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

second hand. The same state OF things IN "places Oh
far less Importance" would long since have set call the
world, and the the rest of mankind" in a blaze.
Mails for your Office are made up here with the same
regularity as those of other Offices on route l4,O09.
They are put in charge of the Route Agents, and it not
delivered tri-weekly BY the boats, it can only be attribu-
ted to the extreme modesty of your citizens IN not IN
sisting on their rights.
Tell your p. NJ. to look out in future for the engine
when the bell rings. | have given such instructions as
will secure you an independent mail in future.
Very respectfully, yours,
CHARLES C0RKEN, P Nj.
A. w. Macdonald, Esq, Nininger, NJ.
Only the other day, August 4th, Mr.. Schwarzenburg,
Of St. Paul, in company with another individual, came
from St. Paul to Nininger, on the Key City. The Cap
tain refused to land them here and wanted them to pay
five dollars each in case he Gid. He offered to take them
to Hastings for aotAiag!, 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 Ksg.. 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
2lst 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
ing to make their Company still more unpopular. Our
citizens are ceasing to travel by the river as much as
six OR eight a week going and coming between Nininger
and st. Paul use buggies for the trip. Others wait I'M
til some "outside" boat leaves ST. Paul rather than
travel in one of the Packet Boats. -fr.
These things are a matter of dollars and cents. We
would refer the Packet Company to their own books to
ascertain whether there is any trade or travel to or from
this point, and we would also ask them to note the fact,
that ace are yrouing more rapidly than any other toacn
IN The Territory. We challenge any ~refutation 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 our 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 disaffection to their Company
would call together such an array of merchants, bust
ness men and citizens generally as would astonish even
themselves. a paper signed by the mercantile commun-
ity binding themselves to consign to no house that would
ship by the Minnesota Packet Company would set a ball
rolling that could neither be bought off nor stopped.
We do not wish to resort to these measures. But
what are we to do? We have stood this ill treatment
for one half the summer Is it to go 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 desperately4bad landing here; that they can
not land with safety, and they will point to the instance
where the Gdleno stuck upon a sand bar below the town.
BE it so. The Gulsna landed too far down and drifted
from that point ~helplessly upon the sand bar. But one
swallow makes no summer. Hundreds of boats have
i 1cndo1 hora without nround;nr Tho EoZonu moo frol
into at Hastings. Does it follow that all boats will be
fred into at Hastings. Do they even abuse Hastings for
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 .onstaptly since the navigation opened
without complaint Of any k;-l, and without accident.
Again,-the same opposition was mace 'vl~~a;ng here
when the river was at tic aseJ4, asId when the whole sand
Thar cnri, have been sailed over with safety.
Nor is this the only injury they have done us. 1t
might be supposed that their refusal to land arose from
an overweening regard for the interests of their employ
ers, but how arc they to defend the constant, the un-
wearied abuse our place is necessarily receiving at their
hands. Professor Rohr, of Philadelphia, editor of the
boat refused to land him here, and the Captain so abused
and belied the place in every particular that Mr.. Rohr
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 the sand bar answerable for
this too ?
We will await patiently the action Of the Company
on this state of facts.
The Harvest Home.
The season for harvesting has been unsurpassed in
the delicious weather we have had for it this year. Be-
ing anxious to witness the operations of farming in our
own vicinity, we set out on a tour in company with
Anthony Reed, Esq, of this place, through the Valley
of the Vermillion, and thence into that of the Cannon.
Everywhere we were witness of the most luxuriant
crops of grain that ever met our sight. Beginning with
the $50 acres which Mr.. Albert Poor was harvesting
just back of our town, onward to the farm of Mr..
Samuel Dunn, near Lakeville, everywhere the work of
securing the rich treasures of the field was going on
vigorously, and with a promise of unexampled quantity
and quality. Satisfied delight beamed from the manly
and intelligent faces that everywhere prevail in this
fertile region, and no word of complaint was heard by
us in regard to the crops harvested, or those just ready
to be. A hope was expressed that there would be a
little rain, as the sod corn was beginning to look too
yellow and dwarfsL, and potatoes required this. alone
to insure an extraordinary good crop. We are happy
to state that they have now been abundantly supplied in
the fine showers that have prevailed over this region.
These two valleys are justly called the garden of Min
nesota. Everything is here raised in the greatest per-
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each other when we seek to express which SURPRISES the
other. Wheat fields that seem better to be reckoned by
the mile than the acre, so extensive were they, fairly
bowed to the ground with their own weight. Corn
fields equally extensive could hide undiscovered an army
of cavalry and oat fields had grain so high and luxu-
RANT that the eye could scarcely penetrate the mass one
foot, and a horse had to reach up its head to secure the
higher stalks. SO we might go on with grain and veg
etables describing their luxuriance, each in turn, but it
would not suffice to enforce the richness OF the scenes
like once ~beholding them.
Our first visit was to Dir. Poor's farm, whom we found
busily engaged in cutting an eighty acre field of wheat,
a small part Of his years farming. Close by Mr. John
Mckay was busy getting in his wheat and oats here
we saw some corn that would convince any one that this
is a certain and lucrative crop in this Territory. At Mr..