The emigrant aid journal of Minnesota. [volume] (Nininger City, Minn. Terr. [i.e. Minn.]) 1856-1858, 1857-09-26
Or cmlgruut Sin 9uurua|.
A. W.. & y D.
EuIroR AND RoPRIErok
Is ISSUED EvEkY OTHER WEEK AT THE
CtCt OF NiNINGE:R. Dakota Co.. M. T..
AT TWO DOLLARS \ YEAR. IN
RATES OF ADyERrISIN0
EIKht llnes. one time, = : 81 90
" three times, 9 90
a1-Spenial contracts will lie made with those desiring to
advertise BY the wear


The following is from q Philadelphia jcnrnal. in an
article on the above subject
Whatever are to he the commercial results OF the bust
ness of our country for the year 1857. 40 one eau shut
his eyes TO the fact that emigration must exercise Il con
trolling influence upon them. For the FIRST time in our
history IN il nation, this prediction now can be made.
We do M. mean the immigration Of foreigners ir"m
abroad, Blu, the EXC Jus Of countless thousands now going
on from Eas; to West. The II. wspapers all over the
Eastern States announce the departure Of c"mpaDies 81
farmers, III chanics, business men, and others aud there
is scarcely 4 yillag &c any where around us from which s..,ne
persons viii not be found to have departed Farms are
everywhere advertised tor sale, the OWNERS giving H. 4
reason for selling, that they intend TO enigrate. Ter
ta.nly, the West could not flourish SO astonishingly, ii
this exodus vert mol going on. But, added TO the emf
grafton OF me~, il the transfer OF money Millions of
Eastern capital are going with the ewigants, until the
dfain begin To alarm the banks aud business men of the
East We know that complaint has been made that re-
mittance. from Western merchants have not come III
~ freely the present season As sforetime, end tina, they
arc accused Of investing in land the money which they
ought to have RENTED for goods. But the real deficiency,
whatever it may be. is ''nnl in the mi'!is,- which are
leaving liz ~ Ill stain ia: West, 20 be slrr" invested in
improvements, ar u-ed for banking purposes
Yet ii any serious deficiency "f this kind exists, it
eau hardly prevail to an exten. sufficient to embarras>
the East unles. the latter is wholly dependant for its
vitality III the Wcst-a fact WHICH the East would be
very unwilling to admit. Ii the people Of the Western
States have become absorbed in speculative movements.
those Of the Eastern States have done no more than tol.
low their example, and oftener with the most disastrous
experience. Who but Eastern men originated the gig,n-
II. scheme OF spending five millions If dollars liz buying
up the worn gu, AMI depopulated lands of Nirgiuia-an
enterprise large enough TO swallow up a thousand of the
small operations at the West which uiake so much noise
on paper? Where has speculation run more TO riot than
in and near the city Of New York? Where has been
developed so infinite a variety Of schemes to make land
sell that never sold bef"re, as in Philadelphia ? Ii the
Wast has snecul.te?. has she no. GROWN rich unpu if
aud is she not destined to grow richer yet? If there
were more opportunities for specializing here, there would
be speculations in proportion but the field being ex.
hausted, while the propensity remains, the operators
transfer themselves and their capital to the new and
boundless one which opens on them everywhere in the
West.
Enterprising men will 90 where business invites them,
aud those who cannot 90 themselves will send their CAPT
tal to work for them The Atlantic States have for
years been gorged with English and German CAPITAL,
brought here by the temptation Of u higher rate Of in
terest. Every railroad and canal in Pennsylvania, New
Jersey and New York, has been built with foreign capt.
tai. We hold out every possible temptation for that
capital to come. We succeeded in transferring it hither,
and who dare censure us for so doing! Meantime, our
Western brethren need roads now as much as Wv did
xhem. Who shall righteously censure them fer h,iding
out even greater temptations to capitalists than We did I!
Their very ability to offer such enormous temptations
constitutes the great element If their strength. They
pay we'll every way:.becausc they can afford to. Heavy,
we know. will be the drain upon the Fast in 1857. 1t
will reach at least a million Of %enigrants, each taking
an average of AN hundred dollars, equal to an hundred
, millions. 1t is the infusion of this mighty stream Of
gold into the currency Of the West that has 50 quicken
ed it. into activity, and the abstraction Of it from the cur.
rency Of the Fast, that has given All alarming sluggish
ness to its trade. Hence it is that emigration will be
found to exercise . controlling influence on the business
results OF 1857. We have no foreign Or intestine war
mo ~pestilence or famine. But the vast movement Of
the masses from one section to another, will be found. in
the end, entirely competent 10 produce results, both
social and commercial, quite as remarkable, though moi
30 tragical, as either Of these.
JUSTICE TO MINNEsorA.-A correspondent Of thu
! Chicago Tribune, writes to that paper a. follows -
wish the Tribune, if the others will not, to do Min
oesota the Justice 10 state there is not a grasshoppe
! within her limits, and has not been, to do any damage
y worth mentioning; that there is ten times the amour
Of crops, Of all kinds, raised this year than any othel
! since the Territory Was organized that the Indians arr
committing M depretations that the Government land
are not withdrawn from market and claims can readil
he made nearly OF double the value siuce the railroad
grant than before that there wilt oaly be one coDstitu
tion submitted to the people which will be adopted ans
we shalt thereby become IA State that the country Is per
t.cfly healthy and WIS never SO prosperous as at th,
present time.
! These are facts aud desire their publication for th'
4 reason that owing 10 the lies the eastern papers hav'
published abon, w.. emigration Is greatly decreased
Chicago is more interested in the advancement Of Min
n,s,ta than is ony other city III the Union, and he
journals should aid " in exposing the falseh'ols circu
lated against her BY interested parties.
It IS recommended t, prevent wheat spelling in bins
N - ,..cr . brick intu every FIVE bushels. or one into tn
III .o,Aor If y barrel of Aour or meal will keep 1t iron