The Minnesota pioneer. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. Territory) 1849-1855, 1852-10-07
Corresrondence of the Pioneer.
Correspondence Of the Pioneer.
Pigs Eye Bar, the way il can be remov-
ed-Scenery Of the Upper Mississippi
Minnesota highly fav0rcd-G0v. Ram
sey and Delegate, Henry II. Sibley-
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Minnesota highly IA vorcd-Gov. Ram
sey and Delegate, Henry III. Sibley-
| Maine LiqnOr Law, Sc, &c.
STEAMER NOMINEE, Sept. %, 1852.
| DEAR SIR--IIere ] am my way to the
city of leaa--Gaena. We leh 81. Paul yester-
day morning; but owing to the many shoals be-
tween that place and Point Douglass, we last
evening had got no further than the latter village.
and, at this time, 9 O'Clock A. NJ, we have only
reached Wabashaw Prairie. In crossing the bar
at Pigs Eye, was led to look at it critically, and
| find that instead Of the distance across it being
but 90 or 100 feet, it has been represented, it
is at least 400 feet, if not more. Captain Smith,
hswever, informs that it lIas been extending
itself, as the season advanced and therefore the
apparent discrepancy IN the statements Of its
ireadir. But comparatively great is, it in
my judgement Is by 40 n,eansa formidable obsta-
Gle 10 nav CATION. Composed it is Of light
sand, it requires but slight concentration of
carrent to iorce away; and this concentration,
1t occurs 10 me could be given by sort of wing
dam, constructed Of trees laid on each side of the
channel and converging towards the most shoaI
! spot These trees, il strikes me. could be readily
felled on the h,t adjoining the shoal, and by
means Of fat boat could be easily waited To the
point desired, and anchored in place. The
Lighter and more yoluniinons portions tending al
ways downwards, the trees should be 40 arranged
continuously on each side Of the channel as tina,
while the trunks would be up the stream they
(the trecs) would all be SO thoroughly compacted
as TO present much resisting surface to the
water possible, and thus the current increased
Il. the slIca points.
, But Il truce 10 such matter Of fact themes; let
MS touch upon some other matters which NAY be
acceptable 10 your readers. Yesterday, as left
ST. Paul, I could not but feel enamored with the
glorious autnn,nal livery with which ,be banks Of
our noble Mississippi were clothed. Such gor-
geous coorlng, such deep masses Of Eoliage, such
variety Of lints, green, red and yellow, and
wi'haI such variety Of aspects and relations in
which the whole presenting itself as we
+ g!ided down the river, could not but move my
heart, and cause me TO adore the Great Dispenser
Of all this nagniicence and beauty. Oh how
refreshing those moments Of repose and enjoy
ment, when the soul it we.e, sinking into its own
place of comparative notlinsness, looks out upon
the glorious work Of creation, and finds itself IN
troduced TO the spiritual Of a soul moving
and ever breathing God On the length and
breadth and depth and height of that glory which
is but the reflection of the Infinite One, and which
none can be shut out from. if they but yield them
selves TO The Divine Mind, and suffer themselves
TO he led by its unerriug Dictates.
Such were the effects which, the scenery of the
, river had upon me yesterday; but how much
more So to-day! As yesterday, the same glorious
and ever changing hues are to be seen: but with
them Is now connInged the ever shifting scene
I OF bcetiny cliff, low, level, umbrn seOus island
and the horizontal outline of far distant mainland
have often passed through the highlands of the
hudson; have threaded the gorges Of the Rocky
Mountains; | have surmounted the heights Of the
great Cordilleras Of Northern Mexico; but never
have seen such commingiing of the grand and
, beautiful as we have been this day witnessing
Where are there more beautiful objects than the
hall bluffs which are and anon starting up
before you on this river; sometimes soitariv
sometimes m paIrs their surfaces Of severance
directly facing YOU us you pass them; these sur
faces deep IN the shade, and the whole lastly
covered with most lovely vesiure Of rocks and
foliage. Truly Minnesota is highly favored 1t
Is favored not only with a delightful climate, nu-
merous and beautiful lakes, nDbIe and far reach
ing rivers, Il most attractive scenery aud a most
prolific soil; but it is also favored with noble are
nues Of approach the ma jestic Mississippi on the
one side, and the unrivalled expanse Of Lake Su-
peror, on the other. Soon will these noble chan
ne's Of commerce be connected by an iron way,
and then will it be given to fair Territory to
be profted by the trade and travel which the per-
iecting Of these mighty channels will create
May the day not be far distant when this most
important chain Of conmunica lion shall have been
contaminated.
Minnesota is indeed highly favored in a physic-
al point Of view; and shall she not mo, ally res
pond to all this beneficence which a kind Proyi-
dence has thrown around her? Shall not her popu-
iation be of a kind which can appreciate all these
blessings. aud approaching them, feel strong in
the thankfulness which so many blessings are cal
culated to occasion? Shall she no, be filed with
hardy, sober. moral and industrious population !;
such "A population as politicians cannot hoodwink
nor inildcilty reirgerate; sacerdotalism
incrustate. Such population "a, enlightened bv
the genuine influences of pure morality and a
sober, rational Christianity, shall all as one man.
desire her prosperity, political, economic, moral
and religious: Time alone will tell.
Minnesota thus far has been mos, nobly sustained
by her Chief Executive Magistrate, and her Con-
gressiOnal Delegate. The former has ju9iciousIu
serred her by an unremiiing and transformations
control of her Territorial and Indian interests; and
the latter, by his indeiatgable personal exerlions
and courteous, yet stringent parliamentary de-
meanOr, has obtained for her from Congress great
and important concessions. She has had also
Chief Justice Fuler) who, as long as he was
among US, continued to win golden opinions from
all classes of citizens, by tine able and impartial
manner in which lie presided over the Judiciary
of the Territory, and by the good example which
he set as worthy citizen. But alas, he has been
deprived Of his high position of usefulness, May
his mantle have fallen successor who, like
hun shall win the esteem of his fellow-citZens
and prove an able and acceptable Chef Justice
But Minnesota has not only been served with
distinction by the officers named; she has gwen to
the world an impress Of her character in the self
imposed restraint, which she has put on her citi-
zens 10y the adoption of the Maine Liquor Law.
The mild and jndicious sway Of her Governor,
and the courteous and efficient advocacy Of her
interests in the Halls Of Congress by her Dele
gate, have each contributed TO her renown abroad:
out nothing pfoba5fy has ShOWn more her moral
siren 9Th. than the determination rchich she has
erhi6ited IN her intdncy that Hercules Ike,
she WILL destroy mat hyira heated monster of
ern-iNTEMPERANCE. This noble resolve. To
people abroad, have [ reason to believe, is her
GROWING excellence; and FAR be the day, when
she shall, Esau like, be found willing to forego this
her birthrsh', by suicidal announcement Of all
the advantages which so righteous and f:r reach
ing policy IS calculated to produce. No; may
her noble career be sill onward and upward, and
gathering constant strength by her persistence in
the moral and useful which she has
marked out for herself, may she, not many years