before the cart, and carry the wheat
in both ends of the bag as they go to mill.

In fact, we don't see that civilization has lost much flesh in its
arduous journey to the far West; nor that, being human before, we have
become less human now, or discarded our manners when we shut the doors
of our birthplace behind us. We know indeed that Colenso went to convert
the heathen, and that the heathen succeeded in converting him, thus
putting the boot on the other leg; but the Indians have not yet won us
to their dusky faith, although we must confess that assimilation to
their copper-colored principles seems to have made some Copperheads
among us.

As to works of art, they are not very plentiful hereabouts, excepting in
the way of monuments perhaps. We have a generous number of those,
erected to the large-heartedness and wisdom of persons who engaged in
great improvement schemes, in the line of speculation, when there was
but a fictitious basis of wealth in this land, before the bubble burst.
These monuments, however, are not generally esteemed ornamental, and the
wealth so lavishly expended upon them came not from the bosom of our
communities, neither was it imported from north of us, nor west of us,
but from whence I will not say. Perhaps some one who reads can help to
account for part of it. These monuments, however, such as they are,
have, by the liberal contributions made for their erection, exceeded in
cost that of Bunker Hill, or the half-finished shot tower in Washington.
Our only statues do not represent either the Father of his Country, nor
the late old public defunctionary who sat in his chair--but they are
principally devoted to 'the poor Indian,' in native costume. These
statues, frequently wooden, exhibit the wonted hospitality of this race,
and maintain the attitude of proffering a cigar to the friendly passer
by.

Of paintings there is not a superfluity; still we have a small
collection, comprising several which have for some years been on public
exhibition, illustrating 'The Good Samaritan;' 'Prodigious;'
'Washington's Blacksmith shoeing Washington's Horse,' and others of
less note, while ----'s panorama of the war has lately departed from us.

Still we have our public and private schools, seminaries, and churches,
as others have in fully civilized countries; our newspapers, white and
bronze; our leading men, and officeholders; natives of all climes and
kindreds, Jew and Gentile, German and French, Bohemi