The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1850-10-17


of alternate sections of land densely and valua-
bly, wooded, and OF beautiful prairie bottoms,
equal in fertility to. those Of the Miamis in
Ohio. ansae aat..a.r aa ~ ...5t oT'..,s5
| The timber Of the st. Croix is extremely
beautiful and valuable, and produces lumber of
first quality, the demand for which is constantly
beyond all that the mills can supply. There Is
much beautiful and rich farming land on this
stream also, which time will bring into use,
| With few days Of extreme heat the past
month, when the thermometer rose as high at
st. Paul as IL has been at any time in Cincinnati,
and few days last winterwhen the mercury
sank below zero, the climate appears to be salts
| factory to the persons who went out from Ohio,
Pennsylvania and Kentucky, when the Terri
torial Government was organized. The sum
1 mers arc represented as less variable there than
in this latitude, and the winters are so much
more dry and agreeable as not to be severe
upon the constitution of an emigrant from the
Ohio Valley, as are tho sudden changes here
from cold to moderate weather, and vice versa,
with the infnenzas and fevers thus produced.
Nogold has been discovered yet in Minnesota,
NOR is the land one which holds out induce
ments to the slothful and worthless to come
and live upon it, Men who 90 to Minnesota
must expect to cork or ,oaH !; but land is cheap
beautiful farms, in pleasant places are abund
ant--the soil is found to remunerate generousl J
the toll that may be expended upon it-and We
have no doubt that, to industrious and provdent
settlers, it holds out safer and better, and GER
tainly more manly inducements, than any part
of our broad national domains wherein the rich
ness of the earth aud the stimulation of the sun
and shower produce food without labor, or any
part in which pure gold lies upon the ground in
ounce pieces or can be dug from the beds and
sides Of its streams in pound Jumps.
The towns iu Minnesota, we understand, are
growing with considerable rapdty, and their
Immediate neighborhoods filling up with thrifty
class of farmers. A good deal Of attention has
already been bestowed upon common schools
and several have been opened which are wei
supplied with pupils.
Politics, us, unfortunately, almost all little
party ard personal excitements are called in ou
country, re beginning to rage little fiercely In
the different c0ugcil DISTRICTS and harsh words
are INDUCED, but With the departure Of the dog
DAYS it is to be hoped that anything so unseeemly
and unnecessary will disappear.
Three members ha We been nominated for dele
gates to Congress, viz A. M. Mitchell, now
Marshal of the Territory; Fl. H. Sibley, the pre-
sent delegate and David Olmstead, an old and
apparently much respected citizen. Mr. Mitchell
comes out against what is called the monopoly
of the "Old Fur Company" Mr. Sibley is iden-
tilted with that company as its acknowledged
head, but asks a reelection on the ground oil
long and important services to the Territory
Mr. Olmstead appears to be the favorite Of the
nominating conventions, and has the support OF
the St. Paul Chronicle and Register
This paper, we have heretofore neglected to
mention, has passed out Of the hands of Messrs
1lIean and Ovens its founders, into those of
l.. A. Babcock, Il member Of the territorial Leg
is!ature. The paper has been well conducted
| from its commencement, and taken particular
pains to make known the real character Of Min
nesota, by descriptions Of its rivers, accounts of
its soil and productions, and articles on It's tim
Der and other natural resources.
Looking Mt this fine country, and thinking
about the ten thousand tailors, shoemakers, and
other artizans, with their famcs,) who are
striking" quarreng, disturbing the public
| quiet, and often more than half starving in the
cities of New York, Boston, Philadelphia, and
so-forth, we cannot but think how much wiser
it would be, how much more manly, how far
better in every respect, for themselves and
Others if they would change localities, and, for
the most part, pursuits: laying down their shears
and needles, their avis and lapstones, shaking
the dust of the big cities from their feet, and
arming themselves against hunger, and thirst,
and nakcdness, with the axe, the plow and the
hoe, on the fields Of Minnesota.
Or, if those fields are too far aft there are hun
dreds of thousands of acres in Ohio, Kentucky
and Indiana yet-beautfully situated much Of
it, and nearly all of it as rich as garden spots
which the axe has hardly sounded in yet, which
the pillow has never touched, which no foot has
been upon but the Indians and the Surveyors
And any Of this scan be had for song" and
trifle of money, and when possessed is a sove-
reign remedy against evils Of monopoly" that
are so much complained of, and tyranny Of
employers" which is so often the alledged cause
of the outbreaks among the working classes in
the larger cities Of the Union.--Cin. Gazette.