Minnesota weekly times. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1854-1859, 1855-01-02

Come, as the minister of death,
Again upon our earth.
Dread cholera forever rest
Strike not again the human breast
Oh, God prevent its birth.
How varied the feelings that crowd from the heart
Made up of distress and of pleasure in part
Distress that the mourners many and sad,
And pleasure, that others are happy and glad;
And "our Country" is prospcrcd, developed her
Agriculture, and commerce, and lumber and ores.
And Science and art" walking on hand in hand,
Are spreading improvement throughout the whole
But We must end our long address
And to our duty 60,
So Happy New Year-what? oh, yes!
OF course it should be SOL
The Editor says We must speak
Aword for him, we'll sir!
We kno,c the public, and will act
Asyour interpreter.
stTo the merchant as ever, our columns will be
reference candid, from partiality free;
To the Doctor, the Lawyer, the Banker, the Clerk,
The Mechanic, the Teamster, the man of all work,
We offer channel through which they may bring
Conclusions unsullied, just gain'd from truths
spring.
And we hope that our pen may serve to create
Some pleasure and profit here we would state
are found
At the head Of our papers,
So again, all around,
We wish to our patrons the best of all cheer,
And joyous, and "spirited Happy New Year."
ST. Paul and the Commerce of the Great Lakes.
How many of us have considered the important
fact, that st. Paul will be, next summer, within
less miles of New York and Boston, by way of
navigation down the Lakes, than is Galena p
The Saut Ste. Marie Canal is finished, and the
head of Lake Superior is no more distant from
Buffalo, by water, than is The city of Chicago.
The largest class of steamers, propellcrs, briggs,
schooners. and all manner of Lake craft, can, rs
soon as nav CATION is opennd in the spring, start
simultaneously, some for Chicago, and others for
the mouth of the ST. Louis river, within the
Territory of Minnesota, and all things being
equal, the two fleets will arrive simultaneously ut
their different points of destination. Freights
thus shipped from Buffalo, and consequently
from New York or Boston, will cost no more
for transportation when landed at the head of
Lake Superior, within hundred and fifty
miles of st. Paul, than they will landed at Chi
cago the same dav, a distance Of one hundred
and eighty miles from Galena. Thus we have
thirty miles in our favor in land transportation,
aided 10 The rhOle difference rdfer transport
alton and the attendant costs, betreen st. Paul
and Gdlend.
Taking other words to express what we mean,
and counting the distance between st. Paul and
Galena at $40 miles, we are by way of Lake Su-
perior, Tor all practical purposes of heavy trans
portation, 400 miles nearer the great cities of
the East than by way of Galena and Chicago.
1t does not require moments reflection BY
the practical business men, to see the advantages
that to accrue to the whole Of Minnesota by the
opening of this great thoroughfare through the
Saul Ste. Marie Canal. Why, if we Of st. Paul
as good wagon road hence to Superior as we
have to Fort Ripley, We could bring out goods
through this channel, at as little or perhaps less
cost from the East than we receive them by
way of Chicago and Galena. This is stubborn
fact, that can be demonstrated by figures, and we
have no fears of its being successfully controver
ted.
But give Railroad, and that speedily, be-
tween the connecting points of the navigable
waters OF the Mississippi and Lake Superior.
and then calculate the amount that will be saved
in transportation from the East to Minnesota
See how the supplies of goods and wares which
have flowed into Minnesota bv the old limo Of
communication will commence coming the other
way. As far down the river as La Crosse, and
Lansing even, the merchants can ship with profit
from the East through the Lake Superior route
for added to the less distance to be overcome by
land transportation, freights can be carried dowr
stream on the Mississippi, or its great eastern
tributary, the St. Croix, much cheaper than they
can upward.
Here are a few commercial facts, worthy oil
thought by those who still would chain the Iror
Horse by selfish policy or groundless doubts and
scruples.-Minnesotidn.