The weekly Minnesotian., 1856-07-12

locations in the United States. Being above
the malaria districts, it has blotted from its
catalogue of diseases the bilious, autumnal,
intermittent and remittcnt fevers, which
alone is immensely in favor of it's healthful-
ness. Frosts, late or early, have never, for
the last thirty years, injured anything in
Minnesota. Corn and other vegetation for
the last seven years has, to our knowledge,
matured and dried upon the stalk before
there were any frosts to injure it.
Winter is long and dreary season, and
fuel is so dear and houses so leaky, that the
suffering, which cannot be escaped, leaves
it's mark upon the constitution. Add to this
the vast distance from market, and to our
view the counterbalance is vastly against st.
Pau's and its surroundings, in Minnesota
Territory. ANTHRAX.
What do you know of winter in this place
Mr.. "Anthrax ?' Perhaps you refer to st.
PaulS, " on the East bank of the Missouri"
We cannot say much of the climate of that
place, as we never knew there was such
place until the light of your tallow candle
! revealed it to US. But it certainly would re-
quire but a meagre amount of knowledge to
know as much about it as you do about st.
Paul.
Whose constitution did you see injured by
the winters of St. Paul | dare say, sir.
you were not in ten houses in ST. Paul, and
are not very competent judge of their
tightness.
The balance is vastly against st. Paul, on
account Of its distance from market is it
How, then, thou luminous dead light, is ST.
Anthony going to get along SO well ? Why,
sir, your foresight is perfectly astounding.
1t is needless to comment further on the
above. 1t is only one of the rawlings of the
many eight by ten land spectators who
annually flock here with a view to get rich
from other peoples labor, and find to their
chagrin the ground occupied by men of more
foresight and energy than themselves.
We have not the pleasure of Mr. An
thrax's" acquaintance, but he shows his
ears too plainly not to know ahat he is, if
we are debarred from knowing who he is.
w Z oiOuiu ScI MN oOWii dS some L nllaUCi-
phia snob or gambler, or q dealer in
small wares in very small way, who, in
order to secure a bad debt, had once upon
a time, been forced to take some lands in
the state of Pennsylvania, which lands
others afterwards discovered to be full of coal
and iron, which made him rich man. His
neighbors puff him into the belief that it was
his business foresight and shrcwdness that
gained his fortune for him, and he be
lieyes it. lie, as many others before him,
takes it into his head that it would be
grand speculation to come to St. Paul and
enter for dollar and quarter an acre, all
the land adjoining the town plot, wait for it
to rise in value, sell out, and realise a for
tune. For this purpose lie takes his carpet
bag and hundred dollars, and journeys
hither with determination, that if lie likes
the country he will buy it, but finds the
lands that his imagination lad spcculatcd in
so freely, and the fortune that he hal cut
out for himself in the hands of others who
know It's value, and are not to be cheated
out Of it. lie then, to vent his spleen
makes SLY jack OF himself as Anthrax"
does. NITRATE OF SILVER