The daily Minnesota pioneer. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1854-1855, 1854-10-10

Indian tribes, and st. Paul has the benefit
all this. Four weekly and four daily newspa
pers are published there already, and all are
doing well. Yet, after all, we do not like st.
Paul's bluffs. Something of an elevation is
but that at st. Paul is too high,
bold and precipitous. We presume, however,
in time it will be shaved down.
There are severalother towns of note within
80 or 40 miles of st. Paul. We notice few
of them: .f
l. StiHrator This Is on the north, or left
bank OF the st. Croix, about 30 miles above
its mouth 1t contains about 1900 inhabit-
ants. 1t is place of some Importance Oh
several accounts. 1t is at the head of steam
boat navigation. It's numbering interest is
very great, and it has an extensive country
back of it, whose trade here seeks an outlet.
2. Prescott is at the mouth Of the ST. Croix.
1t is young, thriving town.
3. Shakopee. This place is 80 miles above
the mouth of the Minnesota river. 1t has not
yet been laid out over year. yet it contains
a population of more than 800 inhabitants.
Buildings are going up constantly. The land
on which it is built has not yet been surveyed
the founder, consequently, holds only pre-
empton title ; but that is considered as good
as amy, and he is disposing OF lots the same as
if he had government title. 1t has spien-
did country around and back of it, and cannot
well avoid being place of Importance event
uay.
A. Redwing is on the Mississippi, about five
miles above the head of Lake Pepn. 1t is
one of the best sites, naturally, for town, on
the river 1t has a rich, extensive country
back of it, for its support. Although but re-
Gently laid out, yet it has already over fifty
families, and the cry is, -" still they come" 1t
is the county seat, and a land Office has just
been there established. Like Shakopee, the
land Oh which it is built, when We passed down,
had not been entered.
A word as to health and climate. We SUP
pose We converscd with hundred persons,
now residents of Minnesota, about the climate.
They were originally from all parts of the
UnOn-some as far south as New Orleans
and the answer was about like this i" Yes VIC
have pretty cold climate here there is NJ
question of that but l don't feel it half as
much as | used to in Illinois. After winter
sets in here, it keeps steady. 1t is rot one
day hot, and thawing, and cold as blue blazcs
the next; and you can make calculations about
your outdoor work with as much precision as
you can in the summer time. ! had rather
by all odds, winter here than farther south"
We say this is the universal testimony and
what everybody says, must be true. And for
the same reason, precisely, we believe it to be
a healthy country-perhaps the healthicst por-
| ton OF the Union. Lawyers fatten there, bus
| physicians starve, as q general fact, thank
Heaven. We know two or three men who
left this State with the fever and ague. They
had had it for months, and said they could not
rid themselves Of it; but when they migrated
to Minnesota, and breathed its bracing air,
they became sound and healthy. 1t is unques,
tionably very free from hillary and miasmatic
influences.
Mechanics wages of all kinds are good
tEerc-so is common everyday labor. Pro-
ducc, though much is raised, is high and finds
a ready market right at its own doors, owing
to the tide Of emigration flowing thitherward.
the great numbers engaged in Numbering, the
/ United States troops stationed above St. Paul,
and the vast numbers OF Indians who roam.
through the country. In some parts game
abounds. 1t is the greatest country for fish we
ever saw, unquestionably. When we passed
through Lake Pepin, it was literally alive
with them; and we were told that the brooks
and small streams are fHll of fine spccklcd
trout. One H,ornidg, while the boat was lying
! to at Prairie IacrOss, We caught enough silver
catfish and sackers to supply the table with
fish the next meal.
TO conclude. We hear Of several persons
and families who design going to Minnesota,
to live, from this county. Though we have
said that we believe it is good country, and
have described it in warm terms, yet We would
have no one go there, expecting to find it n
heaven. Some people there though doing
well, are discontinued. "A company passed
down on the same boat, bound for Kansas and
Nebraska, and we heard of others en- route for
California. Yon will be subject to disap-
pointmcnts, losses, and failures, there, as welt
as elsewhere. You will find mean people
there, and good. as well as here. You will
find more Indians up that way than down
here. We saw several squads cncamped upon
the river banks; the boys and squaws were
engaged in fishing, while the braves were off
hunting. One brave was dressed in full Ind-
an forgery, as brave as a young Winnebago
generally is, and IS straight as the arrows Of
his wellflled CULVER.