The Minnesota pioneer. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. Territory) 1849-1855, 1849-07-19

his blistering rays between the tall rows of
brick buildings. Oh for breath Of that
refreshing air you breathe upon the bluff of
St. Paul! What is luxury, what is life
without health? Said gentleman in ST.
Louis with whom we had an interview
"Sir, have lived in St. Louis for many,
many years. can make money here.
This is the home Of luxury. But look at
my wife--my poor, puny little boy there,
our only child; what is luxury when weigh
ed in the scale against the health and happi-
ness Of these? Give me the humblest cab
in AMI the coarsest fare, and the free range
of lake and forest and stream, and tho un-
breathed air of Minnesota, with all the
health and vigor which your people enjoy,
and would not exchange such blessings for
all St. Louis" But look. They say it is
dull in St. Louis; and yet such is the crowd
of things animate and inanimate upon the
levee, that every possible space in it seems
to be occupied--it is choked with the glut of
business, and fills all the avenues to the
heart Of the city. Sixteen years! What
change has been wrought since we saw St.
Louis sixteen years ago! There are more
steamboats, now lying at the levee than could
then be seen both at St. Louis and New Or
leans; and Third street, which was then
near the western verge Of the city, is now
far east of the centre of the city, Here are
now wide avenues opening to the north and
the west, lined with great blocks of brick
buildings, far as the eye can see--farther
than keen-eyed spectators had then ven
tured to look. CHOLERA. This is the
theme. No one feels secure that he may
not be the next victim. How sad to see
these black plumed hearses trayersing the
city in every direction! Death is terrible in
any shape; but when it takes its victims by
hundreds and hurries them through like so
many drops of Croton oil, it is not strange
that people are alarmed. Yet there is no
thing like nerve TO resist the cholera. just
fancy that you are going into spasms, ifyou
want to be cramped. Why don't people go
up the rivera Why, they think the danger
greater upon the boats than in town. St.
Louis is not in a panic. 1t is over that.
Familiarity with death has bred some con-
tempt. There are men, too, who
Whatever sKy's above them,
Are prepared for every fate,''
We made the acquaintance of Messrs.
Chambers and Knapp, Of the Missouri Re-
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. every nch--who know
how to take life and enjoy it as it comes along
just the most jovial, free hearted western
boys YOU ever saw. We had also the pleas
ure of forming an acquaintance with one of
the editors of the St. Louis Union, and with
Mr.. G. t. M. Davis, junior editor of the
New Era, a gentleman well known to many
of our readers by bis former connection with
the press at Altoona fearless, vigorous wri-
ter. 1t is very agreeable to feel related,
however humbly, to the manly editorial fra
ternity of the West.
But, away! Let us seek more northern
cline. This latitude will not do for U.s.
Let Us climb the channel Of the great river
for almost one thousand miles, half way,
almost, to the North Pole, and see what
miracle time has wrought upon St. Paul
during three short weeks. How many fresh
buildings, how many new faces shall we
find! We speed along. How suItry these
villages look upon the shores. The hot air
seems redolent of fever and death. Who
is foolish enough here to dream of longevity?
Speculate, buy, sell, build warehouse or a
steamboat, then die and be hurried into a
grave dug in the rich alluvion, to rot and be
forgotten.
Nauvoo. This town is the monument of
Joe Smith. With all his fanatIcism and
folly, it is impossible not to respect the tai
ent and the force of mind which created all
this. Read Millions Paradise lost. You
will feel sort of reverence even for the
devil himself Joe had in him force, ener-
gy, the handspring of all greatness. What
scene! The skeleton of city, an agri-
cultural city-that was an original idea. A
temple was to be built. That called out
and united the exertions of his followers.
Nothing so effectual for them as a grand
palpable temple TO be erected, original in
style, unique in device, mysterious in its
purpose, related to sublimiry. A military
organization. What so effectual to create
and animate the esprit du corps? What
system of socialism, after all, was ever
more rational! 1t did not, like Shakerism,
reject the natural means Of self-perpetua-