The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1856-07-12

ground between the places being hundred
feet or more above the river, and solid Rock
at that. 1t would cost many millions to con-
structa canal navigable forsteamboats around
the falls. He speaks facetiously of sixty
days after doomsday as the time for honor
ing the bills of St. Paul, discounts upon flu
turity, being, doubtlessly just tie time lie
hopes to get in the settlement of tie lies he
has been telling about St. Paul. He also
says he was unable to see the base of a
hope that Saint Paul would be a large
city. Now this is not in the least sur
prising, for any one who is stupid enough to
travel 800 miles on the Mississippi River
and think he was on the Missouri all the
time, is not in this country supposed to knoa1
enough to see anything.
Had he, however, looked about him or
travelled over the Territory, he might have
seen scope of country as large as Pennsyl-
vania and New York together, of richness
and fertility of soil far surprising those
states; and with climate, pronounced by
those who have spent many years in it, far
superior to them, withforcsts ofinexhansta table
pine, and abundantly supplied with minerals,
all dependent on Saint Paul for its COM
merce.
He tells pitiful story of Philadelphian
who, like himself, has not made fortune
here, and who wants to sell out his merchan-
disc at discount. But when you assert,
Mr.. Anthrax, that all the business men of
Saint Paul are DESTROYS of closing out their
business at a discount, you assert what you
ought to know to be positive liza lie
that is calculated to do you no good, and
might, were it not so enormous, do them
harm. 1t is not becoming in you sir, to at
tempt to injure the business of your fellow
Townsmen in such scurvey manner as this.
You say you looked in at every shop ere
on fine sunny afternoon in May and found
no business doing. Now this certainly is a
most unmitigated falschood, told with malice
Wepease. We have been here during each
May for seven years, and can bring at least
a thousand witnesses to prove that there has
been no Saturday in May, or any other time,
when there has been no business done.
St. Paurs is subject to frightful storms
with wicked looking lightning. The wind
always is fresh. The shops being of very
fimsy framework, fire would almost Ger
tainly sweep the whole away. This would
make consumption of merchandise, which
else will be sufficient for many years. wants
of the small settlement it commands.
We are not surprised that the lightning of
st. Paul was wicked looking" to you, Mr..
Anthrax" for the wrath of God sometimes
descends in lightning upon those who so will
fully violate the Ninth Commandment. We
would advise you to keep clear of st. Paul
in the future else you may have a more init
mate acquaintance with the lightning than
merely looking at it. How could you know
that the "wind always is fresl when you
were only in st. Paul about sixteen hours ?
Do you suppose that because you were here
during a windy day all the year round is
the same =?
us unfortunate for place like st. Paul's
W DC 81 THAI al W IilCI 10 llCCCSStrIl-
ly greatly disappointed.
You call yourself "a writer" truly, sir,
you are mrier, (but, shade Of Webster, how
you do spell Paul and slough y but VIZ ter
most certainly you are, of the Dogbcrrian
school-an ass, veritable ass, jackass
with long pendent ears.
But reliance seems to be placed in people
of capital who will not endure the long voy-
age to look for themselves; but who get eX-
cited by fioril representations, and who con-
stitutionaly think luck and happiness, like
heaven, must be away off somewhere, any
place but at home. A deal Of money has
been sent there by such people, and deal of
I merchandise, and we hope they are good at
whisthng
Not So sir; no such reliance has ever been
placed ON capitalists of the East. The re-
lance Of st. Paul is placed Oh its position,
and its advantages for commerce on the
energy, intelligence, industry and enter
prize of its citizens. A deal Of money and
deal of merchandise has been sent here,
has it ? Now venture to say that those
who sent it here are amply repaid for doing
so, and are willing to send more. You hope
they are good at whistlng, do you? Why,
sir, if they are only half as good at whist
ling as you arc at Tying, they will not have
the least trouble.
The whole country, for ten miles. ont to
the Falls of st. Anthony, has been laid out
in city lots, and out lots of five acres. The
few farms are neglected, and $500 per acre
is the asking figure. The general feature is
dead fiat. The soil is black sandy loan,
like the whole western prairie lands. Tim
Der is scarce, and before you get piece of
land fenced and fit for home, you will find
its cost to exceed what would purchase, out
and out, a ready-made farm home in Penn
! sylvania, where you would make double the
money, with less toll and an unreasonable
deal more of comfort and happiness.
Not true again. The whole country from
st. Paul to St. Anthony IS not laid out into
town lots and out lots, nor any great portion
| of it. Land, however, sel2s for 5000 per acre
between the places, and increases in value
more rapidly as you approach st. Paul. If
you have any land adjoining ST. Paul YOU
can get from one to two thousand dollars an,
acre for it, in gold coin, and that which has
been coined at the Mint in Philadelphia if