Minnesota weekly times. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1854-1859, 1856-07-12

| Inc Olstance from Jne TWO Clues DN ohc iou1c 10
nine miles, By the other six. Boats have beer
unable TO run on the Upper Mississippi. above
the Falls, for the past two weeks in consequence
of low water. Property at st. Anthony is held
nearly rs high at st. Paul.
6. "Anthrax'' looked into every shop in st.
Paul and saw no business! lie must have worn
goggles, or the poor fellow had been drinking
too freely. He inquired of Phi ladelphian who
had been in the city year, and fornd 'his story
one Of sorrow and disappointment" lie wished
to sell out at ii heavy discount, and found every
one else in the same conditinn! !!
But we pause. a correspondent, well ac-
quanted with the writer, and Phadelphian.
has taken the matter in hand, ard thus throws
dust on this bogus Satrer-ed coal dealer, the
author Of this malicious AMI living article:
! EDITOR TINES I've notice an article in the
Philadelphia Ledger. of June 2jth, over the sig
nature of ore Anthrax" "a person well known TO
former Phil .delphians who res de here, whic
aroused their just contempt ut his impudent
and false statements in regard to ST. Paul. From
the station of ''penny- Liner" to the ownership
| of considerable property in one of the suburbs
| of Philadelphia, be has climbed, by means Of
the Anthracite ladder, to gddy height. Pufed
with mis- veal and importance, he comes TO St.
Paul, doubtless intending &c he liked the place)
to buy it and take it home with him. but to his
| infinite surprise, his arrival WAS not noticed by
| any of the PAPERS, neither did he Eirl any one
willing to bow 10 his great intention of purchas-
Ing the whole place. but merely treated rs any
other stranger visitor, should be.
| The facts of bis so ourn are these: lie was
not here one day! not ttrentytour hcursl and
yet he gives long description Of, and settles the
fate of two cities; proposes canal, in compari-
son with which the great Sauit Sre Marie canal
! is II mere toy! He comments Oh our agriculture,
deprecates our navi vigation, misrcprescnts to-
pographv, distorts our mcteorolosy, biames US
| for our insickiferouSncs., finds dreadful blanks
in our MYTHOLOGY, gives us II thesis upon our
health, ana makes the great discovery that our
winters have an effect upon our constitutions.
But our greatest fault, misfortune, and inability
| to do, and to he ANYTHING, is because he thinks
we are too far from market Philadelphia of
coursr). In short, Mr.. Anthrax writes about
Cht! CAC'pe tHC chia HS
knowledge Of, which is coal. Doubtless had he
found vein here, he would have been please
to think better of Minnesota and its resources.
His lamentable ignorance is foreshadowcd in
the very beginning of his article. HIS ortho-
gralhy is not only vicious, but his geo graphical
position of the place is most extraordinary! "On
the east bank of tie Missouri, 4Jo miles above
~
1t is possible that his much travelling, and mental
as well us his chirographical excrtiOns have con-
fused his memory, or is it attributable to liquid
that sometimes craZes the brain and makes a
fool of the man. lie says, cat the foot of the
town extends a wide swamp which at high water
forms what they cab Il soo Of the main river.''
The 'ssloo." as he calls the bottom. holds Just
the position to St. Paul that the fat below the
Navy Yard holds to Philadelphia, only instead of
being overAewn twice in twentyfour hours,
it never occurs more than once in twelve months,
and frequently not for several years together,
only III very high spring floods. 1t is occupied
By saw mills, as steamboat yards, founiries, &C..
and is not swamp enough to prevent al kinds Of
carts and drays traversing it ut any timc.
''Thc ascent from theriver is prec.pitous," !" he
tells us. The grade is less than from the Dela-
ware at Market street wharf. "Navigation is
Troublesome in the usual dry season for thirty
miles below, and often for much greater distance !;
iu late years this evil Increases A new dis
covery for Mr.. Anthrax! The Mississippi is run
ming dry But even if It does, are we not, even,
starting railroad from Dubuque TO ST.
Paul? and il Anthrax does not visit again we
the ra:lroal is completed.
Again he tells us, g St. paul's has some louse
of brick lately finished, and a few stone ware
honses - another mistake. Some of the first
,uiliings erected were of brick and sione Only
the mpossibilty Of supplying the demands for
brick, forced the rapidly increasing population to
| cree. frame dwellings. One of oar best hotels
is of brick, and has been built over three wears.
| Ansther hotel Of BRICK, about the size of La
pierre house on Broad-st., will he open in Sep
tember, costing $4,000. Sir Oracle says: ga
great deal Of Philadelphia capital has been sent
| here by persons who never saw the place, with
discretion to invest ;''-and again, These in
vcstments will bear looking after, while they
may vet be visible" How kind in .s s!Anhrax''
to come all the way ont here to look after Phila-
deiphia capital! What strange disnscrestel-
ness in our Gall yer Alas he could find no
one to give him - idea,'' that he might Sc see
| the base Of such hope ever getting along
| in the world" at our sistcr-c:ty. st. ANTHONY.
he found a $. thing" AMI says: g The Fails are
cheaply canalled around through fiat prairie.
with steamboat locks, ana tr1n, expense will
make the navigation as good as it now is ~ ST.
! PauFs." Why does not the acute Anthrax, in
the plentitude of his wisdom, see the usc,essness
| of 6 canalIng around the Fails" if the Mssis-
sippi is hardly navigable within "thrty miles,
of ST. Paul, s. and sometimes further 90 TO in
vest in such speculation would be worse, at
! least as bad as that which he thinks the Phila-
dephia capitalists mnst suffer. We have ne
doubt Anthrax would like the appointment OF
| experimenting the removal II oil the Philadcl-
phia capital, either to the vicinity of the north
end of Broad street or else towards Pottsville.
Or in place Of such appointment, may be he
would accept the position of instructor Of whis.
| ting to the unfortunate capitalists be so commits
crates.
| lie is not one 'swho constitctonaly thinks luck
and happiness, like heaven, must be off some
where, any place but a: home." No indeed ; moi
he! His luck was among the coal fields, his hap.
| piness also; and he has almost, if not quite
! made up his mind that he will lind heaven in the
same place!
''The whole country, for ten miles, out to the
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out in city lots, and out lots of FIVE acres.'