The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1853-11-05

Present appearances indicate that next season
there will be four daily lines of steamboats, be-
tween this city and points below. In the first
place, the Milwaukee and Mississippi Railroad
Company, whose Railroad will be completed to
or near the Wisconsin river next spring, con-
template placing line of steamboats, to run
from Prairie du Chen to St. Paul. connecting
at the former point with boats to be placed on
the Wisconsin river, that are to run in con-
nectlon with the railroad, and thus making the
trip from st. Paul to Milwaukee or Chicago in
forty-eight hours. 1t is believed that daily
line could be formed from Prairie du Chen with
three boats. One of the principal directors of
the above road was in this place last summer to
make the preliminary arrangements, full &C.
count of which was given in The Minnesotian at
the time. Secondly. The Minnesota Packet
Company, we observe by late Galena papers,
have resolved to have daily line, and that
Capt Smith has gone to Cincinnati to make the
necessary arrangements. They will add to the
number of popular boats they already possess,
sufficient number of new ones to make the
desired complement. Thirdly. The railroad
from Chicago to Rock Island will be completed
by next spring to the latter place, and the COM
pany in connection with the Michigan Southern
Railroad company have resolved, lat least it is
so understood,) to place a daily line from Rock
Island to this place. By this arrangement it is
expected to draw the business and travel of the
Upper Mississippi, over the Rock Island road
and the roads in connection with it to the Eas-
tern cities Fourthly. The line about to he
established between st. Louis and ST. Paul
forming connection at Dubuque, of which an
account is given in another paragraph. Wheth-
er all these projects shall be accomplished at
the appointed time, or not, the men who are at
the bottom of each enterprise, have the capital
and energy to perform what they undertake
Three of these different projects are set in mo-
tlon at the instigatiOn of rival railroad COM
panies, who wish to share in the profits of the
travel and carrying trade of the Upper Missis-
sipp, and to make it contribute to the business
of their respective roads. This a very fiatter-
ing index of the attention which the increasing
Importance of our Territory is receiving at the
hands of capitalists abroad
Is IT IGNORANCE? A writer in late number
of the Ironton CO., Register, under the head of
Varieties and Improvement of Indian Corn"
endeavors to show that there was originally but
one variety of corn and that the innumerable
sort that now exist, owe their origin to culture
climate, soil, &C." The writer is stated to be
"a careful experimenter, as we'll as close OBJ
server of natural phenomena which gives espe-
cial value to his remarks" His premises may
be sound or they may not-we don't care straw
but if the following are all the facts he has
to support them, he had better give up his the
ory:
GA tribe of Indians that once lived on the
Ohio river and moved from thence to the yicin-
ity of st. Louis, subsequently higher and high
er up the Mississippi, and finally located in
Minnesota so far north that hot summer wealth
er lasts but tfue ,ceeks, where our smallest rare
ripe varieties will not mature. They have train
ed their corn, however, as they gradually adj
vanced north to adapt itself to whatever clim-
ate it might have to contend with. They now
cultivate corn that requires but sir ,reeks of
warm weather, the ears of which are no longer
than mans thumb
Now there is not one word of truth in the
above quotation nor has it the slightest found
alton, supposing that the story was invented by
way of illustration. There never was tribe
of Indians that formerly lived on the Ohio riv-
er, who subsequently, emigrated to Minnesota
as there is but one tribe who ever lived out of
the present limits of the Territory that now re-
side within its borders, and they (the Winneba-
gocs) came originally from the southern and
eastern portions CT Wisconsin. Again it is i'm
possible to find any where in Minnesota, or any
place this side of Hudson's Bay, place that
I" hot summer weather lasts but five weeks
| or where corn is cultivated I" that requires but
six weeks of warm weather, the ears of which
are no longer than mans thumb" The wri-
ter must have been thinking of the seasons at
the mouth of McKenZie's river and of the kind
of corn which Sir John Franklin is supposed to
be cultivating. We should like to have this
"close observer of natural phenomena note
the fact, if he has any more communications to
publish. that the average length of the season
between the planting and ripening of corn in
Minnesota is about four months, and that in the
same ratio that our season is longer than give
weeks > are our ears of corn longer than a
mans thumb" Even at Pembina, near lati-
tude forty-nine, and nearly three hundred miles
north of the capital of the Territory, the peri
cd between planting and ripening is full three
months. Wewould advise this careful expcr-
imenter" that the next time he writes, if he
wishes us to consider his remarks of especial
value" to be more judicious in his selection of
facts or he will never prove anything but bis
own stupidity or the gullibility of his readers.
SNow.-1t seems that the season is farther adj
vanced in places south and east of us than it is
here. Last week there was three or four inches
OF snow at Prairie du Chen there was also,
we learn, snow in Galena which lasted for day
or two, and snow in Chicago Several of the
boats that have left Galena of late have been
compelled to break ice all the way to the mouth
of Fevre river. Now "way up in Minnesota -