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

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We havs ju1 reached in satsty thi.
famous end t,satiful s'City Of the ro,.h ;,
ssae four dsys pleasant travel bv Rn,-
banks easy coaches over road m.a. =.
prsasly for the cure Of indigestion sn.s.
ing Of Burbank, did it ever occur ~ r..
that Burbank = 90. 3 Inns Of stages il s oOs
of Annesotas biggest institutions = ~.e
easy riding vehicles are found in ali nsrt.
OF the State drawn by large, powerful
horses, under the charge of reanectfn, ana
intelligent drivers who are ever ready and
willing 70 impart all necessary informst;oD
to travellers. One of the driver, IN .h;.
route, is Dutchman, who keep one avs
on the team, and the other on the lookor+
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, he sx-
claimed:
$50 you goes NIT de needle to tint your
vortune mort, eh 2"
| "Yaw!"
"Ah! you fools, not me NIT your gap
Magurder he tries dem joke, but he fools
not me! You knows not Magurder, chi"
"Never heard of him!"
"Vere den you lifs, you knows not
Aagurder! He is de greatest man in In.
tanner! He elect Aisser Pierce and he
select de officer for cabinet shop of Lincoln.
He comes up here and he finds more golf
and copper a. / draws town hill init two
dead mules. he gooms again pine-py
and tells me more, and den tells you,-l
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 beSog the
honest fellows understanding with few
Aunchausen ronanoes. Stage drivers are
not always % green e they look, and they
sometimes play the dupe for the cake Of
quiet joke afterward.
We find 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, GIVE
got the heaviest wheat ! ever saw in my
Life. ! am nigh on to seventy years old,
and / como from New Hampshire, where
II the season was fust rate / could got
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, eli, -or leastwise I
was once,-of thirteen children; nine
boys and four gals; and I never see 90
good field of wheat before as stands out
there tother side of the barn. And as for
oats-well. there, you ought to see 'emi
I said to my son Harvey tother day, when
he come over to tell me that he'd heard
from Matilda, in st. Paul-perhaps 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:
"Thems the best oats I 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 / can have another year as
good as this one, III be worth as much as
/ ever was. ! said to Harvey yesterday
says ], Harvey, when 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 fll
from the pure crystal stream at their feet,
the stage rolled on over miles Of beautiful
country-mostly unbroken, but capable Of
producing crops equal to the best in the
world. What this country most needs 10
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 OhengwstAna, unless Won
make bargain in advance in the presence
Of two witnesses. OF this, however. more
anon. loccAsus.
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