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VOLUME l. Cljp emigrant M Journal,! 4. W H t i l»«IALBi EDITOR AND PRO S'RIETOR, IS ISSCED EVERT WEDNESJ- \Y AT THE CITY OF NININGER, DAKOTA CO., M. T. AT TWO DOLLARS A YEAR, IX ADVANCE. RATES or ADVERTISING : | Eight lines, one time, Si 00 “ “ three times, - - - - - - - - * -00 contracts will be made with those desiring to advertise bv the jear. The Mourning Indian. Od the site of his ancient, hunting ground By tie Mississippi's fl >w, At the side of a consecrated mound Stood the dark browed Oseo. ’Twas a fearful weight on his heart that day, And it beat as a knell of death, When he saw how his tribe were all swept away, As dry leaves by the whirlwind’s breath. His heart swelled high with the grief he felt, And bis tears as the rain did flow, And he bowed as the dry and leafless free Bends beneath tbe woodman's blow. He wept as the broken hearted weep When overwhelmed by a sudden blow, For there all around lay the disentombed. Sad sighs of his nation's woe. He drew to Lis bosom his wife and boy. And murmured, ‘ 1 know we must die, But Oh ! to be east, as a dog on the earth, Aud our bodies unburied to lie. The white man stands by his father’s grave, And deems it a sacred spot, But the red man is torn from his resting place. And the white man bcedeth it not. We have fled from before him, as flies the red deer. When the huutsmau speeds close on his track, But our graves as his protege we hoped he’d reveie, Nor yield them to plunder and sack.' ’Twas fearful to gaze on his agonized form, When joy from hi? bosom had fled, He bowed ’neath the rage of the gathering storm As the oak is upturned from its bed. The werkmen, in pity, reburied the bones, That before had lain bleaching and bare, For their hcaits had been touched by his sorrowful Which were sad as a wail of despair. [tones. When feeling how sacred is grief, they retired, And left him bemoaning bis dead ; For he loved none the less, and his tears were as As the tears that his white brother shed, [choice. Blown Away. About half past 4 o'clock the military began to ar rive. Gun after gun made its appearauoe, and took up the position assigned to it Out of every gateway from the fort, Europeans end natives were pouring on to the esplanade in hundreds, and from the native town every alley, street, and lane were disgorging their thousands. All seemed anxious to behold the traitor Sepoys blown into dark eternity. Their crime was known, and the j stern and compressed lips of every European present, 1 told how well they deserved their doom. The manner j in which they had been detected in their nefarious de- j signs was subtle and complete, and reflected much credit ) upon the deputy commissioner of police and his assist- | ant*. Three times had a merciful Providence defeated i the plots of the mutineers by the timely arrival of European troops from remote colonies, aud while the fourth plot was being brought to maturity, the two ' criminals were seized. The times demanded that a I terrible example should he made, and the doom of the 1 men was speedy . . . As the hour of five struck, j the stillness became awful; every feeling and faculty | was strung to its utmost tension, and the beating,of hearts became audible. The spectacle was one of quiet horror; there being none of that excitement which is i to be met with at a public execution in any other part of the world. Tie natives of India are uot a. demon- j strativc race, and they looked on with an appearance of stolid indifference. ! The handful of stern and determined Europeans had, ' moreover, overawed them, and there was but one feeling predominant. —fear Among all the assembled thous ands a murmur could not even be heard—a whimper wonkbalmost have broken the stillness. The officers rodJP*&fl*Jg the lines resolved and silent. So noiseless ’lras theii* motion that even the champ of their horses’ ; bits and the clank of their sabres jarred upon the ear. j Wliiile the clock was yet striking ; the brigadier coni- . mabding the gains >n rode in front of ihe two exeeut.ve guns, aud it seemed f<<r a moment as if all sound had : died away. The sentence of the court-martial wac then read to the prisoners in the Hindustani language, after which they were ordered to prepare for duat-i. They were stripped of their regimental jackets, and marched between tiles of their European guard to the muzz’es of the two guns. The drill havildur, one of the two, was a noble looking man, iu the noon of manhood, tall and stately. His mien was erect and dignified, until the men of the Rival Artillery laid hands ou him. Then he seemed to feel that his hour had come, a shud der shook his frame, his jaw fell, and his ivory white teeth were disclosed While the two men were being bound, not a syllable was uttered by the assembled crowd, but a rattling of steel along the line gave notice that, the