Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-02-23
itoba, to the Black Hills, to California, to

itoba, to the Black Hills, to California, to
Europe.
As comptroller of the currency is John Jay
Knox, formerly of St. Paul-and at the head
of the agricultural department. have we not
our own LIE Due? Some have gone, alas! tc
Canada
The speaker then proceeded at considerable
length to correct errors which he claimed had
crept into history, relating to Hennepin's trav-
els in this locality:
SECURING THE INDIAN LANDS.
The next noticeable local event brings us tc
the year 1887. In that year the chiefs and
head men of the M'dewakanton Sioux were
taken to Washington, where, by treaty con.
irmed by the Senate in the succeeding year
in consideration of 1901, 900, they ceded to the
United States vast tract of country, includ-
ing this spot, The words of cession are so
brief that they could be written between
the blowing out of candle and its ignition
again from the fire left in the wick.
Here they are:
The chiefs and braves representing the par.
ties having an interest therein cede to the
United States all their lands east of the Alssis-
slppi river, and all their islands in the said
river.
Most of these Indians were very fine looking
| men and included ameng their number Big
Thunder, father of Little Grow, the Kaposia
chief.
|
by way of Galena. Detroit, Pittsburgh,
and philadelphia. by lake, river, canal and
| stage Near Philadelphia, their route on the
canal led through tunnel, and when they
reached the entrance, which was early in the
morning, thew were all standing on deck in
their paint and eagle feathers singing one of
| their soldier songs. As they entered the une1-
pected darkness the songs suddenly ceased, and
| when they emerged, an eye witness tells 1ne
their hair fairly stood on end with fright.
In less than fifteen years they had parted
| with ell the vast remainder of their Astounding
lands, over which, to the Imagination still ling
ers their sad adieu, plaintive as the last sigh
| of the Moor when he left forever Granada's
royal towers.
In the capitol hang the curling scalp locks of
| the Kaposia chief, and surgical science long
ago claimed the cadayer of Shakonee for her
| own.
Passing over the history of St. Paul from
| 1887 to 1Si7, Mr.. Heard continues:
| NAMING PIG S EYE.
Parrant will always occupy prominent
place in our history as being the first settler,
and the origin of the ignoble name by which
the hamlet was originally known, If Dayton's
bluff and the site of the Catholic chapel are ia
| nous localities, Fountain cave is none the
less noted by being the primary home of Par
rant. Among its hazel dells he located
stature squat and grim, topped by maIgn
| countenance from which under shaggy brow
| squinted single, veined marbelized and pig
like eye.
| When the pious Father Gaultier first sailed
| by these shores the smoke arising from Par
rants cabin was the sole evidence of life in all
the ampitheatre of green, That eye being the
most notable object to be seen, the incoming
| people called tho locality pigs Eye and the
the name, indignant at the sneer insisted on
ever adhering to the place.
| Those early settlers lived the life Of the Sat-
urnlan age. There were no lawyers, with their
arsenals of blanks, to put the unfortunate cred
ltor to instantaneous torture; no surgeons to
desecrate the pure waters of Como with the
| bones of some dreadful robher; no professors
| in barbering to torture the face; no Judges of
| diamonds; no coroners; no extraditions no
Franks or Bnrkes; no first of the month coliec-
| tlon-those dies irae; no pernicious concoc-
tons of mixed drinks. ". D. Phillips had
not yet appeared shaking these bluffs with
| the voice of stentor; nor had Wakefield intro
duced his early pointed style nor bis unpub-
| lshed novel of thrilling interest. There were
| no exciting races such as afterwards arose be-
tween Willoughby and Powers coach and the
Tiger and the Saw Mill. and which drew Presi-
| dent of the Town Council Lott that watchful
guardian of the public security, from his daily
stationary lookout for steamboats, with spy
| glass.
There no Col. Allen to shout out. when
the river closed. in his CHEEKY voice, that to his
| apparent delight sent terror to the trembling
traveller as he incarcerated him in his stage.
| that living moving tomb, ''All aboard for
| Galena.'
There were no COW limits. and no poundmas-
ter. There no legislature and no city
council and 10 titles of Honorable
THE OLD TINES AND THE PRESENT.
| Mr.. Heard proceeded in very entertaining
manner to describe how st. Paul appeared in
the early days. How there were trees and I'M
derbrush above what is now St. Peter street.
How there was no levee, and no anything COM
pared with the present: This portion of his
address was long but interesting. He then pro
ceeded:
| Of the Individual actors in the years passed
| here can muse but cannot write. The task
must be performed by some ADLER hand than
mine. Before my mind. indeed. they readily
| appear but, like phantoms. quick crowding
fast feeting, ''the shapes of Joy and woe. the
airy forms of long ago. But attempt to fix
| their hnaments upon the page before me and
the pen becomes torpedo benumbing the
faculties. The shadows mix with hollow masks
| of night.
Indeed, the past to most of US is Ikea dream ::
the parting with loved ones, in far distant early
homes, the tedious journey hither by lake. and
car and stage, the long-wished for sight of the
grand, mysterious, majestic river: the blanket
ed, painted and feather-decorated savages
| along the shores; the first vision of st. Paul
| cleaning white upon its hills as a sail seen at
sea; the crowd that blackened Jackson's
heights, greeting all corners with kind and
| glad hurrah; the Indian dances in our streets:
| the antique, wierd and wrinkied sybil of the
Sioux; the forms, the features, the voices of
those gone from among us; the genial
smile and quick wit of French
Morgan, the hearty laugh of Pettys the pater-
nal greeting of Randall. the jocund form of
Hollinshead. the wondrous voice of Ames.
Sherburne cloaked like Roman Senator, Cor
man, erect, quick stepping, cane in hand Nc
| kenty, doomed to an untimely end, Moffet
| bearded like aEScandinavian vicking, Larpen
teur, who saw Napoleon at Fontainebleau.
Acker, Cakes, Wilkin, dead on the field of hon
or; and other faces and events. Mawry, with
his peerless description of our starry skies,
Seward Sew 10 on the the steps Of the capitol,
der for the wars. the triumphal entry
of the hower-garlanded returning braves, the
grim, stern face of Ulysses Grant, the uncoy-
cred head and courtly bow of Hayes.
Dear to US was this spot before we saw it, I
know not why; perhaps for its noble name.
which links our few years with all those
of the Christian era, and which we will never
change; dear to us when we first set foot upon
its soil. Doubly dear to US for its whole-souled
people, for generous friends found here among
strangers, for the beloved dead that sleep in
Christ beneath its sod. Dear to us at morn. al
noon, at dewy eve, at midnight starry hour: in
the spring tune. when the tender crocus frs,
appears upon the hills in the blaze of sum
mer; when autumn's crimson banners fly: o,
when winter hangs his flashing diamonds from
the trees.
Dear to me is it for its brilliant future, fol
far fetched the sentiment may seem, I be
Eeve, firmly as I do that tomorrow night
Orion in his gittering arms will walk the west
ern skies, that here on sod old as the Garden O.
Eden, near where the head springs of thu
worlds greatest rivers almost kiss each other
rivers greater than the Nile, the Tiber, tn
Seine. the Thames the blue Qanuhe