The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1854-06-10
The Great Excufsien!

The Crest Excursion!
Our citizens are beginning to be on tip-toe
ssaserning the great excursion of this week.
The general query is, what shall We do with
this expected throng of distinguished citizens
from the United States! Being as we are out
Of the States. and they are more particularly
the guests Of the Rock Island Railroad Com
pany, we do not suppose they will expect us to
strain ourselves to accomplish any thing more
than We are able to well do through the agency
Impractical sense, good taste, frugal manners,
and hearty frontier greetings. Wewill all find
friends and acquaintance among the company !;
il not, we can soon make them and then let
each and every one of US be prepared to do
the best we can to amusc, inform and make
happy and comfortable those into whose COM
pany we happen to tall. In our opinion, q public
reception, or reception at the city's expense,
or general entertainment by hum-drum pro-
cessions, dinners, de-, on shore, at the expense
Of citizens, considering the great number that
will comprise the company, would be exceed
ingly disgusting to the visitors, and very vul-
gar and village-like on our part, were we to
attempt such nonsense. With the little sug-
gestion we threw out on Saturday, which we
are happy to see the Democrat endorses, and
those contained above, we rest our views of the
case for the present.
The Galena Jefiersonian, in its issue of We'd
nesday, has the following in regard to this mag
nifcsnt affair:
at might be reasonably expected that the
Company that could. and did build the Cbica-
60 Rock Island Railroad, $50 miles in length,
in less than nineteen months, would celebrate
the connection established through their instru-
mentality, between the Atlantic and the Missis-
slppi, in . fitting and appropriate manner. At
meeting OF the Directors in January last. il
was resolved to give the stockholders in the
Road and . FEW HUNDRED invited guests, an ex-
eurslon from thence, by steamboat to st. Paul
and st. Anthony Falls. To carry out the in
tent OF that resolution, the officers of the Com
pany in Chicago and along the line, ably as
sisted on the river and at Rock Island by Col,
Mig, the untiring agent, have been Industrious
~ employed in making arrangements calculat-
Cd to heighten the enjoyment of the occasion,
and crafty the curiosity of their guests The
party leave Chicago, Monday, June S.
At Rock Island they will find at the landing.
noe OF the best steamboats, in the Galena Il st.
Louis and Galena Il ST. Paul trades. upon
which they can embark. Touching at ali the
principal towns along the river, they will reach
st. Paul on the Sth, and after q DELAY of two
days to be spent in fishing sightseeing, &C.
they will return by the same route 1t is esti-
mated that at least one thousand persons will
accept Of the invitation to be of the party. For
their entertainment nothing has been spared
shat the country affords. Whatever in the way
Of fishing and game that money will Inv viii
be furnished in Western profusion. The hunt
for the great occasion.
The Rock Island Railroad Company foots all
the bills. 1t is in the programme to take each
guest at his own house, whether in New York.
BOSTON or Maine, and after having feasted, fcf.
ed and "e1cursioned" him to return him safe
sound, in good order and we'll conditioned to
the shadow Of his own vine and fig tree. wholly
at the Company expense. The entertainment
% whole IL conception worthy of Farnhap,
Sheffield, the builders of G. & R. l. Road,
and We doubt not that under their care. it will
De long remembered as the most magnificent
Amer all, the object Of the excursion, on the
part OF its projectors, is not 20 much pleasure
merely. as q desire to make q thousand more
or less, men Of capital and influence acquaint
% with the enchanting beauty, the boundles.
resources and the unexampled prosperity oftbe
Great West. They hope to be able BY showing
our vast and fertile Irairies, our productive
mines, our magnificent rivers, our fourishinp
towns and our thriving and industrious people
TO remove the suspicion which in the minds OF
eastern men has attached to Western railroads
and oil other Western Investments; and that
nope, unless We are false prophets, will be real
lied in its fullest extent