MRS. CLIVERS'S GLIMPSES Or WESTERN LIFE.

MICHIGAN is one of the lately-settled States of America ; touching with its base Lake Erie, and lying between Lakes Michigan and

Huron, the last-named, water separating it from Upper Canada, The

latitude is 41' 450. The capital is Detroit, commemorated by Mrs. JAMESON for its rapid rise and its booksellers' politeness. The soil is

an intermixture of woodland, marsh, and prairie ; the first two pre- dominating-, and forming a kind of connecting link between the dense forests of Canada and the untimbered plains of the Missisippi valley.

Along the channel that connects Lake Huron with Lake Erie, are several towns besides Detroit ; which, being placed on the great highway from Canada to the Western districts of the United States, and as the emporiums of the North-western territory, are

somewhat advanced ; but the greater part of the district is, or very lately \vas, in a natural state, with only a few isolated spots

partially cleared. And thither the husband of' Mrs. Cts.YERs betook himself, to speculate in land, found a village, and become an officer amongst the pioneers of civilization.

Glimpses of Western Life professes to give an account of a city lady's experience in this undertaking, from the time the family left

Detroit and roads behind them, and struggled through the difficul- ties of a first settler in a log but, till " loggeries " grew scarce in the village of Moutacute,"' and there was some talk of a new meet- ing-house, with a " settled " minister. The model, both for style

and structure, which Mrs. CLAVERS has followed in her attempt, is Miss MITFORD in Our Village. And in consequence of this hni- teflon, the Nvriter has thought it necessary to intermingle the nar- rative of her own adventures, or the results of her own observa- tions, with sketches of Michigan village characters, and of Ameri- can love romance in real life. The matter of both of these classes of composition is probably based on truth, and both are something more than well in their way ; but, being obviously dramatized by Mrs. CLAVERS, they throw an air of fiction over her work, which is not completely removed in the other parts by her own ornate style, and an imitation of the peculiar, not to say somewhat affected manner of Miss Mrrronn. The book, however, is agreeable as a whole; valuable as a picture of daily household life, and of village society in a new Western settlement ; and curious for its glimpses of love and marriage, of the more sentimental kind, in the United States. When we speak of the value of the book, the reader will of course understand we do not mean Utilitarian value in the straitest sense. The male settler will not learn the best mode, or any mode, of building his log lint; or of clearing and enclosing, cropping and cultivating his land, getting in his crep and taking it to market; nor even how to build and work a flour-mill, which was one of Mr. CLAN- Ens's speculations. The information for man is 'all of a negative kind. The most profitable lesson he can receive, will be an impression that he ought carefully to study his own powers of patient endurance, and the disposition of his wife anti family, be- fore he embark in a mode of life whose first years must be so full of hardship and daily annoyance as perhaps to infuse a bitter into prosperity, should it ever come. He will also receive a hint to be- ware of land-speculators, one of whom took in Mr. CLAVEBS and of American banks, one of which took in the district.

The positive information imparted in Glimpses of Western Life is of a domestic kind ; but, having the stamp ofreality and truth, its details enable the reader to generalize a picture of daily life for himself, whilst the more general sketches give him an idea of Western feelings and manners. In the waggon journey to Mont- acute, we see at once what travelling is in a new country, well-timbered, diversified by marshes, and intersected by " Michi- gan mud-holes." In the description of the pride and poverty of the lower class of settlers—the confidence with which they demand or accept, receiving favours or assistance as if they were their due— the impossibility of procuring a servant, the difficulty of obtaining a help, much less of keeping one—the unnatural and absurd struggle of ignorance and poverty to be upon a level with educated wealth— we gain a more distinct idea of' Western " equality " than in the passing sketches of travellers. Instead, however, of attempting to condense our fitir writer's matter, we let her speak for herself on a * The name is probably fictitious, to avoid unpleasantness in Michigan. This is the lady's account of its baptism. "I tried for an aboriginal designa- tion, as most characteristic and unworn. I recollected a young lady speaking with enthusiastic admiration of our Indian names, and quoting Ij,sibodi as a specimen. But I was not tbrtunate in my choice; for to each of the few which I could recollect, Mr. Mazard (the laud-shark) found some insuperable objection. One was too long, another signified Slippery Eel, another Big Bubble ; and these would be so inappropriate I I began to be very tired. I tried romantic names; but these again did not suit any of us. At length I decided by lot, writing ten of the most sounding names I could muster from my novel-read- ing stores, on slips of paper, which were mingled in a shako; and out came Montacute."

ariety of points ; confining the extracts to what relates to the manners and feelings of the people, or the character of Michigan as a field for emigration.

