AND CONCLUSIONS.

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the streets are obstructed with building material,, and this is being
compacted into houses as fast as possible, to make room for more —
for other people are anxious to build, as soon as they can get the ttftt
of the streets to pile up their bricks and stuff in.

How solemn and beautiful is the thought, tliat the earliest pioneer
of civilisation, the van-leader of civilisation, is never the steamboat,
never the railroad, never the newspaper, never the Sabbath-school,
never the missionary — but always whiskey ! Such is the ease, Look
history over ; you will see. The missionary comes after the whiskey —
I mean he arrives after the whiskey has arrived ; next come** the poor

THE FIRST ABRIVAL.

immigrant, with axe and hoe and rifie; next, the trader; next, the
miscellaneous rush j next, the gambler, the desperado, the highway-
man, and all their kindred in sin of both sexes; and next, til* smart
chap who has bought up aai old grant that covers all the kad; this
brings the lawyer tribe; the vigilance comrailfcee brings Hie under-
taker. All these interests bring the newspaper; tiie newspaper
starts up politics and a railroad; all handstimi to and todM a church
and a jail—and behold, civilisation is established for erar in tbe la&tt
But whiskey, you see, was ike v&n-lesder in this beneficent work. It
always is. It was like & foreigner—and excusable m a fbretgaor—tfi