The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1853-11-12
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AhI MALS.-We dislike very mucn 10 say
anything on this subject, or to offer any re-
marks that may be construed into fault-inding
with the "powers that be-" fas We render our
selves liable to be charged by some hard head
who goes in for the party Fright or wrong"
with making complaints because we are not
friendly to the Administration. But 1--WE must
say what we must say" and will say, that ever
since the Distributing Post Office has been re-
moved from Galena to Dubuque, our whole Sou
them mail has continually been from two days
to week behind the time it should have been
received. Sometimes portion Of it has, dur
ing the past summer, found its way to Prairie
du Chen, and been carried from thence to Still
water in this Territory, on horseback over the
mail route between those places. Why the-D.
P. o. was ever removed from Galena to Du-
buque We have never been able to discover, and
Postmaster General Campbell has failed to give
single satisfactory reason. 1t may be, and we
hope it will be, seeing that the Postmaster Cen
cral persists in keeping this Office at Dubuque
that when the Illinois Central Railroad shall
have been completed to the latter point, Du-
buque will be full as good place for that Office
for the convenience of the Upper Mississippi as
Galena. But all this does not excuse Mr. Camp
bell from moving it year to soon, if it was ne
cessary at all. Then again the Department has
not paid scarcely any attention to the wants of
the different places in the Territory, especially
places along the Mississippi above St. Paul.
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service at oil north of st. Paul. and the people
of st. Anthony and Benton County have been
obliged to get their mail matter the best way
they could. Lately we learn there has been
service ordered to Fort Ripley once week, and
permission is given to supply the offices along
the route. The n. W. Democrat may well re-
joice that ST. Anthony is on the aforesaid route
because they are now sure Of getting mai,
once reck. 1t seems that all argument with
the Department about the wants of the people
of st. Anthony and Benton had failed, and I'M
til it was discovered that there was a Fort near
the head of the Mississippi that the Government
was not in communication with, the Department
paid no sort of attention to their Just demands
Now the idea that st. Anthony, a town of 1000
inhabitants, situated only eight miles from ST.
Paul, the seat of government of the Territory
place of great Importance in the Northwest,
can only have her mail once week, when it
shall please the Government to hold commune
cation with its post in the northern part Of
the settled portion of the Territory, is ridicu-
lous, and we cannot see how they have borne it
so patiently. Post Offices were established on
the west side of the river more than year
since, but not till within few weeks has Uncle
Sam ever given them mail, and only then
when it was found necessary to have communi-
cation with the new fort Oh the Minnesota riv-
er. The people of the west side have the same
cause of congratulatiOn that the people of St.
Anthony and Benton have, that Uncle Sam has
Fort beyond them.
A LIFE PIcrURE.-Ihc following beautiful
sketch of the birth and growth of Civilization
in the West, is from the pen of Frederka Bre-
mer's new work, entitled Homes of the New
World" 1t will be recollectcd by our old citi-
zens that Miss Bremen spent some ten days in
st. Paul in $780, as the guest of Ex-Gov RAM
sey. and visited the Falls of St. Anthony and
other places of interest in the neighborhood.-
She was highly delighted with the picturesque
beauties of the place, and was often observed
walking out alone, along the bluffs of the Mis-
sissippi, contemplating its natural scenery
Who does not see in the following picture the
rise and progress of many of the great cities of
the West but more particularly of our own ST.
Paul, the future Metropolis of the Northwest :?
"Your majesty has certainly often read de-
scriptons of the wonderful waterfall. Niagara ::
of the almost miraculous prairies of the West,
where the sun mirrors his image in an ocean of
sunfiowers waving in the wind of the rapid
growth of States and cities in the Great West !:
of the great river, Mississippi and the gold
mines Of California. and many other lions of
the Great West. But less known are the first
steps of cultivation, its first impress the will
derness; and this it was together with the great
spectacle of Nature, which most attracted nv
earliest attention for it is amusing to observe
the first steps of the child, and how he advanc-
es and grows to mans estate. 1t is an image
worthy the regards of motherly queen. The
trees fall before the axe along the banks of the
riyer-ard rivers everywhere abound in North
Americas little Lighthouse is erected on the
skirts of the forest and banks of the river; a
woman stands in the doorway with a little club
by child in her arms. The husband has dug up
the earth around the house and planted maize !:
beyond Craze couple of fat cows, and some
sheep in the free, uninclOsed meadow land
The husband tills the land and Mills the cows,
and performs the whole out of door. The wife
remains in the house, and takes care on child
and home nor can any woman do it better
The cleanliness and order of her person are re-
Elected by everything within the house. No
neater nor more excellent home can be found
on the face of the earth than that of the Amer
lean woman. even Of the poorest. No wonder
that the husband is happy within it-that the
American knows few other pleasures than those
which he finds in his home, no other goal of bliss
on earth than that of possessing good wife
good home. The log house has been erected
in the forest, and not far from it are erected, in
the same way, two or three other g-houses
they are all furnished with excellent beds, and
there always lies on the shelf Bible, hymn
book. and some other religious books A little
further off stands somewhat larger log-housc,
where dozen or two children--the half wild
offspring of the wilderness--are assembled
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