The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1851-09-02
4 May, Secretary.
VIM. Gray,
Alhsr- Mathiat,
Our Minnesota Correspondence.

81 fAuL, August >, 1851.
The Siorr Treaty More Land Destiny of 81.
Pout-1he Chorado OF TIE 7oritory--T1s Nert
Presidency, and Poiitics,Sc.
The Sioux treaty IL consummated. The inn
nense tract Of country extending from the northern
boundary Of Iowa, westerly to the Sioux river and
northwestery along the Mississippi river to the
Watab river, ninety miles above st. Paul, and
hence norlhwesterly beyond Lake Traverse. has
been purchased by the United States The treaty
needs but the ratification Of the Senate TO omen ono
Of the finest tracts Of country in the whole West
TO the enterprise Of the emigrant The number of
square miles in this tract 10 estimated TO be nearly
one hundred thousand-all within the limits of MIN
nesoti From St Paul to the Iowa line is at least two
thousand miles, and from tie mouth Of thoSt Peters
or Minnesota. to the eastern limit Of the coun.rv
set IaIt for the Sioux, Is enc hundred AMI Gfty:
thus you perceive, that aithin the Limits OF our Ter
ntoIy se have three hundred and ffty cousecutive
miles OF ns'igable waters running through its yery
heart along which the land is unsurpa ssed for is
iertil'y, beaGty-aye, even sublimity Anywhere
the emigrant can drop 60 w fiom the steam boat
build himself shantCe and soon BECOME the lord
o. me SOL; 81 Paul is, and probably al Ways will
be, the chief town Of the territory and should this
treaty be ratified il WILL IN the cuurse Olive vears.
DC TIE second owhn pcint OF business aud DO pula-
hon, moth OF ST LOuis. The amount of money
pald " the government t. the Winnebago, Chip
psWa and, henctfoIth, TO be paid 20 tn, Sioux In
aials, has given bushes. an impulse hero vhich
cam OF lie s,,es,,,' -" IN e few years Burlnston
dubuque, Quincy, and even Galena, must faii iat6
the shade.
Two years ago we had about one hundred in5,-
bitanis; now we number two thousand, n nd the cry
is, |" still they come" Many causes have ooe-
rated, heretofore, 70 prevent the rapid increase OF
population that we anticipated Immediately after
our organization. The California fever, which
roged with fury unknosn in ths history of emf
gration the cholera, which prevailed last wear in
most Of the towns below ca the Mississipsi, the
idea among the people, East and South thai We ,yers
in the regions Of eternal snow aud that II
Anthony some where near the north mole
all combined TO prevent emigration the Grst
and second year after oar orsaniration
BUT the summer emgrants are pouring in every
beat Is loaded with them, and this is but the be-
ginning Of the end" Several mbers Of Congress
have visited us this season. to view the country and
have lett US highly gratdsd. Among them DR..
Mallory, from the Chicago district, Illinois the
Hon Amos Tuck, of New Ham pshire, and senator
Gtyer, OF Missouri. Sc delix ated was Senator
Geyer. that he expressed his intention to make
Minnesota, In future, his summer residence and
the Hon Amos Tuck after vie wing the extensive
water power OF 81 Anthony, siid that no man
could estimate its value. The people of Minnesota,
although deprived Of nil right TO participate in ma
tloha affairs, take deep interest in national poll
tics. Seven eighths of them Jmpromse men;
and OF the democrats seven-eghths refer for Pes
dent stephen A. douglas, the long and tried friend
OF Mbbesota, Califorma-iudeei OF all the territo-
RES Of the West. Douglas is, to-day, The mos.
popular man in the West. Almost every democra-
TIC paper ia Illinois has xpressei its preference for
him, and II needs but little exertion by the young
democracy TO secure the nomination and the trI-
nmrbsnt election &C the "Illinois mech mic" Ste-
phen A, Douglas VsRIrAs.