The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1858-07-29


We design to contest the ascendancy Of
Saratoga and Newport as fashionable re.
sorts. We set up "a rival to Niagara in st.
Anthony Falls. We challenge the White
Mountains To compare with the scenery Of
the Upper Mississippi. wcpit Minneha-ha
against the iair,st gem which sparkles on
the jeweled bnust Of the Alleghanies. For
the vertical sublimity Of mountains, We Of
fer the horizontal grandeur Of our green
ocean prairies. For the swell Of waves, and
the white ioam-cap Of the wrestling surf,
We promise the wide undulations Of blossom.
ing corn fields.
We might strike the balance with our ri
vAls here, and show an excess of all d,sira.
BILE attributes In our favor without counting
one Of the things we boast Of We might
leave out our myriad beautiful lakes, scat
tered over the country like the coins in u
brokers window, and filling the mir with ro-
nance and beauty, We might leave out our
streams which carry their dance and music
through an endless whirl OF hills and valleys
and ma1es Of woods and ravines, and leap in
the bounding pulse oftheir joy in cascades of
ecstatic laughter, till every iarm is folded 10
some maids shining arms, and Words
WORKMAN corn and potatoes grow like sleep
ing children 10 the rattle and tinklc and lul-
laby OF the merry nursing brooks And no
need to mention the fish that fill these lakes
and streams-trout aud pike md pckcrel,
virgin TO the anglers wilcs-- or the grouse
that grow fat ON the prairics, or the deer
that herd in the woods, or the buffalo and
elk that pasture upon the western plains.
The bc-kiddcd, white faced cit blcachcd
with the smoke Of the city, and chokei with
stone and mortar. stated with sights and
sounds, vexed and exhausted with the end
less round OF artificial excitemcnts, merely
passes from wine to brandy in going from
New York to Newport. There is no re-
taxation in the exchange Of the organized
artiiiciality Of metropolitan life for the tu.
multuous and chaotic artiilcialty Of the
fashionable watering places. II In passing
simply from one degree Of intensity To IN
other, and from the less TO the greater.
What your jaded cit wants, in these swell.
terng dog day heats is not excitement, but
recreation not hotels and dinners and
ball rooms and promenadcs- mir, Gods
free mir, and room in his horizon for the wild
leap Of the quickened pulse lie wants place
TO breathe, TO oxygenate his blood, TO gath
or flowers and memories aud new impress
sions. The draught Of clean air which OK
pands his lungs should strengthen and en-.
large his soul.
There IL that VIZ think in the new and
graDder type of things which the tour
ist finds in Western journey-thcre is
that 10 the vastcr measures Of our hor.
lion In the breadth and sublmity
Of our surface forms, In the magnif-
cent and volume Of our lakes and rivers,
and plains, which extends the minds cir.
conference, and stretches the heart, even Of
the crawling maggo, Of the city's sewers
and alleys, 10 the standard Of cosmopolitan
comprehensiycncss No one can take the
journey from New York or New Orleans to
Minnesota without being the better and wi.
ser for the voyage.
IN measuring the diameter Of American
ciyilization--it becomes the diameter Of his
patriotism. In four or xix days be uDrolls
the panorama Of the Continent. To ex.
hibit 10 bis own memory that huge canvass
crowded every mile with images d na-
tional glory-he must add another wing and
build another story--to bis soul. Nowhere
are those images 70 grand 10 picturesque
80 impressive, al the journey from New York
or Boston by the way Of the Lakes TO II.
Paul, Or from New Orleans or 81. Louis by
way Of the Mississippi to 1t. Paul.
The avenues 70 IL. Paul are its property.
The Fall Of 81. Anthony Is worth whiting
for the grandeur Of its approaches alone, II
Tor nothing else The length d this article
will not permit us to describe the special
features OF landscape which here invite the
tourist. This will form 4 separate topic for
q supplementary chat--by and bye.
Oosnt % Fssnss River.