The emigrant aid journal of Minnesota. [volume] (Nininger City, Minn. Terr. [i.e. Minn.]) 1856-1858, 1858-05-05

From, the report Of the Chief Engineer Of the Min
aesota and Pacific Railroad Company, we extract the
iolloHing statements showing the localities with which
St. PAUL is during the spring and summer months iden-
steal in point Of temperature, for an average of IA years,
and consequently, all other things being equal, in Az
zicultaral capacity:
SpR1Sa.-(Mean temperature, $3.50 degrees)-St.
Paul Boston; Springfield and Worcester, Mass; Kin
derhook. Utica, Cooperstown, OnondaRa, and l4ewiston,
\. Y; Detroit, Ann Arbcr and Battle Greek, Mich;
Chicago, ILL.,; Beloit and Portage City, Wis.
SuMMER.-(Mean temperature 1880 deerees)-St.
Paul; Lowell, Mass; Trenton and Middletown, N. j.;
Flatbush and Newburgh, N. Y; Philadelphia, Warren,
and Middletown, Pa. Hudson and Oberlin, Ohio:
Chicago, ILL.,; Belo;t and Portage City, Wis; Pembina,
Minnesota, lat. AZ.
Can any dcub. remain on The mind Of the citizen who
contenplates emigration from Massachusetts,, New York,
New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Illinois or Wisconsin,
that be vii! find here all the essentials for a rich agri.
cultural country, when he learns tha. the splendid
summer climate Of Minnesota is identical with his own.
Nature itself seems to have adopted the coming and
going Of the thernometrical changes to the wants OF
nan and to have made the most Of geographical position.
The winters dry and silent the sudden change from
doubled rate Of March, (3l.4) and then again this more
than doubled by the degree Of heat in the all essential
months Of July and August, (73.4 and 7O.D and,
added to this, the regular increase in the quantity Of
humidity as the year progresses.
4A6out N;nnesosa-A Cord for tie East.-l was
startled a few days ago, on learning what p~urported to
be- fact, that the people Of the East were being go
thoroughly deceived in reference to NJ nnesots, as really
20 believe We possessed an Arctic climate, a Saharean
ateril;tJ and. thus exposed to the chilling blasts which
;nd their way across tie ~linitless, sterile plains, we
have DO: 3 bit Of wood to burn! Can such preposter-
ons stories find credence any where !? Can it be possible
that the voice of S 5000 people, who have chosen this
delightful region fc- their future abode, can carry with
it no weight? Is there no force in the declaration Of
% many people, that that s they have found the su:,-
n1~ns 6onuns Of their wishes, in ~tenanting this beautecus
apot Of Gods earsh!'
Minnesota has not tie climate Of Louisiana, or Flog-
ida, o. Indiana, or Kansas, nor yet Of Michigan, or
Iowa, and in go far az the people are personally concerned
they may render thanks to God fos it. The climatic
influences which generate the yellow fever in the South
ern States, or the ever recurring sguee and feyeTs Of
Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, and Michigan, are not found
here. The atmosphere is at all tunes peculiarly dry
and bracing; free from nissma, a.d therefore pure. It
has been found by actual observation that We have not
40 much wind here as in the States just south Of us, and
hsre follows q striking explanation Of the following fact.
In those States where there are usually high Winds AID
raoi t atmosphere, 8 degree Of cold, indicated by the
zero Of Fahrenheit, is almost uncomfortable. The
atmosphere moistens the clothes and the akin, and the
cold wind las thereby a hundred fold greater effect. That
= nan may endure FOR a whole day together, degrees Of
cold indicated by 200, 500, 400 Fab, in our siberian
climate, and still exhibit the glow Of warmth upon hia
cheek, is proof positive that our climate is not 40 truly
uncomfortable as ATTITUDES further south Of us.
The winters Of 1866 and 1867 were severe in all
parta Of the United States-not prominently go in
Minnesota. Nor have the older States anything &c
boast Of in regard to the backwardnes. Of the spring
and summer of 1857.
The present winter is remarkably mild, aad while on,
brethren of the States below vs. are complaining Of con
sinuous rains, roads Of (fathomless) mud, and chilling
winds, We can boast of but two or three days rain al
together, solid roads-sometimes sleiahing, sometimes
wagoning-and not uncomnonly high winds, and wha
is still better, nearly all the time pleasant. l have KEEP
q Thermoretrical record, and by that l am able to say
that, first, the mercury has indicated a degree of colo
10 degrees above zero oftener than below it; second
chat for at least nine.tenths Of the time it ranges above
zero third, that our coolest day did not exceed "a de
erees below zero, that, only for an hour IN the morning
On that morning I was compelled to perform q journeJ
Of miles on foot, and at the end Of my journey fell
warmer than when I started. She above deductions
are made from observations taken at sunrise.
No climate on the broad face Of earth can be more
heslthfu!. But we do not, We cannot assert that people
will not get sick and die here! Tssusgressions Of TIL
laws Of health by efeninacy and intemperance, or other.
wise, do rot find exemptions from punishment in any
part Of Gods domains; but we wish to be distinctly
understood as meaning, that in this climate especially
obedience to those laws will confer the boon Of being
generally yell.
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