Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1869-09-16

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THE POPULATION OF u. PAUL
has bean gaining for tho past eighteen
noathS With : rapidity equaled only by 2
lev cities In Caliioruis; and 4 nov vari-
ously estimated It from twenty-five 70
twenty-five thousand. A new directory
VIM b issued next next week by Hessrs.
Rics q Bell, containing about 6,800
names, which will make our population
estimating three and . half persona TO
each name, which / believe il the lowest
estimate ever made) about twenty-four
thousand Inhabitants.
The now directory contains the only
correct map ever made Of this city-every
block being numbered, and every street
lsttersd distinctly. To those living abroad
and owning city lots here, this map will
be invaluable, a. II enables them to zee
the exact locality Of their property.
One Of the first things noticed by stran-
gers entering st. Paul is the large proper.
ton Of
PALATTAL RESIDENCES.
and the fine display Of wealth and refine
ment seen in every Ward and Avenue in
the city. In this respect it can safely be
said st. Paul is without IN equal in the
world. It possesses wealth, refinement
and enterprise and most nobly is she
seconded by the State At large; for BY
act Of the last Legislature, q new and in.
valuable History Of Minnesota is now be.
ing given away and mailed free of e1.
pense to all persons who take the trouble
to send their address to the energetic au-
thor, Col. Girart Hewitt, Of this city. One
hundred and fifty thousand copies of this
well written work have already been pub.
lished, and the demand is continually ON
the increase.
The expense of erecting slightly and
beautiful buildings in st. Paul is light in
comparison with other places, owing,
first, to the many commanding and pro-
minent knolls and bluffs surrounding the
city; second, the abundance and low
price Of lumber; third. the strength and
beauty of our brick, and fourth, the un-
limited amount of beautiful and endur-
able msrbleized limestone underlying the
entire western half of the city, enough in
fact, to build second London.
Distinguished visitors who have travel
ed extensively both in this country and
in Europe, unhesitatingly declare that for
multiplicity of
COMM ANDINa VIEWS,
st. Paul stands without q rival on the
face of the globe. From the broad and
slightly Dayton Bluffs in the east, where
tower the magnificent residences Of James
Thompson, the banker, and Commodore
Davidson, the steamboat king,-a circuit
of prominent knolls and ridges sweep five
miles around to the lovely view in the
southwest, between Carpenters Summit
Avenue House, and the splendid and pic
turesque residence of J. G. Burbank, Esq.
The view from this standpoint is one of
the fneet in America. 1t combines ex-
tent of vision with the grandeur and sub
Unity of Natures boundless wealth 1t
includes exquisite beauty and variety
intensified by vast and active commerce
prominent in the foreground. 1t presents
the pleasing contrasts of the blue-tinged
mountains far in the distance, with the
rusticity of storm-worn bluffs and rich
waving foliage mirrored in the broad.
CLASSY bosom of the noble Mississippi at
your feet. There's nothing like it on the
continent! II there is spot on Gods
green earth calculated to arouse and in
spire tho most sublime and lofty emotions
within the breast of genuine poet, it is
the extensive and beautiful lawn along
the edge of this bluff. At distance
which seeme but q stones throw, the be-
holder sees the thriving young city push
ing forward with wealth and energyG q
half score of steamers,-large and small,
move to and fro on the crystal waters,
laden with goods and implements for
trader and producer; swift-moving cars
on five different railroads; and the busy,
ever moving crowds of men and teams are
seeen pushing and struggling to increase
the wealth, commerce and fame of the
prosperous and beautiful city at the head
away in the distance are plainly discerned
the soft delicate outlines Of blue hills fifty
miles up the valley of the Minnesota
and still palmer the rolling ridge along
the eastern shore of the Mississippi, twen-
ty miles below. Here on the lip of the
the table land between the Atlantic and
Pacific oceans,-between the granite hills
of New England and the gold fields of
Oregon and Washington Territory-on a
line which Ave years hence will be the
iron highway between China and London
controlling the trade of twenty million
of people,-it needs but ordinary foresight
to see, ten years hence, our present popu-
lation increased to over one hundred thou.
sand;--twenty-five per cent. of whom, as
at the present time, will be eulogizing
our genial and vigorous climate for hav-
ing resurrectcd then from an untimely
consumptive's grave