The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1864-02-26

an equivalent for the labor of entering few
names upon the marriage registry.
The marriage law of Ohio and other States
would be attended with many difficulties in
Minnesota, owing to the scattered condition OF
the settlers and the not easy accessibility OF a
Probate Judge or ordinary magistrate from
whom to procure the marriage license.
ANOTHER OBSERVER.
Memorial for encouragement TO
German migration.
To the Honorable the Senate and House Of Rep
resetatires Of the State of Minnesota:
The undersigned respectfully represents
That migration is desirable to advance the in
terests of the State of Minnesota. and is actual
ly needed to insure rapid development OF
the natural resources of the State. That Ger
man farmers should be encouraged for settle
ments in the State, to find home here, to
which purpose millions of acres of fruitful land
gives opportunity. That Minnesota is prefer
able as an agricultural State, and that the we'll
known rational cultivating of land ON the part
of the Germans deserves encouragement.
Whatever may be the theory as to the di-
recting immigration, the fact is that almost
every immigrant, before he goes on land in
Hamburg makes up his mind about the place
of settling in the new country. But suppose
portion of immigrants would Oh their arri-
val at New York have not come to full con-
clusion in regard to the point of their destina-
ton, an immigration agent in New York
would nevertheless be unable to take an ad.
vantage of this circumstance.
1t lis we'll known that the new coming i'm
migrants are compelled to buy passage tickets
Immediately after their arrival at New York in
the Castle Garden Depot. If the immigrant is
once in possession of travelling ticket, he will
surely make use of it, without regard to the
opinion of an agent.
By pamphlets. which the immigrated citi-
zens of this State direct to their friends re-
naming in the old country, not much could
be accomplished, because people in Germany
mistrust such pamphlets. A good correspon-
dence, published in an influential newspaper,
for instance, the Gaten Laube, in Germany,
would produce better result than 1000 dis
tributed pamphlets. Therefore, if it is the in
tention of the Honorable the Senate and House
of Representatives to encourage German i'm
migration, this purpose can only be reached by
continued publishing of communications and
correspondence in leading newspapers in Ger
many, in relation to the agriculture, trade,
finance, and physical and social progress of the
State, and by the establishment of an Agency
in Hamburger, which is provided with sufa-
cient number of pamphlets, and would induce
emigrants to leave their homes for the purpose
of coming to our State. But when once on
their way to any other State, not much could
be accomplished in the way Of diverting them
from their original destination.
Your memorialist would therefore respect
fully ask your favorable consideration of the
foregoing memorial.
Ell. KNOBELSDORFF.
Sr. PAUL, February 20, 1864.
The National Observatory. x
The Eoenimg Post says that Lieut. N.
F. MAURY, now q deserter to the rebel
cause, has proved himself as bad guide
in navigation as in politics. The publica-
tons issued from the National Observatory
in Washington, under his auspices, have
been condemned on the highest authority
in this country as unsound, and of course
unsafe. The National Academy o
Sciences, composed of some Of the best
informed and most practical scientific
men, held a meeting in Washington, in
which this subject came before it, the
Navy Department having submitted Lieut..
NAuKYs Charts and Sailing Directions to
the examination of the members. They
passed these resolutions:
Resolved, By the National Academy of Sci
ences, that in the opinion of this Academy,
hitherto issued to navigators from the Naval
Observatory, and the Wind and Current
Charts which they are designed to illustrate
and explain, embrace much which is unsound
in philosophy and little that Is practically use
full and that therefore these publications ought
not longer to be issued in their present FORM
ResoIued, That the records of meteorological
phenomena, and of other important facts con.
nected with terrestrial physics, which, under
the direction of the Navy Department, have
been accumulated at the Observatory are ca
pable Of being turned to valuable account; and
that il II aminently desirable that such infor-
nation should continue to be collected and
subjected to careful discussion.
Resotcsd That the President of the Academy
be authorized and requested to communicate
to the Secretary Of the Navy a copy of the
foregoing resolutions and of this report, a. .
response to the inquiry addressed to the Acad-
envy upon this subject by that officer.
sugar Culture in Ohio.
The report of the Ohio Commissioner of
Statistics shows that in 1862 there were
made in that State no less than 6, $50, 600
pounds of sugar. "Of this 81, 900 pounds
were from Sorghum so that the point is