Arkansas true Democrat., 1857-08-04
From thc Railway Times The Central North,

Trading with Indian trappers is not what gives any people right to possess territory, large or small. Neither can any government, far or near, justly vindicae it's exclusive right to colonize or populate territory except by being the first to do N. The great central region be- tween the northern United States treaty line and the Arctic ocean, extending from Eludson's Bay on the east to the Rocky Mountains on the west, the southwestern quarter of which is probably destined to be the greatest wheat field of the world, though embraced in British Ame- rica as a matter of nomenclature, will really belong to the people who settle and civilize it, according to all notions of right which now pre- vail in Chrstendom. The fur-trading Hud- sons Bay company fully admit in their conduct during few years that they have no rights there which they expect to setrecosnized even by their own government, for they have sought and obtained of the Canadian government with in few years past, deeds of portions of what they call their territory at the mouths of the six most important rivers that flow into Lakes Superior and Huron from the north, amounting in all to about 5OOOO acres for all which they have paid an actual consideration of 50 pounds steyHng cash! The Canadian and some of the British home papers distinctly con cede that the territory will be lost to the British crown-to say nothing of the British people, which is somewhat another thing-if the Min nesota Yankees should overflow into it, so that the population shall come via the States," and not by Canadian extension. Here is a practical question which a rather near future is about to solve for us. Appropos to it we copy the following from the St. Paul Advertiser of July 4Jh.
 ROUGH NOTES OF TRIP TO RED RIVER.
 The region to which the surroundings of Otter-tail Lake introduce the Westward travel CT Is exciting more public attention at this mo- ment than any other district of country in Minnesota. The marvellous beauty of this re- zion has been the theme of more than one tra- veler It lends glow of poetry even to the dull prose of official reports, and conquers even Owen into enthusiasm. Six years ago this de- lshtful country seemed as far off from all prac- tcal human uses as poets vision. It lay aiar off beyond the horizon of mems actiyities-a pleasant useless, and tangible ecstacy--a dream. It has come nearer since. Its long sleep of so- litude is ended. The throb and pulse and tre. nor of human industry marks its eventful awakening. The railroad engineer-the ma- ed knight-heaven-a appointed to break its spell of thousand years, has strode in triumph through the bewilderng mazes of its enchanted hall and struck the exorcizing shield, and field and wood and lake and river have sprung from their statuesque repose, and from the unsealed lips of its myriad beauties, the murmur flows again of that deep voice, struck still long ages since by the magic wand.
 This is the intensely fgurative way of say ing that the Otter-tail Lake Region is on the eve of being opened to settlement. It has fallen within the charmed circle of railroad de- velopment. The route of the Minnesota and Pacific railroad lies through it. We have given our readers everything that we could gather from reliable resources relative to the physical cbaracterlstcs and topography of this section of Minnesota. We have before described the country traversed by MT. Borden in his first trip westward from Crow Wing to Red river, his route, at that time, lying somewhat north