The Minnesota pioneer. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. Territory) 1849-1855, 1850-03-27
rHoBGHrs EDITORIAL.

through the Z morth oil Marcn, without
the=salisaeat~ rofr.news.-.sln. .Hala A. Our
vision strained down the river, looking
for the mail train TO turn the bend of
Pis's-Eye. The Union may'b be riven /
a,under, or Congress be swallowed by |
asaping earthquake, like the troop OF
Korah, or the Ohio river be converted
into stream Of .whiskey, or the bowels |
Of the Sierra Nevada be found full of
native gold, or the bottom drop out of
the Atlantic ocean, and we remain in
biissful ignorance Of all these wonder
full events Here sits Saint Paul, I'M
patient as young widow waiting for
her nupiials. for the hour that shall unite
her again with the woodworking down
into the ice-coyercd channel Of the long,
long river sti,ering as she looks hun
dreds of miles northward TO Its frozen
sources, signing as she turns to, the
South and fancies that even now the i'm
patient steamboats, may be knocking at
the frozen gate Of Lake Pepin. These
facts remind US, of course they do, that
we need and must hare here, the tele-
graphic wires from the south; and that
we must also have, at no distant day,
railroad to Dubuque. Ii a railroad can
with profit traverse the margin of the
Hudson river, at ccst Of 500 600 per
mile, why may not railroad be profita-'
bly, employed through the valley of the
Mississippi, costing less than $4,000
per mile' Or at least through the north
crn part Of the valley, say from Saint
Louis to Pembina, which is destitute of
river nayig alton in the winter9
How greatly would the distance as
well as time of communication, be short
ened by railroadl What saving in
risk and Insurance! What unlimited
agricultural resources, would at once
be developed, along the line of such a
railroad! .1-a- ne
In a few days more, the boatswill be
here, with their thronging multitudes of
Immigrants. In few months, hundreds
Of new buildings will leap into existence
ia Saint Paul, and hundreds Of new. faces
will greet US, all strangers now, and we
who are here now, shall be comparative
ly. lost sight of and forgotten; there will
be, new enterprises, new fashions, new
morals here. Let us treat them hospi-
tably, frankly, kindly; taking them in,
though strangers, as we were ourselves
taken in, last year.
Saint Anthony, Saint Croix, and Still
water, will also receive their share OF
immigration, They are all places de-
serving the attention Of immigrants, hav-
ing their various advantages to- suit the
different tastes, habits and pursuits OF
different persons. The settlement OF
lands and opening of farms through that
fine region of country between the Saint
Croix and the Mississippi, must also In
eyitably give an impulse to the growth
of fine village. at Douglass Point
Wabashaw, the commercial focus of the
trade Of Minnesota On the Halfbreed
lands south of us, VIII have a rapid
growth this season--yery likely may be
rs large in u year as Saint Paul IS now
for immigrants win pour into that trac
this spring, ike locusts, and open farm:
all over it. Nor will that beautiful bell
Of land up tho Mississippi, be lost sigh
of by the keen eye of the immigrant
kasca, with its fine harbor and natura
advantages for trade, undoubtedly the
head of navigation, at least for the mos
Of the season, for boats plying upwart
from Saint Anthony; Itasca will not b
distanced in the race of improvement
Upon the Saint Croix, Osceola, and Ma
rine Mills, will both receive new nm
pulse this season; while Stillw alter, will
her trade extending into the pineries 0
the Saint Groin, stands upon perna
ncnt basis of prosperity. with Interest,"
90 independent Of ours, that no reasona
bic, rivalry can exist between that AM
any town on the Mississippi, unless 1t b'
sstrife whether Saint Anthony. or TIL
mills of the Saint Crooix. shall get til,
larger share Of the pine mill-logs fonn'
between the Saint croix and the Missis
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West and north Of Saint Paul an
Saint Anthony for a great distance, "
do not know how far, into the region Z
Che lakes-and in ali directions areun