HELPS IN MICHIGAN.

Some of my dear theorizing friends in the civilized world bad dissuaded me Most earnestly from bringing a maid with me. "She would always beiliscontented and anxious to return; and you'll find plenty of good farmers daughters ready to live with you for the sake of earning a little money."

Good souls ! how little did they know of Michigan. I have since that day seen the interior of many a wretched dwelling, with almost literally nothing in it but a bed, a chest, and a table ; children rugged to the last degree, and pota- toes the only fare ; but never yet saw I one where the daughter was willing to own herself obliged to live out at service. She would "hire out " long enough to buy some article of dress perhaps, or "because our folks have been eick, and want a little money to pay the doctor," or for some such special reason ; but never as a regular calling, or with an acknowledgment of inferior station.

This state of things appalled me at first ; hut I have learned a better philo- sophy.since. I find no difficulty now in getting such aid as I require, and but little in retaining it as long as I wish, though there is always a desire of mak- ing an occasional display of independence. Since living with one for wages is considered by common conoent a favour, I take it as a favour ; and this point once conceded, all goes well. Perhaps I have been peculiarly fortunate ; but certainly, with one or two exceptions, I have little or nothing to complain of on this essential point of domestic comfort. To be sure, I had one damsel who crammed herself almost to suffocation with sweetmeats and other things which she esteemed very nice ; and ate up her own pies and cake to the exclusion of those for whom they were intended; who would put her head in at a door, with—"Miss [the Michigan word for Mrs.] Clovers, did you holler ? I thought I hared a yell." And another, who was highly offended because room Was not made for her at table with guests from the city, and that her company was not requested for tea-visits. And this latter high-born damsel sent in from the kitchen a cir- cumstantial account in writing, of the instances wherein she considered herself aggrieved; well written it was too, and expressed with much normal, and abundant respect. I answered it in the way which "turnetli away wrath." Yet it was not long before this fiery spirit was aroused again, and I was forced to part with my country belle.

POPULAR TABLE HABITS IN MICHIGAN.

When Angeline left me, which she did after a few days, I was obliged to em- ploy Mrs. Jennings to "chore round," to borrow her own expression ; and as Mr: Clovers was absent much of the time, I had the full enjoyment of her delectable society, with that of her husband and two children, who often came to meals very sociably, and made themselves at home with small urgency on my part. The good lady's habits required strong green tea at least three times a day ; and between these three times she drank the remains of the tea from the spout of the teapot, saying " it tasted better so." " she hadn't it," she said, she had the 'sterics so ;hat she wasn't able to do a chore." And her habits were equally imperious in the matter of dipping with her own spoon or knife into every dish on the table. She would have made out nobly on kibaubs, for even that unwieldly morsel a boiled ham she grasped by the hock and cut off in mouthfuls with her knife, declining all aid from the caner, and saying coolly that she made out very well. It was in vain one offered her any thing, she replied invariably, with a dignified nod, " I'll help myself, I thank ye. I never want no waitin on." And this reply is the universal one on such occasions, as I have since had vexatious occasion to observe. Let no one read with an incredulous shake of the bend, but rather let my sketch of these peculiar habits of my neighbours be considered as a mere be- ginning, a shadow of what might be told. I might

Amaze indeed The very faculty of eyes awl cars,"

but I forbear.

If "grandeur hear with a disdainful smile "—thinking it would be far better to starve than to eat under such circumstances' I can only say such was not my hungry view of the case; and that I often found rather amusing exercise for my ingenuity in contriving excuses and plans to get the old lady to enjoy her meals alone. To have offered her outright a separate table, though the board should groan with all the delicacies of the city, would have been to se- -cure myself the unenviable privilege of doing my own "chores," at least till

I could procure a "help" from some distance beyond the reach of my friend Mrs. Jennings' tongue.

"PANTISOCRACY " PARTLY REALIZED.

"Mother wants your sifter ; and she says she guesses you can let her have some sugar and tea, 'canto you've got plenty."

