The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1856-07-19

Riper Sceasry-Fashion's Fools numbering
"A Thunosr Storm upon Tie Mississippi.
IS On THE UPPER MISSISSIPPI,
June 81, 1856.
Old Round Table: As the banks of the
Upper Mississippi are generally very bold
and precipitous, the growth of the country
is not as perceptble OH the immediate banks
of the stream as few miles in the interior.
Yet there are indisputable evidences of the
fact, that tide of settlers is flowing in to
possess the broad acres.
Every few miles the signal whistle of the
steamer gives warning of landing it may
be at woodward, which besides the long
lines of corded wood, boasts only of one
cabin or it may be at some point the nu-
cleus to the traders of the surrounding
country, where they receive their goods and
is the place of arrival and embarkation of
passengers.
At all the points to which goods and mer-
chandize are consigned, the warehouse
and generally there is but one-is bursting
with repletion and lying scattered in
clumps along the waters edge, and far up
the bank, is every variety of such goods as
will not suffer actual destruction by expo
| quiz W tHC NCdCuCl. 11CIc are IIlC uInIS-
taxable evidences of the rapid growth of the
country inland. In this motley collection of
wares, agricultural Implements and house
hold utensils form the main feature. Thresh-
ing machines, ploughs, cradles, scythes,
rakes, hoes and pitchforks, intermingied
with window sash, cooking stoves, chairs
and bedsteads, are strewn about apparently
as if hastily rescued from some confagration
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method in this madness of trade. These
rusty stoves and damaged scythes are sug-
gestivive of kitchen lamentations and prairie
anathemas.
But so it is : here, where the swarm of
Eastern and foreign emigration has lately
struck, shelter cannot beprovided sufficiently
capacious for the wares which the necessities
of the settlers demand. Soon these landings
will be giving back the products of the earth
in return, and the trade will still increase in
the ebb tide which will make this majestic
Mississippi the centre of the Empire. The
East must give up the power to the West,
and the palm had better be yielded grace
fully rather than grudgingly. The prophetic
tongue cannot be so extravagant in its fore
telling of the future of the valley of this
mighty river, as to reach the reality.
| hC oCCliCly VI VIC u1lSSiSSlpDI, between
Dubuque and st. Paul, is the elongation of
the Hudson. Here are the Palisades, here
the Catskills. The hand of nature has sup
piled the counterpart of every scene upon
the latter stream, and has multiplied those
scenes tenfold.
The Maiden's Rock raises it's head four
hundred feet from the water, an everlasting
memento of the Indian girl who could throw
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the command of proud father. A slight
imagination can trace dilapidated castles and
frownng forts upon the towering rocks land
the extinct race of huge animals have their
portraits upon these beetling cliffs. Now
the boat brushes past the over-hanoine
boughs on shore, and moonlit channel be-
tween beautiful islands startles the traveller
into momentary trcmor for fear his craft
will be wedged between the banks, and then
the river widens into miles, and YOU are
blowing through beautiful Lake Pepin. The
variety is endless to the unfamiliar eve
most exciting. The population, the wealth
| the refinement, the luxury, which a century
will place upon Mississippi's banks cannot
be conceived, and Imagination halts IN it's
fruitless attempts to satisfy the minds long
ing to peer into the future of this marvel
lous land. 4-E AE.
| We cannot but reitcrate the advice to all
tourists who love nature, who DELIGHT in
green hills, and admire rocky mountains,
who prefer the offhand, social, hearty man
ners of the West, to the suspicious and sell
fish greetings of fashionable resorts, to make
the Upper Mississippi a visit. But do not
come unless you know how to travel bv
making the best of everything, and above all
do not come, if everything you see is to be
measured by fashions standard. A day or
two since, st. Paul had gala day-.of which
we shall speak hereafter-and of course all
citizens were interested in the affair, and the
infection extended to the Hotel guests
| When the procession was passing the Hotel.
all rushed to the windows to see the display
save one silly woman, who simpered out
I'VE are so accustomed to professions in
New York, that we do not even think of
going to the window" OF course she was
a fool, and her presence only proved that all
fools are not dead. But affectation, like
many other disgusting diseases, is infectious
and even Western women are often victims.
A young married women, with very distorted
Ideas OF true refinement, and with her first
baby, was unfortunately seated in car
without saloon. The nurse had tended
baby through two hours Sleep and until
one could almost see her arms ache. But of
course it was not genteel for the mother to
relieve the nurse. Baby awoke very hun
cry, and stretched it's begging arms to its
mother, and on being refused commenced
crying most pitiously. But there was no
saloon in that car, and the iolting AMI speed
rendered passage across platforms danger
Gus, so the silly mother tortured her baby
by denying it food because it was not GEN
teel to feed her cid from the maternal
fount," before fills. The nurse stuffed the
little victim of fashions barbarity with dry
crackers, and for thirty miles everything like
comfort was driyen from that car. The
great topic of conversation with this foolish
woman was an anticipated party she was
fastening to, and it would be safe to Law
wager, that this simple mother whom fashion
would not permit to nurse her suffering child
in the car, will so obey the fashion of the
evening drawing room gathering, as to out
strip all competitors.
| Many OF the points in the Mssissippi at
which landings are made, and where clus-
ter of shops and houses nestle under the cliff.
derive their support from the lrmbering
business. Red shirt is lumberman's uni
form, end from six to twelve constitute
crew. Along the shore successive RATS often
extend for miles. These logs are foated
down from up above, each having the mark
of the owner upon it, and being caught by a
boom, are made up into RATS. On these