The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1865-08-25

Sus.zsoR CtxH, LAxx su,,a,oe
AnGu9t II, l06k

We have Just reached in ..t.., 49,.
famous and beautiful ''City Of the ro,.h -, ;,
s'es iour dsys pleasant travel BY Bn,.
banks easy coaches over road mod ~
prsaaly for the cure of indigestion sn..1
ing Of Burbank, did it ever occur to ~
that Burbank 4 Go. 3 Inns Of stao.. !. ~. .Oa
Of Ainnesotas biggest institutions, m v-e
easy riding vehicles are found in all , n..t.
OF the State drawn by large, powerful
horses, under the charge of reansctfn, 80
intelligent drivers who are ever ready and
willing 10 impart all necessary information
to travellers. One of the drivers IN .h;.
route, is a Dutchman, who keeps ONE evs
on the team, and the other on the lookort
for anything that has fun in it.
Noticing our surveying instruments. and
thinking Gt being after four o'clock that
no travellers could go north without being
in search Of copper, iron, or silver, be sx.
claimed:
ESQ you goes NIT de needle to tint your
vortune mort, eh2"
| "Yaw!"
"Ah! you fools, not me NIT your yaao :!
Magurder he tries dem joke, but he fools
not me! You knows not Magurder, chi"
"Never heard of him!"
"Vere den you lif, you knows not
Aagurder! He is de greatest man in In.
tanner! He elect Misser Pierce and he
select de officer for cabinet shop of Lincoln.
He comes up here and be finds more golf
and copper As I draws town hill init two
dead mules. He gooms again pine-py
and tells me more, and den tells you,-
ven you pays me NIT der lager"
Taking the hint, We filed Johns pipe,
and concluded some old joker had been
making unsuccessful attempts to betos the
honest fellows understanding with q few
Munchausen romanoes. Stage drivers are
not always 20 green Is they look, and they
sometimes play the dupe for the sake Of
quiet joke afterward.
We hnd the crops along the road in the
very best condition. Nearly every farmer
that We talked with on the subject,
declares that he has more wheat, corn and
oats this season, than during the past
three years unitedly. One old fellow with
locks whitened with age, exclaimed, eve
got the heaviest wheat / ever saw in my
life. ] am nigh on to seventy years old,
and l como from New Hampshire, where
II the season was fust rate could get
twelve or fifteen bushels to the acre; and
now I've got over eighty acres that's goin'
to average more'n forty bushels to the
acre. I'm the father, sir, -or leastwise /
was once,-of thirteen children; nine
boys and four gals; and l never see 80
good field of wheat before as stands out
there tother side of the barn. And as for
oats-well, there, you ought to see em!
l said to my son Harvey tother day, when
he come over to tell me that he'd heard
from Matilda, in st. Paul-perhsps if
you're from st. Paul, you some of you
know Matilda; she works at the millinery
business, making bennets and such like"
We al shook our heads, and the old man
hsaved long-drawn sigh and continued:
"Them's the best oats ever see! It's
pooty hard for an old man like me to begin
life again on new land; but sot Danl up
in . grocery, and he up and failed, and that
jest skinned me clean. I've got a nice
little farm here of a hundred and sixty
acres, and if l can have another year as
good as this one, I'll be worth as much as
I ever was. l said to Harvey yesterday
says 1 Harvey, when a man can get good
land for five dollars an acre, that II raise
three times as much as twill in New Eng
land, he can get rich in five years, jest as
easy as rolling of log, if he amt too
pesky lazy to work!'''
The horses having now drank their I'll
from the pure crystal stream at their feet,
the stage rolled on over miles of beautiful
oountry-mostly unbroken, but capable of
producing crops equal to the best in the
world. What this country most needs is
the early completion of the Lake Superior
and Mississippi Railroad, now in active
process of construction.
OF this road, it's prospects, ETC., and of
Superior City, we propose to speak in our
next. In this We have only room to say
to travellers coming to the lake, have mo
dealings with landlords north of Smiths
excellent hotel at Ohengwatana, unless you
make bargain in advance in the presence
of two witnesses. OF this, however, more
anon. QoOcAsma.
Democratic Conventlon..RoursA Lar.
fslatlve DISCREET.