New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-07-30

channel og5 anon spreading ont to the width OF
mile here Winding abruptly round some tremen-
dous bluff, and running nlts suuoue course toward
all points of the compass, euaTglnE AT LAKE FepN
into beautiful inland sea i've miles IN WIDTH hyg
times as much i'll length, and uClosed completely
by wsli of rock and eaf covered butfs-hese
and thousand other features combine TO give 10
the trip charms which no other i4Ter anords
Then there are the Wuod-un scenes by the glare
of torches at midnight: the huts of the wood
chopper upon the shores or islands, with long
piles of fuel waiting the first customer; the quick
transition from the hustle and eciyity Of towns to
the wilderness of primeyal foFest; the strag
Cling Indians, reminding one that in less than
twenty years since the advance of civilization
| reached here, and poured round ALL as Bryant
has it, the clear and bracing air Of this Northern
clme-which would dispose one to feast with
charmed eyes upon scenes far less intrinsicaly
novel and delightful
We have spoken Of this valley as new country,
scarce twenty years settled; aud it is with ex-
ceptions For instance, Prairie du Chen, the first
place of Importance after leaving Dubuque, is q
| French settlement over j hundred years old,
founded by the Jesuits, aud occupied only as nail
itarv post till far into the present century. For
| beauty Of location there is not more romantic
| SDOt in the NuTthWeSt. There is Fort CTaW o. H.
/ or what remains of it, where JED Davis, then
| Lieutenant, per ormed his first secession exploit
with the daughter of General Taylor, then colonel
/ and commander OF The post. There, also, Is the
| terminus Of the NJ lwaukee ana Prairie du Chiea
| railroad; fact, however, which seems to nave no
| ttteCt upon the business ACTIVITY OF inls quaint,
sleepy old French Town.
| Directly across the riveris McGregor, the verv
opposite q the tgTmeE lIf enersy ana ult, u, /,
hnIut 5 mIy w c nS ng a Crosse Which is also
the terminus Of a railroad from Milwaukee and
pointed exception to the rule that river towns
only thrive when situated upon S %g5tg e c Ha NJ
Win35nn ' sjfustod npop one Of thoe level areas
which separate sometimes, the river and the bluffs
and deriving its beautiful name from the il'fated
indian MAIDEN We above FelesrsG TO- p..a, rond;n,
at the toot Of isEe Pegin, Lake Civ: RedwRg
Prescott, Observation-Disclosures business places aac
at last around great beud IN the river, and where
ny %ai p tuu eie s gs re r,s
sis civ have ben So Efien described hat We car
/ or,isyefer to J. lew OF them.
First, S'SFe are lhe beautiful falls Of NinneAaha
famed 10 song ara stoIg yng ao9Gt taree nue. We!
onC u We ,a , Wy ~ & Anfbany Ta on}
The SUSPENSION Bridge at Minneapolis and Lake
Como-wiIh its sister lakes-only few miles dis
tant, We haze but barely referred q inc ineau'
81 gel'ng 70 'ns7 pleasure ' "" Ds'''D'
There ( his season bat one line of boats run
ming up the Mississippi though this line is formed
Of conformation Of the two wh1ca nave heTeto
i iT1o n The NortTesteTn rini Packet Com6apy
and embrace the flower Of all river craft.
There are, in al, some thirty passenger boat'
now piEi"S oegWee1 DuoAq4e anu oI' Adut, y