The emigrant aid journal of Minnesota. [volume] (Nininger City, Minn. Terr. [i.e. Minn.]) 1856-1858, 1857-08-15
CITY OF NN1NGER DAKOTA COUNTY

the Mississippi 1t may be St. Paul, St. Anthony,
or Saltwater Teepeotah ST. Paul, perhaps possesses
of the necessary qualifications than the others.
It is seated in the centre of rich agricultural region;
it commands the navigation of many great rivers; it
in the reach Of the only great forests of the western
country is the centre of numerous Railways and would
seem destined to become home of commerce, the me-
tropolis to which Fonddu-Lac and Superior must be
the Ostia, the port the warehouse and docks At Su
perior city will be located the depos which must be SUBJ
sidiary to the commercial London which has its seat
at the head of twenty thousand miles of river naviga.
ton.
We propose, in future article, to give reasons
Texas, for Pacific Railroad is the so-called Northern
route We believe it susceptible of proof that this is
the shortest and natural less obstructed by
and better provided with the necessary building ma
terals that in fine it presents the only surmountabe
grades We shall attempt to show that therefore an
early effort must be made to connect the Lakes with
the Pacific Ocean-that merchandise must flow hither
where is less transportation by rail and where broad
waters extend into heart of continent in manner
which presents channel for the trade of hemispheres.
Our argument will tend to prove that the great dstri
butng point of the continent will be the extremity
of Lake Superior and that here upon the westenmost
limit of water-navigaton the lexchange will be made
between the products Of golden India and the manu-
features Of combined Europe.
Education at the West.
In responding to toast at the dinner of the Alumni
of Harvard University, Hon. Edward Everett spoke as
follows on the progress of education at the West
must express the satisfaction which have lately had
occasion TO feel during my somewhat extended journey
to the west and northwest of the country It was one
ward everywhere went-beyond the Ohio, beyond the
Mississippi could not 60 where not surrounded
by those who came to me the studentSof Harvard
College (applause) and it is to of the most de-
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lent Alma Mater is not bounded to the little geographi-
cal district in which it is situated not confined to Mas
sachusetts but in the remotest parts of continent
her name is held in veneraton, her influence is acknow
edged and there oo better yet her example is closely
followed.
Let tell you that is doing for education pop
ular academical and professional in the West than you
perhaps Of In that noble queen city othe west
Cincinnati accompanied by nephew of President King,
child himself of Harvard visited schools that must
tell my friend DR.. Shutlef will compare very we'll with
those of Boston in which he takes deep interest
And if Boston intends to maintain that reputation of
taking the lead in school instruction which she has here
tofore enjoyed she must look carefully and diligently to
the superintendent Of her institutions of learning
1t the thing in Chicago. l saw beautiful
school houses there-equal to any in Boston In St.
Louis the nobest arrangements for education and
trusted that should have the qualification of the at
tendance of worthy gentlemen of st. Louis, Judge
Treat who has taken great interest in promoting the
educational interests Of st. Louis, and and af
fectonate of Harvard and he is only prevented from
being here to-day by railroad accident, which confines
him to his home at the present time. Nothing else
would have deferred him from coming. But am happy
to say that another most excellent friend from that re-
gon, who has done much for education any living
man, east west who has been of the most active
individuals in building up the hopeful institution that is
rising the banks of the Mississippi, under the
name of the Washington Institution, in the State Of
30 ho~o NJ hoos of
him as an Aumnus of the academica branch of in
stituton, but he has been student in of pro-
fcssiona schools, and if you knew much of
the interest he has felt and taken in the of educa
ton in the West do, you would say with me,
tails ss utinums beg to offer as toast
The prosperity of the Washington University of Mis-
souri,, and the health Of the Rev. DR.. Elliot.
Health and Climate.
Sir James Clark, Of England has assaied with con-
siderable force the doctrine that change of climate is
beneficial to persons suffering from consumption and
French physician, NJ Carrere, has written forcibly
against it, Dr. Burgess, eminent Scotch physician
also contends that climate has little nothing to do
with the of consumption and that if it had, the
curative effects would be produced through the skin and
not the lungs That warm climate is not in itself
beneficial, he shows from the fact that the disease is
common all latitudes In India and Africa tropical
climates, it is frequent as in Europe and North
America At Malta right in the heart of the genial Me-
third of the deaths among the soldiers by consump
ton At Nice, favorite resort Of English invalids,
especially those afflicted with lung complaints, there
more native-born persons die Of consumption than in
any English town Of equal population. In Geneva the
disease is almost equally prevalent In Florence, pneu
monia is said to be marked by suocatng character,
and by rapid progress towards the last stage Naples,
whose climate is the theme of much praise by travel
ers, shows in her hospitals mortality by consumption
equal in two and onehird, whereas Paris whose
climate often pronounced villanous, the proportion
is only one in three and one-quarter In Madeira,
local disease is more prevalent than consumption.
THE JEws-Our childhood is nursed with tales of
the childhood Of the Jewish nation. Peaceful patr
archal families coalescing into trbe creeping with
seathy defiance from the treacherous hospitality Of
Egypt hardened by their desert life, and moulded into
nation Of warriors by the greatest Of lawgvers, shat
and giving birth to sublime prophets and long line Of
kings such is the ancient story, which know far
better than the tale of Saxon, Dane and Norman. We
follow them into their exile, their happy restoration
the magnificent fury Of their last defiance and then
lose them utterly for many centuries to find them in the
present day rising again from misery and de6le
ment revered like Epidas, for age and sorrow, and