The weekly Minnesotian., 1852-09-04

JOS. X. Brown, l.. A. Babcock,
Thos. R. Potts, H. A. Lambert,
Spencer, kirkpatrick s. Markley.
Western Navisation---Low Water. Bars and
Rapids Generally, and " Pigs Eye" Bar Par
ticularly.
The success of an infant commercial
city depends much upon the good name it
establishes at the outset Of its career.
Not only must the moral character of its
people be good, and the integrity of its
business men, like the chastity of Caesars
wife, "above suspicion" but its position
ss a commercial point-its facilities for
ingress and egress-must be thoroughly
established beyond the possibility Of sue
cessful controversy.
This is season of unusual low water
all over the West and South. The foun-
tains Of the great Father of Waters ap-
pear to have been almost dried up. and
beds of streams, far interior toward the
mountain sources, have become as arid as
the sands of Arabia Deserta. This is
nothing surprising to " an old settler" or
to Western man not yet past the prime
OF liie-or for that matter, to the boy of
eight or ten years. In us it excites no
unusual wonder. Born within fifty yards
OF the waters edge of considerable
tributary Of "La Belle Riviere," and
having spent our infant days in chasing
ducks over its shallow ripples, and drag
ging "suckers" and ''mud cats" from its
shaded pools, and having lived West and
South all our life, low water in the Wes-
tern rivers is no stranger to us.
But Minnesota, politically speaking, is
only three years old. Nine-tenths of the
"new corners" since its organization arc
from the East, and know little of the
uncertain character of navigation in the
West, bound down as it has been for
years with the contracted fetters of
"Democracy" of the New Hampshire
and Alabama creed. Since they have re-
sided here, the rivers, until now, have
kept well up. They landed here upon a
swelling spring or June tide, and think it
awful that water wiN run out into the
Gulf Of Mexico in diminished quantities
each day, at times when the supply is cut
of at the fountain heads. A boat is
aground at Pigs Eye,-where, at this
moment, pilots tell us there is one foot
more water than on the Des Moines Rap
ids, six hundred miles below us-and one
OF our worthy Eastern citizens (who we
will suppose to reside at st. Anthony J
comes down in the "yaller STAGE" or the
"red COACH" wishing to take passage be-
low. "Du tell! want TO know! Well,
these pesky Minnesota editors have called
this a navigable river-what tarnation
Get Of liars they are! No use of living
above Galena." And off he goes with
tne idea that St. Paul, and Minnesota
generally, are the only points on earth
that are now suffering by low water.
Again: Here comes an honest and thrifty
German farmer, who, at the time of his
migration from "Fatherland," took the
cars at New York, and made his wav
straight into Minnesota; and consequently
knows nothing about the general character
OF Western rivers for boats and navipa-
fon. He has purchased farm in the
vicinity of st. Paul at what he deems a
high price, but expect. to be remunerated
IN the unsurpassed fertility of the soil,
and the high price of produce. "M;ne
Got! mine Got! how tie. people, lied to
Inc about der Mississip river!"
Now, friends of all nations and conn,
tries, we're going to prove to you that
There has been no lying in the case. We
(all the editors) have said that the Dor
ton Of the Mississippi above Galena wa.
~ good . stream for navigation as the
portion between Galena and Keokuk, or
the Ohio river, from mouth to head. We
are here prepared to show that it is bet.