“ The raising of sheep, we have long considered the most profitable business in which a farmer on our prairies can engage. If people would wear more of the production and manufacture of their own farms, and less of the costly products of foreigners, there would be less necessity for stay-laws, and valuation laws, and such like measures of relief.
We have been informed by a gentleman of our acquaintance, in Lee county, Iowa, that he intends bringing a flock of 1000 sheep to that county, next season. We hope some of our citizens will go and do likewise. ”

“ Phrenology has had many manly and sensible opposers—but that which most tends to retard its progress, is the quackery and tom-foolery of its miscalled friends—and we protest against so noble and exalted a science being made the theme of every mountebank, who choses to make a living by his wits, instead of honest labor. ”

“ Many business and professional men have been induced to withdraw their advertising patronage from the same cause. But to all such we respectfully suggest, that a liberal system of advertising, more than compensates, in the worst of times, for the attendant expense; and that 'hard times,' instead of being a good reason for retrenching in that particular, is rather a strong one, for advertising the more liberally.
Another reason why our paper has not circulated more in the remote parts of the county, is the very great want of mail facilities. ”

“ Is there a man in the community who does not know, that the Mormons already comprise a fourth of the population within the lines of the contemplated division?—that they will hold the balance of power between the two political parties?—that they are constantly on the increase, and that in the course of two or three years, they will probably outnumber all others? ”

“ Now, in consequence of these extensive and most unfortunate land investments in this beautiful and fertile country, many of the best and richest tracts in the state of Illinois, and the territories adjacent, remain unimproved, or but thinly settled, and the capital thus invested, lies dormant and useless. ”

“ That a citizen of one State cannot be given up to the authorities of another for trial, on a charge of crime committed in the State in which he resides, is so self-evident, that we wonder any doubt could have been entertained on the subject. ”

“ P. S. We perceive, by the Springfield correspondence of the Missouri Republican, that General Benett was at Springfield, on his way to St. Louis, where he intends to deliver a course of Lectures on Mormonism. He also expects to procure a renewal of the indictments against the Prophet. If we are to believe this man's own statements of himself, he must be one of the most consummate knaves in the universe. ”

“ The great errors which capitalists have committed, are some of the following, to wit:
Investing large sums of money in uncultivated lands, without proper regard to location or quality, at prices often largely above the Government rate. The consequences are plain: Emigrants find plenty of land at Government price, settlements are retarded, tresspasses committed, taxes assessed, and property diminished in value ”

“ Envoys Extraordinary, and Ministers Plenipotentiary, have gone on to Springfield, laden with dispatches from the Sovereign people, to their servants in the Legislature; and if there is nothing done, it will not be for want of action and talk, on the part of the people. ”

“ Warsaw, with such advantages, needs not the influence to be derived from the possession of a Court House, a dozen paltry offices, or half a score of hungry lawyers, to ensure her future growth and prosperity. ”

“ We have toiled, night and day, since its commencement, in order to get the paper out, and to render it acceptable to its readers; and we only ask a corresponding exertion on the part of those who are as much interested as we are, in keeping up a Whig paper in this county. We know that the continually increasing pressure of the times, and the great scarcity of money, has prevented some from subscribing, who would otherwise have done so ”

“ A Legislative Temperance Society has been formed at Jefferson City, of which Ex-Gov. Boggs is President.
Georgia.—A bill has been introduced into the Georgia Legislature 'to abolish security-ship,' by making the promise to pay the debt of another unavailing. ”