New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-06-27
FROM ST. LOUIS TO ST. PAUL AND NEW
YORK.
From Our Own Reporter.

The letter which was TO have been began on the
Mississippi and finished at Niagara find myself just
putting pen to here in New York. Why this lie, who
ever has Travelled seven consecutive days without fnd
g himself between Christian sheets, has for three
days eaten what the captain of Mississippi boa: sets
before his guests has felt the great cataract and the
rspds altogether too much for him. readily mag
me. Others may guess.
In order To do" ST. Paul within the stipulated
time, it necessary to leave st. Louis the very
morning after the celebration, while our first impress
sons Of the city-which are perhaps as true as any
the traveller receves-were still fresh. New-fork
seemed to me almost reproduced in this thriving
metropolis Of the Mississippi Valley, which, although
in a Slave State has air of Freedom in the activity
Of its business the character Of is population, and
Che tone of socety None, indeed, but m essentially
zee city could have made the Railroad Celebration
what it vas.
At many points in the course oi my journey was /,
indeed impressed with the essentially Anti-Slavery
character of the West. Men from Egypt genuine
Egyptian Suckers l found who look upon Slavery
right sensiby from economical point of view speak
ing of il as blight upon the county and contrasting
Iowa with Missouri in that lands in the one sell at
double the prices Of those within rivers breadth in
the other. In ST. Louis hotel, too, CHANGED upon
Souherner who said that he bad been raised at the
breast Of a slave woman, but was telling some home
truths TO a waf Of the Know Nothing Convention
friend and feow-citizen of Erastus Brooks. At Gill;
einnati was struck by fact similar to that mentioned
BY my Hoosier friend In company with Col. T,
who owns half Of Newport, Kentucky-2,OOO acres IA
the heart of the town and along the LckiDg-I went
30 the top Of house whence the finest view of
Cincinnati to be had anywhere. Thence We saw a
valley stretching from very feet to the mounains
up which Cincinnati was slorly trying to climb. We
at once said: "Wby, this valleys one; the finest and
"larges portion of II is this eide of the river this
L" side has superior advantages Cincinnati must grow
hitherward instead of crawling up hill" But, no;
he was sure it could only be suburb-a drawer of
water and newer Of wood for Cincinnati. Why, but
because Freedom moors all the steamboats, to Ohio
wharves
Were the first vOyager on the Mississippi, would
try my hand at describing some of those grand bluffs
between which it more or less leisurey flows; would
speculate upon the history Of the columns of limestone
which give almost every one of these bluffs which
they crown the appearance Of halovergrown castles,
and would try to set forth how neatly, whenever the
hills recede village is dropped into the plain which
they leave. But there not guide-books? The
worst thing about the Mississippi is it's water but for
which it would be perfect. But pure, l. O. impure
and halfand-haf mud Mississippi in tumbers, or quite
as bad decocted into tea is nloerabe, aud results In
parched lips and Summer complaint. Mississippi and
brandy we could stomach, though that was un-
palatabe. We surprised to so little charac-
teristic Mississippi life the boats No racing, on
gambling: emgrants and tourists have taken away the
romance of the river and the high-pressure engines
merely puff along from sopping-place to another,
the boats running their huge Fat bottoms ashore when
occasion requires. The Orb in which we came
down the river chance boat, which, after adver-
Using to start Sunday and ringing her bell at inter-
walls for two days, finally got under way at o'clock
Tuesday evening At the end of the first three miles,
she stopped to wOodup, matter of time, Twenty
more and she ran ashore and stayed there three
or four hours, to enable the Captain to do
NJ some unfinished business. Morning found us but
sixty miles from the point of departure. Then came
head.wind. which embarrassed the Orb, especially
as she was q stern-wheeer. When got to Lake
Pepin, expansion of the river, come forty miles
long and four-Or five wide its scenery reminding one
of Lake Champlan, the Captain inadvertently landed
a passenger OR a lee-shore In the attempt to head
down stream again, we expended three hours, the
Orb revolving fruitlessly her axis all that time.
n. B.-The wary traveller should always select
chance boat and stern-wheeler.
St. Anthony's Falls not what one would expect of
the Mississippi. They are little more than continue
ton Of the Rapids, series Of irregular jumps with
some foam and noise. And now they are so crowded
BY saw and Touring mills, as to make much poorer
show than they must have done years ago. The Falls
of Mnnehaha, on q small creek emptyng into the
Mississippi about midway between St. Paul and St.
Anthony's inspire fresh interest in Hiawatha. The
fall II about seventy feet, and reminds one OF the
Catskin Falls. except that Minnehaha is more ex-
qusitely beautiful. Literally laughing water she is,
q merry girl, tripping down hill. She does not sur
prise che charms you and you hnge< and linger to
make her better acquaintance.
St. Paul is finely situated upon two plateaus, the
lower whereofs used for business streets other
is beginning to be dotted with handsome residences
The whole town rests upon bed of lime stone lying In
layers 30 that cellars perfect Much has been said
about the climate of Minnesota. vouch for 1t as
most excellent in Summer. In the neighborhood OF
81. Paul the air is as bracing as among mountains,
and keeps one in a constant state OF exhiaration.
The Winters are, by universal testimony on the spot,
though longthe river is usually closed from late No
vember to lase May-and cold very dry, so that the
temperature is less severe in point of feeling though
lower by the thermometer than in New-York. Prof.
Nsury has recently stated that but eight inches of
snov fall a month on the average, deduced from Off
eial observations In Summer, the rains mostly come
in the night accompanied by magnificent displays of
lightning, one of which we had the good fortune to
BEE on the Missssipp it certainly one of the fin
est things of the kind upon which ever set eyes.
St. Paul is worth seeing, for epitomses the West.
Units business streets landoces alternate with grog
shops. The clerk in hardware store has saved
something cut Of his $500 year, and put it in real es-
tate. The German only year in the country, whom
the stabe-k keeper sends your driver has clam OF