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

jonathan. In 1911, M hnEhSn ue"s "
vived their claim in petition to Congress
but in 1923 the Senate decided adversely to
their petition. As late - 1850, holders Of
Carver scrip cedins apretended interest in
this tract used to be seen about Saint Paul
looking up their imaginary estates.
CARVER READS THE ORACLE OF THE GREAT
CAVE. UNDER rHR RESPIRATION or THE suB-
rERRANEAK ORACLE.
1t was here, too, that nearly century be-
fore Gov. Stevens or j. W. Taylor, Carver
anticipated and ma,ured that splendid
scheme of commercial intercommuncation
whose realization in our day is to make
Saint Paul the focus Of the internal COM
uerce Of the Continent. With the Delphic
uumen Of the cave upon him, be foresaw
that in the fat soil and laughing waters OF
Minnesota, the elements were ripening for
the sustenance OF future populations--who,
be says, will be able TO convey their pro-
duce to the seaports with great facility, the
current of the river from its source to its en-
trance into the Gulf Of Mexico, being ex'
tremely favorable for doing this in small
craft. This might also in time be facilitated
bv canals or shorter esis, and a communication
opensd by ~afer ruth NtV York, by ,euy0
he Lakes" Never dreaming that within q
century We shall cut across from the Misss'
sippi TO the lakes in six hours on Wheels
with kettle Of boiling water for horse
Here, too, Carver conceived the project Of n
Northern Pacific route by the way OF the
Minnesota and Oregon Rivers to the Pacific,
which be says would open passage for con
veying intelligence to China, and the English
settlements in the East Indies" whose con
summation in its general outline, is reserved,
We hope, for our day.
TIRE ORACLE or THE CAVE DUMB.
After Carver robs the great cave Of its
mighty secret, that had throbbed for ages
at its heart, the " Dwelling Of the Gods is
shut 10 all the world. The oracle is dumb
henceforth forever; silent stony, impcnetrabe
as the Sphinx-its white face turned in
speechless prophecy, for seventy years to
wards the terraced slopes which lay there
before its closed mouth, but uttering nothing
OF what is to be, unless perchance this be
the tale il murmurs to the river which battles
its lips in the spring tide. And the deer
bound through the sprent oak park OF" I'm
nj ska" or battle with their lawns, safe
from the hunter, in the shallow lake on whose
dried bottom Borups house now stands, or
possibly the last Of the bndaloes seen at
Trempel'eau in 1892, hid here from his In
dian pursuer, under the oak which shadows
Bass doorway. History rolled over the
white Rock" and past it, but took no no
tee Of it. The brave Pike goes past in
1905 and does not see its secret. Long be-
seiges the unutterable oracle in vain in 1907.
Fort Smelling is established near it 10 1919.
Mendoza becomes the depot Of the fur trade
Events are clustering oil around it, but all
looking past it. no one seeing it or thinking
Of it when, it having been discovered that
an immense pine region and deal Of valu
able water power stretched aeross from Rum
River to the Chippewa in Wisconsin, the
Dakotas were persuaded to c,de their lands
on the cast side Of the Mississippi to the
United States. which they accordingly did
at Fort Smelling, October 1887; and when the
treaty was duly ratified at Washington in
1888, Im-ni. ji-ska ceased TO b. Indian
Territory. aud the hleroglyphics Of the
Great Cave" began TO be read.
AROUND ST. PAUL N 1893.
The treaty OF 1885, 6 was centrifugal
Whit OF the whlrlwipd Of speculation which
has made that year an epoch 10 the CONNER
cial calendar The steamer which brought
the news Of its consumnaton TO Fort Smell
ing in the Spring Of 81, had scarcely touched
the shore before every free white man, at
tacbed to the Fort and adjoining trading post,
set Of in bot haste 10 make claim at the
most conspicuous points 10 the purchased
territory I'D ,oinipg Frank Steele and n
man w. X ittson, then trading together a
Fort Smelling, started off at the dead Of
nigh, to take possession Of that wonderful
water power eight miles up. Frank was as
handsome then as now, tut not half 20 well
dressed. A dingy straw bat begrirnsd with
the smoke Of thoee hazy old days, a pair OF
p,autaloons in state Of DISCRIMINATION, a
coat someshat The worse for wear, over the
reddes, Of the red, red shirts Of that red
shirted sge-sucb, with are On shoulder
was the picture Of the original proprietor Of
Saint Anthony Falls a. be first appeared IN
the foreground Of that picturesque cataract