Minnesota weekly times. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1854-1859, 1856-09-06
'.The fun orbed neon her light wasiponrins

On purlng stream and torrent rvarng'' ~
And regular Minnesota moon at that--a big
| round, glorious rhoon--a moon far away in ths
southern horizon, perhaps, but near enough TO dis
tinguish the features Of the solitary individual
who thereon ssholds FORTH and who alone car
tell how much green cheese enters into the com.
position of that punctual attendant upon oul
aristocratic planet,-a moon, beneath whose mild
persuasive radiance, the man who couldn't and
wouldn't talk love and sentiment to the capti-
waiting compound of calico and hoops hanging on
his arm, ought to be consigned for one night to
that Calcutta black-hole, the st. Paul Jail,-a
moon that would cause ones heart to melt and
ssrun out'' in search of another heart to melt in
company moon highly beneficial to new pota-
toes, huge water melons and unhappy dogs-in
fact, ssa moon as is moon.' 1t was beneath the
combined influence of such a moon that Nat and
myself sat on the roof in full enjoyment of a
couple of very large, but by no means very weak
cigars; ssblowing cloud" second in size only to
that escaping from the smoke-pipes of our old
craft. We puffed in silence. "Nary word" in
terrupted our meditations, until perhaps excited
by copious lbations of moonshine and cigar smoke,
my usually volatile companion gave vent to the
thoughts so long pent up in his swelling heart,
and &c promulgated :" somewhat after the follow
ing fashion, "My venerable friends said he, s'this
reminds me of Bayard Taylor's account of his
travels up the Nile, where he speaks of the dreamy
indolence-the ssdolce for niate" attendant upon
the voyage up that renowned old stream, and de-
clares that although dependent upon favorable
winds and the towing capacity of sundry dirty
Arabs for propelling power, yet he could have
endured such a life for months without any feel
ing of WEAKNESS or enaui. Now it strikes me
that one need not go to Egypt to experience sim
liar sensations, and that our own old Mississippi
in o low stage of water offers as wide-though
perhaps more shallow feld--for the entertainment
Of the same feelings. And yet have great de.
sire to see old Cairo, and to travel up the Nile
before some fllibustering President, some fast
embodiment of Young America sends colony of
live Yankees, with their enterprising sons and
daughters to carry innovation and improvement,
speculation and corn whisky into that as yet de-
lightfully conservative and ancient land; !; before
Young America with infinite gusto drives his two
forty dromedaries through the streets Of old Cairo
and has shigh old time" laying off additions to
that venerable town; before the venerable Pyr-
amids are converted into frst-olass hotels, with
bill of fare as long as youthful lawyers first
argument; before ON eye is bored through Cleo
patra's Needle, and that ancient pile devoted to
the manufacture of patent shot; before some
cute specuator levels off the top of old Sphynx's
head and establishes a Lager Beer garden on the
summit of his venerable Uranium; before stern
wheel steamers plough up the muddy waters of
the Sacred Nile, and wake the echos of depopu-
lated Thebes with their shrill whistles. want to
make the acquaintance Of, and have smoke with
the Egyptian in his natural state, before be has
learned to masticate the ubiquitous Yankee Beef
steak, and to imbibe through wheaton straw the
enticing cobbler,; before their wives are indoc-
trinated into the mysteries of coacocting pumpkin
pies and jelly cakes; before their sons praclice
the delectable science of swearing at mark, and
and their daughters carry on desperate Airtations
in big hoops and scuttle- shaped comets" o,,s.
Yes, ~ said Nat, growing patriotic and excited,
$50 mote ID be.--Old fogy Bluebeard may smoke
his ancestral Chbork and prophecy s'smash ups .
but Young America the while will run away with
his daughter and populate the land. After colo
nizing tie Sandwich Islands and annexing Cuba,
the Universal Yankee Nation must. undertake to
civilize the Egyptians, and to teach them the
divine art of making money, love and wooden
nutmegs."-- vssg !. o asa.i aial uoa,
At this point vamoosed, leaving Nat making
faces at the ''coy moon" and piling on the agony.
Half an hour thereafter he came in with cold in
his head, and q hole burnt in the top of his
hat,-"a natural sequence, he said, ,ssto sparkling
in the small hours on the roof Of steamer.
q Yours, &c. A.