Enfield rifle was being prepared for action. As the word ‘ Prime,'and when the ominous click of the clock fell upon the ear, the 10th N. 1. visibly shook. It was evident th.it they did not know but that the post moment the rifles plight be brought to shoulder and leveled ag»inst rhei- tr- nt. Simultaneously with the loading of the infantry, the guns to the right and i f- of the criminals were turned straight upon the native regiment-. They ware loaded to the muzzle with canuister and grape, and the gunners stood by the guns with their matches lighted. Ou the ramparts of the fort four 68 pounder* were also laid and ready. By this time the prisoners were secured to the two guns. There wa<a moment s pause, which was br«‘en by the captain calling out with aloud voice, ‘ Ltt all retire from the two guns except the two men * the port fires ;at the word ‘ Fire,’ apply the match. 11 :e was probably a pause of two seconds duration ; th tlia word ‘ Ready !’ was given by Captain Bolton. Ti ■ gunners took but a moment to blow up their marches, but it seemed a long, long time. r lhe two prisoners and the two artillerymen stood as immovable as statues. The awful stillness was at length broken. The word ‘ Fire !’ rang out clear as a clarion note from the lips of the captain. In a moment the earth shook as if a volcano had opened at our feet. The guns were enveloped in thick clouds of smoke, through the white wreaths of which little particles of a crimson color , were falling thick as snow flakes. The particles were the prisoners blowu into atoms. —[Dicken s Household Words. CurloNllltn of Scleute,—\o. 5. Vapor Whence comes the rain ? Whence are those fleeting clouds ? Whence the refreshing dew ? are questions which are given to the curious and inves tigating ; or rather to such they suggest themselves, in the multiplicity of natures beautiful operations. That there is a constant succession of similar opera tions—causing the vicissitudes of the weather, and con trolling in a great measure the labor of men’s hands— in nature, is evident from the fact that year after year, nearly every section of the globe lias about the same amount of wet and dry weather yearly, and though dif ferent latitudes have different amounts of wet and dry days—owing to their proximity to the equatorial regions —in a series of years those amounts correspond There falls a larger amount of rain under the Equator than any wbeie else, and yet there are fewer rainy days than in latitude 00° North. In oue place in the equatorial regions, rain falls yearly to the amount of 97 inches, and at St. Petersburgh to the amount of 17 inches in eptli. At St. Pcterbsburgh, however, the number of rainy days is more than double the number of rainy days at the Equator. Therefore at the Equator it must pour in torrents. They have also two dry seasons ami two wet seasons, as ’we have here in the N<-rth, caused by the trade winds blowing in one direction steadily six months, and by their changes causing two seasons in ieach. ! From the great ocean, from the seas, from every lake, from every poud, from every water puddle, there is a constant, irresistible, and at the same time an imper ceptible evaporation. Set a bowl of water out in the yard, and in two or three days it will have all disappear ed—especially if the weather be hot. Has the sun ‘dried it up’? Nay verily; it has all gone away in insensible particles, and you may see it in yonder cloud From the great body of water on the face of the globe as a reservoir, is going on the great cloud forming pro cess, which like a gardener’s water pot, though on u mag nificent and God-like scale, is calculated to dispense blessings to all the children of men. Evaporation is a purifying process; though the waters from which vapor arises is impregnated with minerals of various kin Is, they never find their way into the golden tinted cloud. All is purity there, and rain water is pure water. When vapor comes in contact with a colder current of air, it condenses and fails in the form of rain. Hence beat is essential to the formation of vapor, and cold to the formation of tain drops or snow flakes. Hence it rains very little in sanlv, desert countries, the heat arising from the arid wastes dispersing the vapor. Hence it rains very much in woodland countries, from the fact that a cold current of air seems to be in motion above the ever moviug branches of the trees. Hence the eagerly wished for shower often passes off. follow ing some water course or strip of woodland, because of their attractive currents of cold air. Vapor is a complete emblem of life and immortality i Rising insensibly into the e the rial heavens, it puts on a j new aud subtile form ; purified from all earth’s dross, it ; comes to us the welcome messenger, dispensing new life j and beauty to every plant. It finds its way again into | the great reservoir, only to be transferred