Minnesota weekly times. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1854-1859, 1856-09-13
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WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 10, 1856.
A Week Among the Pion.ers--On IN. way.

WEDNESOA1 DEL -. ~, 1000
A Week Among the Pionssrs--On The Way.
We love flowers, they IRE SO innocent and gen.
tie, for when the cold world frowns upon Us
they smile so sweetly and seem to say, "wel
gladden. you with our fragrance, if all else for
sake you" Gray never gave utterance to truel
expression than when he remarked:
"Full many flower is born to blush unseen
And waste Its sweetness o the desert air.''
Here, away from the dust of the road and the
noise of the city, embosomed in Natures fond
embrace, flowers of almost every hue embellist
the yard of the little cottage We alluded to yes.
terday. The man of care and trouble sees them
not-the woman of fashion who glides glibly over
the city pavement in search of admiration, sees
them not-the seeker of pleasure sips his wine,
and sees them not, but still these flowers bloom
and make glad the hearts Of those who in the early
ruby cheeks. A golden chain encircles that
homestead, and We love to linger where evidences
of affection tell us
Homes not merely four square walls
Though with pictures hung and gded-
Homeis where affection calls,
Filled with shrines the heart hath shielded.
Home go watch the faithful dove
Sailing meath the heaven above us,
Home is where there's to love-
Home is where there's one to love us.''
And We know there must be love where there
are so many beautiful flowers, so gently treated
and carefully tended.-But our driver is getting
impatient, so let's 60 on. Here's the residence
of William R. Marshall, about two miles from
the city. It's plain, old fashioned New Eng
land house, with door in the center and parlor
on either side. A slight attempt at ornament
under the caves, rather detracts than adds to its
beauty, but it is finely located, and when finished,
must make comfortable and enviable home
Two years ago, who would have thought OF a
residence on the st. Anthony road, two miles
from the city, and yet these out lots are far pre-
ferable to those in principal streets that COM
mand $1,000 and $4,000. Some distance beyond
is the farm of Charles II. Parker, and on the
Prairie this side, We noticed city lots staked out
and buildings in course of erection. And this
reminds us that Messrs. Kern, Fonseca and an
other gentleman, have recently purchased ten
acres near the Franklin House, just beyond Mr..
Selby's, which they propose to make as an addi-
tion to st. Paul. So we go. There can be no
doubt but that in a few years St. Paul and St.
Anthony will become one, as each year bears
evidence of new lots being staked out towards
each city, clearly showing that union must fol-
low. Certain it is, st. Paul is stretching that
way and certain it is st. Anthony is stretching
this. We hope to live to see the day when the
two cities will be united in wedlock and when the
jealousy hitherto existing will be known only in
history as once the play-thing of a disordered
brain.
"Whoa gee go long there what are you
about" screamed out our Maine friend, as he
put the whip on to the s'fat horses" fed with
wooden oats. And way we jolted around the
corner just previous to reaching Cheever's Tower.
We should state, however, before leaving the
main road, that the crops rs general thing
looked well, although We were informed that
the grasshoppers had made sad havoc with the
beans, corn and garden vegetables. Opposite
the Tower, there is in course of erection large
wooden building to be devoted to billiard playing,
rum drinking and other like innocent amusements.
"Take a glass;" asked the driver, but we were
not in mood to notice either him or anything
else. We stuck with pertinacity to the pork bar
rel, and not until we arrived at Anoka that eve
ming, were we aware that the pork barrel stuck
with pertinacity to us, but as this all comes of
riding on rail, we have no complaints to make.
While the driver was guzzling down his whisky
(all drivers drink per the request of their physi-
clans for their healthy we had short time to
notice the beautiful scenery on the opposite side
of the river-to note the rapid growth of Mime
apolis-to observe the dredge boat below us with
men on board, engaged cleaning out channel
for the Packets-to mark the place where the
new bridge is to cross-to behold the substantial
walls of the new stone hotel-to gaze for a mo-
ment on what once were attractive-the Falls of
st. Anthony, now made odious by the many logs
that cucumber them, and then to hasten on, as the
Sun warned us that night was coming.
After some considerable hardship, to which we
were unacustomrd, and which squeezed out several
oaths from one or two Of our party, we reached
the hospitable hotel of our friend Shaw, in the
good town of Anoka, of which place we shall
have few words to say previous to striking out
to make the acquaintance of several Pioneers,
some 80 miles above Anoka, on the Rum River,
and whose mode of life will no doubt interest
the uninitiated, as it certainly did us.
Vood u NJ