The Minnesota pioneer. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. Territory) 1849-1855, 1849-11-22


Benton. But the democrats do the same.
PAPER FuNDs.--I'he New York scheme
for inundating the West with private
currency, won t take in St Louis. The
scheme proposes that a company in Wall
street, shall issue orders, looking like
bank notes, upon their correspondents,
Clark s. Co., of St. Louis, to pay so and
so. Whether Clark S, Co. will pay and
continue to pay, who knows' Let no
Bullionites trust them. The scheme is
an evasion of the law of Missouri, of
most, if not all the Western States, and
should be secuted by all good citizens.
Let rag merchants keep their Wash
tenaws and Red Dogs at home.
NAPLES, looks up. Ten years ago we
remember its principal things were the
fever and ague, tavern full of small
yermin, a big slough and sand hill
crane. Meredosia succumbs, Peoria
improves; but not fast enough. For
some reason or other. these small Wes-
tern towns don't thrive as they ought.
Their inhabitants had better return East,
if after so long a growth, they can't
make better show than this. People
in the West are more often rich In antic
ipation than in fact. They are mighty
apt to die poor One who lives poor all
his life, ought to have the good fortune
to die rich.
"RAGING CANAwL, -" PERU.-Poor old
Peru! You look as though rum had
done the deed Lasalle, mile above,
is young, but apparently vigorous enough
to strangle old blotched faced Peru.
The steamboats, drop few barrels Of
whiskey at Peru, and pass right on up the
river and canal to Lasalle. Ottawa, ff
teen miles above, shines out from the
darkness with many bright lights. The
canal rides above the town. If it were
tapped at that point, it would syringe out
the town like a Cholera. The scene
about us to night is worthy of a descrip-
ton. The sky in the West is quite dark,
but the clouds are thinner over our heads
and become feccy and transparent fur
Their East The full moon is Just riding
up the horizon, directly in the line of the
canal, and pillars silvery reflection fan
along in the water. The distant prairie
fires, which We can see in six different
directions, family loom up from beyond
the horizon like mock sunrises.
Bed time, Open the lockers, unfold
the mysteries of packet life. We craw
down, lie in, and some climb up, to oul
''respcctful' berths. Joking over, the
lights out, and all silent, we go to sleep
The ripple lulls most somnolously. By
and bye the boat enters lock with sucf
thump as nearly to unshelf you. One
can sleep very we'll on boat; | appre-
ciate the lulling effect of the ripple, like
the sailor, who, on the first night after
he arrived at his friends on the shore
could mt get bit of rest till one of then
kindly volunteered to dash water upol
,, the house outside.
SUNDAY MORNING, half past five
We are called up, (or down, or out
wards The berths disappear in tn
twinkling of a bed post. BY means o
some concentrated essential ris of inge
nuity, breakfast is hocus Focused up
smoking and broiling hot, out of Il kitch
en- that Gumbo could not sit down in.
MOUNT JoLIEr-Thc genius of tn,
old mound says, the Indians are too laz,
to have built that pile. Here are tn,
O'Plain boys, where the Clever mayer
is almost corporealizedinto visible shape
JoLIEr-We ran along on foot from
the lower to the upper lock. God ha
evidently forsaken this part of the town
which was once most fourishing. Tn
town on the east side of the river, show
here and there good building.
The Cholera, like elder Knapp am
the devil, passed this way last summer
The masonry here, and on the cana
generally, would do credit to any age o
meridian.
LocKPoRr looks better. A canal is
stupid enterprise--at this age of tn
world, seems sinking of capital in tn
mud. How long will ST. Louis and Chi
cago consent to drawl through cana
before they awaken to the necessity of
: railroad?
Here we are in the "Sag"-a youn,
, Montezuma. The horses are trottin,
along the tow bridge mile and hall
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