This excellent reason, "'cause you've got plenty," is conclusive as to sharing with your neighbours. Whoever comes into Micligan with nothing, will be sure to better his condition ; but wo to him that brings with him any thing like an appearance of abundance, whether of money or mere household conve- niences. To have them, and not be willing to share them in some sort with the whole community, is an unpardonable crime. You must lend your best horse to qui j150 ce snit, to go ten miles over hill and marsh, in the darkest night, for a doctor ; or your team to travel twenty after a "gal ;" your wheel- barrows, your shovels, your utensils of all sorts, belong, not to yourself; but to the public, who do not think it necessary even to ash a loan, but take it for granted. The two saddles and bridles of Montacute spend most of their time travelling from house to house a-manback ; and I have actually known a stray martingale to be traced to four dwellings two miles apart, having been lent from one to another, without a word to the original proprietor, who sat waiting, not very patiently, to commence a journey. But the cream of the joke lies in the manner of the thing. It is so straight- forward and honest, none of your hypocritical civility and servile gratitude. Your true republican, when he finds that you possess any thing which would 'contribute to his convenience, walks in with Are you going to use your your horses to-day?" if homes happen to be the thing he needs. "Yes, I shall probably want them." "01i, well; if you want them—I was thinking to get 'ens to go up north A piece." or perhaps the desired article comes within the female department. "Mother wants to get some butter; that 'ere butter you bought of Miss Barton this momin'."

And away goes your golden store, to be repaid perhaps with some cheesy, greasy stuff, brought in a dirty pail, with " here's your butter." A girl came in to borrow a "wash-dish," "because we've got company." Presently she came hack "Mother says you've forgot to send a towel.'

"The pen and ink and a sheet o' paper and a water," is no unusual request ; and when the pen is returned, you are generally informed that you sent "an .awful bad pen."

LAND MANIA AND ITS EFFECTS.

I have since had occasion to observe that this forms a prominent end fre- quent theme of self-gratulation among the settlers in Michigan. The pos- session of a large number of acres is esteemed a great good, though it makes but little difference in the owner's mode of living. Comforts do not seem to abound in proportion to landed increase, but often, on the contrary, are really diminished for the sake of it ; and the habit of hefting out so frequently mak • that home-feeling, which is so large an ingredient in happineos elsewhere", almost a nonentity in Michigan. The man who holds himself ready to accept the first advantageous offer will not be very solicitous to provide those rehies accommodations which, though essential to domestic comfort, will not add t the moneyed value of his farm, which he considers merely an article of trade and which he knows his successor will look upon in the same light. I liar'

e sometimes thought that our neighbours forget that " the day's of maisfselaifkerioneg three score years and ten," since they spend all their lives in getting ready to begin.

The submission of opinion to the will of the majority,—or speaking more truly of the two cases before us the subjection of intellectual dignity and moral rectitude, not to the majority of the locality, but to a phantom of Democracy supposed to embody the popular will of the whole ITIRS3,—is curiously instanced by Mrs. CLAMS. Montacate having no resident clergyman, was supplied by a sues cession of itinerants ; and these professional callers of " sinners to repentance" being personally ignorant of the neighbourhood, preaching to different sects, and anxious to make converts to their own, generally prefaced their sermons against vice by deprecating all intention of personal offence.

"Does the speaker wish to show the evils and penalties of Sabbath-breakin,! of profanity, of falsehood, of slander, of dishonest dealings, or any other offence which he knows is practised by some at least among his auditors,lhe generally begins with observing that he is quite a stranger, very little acquainted in the neighbourhood, entirely ignorant whether what he is going to say may or may not be especially applicable to any of his hearers, and that he only judges from the general condition of human nature, that such cautions or ex. hortations may a necessary, 8-.e. exhibiting a constant struggle between hie sense of duty and his fear of making enemies."

The other instance was a ease in which a girl of bad character, and come of a bad stock, forced her way into the school, as it turned out to father a child on the schoolmaster. But although she had an illegitimate son two years old—though " she was the daughter ola fierce quarrelsome man, who had already injured, either by personal abuse or by vexatious litigation, half the people its the place— and though all detested her, and dreaded contamination for their daughters—not a voice was raised, not a girl removed frout the school." Mrs. CLAVERS attributes " this cowardly submission to open and public wrong " to a " distrust in the protecting power of the law ;" but we must confess it seems to us rather ano. ther proof of the dread of opposing the " people," which, according to most authorities on America, rises to a monomania.

