New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1865-10-06

equal to the Winter Wheat Of other Staes. az
that the best Flour mado from IL AZ this plis COZ,
mands the very highest prices. The Weld @ ~
cannot failbclow Pen Millions Of .bnsbsIS ,hics
allowing One Million for home consumption cfo.,
bushels per head for the entire population nd
like amount for seed and waste, leaves Eight IA.
lions for sale, WORTH at the river rather piose "a,
5000, 900 to-day. Allowing g. 900 900 for her =,
crop and the little Corn that viii be sparedbys
Southern Counties, Minnesota is seen to be Abul
antly able 70 pay for all the goods sheoughttp b,
and her thrifty, Woodworking people wia pay,
pay. for what they buy Whoever chooses tosupp
the other sort on credit will doubtless deserve VIII
he gets and get what be deserves. ~, -
The climate Of Minnesota Is Der chief busbse
and, while have little felow-feeling With the Oh,
who confessed to /" prejudice against the equator
/ own mp toa slight rcpugnance to 400 below zen
And yet tbs climate with most Minnesothnsi
their strong point. Nearly all I have met assn
me that they never passed Winters so delightful
in milder latitudes as here; several spent Wine
here as an experiment before migrating, aud io@
The dry atmosphere, bright skies and steadyScol
oO tAos Coutu nut tntHtelOflQ Nv
elsewhere. Several have assured me that they ia
the cold far les~ here than they did in Central Ohie
New-England, or svcn in New-York CITY. Tia
say that the Winter days are almost uniformly stia
and sunny, and that a maA-conlfortably clad doc
not find the cold unpleasant. They admit. how.
ever, that there are few days each Winter at ono,
coldand windy, and these are mostagreeably passed
~ a. I'm ~;vrx -,,Iana M bnt sfcco
There are hundreds here-perhaps thousspds-
who came TO save their lives; and all insist that k
climate is an antidote to pulmonary affections sa
cure for consumptives in the early stages Of then
disease. Many are well here who believe, tAs
would have died years ago had they remained %
the seaboard. On the other hand, it is said thai
nervous disorders, heart-complaints, &C., are f.
gravated-that the atmosphere is too stimulating
for persons thus affected. only report what
hear. cannot doubt, however, that thisissn
gion remarkably favorable TO health and Longevity
Against this is to be set the fact that Timber il
less abundant and less excellent than at tie East
which, in country where good fires are $ neccs
sity, is lamentahle. There is wood in the nsros
interyales of most of the rivers and smaller streams
and these are quite common, though their Svis
scarcely SO copious as with US. Thus the Mime
sofa formerly ST. Petcrst, which rises partly .
Dakota, and runs first south-easterly, then north
easterly across the southern half Of the State fan
ing into the Mississippi between Fort Smelling and
MENDOZA, halfway from here to st. Paul, Is not
large, after its course Of $50 to 400 miles as TIE
Mohawk, Merrimae OF Saco, neither Of them hM
SO long or draining half so large en- area. And tins
is by far the largest ofthe tributary streams whd
have their course mainly in this State. on The
other hand, the Lakes Of Minnesota are estimated
at ten thousand 4; and this, if every body Of non
flowing water which does not dry up in Summer q
TO be called lake. is doubtless far within the 40
tual number .Lakes-lakolets-ponds which are
barely more than giant springs-lakcs hundred
miles around and lakelets of scarcely half an acre
dot the State in every part, but especially through
out the central and northern portions, in aprofusoa
no where parallcled. Offs $4,000 square miles OF
So 900 acres, Judge that nearly orqaite tenA
are permanently covered by water. Minnesotsiss
grand plateau, ranging from J. 600 to 1900 fess
above the ocean level wherein the Mississippi, tho
st. Lawrence, and the Red River Of the NORTH,
have their ultimate sources. There are some stout
hills in the remoter sections; but the high. table
land ia seldom broken save by the streams, vhca
traverse it through interyales ten to three hundre
feet below the level Of the adjacent county; Thes
intervales are in good part wooded and the plaini
are. diversified at moderate though unequal dis
tances BY belts of low, scrubby brushwood, with
tough, ragged, wind-rocked Oaks rising occasion-
ally above the thick copse,l wherein Poplar and
White Birch disageeebly abound. Of coure,
there are extensive tracts of valuable timber e.
pecially of Pine, mainly in the North, while SugH
Maple is found in other quarters; butt cannot re-
sist the impression that good Timber grows slowly
and scrubbily on the bread. wind-swept tabe.laM
that the climate is less genial TO trees than TO
men. 1 shall be very happy to find, on fsler ae-
quaintancc, this impression mistaken.
The Mississippi is the most salieat feature
of the landscape Rising wholly within this State,
has course Of over 800 miles within it or upon ito
eastern border, during which il absorhs some ten OF
twelve considerable rivers with innunieaOle
smaller streams, and becomes sufficiently eapacion
TO be nayigable at all seasons for steamboats, OF
ample burden. The Falls OF st. Anthony at ths
point, present the first absolute barrier to naTiga'
ton; but the current hence to st. Paul 90 miles
by water, . by land is rapid and shallow 50 th"
most boats stop at that city, which has, in fact
difficult bar or shallow some miles below IL.
There were three or four small boats on the riVa
above this point but the extreme low water oil tho
last two dry seasons discouraged their ovlsrs, 50
that thew managed to get them somehow below the
FALL and lett the river above to rats and na''poa
though they might now be glad to have them oacA
again. Sac. go.