New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1858-01-05
FROM MINNESOTA.
e.,.r communicated for The Tribune.

Private Letter communicated for The Tribune.
ASoKA, Min, Dec. u, 1857.
Severed weeks ago some of your Eastern papers
astonshed US with the announcement that the snow
was foot and half deepi in st. Paul. That 1t was
over foot deep fifty miles below there three weeks
since is true and equally true Is it that at hundred
miles above ST. Paul there has not yet been over halt
that depth in fact (since We have become accustomed
to the lack of money! the lack of constitutes the
chief cause of complaint, especially in the pincries,
where sleds only can be advantageously used. Why
there is so much less here than further south
am not weatheroloGst" enough to explain. only
know from three years careful observation, that IL
the fact Perhaps you recOlect how elOquently said
"huubug" on reading Gov. Stevens's report that the
Northern Pacific Railroad route would be less objec-
tionable than the southerly ones on account OF
snow; but he was right, and / consequently wrong.
Another illustration that Is gibt garmanche Sachen,
ode wir gerost belachen, weilwr sic NIGHT versteh
wear and half ago several of Us made ourselves
immensely merry over letter written by an "enthu-
s,osfic" NEWCOMER who had visited u, and who
designated spot on the prairie that within five years
would be required for railroad depot, &C.. but the
road has already been chartered the line run, and I'M
less the money pinch should become "chronic,"
Anoka WIN doubtless be joined by IRON bands to st.
Paul within eighteen months. The population has
more than doubled the past season. and the number OF
buildings erected is more than 100 per cent greater
than had been put up during the whole previous eN-
isence of the village. Rapid this growth IL, it still
does not keep pace with that Of the surrounding coun-
try as the valley Of Run River in spite of it, obJec-
tionable name, is rapidly filling up with enerprslns
settlers thanks TO the presumption law who are eauS-
ing the soitudes and waste places of two years ago
"to blossom as the rose" or, more practically and
less POLITICALLY speaking, as corn-fiedS, wheat-heids'
potato patches, &C. IL contrasting the condition
of our farmers, even those Of them who have come
here since the commencement of the grasshopper deso'
lations with that of the unemployed" IN your cities
and villages one is almost inclined TO say that The
TRIBrsE's most meritorious work for the last few
wears is its perseverance in advising those who are
seeking their fortune 10 90 to the fertile fields ana
healthy atmosphere of the houndless West, aud be-
come their own employers.
have been greatly asonished and not less pleased
at the warm sympathy manifested here with your jub-
latiops over the result of your recent municipal eec
ton The defeat of the corrupt desperate who had 20
shamelessy and shamefully enlisted the worst spec
meR and elements of humanity under his banner mas
done much to strengthen the waning confidence oi
many thoughtful men in mans capacity for segovern-
mept Some OF the Democrats here are expressing or
protesting surprise at the course of President Buchanan
in regard 10 Kansas but do not see how they could
reasonably expect anything else from the author OF
sgner of the "Ostend Manifesto"