The rough rudeness and equality of destitution of the West does not altogether arise from the absence of higher social elements, but, it appears to us, from the spirit of a narrow, coarse, and ignorant Democracy. The bulk of the population is composed, indeed, or the labouring class, with a sprinkling of violent or criminal men, which last are thrown off' as society advances ; but. there are persons of education and better habits enow, to give some sort. of tone to society, but for this national opinion that every man is ices good as his betters." The mixture of characters in these new settlements must indeel be one of their most striking features ; but

instead of resisting the Michigan mode, they fall into it. The family of the CLAYERS had the ague, and as medical attendance was necessary, a physician was sent for with some misgiving; but lo!

THE MICHIGAN DOCTOR.

A physician was sent for, and we expected of course some village Gahm, who knew just enough to bleed and blister, for all mortal ills. No such thing. A man of first-rate education, who had walked European hospitals, and who had mother. wit in abundance, to enable him to profit by his advantages! It is sur- prising how many such people one meets in Michigan. Some, indeed, ire have heen led to suppose, from sonic traits in their American history, might have "left their country for their country's good ;" others appear to crave !or- silken the old world, either in consequence of some temporary disgust, or through romantic notions of the liberty to be enjoyed in this favoured land. I can at this moment call to mind several among our ten-mile neighboun, who can boast university honours, either European or American, and who are reading men even now. Yet one ought pass any one of these gentlemeu is the road without distinguishing between lila and the Corydon who curries Lui horses, so complete is their outward, transformation.

Other professions of a less necessary description, ministrants even to luxury, are, according to Mrs. CLAYERS, amongst the settlers; who seem to represent a human Noah's ark.

"There is, within three miles of us, a gardener and florist of no mean rank, and one whose aid can be obtained at any tisne for some small consideration of ' rascal counters ; ' so that a hot-lied, or even a green-house, is within our reach.

" I have sometimes thought that there could scarcely be a trade or professioa which is not largely represented among the farmers of Michigan, judging from the somewhat extensive portion of the state with which we have become fa- miliar. I was regretting the necessity of' it journey to Detroit for the sake of a gold tilhi up ; when lo : a dentist at my elbow, with his case of instremoutt, his gold foil, and his skill, all very much at my service. Montacute, half-fledged as it Is, OOHS facilities that one could scarce expert. Besides the blacksmith, the cooper, the chair maker, the collar maker, and sundry carpenters and unisons, and three stores, there is the mantua-maker for your dresses, the milliner for your bonnets, not mine, the then tailor' fut your little boy's pantaloons."

English of course there are in Michigan—for where are they not ?—and out of two families Mrs. CJAVIIRS has dramatized a scene or two on " prior attachments ;" though the tale, if true, would

have been snore effective by plain telling. The settlers from the old country do not, however, seem to be popular either with the natives or Mrs. CIAVERS : some are out of place, some too proud, and some too thrifty.

ENGLISH EMIGRANTS IN TIIE WEST.

Many English families reside in our vicinity, some of them well calculated to make their way anywhere ; close, penurious, grasping and indefatigable.; denying themselves all but the necessaries of life, in order to add to their lands, and make the most of their crops ; and somewhat apt in bargaining to overreach even the wary pumpkin-eaters, their neighbours; others to whom all these things mem ao foreign and so unsuitable, that 011Q cannot hut viol* that the vagaries of fortune should have sent them into so uncongenial an at- mosphere. The class last mentioned generally live retired, and shosilittle inebriation to mingle with their rustic neighbours; and of course they become at once the objects of suspicion and dislike. The principle of "let-a,be for let-a-be" holds not with us. Whoever exhibits any desire for privacy is set down as "praoud," or something worse; no matter how inoffensive, or even how benevolent lie may he; and of all 'places in the world in which to live on the shady side of public opinion, an American back-woods settlement is the eery worst, as many of these unfortunately mistaken emigrants have been e to feel.

The better classes of English settlers seem to have left their own country with high-wrought notions of the unlamaded freedom to be enjoyed in this ; wei it is with feelings of angry surprise that they learn, after a short residence here, that this very universal freedom abridges their two liberty to do as they please in their individual capacity.; that the absolute democracy which prevails In country places imposes as henry restraints upon OIVA free-will in sonic par- ticulars. as do the over-bearing pole aml haughty distinctions of the out world in others; and after one has changed one's whole plan of life, and crossed the wide ocean to find a Utopia, the wakiug to reality is attended with feelings of no slight bitterness. In Some instaaces within my knowled:,e, these Mefinao eientpointment have been so severe as to neutralize all that was good In Ameriem life, and to produce a degree of sour discont.ait which Met . tetaal every pal ;ail, tied went far towards alienethig the ttv who were kiudly

too el the stranger.

contrary to the generally-received opinion, Mrs. CLAVERF, in- dicates that hunger mob, be felt in the fertile territory °Utile West ; and that, under certain eiremnstanec,:, provisions are coarse and font, even to those with unlimited means of purchase. Unless the ctfects of sickness, or of an immignmt coming without sufficient inenns for the first year's settlemeat, or losmg them by a bank failure, the hunger, it should be observed, seems traceable to idleness, or the spirit of equality. The scarcity is owing to a sudden influx of speculators, such as the fair writer experienced On the road from Detroit.

