Tf h ^?^ "l^ little raised. The wl.ole number 

 of h lis 348. These I kept clean by hand hoein<r, 

 and h,ll d them up once. Last week 1 had them 

 ong ; my son measured them ; the product was 



.for,y.,„„c /,„,./,c/^ „„rf tk„, ^„;,.^.^ exclusive of some 

 large ones that had been picked out while diffo-i„„ 

 Giving a yield of full fifty bushels frcn one half 



peck of seed, on a plat of ground 231; f.et by 27 

 I send you a small mess, which you may if you 



please have cooked, and test their eatable quality. 



Steannng, roastmg, or baking, I think a preferable 



mode to boilmg. 



llespectfully your friend, 



«i u »r . ^OB. WHITE, Jr. 



Shrewsbury, N. J., 10 mo. 28, 'Sfl. 



lii^_Z^^iiM^^LS_Mt^^HLY VISITOR. 



iney nre iiiiriibims, i|,cy are cert.iinlv verv "rca ones Some 

 -EdVTc:"'"''"'' '" "y M'-"'l.ite,.re3 to 3.1 Ibs.weigr 



The West and the East. 



We copy the following from the Teletrraph an 



able po ,t,cal newspaper published at Poughke'ep 



- sie in the State of New York : fei'^eep 



ITT We do not know our correspondentMr. Fla?- 

 ihewelt!" '" '"'""=• "" P^''"^' "■=" '« 



For the Telecraph. 



The West. 



S.R,-From the remarks of Ex-Governor Hill, 

 and your comments upon my views, touchin<r the 

 Wabash, publ.shed in the last Telegraph, I am in' 

 duced to interpose an aro-ument 



It may do for the E.x-Governor to stick to the 

 Gran.te hills of New Hampshire, whose purse pe-! ' 



to ohH^n H , ^' ''•-:'f P""^<i to the distant city, 

 nrod 7 '1'^, "■l'"<'W.tl. to purchase the abundan 



t'l e bar en r Iff "7/' "■'' ¥ '""^ '"-^"^-t<- "'^'^ 

 the barren chffs of l„s own loved home. It mav do 



1 V '^^ who V ""fl" "'' ?'' "'" "'"^y »' '>-- p'l- 



bv .nH M '"'''" '"'-^ ^'' '"'" fill'-'' fi-om => wor- 

 patrons. But all are not thus fortunately situated 

 . There are thousands all over the eastern State^ 

 who are barely able to live, and can have no bet er 

 prospect ,„ the-uture; who could in a few ye„s 

 by emigrating in companies and thus sec^riC a 

 neighborhood of fnends, and eoncentratm. "heir 



' Wnh T'"! '""'^'^I'^^P^nd fertile Innds^of the 

 Wabash, make themselves independent l„r l,fe _ 



•luff o'fhfr ''•';■ "'7 "'■fl'J, ^--^1-Se -on.e of their 



stall of liie, for Gov. Hill's granite to build them- 



se yes palaces ; and for editor's labor to pass away 



, their leisure moments. The man of thou^^tnds, may 

 hnd his comfor on the delightful Hudson ; but the 

 young man of limited means must continue to tug 

 at the oar of incessant labor through life's longe.sf 



' th?W I " ™ "'■'«"'"''''' "'■'"'^ in "the "valley of 

 he c^! M ' '" ^^^ ^''"'' "'"> "'<' '""■■'• industry 

 he could acquire an independence for life The 



?ear t"];:' r 'i'' "^"^"' 1'"" ""'•'■ '"^»5'""y than 

 real. The irst crop pays for clearing and fencinn- ■ 



. so that the hope of reword dispels despair ; a" d the 

 new beginner ,n the nnl,Urne.s will look g ac amid 

 the solitary place which his industry and fki hZt 

 made to blossom like the rose 



Young Men I be net induced to tarrv amid the 



~ banks, monopolies, oppressions, and hi.l -priced 



in I ;?nH "'" P°V"^-"''^ -«t- but cIub"to'Xr 

 and .vend your way to the alluvial bottoms Sf the 

 Wabash with th,. spirit of our pilgrim fathers le 



, lermined to build yourselves a h!me w erenone" 

