Minnesota weekly times. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1854-1859, 1856-09-06
ST. ANTHoNYAND MINNEAPOLIS

ST. .xANTHONYA AND D1INNEAPOLIS
From our Regular News Cleaner
ST.. ANTHONY, August %, 1856.
MEDICINAL SPRINo.--A recent analysis of tn
water of the Chalybeate Spring, which gushes il
acopious Jet fro the bluff few yards below tn
Falls, performed by DIR. Boutillier, proves it T.
be highly medicinal. This fact has beeo conf
IDENTIFY assumed by many intelligent citizens AM
visitors, both professional and lay, from tn
strick bright ferriginous deposit in its bed, ant
was likewise proved BY a partial analysis severa
years since by DR.. C. L. Anderson. When tn
tonic virtues of this water become general.
known, in connection with the healthfulness o
our climate and the picturesque beauty Of th
Falls and its environs, what shall prevent st. An
thony from becoming the chief resort OF tina
invalitudinarian class who now annually thron:
the more cultivated shades Of Saratoga and New
port.
REAL ESTATE TRANSACTION AND PoLrrIcs.-E
L.. Hall, Esq, returned on Monday last from
hasty trip to New York city, ON business which
rumor says will yield him profit of some SlO..
600 or Sis, 900. For this ample success in a rea
estate transaction, he has the hearty congratula.
tions of eur citizens. We are all willing to &C.
cord to Mr. HIS talents as a lawyer, and the in.
tellgent enterprise and active energy Of sue.
cessful speculator but we must be permitted to
take his huge reports in regard to the favorable
prospects of his Presidential course, Buchanan,
! cum grano sails. His representations that Bu-
chanan is sure of the electoral vote of New
York, Pennsylvania, Indiana and Illinois, will do
to 'tell the marines'' or the St. Anthony Express
which no doubt will present these accounts to its
readers garnshed with all the captivating graces
of MIR. Atwater's racy pen, and with the usual
amount of swagger. We, the people, however,
would prefer relying upon the evidences of docu-
mentary proof to the contrary, already before the
court of our own judgment, rather than pre-
science, founded OF the vague suggestions and
statements of interested individuals, presented to
a mind already pledged to such conclusion, or
we might charitably presume that those new
spectacles which SO gracefully bridge his nose
have been the medium Of conveying false per-
ceptions to his mental eye.
LAND GRANT, observed in your paper few
days since the announcement of the failure of our
land grant, which you saw proper to charge upon
Messrs. Steele and Brott, whose efforts were
guided by desire to have st. Anthony named as
one of the points on one of the proposed roads,
was surprised at this. Your accustomed fair
in respect to this place had led me to suppose
that you would not be induced to join the Pio-
neer in its ill-natured fngs at St. Anthony, for
interference with business it seemed to consider
as exclusively belonging to ST. Paul. Why, let
me ask, has st. Anthony, place pointed to by
the unerring indications of nature pre-eminent-
ly the place for a railroad crossing, not a right
to be heard in relation to matter of such mag
ties, but to the entire Territory? If other points
were "ncmnated" in the grant, had not St. An
thony clear right, aye, in view of her peculiar
advantages for building, was it not the duty of
her citizens to insist on a recognition of the
claims which nature has set forth in her behalf I?
Why should she yield to st. Paul? Has tina
city cause to believe that she has q prescrr J.
tive right to monopoly of all the advantages to
be derived from federal appropriations? Ii So
let her learn that in this belief she has no the
concurrence of those whom she may reg, ,rd as
''outside barbarians." Our people woul have
been willing to leave tho place Of cross ing the
Mississippi underlined in the grant, by II .e corpo.
rate limits of any particular city. Th ey would
have been willing, that the necessity o. the case
might be satisfied, to inserted in he bill the
indefinite phrase, ''at or near the alls of ST.
Anthony" as a geographical or nat ural point,
leaving It to the local legislature or the company
that might subsequently appropriate the grant, to
determine by viatorial advantages where the road
should run and where cross the Mi ssissippi. But
they do object and rightly, to St. I,auls attempt
ing through Congressional actio, !, to force her.
self into metropolitan dignity f,y appropriating
exclusively to herself all fedora appropriations
to the detriment of every other town in the Ter
ritory. Is not this fair? m.
Yours, &c., Tom
CO We think it would have been better for
the parties interested to have let the crossing of
the road been indefinite, that, as you say, ,al
legislation could define the lines but it is a noto
rious fact, that the jealousy between St. Anthony
and St. Paul. is calculated to kill any enterprise
and so long as it is permitted to exist, SO long
will both places suffer thereby. We have hither-
to endeavored to assuage this feeling, but our
conclusions are, to let those who desire, fight it
out.-ED. ~.
In the Enem Camp,