The Minnesota pioneer. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. Territory) 1849-1855, 1850-01-02
THE MINNESOTA PIONEER.
ct. PAUL, ttlinncsota,
Wednesday Morning. Jan. 2, 1850.
The Minnesota Pioneer to its Patrons.
IauuarY 1. 1850.

January J., 1850.
WHEN the Old Year thawed GU, last spring,
Quoth he IL must be travelling"
so, on the Highland Mary came,
And for up river booked his name.
ouoth he, this, Captain Atchison,
l. quite u stream upon.
AS large, says Cap, familiarIy,
As rivers often get to be.
ouoth the Old Year, ;" ere 90 down,
mesn To locate me a TOWN.
town tina, in the shade VIII throw
Ny other town, san Frpncsco.
IN France, they've got things now at rest,
They're poor republicans at best;
They had flare up, too, at Rome,
That made wish my self at home.
Give Italy enough of rope
She'll hang herself hang the Fore;
And as for Hungary, Ills quite
useless thing for her to fight.
Where lonrishing, has grown,
Republic grated On a throne?
I'm gid, from Europe 10 get bsck,
Altho' your President 5 Old Zach;
And now want to get away
Upnorth to escape the cholera.
For vigorous health no climate dare
With Minnesota TO compare
The cities on this river must he three,
Two that are built ard one that is to he.
Oae is the mart of all the tropics Yield;
The cane, the orange and the cotton field;
And sends her ships abroad and boasts
Her trade extended 10 thousand COASTS,
The othcr, central for the temperate zone
Gamers the stores that on the plains crowns
A Place where steamboats, from all quarters, range,
TO meet and speculate, IS 'twele on Change
The tEird iriW be, where rivers confluent flow
From the wide spreading north thro' plains of SNOW
The mart of all that boundlcss forests give
TO make mankind u.o-c comfortably live,
Tbs land Of manufacturing industry,
The workshop of the nation i; shall be.
Propelled by this wide stream, you'll sec
A thousand factories at Saint Anthony:
And the st. Croix u hundred mills shall drive,
And all its smiling villages shall thrive;
But then my town-remcmiber that high bench
With cabins scattered over it, of French!
4 man named Henry Jackson s living there
Also man--why every one knows L. Robar;
Below TT. Smelling miles or So
And three above the village of Old Crow,
Pigs Eye? Yes; Pigs Eye That's the spot.
very funny name; is't rot?
Figs Eye 3 The SPOT to plant my city on,
To be remembered b., when Il am gone.
Figs Eye, converted thou shalt be, like saul:
Thy name, henccforth shall be Saint Paul.
When the wisconsin 5 welded to the Fox,
By & canal and solid steamboat LOCKS;
When Gcishted steamboats, leave St Paul one day
And reach. the next but one, Green Bay,
When locomotives regularly draw
Their ireighted trains from distant Pembna
And o'er the bridge, rush, laundering, at ST Paul,
And at Dubuque, to breathe, scarce make Il call
But hurry onward to the no, Balizc,
Ky iy ing farms, plantations. houses, trees
When from the Cave to Pigs Eye shall extend
A levee lined with steamboats, to each end;
When one great city covers all
The ground from Pigs Eye to the Falls,
then will claim st. Paul for mine,
The child of l8i9.
Pigs Eye, converted, thou shalt be like Saul,
Arise; and be, henceforth-Saint Paul''
MAILs.-We learn that the mail con
tract fom Saint Paul to Saltwater is lie
TO a Citizen of Saltwater; service t.
on the LIST of January.
Now that good, easy road, is lait
out to Prairie du CHEN, it is to be hop
ed that Minnesota will soon be supplies
with regular tri-weekly mails.
By the way, we should like to inquire
ifthere is any probability Of having The
extended to St. Paul during
ensuing spring OF summer;
A direct road from St. Paul to the
mouth Of the Saint Croix river is abou
to be opened. A mail route should be
established at once, from Saint Paul t.
Point Douglass, through Red Rock.
We would also urge the Importance
Of having q mail route established from
Saint Paul to Fl. Gaines.
The necessity for such mail route
is already great; and to supply the rap
idly increasing settlements UP the Mis-
sisippi river, will soon be imperious.
Is Congress aware that the road VI
the river from Saint Paul, for more thar
100 miles, is absolutely tAronged witt
travel, even now, in the dead of winter
WW Government do something 70
in the way Of mailsa
"Lying about Loose"
The Chronicle wants to know if peo
pie arc aware that the sheets of tn,
journal Of the House of Representative
care lying about loose somewhere.
We are aware of no such thing. Th
Clerk Of the House of Representative
no doubt understands his duty Wher
the Journal is furnished TO this Office TO b.
printed, we intend to print it, as speedil.
as possible. AS for the French mes
sage, we have been waiting three month,
for the translation, and have not got
yet; fact of which the Chronicle is prob
ably aware. If there is any Lying q
bout loose, any where, it must be il
the Chronicle Office.