again to the upper regions, and thus on and forever unweariedly it performs its allotted tasks, an emblem of death and I resurrection L. N. Countryman. i Nininger, April 28th, 1858. The Great \oitli-Weni—What the t'ennus of I*6o Will HIIUW. The United States Census, which will be taken in 18(50, will show the ‘Great North-West’ a republic in itself In its extent it far surpasses the Southern and Eastern States combined, and the figures will show that in the increase of its population and wealth, it his left all the other sections of the Union clear in the back ground. Aincog the States so designated will numb: r then the following Ohio, Michigan, lowa, Indiana, Wisconsin, Kan-as, Illinois, Minnesota, Net r iska. These States and Territories are now represented in Congress by I*2 Senators, 56 Representatives, and 8 Delegates. Under the census of iB6O, with the present ratio of representation, they will be entitled to 18 Sena tors, and from 80 to 90 Representative*, far more than ! enough to hold the balance of power in both branches of Cougre-s, between the North and the South. Instead of fiddling second to the older sections of the Uuion, and being set aside whenever the honors and emoluments of government are distributed, the world in i future will know there is a MW. It only wants con | cert of action, and combination, if need b«-, like our ] brethren of the South, to have our proper interest in all ' public aff.i rs The valley of the Mississippi, and the basin of the j great lakes must inevitably be the political as well as the commercial center of this great nation —such is j manifest destiny. The trade of these inland seas now j equals our whole foreign traffic, u fact which, when late* ! ly announced in Congress by cue of our Western Rep resentatives, was di-patobed by telegraph to the Asso ciated Press, startling the whole country. it is time this Western world threat off its swaddling clothes, and began to set up busiuesa for itself. It has been iu the hands of guardians long enough. It is of age, as we iu the west count years, and its manhood should now he asserted. < We are dependent on nobody for auytbiug. We raise all we want to eat and to wear, aud have productive resources enough to bread and clothe the world beside. We have a commerce of our own, both foreign and domestic. We have the largest prairie*, longest railroads, and the richest lands on the CITY OF NININGER, DAKOTA COUNTY, MINNESOTA TERRITORY. MAY 5. I?«. globe. We have all the elements of individual happi nesi and na'ioual greatness that any people can desire, and we only need the de-tciinitiation toe n-ultourcom mo i interest aud oomb’uc our political power to con stitute ourselves the ceuter and soul of this rising Re pul 1 e. SLull we now break off our vaenlage to other and older parts of this Union, and take our position as the integral but independent part of the nation, or shall we continue on as a mere appendage to the government ? What say our brethren of the press on this subject ? Let. us hear from you, gentlemen. We know there are minds among you that do their own thinking. Let us see if we cannot combine and wake up a spirit in the West that will do its own acting.—[Cleveland Plain dealer. From Our Boston Cm respondent. I.OSTON, April sth, 1858 I Mr. Editor: Our new Postmaster, Mr. Capeu, has created quite a stir in the business w >rld, by the an uouucement that he intends soon to remove the Post Office from its present location in iState street, to the new building in process of erection on the coiner of f-unime and Chauucey streets The reason assigned for this contemplated move are the following : First, that the present apartment now used for the distribution of letters is much too small, and the great increase of j bus ness renders it necessary to tind some more ionium- | dious room, where the multifarious duties which devolve : Upon the Postmaster and his assistants may be perform- j e>< with m >ro facility. Secondly, that as the business of the eiry is gradually creeping up towards the south e.id, in a few years Summer street will bo iuu. li nearer ibe centre of the business community than State street. 