The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1865-05-05

The Mississippi upward in his conrse,
Between his tall and terraced cliff like banks,
Ascends towards his high mountainous source,
Where rolling of the wide prairie tanks,
Each lofty shore the stream itself, now fed
By tribute brooks which from the mountains
pour,
Rolls clear as crystal DER its rocky bed,
And owns its native muddiness no more.
Here Minnesota sits in regal state,
Enthroned upon thousand fertile hills,
land of refuge from avenging Fate,
Unknown to many of Its grievous ills.
This Is the Promise. Land, and from afar,
The travellers boat, swift sped by.steam and
breeze,
Pursue its beacon like guiding star,
Till fair its newborn capital he sees.
Approaching where the shore-line rises bold,
Erected on three terraced crescent tiers,
Just like new Jerusalem, behold!
The rock-built city of Saint Paul appears!
And here to crowded cars and boat adieu,
Farewell the cramped and busy narts of
trade,
Sweet Nature smiling. opens wide to view,
Inviting US her precincts to invade.
o Nature, handmade of the living God,
Sweet minister of hope and love and Joy!
Who disregard thee, feels thy Christening rod -
His prospects fade, and all his pleasures
clOy.
But partial to thy worshipper, woos
The in thy secret haunts and various moods,
And in thy lone, sequestered hooks pursues
His suit mid rocks and glens and shady
woods
Thou dost to him unmask thy charming face,
The hidden springs of pleasures fount reveal,
A feast of beauty doth before him place,
And on his cheeks doth set thy ruddy seal.
Here nature in primal glory reigns,
Her most enchanting prospects WOO the eye,
Ravines and rocks, broad meadows and vast
Where earth and heaven meet in one blue
sky.
Fair Minnesota, long sought promise-land.
Above the oceans level high enshrined,S
The hope of pilgrims from the death marked
strand,
A thousand streams among the valleys wind
thousand prairies court the farmers toll,
And fowery meadows border every brook,
Thy countless lakes, like gems upon thy soil.
Abound in fish and tempt the anglers hook.
Vast herds OF bsons roam upon thy plains,
The antlered stag still haunts thy lonely
glens,
The proud, free wild-horse spurns enslaving
reins,
And Ger the fields flock broods of prairie
Wild ducks and geese float on thy silvery lakes,
And clouds of pigeons darken all the air;
And piping quails, deep in thy bonnie brakes,
All day are heard when Springtime bids them
pair.
The musing traveller on the quiet heath
Is startled by the pheasants sudden spring,
Uprising from the grass his feet beneath
And whirring off on wild and rapid wing.
Here at the mild approach of vernal spring,
Sweet Nature like a dreaming maid awakes,
Throws off the robes of snow that to her cling,
And melts the ice-locks of her streams and
lakes.
Dissolves the trost-bolts of her dressng-case,
Preparing for her busy season near,
Battles in the April rains her drowsy face,
And dons her morning gown with maternal
care,-
A robe of green with spangled moses frilled,
And flowers decked, completes her light at
tire
Until the summer comes, when softly thrilled
With love, maternal loves own fond desire,
A mantle thick throws DER her graceful form,
OF growing corn, and buds and trembling
leaves,
Then fecund waits his ripening kisses warm,-
Half hid outrageous thus her lord receives.
Thus busy floats our barque along,
As round the cycle Of the flying year
The seasons like the cadence of q song,
Doth vanish in the Past and disappear.
isaiah, xxxviii, yer. l to8
The air of Minnesota is so full of oxygen
that ozone, its allotropic or double condition, is
abundant. although scarcely pe1ceptible else
where. 1t is also 80 highly charged with cleo
tricity, that the largest siued Leyden jar may
be easily charged with a small machine in
moment. The aurora boreaiis, so frequently
seen here, and other meteorc phenomena,
sometimes exploding with crash, are evi
dences of the highly charged electric condition
of the atmosphere regard the large amount
of oxygen and electricity in our air as one of
the secrets of its virtue, combined with its dry
ness and purity.
I This line refers to the remarkable immu.
nifty of the negroes of the South from our vel
low fever
SThe central part of Minnesota is nearly six
teen hundred feet above the Gulf of Mexico.