The Minnesota pioneer. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. Territory) 1849-1855, 1851-08-21

labout 20 miles, II is said that this year i IS nayi
gable several hundred miles. The scencry on i,s
banks is entirely different from that on the Mis-
s.ssippi. The bluffs comparatively low, with
little timber, and covered with rich grass car
petings 70 the tops. Betwesn them and the river
there are wide meadows, IN western anyasse
bottoms, which for richness Of sod are unsarpass-
ed by any land in the world. All that Yegioa -
| now, however, in the possession of the Sioux Ia
dlans, as Is all the Territory north of !esya aud
wes' Of the Mississippi, to the British lines Bat
Commissioners Of the u. S. are now Engaged ia
efforts to treat for j; with the Indians, ard shorld
It be purchased and thrown open for settlement,
It Will ere long present the most attractive pcnt
maginahle for emgran,s, and will be Gil.d np
with almost unprecedented rapidity."
In regard to the navigation Of the Minnesota
river, it is proper TO say. that during the PRESENT
and the last seasonS, the waters Of the Maneso,s
river as well as of the Mississippi, have been un
usually high; and from, the best inforr,s,ion No
have, in ordinary seasons, ii will be impossible 10
run steamboat, in very low water, higher than
the Little Rapids, which is IS miles aboye Saio,
Pau! and 80 miles above the mouth Of Minnesota
river; until a narrow bar of rock which there
crosses the river, shall be cut out. Elsewhere
to Traverse des Sioux, which is over one hundred
miles above ST. Paul, the water is always deep
enough; but the river is so pery crooked, aud the
angles made by the bends in it, so acute, that Il
will require to be navigated By short boats espe-
ciaily in lownwater. In high water, there is eve
ry reason to believe that the river can be IN sa-
ted even as far up Lac qui Parle. or perhaps
to Patterson's Rapids, By boats properly coG-
structed
This Ietter-writcr thus speaks Of Saint Paul:
est. Paul is the capital of the territory u Min
nesOta, and is on the n. E. side of the river IL
~ the principal business town at prese,s aud the
virtual head of navigation for large boats although
they do go high ST. Peters. o, the month Of
the ST. Peters or Minnesota river, which enters
the Mississippi from the 8 w. about or 10 miles
above ST. Paul. Opposite to the old trading VII
lage of st. Peters, on high and rocky proinon-
tory, and at the junction of the two noble rivers,
is situated Fort Smelling, where there IS . gani-
sen of U. s. troops The view Of the month of
the Minnesota, the village OF st. Peter aud The
Fort, and The narrow gorge through wheh tins
Mississippi comes from above, alioge her form
mos! delightful scehe.''
| We quoted what this writer SAYS ef 81. Paul,
not for any thing in tina, is new, bu, TO correc.
a mis-s,atement. St. Paul is only fopr miles be.
low the junction Of the Mississippi ard lie Miu-
nesota rivers, and five miles below For Smelling
The Fort is mile above the junction. OF he two
rivers; and Mendoza is about half mile above
the junction, on the right bank Of the SEoneseis
In high water, there IS connection Il the two
rivers, directly below the Fon, by slough ca
channel; but in very low water, this chanssl af-
forls too little water for steamboats,.
Saint Paul is the highest point north, altaiaabie
in an ordinary stage Of water, by beats running
up heie from St. Louis and Galena; and even ST.
Anthony City, which is about Is miles higher no
the river, is bat fraction over two mics north of
Saint Paul. Saint ANTHONY City is less than 3
miles by land from Saint Paul, and !, is d lItlle
north of west, the ground beng extremely favor
able for the construction Of railroad
Billy Roach, whom we announced the othe.
day as acting Secretary Of the Territory, 10 tho
absence of e. X. Smith, is indignant at our hay
ing coupled HIS, with the name of that individual.
Tie says that he, Billy, is no sponge, that Il ha
does drink, he does it neither at the psbiie e1-
pense nor at tho expense of other indiyid lai..
Mr. Roach should recollsct That any noaa IS iiabls,
10 suffer the iadisnay he complains of Il IS bus
few months since, tina, William Armstrong. .is,
barber, suffered the disgrace of having his name
coupled with that of q. K. Smith, The Barber
being plaintiff, and the Secretary being dcEsad
ant, in contested sait betu cen them. before
Justice Smons.
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boat business on Sunday WAS passed expressly is
rob the Deputy Collector Of ST. Pas, of one-
seventh Of his per diem.
Fearing the Pioneer, the Democrat this /, eek
directed its sinking battery Of epi,he,s agans,
'1he Pioneers shadow Una Y it never he less.s
The Democrat never aims al. the substance OF
any thing. name, which it does not couple
bend the definition of, is its Shibboeib !, sal
lies out, volunteer political knight -errant. with
a helmet upon its head which it fances 10 be D.
mocracy, but which is no mere like Democracy
than Don Quisote's BARRIERS basin Was like a
helmet, and makes war. now upon an iinas,uars
high tariff party, then upon a fpcied bauEing
conspiracy, then upon our equal representation,
based upon the census, beating the ali with O.
force ofnfiated adjec,ives, valiantiy ii.h, yria-
mills This week, with the saine insane fol.Y.
our neighbor draws down his vizor, and lance
IN rest, spurs his weekly Rosinante a-t Of .'the
Pioneers Shadow" The Democrat ouzb: 30 SIS
confined IN cart, and trundled home = Ohio.
His Quixotic efforts tc redress fancied political
wrongs in Minnesota, are regarded hsse onll win
derlsion, as the freaks cf a mailman half, poa-
cal fanatic, and the other half. political dena-
gogue.
Our neighbo, ought not, for tia. eTedi. Of the
Territory, to allow correspondent to represent
that St. Anthony neglects the interests Of edqea.
ton. If any town Of its age ever made greater
sacrifices or exertions than ST. Anthem for moral
and intellectual advancement, we know not Thers
such town may be fouud.