ghings amd Thought, Mt she West.
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Correspondence. Of IL. I'nburo


No. NJ Cmcaoo. july. ls#
Vanity is more common afd .nous md times
more exctabe passion than pride. 1t IS only
now and then that YOU find the Individual who
is careless Of what people think OF rim. Young
people are more vain than old ones. So it is OF
nations. We are eteinally raising cacko about
some book put forth By penny-a-lining whliiet
from across the watcr-some Ay, Or moschetoe
that has buzzed about here an hour Or two, aid
lit on our horns. On the oihsr hand, JOHN Bull
Will bear their s,;ngs ccmplaccny and though
trey thrust them into his hide fierce and thick,
like hornets, he tosses his manc little, and mercy
wonders if it affjrds them any satisfaction.


We Of the Wcs. arc no exception to this t1;n-
skinnedness, common to people who are mixing
THAR reputation with the world. VIC love t, play
few Pra1ks. such as boys arc alwsys fond of;
but VIC Go not Ike to have people shake their
heads at US for it. We snuff free uir, and cur
pulses beat little quicker, which causes US TO
step little more free and jump Lille higher tssan
is considered becoming IN our old abodas but We
do not ike to have tie old people th.uk any 'iilig
oi the matter. We call out that we are \ ,ikeos,
and uf course as st,d our Pufi.anic fa'hefs. or
at least ss thor purIi snns. 80 only wish 10
be cnrsidcTed New. DgandoTs ii L new place
that is all.


itcl proud 70. one, OF my Yapkec blpcd, and
would mol slender I'll eel Us proud OF tins, the
new, as ] ever did OF the old homestead, end
would never slandcr lhet either. But l think
can see many differences between The Yankees oil
the West and Of the East. A stranger fresh
from New England remarks that the Western
people arc far darker in complex on lie will OBJ.
serve too in any Western village dtfeseat gait
among The street walkers from that to which hei
accustomed. This is particularly observable
among The ladies. They seem 10 drag themselves
along, with sort of st!css | shall get home.by.
and by air, instead of that hunyant movement OF
Eastern women who seem to float over the pave
mcnt wi,hou: touching it These things will not
be rs observable in the Lake as lii the more In
land towns-the true Western climate being mo.
dfed By the Lake air and water Wcsiorn men
are more eXctabe in temperament than Eastern;
they are, in this respect, nearer allied to their
Southern neighbois As for the reason Of these
things | am not physiuog ist enough 10 deter
mnc-hui If allowed an opinion it would be lhe
bilious character Of The climate Our atmosphere,



secretions; giving the hillary organs the con'ro!
of the system; which, at the same time that 1t
renders the frame augud makes the temper lfr.ta-
bic. Your Eastern dir furnishes less carbon and
more oxygen stimulating the lungs and filing
the whole system with cheerfulncss aud buovancy.


There a:c numerous incidental circumstances
loo. which operate to aid the change The
breaking up OF old associations prepares tic mind
for new set of ideas. The restraint, which the
opinions of his old friends imposed, is cast Off
and among set oi strangers, whose concern is
it, ii man does this or that All men are brave
when they think there is nothing tn fear Inc
man may have been strictly religious, and may
DC so yet; but he weaIs his principles luntly.
Ii the mun Of Integrity yields thus far, how far
will the unp'lnclpled 60 You will see men who
were stauncil and conservative in their principles
before immigration, turned here into rsvlng rddl
Gals visiting to tear up from the Old mudsllls Of
creation all the planking, and put down ne,r AT
least. &c .--L>>..... 1'i,~ ho,.a- 49,.
for the devil TO sow in, all ploughed and narrowed
10 his hand, than lies here. All the old wrecks
of exploded humbugs, which could only live else
where in fragments, catch up the floating rubbish
of straw, stubble, dead fish, and rotten wood till
they grow into Islands, large, green, muddy and
pcstlent; full OF frogs, swapping turtles and ALL
gators, like those in the Mississippi.


There is room too for new hopes. If man
had enemies in his old home, who really or fau-
ciecly thwartcd his plans he has left them be
hind. New feelings, new plans, new passions, fill
up his soul. Somebody must lead and ride here.
az well rs elsewhere; and why not he Hence,
if an office is to be filled, twenty greedy spp.
cants snap at it, like sharks fer piece of pork
thrcwn over. May be the man does not deem
himself very large; but perhaps he can pass him
self off at an advance, and can take step up in
the world.


People at the East wonder at the cccentricics
of Western character My wonder is that we
have as much OF stability aud Order as we do. la
the ubirl Of n,ony ~"A i.-oxtcailng intiu
ences, not one tenth Of which have named, it is
something of phenomenon that we find Western
character settling into steadness and sobriety so
fast. Farther hereafter. JERRY a. WEST
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