Minnesota weekly times. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1854-1859, 1856-08-23
GoDEY's OPINION OF ST. PAUL.

LA. Cooley, ESQ.,. who has published the Lady
Book for twenty-seven years, recently made a tril
to the west, and in the September number of hi
Magazine be thus speaks of our city,
DEAR READER: We have been abroad. After
twenty seven years. confinement to the desk, W,
determined to enjoy a months holiday. We left
Philadelphia for Altoona, where, BY the way, there
is splendid hotel. delightful rooms, clean BEDS
| and good attendance. Anybody could stay at AL.
toons for month, and be pleased with it. Thence
we went to Pittsburgh; thence to Cleveland, the
most beautiful town in the United States, con.
tanning more fine houses than any city of twice
its size thence to Chicago, the wonder of towns
and good people-thanks to our friends Wallace
and McNally, we became pretty we'll acquainted
with it; thence to Dunleth and thence by steam
boat to Saint Paul, where we were most kindly
received BY our friends A. g. Smith, ESQ.,, late OF
the &c Free Pree," and r. Nj. Newson, ESQ.,, of the
IS Daily Times" Our thanks are due also to our
90 I'd friends DR.. T. I. Mann and bis amiable lady.
Well, Saint Paul is wonderful place; though
the growth of but few years, it has several
stores quite fine as any we have in Philadelphia,
and equally handsome equipages. If we live we
should like to visit Is .soins ten years hence. 1t
has also an excellent hotel, the Winslow House,
kept by Mr.. E. A. Deuel.. We received every at
tention from the excellent host and his handsome
clerk, MIR. Darrow. We recommend the WnslOw
to every traveller. We have already personally
recommended some of our friends there. Our
first reception by the landlord convinced US that
we had met with gentleman. Thence we left
for St. Anthony, where we expected to be solitary
and alone, but could not get into the hotel until
some one vacated room. Beautiful place is St.
Anthony; and a very kind friend to travellers is
our estimable agent, MIR. Wales. Over the prairie,
rich with its gaudy flowers, by the way of Mime
haha Falls and Fort Smelling, we returned to st.
Paul. More friendly greetings again, and a wish
for our further stay. Retracing our steps to Dun
leith, by the Mississippi River, We had fine oppor-
tunity of seeing that portion OF the scenery OF the
river that we missed on our night travel up; and
splendid indeed it is. Why is it that so few per-
sons have written ANYTHING about the scenery of
the upper Mississippi? 1t cannot he surpassed
in this country; at many points it is equal in
majesty to the Hudson; and altogether it is supe
ror to that beautiful river, because it is more
diversified. Many of our citizens take voyage
TO Europe to see the Rhine. A traveller informed
US that he had seen the Rhine, and it only excelled
the Mississippi by it's wonderful old castles. And
yet, added he, it requires very slight stretch of
the imagination to turn those towering rocks into
old castles; and we could well imagine that, for
more castellated-looki rocks we never saw. But
independent of this the interest is constantly kept
alive by the landing at the various towns on the
route; the discharge and taking of freight on
board the associations connected with the former
occupants of the ground; the Indians, many of
whom you see on the route; their traditions and
old villages; and their singular mode of burial,
AS can yet be seen in an old Indian village; and
by the wooding up OF the boat at various stations.
We can only add, bad we the time, we would
start again and at once for a trip on the upper
Mississippi. The boats are excellent ones, the
fare good and our friend, Captain Lodwick, of
the Galena, particularly attentive to the ladies.