The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1864-03-25

roads and facilities for getting to market.
st should clearly and without bewildering
Chronological tables appear what fine
weather the country is blessed with, and
whist excellent health we enjoy-the max
ed assertion that we have no fever and
ague nor "home made" consumption do
ing more to convince of these facts than
all the dry-as-dust weather tables showing
the quantity of rain and force of Winds or
mean temperature of climate in the world.
Our free institutions and elective franchise
as we'll as our school system and the adj
vantages of equality which all enjoy should
be stated; and thousand other induce
ments which space forbids us pointing out
might be added.
But above all let it be impressed that
this is country to enjoy life in and get
rich. Show the fishermen our fsh-the
huntsman our game, and the lover of ma
ture our scenery. Tell the mechanic and
artizan where and how he is needed; and
let the farmer know how invaluable mine
of wealth lies hidden in the surface of our
soil. Yet by no means in doing this lat
ter, resort to the abominable tumble of sta
tistical tables, full Of geological and chem
ical teehnicalities which are so usual, but
if the author does know any statistics of
this kind and is capable of digesting his
own knowledge, we implore him to give
the poor emigrant the authors own con-
illusions without killing him with scientific
formulas. If the soil of, Minnesota will
raise wheat or oats or corn or potatoes, or
any thing else, tell him so and the ,quanti-
ty, and quality, but do not by cabalistic
figures and alchymical terms induce peo-
pie who otherwise might come here, to
stay away, under the fear and belief that
Minnesota crops are the result only Of
some agricultural witchcraft.
A pamphlet written in the manner above
indicated, would do some good; but if in
any other style We think some of translating
DR.. VAIDEN's "America Vindica ed" into
the Dutch, and of presenting it before the
Commissioners as competitor with all
other pamphlets presented for the highest
premium.
A Word on Cupolas and the Ishino.
Germs Stvle Of Architecture Cener.
ally.
Although we take the City Hall of St.
Paul as our text, we hope to make our re-
marks have wider and more general APP
plication.
We observe that our City Fathers have
demolished "like the baseless fabric of
dream" the "cloud cap'd tower that sur
mounted our City Hail." so that nothing
now remains oft but some very unsightly
rubbish and splintered lumber; and what
may seem tsrange to the ingenious archi-
tect who contrived or erected it is, that
no one now denies but that its demolition
is one of the finest adornments that could
have been aided Gas an Irishman would
say) to that city temple of Justice and pub
lie affairs. Like some unseemly wart up
on mans nose, the old cupola stood up
to the public gaze; as unnatural, inartis-
tic and unbecoming. in its shape, proper
tions, color and style as bad taste and i'll
design could make it. And now that is
gone the City Hall looks like what it re-
ally is-an oblong brick box coated with
checkered plaster, with no front, but with
one gable end staring out on the world
like grist-mill, and all surmounted by
roof of the style invented by NOAH for his
ark. Perhaps we ought to add that the
only imaginable object in the world for
obtruding the gable spoke of thus promi-
nently upon the public is to hold out to
mankind in largs'gilt letters the hierogly-
fics "City Hall 1857 ~ which undoubted-
ly was intended to assist the researches of
future psychologists in determining the
character and age of this wonderful stluc-
ture
The style of architecture Of the City
Hall Gas it was" is one of the most
common for public buildings in this city
and indeed throughout the State and the
villages of the West If we may be in
dulged in using smile drawn from archi-
tectural and animal structure we should
call this the unicorn or rhinOrcerOs style
it consisting of long awkward edifce,
built of red brick, often plastered with
mud.colored stucco-with one end jutting
on the street, snrmounted by wooden
pepper box, painted white and capped with
tin! This pepper Lox seems to be sine
qua non, and though of no earthly use
either for belfry, lookout or ornament. vet
it seems that it has become as infalible
an appendage to every public building as
animal economy has made a tail to pol
lywog. Even private dwellings are not
considered finished without "pepper
box" and we see that some of our public
school houses have gone into the super.