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 "plaoes OF
far less Importance" would long since have set call 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 1900
They are put in charge of the Route Agents, and If not
delivered tri-weekly by the boats, 1t can only be attrlbu-
/, 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 i'll future.
Very respectfully, yours,
CHARLES CoRKEN, P NJ.
A. W. Macdonald, Esq, Nininger, M L.
Only the other day, August 4th, Mr.. schwarzenb"rg
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
Eve dollars each in case he cid. He altered to take 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 Ksx. 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 MIR. 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
III NA""hPiS IA NV paw VA "y VI 'N 0"P"A"| VI ehSi'
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. t..
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 re are yrontng more rapidly than any other torn
IN the Territory. We challenge any rofutation 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 y 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. y paper signed by the mercantile commun-
ity binding themselves to consign to no house that would
ship by the Minnesota Packet Company would set 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 i'll 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 desperately bad 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 50. 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
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 hiAa, and without accident.
Again,-tle same opposition was mace TO l~~a;ng here
bar conla have been sailed over with safety.
might be supposed that their refusal to land arose from
an overweening regard for the interests Of their employ
es, but how are they to defend the constant, the un
wearied abuse our place is necessarily receiving at THEN
hands. Professor Rohr, of Philadelphia, editor of the
German Netuny, left his home to visit Nininger. The
boat refused to land him here, and the Captain so abused
and belled 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 the sand bar answcrable fm
this too ?
We will await patiently the action OF the COMPANY
on this state of facts.