The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1863-10-09

season, yet some of these trees have borne !
large and luscious fruit, fact which our
eyes and teeth gratefully acknowledge.
We think that if seeds of apples raised |
here shall be properly sown, thew will in
five years produce fruit that shall cbal- |
lenge the world for size, beauty and flavor
We see by the New York Sundoy Ner- |
cry, and a few other neutral papers, that
a strong national feeling is being organized
among the Democrats Of the Eastern and
Middle States to nominate for the next
Presidency Senator Ii. M. Rice, of this
city. We should not be in the least sur
prlsed If this proved to be the case Mr..
Rice has proven himself to be one of the
ablest managers, orators, and patriots
that ever stood in the halls of the Capt.
tol, and the convention might conclude,
after fighting /; few days over two or
shoulders straps, to compromise on a man
whom they all know to be an uncondi-
tional lover of his country, and the farm
er's unwavering friend We shall see!
Stronger things than this have hap
pened!
The St. Paul and Pacific Railroad, that
we mentioned in our last as gradually
pushing its way towards the British pos
sessions, is now receiving large supplies
of iron. which were shipped about month
ago from England. The road is in excel
lent running order from here to ST. An
thony and Minneapolis, and will be COM
pleted to st. Cloud by the first of July
next. From that point eighty miles north
west OF st. Paul., it will have two branch
es, one in a northeasterly direction to the
head Of Lake Superior, and the other fol-
lowing up the Mississippi to Crow Wing,
and then taking westerly course fifty
miles to Otter Tail City, and from thence
a north by northwest course to Pelnbina
pronounced Pem-bi .naw) in the extreme
northwestern corner of the State.
This road is destined to exert benefi-
cial influence for the State beyond all
computation, and cannot help but prove
more profitable to stockholders than any
road now in the United States. With its
branches, it will open to the world the
richest farms on the face of the globe,
and will convey millions Of freight and
thousands OF passengers to and from the
vast British Possessions, and food Saint
Paul with such immense quantities OF
almost, if not quite, rival of Chicago.
The President of the Company, Edmund
Rice, Esq, has just returned from a trip
to Europe, where he made known to CAPT
talists the peculiar features of the road,
and received at once all the aid required
So much for the enterprise of the one
horse capitalists OF America, who will bite
sharp on the fourth re-letting of an army
contract, but be blind to the most brilliant
railroad prospect ever opened to the
public.
St. Cloud will become, with the excep-
ton of St. Paul, the largest city in Min
nesota. Like the water falling at Niagara,
"there is nothing to proven: it." Locat-
ed as it is, eighty miles above St. Paul,
the two places are too far apart to become
rivals in any sense, and as it stands at the
junction of the railroad from Superior
and from Pemb;na, and at the junction of
the Mississippi and Sank rivers, in the
richest agricultural valley on the face of
the globe, it must become second only
to our capital.
1t the finger Of destiny ever pointed
out Il brilliant destiny for any State, Min
nesOta is now receiving its manifold ia
yors. Capitalists, merchants, mechanics,
and intelligent agriculturists, are focking
in not only rom all parts of the United
States, but from every country in Europe.
The Indians are being driven from all
parts of the State, and the many railroads
now and soon to be commenced, will
change the value Of good farms from 50
to $50 per acre.
Talking of the finger of Destiny, did
you ever notice that ;he head of Lake
Superior is formed like the right hand
hastily closed with the index finger point
ing directly down into the heart of Mill
nesota? Nature herself is struggling to
inform blind speculative men, that her
favorite garden is Minnesota, and that
the natural outlet in season of navigation
is by way of Lake Superior. Overhaul
your geography, "and when found make
a note" As ever yours,
QUAILs