Minnesota weekly times. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1854-1859, 1855-05-01
MONDAY, APRIL sc, 1855.
REAL ESTATE.

REAL ESTATE.
No considerable investments seem to have been
made during the past week. But the real estate
Offices are crowded with strangers, of which those
desiring lands for actual settlement and farming
purposes, arc the predominant class.
It cannot be expected that the favorable effect
on this market which must inevitably follow the
present wonderful influx of population, should
be produced in the compass of period OF two
weeks. The same remark will measurably apply
to the money market. But in this more especial
", time is necessarily required to compare the ad-
vantages of the different localities, and to slit
the respective merits of the innumerable points
offered to the consideration of the purchaser.
immigration is to business what fuel is to the
steamboat-not what the beetle is to the wedge.
1t is the exciting cause, not the propellng force.
A very hetcrodox tendency to agrariansm that
we have conscientiously tried to repress ever since
we read the celebrated fable inculcated by Agrip-
pa has led us to hope that the prices of land with
in good market distance of our city would fall to
figures within the means Of the poor but indus
trious class Of immigrants who arc driven from
the barren rocks of New England to seek homes
and subsistence on our fertile and easily titled
soil. We will probably be disappointed in our
humanitarian visions. The competition for these
lands is too general and too strong, to leave room
for the hope that spectators will forego the
splendid profits of present rates, out OF simple
complacency to us, or in concession to the cheap
suggestions Of casy-chair philanthrophy.
METApnoRIcAL PRAIRIE FIREs.-The prairies are
Gro Wit
with no desolation in their track. fire of ar
dent hopes and earnest purposes, trailing for
miles and miles, 'away across the country ho,' p
in trains of emigrant wagons and squads of ex-
plorers. We saw the grass leap up with a visible
impulse of glad growth as the merry strangers
passed on, and flowers spr:nging up with blush
iny welcome in their track.
We like the looks of the people who are wand
ering over our prairies. They have an inquisi-
tive, scrutinizing eye-as if their observations
were intended to have practical bearing. Solo
man sent for just such men when he set about
building the Great Temple. And under their
hands, we know more enduring temple than
Solomon's will rise to greet the stars of our ma
tional banner.
| MASTER NICHOLAS GooDALL's FIRST CONCERT
We take much pleasure in referring our readers
to the advertisement Of this precocous boy, and
without quoting any of the numerous exchanges
where his trancendent abilities are extolled III
such strong language that smacks no little of the
puff system, and if little Nick comes up to one
half we have read Of him, his success is sure ii
our thriving little great city, and the excitement
is great, very great to hear him. We are inform
ed by the best authority, that his father is the
Best Vio.incellist in America, and his Buffo Sing
ing, the Cincinnati and Louisville papers pro-
nouncc drol and irresistible and can only be SUM
by him.
| MIHNEsorA.-N Notwithstanding the unexamplct
rush Of emigration to our Territory, still, ever,
thing appcrtaining to our climate, soil, and peo
pie, is sought and read with avidty. We publish
today therefore, an excellent article from the per
of Judge Meekcr, of St. Anthony, which we find il
the Louisville (Kv.) Journal, and which will re
licvc us from answering the many letters of III
quires we are constantly receiving. The lcttc
will be published in our Weekly, copies of which
can be procured at the Office.
cEJ7 The boats for the Minnesota river th
year are completely crowded with passengers ant
freight. The Black Hawk which left Yesterday
was loaded to her guards, and it was with muc9
| difficulty that she made her way.
Cy" Clean up, gentlcmcn--clean up-you ma,
thereby avoid sickly season in St. Paul. Hoe on
the filth around your dwellings wh:tc-wash
paint, in word, clean up.
| Cy The Cincinnati Gazette of Thursday says
1T is estimated that within the past two month,
fifty thousand persons, with their movable have
passed through our city for tho Far West. Thu
figures may be relied on as being correct" The
steamers for st. Louis arc heavy laden.
| ANrI-LIQUoR WOMEN IN TExAs.-Thc Dallas
well, in Kaufman county, lately held a meeting
and passed resolutions strongly condemning tht
selling of liquor. Notwithstanding this, some
| one set up grocery in Rockwell, when the ladies
mustered in their strength and proceeded deliber.
ately to the grocery, and knocked the heads Out
ladies', these.
re- The Minnesota Belle was off for the Min
nesota River yesterday. Her flags were in full
breeze, and large crowd covered her decks
Lively times these, with the steamboats,.
Cy The Hamburg arrived Sunday morning.
She left yesterday afternoon.
CV The weather yesterday was very warm
Wind and dust in abundance.
Ery The Golden Era arrived on SATURDAY.