The emigrant aid journal of Minnesota. [volume] (Nininger City, Minn. Terr. [i.e. Minn.]) 1856-1858, 1857-09-26

Xas IOliOWlng cxtract il from IN aIticie III inc ~. L.
7ts6sse, on the subject Of Minnescta's political posi-
ton in the Union. This paper has invariably spoken
highly Of our Territory as u 6ne country its only fault
is to make too much Of the Indian difficulties, and the
severity of the climate, IS though it we're 70 much diff
fersnt from that Of New England, where all its high
standards Of comparison are found against the rest Of
the Union. We shall have that million population in
Eve years, it may depend on it, as our State must be-
come well understood, shortly, in oil varied advantages
of manufacturing, mining, and especially its agricultural
wealth.
sThe State Of Minnesota will knock at the doors Of
the Union, at the opening Of the next Congress, de.
handing admission with a. cogency that may not be
resisted. With an abundant area Of generally fertile
soil, threaded in every direction by important n~avigable
rivers, with an immensely of the finest timber to be
found in the United States, betting water courses which
afford cheap and inexhaustible power for its ~manufac.
turc, and . present population Of 100000, there is
every probability that Minnesota, in spite of the con-
coded drawback of her severe though healthful climate,
will have a population Of One Million At some period
within the next ten years.
The Minnesota correspondent Of the Boston Traveller
says the persons concerned in the purchase Of the Fort
Smelling Reservation have divided the property into
twenty five shares, one of which was offerd to a friend
of said correspondent for $4,000, which is equal to
$4,000 for the whole tract of land sold by the Gov
eminent agents to Franklin Steele, the old Fort sutler,
for 500, 1000! The Fort and buildings where not in
cluded in the $4,000 offer.
Nothing tells more forcibly against the prudence and
thrift of farmers than the unnecessary exposure Of their
implements Of husbandry to the inclemency of the
weather. 1t makes any place look cbeerless to have
strewed around rusty plows, broken harrows, parts Of
broken vehicles, and implements of all kind out Of
place. A feeling akin to ingratitude is shown, especial y,
in allowing the valuable reaping machines, after doing
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weeks together. These sights are monuments to every
one of the inef6ciency of their owners which nothing
can correct but to remove them.
There is more mischief in stating a thing in an indi
rect way, as though no one denied ii, than there would
be in attempting to prove 4 matter by a labored article.
We occasionally notice such things in our eastern papers
and sometimes where there is no injustice meant, but
their influence is none the less effective in producing
wrong impressions. The following is one of those cases
taken from the N. Y. Tribune, a journal mainly RICH,
about Western matters, used in remarking on the gather
ing Of troops around Lawrence, Kansas " Walker, like
a second Governor Gage, assembled at Lawrence moi
only all the regular forces properly appropriated to Kan
sas, but the troops of the sham Utah expedition, ant
those which ought to have been employed in depressing
Indian GU cages in Minnesota" Its readers wou Id nat
urally infer from the last clause that for lack of these
troops there was no safety for settlers here from 1ndiar
outrages. But no one understands better than its edi
tors Of that paper, that our Territory is as safe to reside
in as the State Of New York, excepting on the extreme
borders, where the few troops already there are found
sufficient to keep the Indians quiet.
The largest piece of copper yet sent away from thu
Lake Superior region was one shipped from the Gilt
mine, lately, that weighed $500 lbs. We are expecting
daily to hear of some grand copper discoveries in THU
Territory. Pieces Of drift copper are occasionally picked
up in various parts Of the Territory. Several were fount
in this place by one of cur citizens, a few feet under thu
surface of the earth some pieces have also been fount
at Faribault, as we learn by the Herald, published a
that place. Where there is smoke there must be fire,
and where such pieces Of copper are found it shows there
must be II source from whence they came.