The weekly north Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1857-1867, 1858-01-13
Compliments.


We have received large paper published at
Nininger,. Minnesota it is called the Emigrant
Aid Journal. The Editor requests an ex; hange
with tie Times and in the No. on which the re-
quest is written he takes exception 10 q para
graph penned by US at the time winter came
20 tight in November. We assumed that the
sudden closing of the river would find many
portions Of Minnesota without supplies, and
that the reports of crop destruction by grass
hoppers being true, there must necessarily be
great distress throughout the Territory. The
scarcity of4money, the early severity Of the
winter. the halt fixed condition of all emigrants
to new country, the reputed loss Of crops by
. insects, and tho general remark of those who
had travelled through the country justified us in
stating that very great suffering must take place
before Spring. The cold snap lasted but a
short time, the grass-hcpper story fell off one
half in its terrors, and the prospect now is that
nobody will die either Of frost or starvation du-
ring the winterof 81 and 49, 1t was certainly
far from our intention to dcpreciatc the charac-
ter Of our ncighboring State as an enigrating
roint; we regard it as one Of the most healthy
productive and in every way, valuable and
pleasant bodies Of land that God has SPREAD
out for human occupancy, but we cannot have
the politeness to say that Minnesota or Northern
Iowa is warmer in winter than kentucky OF
Missoui-that Corn grows larger here than il
does on the Scioto or Wabash-that Timber
is as plentiful as it is in the forests of the east
that winter-wheat can generally be raised here
or that ne,c-comers in the west are as com
Portable in their houses and as convenient II
market as they were farther cast These thing
we cant tell our readers, because we do no
think them to be true. Taking all things int
account, we prefer the Northwest and ,rest o
the Mississippi at that, to any portion of tn
Union. We expect to stay here. Our interest
are all here and our fiiends are coming as fas
As they can awake from the dull sleep whic
covers an old country in every avenue of trad
or association. But we do rot mis-rcp-cser
this country to them, mer,ly to get them I
dwell among US. The facts are favoratl
enough without such drafts on fancy as wou,
excite only riiiculc. ..-.=.t,
Well, for speaking of Minnesota and i,
probable distresses (such as attach in winter I
all new countries of high lattude,) the Mini
ger Journal calls the "Editor of the McGrcgt
Times" an "intan,ous writer &C., sc. In
paper of Subsequent date, received at the sam
time however, the editor says "the McGreg'
Times has received so many blows from til
Minnesota papers that its publisher is afraid
look into one, or words to that effect.
1t is possible we have been stput through g
the fast line" by our territorial contemporaries
but we have an exchange with many of Il
leading Journals and large subscription Their
away, and this is the first intimation that I'll
paragraph referred to had excited the ire of a
Minnesota! Fad the Niningcr Journal show
Us our error we would have taken great pleasu,
IN correcting it, and exchanging, bet as its col
cuctor seems to belong to that class Of IN,
who prefer to denounce rather than to con,in
an opponent, we think we shall spare ourscly
the tro, bic Of mailing the Times TO his addres
Of course We send this No. to the journal
and when it learns 10 use respectful langua,
towards those who may differ with it, we shs
take occasion to forward regularly.
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