"Our Fdopping-nleces after the first day were of the ordivary uew country class—the very coarsest accommodations oy night and by day, and all at he dearest rate. When everybody is haying land and scarce acy body cultivating tots 1111i:t not expect tin Mal Ii geither geed or cheap ; 1 et Fco-":

tria senaised at the dearth afromaN tthi.11 we rta 4 treryit „Ncither

milk. cage nor vegetablee were to ne !eel :led these it coal I not lire on hard atlf ham, stewed dried epplea, and brea.1 raised with sal; risin',' weeld necessarily run sonic` risk of starvation."

Of the climate Mrs. CLAvrits culy speaks incidentally ; but what she says is in the main favourable, as to its influence upon the feelings and its effects upon nature, whether for the growth of vegetation or for the pleasant presentment of landscape effects to the eye. Its influence upon the constitution does not nprear to be quite so agreeable. Like all the Western districts, Michigan is affected by the ague. The cad resilems conceive it should be had, like the tropical fevers, to get acclimated. Mrs. Cr..tv Ens thinks it might be escaped ; but by such care, it strikes us, as no new settler could use, for her own and her family's visitalion was in- duced by a tempting evening stroll about tin:. village. The natives hold that "you should let them run on till they wear themselves out," and forswear all " doctors' physic," taking strong decoctions of wild plants. However, one thing is clear—that the disorder is bad in its violent, bed in itst erm.ttent state, and bad in conva- kscenee ; though it does not seem to be often fatal, and it is said to be the only severe disease of Michigan.

Our aanes were tremendous. I us( fl to think T shroild certainly die in my ten or twelve hours' fever—and Mr. ("elvers confidently asserted several times that the upper half of his head was taking leme of the lower. Ilut the event proved that we were both mistaken ; for our in verified Lis OW II asser- tion, that an ague was as easily managed as a moan cold, by ettriag us both in a short time after our illness had assumed the intermittent Mem. There is, however, one haportinit distinction to be observed between a cold and the tiple; the former dots not recur after every trilling excitor. as the latter is sure to do. A gain mal agaie, after we Seerriell ent rely cured, did the haidious enemy renew his attacks. A sliort ride, a walk, a drive of two or three miles, and we were prostrated Mr a week or two. Even a slight alarm, or any thing that occasioned an unpleasant surprise, would be followed by a chill and fete r."

There are few or no glimpses of the soil or the agriculture of Michigan, unless so far as horticulture is concerned. The follow- ing is the most curious and specific account.

MICHIGAN GRUBS.

We found that when the spring Caine we were Ind half prepared to take ad- vantage of it ; but armed with the " American flardener," and qnantities of choice seeds received in a box of treasures from home ,:uring the pvevious autumn, we set ahont making something like a garden. It would seem that in our genems soil this could not be a difficult task ; but our experience has taught us quite differently. Besides the eradication of stumps, which is a work of time and labour anywhere, the "grubs" present a most formidable hin- drance to all gardening efforts in the " oak-openings." I dare say my reader imagines a " grub " to be a worm, a destructive wretch that spoils peach-trees. la Michigan, it is quite another affair. Gratis are, in Western parlance, the gnarled roots of small trees and shrubs. with which our soil is interlaced in sonic places almost to absolute solidity. When these are disturbed by the jot- incase "breaking up" plough, with its three or four yoke of oxen, the surflice Of the ground wears every is here the appearance of cheraux de ,'rise ; and to pile in heaps for burning such of these serried files as have been fairly loosened by the plough, is a work of much time and labour. And afier this is done in the best way, your poiagerie will still seem to be full of grubs; and it will take two or three years to get rid of these troublesome proofs of the fertility of your soil.

