The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1859-04-28
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The oracular hieroglyphics Of the Great
Cave" had come nigh not being read at oil
and the riddle Of the Sphinx had well nigh
remained forever unsolved. when fortunately
about the time the treaty news was received
at Mendoza, there happened along" ~ old
Canadian voyageur from the Missouri, .
gross, i'll favored, one-eyed miscreant, on his
way to Sault st. Marie. The position Of
affairs here interested him. The ceded tract
opened to him sphere where he might in
dnlge his tastes for mercantile pursuits, with
out the disagreeable formaities o. Govern.
ment license. lie decided to go one eye on
it at least He went, aud Sault st. Marie
lost valuable citizen, and 81. Paul gained
its founder He made Q claim first ut
Fountain Cave, which he sold in three or
four months to Vetal Guerin and one Beau
mette, and then in the current summer, on
the spot now occupied by Louis Roberts
house on Bench street. laid the first stone or
the first log at least Of the future City Of st.
Paul. 1t was Parrant who laid 1.-THE pic
turesque Parrant, the original Pigs Eye
prmordial Parent Of oil the Pigs Eyes
II must be confessed that i, was not any
comprehensive view Of the topical relations
Of the situation, which influenced Parrant's
selection Of il. II ia not recorded that like
Hennepin or Carver, he had any prophetic
views Of future intercourse with China or
the Gulf Of Mexico. In fact be regarded the
head Of navigation on the Mississippi. as
simply commanding position for selling
whiskey to the Indians, beyond the jarisdic-
ton Of the Indian Agent or the fort officers;
and the Mississippi, which rolled before his
door and whose mighty volume inspired
Carver with such sublime prospects OF CON-
merce with the tropics, was looked upon by
Parrant in commercial point Of view, II is
true, but as chiefly valuable in improving the
quality and quantity Of his whiskey.
10 fact Parrant looked at the subject with
single eye to whiskey, with squint at the
Indians on the other side Of the river.
Thus was laid the foundation Of the
commerce Of st. Paul. II began in whisky,
has been brought up for twenty years on
whisky, and TO certain exteut thrives on
whisky still.
ORIGIN OF rios TYR.
We have said that Parrant had but one
eye He had another, but such another.
1t was marble hued. stone blind eye, with a
sinister white ring around the pupil, glaring
classify above his pug nose and porcine chaps
the primal Pigs Eye
Edmund Brsette, a clerkly Frenchman
for those days, who lives, or did live q
little while ago, on Lake Harriet, was one
day seated at q table in Parrants cabin,
with pen and paper about to write letter
for Parrant (for Parrant, like Charlemagne
could not write) TO friend Of the latter in
Canada. The question Of typography puzzled
Brise,te at the outset OF the epistle; where
should he date letter from place withou,
a nameY lie looked up inquiringly to
Parrant, and met the dead, cold glare Of the
Pigs Eye fxed upon him, with an lrresist-
ibe suggestiveness that was inspiration to
Brisette.
lie dated the letter from Pig's Eye an
answer in doe time came to Pigs Eye--and
Pigs Eye was immortallzed. (ADother
story gives the credit Of this euphonioas
Eponym TO Sam Findley--late clerk 0!
Franklin Steelc--but the date which Mr.
NELL gives u its origin IL three or foar
years too latel There was besides sort Of
metspborica analogy in the name 10 the to.
biographical features Of the place which
seemed set not unlike M eye 10 the socket
Of tree fringed hills We consider IL an II.
resstibe proof OF the natural advantages Of
saint Panl, that II survived the swinsh or
gin Of its first name Nothing bat the
head Of navigation could have stood II. One
shudders TO think Of what the place would
have come TO il it bad not been rebaptized,
Of the horrible marble squint Of Pigs
Eye EiiowiDg it round the world. The
head d navigation, with such an eye glar-
ing from its socket were a pestiierous Ne.
dusa bead-bIAsting everything within five
miles oft, with its stony ieer-blasting the
rocks, especially.
Imagine the effect OF Pigs Eye 10 q Sen
ate committee Think Of Pigs Eye for a
Seat Of Government Who would have
come 70 live under the bristling lasbes d a
Pigs Eye, VIVA, should we have doe
for cloths, VIVA, Jew would have dori-
ciled in the Ieeripv eye Of a pig Couh
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