The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1855-05-05
NorEs EAsTwARD---No. !.

NOTES EASTwARD---No. 1. rar
A friend, who left st. Paul for New York,
with his family about week since, sends us
the following as the first installment OF the
notes Of his journey eastward.
On BOARD LADY FRANKLIN, flooding up.
MEssRs. EDs:-Boreas is rampant-a real
6lo,oer, and seems determined to drive us down
without fuel saving of expense certainly, but
Capt. Malin (byc the bye, an acquisition to our
river packets, a gentlemanly and able officer
is determined to fire up for a speedy transit
so all hands and the polite Clerks, ed. W. Hal
liday and Orrin Smith,) are piling in timber Of
last winters cutting, the connecting c(h)ords
between town and country. There are several
voyageurs upon the hill yonder, indicating by
the only generally understood language at Ba'
bel-signs, that they are anxious to join us in
our downward course, and we answer by the
digitary type, that they can come. Alas one
of the party is evidently inclined to obesity, OF
else she like some of the Woolwich bumboat
women, carries Struggled goods about her-but
she is gaining by degrees, and grows beautiful
ly larger-they are aboard-and we are OF
AS we leave the bank We notice that the trees
are about to follow suit and lcaue too. Nature
looks green. and so do our new arrivals. Stem
tors lungs never pumped up louder notes than
that young one produces because his mama
won't let him hammer the mirror, in which be
is tired of admiring himself Speaking Of notes
L. O's new issue don't pass so far below the
city limits as this-other currency needed fol
drinks.
The wild flowers are springing gaily from
their winters bed, awaking with a smile ia
cheer earth's tired pilgrims, in the hope that
after life's litful fever" they too shall bloom
in new life, warmed by a brighter Gun +: the
birds carol gaily as they skim from bluff to
bluff, from bough to bough, teaching us the
lesson that we too should feel the gratitude
they thus proclaim, for the mercy that protects
us and them: the islands are putting on their
summer garb: the prairies bloom with beauty
the hills are rcdOlent with natures own per.
formances; and all around, above, below, are
new epringing beauties, new forming praises
Strange that amid all these beauties. with a
heart capable of enjoying them to the full, with
a dear one beside us to appreciate them as we'll
that there should sadness steal over the mind
when we think of those we leave in our West
orn home" But fortune favoring, we will be
book agen."
"The shades nOcturne J. draw around u.s.
The isles of beauty" become dim and uncer-
tain in their outlines, and the sentinel trees
seem sleeping on, their arms and trunks (nO pun)
From the prairies flash the fires that run wildly
over their surface-the sparks from our steam
erirush forth like Pleiades from their spheres,
and fall like them to rise no more-mimic stars
sinking into oblivion.
But sentiment avaunt. We have found an
original-he of the pea-jacket minus a vi
zior: Mississippi boatman of some twenty
years standing, or rather FOunging, for he has
not ambition enough to he upright. He Tolls
through life, and talks as if his words lay at
such an infinite depth below articulation that
he could not summon them at will--his existence
must be sort of waking Rip Van Winkleism.
Nature has made some men to be laughed at.
She must ever be on the broad grin herself at
this specimen. Captain, Mate, and all hands
cannot move him beyond his natural speed,
some four hours in mile. Barnum should
have him to exhibit, as the nearest animate to
the inanimate.
The Sabbath was ushered in by ringing Of
were they Church bells: but
they were the summons to mans first business
of the day-breakfast They have rather an
inviting sound to US, so we 60 with the current,
and end this our No. l, of "Notes Eastward"
A. ID. M.