The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1859-04-28

up people Of g. Paul spring to the bluffs
and banks At tie signal whistle Of the steam
boat
Ia an instant the welcome nsws ha1hsd like
electricity throughout tho town. All were
the qui rirs, and regardless Of the pslting RAIN
the raging wind, and tbs psaling thunder, al
most the entire male population rushed 10 the
landing, and clustered On the shore unmindfui Of
the storm ~ the fns steamboat Dr. Franklin
No 2, dashed gallsntly up 70 the landing Be-
fore she vas IN sds fast TO the mo rings, she va
boarded By the excited throngi without waiting
for the shore plabks 10 BE- laid, numbers sprang
on her boiler deck The deck hands had to
stand back and abandon all efforts TO get on
shore until the stream Of "boarders' had made
their way into the cabin.
The Captain and Clerk we're the men OF the
hour Their popularity was immense GENERAL
Taylor cannot 10 assAiled with more inportuni-
~ for tho loavcs and fishes than they TOT news
and newspapers, Poor hungry souls Atienssh
the news was made known, and one glad shout
resounding through the boat, taken up On shore
and echoed from our beetIing bluffs and rolling
hills, proclaimed that the Bll for the organize
tion Qf the Territory Of Minnesota had become
a ian - Letter signed ID. L. IN Ptrneer q
april 2eth, 1887
and that Saint Paul, an important point
at that crisis, proclaimed with thunder and
baptised 10 celestial torrents to the skin oil
you all, David was It's capital, the seal OF
government set upon It's brow by IRE, a. the
lambent flame OF omen, played round the
head Of the infant Numa. The annual
councils were to be held again at the Great
Care. henceforth by another race before
whom, 10 less than three years, the leagued
People OF the Lakes" shall become stran-
gers and outcasts in their ancient heritage.
You sold your claim too cheap friend
/ Geiyais
THE COMING MAN.
OF the three or four hundred persons thus
huddled in the little group OF shanties and
bark rooted huts on the bench OF land which
few months before it was bold experl'
ment to lay out in lots, there we're probably
lew. If any. whose views OF the future OF 81.
Paul or OF Minnesota lay beyond the imme-
diate advantages to be derived from concen-
trating the principal expenditures OF the
Government, ut the point selected for the
capital. and from the probable Capitalization
there Of the existing sources OF trade.
The Indian trade and anDuitles, the supply
Of the forts, the government and county
Offices, with the pincries Of the Mississippi
and st. Croix, the manufacture OF timber,
and farming enough for local supply, were
the resources to which they looked. Inc
large capabilities and great feature that lay
beyond this little local horizon were a. nn-
discovered 10 the old claimants OF the soil
and TO their immediate Successors, ~ to the
pig eyed Parrant himself, who stood at the
head Of the line.
Minnesota, too, was q terra ncognhd TO
the world in general. Its name was upon
no map. To those who had heard OF the
new Territory ut all, it was placed some
where in the vicinity of Russian America,
where the Esquimaux live under ground,
beyond the utmost limits OF profitable Guilt
walton or possible population while 10
another zone California was waving an en-
chanters wand. Minnesota, then, at this
jurcture, needed not only Journalist, but
a Journalist with the capacity to seize It's
salient advantages OF petition and physical
character, and, with graphic vividness OF
portraiture to fix the attention OF the world,
and write its name in letters OF fire above
the golden disc Of California, which then
filed the western horizon; one whose electric
sentences should flash through the whole
round Of journalism. and whose caustic sneer
should strike the vulgar prejudccs against
the latitude Of Minnesota to the quick core,
and wther them at the roots
For the special local interests OF Saint
Paul, there was wanted = man To lllt up its
ambition TO the horizon Of its wide relations,
and Undue 1t with central and commanding
purpose; man with the mind to grasp and
the strength to WELD the mighty weapons of
geographical position with which nature
has armed IT, to carve out place Tor IT IN
the van Of the rising west man to make
the head OF navigation on the Mississippi
ring throughout the world,
ruEs,N CONES.
Such man arrived on the 18th day OF
April lSis, in the steamboat Senator
James VI. Goodhue. late editor OF the Grant
County Herald. Lancaster. Wisconsin. with
the press and materials Of new paper for
the new capital. burly stout jawed steep
browei men. compact OF coarse strength,
with sharp. almost savage twinkle Of satire
playing in strange angular shadows around
the cold fixed blue OF his large eye. A man
about forty years of age. familiar with oil
the rough and tumble Of western experience,
and full OF the frontier; man who cannot
drink HE without be quaE il in large meas
urc from the ioaming brim Of civilization
above all the man for the epoch
Under date OF Oct, 81 ISL the Pioneer
contains the following
,rICrURg oF THE gLUFFs At SAINT Paul,
IAN the buildings on Bench street, in April
l>ta, above the old leg Catholic Church. were
Neial Guetin :. al the Junction Of Third street
aud Bench (uow Won ltsmm's bookstore;) two
old log houses a little east OF Mr.. Neil church,
on the lots whore Mr.. Goodhue's house stands
two log houses IN the street near the junction Of
Hill street All old tookcry On the south side,
near the foot OF Capitol street, being hole in
the ground used Tor a horse billiard room. aud
the house Of Joha X. Irvine, on the north side
Ut Bench street. being house finished outside
with lime and mortar We eall u Rench stree,
A. far A. the street follows along the edge o.
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