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

perature of ST. Paul Fort Sneling) during the diteren
months Of the year as follows, compiled, during a perio
of over thirty five years:
J nuary, 1877 July, 10
F bruary, l7.6 August, 70
March, 3l.4 s .ptember, So!
April, 463 October. al
May, $50 November. 81.
June, 6S.4 December, L.!
From the report Of the Chief Engineer Of the Min
nesota and Pacific Railroad Company. we extract tn,
following statements showing the localities with which
st. Paul Il during the spring and summer months ilen
teal in point of temperature, for an average Of IA years
and consequently, all other things being equal, in Az
ricultural capacity:
SPRING. Mean Temperature. 46 60 degrees )-St
Paul Boston Springfield and Worcester, Mass ; Kin
%derh"ok, Utica, Coopers*"wn, Onondaga, and Lewiston
N Y; Detroit, Ann Arbor and Battle Greek, Mich.
Chicago, Ill. ; Belot and Portage CITY, Wis.
SuMMER-(Mean temperature 20 60 degrees )-St
Paul Lowell, Mass Trenton and Mi1dletown. N. j.
Flatbush and Newbargh, N. Y Philadelphia, Warren
and Middletown, Pa; Hudson and Oberlin, Ohio
Chicago, ILL.,; Beloit and Portage City, Wis; Pembina
Minnesota, lat. ~.
Can any doubt remain on the mind of the citizen vbe
contemplates emigration from Massachusetts,, New York
New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Illinois, or Wisconsin
that he will find here all the essentials for a rich apri
cultural country, when he learns that the splendid
summer climate Of Minne<ota is identical with bis own,
Nature itself seems to have adopted the coming and
going of the t~hcrmometrical 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 (l7.6) 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 q q co,rnarod With .;Horor% o&ho. H..
during the year.
1Here 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 aud
harvesting; the character of the spring and fall as
adapted to agriculture; the absence Of late and early
frosts, AMI other information of a similar character.
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
featur,s:
(tlere will be stated the main features of the Exemp.
ticn Law
Is not the publication of such an advertisement worthy
the experiment, particularly in view of the very ,riding
cost it would occasion to the Government? Two thou
sand dollars so expended, would, | 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 10 disseminate it
through the principal emigratins nations of Europe. If
necessary, Mr.. Reh6eld's proposition could be associated
with it, the pamphlets could 90 more into detail than
the advertisement, and could be referred to in the ad.
%vertisement as containing farther information, and be
sent to 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 ofice 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 u proper attention to the advertising, and
for the reception and answer of such inqu ries as might
be addressed to them
The advertisements 10 addition to their dienifed and
truthful tone, would go before the public backed up BY
the authority Of u sovereign State, in which the Eastern
world would have confidence. She would appear Az
welcoming the ~emigrant to her bosom, as anxious for
his presence, as holding forth to him her treasures aud
enumerating her advautages-not in the hyperbolic cant
of ~quackery but in the plai" and straightforward tone
of a great an noble community. The %emigrant would
feel that he was wanted aud welcome in hi midst, and
his mind, at tn. same time, would be di~abused of the
innumerable ISLANDERS uttered against her by namele>s
letter-writers.
We cannot attach too much Importance to the fact
that the newspapers Of the country are the great and
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 a
matter If self-necessity. An advertisement in two or
three Of the main papers Of the Union would reach mil
lions Of readers, aud that, too, at a cost which would
be as nothing compared with the expense Of publishing
millions Of pamphlets, anu then paying clerk hire and
postage for their distribution.
| sincerely hope that the action on Friday last, on
the Emigration Act in this House, is not indicative Of
a disposition on the part Of the Legislature to 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.