The Minnesota pioneer. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. Territory) 1849-1855, 1852-08-19
From a new Correspondent.

From new Correspondent.
Cores pOndence of the Republican.
UPPER MISSISSIPPI, July Is, 1852
EUREKA! have seen them. Lake Pepin and
the laughing waters. The dreams of childhood arc
fulfilled and now while the good St. Paul moves
quietly down the Mississippi nsoliing again the pam
Drama recently beheld with such intensity Of delight
begin to wonder if all the world will not look tame
to me hereafter.
Mnne-ha-ha! If there be such another cascade as
this il must be in tairy-land. OH the dash of that
pcaily sp'aythe bound Of the daring little stream.
and the ring Of its laugh, ii flies 10 the embrace of
the rainbow waiting for it, halfway down he who
and hears, never forget. Psychologists talk
OF the modifying influences of climate and scenery
upon the inner being; | sure ones whole life
must I've made brighte and better by wearing about
tasman, such dagucr otypc Mime -ha liza leaves
upon the memory. If there be a misanthrope or an
ennuyc hitherto incurabe, believes that there is
nothing in nature TO charm away sadness, to blunt
the edge of cold, keen reality, let him subject his
heart hydropathc treatment, this deghta Wa
teria and if he do not feel benefited by il, his is
! hopeless case,
This may be extravagant admiration, from one who
is no cOnnosser in scenery. ! had been almost
disappointed by the Falls of ST. Anthony; the water
WAS low-and those interminable logs, filing the
stream above, lying among the rocks below, and OBJ
stucting the fall tself-they do give it, fom some
tried to look at the different sheets of foam, at the
great blocks Of rock that seemed hewn out be the
foundation stones for the temple of a Titan at the
Island of Cedus among the Rapids, but there were
logs logs everywhere. Then, when a sholt drive
from lake Calhoun, gem of a lake, by the way
brought us to the little bridge waters that sun
through the dimp led eddies ina sinaton had lighted
no tourch for me; prepared To see them take a
systematic slide from the rock, with little iniIy as
possible. SO, when the f, was visible, it seemed
like stroke of enchantment, from some cfn-wand.
Mime. ha-ha Is exactly the appropriate II is
the embodied laugh of innocence no, bold or startling
at all, but purely delightful.
/ Fort Smelling holds commanding position and
overooks of the finest landscapes in the world
We had time for leismely survey, for when We
came TO the ferry, Charon was missing. We were
impatient, fearing lest the boat should leave u.s. Af
terra few vain shouts, of the company
consoled themselves by grumbling about ''Wcstern
shifessness," one two quafiing glass of brandy
and water, probably to cool their inn aticnce, while
more philosophically accommodated the font om
the base OF the bluff on which it stands. This is a
formation of sand stone, and the cIctts filled with
the nodding hare-bell, to full bloom and the dark
trailing bitter sweet. As the impregnable walls
fiowned from above, it seemed like sending a
glance into the middle ages. When stawart form
came stalking down the cliff, we had well nigh pro-
nOunced it Ceur de Lion, himself; but not is our
vertabie ferry man; he has returned from the CARR.
son, bearing tn tokens Of an inspiration. imlba-
ton there received In the rudd, glow of his face
and the sinister twinkle of his eve Probably the
Maine Liquor Law, as adopted il Minnesota is mere
y theoretical.
Foreigners say that our country has no ruins But
Fort Armstrong is growing gray, and il the ghost OF
Black Hawk only stood little further back i'll the
perspective, what mesh Of romance might be wo-
around its Businesses. And should u,iiaranisml
allow the walls of these old o.s to crunble at their
. Lie III Il
pie Nauvoo, with hieroglyphics, half moons and
crescents to look down from its fine position, in the
centre of the bold curve which the Father of waters
there forms some ''grcat unknown NAV soon gather
from the lips of ,aitsmen and pilots border Minstrel
sy that shall be surprisingly unique. The veil of the
unique Is very becoming 10 legends of heroes and
battlefield, but have had enough of NOISY abbc,s
and falling tIrrets, IN foreign literature; our own
writers must learn unfold the romance Of the new
or rather of the newly old. We have ruins upon
which the mortar is yet hardly dry where the but
tercurs and wild roses have grown over them. they
Will have interest of their oVn as we'll as the iyy-
crowned decay of the rast.
Yet might easily be deceived into the bellies
that too had our castellaed hills, when gazing
upon the strange formations Of rock in the bluffs
along the Mississippi. Sometimes ven think YOU see
exactly where the tower began to fan, and how the
arch came to be filled up with broken masses OF
rock. And may retain the Illusion if DAYLIGHT
boundary, for there ''me for sae' will be likely to
stare you om the most picturesque of craggv col
onades.
Above Dubuque, the scencr, along the liver is al
most wild when it first greeted the eve of the
pioneer. But now, that treaties ratified and land
ceded little towns in their fresh vestments of wealth
e,boafd and single, appearing upon the banI.
per, and plentiful the wee frogs after show
They who would see the upper Mississippi, as
their fancy has painted it, with unstaned waters.
and shores of unbrokcn solitude must take tn Jour
ney very soon.
What pity that the banks of this noble river could
not he preserved Of national pleasure ground
Nature to prefer it, for she has made few pro
visions for settlements and improvements here
Now and then there is fine stIip of prairie or a
shell Of habitabe earth the base OF the bluffs but
generally steep slope Of perpendicular front fiouns
upon The very idea Of civilization Ii is to be hoped
that no will ever be insane as to build CITY
upon the Wild Cat Bluffs, Or dis6gure the islands
around ola Montague qui trempe l'eau,' or the
sides Of the Soaking Mountain itself vth rail fem
ces, buckwheat and barley. Let them retain their
wild cats their rattle-snakes and their evcrgreens
and bear witness to the traveller who passes amid this
wilderness OF masnifcence, that they are among the
chief gloiies If the western world. l.. l..