Mr. Starkey, of St. Paul, has introduced into the House of Representatives "A Bill for the encouragement and protection of Emigrants on their arrival in this State." The bill provides that "All persons who shall be or become actual settlers of Minnesota before the first day of April * * * shall be exempt from all process of law of whatsoever kind, for the recovery of any debt or debts which they may have contracted outside the limits of the State of Minnesota, previous to said first day of April, A. D. 1858."

It looks to us like a curious protection, and we believe it will prove as inexpedient as it seems to be unjust. We are inclined to view the proffered exemption through the Advertiser's, spectacles, when that paper says "turning our State into a city of refuge for scoundrels and absconding debtors from all parts of the Union, would attach a damning odium to the name of Minnesota." That paper adds:-

"Under the specious disguise of encouragement and protecting emigration to Minnesota, it, in reality, offers a bounty to fraud and villainy throughout the entire Union, and the protection and encouragement it gives is to knaves and thieves and scoundrels only. An honest man would scorn such protection. It holds up Minnesota to the world as an asylum for the refuse and offscouring of the earth, and would make its name a byword and a shame among men wherever it is spoken.

The bill will probably "go the way of all the earth."