The Portland daily press., 1871-10-19
GOtser from the Northwest.
MINNEAPOLIS, MIMI, Oct. 9, 1871.

number of men of consequence that Maine
has. OF the present prominent political men
of the State, Maine has contributed her full |
quota.
The Governor-Horace Austin-is from.
one OF the interior counties, and has brother /
engaged in business in one of the towns of
FRANKLIN. Gov. Austin is candidate for re-
election, nominated by reclamation. He is
lswyer by profession, and was taken from the
judicial bench to fill the executive chair. His |
residence is at St. Peter, OH the Minnesota |
River
The Democratic candidate for Governor, IS |
Winthrop Young, Esq, of sSt. Anthony, for
mery of Calais, in your State He is an est-
mable gentleman, and successful business
man.
The two Representatives in Congress are
both from Maine. Hon. Mark 81. Dunwell,
who represents the first or Southern District,
is well known in your city, resided in Buxton
before coming to this State, was for while
in command of the 5th Maine Regiment, and
subsequently was consul to Vera Cruz. Be
fore his election to Congress, Mr.. Dunnell
had served in the State Legislature, and tor
several years was Superintendent of Common
Schools, an Office analogous to one he held in
your State several years before his removal TO
The Northwest. His present residence is
Owatonna, about seventy miles from this city
on the line of the Milwaukee railroad.
The Representative from the Second Dis
trict which embraces the northern part of the
State, and more than three fourths of the ter
| ritory, is Hon. John T. Averill, of st. Paul,
| formerly Of Winthrop in your State. Mr..
| Averill is paper manufacturer and success
ul merchant, and stands deservedly high in
the esteem of his fellow citizens.
The present Superintende of Common
Schools-the successor to Mr.. Dunnell-is
Mr. Wilson of Red Wing. city on the Missis-
sippi just above Lake Pepn. He formerly
resided in Skowhegan, graduated at one of
your Maine colleges, and was accustomed to
spend his long vacations in teaching, usually
in South Thomaston and vicinity.
When it is remembered that the German
| aud Scandinavian elements are both represen-
| ted in the leading offices of the State govern
-ment, it will be conceded that for a single
State, and one so remote as yours, Maine men
exert large influence in the politics of the
Gopher State.
Jared Benson, collector of Internal Reven-
ue for more than half the State, is also from
Maine, and the Legislative Register will show
| that the same State has contributed a full
quota of her sons to make up that department
| of the State Governments.
| OF the business men of the State hailng
from Maine, l will name few specimens
| Hersey, Staples, Stickney and Bronson, of
Saltwater, all from Maine, are among the
most prominent men of that thriving lumber
| ing city. The Fosoms of Taylor's Fail, also
from Maine, take front rank among the sue
cessfuls men in the St.. Croix valley.
Sam Mayall of st. Paul, at one time repre-
sentative OF Maine district in Congress.
then a Democrat and now Free Trade, Pro-
hibition Republican, is among the foremost
men OF the SANITY city. He is much more
active at present in business than politics,
though his name is being used in connection
withia third party nomination for Governor.
My limited acquaintance in St. Paul, does not
| permit me to mention other representatives
ofyour State in that enterprising city.
In st. Anthony, on the right bank of the
Mississippi at the Falls of the same name, the
Maine element is very large. Prominent
among this class is Mr.. Young, already
named, Farnham and Lovejoy, Capt. Rollins,
Todd, Chase and many others, all engaged in
| the numbering or milling business.
| In this city-directly opposite to st. Antho
ny-Mane men take high rank among the
business population of the CITY, Foremost
among them is Dorillus Morrison, Esq.,, who
with his sons, does the heaviest numbering
business at the Falls. Mr.. Morrison ha.
twice been elected Mayor of the city. w. D
Washburn, Esq, brother to the Collector o.
your port-occupies front rank among sue
cessful business men. Mr.. Stickney, his part.
ner, is a son of d. Stickney, ESQ.,, of the
Presque Isle Sunrise. R. S. Stevens, with
his brether-in-law, Mr.. Morse, are heavy
wholesale grocers. Mr.. Stevens formerly rep
resented Oxford county in the Senate of your
State. Fletcher, a sort of dry goods king, is
from the Penobscot; so are the Brackets, one
OF whom has been styled ''steam engine ia
boots" Mr.. Fletcher's partner, Loring, is
from Yarmouth. Besides these we have Glib
son d Tyler, whose woclen blankets have
taken first premiums all through the West,
the Days, the Joneses, the Fosters, the Wake
fields, the Veazies, the Dlllinghams, the Co
nants, the Longfelows, the Elliots, and host
of others, whose names would fill my sheet,
all hailing from the "Dirigo" State, and all
engaged in business at this point.
This city seems to down-easter more like
New England town than any place of its
size in the West. The New England element
largely predominates among the population of
native birth. The customs of the place-out-
side the foreign population-aret those of New
England, In this respect it presents strik.
ing contrast to st. Paul; very pleasing con-
trast TO New England man.
Wherever one goes in the State he finds the
sons OF Maine. few days since made the
very pleasant acquaintance of one formerly of
Norway-W. W. Hobbs, Esq.,-a noble speci-
men of the "Oxord Bears" 1 had known
MI H., in business way, for six months or
more, and by mere accident the discovery was
mutual that We were both from Maine, and
had known each other well-by report-in
| days of lang syne. Mr.. Hobbs is located
some seventy five miles from here, on the big
prairie beyond the woods, CD the line of the
st. Paul and Pacific railroad, settled down, to
use bis own expression, "among the unwash-
ed Swedes;" and he is doing lucrative bust
ness in exchanging merchandise and green
backs for country produce. His daughter, he
informed me, is the wife of j. M. Adams, Esq.,
OF the argus of your city, but was not long
in discovering that Mr.. H. has much more
sympathy for the good reputation and business
prosperity of his son-in-law than for the polit-
ica dogmas promulgated in his paper.
But enough of this gossipy letter. 1t may
or may not be interesting to your readers.
This city-the whole State of Minnesota
has suffered severe loss in the death of one
OF its truest friends, within a few DAYS. Oh.
Sunday last was committed to the dust, all
that was mortal of Col. CYRUS ALDRICH, re-
Gently postmaster of this city, and for four
years during the war Representative in Con-
gress-a man who did more for the State. in
Congress and out OF Congress. than any other
man. To Col. Aldrich, more than to any one |
else, is due the credit of securing the land
grant to the Northern Pac ific railroad, now
In process of construction, and there was not |
a Minnesota soldier who went to Washington