'I bis announcement'has called forth quite a powerful 1 < ppo ition from many of our most iufluiutial merchants ‘Julio most do congregate’ in that precinct of note — shavers and curb-stone brokers—State street. Two or three indignation meetings have been held, and many s rong reasons and arguments adduced, all tending to c tiiViuce those in favor of the removal, of the fallacy of the Postmaster’s reasoning. As to the real merits of the case, your correspondent is totally unable to en lighten you, hut being supremely indifferent himself as t. • the ultimate result of this little commotion, lie hopes t look calmly upou the strife, ready to shout ameu whenever victory shall per«.h upon the banner of either of the contending parties, and transmit the news forth with to ihe columns of the Em tyrant Aiti Journal. Boston is changing its appearance with a rapidity never before surpassed. Old builuings are being demol ished, venerated landmarks are disappearing, and new and splendid edifices are springing up. Everything be tokens the march of that indomitable Yankee progress which in a few years transforms a village into a popu lous city, teaming with wealth and business enterprise, or conjures up towns from the midst of a wilderness, with a rapidity only equalled by that mythical hero of old, who by the aid of a few dragon’s teeth called from the ground regiments of soldiers armed and ready for battle. The uew block of stores and warehouses just completed opposite the Custom House, is said to be the finest of the kind in the world. It is built of massive granite, covering uu extensive area of ground, and run nng from Commercial street towards the water. The work of hoisting is to be done entirely by steam, and the other internal arrangements excel anything of the kind in the country. Franklin street is fast being con verted into stores. The wealthy aud aristocratic fami lies who have so long occupied it, are compelled to flee before the encroachment of trade. Where the old Theatre Alley used to be, opposite the Catholic church, is uow iu process of construction a new street lined with magnificent warehouses. 1 dare not speak of the im provements on the Neck, for they astouish even a Bos toiiian, who lives in the other part ot the city, aud who only visits that portion of our metropolis occasionally. Uur Legislature finished its business the 27th of j March, after a sh< rt session of eighty-one days. The i closing afternoon was devoted by the members to eou gratulatory speeches and faiewdl greetings, iu which i our lute Attorney General, Mr. Cushing, figured con spicuously. All partits unite in praising the promt i tude and energy of our legislators, who transacted t ic public business with an unflagging seal aud earnest eu* j deavor quite different from those other bodies who have hereto occupied the State House. The solution of this ; pioblcm appears to be the uew law, fixing the salaries | of the members at so much per session, in toad of so ; much per day as formerly. Now there is no temptation j to prolong the sitting a month or two beyond the neces [sary time, and every inducement is offered for a short ; session and an attention to business, Tlie great revival which has been going through the i country, consequent upon the cessation of trade aud ttie hard times, has not passed over Boston lightly. The churches are thronged with anxious crowds, both day i an l evening, aud the mania seeius to have seized all I classes, from the poorest inebriate who disgraces North : street, to the wealthy, though n -t less guilty broker, ; who shaves uotes on State street. Several eminent , ministers have pieached upon tUe pernicious influences of this so called * great awukeniug,’ much tothecbagr.n |of those prominent iu spreading the faith. Last Sun day the Kev. Theodore Parker, who preaches to the largest congregation in the city, addressed an audience of uemly four thousand people at the Music Hail, who assembled to bear his views ou the present absorbing topic. Much interest was felt to hear his discourse, as he was ouc of the obuoxious ministers at which the re vivalists have leveled their prayers aud condemnations. He held his vast audience m, wrapt attention for over an hour, dtfriug which time the sub,cct ot revivalism was treated With great power and ability. Our theatres for the past month have been well pat ronized. Some of the tinest acting that has been wit nessed in Boston for years, may be seen u gbtly at the Howard Athenaeum, where Mrs. Barrow’s superior company cater to the public taste Light comedy is the attractive feature at this establishment, and from the crowded bouses which the management draws, it is a sure sign that the people appreciate the efforts of the ~ company to please. Edwin Booth has been playing a short engagement at the Boston Theatre, during which he fully sustained the enviable reputation he has ac quired. To-night Miss Agnes Robertson, the popular actress and charming woman, appears at. this cstabiisu ment iu the character of Jesse Brown, at the siege of Lucknow, a play writieu especially for her by Dion Bourcicault,“aud which has proved so attractive at the | New York tbeaties. i Bat t fear iam encroaching ou the limits of your ! columns, ami will close with the promise of another Ici -1 ter as soon as anything which will interest, your readeis | shall occur, and furnish a fruitful theme for Your Bcstou correspondent, "JIaBE&T. lie Nparliiff ot Ur urn. Dr. O. W. Holmes, whose reputation as a physician runs neck uml neck with his 1 terary popularity, in his valedictory address to the medical students of Harvard University, delivered on the 10th ult., gives the fol lowing, we doubt not judicious advice to the medical students who were about to graduate : ‘ With regard to the exhib.tion of crags as a part of your medical tie.it meut, the gulden rule is, be sparing. Many reaiedies you give would make a well person so ill that lie would send for you at once if he had taken one of your doses accidentally. It is not quite fair to give such things to a sick man, unless it is clear that they will do more good than the very considerable harm you know they will ctuse. Be very gracious with children especially. 