The emigrant aid journal of Minnesota. [volume] (Nininger City, Minn. Terr. [i.e. Minn.]) 1856-1858, 1858-03-03

perature of St. Paul Fort Snelling) during the different
months Of the year as follows, compiled, during a period
of over t~hirty-ive years:
J nuary, 10 : July, u 4
F bruary, 17.6 August. 70 I
March, 31.4 s .ptember. 81 q
April, 46 3 October, Al |
May, So November, 3l.7
June, 68.4 December, loo
From the report Of the Chief Engineer Of the Min.
nesota and Pacific Railroad Company. we extract the
following statements showing the localities with which
St. Paul is during the spring and summer months iaen-
teal in point Of temperature, FIR an average of IA years,
and consequently all other things being equal, in Az
ricultural capacity:
SPRIhG-(Mean temperature 46 60 degrees )-St.
Paul Boston Springfield and Worcester, Mass Kin.
derh"ok, Utica, Coopers'own, Onoudaga, and Lewiston.
N Y; Detroit, Ann Arbor and Battle Creek, Mich. !;
Chicago, ILL.,; Beloit and Portage CITY, Wis.
SUMMER-(Mean temperature 20 60 degrees )-St.
Paul; Lowell, Mass Trenton and Midtown, N. j.:
Flathush and Newbargh, N. Y Philadelphia, Warren,
Chicago, Ill. Beloit and Portage City, Wis; Pembina,
Minnesota, lat. ~.
Can any doubt remain on the mind of the citizen who
.contemplates emigration from Massachusetts, New York.
New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Illinois, or Wisconsin.
that he will find here all the essentials for a rich a.gri
cultural country, when he learns that the splendid
summer climate Of Minnesota is identical with bis own.
Nature itself seems to have adopted the coming and
going of the thermometrical changes to the wants of
man and to have made the most of geographical position.
The winters dry and silent the sudden change from the
temperature Of February (i7.6) to the almost 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 10 y and, added to this,
the regular increase in the quantity Of humidity as the
year progresses.
We append the following table of the temperature
of Minnesota as compared with different other place,
during the year.
(Here it will he inserted.
If any other proof is needed, let US look at the practi.
cal result of all these causes as already developed in the
country.
[Here might follow a series of statements from far
mers showing the yield of various produce per acre
the cost Of farming the best times of sowing and
harvesting; the character of the spring and fall us
adapted to agriculture; the absence Of late and early
frosts, and other information of a similar character.1
In conclusion we would say that in view of the fact
that the great bulk Of the population Of the West is
made up Of those who have fed from misfortune in the
East, and always Of men seeking fortune rather than Of
those who have achieved fortune, and in view also of
the vicissitudes of human life and the imperative claim
the women and children of the ~emigrant have no society
for protection and defence, the Legislature of this State
have passed an Exemption Act containing the following
features:
{tlere will be stated the main features of the Exemp.
ton Law ~
Is not the publication of such an advertisement worthy
the experiment, particularly in view of the very triAing
cost it would occasion to the Government? Two thou
sand dollars so expended, would, I think, sustain a SINH.
lar advertisement during the spring months, in a princi-
pal paper in each State in the Union and but a much
smaller expense would be required TO disseminate it
through the principal emigrating nations of Europe. If
necessary, Mr.. Reh6eld's proposition could be associated
with it, the pamphlets could 60 more into detail than
the advertisement, and could be referred to in the ad.
vertisement rs containing farther information, and be
sent 10 all persons requesting the same. In this way
they would reach those only who were already curious
on the subject, and who would take the trouble to peruse
a long pamphlet, a task every casual reader will not
undertake..
The Legislature-I make these remarks respectfully
and suggestively-could appoint a standing committee
on emigration, or a commissioner on emigration, who
should remain in o66ce until the appointment of the r
or his successor by the next Legislature, and have in the
meantime the right to employ such clerks as might be
necessary for a proper attention to the advertising, and
for the reception and answer of such ipqn ries as might
be addressed to them s, 4.4*
The advertisements 10 addition to their digni6ed and
truthful tone, would 90 before the public backed up By
the authority Of a sovereign State, in which the Eastern
world would have confidence. She would appear ~
welcoming the emigrant to her bosom, as anxious for
his presence, as holding forth to him her treasures aud
|enumerating her advantagee-not in the hyperbolic cant
of quackery but in the plain and straightforward tone
Of u great an noble community. The %emigrant would
feel that be was wanted aud welcome in hnr midst, aud
his mind, at tn. same time, would be di-abused of the
innumerable ISLANDERS uttered against her by namele>s
letter-writers. .n,s..ut an IA. ia -
We cannot attach too much importapcs to the fact
that the newspapers Of the country are the great Apds
most direct means If conveying information to the peo-
pie, and that their distribution would not rest with this
State, as in the case of the proposed pamphlets, but is q
matter If self-necessity. An advertisement in TWO or
three Of the main papers Of the Union would reach mil.
lions of readers, and that, too, ut a cost which would
be as nothing compared with the expense Of publishing
millions Of pamphlets, an. then paying clerk,hire and
postage for their distribution. 49, f
sincerely hope that the action on Friday last, on
the Emigration Act in this House, il not indicative Of
a disposition on the part Of the Legislature t. take no
steps in reference to this all important subject. 1t is
one that should seriously engage their attention, as
paramount to almost al others.
The SPRlNG.-We cannot but anticipate the very
hest of times fur tho West IN tho cor,;uo Shrine Tia