 can molest or make ynu .-uVaid. In a i^.y e irs vou 

 may return to the scenes of your past day's a id'Ie 

 .vour faint hearted friends who da'^ed no a'ec mnt 

 n.t' you, that you have reaped the rich rewarTnf 



'HKlustry aud perseverance.' And no doub "on wi 1 

 receive he happy and hearty coii^ratulatinns of"l e 

 J-a,r, whose warm afTeclious may then be easi v 

 von, as they do instinctively love the hold ai d en^ 



^terprising, and despise the timid and faint hear.ed. 



' Poughkeepsie, October inh, isis^^^^^^^' 



cat'?°f!;'r!!"'^ be proper to premise that the advo- 



'uhJ.i 7="^''°" '° ""-^ ^^^' '"^^ entirely mis- 

 taken the dimensions of the "purse" of the "Ex 

 Governor," who has perhaps suffered more in purse 

 from too great facilities of credit than many of h s 

 neighbors who have always been less iidebt if 

 •they have not been connected in so extensive bl' 

 ness. He has, even at this time, far less reason 

 ''stav\°tr '"'"T^ '° ^^^°<^^te 'and c y up'Te' 

 pemfen f°'"' '"'''7'': "'=" ''""<^^^ds of^the'^^nde- 



ease and independence, he would be williuff to ev 

 hatist the strength which remains to the afternoon 

 of life in those labors of the l^eld which have been 

 at once to them the source of health, wealth and 

 true comfort. 



But jMr. Flagler says " there are thousands all 

 over the eastern states who are barely able to live 

 and who can have no better prospect-in the future,' 

 who won d m a fe^v years by emigrating in compa^ 

 nies and thus securing a neighborhood of friends 

 and concentrating their small means in the cheap 

 and fertile lands of the Wabash, make themselves 

 mdependent for life." Wc appeal to every intelli! 

 gent citizen who has travelled extensively in the 

 West for the truth of our assertion, when vve say 

 there IS a much greater proportion of the people 

 resident at this time beyond the Niagara rive'^ and 

 the A eghany ridge "who are barely able to live," 

 than thei-e is m the poorest of the New England 

 btates A greater proportion of the whole present 

 popu a ion of the fertile West will encountel- mo^e 

 destitution and poverty through life than the pres- 

 lu^r'" "■"?.'''^'1,'''''°'"" °n the soil of New Eng- 

 case ' "'"""" *'™"' ''"^ necessity of tlie 



The co,st of ajourney to Michigan, t.o the valley 

 of the Wabash, orto Wisconsin, to most New Eno! 

 land men vvith a family, with the outfit necessary 

 to, his and their subsistence until he can procu-e a 

 "To!" "''»;,<'''«^P ^-nd fertile lands" to which he 

 cien^ n'l ,\ •=°"^'^nie means to an amount sufFi- 

 cient to lay the foundation of his and their compe- 

 tence and independence in the neighborhood from 

 winch he started. The "mere pittance" derived 

 from "inces,,ant labor" in New England will not be 

 found so co.ntem,ptible as some apprehend when 

 compared with the vast products of the West No 

 one expects that crops of corn and wheat will nrov. 

