The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1855-11-03

pioneers Of, the mighty West and. seem TO
be, not only great necessity, but q result
of Western habits, and great practical in |
gredient in Western progress: result and
progress unparalleled in any age or country,
or among any of the races of men.
These remarks lead us to a subject inter-
esting at all times, and sure am, particular
" so to Minnesotians: Is ss.sia a-l a.e,e= seo
ARBoRIcULTURE.-Ifi it be true that he who
causes an additional blade of grass to grow is
a benefactor of his race, how truly and beau
tifully applicable is it to those who make the
transplanting and cultivation of trees of what
ever and of any or every kind, useful or or
namental, and valuable study, profitable la
Dor, or an occasional most delightful employ
ment. 1t must be apparent to us all that if
the present state of things continue-reck-
less improvement of claims, with reference
only to immediate results or imaginary prof
its necessitates, few short years will wit
ness scarcity of the common fuel timber,
and an almost total disappearance of those
lovely ornaments of our prairies which adorn-
ed this fair land in its primitive state. A
land which then, to those who saw it, was
more the realization of the imagination's idea
of the earth's primitive type than any other
land. am not prepared to continue this
interesting theme now, but earnestly hope
that every settler will, without delay, plant
some, if only few trees to begin with, and
a very few years will show most profitable
and pleasant result. This will be quite ap-
parent to the least thinking or rejecting mind
from the statistical fact that if this season,
each family had only set out trees only in
number equal to the numbers of their own
household, there would be now fifty thousand
additional ornamental, shade, fruit and other
valuable trees growing, and continually ad-
ding to the wealth, health, comfort and beau
ty of this Territory and its population. Think
of it! Can the imagination reach to the re-
suit in ten or even five years, with contin-
ual development of taste and knowledge in
this pursuit, and a rapid increase of popula-
ton. Gentlemen, we leave the subject at
present to the fostering care of your Socie-
ties.
| We live at fortunate era, a most philan-
thropic age-at1 least in myriad mystic the
cries if not always in practical acting. The
illusions of affected philanthropy in favor of
races are the theme of daily discourse, and
first of the projected regeneration of human
ity. The red men come in for their share,
while some are startled with profound hor-
ror and awe at the fact that millions of acres
of fertile land occupied as hunting grounds,
are taken from few hundred of the aborig-
ines, they lose sight of the great fact that
each acre of this beautiful gift of the Creator
would sustain poor, Industrious emigrant
family of the old, oppressed and over-popu-
lated world while in fact the aboriginal race
may be benefited, and let us hope cM be by
acquiring the white mans knowledge of the
advantages of industry and the simple acts
of charlottesville, although his area of
hunting is circumscribed, he still has game
left to supply his immediate wants until he
becomes wise, if not in his own day, at least
in his generation. But let all who come I'D
to occupy this wide, unbounded prairie land,
bear in mind that in the all-wise DISPENSE
| tons of Providence. it doubtless is more the
duty and mission of the higher and more Gull
tivated races to endeavor to impart to the
original inhabitants of land the advantages
of the useful arts and the benign influence of
christian civilization, than to rudely dispos-
sess them with the fatality doctrine of the
unavoidable destiny to extinction--thus par
alizing the efforts of true philanthropy, and
dampening the ardor of those who zealously
labor for the regeneration and Improvement
of their fellowmen without regard to invid-
ious distinctions of races. 9Ss
The honorable and indispensable occupation
of Agriculture and the cultivation of the
earth in all its various and agreeably diversi-
fed forms, to those who do not seek it alto
gether with that laborious toll which is in
duced by an ardent thirst after wealth, is
like the cultivation of literature, sits own
exceeding great reward" The first and most
natural employment of man, his earliest
dreams are Of rural content and quiet, in
some secluded nook; and when the cares and
anxieties of other pursuits and professions
pail and become grievous burthens, his latest
signs tend towards that uuforgotten bourne
of earlier hopes. 49, ...-
Poets, Statesmen, Philosophers and mon
of Science in all ages and in every cline have
sung and written of this fayorite theme, and
have continued to look with wearied and anx-
iOus hopes to that haven of worldly rest, as
tn: fi'uition of their earthly enjoyments, and
the acme of their earlier and latest ambition
From the classic eras of early Greece and
Rome down to the modern times of mental
and physical energy and profound research
from the ages of Fabricius and Cincinnatus
to the days of a Webster and Brougham-
and thousands of others whose names will
live forever with their lands language
s.Such themes as these the rural Marc sung
To Wide imperial Rome In the full height ..
or elegance and taste; by Greece rehned,i III. ss
In ancient times The sacred pillow employed
The Kings and awful fathers of mankind, 7.er-
who held the scale Of empire, ruled the storm
Disdaining little delicacies, seized - - ,-
The piow and greatly Independent lived.' ga
Thus, have endeayored to lay before you
few remarks which deemed might, prove
suggestive, if not very novel or interesting
The necessity and importance of the united
efforts of County Societies-the establish
ment of an Agricultural Library noao, as the
germ of future County Libraries of the same
nature Some reasons why settlers of every
class should pay more regard to permanent
and enduring improvement than hitherto has