Evansville daily journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1863-1866, 1865-09-04
sr PAU, MIN, Aug. q, 1866.


Sr. Paul, MIN, Aug. q, 1865.
Editors Evansville Journal;
The day after writing my last letter,
tAug. 81, the rain ceased, and for two
weeks the weather vas splendid. The
atmosphere was perfectly exhilerating
and re-jasinating. l wished it pos
sibls to send you few bottles Of it for
your mental, physical and moral edif-
cation and improvement. Had your
local come here instead Of going to
Nisgars, be would have imbibed enough
extra oxygenated air to have kept him
in adjectives for twelvemonth.
On Monday, the 7th inst, our friend
BrowA, of The "distinguished'' house Of
Brown, Dunksrsou & Co., agents of the
"fast-line Cotton Express" (as the Local
would say y)-well, our friend Brown
and family left in an open spring -wagoh
or stage, for Superior City, having irst
provided water proof and musqueto-
proof equipments, with good hopes of 3
fairly sgreeable trip-these hopes being
somewhat based on Mr.. Garvin's report
Of bis journey over, to which l have, in
former letter, referred. In due time
(31 days) they reached their destination,
and have the pleasure of stating, on
the authority of letter from Mr.. Brown
himself, that, "tbanks to Providence,
they ali arrived at Superior alire.n He
does not, however, advise US to try the
route, unless particularly anxious to as
certain what strain our constitutions
will bear. AS matters stand, we do not
care to test this point, and shall, when
we leave, go some other way. The
heavy rains mentioned in M last, prob
ably had made the roads worse than
when Mr.. Garvin passed over. At all
events. he aud Mr.. Brown did not see
the trip in the same light 81
We have visited several lakes recent
iy, among them Lake Como, Bass and
McKeaty-the first about three miles
from town, and much resorted to; the
other two about six miles out and not
far apart At the last we spent very
pleasant day, picnicing, the friends (rel&-
tives) Of our New Albany friends hav-
ing arranged an elegant picnic for thems
to which, we as being ''good-looking, 7
| (gots knoo), were invited. There we're
about fifty as pleasant people as you can
get together; and what, with an excel.
lent dinner on the beach upder bluff
overhung with shade, sailing and 6sh.
ing on the lake and cheerful groups here
and there engaged in pleasant chat, the
day slipped away Delightfully."-, aud will
always be remembered by us as among
the most agreeable incidents Of our
sojourn in St. Paul.
The week following We made trip
(some time in yiew) to the ST. tACroix,
visiting the falls, and noted Dells of III at
river. Our route was By carriage eigh.
teen miles to Saltwater, and thence by
steamboat thirty miles to the commspc ce-
ment of the rapids, being the head Of
steam navigation, and sixty miles above
the confluence of the ST. Croix with the
Mississippi saltwater is near the head
Cf Lake st. Croix, which widsns below,
extending twelve or more miles, and
being in fact but an enlargement ofthe
St Croix IS Lake Pepin is an enlarge
ment of the Mississippi river. The town
is apleasant little village With 10 special
attraction, except q most excellent
hotel, the Sawyer House, which / can
hrecommend to all who come to this re.
gion for health or relaxation. The 81.
Croix is about as large a stream as the
Wabash, full of beautiful low islands
some of them of considerable extent,
I and covered with fine trees and verdure.
The grass on the Islands extends 10 the
waters edge, hanging over, and forming,
as it were, border fringe Of green.
The shores Of the river are generally
/ rocky, and often precipitous Iedges erect
themselves TO q great height, now and
then running IN in a point and termina-
! sing in a frowning cliff, which seems at
most to overbang the river. Sometimes
the Hedges which surmount these prom.
ontories are not unlike the ruins ol
some ancient castle. na But the great
beauty Of the river is the DeIls
Arriving within half a mile Of the loot
of the rapids we eater the Dells, which
might be called the narfows Of the river
Il seems as if when the oriverin its tur
| bulent course from the falls to the foot
of the rapids. already mentioned, a dis
tance Of near a mile, had come sudden.
1 ly againsts rocky mountain and forced
/ its way through to the width of not far
from eighty feet, leaving high and per.
pendicular walls of rock on each side,
/ and making but one turn untilit came
out and expanded again on reaching tbs
valley half mile below. The views
a. you pass up this marrow channel
with perpendicular walls on esch side
o'ertopped with trees, and broken hers
/ and there By indentations forming little
coves or harbors, and other irreguIari.
ties, are most picturesque and perfectly
charming. AZ Yon glide along ron in