Minnesota weekly times. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1854-1859, 1856-07-05

OTTAWA, June Oath, 1856.
EDITOR TINES Noticing that your paper is
occasionally enlvened by fancy sketches of fancy
places, by fancy writers of fancifal things,
too am seized with scribbling fit concerning Sour
place. e."and ''Ottawa'' /. place, of which allow
me to tell your readers thing or two. Mankato is
an old story, St. Peer ancient of days, Glencoe
an antique. and st. Paul is becoming old-quite
moss-g grown! How these whilom baby cities do
bourgeon and flourish up! Running through the
ssseven ages' with a rush that is astonishing to
foreigners. Hardly chrstened are they afore
they're thrusting themselves into grown up
habilimcnts, donnng manly oreeches, womanly
petticoats, sanity long clothes. But Sour city"
is still in its interesting infancy, it has barely
been christened, bat already like the infant Her.
culeus, it begins to ''spread ITSELF" Already it
has two dwelling houses; furnished and painted
white! One store with its red flag floating over
the passer by: one blacksmith shop, without
blacksmith; one river running by, and on its
banks the largest and best saw-miil-yes, sir,
the very largest saw-mil in this Territory. If
any mill owner at the Falls, should be seen about
dusk approaching the cataract, his eye ies:ing on
this paragraph, with look as though he'd made
his will, | can't hep it! Is not the truth the
truth? And surrounding our village is a country
SO fascinating, that no poet will ever behold it
without blessing God for making it so beautiful.
lie Seueur Prairie first and the Big Woods after
wards. these the dover of our young city.
Should any of your readers, as they float up the
crookedest of rivers, after years absence, see
here a level stream, with bales from your mer-
chants and produce for your market, Il stately
warehouse, brick blocks, machine shops, mechan-
cs' residences, with school houses and church.
spires dotting the prairie and glimmering through
the green trees, while upon the astonished ear
falls the clank of machinery, the ring of busy
hammers, the tumult of teamsters, and all the
noise and confusion of stirring and unshackled
industry, tell them not to doubt the evidences of
their senses or of our prosperity. And should
you have added to your list of exchanges in the
interim, the Bur Oak Radical, you, bein: your
self an editor, will know how to account for the
change. especially when you consider that We
have tho most magnanimous set of rroteans
that can be imagined, the fact that the new
city boasts Of commodiOus hundred feet streets
will attest. Look If any of your city friends
are tired of the noisy, dusty metropolis, would
like to come the fourth of July, tell 'em to come
along. All they have to do to enjoy themselves
highly, is to bring along their own dinners and
demie J0ns, pretty girls and speechifyers, and
they'll find themselves ever SO welcome at s'Bur
Oak Park,'' where beside the most outrageous
oaks are gushing springs aad those s'runnng
BROOKS" which Will Shakespeare brags SO much
about. We can confront them with a brave
sprinklng Of very good-looking folks, who
wouldn't at all object to seeing party of their
equals. Yours for Freedom in Kansas, and
damnation to Tyranny. JUD.
GV Correspondents who desire to see any
thing in print concerning their respective locali-
ties, should by all means write briefly. Don't
use fifty words whore ten will answer the pur-
poss.-EDlToR.