The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1859-02-24

An elaborate article 10 the current num-
Der Of the Ed,nbuyg Rev,sw champions the
cause Of the Hudson Bay Company 10 ito
tenacious hold upon the American Siberia
and eulogizcs their government with zeal
which will not be likely to elicit much sym
pathy on this or the other side Of the water.
The writer can SEE no possible purpose TO
which one half the North American CONT
nent can he put except a. IN extensive hunt.
ing park for one or two hundred wellto do.
beefeatng aud stock-holding English gentle
men. lie regards II evidently rs sort OF
vast pairimoniAl Game Preserve, inherent
by Divine Right 10 tho Successors Of Prince
Rupert. by curious piece Of logic be
makes the fact Of its extending northwsrd
TO tho Arctic circle an argument against
i,s climatic capacity for agriculture and
deducss tho most sweeping consequences
against the habitabiIity Of the region from
analogies to northern Asia based upon tho
romantic pictures in the A." Siberian Exile"
At least, although that charming solacs Of
our juvenile leisure. IL not mentioned rs an
authority, II Is difficult to conceive from
what other source his IDEAS Of the
physical and climatic character Of the
zone In question on both continents
could have been derived. He pcrmits us
Intermittent CLEANS OF vordant landscape,
and mighty rivers iash upon their solitary
way In the far background Of . picture
from which M the central figure, spcctres
Of Eternal Ice glare like sentinel Medusm 10
freeze tho intrusive immigrant 10 stone.
But In the career Of Theses majestic streams
he can find no grander crrand than to carry
down upon their floods the canoes Of saw.
ages. laden with skins to make muils and
cuffs ir London ladies. Yet be does not
apparently anticipate much practical effect
from bis argument. The rule Of the iiud
son Bay Company Ia assaiIed on oil sides
lie says;
Canada IL pressing towards them ON tho
Southeast frontier the United States are an.
preaching them on the South from Minnesota.
while the recent discoveries on tho Frazer and
Thompson Rivers have emptied half California
into q region unknown and untroddsn til with
In tho last year or two by any except Q few
tribes Of Indians aud the servant. Of Hudson
hay Company.
The truth Is that the institution Of hunt.
ing parks, on the magnificent scale Of the
Hudson bay Territory, never was popular
IN this continent, however consonant II may
be to the more conservative ideas Of the
sporting gentry on the other side OF the
water. The small attention paid TO the
her,di'aIy rights Of foxes and lynxes and
beavers, and even Of the lordly buffalo, may
he defect in the manners Of the people,
but the sublime march OF civilization
which tramples the naughty race Of savage
men under feet like grass. will not be likely
to stop in iis career Of conquest out OF any
sentimental reverence for coous
WILLIAM RUvrs, who depopulated IIamp
shire some seven hundred years ago, to
make u royal hunting ground Is the type OF
the sort OF government which would lock up
half continent to afford fat revenues 10 a
few hundred English gentlemen. 1, is to
bc hoped that Sir howard LyrroS will
prove To the Hudson BAY Company
design what Sir WALTER 1yRRRL was To
the Second lIsSRy by accident