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

:ao Following extract ~ from an article III inc ~. 1.
Tribune, On the subject Of Minnesotz's political posi-.
ton in the Union. This paper has invariably spoken
highly Of our Territory as u fine country its only fault
is to make too much of the Indian difficulties, and the
severity Of The climate, as though it were no much diff.
fersnt from that Of New England, where ali 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 mast be-
come well understood, shortly, in all varied advantages
of manufacturing, mining, and especially its agricultural
wealth.
'1be State If 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 he
resisted. With an abundan. 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 ~nanufac.
turc, and a present population Of PSF, 900, there is
every probability that Minnesota, in spite Of the COLI
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 Traveer
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 q friend
Of said correspondent for SIC, 900, which is equal to
$4O0, 900 for the whole tract Of land sold by the Gov
eminent agents to Franklin Steele, the old Fort sutler,
for 500, 900! The Fort and buildings where not in
GUIDED III the SIO,UVV OHer.
Nothing tells more forcibly against the prudence and
thrift Of farmers than the unnecessary exposure Of their
implements Of husbsndry to the inclemency of the
weather. 1t makes any place look cherries to have
strewed around rusty plows, broken harrows, parts of
broken vehicles, and implements of all kind out OF
place. \ feeling akin to ingratitude is shown, especially,
in allowing the valuable reapiug machines, after doing
their work, to be injured by rains and sunshine for
weeks together. These sights are monuments to every
one of the ircf6ciency of their owners which nothing
can correct but to remove them.
There is mere mischief in stating a thing in an indi.
rect way, as though no one denied it, than there would
be in attempting to prove 4 matter by a labored article.
We occasionally notice such thingsin 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 ". Y. Tribune, a journal mainly right
about Western matters, used in r~emarking on the gather.
ipg Of troops around Lawrence, Kansas " Walker, like
q second Governor Gage, assembled at Lawrence not
only all the regular forces properly appropriated to Kan
sas, but the troops of the sham Utah expedition, and
these which ought to have been employed in REFRESHING
indian on cages in Minnesota" Its readers won Id nat
urally infer from the last clause that for lack of these
troops there was no safety for settlers here from Indian
outraces. 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
sufic;en: to keep the Indians quiet.
The largest piece Of copper yet sent away from the
Lake Superior region was one shipped from the Cliff
mine, .etely, thar weighed $500 lbs. We are expecting
daily to hear OF some grand copper discoveries in this
Territory. Pieces Of drift copper are occasionally picked
up in various parts Of the Territory. Several were found
in this place by one OF cur citizens, a few feet under the
surface of the earth sosae pie.rs have also been found
at ~Earibaulc, as We learn by The Herald, published at
that place. Where there IS smoke there must be fire,
aud where such pieces Of copper are found it shows there
must be il source from whence they came,