We Were Now Arrived At

The Young Nobles, Of Whom There Were Many, Were Volunteers, Who Had Paid Their Own Expenses In Expectation Of A Golden Harvest, And They Chafed In Impatience And Disgust. The Religious Element In The Colony-unlike The Former Huguenot Emigration To Brazil--was Evidently Subordinate. The Adventurers Thought More Of Their Fortunes Than Of Their Faith.

France Built Its Best Colony On A Principle Of Exclusion, And Failed; England Reversed The System, And Succeeded.

When America Was First Made Known To Europe, The Part Assumed By France On The Borders Of That New World Was Peculiar, And Is Little Recognized. While The Spaniard Roamed Sea And Land, Burning For Achievement, Red-hot With Bigotry And Avarice, And While England, With Soberer Steps And A Less Dazzling Result, Followed In The Path Of Discovery And Gold-hunting, It Was From France That Those Barbarous Shores First Learned To Serve The Ends Of Peaceful Commercial Industry.

Fort Leavenworth Is In Fact No Fort, Being Without Defensive Works, Except Two Block-houses.

Four Men Are Missing; R., Sorel And Two Emigrants. They Set Out This Morning After Buffalo, And Have Not Yet Made Their Appearance; Whether Killed Or Lost, We Cannot Tell.