 there without putting Uiem into the earth : and it is 

 at least a question with us whether a greater value 

 from an equal amount of labor may nSt be derived 

 from cultivation of the soil in New England than 

 from the very best soil of the West. MeS of capital 

 there may cultivate their hundreds and their thou-' 

 sands of acres with the use only of teams of oxen 

 and horses; but the value of the crops there if 

 raised to sell, is scarcely ever greater in proport on 

 to the persona labor than the lesser crops in quan- 

 tity produced here. The poor man without capital 

 can procure much more ofthe necessaries and com- 

 forts of life fi-om tilling the soil or other labor here 

 than he can there. Such a man, if he has credit to 

 hire money sulhcient for an outfit and to keep soul 

 and body together until the first crop should be ob- 

 tained in the "and of promise," would find him- 

 self embarrassed with this additional burden of debt 

 'h -Tm ' V° "'P'^''^ ""'' disconrao-e him for years 

 should he he so fortunate as to survive Ihenf: hs 

 children after him, if necessity should teach them 

 o be industrious and enterprising, 'mi.ht live in 

 that precise age of every new country that should 

 be the most prosperous; and of course the chance 

 would Ifc increased that they might "make them 

 selves independent for life." 



There is a kind of population e.vnctly adapted to ' 

 the fair regions of the West, which is, and un'doubt 

 ed y will continue to be, furnished to that country 

 w, liout depopulnting New England, by holding 

 foilh inducements foremisration which shall prov? 

 ^ be dlusory and deceitful. This population is the 

 mo e m.e ligeiit cbss ofpeopie m Europe who iiave 

 means to bring Ihem to this country and to support 

 the 1 until they can bring a portion of their land^ nto 

 cultivation. We have frequent .notices of people 

 of t nsdccription "emigrating in companies" and 

 settling m separate communities from Holland 

 Germany, Switzerland and other principalities of 

 i>uiope riiese emigrants are tempted here by our 

 free institutions, which alone would be an induce- 

 ment for al who live under despotic governments 

 o change their position,.. Pnch con'^muniTie: .,3 

 these, with ample means of subsistence, will do 

 much better to fill up the f^rst. settlements of the 

 West, than any "company" of emigrants from the 

 eastern States who are possessed of means before 

 they set oat "barely able to live" upon. Many such 

 m companies and otherwise, have spent every tliino^ 

 at hist in making the journey: and, sick in dis.ap! 

 pointment after they arrived at the land of promise 

 often sick and emaciated with the chills and fevers' 

 of the climate have begged their way back; glad 

 to return to ali the discouragements which this 

 poorer, harder soil had affordecT, 



luJJ'T '"■' '^''''^;^°f people who, if they will yen- 

 Uire he risque of diseases of the climate, may do 

 well to emigrate to the West, Professional youn. 

 men, lawyers, physicians, and perhaps clergymem 

 may^tand a chance of more immediate intr^oduc- 

 t on to business and of the promotion which results I 

 rom success ,n a new and growing country than 

 they can in an old. As there is mor? litigation and I 



IC3 



other, so the lawyer will find most business • and as 

 df "nla"r' 'ir",""'' 'Snes, more sickness , 

 . d orofi, tf>' '" '''f P''3'^"=i''n will find more sure 

 . Id pofitable employment; and even the cler<ry. 

 mnn, if men and women could be driven to be m?re 

 religious from the chance of sooner dyin-r wouW 



v/ith 



West than he finds in this land overrunning 

 <^hristian ministers and churches 



Men with moderate farms, which cannot be ad 



iT.T.t "'"Y'''""'^ ''^^'"S families of som.: 

