The Minnesota pioneer. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. Territory) 1849-1855, 1852-12-16
From tine Gaena Advertiser.
The trade of the North West-WhO
shall have il.

This question is discussed by the shrcwd men
Of St. Louis, we'll other places, and various
projects suggested by that city to secure IT, They
now seriously set about improving the Rapids of the
Mississippi, as one help and the project of connect
ing St. Louis with Minnesota, by railroad has been
suggested another The distractions of the Rap
ids will be removed-the railroad will not be built
for many years. But there is law of trade that
will settle the question-Who shall have the trade
of the Northwest! Trade will as surely flow to the
point where the thing to be purchased exists in the
greatest variety and can be bought and transported
cheapest to the place where wanted, as that water
ultimately finds the With this law fully in
view, Gaena puts in her bid for the trade. We
have now northern and southern connection by
the Mississippi, and shall soon have an eastern
and southern connection by railroad. Our merchants
can buy goods abroad cheap any body,
transport them here cheap any body, and can
sell as cheap any body else, and If they cannot live
on the profits of their business, nobody can. Our
mercantile community has acquired high charac-
ter for boldness of adventure, well guarded with the
most shrewd caution, for integrity and promptness-
in word, for substantial mercantile merit-and
such merit alone, resting IFS own strength, defes
assault. Those who do not examine very deeply,
find fault with the position Of Gaen That ve,y
position makes it the kew Of the Northwestern Trade.
Nature has made il so, and Art has no adequate
tive to interfere with the arrangement. If attempted,
1t will only arouse citizens TO exert powers that
otherwise would lie dormant, and the failure of
enemies will prove 70 us, as we'll to others,
strength. So far, have had the Mississippi as
our principal inlet and outlet. We shall soon have
others that will make wholesome competition be-
tween the east and the south, summer and winter,
10 advantage, while the competition Of other
Cities which will soon be Orcned in close con-
necton of time, will have the effect to vastly in
crease our trade. An immense tract of country is
open for settlement north and northwest Of US.
1t is to be filled with people having common wants
with others, with farms, towns and villages, like
New York, Pennsylvania and Ohio, and in good ter
ritory it may be equal to them all. For many years,
the living tide of human beings will flow into that
Country in ratio increasing beyond the common be-
lief or expectation now, and meet their wants will
require all the facilities of trade likely to be furnished
from any quarter. In this respect, Gaena intends to
do her part, about in the proportion as heretofore.
ANOTHER OXFORD BEAR.-Mr. Edward S.
Names, of Freyburg Academy Grant, in Oxford
county, has just had his cofeld infested by bears
and much damage done this season, On the night
of the 2lst uit, after having discovered the beats
paths by which the field was entered, he set trap
in one, and three guns. we'll charged with balls in
many of the other beats, determined to give Bruin
hug of warm reception on his next visit. Each gun
covered the path beat, and had cord attached
the trigger and running the beat, that Hruin
was pretty sure to catch it, if he entered in either
Of his accustomed paths. The next morning he was
found done for.' One Of the guns had been dis
charged, the contents taking effect in the fanl Of
the left side and passing through the bowels, liver
and lungs, and lodging in the right shoulder. lie
struggled to regain his native wilds, but only sue
ceeded in getting about thirty rods, and g in out.-
He girted five feet three inches, and weighed when
dressed three hundred and sixty pounds, and over
sixty pounds OF leaf or trough fat, taken out
of him. He is supposed to have been an old Offend
er, against whom the farmers in that section have
often made war; for his unyovernab!e propensity TO
seize and take forcbIc possession Of mutton and
rous other goods and chattes, and he had the marks
and scars of quite number of bullets different
parts of his body. The whole region is rcjoiccd
that he has at length met with JUSTICE for he has
been great scourge and thicf.-Norway No., Adr.
The Illinois Central Railroad, with its branches,
is to be six hundred and ninety inc miles long Ii
extend. from Chicago and Galcna TO Cairo, at the
mouth of the Ohio. The amount Of land which has
been appropriated by govcrnmcnt for the benefit Of
the road is 2,6Sl ,l6O acres.
The Daily Wisconsin states that since the COM
petion Of the Mississippi and Milwaukee Railroad
to Whitewater (5l miles) the receipts have averaged
about 500 per day. In about a month the road will
be finished to Janesvillc, Il miles from Whitewater.
The Guano Question between the United States
and Peru has been amicably settled.
A CITY ordinance has lately been passed in Lynn,
Mass, by virtue Of which any child between the
aces Of six and fifteen, not having any regular em-
plovment and failing to attend school, on complaint
at the Police Court, shall be fined not exceeding lO
or he sent to the House of Correction:
NJ Van Buren is now the only man living who
.. aycr ,ierted President Of the u. 8. OF all the
non ,hn we're ever r7ted for, for that Office Van Bu
rem and Cass only survive,