The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1855-11-24
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where the People Como From and where shey
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w,... ~. p.op,e Como From and Where they
are Going. go
We extract the following from the special
corre.nondence of the Chicago Democratic
pre,s. dated at Galena on the 7th inst:
aWhat 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-
days cargo is an example OF what has been
going on for the last few months there is
little wonder that our new western villages
soon become towns, and that our towns soon
become cities-that the vast unbroken prai-
RE of six months ago is dotted over with
cottages and barns, and that the sound Of the
anvil and the buzz of the saw-mill echo and
re-echo through those forests where 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 West, there is little doubt but the
wild lands will speedily be brought into cul-
tivation, and that the produce Of the Upper
Mississippi will soon surpass that Of all the
Eastern States put together.
"Prompted by curiosity, (and having at
any rate to give up my seat to a couple OF
old ladies,) took the census of the cars. l
found in the train not less than nineteen
twentieths Of the passengers bound for St.
Paul, st. Anthony, Fort Smelling, and other
portions of the Territory Of Minnesota.
There were twenty-one families from the
State Of New, York, eight families from
Pennsylvania, six families from Ohio, five
families from Maine, two from Massachu-
sets, three from Connecticut, four from
New Hampshire, one from Rhode Island, one
from Virginia, and two from Kentucky.
Besides these, there were large number Of
young men from New En-. land, most Of them
farmers sons, who, having heard and read OF
the wonderful West, are on o prospecting
tour, with view of settling down comfort
ably with their young brides, to build VI
AoiiOo iOi OuChSSiNSo III u CouAtiJ WHY tiiS
soil is free of rocks and boulders. One party
from New Hampshire sat comfortably in one
end of a car, singing with right good glee
" THE Old Granite State" Another family
Of nine, five Of them handsome young ladies
between fourteen and twenty-five, with the
silver-haired old man, and the care-worn
mother, comprised a very interesting group
they were from Livingston County, N. Y.
had sold their farm there, and were now on
their way to occupy l60 acres thirty miles
back of ST. Paul. A young lady of not
more than twenty-five years of age, with
her younger brother of sixteen, were on their
way to " sec how it looked in the Terri
tory, and if it pleased them, they would in
ducc Father" to pull up stakes from the
Bay State, and risk their fortunes in the
West. Out of the whole load could not
find more than four families who were not
American, of which two were German, one
Irish, and one Scotch, but all of them had
been residents of the United States for five
or ten years. Quite number of the female
portion OF my fellow-passengers had been
school teachers in the Eastern States, and
were highly intelligent. Most of them, OF
course, were from the rural districts, and
though they were thoroughly refined in
manners, they lacked that air of giddiness
which, am free to confess, is too much the
characteristic of maidcns brought up in q
large city. They are well adapted to be
pioneers of new country and will carry
civilization and intelligence into parts Of the
North West which have hitherto been de-
MED 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
civilization glory more enviable than that
of the soldier or the politician"