to the and render them the
