Minnesota weekly times., 1857-05-09


the highest commendation, and We do hope that
the unfortunate females to the bosoms of their
families and their friends.
A stroll Along the Lsvss.
Reader, hook your arm in ours, this fine morn
ing, and let's take walk down the levee. There
is bustling city pent up here. None of your
old-fashioned old-fogy cities, where nervous old
granniss mufle ell the truck-wheels to drown the
noise of Industry, and sensitive Mrs. Prims thin.
the busy mart $50 shocking" but sensible, dri-
wing, miniature Pittsburg. There is no poetry
about it-not whit. 1t is q complete Bedlsm,
and horsemen, truckmen, footmen, workmen of
every sort, are all pulling different ways to un-
tangle it. As Diggs says when he gets little
salubrious-"t "things is mixed.''
just think of it; upon that little slope of real
estate called levee, possibly fifty rods long by a.
many feet wide. there have been unloaded within
four days more than 5000 tons of freight and not
less than 5000 human beings. aa
Here, upon the left, is an emigrant family very
quietly eating breakfast in the open air. A table
has been disentangled from the heaps of furni-
ture and set on its legs edibles, none the better
for age, have been dragged from the musty depths
of mysterious-looking boxes, and distributed
along the board the children, score or 30, are
mustered around the unsavory breakfast, and
they partake of it under the shadow of the
bluff, with the awakening clang and hustle on ev-
cry side, and nothing but the blue sky to bless
A. III "a.
woman holding cofee-mill in her lap,and grind
ing some squire Java" for breakfast. They slept
here last night, all of them, women and children,
gathered in clusters under this grateful canvas
stretched across the barrels, or budding in that
empty nook that has escaped the crowding mer-
chandize of yesterday. The majority of them are
foreigners Germans, English, Irish, French,
Norwegians, ltalians, Swedes and Swiss-every
dialect blending in the chorus, and every religion
epresented-Catholic, Protestant, Greek, and a
Jew now and then-just enough to give a Hebraic
seasoning to the batch. To most of these, life
has thus far been failure, and they are now
struggling determinedly to gain a foot-hold in
this land of promise. Welcome, all, Anglo-Sax-
on, Celt and Teuton scatter your claims
throughout this West, and if you are good citi-
zens, and battle on with the energy you have al
ready evinced, Necessity will relax her grasp, and
the Future will bless you with the wealth and hap.
pinsss which she always awards to patient Indus
try.
Here, too, are 1900 barrels of -four mixed up in
the unleavened mass of merchandise enough to
ensure the people of this city against famine
at least until We receive another installment.-
Yonder are twenty stoves-air-tight heating
stoves, we mean--a most excellent joke consider
ing the recent weather! Here is pork and corn ;
here some fowls and cattle belonging to the emil
grants; there are 500 barrels of liquid FIRE = L.
belled 'Monongahela, sold Otard, Xxx
Stout" 'sChampagne," which mean in plain En-
glish, rot-gut whiskey fixed up with diluted to.
bacco-uice, and filtered through old shoe Leather
till fools cannot tell the difference. It ought to
be poured down the gutter for it will all get
there eventually, and it seems sacrilege to use the
human family for demijons.
But the most cheering and encouraging aspect
of these arrivals is, the large number of agricul-
tural implements brought into the Territory
Ploughs by the hundred, hoes, axes, shovels,
reapers, corn shelters, every kind of farmers
tools are imported in abundance. We hope soon
to manufacture our own, but until then the prompt
and sufficient supply of them from any quarter,
is sign of strength and coming greatness. Ev.
cry axe is a missionary, civilizing savage wilds,
and letting the sunshine in upon the bosom of the
cold earth every farm is fortress, strong as
Malakof, protecting the country against those
vandal invaders, Incidence and Vice, and level
ling before the peaceful artillery of Labor, the
gloom Of desert wastes every plow is prophet,
telling us of independence in the present and
wealth in the future. "The good old plow'' has
fewer crimes to answer for than any other earth :
ly institution.
At the lower end of the levee are four splendid
coaches designed to run between this city and St.
|. Anthony, and are owned by Messrs. Allen and
Chase. They were built expressly for this line in
Concord, N. H., and display substantial work.
manship, and neatness and elegance of finish.
They will be an honor to their proprietors and q
convenience to the public.
Well, reader, we hear whistle, and leave you
for the present amid boxes and bundles. trunks.
truck-cars and travelling bags, corn, corns, corn
shelters, children, threshing machines, stoves,
-four, iron, women, wooden-ware, bricks, brandy.
barrels, band-boxes, bales, babies. pedlars, por-
ters, importers, coporteurs and reporters, to fnd
your own way opt. Perhaps we may return and
show you more Of the elephant when we have pick
ed up an item. q.
ca There is an English statute, where one
half goes to the King and the other half to the
informer--the penalty being fourteen years trans.