We are aware that these quotations appear in the questionable guise of' a work partly fictitious, in limn at least, and that therefore they may require to be taken with some allowance ; though Mrs. CLAVERS vouches for the general truth, and declares that the most extraordinary things are the most exact transcripts. Another reason for confidence in her statements, is the sensible philosophy which characterizes her writings, and seems to have governed her conduct—" doing at Rome as Romans do." Not that she attempts to disguise the disagreeableness of her companions or her situation, but to make the beet of a bad bargain, and to discover reasons from the rough state of the humans around her. Neither does she advise people to follow her example in coining, but only to imitate her, having come—whether necessity, speculation, or restlessness prompted their advent. These views and her management of the People around her, are inculcated in a variety of passages. But having mentioned the fact, we will leave the reader, who may be curious, to consult them for himself; whilst we will close our ex- tracts with a passage of more general utility, for persons who have any idea of emigrating to the Western States, or to Upper Canada, which has a worse climate and soil, with a similar though some- what better state of society.

THE THREE CLASSES OP EMIGRANTS.

Of the mingled mass of our country population, a goodly and handsome pro=

portion—goodly as to numbers, and handsome as to cheeks and lips, and thews and sinews— consists of young married people just beginning the world; simple in their habits, moderate in their aspirations, and hoarding a little of old- titshioned romance, unconsciously enough, in the secret nooks of their rustic hearts. These find no flu& with their bare loggeries. With a shelter and a handful of furnitihre they have enough. If there is the wherewithal to spread a outrun sopner for "tit old man" when he comes in from work, the young wife forgets the long, solitary, wordless day, and asks no greater happiness than preparing it by the help of sneh materials and such utensils as would be looked at with utter contempt in a comthrtable kitchen ; and then the youthful pair sit down numb enjoy it together, with a zest that the " er(ges parfaites" of the epicure can never awaken. What lack they that this world tam bestow? They have youth, and health, and love and hope, eecupation and amusement, and when you have added " meat, clothes, and fire," what more has England's fair young Queen ? These people are contented, of course. There is another class of settlers neither so numerous nor so happy; people ,olo have lett small farms in the Eastward states, and come to Michigan with the hope of acquiring property at a more rapid rate. Thev have sold off, per- haps at a considerable pecuniary disadvantage, the home a their early married life ; sacrificed the convenient furniture which had become necessary to daily comfort, and only awake when it is too late, to the ilia that it kills old vines to tear theta from their dinging-places. These people arc much to be pitied, the women especially.

The ladies first 'Gin murmur- as becomes the teeter sex.

Woman's little world in overclouded for leek of the old familiar means and ap- pliances. The husband goes to his work with the same axe or hoe which intent Ii is hand in his old 1rCloils and fields, he tills the same soil, or perhaps a, far ridiee and more hopeful one—he gases on the same book of nature which Le has reed from his infitney, and sees only a fresher aud more glowing page; and he returns ta his home with the ann, strong in heart and full of self-gratulation on the favourable change in his lot. But he finds the home- bird drooping and disconsolate. She has been looking in vain for the reflec- tion of any of tine cherished features of her own dear tire-side. She lots found a thousand deficiencies which her rougher mate ean scarce be taught to feel es CYIIS.1V1at cares he it' the time-hououred cupboaed is meagrely represented bv a few oak-boards lying on pegs and called shelves ? ills tea-equipage sflines as it was wont—the biscuits eau hardly stay on the brightly glistening plates. l's'ill lie find fault with the clay-built oven, or even the tia ".re- Hector ?" His bread never wit., better baked. What does he want with the great old militated rocking-chair ? When he is tired, lie goes to bed, for he is never tired till bA-tiine. Women are the grumblers in _Michigan, and they have some apology. Many of them have made sacrifices for which they were not at all preparel, and which detract largely front their every-day stores of comfort. The conviction of good accruing on a large scale does not prevent the wearing sense of minor deprivations. Anothet:-1;rge c1,1,: of omii,rants is composed of people of broken fortunes, or who have been unsuccessful m past maIertakings. These like or dislike the country en i varitim amends, as their peculiar condition may vary. Those who are fit:qua:de or in,:a,triotts lee]: at their new home with a kindly eye. Those who learn liv experience that idlers are no better off in Michigan than else- where, can find no terms too virulent in which to express their angry disap- pointineet. The profligate and unprincipled lead stormy and uncomfortable lives aayebere and Michigan now at least, In,;:ins to regard such characters among her iebeeed. children trial a stern and unfriendly eye, so that the fe* who may irtve come innonen us hoping, for the nu matched and unbridled license which we read of in regions nearer to the setting sun, find themselves marked aud sintneed as in the older world.