Saint Paul weekly Minnesotian., 1859-06-04
Kings Minneapolis estate Atlas"

MlnneapOllS DluS IaT 10 DC wen Suppleu
with newspapers. We have before us the
third published in that town, in the shape of a
good sized weekly journal called the STATE
ATLAS, edited and published by VIM. S.
King, Esq, the gentleman who awhile back
corresponded with the New York Tribune on
subjects connected with Minnesota Railroad
financeering operations. Mr.. King is reso-
lutte, persevering, go-ahead man, and forci-
BILE writer, and will no doubt succeed in max
ing a living out of his paper-more, it is in
vain for any newspaper publisher to expect
these hard times, unless, like the Pioneer aad
Democrat folks, he can secure grab Of $4O,- )
600 year through illegal State Printing con-
tracts upon the Peoples Treasury. We sub
Join few extracts from the first number of
the 4tlas, 10 show its tone and spirit:
OUR OBJEcTs-To advance the best inter-
ests of Henepin county, and the State of Min
nesota at large, and to aid In the spread and
triumph of true Republicanism, are objects
for which the State 14tlas is established, and
for which we shall zealously labor. How well,
or to what extent we may succeed, we leave
for time ana results to determi me.
REPUBLICAN STATE CONVENTION CON-
ing July Convention, the Atlas notices at
length. We copy paragraph, conceived in
the right spirit:
To organize for this conflict, officer our
brave troops, lay out and systemize the cam
paign, remove past and guard against future
dssensions in our own ranks, inspire with
hope and courage the timid and disheartened,
and restrain and direct the argent and impet-
uous, are some of the duties which the Con-
vention will have to meet and discharge. Lo-
cal interests and jealOuses must be made to
give way to the general welfare, and personal
claims and aspirations yield to the common
cause.
"OUR STEAMBOAT INTERESTS This is the
heading of another article in which Mr.. King
dilates upon that nice theory, so difficult in
practice, which for nine or ten years we have
heard so much about from the people Of st
Anthony Falls, without even seeing it tsustain
ed, except in seasons of very high water
This theory is, as the Atlas phrases 1t, that
to the Falls Of st. Anthony, the Mississippi is
navigable at all seasons of the year, and thai
any class of boats now navigating the river te
St. Paul, can easily and safely run to this
point" Mr.. King assumes that the press o.
St. Paul are interested Sin denying this vel
established fact" This is altogether mis-
take. We are not in this city at all concerned
at the "fact," if it be "an established fact"
for we conceive the destiny Of st. Paul, a
the great commercial metropolis of the North
west, is fixed and established-is sure, a
any rate; and the mass Of our citizens woult
think it no detriment to our interests if evel
the st. Anthony Falls people should succee'
against the obstacles interposed by nature
and in reality as we'll as in theory establish
and maintain "a regular line of boats " t
their point. The time is past, il it ever was
when St. Paul cares to exhibit jealousy of tn
prosperity of the cities of the Falls, whose tru
destiny, she holds, is to become the suburban
manufacturing tenders of herself.
The TRUE Position OF THE ArLAs.-Th
editor takes occasion in the following articl
to disabuse the public mind of certain slander
touching the purpose of its establishment:
CORRECTION. report, which certai
parties have, for well understood reasons
taken so much pains to circulate, that til
State atlas is to be the organ, or advocate ii
!, nomination of any man for office, is mo-
. silly and unfounded one. The atlas is no
nor will it be, the organ of any person excel
its editor, but its best efforts will be put fori
, IN behalf of the ticket that shall be nominate
by the Republican State Convention. To 81
cure the election of the Republican candidate
whoever they may be, instead of the nomin
ton OF any particular man, is our most ear