The Minnesota pioneer. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. Territory) 1849-1855, 1852-09-16

such large class Of our visitors require hotef
as large, and as well kept as the Planters House at
| ST. Louis, and at the prices, would be well
sustained here, during four months, for a certainty
Whether such house could be sustained well enough
during the rest of the year, to warrant the outlay OF
such establishment is the question. Yet season
houses kept up in various parts of the country,
aud are made to pay. Two of the principal houses
in the notch of the White Mountains, in New Hamp-
shire afford luxurious fare the best city hotels,
though the boarding season is short here. Ac-
commodatious make customers, and when our hotels
shall DC as inviting our climate and scenery, why
might we not calculate ON receiving every summer,
that large class of wealthy tourists from the South,
living in The valley OF the Mississippi, who now spend
their summer. in the Eastl Nothing bat the liquor
law as suggested b. the Demordt, could prevent il
for the Dsmocrai regards Minnesota, somebody
else does watering places '' Places where certain
kinds of people to drink wine AMI BRANDY. -
That, however, sh,ul prevent, for according to
ycccat decisions in Maine, quoted in alother anti
Gle, visitors may bring enough with them to treat
themselves, and the cold.water folks besides.
! Our hotels have been well sustained this summer.
But since the low stage of water in the river, their
custom has been falling away. Some of them, We
are sorry to hear, are losing money. There Is no
prospect this advanced stage of the season, that
many more warni-wcathcr visitors will appear
What will be the solace of our hotels till the Legsla-
ture meets, we don't know, unless it may be in the
following new invention copied from exchange;
a Yankee has invented new and cheap plan for
boarding. Onc of the b)arClers mesmerscs the rest,
and then eats hearty neal--the mesmeilsed being
satisfied from sympathy.
PRETTY FAlR.-'.What is the worst kind Of fair
for man to live on! Warfare We should say,
the tavern fare bctwc ST Paul and Prairie du Chen
by the land route. Traveller, did You stay at
Beef river, branch OF the Chippcwa!-a place term
ed Beef river il in erision, because there is no
beef therc-''ta-uS nan iartnfo2'
The sta,eman kept appetites to very fine ed ye
which indeed were not dull bciorc---ly telling US
that should that night, put up at the Beef river
house Drenclcd and cold, at about nile at nigh,,
we ratified pole bridge and drove up the ho-
tel. We will not dctaiu you, reader, with wicked
exclamations,. but with short description. The
hotel the only house within perhaps twenty miles
Of the site where it stood and 1t mere log
shantce. II had two apartments Only, insdc-most
of its room being outsde, when lay the hoor,
we could, through the logs, plainly sec. Each room
was scant ten feet square. Seventeen Of us lodged
there one night. But ~ pass to agreca-
be subisct--it will not be the Black river house.
ng,,nitn! ATHCRST.
MOSQUITOES AND hath been said,
that g the first tna a u,usquto bites, h dies
Whether this was said u fact or BY way of threat,
as with concomtant slap and blast your eyes, Is not
clear. Another person has added by way of improve
ment ,naiiciously, we fear: -" What pity the same
isn't true CT the lawyers" The text lads us to re-
mark that the mosquitoes year y, as well rs at
this particular Of the year, becoming less. In
deed there have been fewer in St. Paul this season,
than any season before. Upon the hypothesis of the
text, it is to be presumed that dmintion in the
numbers, has been oaly apparent, however, and not
rcal-that the usual army have appeared and had
their day. but their days shortened by of
their having people to bite A to the lawyers,
say. and somewhat in a spirit Of triumph, too,
that our lawyers do and will die from the
cause and that in their case Goldsmith's dstich,
"Thc dog, he BIT
The doc 1t was that dedo
does not apply 10 the profession in Minnesota. We
nevel had more lawyers than now, and they were
never in frcr way to live--in their way.
/ THE ST. ASTHo.y ExpREss-Wc have not,
for several weeks read in that journal Of any steam
boat arrivals, that point real Chat is by towne or
poe) ina, mary Gas in tho mirage OF anticipation
:; that devoted print does not int I'D siackcn one
inch of the hawser on whatever may justly claim as
St. Anthony's own Is for instance, unsurpassed
water power good nav gable stream--ii there were
nothing in the way--and ths highest claim to all the
commerce entered at Pigs Eye canal. 1t must be
very trying to the patience Of ST Anthony and
friend at St. Anthony city proper to Nature 50
thwated she is by Art; 10 see the port OF St. Pau.
made by Art taking in all the freights, while their
warehouse stands lone. like the Ark Ararat. The
trial the patience of the ua Der city, she observes
an ynoblc case, somewhat almoPos, termed, crying
to the patience; which Is, for wooden-iaggcd man
to have a wife given to waltzing.'
"OLD DIxoS."--A gray old gentleman, fatigucd
and horseback, crossed the river the lower land
Ing day, last week, on his way from Traverse
DIES Sioux, to ST. Paul He informed lis that long
ago as about 1920, he contracted with Lord Selhirk
thea down st. Louis, to furnish the latter with
beeves delivered at Pcabina; and that he did it
Mr.. Dixon is native of Virginia; and though he
has always led life upon the frontier Inc Of civil
zation-as he resides at the Traverse, where he
breaks prairie for Goyernnent--hc possesses the
address ola ''Firginia gentleman of the old school,,
and in this rough aud material age, it is refreshing to
look upon man, whose social qualities yet the
tingc OF the roscatc age # t'c OH Dominion. May
he enjoy life long time.
oLE-IN-THE-DAY.--A son of this DISTINGUISHED
Chippewa chieftan put mp at the American House
the other day, with the Government Agent, Major
Freddy Bcins bIckish and well dressed Indian.
it was arranged with the landlord that Hole should