Minnesota weekly times. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1854-1859, 1855-11-24
MONDAY, NOV. 10, 1866.
"wha. n stream Of People"

We Inadvertently omitted to notice the ar
rival in our city, few days since. Of James
F.. Ballantyne, Esq ;, correspondent editor Of
the Chicago Democratic Press. Mr.. B. has
been roaming about our Territory for a short
time-is very much pleased with II, and thinks
he shall make it his future home. In recent
letter to the Press he thus describes the emf
grafton to Minnesota. His letter is dated Ga
lena, Nov. 7th. a4a
What stream of people came along in to-
days train! There were thirteen cars, every
single seat of which was occupied, and about
dozen more standing up in each, car. They
were almost all bound for Minnesota some
few for Iowa and Wisconsin. If to-day's car
go is an example Of what has been going on
for the last few months there is little wonder
that our western villages soon become towns,
| and that our towns soon become cites--that the
vast unbroken prairie of six months ago is dot
ted over with cottages and barns, and that the
sound of the anvil and the buzz of saw.mills
echo and re-echo through those forests where a
year ago nothing was to be heard but the
scream Of the vulture and the howl of the wolf.
With such tide of immigration into the North.
will speedily be brought into cultivation, and
that the produce of the Upper Mississippi will
soon surpass that of all the Eastern States put
together.
Prompted by curiosity, (and having had at
any rate to give up my seat to couple OF old
ladies', took the census of the cars. found
in the traiu not less than nineteen-twentieths o
the passengers bound for St. Paul, St. Antho.
ny, Fort Smelling, and other portions of the
Territory Of Minnesota. There We're twenty.
one families from the State of New York
eight families from Pennsylvania, six families
from Ohio. five families from Maine, two from
Massachusetts, three from Connecticut, four
from Rhode Island, one from Virginia, and
two from Kentucky. Besides these, there were
large number of young men from New Eng
land. One party from New Hampshire Sal
comfortably in one end Of a car, singing with
right good glee he old Granite State
Another family, Of nine, five of them hand
some young ladies between fourteen and TWEEN.
ty-ive, with silver-haired old man, and the
care-worn mother, comprised very interest.
ing group; they We're from Livingston Co., N
Y, had sold their farm there, and were now
on their way to occupy 160 acres thirty miles
back Of St. Paul. A young lady Of not more
than twenty-five years OF age, with her young
er brother of sixteen, We're on their way te
See how it looked" in the Territory, and
if it pleased them, they would induce Father
to pull up stakes from the Bay State, and risk
their fortunes in the West. Out OF the whole
load could only find four families who were
not American, OF which two were German one
Scotch and one Irish, hut all Of them had Teen
residents of the United States for five or ten
years. Quite number Of the female portion
Of my fellow-passengers had been school-teach'
| ers in the Eastern States, aud were highly in
tclligent. Most Of them, of course, were from
the rural districts, and though they were thor.
oughly refined in manners, they lacked thai
air of giddiness which, am free to confess, il
100 much the characteristic Of maidens brought
up In large city. They are well adapted te
be pioneers of a new country, and will carry
civilization and intelligence into parts Of the
Northwest which have hitherto been denied
the refining influences Of female society
Time, however, will reveal the work which
these pioneers will accomplish, and history
true history-will award to the heroes of civil
ization glory more enviable than that Of the
soldier or politician. taI
Mr.. B. left on the Golden Era Saturday
We trust he will soon return and make Min.
nesota his home, for we want the benefit Of hi:
ready and able pen. ..,.. .-.-,..