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

far less Importance" would long since have set "all the
world, and the the rest of mankind in a blaze.
Mails for your Office arc made up here with the same
regularity as those of other offices on route l4,OU9'
They are put in charge of the Route Agents, and If not
delivered tri-weekly by the boats, it can only be attribu'
! ted to the extreme modesty of your citizens IN not III.
sisting on their rights.
Tell your p. Nj. to look out i'll future for the engine
when the bell rings. | have given such Instructions as
will secure You an independent mail III future.
Very respectfully, yours,
CHARLES CoRKEN, p NJ.
A. W. Macdonald, Esq, Nininger, NJ I.
Only the other day, Angus. 18th, Mr.. Schwarzenhurg
Of st. Paul, in company with another individual, came
from St. Paul to Nininger, on the Key Gig. The Cap
tain refused to land them here; and wanted them to pay
five dollars each in case he lid. lie altered 10 to%e them
to Hastings for nothing' At last by great persuasion
he put them off for the same price he would have charged
to take them to Hastings
Neither is this the first time the Key city has acted
in the same way. On June goth the Key city refused
to stop to take on two passengers for st. Paul. On the
olst inst. it charged Mr.. Cope Of this place fifty cents
extra for landing here.
Now we offer these things to the consideration of the
officers of the Packet Company. They have asked for
an example on the part of any of the Captains of their
boats. We refer them to the Key City on these three
occasions. We would add, that they must perceive
that such conduct on the part Of their employees is tend
inc to make their Company still more unpopular. Oul
citizens are ceasing to travel by the river as much rs
six or eight Il week goin" and coming between Nininger
and St. Paul Use buggies for the trip. Otacrs wait IN
til some " outside" boat leaves s.. Paul rather than
travel in one Of the Packet Boats.
These things are 4 matter Of dollars and cents. We
would refer the Packet Company to their own books to
ascertain whether there is any trade OF travel to or from
this point, and we would also ask them to note the fact,
that ue ere yrouing more rapidly Man ouy other tora
IN tie Territory. We challenge any rolutation Of this
statement. We ask them if is well to cut off the trade
of a town that in nine months of growth has reached a
population Of nearly six hundred, or whether it is not
better to preserve oar Good will. We stand ready to
await the execution Of the promises Of impartiality held
out by their Secretary. If performed we can forget the
past, if not we Will make ourselves felt and heard in every
paper in this western country. A public meeting held in
St. Paul to embody the Justification to their Company
would call together such an array of merchants, bust
ness men and citizens generally as would astonisl even
themselves. \ paper signed by the mercantile commun-
ity binding themselves TO consig en- to no house that would
ship by the Minnesota Packet Company woull set q ball
rolling that could neither be bought off nor stopped.
w DO not wish to resort to these measures. But
what are we to do? We have stood this i'll treatment
for one half the summer. Is it to 60 on forever?
We know too what their employers will say. In de-
fence of their lazincss or their interested antipathy to
this place, they will tell the officers Of the Company that
there is a desperately bad landing here; that they can
not land with safety, and they will point to the Instance
where the Galen, stuck upon a sand bar below the town.
Be it 50. The Gulenu landed too far down and drifted
from that point ~helplessly upon the sand bar. But one
swallow makes no summer. Hundreds of boats have
landed here without grounding. The Galeno was fired
into at Hastings. Does it follow that all boats will be
fred into at Hastings. Do they even abuse Hastings fol
it? BY no means. If they owned a few town lots here
the sand bar would diminish rapidly in its terrors. More
over boats as large as theirs, outside boats, have been
landing here constantly since the navigation opened
without complaint of any Kind, and without accident.
Again,-the same opposition was maze to hiding here
when the river was at it. asoa, a"d when tie whole SAM
b,r cont, have been sailed over with safety.
Nor Is this the only injury they have done us. l,
might be supposed that their refusal to land arose from
an overweening regard for the interests Of their employ
crs, but how are they to defend the constant, the ur
wearied abuse our place is necessarily receiving at THEN
hands. Professor Rohr, Of Philadelphia, editor of tho
German Zeituny, left his home to visit Nihnger. The
boat refused to land him here, and the Captain so abused
and belied the place in every particular that Mir. Rom
was almost ready to turn back without ever seeing it.
Instance after instance Of the same kind might be quoted
Are they doing all this through a regard for the inter
ests of their employers? Is t|e sand bar answcrablc fm
this too ?
We will await patiently the action OF the Company
on this state Of facts.