The Minnesota pioneer. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. Territory) 1849-1855, 1852-05-20
BY A WELLER,

cast Oft at 10 minutes past A. NJ. Now the no.
bl. Tiger stems the current-faces the elephant,
she moves up ifom The Lower landing, altering a
shcr bark grow, al every bound she makes.
Heavy freight on board---two barrels, ba les, u
bundle of nailrois, pillow, yeariins heiier, one
gross Of gimleis--and more freight to take on at
Upper 1t. Paui--crowded with passengers, a per
feet im IN the cabin 10 sen;s with . ladies be-
tween them and one TO carry j., ten; beside deck
passengers, so that bali the number Will have to
sleep on The Aoor; fortunately took along with me
my wire bel-bug bars.
Ten O'clock. The Tiger is making great deal
Of siearn gong ii wiki perfect looseness, yelp-
ias every Il'nP, Ike "A fox hoand. Passengers
getting frightened; story circulating amongst
them, that a bet is pcadin: between the T'ger
and tn, swiiiest of oar Concord coaches, u
race from the head Of RanIlti's stairs. Lower
Landing, to Blbcock's warehouse, Upper Land
ing, corrooOrated by the fact that coach with a
vapory looking team is visible, dying like a spec
trail shadow OF Cnoch's translation, along up
Bench street. The Tiger IS gaining on it; afraid
Of blowing up; engineer has sent the boy TO the
Capt. for twine and pu,ty--soma screw loose, no
doubt; can't h IN the men, for they are AL tight.
Half past IL, A. NJ. have reached the lower
point cf Raspberry Island; Capt. says there is no
iry wood on the isand-used TO be old punk in
the house at the mouth Of the slough 10 Upper
Landing hut is now burnt up--too.i quarter
Of a cord in the morning-thinks 1t may take "
The Upper Landing, if there should happen 10 be
no green bass sticks amongst it; Capt. swears he
VIII burn a bunch Of shingles lhere, mark ed ".
f. c. (NIanaato Fur CO.. if the s'eaiu should
slack; still gaining on the coachcome 10 where
The blnf IS nearly perpendicular the right,
havin. passed ALREADY the Central llouse-,err-
be strong current, bat gained on the coach twice
the length Of the boat in running from tie Central
TO the fremont House, (Xish Capt. Wakefield
was there TO witness the rIce--bcats any RAINING
since Stiiiinan's defeat) appearance OF gale
away UP the river: Capt. swears he won, tie up;
100 Old d salt for that; has navi.atej Lake pepin
10 storms, when the TIGER hid 10 reef her stea m
/ pipe an cut down Mr. chimneys; wen, on hurri-
cane dec, with Capt. who "a 10 oking with spy
glass; Capt. THINKS we saal. make Babcock's be-
fore shutdown. Capt. and passenger had dispute;
passenger sat Oh middle Of hurr .cane deck, read
ng M.zcppa; flaw Of wind, Capt. cried cut ''irm
the boat!' Capt. slil that Aforesaid Passenger
w.s determined to blow up the Tiger; that out of
mischief, he kept moving his 1uid Of tobacco
from the s.ar5ottd 70 the arboard side Of his
molth ana back, distai5in! equilibrium, kept
boa5 rolling; danger Of collapse &c, threatend 10
pa. him a>hore-but the shore Of the island was
under water, and the bluff on DE right, was the
perpen1ca lar rock, down Which once Jumped the
solder, poor Riley who owned the bear now
boarding n the Fren,on. House. Capt. ordered
heilsr to be tied by the legs aud thrown flat, to
keep from rocking the boat; Capt. says it is i'm
possible - get the actual speed Of The Tiger oat
Of her. unless she is kept steady and trimmed :;
engineer ries steam gsge, plenty Of water and
toiiing hot.
Half past II. Dinner is over The sublime
scenery on our right. still appears; porpend cular
b!ud.; very unique aspect; looks Wild, one pas
senger though, he saw ! white bear Ear up the
cliffs
Ore O'Clock p NJ Reached the upper end Of
Raspberry js'And-waier evidently rising, fer We
find il very steep-Iiscr i: all Of a laiher Capt.
out with his spy glass; storm pissed around, s!i
gaining on coach: horses ey idenily tagged out
Capt. thinks they may play foul by changing
teams; Capt. discerns, ahead through his spy
i,l,, -, L..
sunk; finally concludes they are two ware houses
sunk, recoliecis now where we are, saws we are
al the mouth Of the slough an that he can see
very large building whic. mus, De Daniels and
Wasson's hotel, in the hollow, looks like a straw
state house, and thinks he some plank stilled
up on piles, and nsaSh-tn, that mus, be the pile
driver, and that Ia short, are approaching the
PIPER landing so called, probably, because " hen
done, ii Will lie u story above The water
Two o'clock p. NJ. Tiger still rushing ahead ;
coach distanced; entered the mouth Of The slough
plenty oil wafer every where; don't see " hy they
need TO sound for Brawlev's ferry skifi: MANY
teams and pedestrians visible along Bench stree, /;
every body seems 10 be flying st Paul is GER
ialnly very fast town, to outrun a steamboa,
Capt says he see flock Of new houses
through his lass, securing away up the plain, to-
ward The cave and climbing up MCann's bluff.
Three O'Clock r. NJ. Still moving Up the
slough; rather cautiously, this region abounds in
pine logs and aw-mills-here is where the old
DIR. Franklin No. /, hid battle with the Boom ;
have run long time now amongs, logs. logs, logs
and as Maj. Noah would say, "pretty-nigh- hn
Cor prc'erea nihil,') approaching Fulier's saw
mill. The Tiger is used to The woods, never
minds he logs. Her boiler is quite hot, she has
! now fairly get her tail up.