1 have seeu old iu a n shiver at the recollection of the rhubarb and jalap of infancy. You may depend upon it that half the success of Homoepatby is due to the >weet peace it has brought into the nursery. Between tiie gurgling down of loathsome mixtures and the sac charine d tiquesceucc of a minute globule, what tender mother coula for a moment hesitate ?’ Spiritualism. A great many instances of spiritual power are ap pearing iu very sections of the country. We give a few below. Such appeals as these, sustainel as to their veracity, are bringing thousands upon thousands into the ranks of the spiritualists; until soon, as predicted, their power will be exercised and felt in the working of »he government. A California correspond nt, in wri ting to an eastern paper, thus relates an incident And here l must tell you that the time of the arrival of the steamer was foretold by a French girl in mag netic sleep on the evening of the 18th, the steamer being then two days behind her time—a very unusual delay—and the night being a clear one, everybody ex pected the steamer that night, or the next morning st But the numeric subject, placed the hour m 9 p. M , aud said that an accident had happened. The steamer entered the Golden Gate just at* tbebwur specified. After she had made herprophecy a magnet z d table—magnetised by the hands of a circle o f mjr*-' merists—was questtrtUen, and it confirmed l>y tipping the prop *cy of the girl I heard of the prediction oti the attenioon of the arrival of the steamer, and made it the subject of a number of jokes The arriv. lof the mail from California in New York, thou>>h a pretty se rious matter perhaps in Wall street, excites far less in terest tliau does the arrival here of the mail from New Yo b ; and if the steamer due from Panama be a day or two late, she becomes the main topic of conversation with everybody, and any gossip about her flie> over t-*wn in a very short time. Tiik Spiritualist and tub Lizard. — A young-man named Selden N Pinuey, of Elliugton, Conn., having been mysteriously ill for two years, aqd obtaining no benefit from physicians, be consulted a clairvoyant spiritualist, John R. Reade, of Hartford, who, while in a trance state, declared that young Pinuey had a live. I zirt/ in his stomach He also prescribed medicine for the ejection of the reptile. Although without faith in the declaration or prescription, the medicine was taken as directed, and a living Hz *r</ was ejected. This is a tough story, but the pareuts of the young man alfirin its truthfulness iu a communication to the Hartford Times.. Spiritualism in tub U. S. Senate. —The corre spondent of the Philalelphia Inquirer -writes : ‘ lion. N. P. Tallmadge, formerly a member of the IT. S Senate, in a letter defending modern Spiritualism from a rec-nt attack upon it by Gen. Shields, intimites that a number of our present Senators are believers iu the doctrine, and that the political history of l x 6o will he greatly affected if not controlled by if. The former assertion is entirely true, I happen to know ; but that the latter will prove so, I prefer to entertain some doubts,' Tiie March to the Grave in 1857 —What a mighty procession has been moving towards the gravp during the past year ! At the ugual estimate, since the Ist of January, 1857, more than thirty-one million fioe huti'fnd thonxuirf of the world’s population have gone down to the grave. Place them in long array, they will give a moving column of more thau thirteen hun dred to every mile of the circumference of the glohe. What a spectacle, as they move oq, tramp, tramp, the 4 Dead March ’ giving its funeral notes as they go to the silent shades ! Correct Speaking.