The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1868-08-04
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EToDt our o1On Correspondence
ST. PAUL, Minn., July 20, 1858.
Our Eastern visitors, who, during the last
month, have crowded the villages and towns OF
our State, coming with shawls and overcoats to
shield themselves from the cool winds OF this
climate, have been sadly disappointed by the
weather here. The same thermometers thatran
down to thirty degrees below zero here last WIN
ter, have this month ran nimbly up to hum
dred in the shade. Even the cool retreat OF
Minnehaha failed to afford relief from the swell
tering sun, and the silver spray of the laughing
waters seemed some days like the stream from
hot shower BATH Ever and anon, however,
breezes from over the wide prairies have reas
sured us of our latitude and OF our cool adyan-
tages over our Eastern neighbors.
The early spring, and steady warm weather.
nightly alternated by showers, have given great
and sudden growth to all kind of crops, espe
c,ally to wheat, our staple product. If wheat
is injured at all, it has been by the intense and
steady heat of this month, too hastily rlpening
and shrinking it, Many estimate the average
yield throughout the State at twenty bushels per
acre, while others set it at even a higher rate.
The great broad waving fields of golden grain,
some a thousand and more acres in extent,
have for the ten days or two weeks past, been
bowing before the reapers, Laborers for this
service have been in great demand, and have
received wages from three to FIVE dollars day.
great storm passed over this section Of the
State yesterday and lastnlght. The wind, rain,
lightning, and thunder, were on a scale Of mag
nfcence such as the great West alone can occl-
sionally produce. 1t effected considerable alarm
in this vicinity, but whether it did great
damage to the wheat still unreaped throughout
the State, has not yet been ascertained.
Among the many visitors who have recently
arrived here from the East is party of Phlla-
delphians who reached here four or five days
ago. coming all the way in palace car fur
nished by the Pennsylvania Central Railroad.
Among the party was Mr.. Thompson, President
of Pennsylvania Central; Mr.. Hinckley, Presi-
dent of Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington
Railroad; Mr.. W. Clark, banker; Mr.. Leland, of
the Press, Colonel Moorehead Mr.. Lippincott,
and others, accompanied by a number of ladies.
Most OF them are interested in the Mississippi
and Lake Superior Railroad, now being con-
structed from this city to the head Of Lake Supe-
rior, a distance of about one hundred and fifty
miles. The first engine (spendid one of the
Philadelphia Inake) was dedicated aud set to
running on the 24th of last month
The road is expected to be completed in two
years, and the tourist can then make delight
ful trip from Philadelphia to the Mississippi, up
that noble river to this point, and return East
by the Lakes. VIM. L. Banning, former Phila-
delphian, is President of the road. Philadelphia
is not only largely interested in this road, but
the capital and energy OF many of its inhabitants
and of the State is observable in nearly every
portion of Minnesota
This State is growing wonderfully. Young
men of enterprise, hard working farmers from
he triO anoi0 Mt
from Northern Germany and Norway, are
focking in, building towns, and making the
broad prairies bloom and blossom like the rose.
The frigid atmosphere of ''six months of the
year" may be bugbear to the shiYerlng wellers
amid the damp changeable blasts of the Atlantic
coast; but it is delightful 10 those who here have
breathed the clear, dry, steady, invigorating
atmosphere during that time, and it is no bug
bear to the farmer who is enabled by the sud-
den warmth Of spring to plant and SOW earlier
than his brethren of Pennsylvania or New York
The mineral resources of the State are Just
beginning to be developed. To-day, a ton oil
gold quartz, brought from Vermllion Lake, in
st. Louis county, north of Lake Superior, was
sent to Chicago to be assayed by the Chicago
Mining Board by the Tyndal process. The
mines Of lesser metals are also being worked
throughout the State
St. Paul, twenty years ago an Indian rendez
Vous, is now city of some twenty thousand
inhabitants, with five railroads centrng here
running in as many directions, and others in
contemplation. Although this town and county
are strongly Democratic, it does not have the
effect of putting the whole State at all IN SYM
pathy with the Seymour and Blair family COM
bination. Hon. l. Donnelly, who represents
this district in Congress, has returned here
from Washington, and will at once commence
to canvass for his nomination and reelection,
which, owing to the detection among his Re-
publican friends, will be hard fight for him.
The Grant and Colfax ticket will sweep the
State by many thousand majority; but owing to
the confidence felt of an easy victory in fighting
under such an eVer-conquering banner, the
enthusiasm will not be as great as in former
contests with the same enemy; but, nevsrthe.
less, the victory will be as sure. W. II. d.