 unit a do.,en to a dozen sons and dauo-hters mio-ht 



of the West making themselves sure befere thev 

 leave, that their pitch is to be made in an euS 



andfamr °""f''°''^°'"^ '"^"'' "'emselves 

 and families may not pine in discontent, and sigh 



haveleft.''''"'"'"""' '"'' enjoyments wljich they 



InaJ^d'Jh"^^'"'""* ^n'e>-p:-;se, who have nearly dissi- 



co mini rVl"''"^ '" ""'P'"= "' *°° ""'<='> »"d be- 

 coming rich m a hurry, tempered -down to the an- 

 1.ic,pat,on of rational gains from rational mean 

 may perhaps better repair their losses and Jm 

 property by going to the West than by tarrvinf 

 le neighborhood where it will be mortilV n'^ o 



h"r fir^-r\ r "•""•''■- '''"' '^' ^'^^^''°" whiih^a^ 

 men first startmo- point. - 



After all there'is an objection weightier than all 



others to the removal of the people of New Eno- 



land in mass to the West; and this is, the nea"fv 



absolute certainty that all who go there wiU hav^ 



to encounter repeated attacks ot>hills and fevers 



and severe bilious complaints before they beclme 



11 i'oT W- ^^ ■ "'^"T ^' ""^ ''"'' '° Michigan or 

 I no,s, Wisconsin or Iowa, there is at leastlin e- 



Tet r n "'" ""!=""' ^'" "°t survive fi4 

 ^eais Nay, old as are the settlements of Ohio, the 

 wo last persons we hi-.ve seen ft-om that State re 

 turned with the cadaverous, pale faces of apparent 

 consumption. They came back to get their heath- 

 and we were happy to be told that althou.l, » 

 flesh had retreated until their bodies had b°ecc m 



tT,ro.|: ""'""^''i'^" '!'' ''"''""'•^ perspiration d 

 ion^the^'^7 looked very like a speedy dissoiu- 

 t on, they only wanted the fresh mountain air and 

 the pure granite water of rough New England 'to 

 res.ore them to perfect health in the course of 

 two or three months. A young gentleman from 

 this county,who had finished a collecriate educa 10 

 and who had been to Ohio two years, n^et us ! 

 M^ °! '"'^P'-e-'^ent writing "cadaverous and pale " 

 .ie said Ohio was a fine State, as it nndoubtcnily is 

 -that It was fertile and flourishing ; but he said ? 

 was not after all, ^vhat it was represented to bV 

 and tha almost all such as went there w Ih lai.ej 

 e.xpeclat,ons were disappointed. He had been ck 

 nearly 11 1 the time he had been absent a d i» 

 bought himself to be so clearly accliina ed hat 



west, but not to the jireeise spot where he Ind .=nf 

 fered, when his health should be re tared afle h J 

 ! -rival at his own paternal roof in New Hainpshi c - 

 1 .iL c.se 01 a ivorthy physician doing a good busi- 

 ness and having accumulated a handsome estate by 

 p.ac ismg man e.^trmsive roach in a healthy region 

 neon 1. ^?T^ 0' .Merrimack, is ^vell known to^he 

 for? \, " "'^'g'''^">'l>oo'l- That physician, be- - 

 fo he attained to middle age, sold h,s stand 'and 

 farm, reinoved with Ins wife and family, and settled ' 

 down, at Peoria in Illinois, where in the cotirse of a 

 single year he took the lead of all others in his pro! 

 fesion : he had here extensive business, more than 

 he could attend to. He was called In al directions 

 by night and by day, for every body was s ck and 

 needed medicine. But he .soon took the d .ea"e 

 Innsclf, and others in bis family were attacked ;hs 

 lef career wrs arrested, and a few short mon s 

 witnessed the committal of both husband and w ft 

 to an untimely grave. 



If no other objection than the diseases which are 

 Iniost sure to attack the emigrant to all new set 

 t lements of the West existed,nhis alone wm hi in-' 

 duce ail such mhabitants of New England as now 

 en,oy tolerable competence and prospe^rity to pat^se 

 before they changed their position. But .rim 

 wruer we have quoted, has attributed to u the in" 

 I New '"y?"'r of contentment with remain gfn 

 New England with that reason existing in his own 

 fancy alone_a reason that we possess fesoirces to 

 purchase "the abundant products of the West'' from 

 means not participated by the farmer and abo e " 

 generally-we do not hesitate here to take tl e hi o!-id 

 o-ronnd that the men who have not abundance the 

 small farmer who is not free and independe" t^'anl 

 he person wno labors at day's works for his ^a v 

 read, have a better chance for obtaining a lively 

 ood and the means of enjoyment to remtin where 

 bey are,than they do to remove to the West, even to 

 the cheap and fertile alluvion bottoms of the Wa 