—We advise alt young people to acquire in early life the habit of using good language, both in speaking and writing, and to abandon as early as possible any use of slang words and phrases. The longer tliey live the more difficult the acquisition of >uch language will be ; and if the golden age of youth, the prop t season for the acquisition qi' laqgqige bj past in its abuse, the uqforiuqate victim of neglected education is very probably doomed to talk slang for life Money is not necessary to procure this e-ucation. Every man has it in his power He has merely to u-=e the language which he reads instead of the slaug which he hears; to form his taste from the best speakers, and poets of the enquiry • to treasure up choice phrases in bis memory, aud habituate hiuis If to their use—avoid iug at the same time that pedantic precision and bom bast, which show rather the weaknees of a vain am bition than the polish of an educated mind, S'.ooA of Grain in the West —According t» the following statement of the Cincinnati Price Cnrrm ', the price of wheat and corn must contiuue to rule low thj present year : 4 The information we have received from, our corre spondents in this and the adj doing States,- the last three or four weeks, leaves no doubt whatever that the Brocks of wheat and corn iu the bands of farmers arc pubrmous. The prices current for wheat, last October, were so far below the estimate set upou it by its »wuer«, that they refused to sell, pieferring to hold it over until spring for better prices ; but in this they will be, it is now pretty certain, sadly disappointed. The wheat is still iu their hands, but whether they will part with it at present rates —10 and tJU cents per bushel, is exceed ingly doubtful.’ The New York Pott says : ‘ It is seventy-one years to-day, (April 7th,) since the emigrant party from New llmipslnre landed ill Marietta, Ohio. This was the first permanent settlement of whi e inhabitants in tha< ferritory. Ann mg those who went wilh the infaui colony were tjeneral Lewis Cast, Ex Governor Wood o ridge, of Michigan, and l>r. Hildreth, who yet 4ke, and enjoy a bale and vigorous old age. hat aeh mgein seventy-onj y a'rs I Ohio h.s now two million five hunirei tbou-w id popl-, industrious, euterprisiug, intelligent. She has $-s,<bjO,nOO of tax-, able property, 8-1,500,000 in school liou-cs, and an an nual school-tax for the education of all tier children of $2,500,000, and more miles of canal and railroad than any State in the Union. I1"W wonderful has been her growth and her progress in all the elements of material, moral, aud intellectual w -alth ’ SS'Boy Preacher in New Yokk—‘Burleigh,’ the New York Correspondent of the Boston Journal thus announces the advent of a ‘ Boy Preacher’ in that city : ‘We have a new proligy in this city in the per-on of a buy preacher. He is ab->ut ti teen years of age. His name is Oaminon i Keen dy. He is a ILpti-t aud be longs to the church of Rev.‘Mr. Adams, ori Cliistoplier street. He is a convert*in the late r- vi.\d, ha* already been licensed to preach by tbit chinch, and is ju.-t now attracting- large crowds to hear him His syle is vehe ment; bis sermons have in them much method; he speaks wholly extemp iraneously ; and his system of theology seems to be mature, aud after the school of ?he sounder anl more conservative schools of the day He is certainly quite pren cious. What the end will be no one can foresee. He preaches and speaks nearly every night. His houses are crowded to overflowing, and for a season he will be the great attraction of our city. Everything I 'has its use. Were i* not for the die-, people in summer would si ep tw bus ong r ihati they do, .-in i thus lose the best put o the day the poi* (on devoted to sunrise uni meadow Inks Breakfast Dish -—Take > n ? egg and beat it up, add a teaspoonful of salt, pour iu about two thirds of a pint of p nt of water, then slice some bread dip it in, and fry iu a little butter, Seive warm, aud you will find it an excellent dish. An irishniau, iu ; France, was drinking with «mn« company who prvqHwaA.tW.Ao ist, 4 The land we live-in ’ ‘A*#, with all me?*o«U me dear,’ said be, ‘ here’s' ottfd belMd.’k - j. f# v .. ' 4 How do you au I your friends feel now ?’ slid no egukaarpditfetNQ in one of our Weston Spates, to a rather irritable member of the defeated pirty 4 l sup pose,’said he, 4 we feel just a* Lizirus did when he was licked by dogs.’ How quietly might, many a one live, if he could care as little for the affairs of others as he does for his own. The Bust Body.—He labors without th inks, talk,.- without credit, lives without, love, dies without, pity— fave that some say, 4 It was a pity he died not sooner.’ A celebrated barrister, retired from practice, was one day asked his sincere opinion of the law. 4 The fact is*/ rej lined he, ‘if any man were to claim 'lie coat upon my back, »qd threaten the refusal with a lawsuit, he should certainly have it, lest, ia defending my coat, t should lose my waistcoat also.’ A printer out in Arkansas, whose office is ten miles from any other building, and who hangs his sign on a limb of a tree, advertises for an apprentice He says : ‘A boy from the country preferred.’ Long Stockings.—A lady, a regular shopper, who had made an unfortunate clerk tumble over ail the stockings in his shop—they were fill goods—objected that nope were long enough. 4 [ want the very longest hose that are made ’ 4 Then, madam, you had better apply at the next engine house.’ (Prepared for the Km. Ail Journal.) To The attention of the emigriung public is solicited to the contents of this piper of the Journal It is our intention to retain the following matter permanently in our columns, as we .believe it. combines a great deal of information of importance to the emigrant The town of Nininger with a great degree of liberality and enter prise, has devo.ted a pirtion of its public funds to de fray the expense of distributing a large number of copies along the main avenues of travel leading to Chicago, tyid upou the boats coming up the Mits-iss'ppi river. It will be to tl\e advantage not only of this tiwn and neighborhood, but of the whole State that the following articles should be set before the public and retained be fore them. We have attempted in the following arti cles to confine ourselves strictly to facts, or if we ha re made assertions, to sustain them by as great a mass of authorities as possible. For this reason some of the ar ticles are made up of quotations f. om scientific sources, as being least likely to misrepresent, anl mo<t likely to meet with the confil uee of the pu die Oar first arti cle is a summary of th; s ibstaa -e of all the rc-it, and is very numerously signed by citizens here Tn the list of names the emigrant iu iy possitdy tue t with some individual known to him, and will thus receive a double assurance of the truth of the statements contained in it. • ltliniu*«i»fa- * extracts from an address. L’nprt'emptetl Lmth. —lt must not Le supposed tha: tie ftateof Mmi.cota i-muitis s one sold bo ?y of population, nod that tlnemga t vh > so ks ,h | advantages *>f a new region will have iq hud them' in the wilds of Nebra-ka, Dikota, or else* hen. it may be truly said, that th; pr< ant population of the State of Minnesota is confined ptim-ipally to ihe main livers, with the excepthm of, the peuiu.-dila included between the Mississippi river and the Minne sota river, running south to the lowa line; an 1 the southern part of peninsula between the St. l.’loix and Mississippi, although both these, regions still contain considerable quantities of unprejmptud lauds, Hut west of the immediate border of the Mississippi river towards the James river ou the south, or the lied llivir on the norih, stretches an almost unlimited quantity of Gov- j eminent lauds yet undisturbed by emigtation. Timb' .In Minnesota, we hud the supply of timb r one ot iho uiarke i fe.uu.es of the country. 1 o the north ot St. Paul lie whole'CouufUS of pine lauds. The mills of the Territory are already supplying a great part of the down river with lumber. We.would also quote tlm following from the report of L>. C Shephard, Chief Engineer of the Minnesota and Pacific iiinroad : ** To the westward of this line, (tci miles westward from the Mississippi west of St. Paul and St. Anthony, are tue ‘Big Woods/ a dense forewt of'one hundred ■ and fifty miles in length, by an average of fifty in b i:d b, and dotted with myriads of beauti'ul akes and outu -d meadows The timber is very heavy, aud con si.-ie of oak. map'e, a-h, elm, basswood, black walnut, butternut, aspen aud second growth hickory. The soil is a black vegetable mould, from two to three feet in depth, restiug on a sub-oil of clay, ai d in the ordinary uccep'atmn of the term, inexhaustible.’ L'h'iracterhtic* of the. Unnetth • Portion* of Ter ritory —We now come to consider a belt "f country ex tending in breadth from the Big Wood?* to tbeChippewa river, a distance of seventy miles, which has been aptly termed * the Farmer's Paradise,’ with a surface adin ra bly divide*! between rolling prairie, woodland and meadow, and watered by a thousand crystal lakes and streams ; it also has an exceedingly fertile and durable soil, closely resembling that ot the Big Woods. The country between the Chippewa river and the Bois de Sioux river is but sparingly supplied dith tim ber, which can however be plentifully supplied hereafter from adjacent regions. It has an alluvial soil, rich, dei p and lasting, which is capable of producing in the higiiest perfection, every grain aud root adapted to a Western climate. The species of grass called red-top is in ligenous, and reaches fr<queutly a height of six feet, fin nishing a sure index to the productive qualities uf the soil.’ We quote again from the same r p *rt ; after stating that the region between Crow Wing an : l Ottertail Lake pos-esses lew advantages, he proceeds to describe the valley of the Red River as t<dl<>Ws; ‘ 1 he surface is rolling pnirie‘interspersed with fine groves of timber, amply sufficient for the purpose of a den-c population anil is ■well watered the soil is uni versally describ'd as excellent, and many do not hesi tate to declare it superior to any other in the Territory. So much has bceu said and written of late concerning this wonderful region, that but little can be added. All agree in assigning it a pro uinent rank among the un settled portions of the \Y»gt.’ The country adj icent to the great Bend of the Min nesota river, inclining the Blue Earth region—has l<*ng fifeu represented «f -the Kroat f, rtde and bwuitiful m Jfrfrji Skates Geologist wider tWtt speak* &it 4 ‘ The fertility of the soil an* fhe-‘tick#b«***™r e»t will gudoubrudly m »ke Ain, *% no very 41«»lt day, a d< si ruble I.'calify Tor Mtfen seeking■ df- : «ietk-lMWfce. The woodland abouu Is in linden, white and sugar maple, aspen, maple, butternut and iii< kory, with an under growth of prickly a-ffi, gooseberry and grape vines/ We need hoivev rgo no further These extracts will suffice to demonstrate that we still retain millions of unpre cuipted acres as choice as any that have yet been taken up within the borders of Minnesota. The emi grant must not- suppose that because wc have accumu lated here sufficient population to eutitle us to the rank of a State that all tlie pportutiities afforded by a new country are passed. We must bear in mind that we possess an area almost twice as great as tbe State of Ohio, and that the population of Ohio in 1850 *was nearly two millions as contrasted wiih our one hundred aud fifty thousand, so i hat an increase of the present population of Minnesota twenty times would fail to bring us up to the position of Ohio in poiut of density. Cfinmie —lt must be admitted that occupying a high North western locality, we arc subject to a greater de gree of cold during the winter months than is to be fouu lin the majority of the Stitea. This however has been much exaggerat'd and made a formidable weapon of argument against us, while it applies with equal force to the greater part of Wisconsin aud Mb higun, against whom, however, it. is never urged. We tbiuk tuut tUat there are one or two circumstances which ma terially teud to mitigate the temperature of Minnesota as contracted with lowa and Kansas In the first place, it does no*- follow that the same degree of the thermo metrical temperature will produce the same results in localities where the amount of humidity in the atmos phere or the quantity aud character of the wiuds is diff rent. One quotation will determine this as to the question of humidity We quote from Lorin Bio: get's work before referred to, p Ml : ‘ It may be said here, however that, the effect of ex tremes fu the growth of vegetation is apparently similar to that on auim il life, and that the abseuce of heat may be borne as much more easily in a dry climate tbau its excess in a humid one. C*d. Emory in a paragraph already quoted, leunrks that the greater humidity of* night near the Gila made a temperature of 37° more severely ft:it. than one of 25° in the dry regions ’ We would here add, that the climate of Minnesota is essentially a dry one-more particularly so during the wiuter months. The following table shows the amount of ruiq audsuow that falls at St. Paul during the winter, us contrasted with other poins in the Uniou. Mean Fall of Rain and Melted Snow—Dt-pib in inches and Decimals i f an iucli Plac"s, Sp’a. Siitn'r. An’n. Wio’r Y’r. St. Paul, M T 6 til 10 92 5.98 1.92 23.43 Mmitieal, C E 1154 IUB 10 GO 726 47.20 E .stpi.rt M.\, , 8.88 10 05 985 10 61 39.39 Portsmouth. X 1( 9:03 9.21 895 8.38,36.37 Burlington. Vt 741 l‘ >3 8.«2 602 34.11 Cam’»Mge Miss 10 85 II 17 12 57 989 44 48 New 2 .rk City, 11.09 11.64 9.93 10.39 43.65 UiivaNV 9.36 12.83 976 8.72 4057 1;...-heater. N Y 6.82 8.86 938 538 30 44 Pi ts uryli. I*a 9.38 987 823 748 31 % Cincinnati O 12.14 13.70 990 11.15 46 89 Ivt mil, Mich 851 9.‘.9 741 4.86 3 \O7 Athens. Illinois, 1220 13.30 928 710 41 80 Muscatine lowa If. 19 15.08 1«»34 672 44 33 Bel .it. Was 13 18 18 12 10.44 643 4815 M Iwaukee, Wis (5.60 9.90 680 4.2« 17 20 Green Bay, W.e 0.00 14.45 7.84 3,46 34 65 It will thus be seen that tbe amount of humidity in the atmosphere of St Paul during the winter months ia not one fifth- that of New York city during the same period. A like remark can bu made of Boston (as rep resent by Cambridge in the* above table) or of Cin • - n iti, Ohio. Let. us look next at the influence of winds on theie gree of cold Dr Kane gave it as his experience that the atmosphere at zero, acc« tnpunied by a high Wind was more unendurable mid absolutely colder than' the same atmosphere at thirty degrees below xero without wind. On this subject pnpuld' experience is uniform and it needs no citations from science to demonstrate that the amount of wind very naturally affects,nur sensibility to the cold This being granted let ns examine bnw Minnesota compares in this respect with other points in the Union. To do this we quote from the ‘ Army Register* 4h6 fol lowing extracts as compiled from the report of Chief Engineer of the Minnesota and Pacific Railroad Con»- pany: ’ 4 Ip this classification 0 sigaifica a calm* 1 * haw^jpe** -La -u. .W”■“**'* ’*• -•* NUMBER 3 1.