The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1865-10-06
MoCCAsIN IMPRISTs.
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To the Editor Of the Pio'eer:
We have just received letter from our col.
ored friend Jumbo, in Superior City, which ID
so eloquent in its honest indignation, that We
are tempted to give it to your readers entire.
Jumbo is in error in two of his suggestions
Firstly, instead of our being prejudiced against
him, he has our respect and admiration, and
secondly, we obtained the chicken story, which
he evidently condemns Us for publishing, -
from neither of the gentlemen alluded TO, but
from an eyewitness.
It is probable that Jumbo's education has
been somewhat neglected, and that letter writ
ing is not his forte, for it is evident that he has
had quite spell of it in writing the one before
us. Jumbo certainly presents strong point
on his geneology, and makes out case fully
as good as some others we could name who
attach to their titles the high sounding initials
FEW. But Jumbo's letter is so good that
we have concluded to give 1t entire. Here
it is-- 923 igf 4skf 81 s5Ieg4g ~ 80
bas So PERI Or SEPT 18 sixty.flve.
MISTER MoCcAsNs!-MY indrest deer FRIEND
-ure letter 2 the Pioneer which was maid
number too Of your letters was meen in callen
me Jumbo. my regular name am bon-doo
which in ongleese means good aoatter, but de
white foaks dat cant speak french, dey doant
no nofiin, and so dey call me bongo. know
dat lie relation OBJ ures shuah COZ WHY
you prejudissed agin me hard; else no call
me cuHed pessos. lie true half breed french
chipway gen'lman wild but q berry little chilled
blud on my granfaders side, but not of reglar
African scent. my granfader on my faders
side was one OBJ de fust famlis of virginia. he
waz one oh de best blud OBJ dem days. he waz
de fastest runner in de state and one day de got
-runnln toward de old massippee, and he
conldnt stop til he fatched up on ara #, where
he made de quaintance oh q french count who
took him up on de red river mong de chip.
waze he lived til he was berry old man and
LEFT e rem dozen smart boys to grow mp in
his tracks. j motifs mister moccasins dat de
people don't live SO old now days as dey did in
dem times and dat You don't nowadaze see
emmy berry old people dats ben born lately.
dats fac anyhow. sum foaks say dat
wodent been SO dark eff my mudder was a
chipway, but dat was my fault kos sot in de
sun good deal wheni was small boy spec
mister moccasins dat you'got de partiklars OBJ
DAT chicken story you tel in ure letter number
2 from squire Clark or Tom Richie, kas daze
alters comm some foul joke on dis ole man. if
dey come de wool on you, day cant puLet ober
me not dis lag any how. but lord, dem fellers
jest as full OBJ fun as eggs is full OBJ yaller, egg
zactly. daze alters sbell;n out sumfen good
when dey nest-el dere heads togedder, shuah,
don't you soy nOftin about me in any more OBJ
ure letters, or lie jest cum ober to de MORT shore
where lurn yuze havin fine times wild de iron,
de gold, dc silver, de copper and de ladies,
and xpoze yor ignorance to de whole crowd.
now mind what tells yer! % ~
1pTyNn n .nnI: Il
Since the date Of our fret arrival at the head
of the aforementioned in our first letter--we
have noticed the arrival Of number of capt.
talists from the East, who are investing largely
in lands in the vicinity of Du Lnth, and in
stock of the Lake Superior and Mississippi
Railroad. We begin to think that the citizens
of st. Paul-who more than any other one class
of people are to be benefit ted by this enterprise
don't appreciate its Importance equal to the
millionaires of Gotham.
why, sir!" exclaimed one # kese money
kings to us to-day, "this Road will be to Min
nesota what the Erie Canal has been to New
York! 1t will bring the farmers directly into
market; and the prosperity it will bring to the
hard ,corking producers can be counted by the
millions annually. Farmers will realiz one
third more for their produce, and pay oue-third
less for their dry goods and groceries. A
wholesale house will be opened in Du Luth BY
or before the completion of the railroad, that
will import its goods direct from foreign ports
without breaking bulk: which will enable st.
Paul merchants to save time, freight and ex.
change. As an American, sir. am proud Of
this system of helpiug laboring people; and
as q dnancier, l shall invest fifty thousand dol.
lars in the enterprise. The people of Mime
sofa, sir, are blind, are sleeping over their best
interests, Instead of this Road being compile
ted in four years, it ought to be completed in
tDo years. In TWO YEARS. sir / understand
that the Company is at work on the st. Paul
end of the Road with three hundred hands.
and that twenty miles will Re completed BY
the first of December. That is all well enough
as far as it goes, sir, but force of hands ought
to be set at work at this end of the Road, get
ting out materials for the rails from the mex
haustible beds of iron in this vicinity. Why,
cir, Minnesota ten years hence, instead of go
ing to England 70 buy her rails, as she did for
the st. Paul and Pacific Railroad, will manu-.
facture from her own Superior mines, iron for
all the Western Roads in the United States |.
And these rails. sir, win be manufactured at
the head of this Lake. and will pay their first
freight bill over the Lake Superior and Missis-
sippi Railroad
Interested as we were with the gentleman
stirring eloquence and fully convinced that be
thoroughly understood his subject we reluc-
family responded to an invitation TO join trout
party, and left him and friend Luce In the Land
Office to complete their figures on an entry
just decided upon.
We leave tomorrow morning for the undis-
covered mines of the interior. and win send
you letter from out the woods, the first OPP
portunity that offers itself
ABUNDANCE on GAM-We have learned
from hunters that game was never 80. plenty,