Morning journal and courier., 1880-08-26
CORRESPONDENCE,
Away from ChieaRo-yFissonsin's Lakes and Wisconsin Rfver-St. Pa u1 a nd Min nenpo1is-The Falls Of Minnehahn- Fort Smelling.

Away from Chioago-yFissonsin's Lakes 1 and Wiscsnsin Rfver-St. Paul a nd Min nenpo1is-The Falls Of Minnehahn- Fort Smelling.
 M1NNAAPoL1s, Aug 31. To tho Editor of the JOURNAL AND COURIER:
 Leaving Chicago with all its business, all 1 it's frivolitiss, all its Knights Tsmplar by the thousand, we have before us Lake Michigan, it's hundreds of miles, northward and east ward, dotted on each shore by lovely cities counted by scores. On tho left Is the State of Wisconsin. Follow it's line of railroads count the lakes if you can. At Waukesha | fifteen hundred guests are gathered from all parts of the country to partake of the heal ing waters. The hotel compares well with any in the country, and fashion reigns as in Saratoga. Geneva Lake, Oconomowoc and Madison, together with the hundred others, are all attractive, and many of their shores | are lined with palatial, elegant residences,
 such as are not common in the older States. Chicago wealth has been expended on grounds under ornamental cultivation, showing the best of taste and most lavish outlay of money. Farmers are reaping their harvests with i'm plements of husbandry such as would not
 have been thought possible few years ago.
 There are beautiful cities where within & gen.
 eration ago was all Indian territory. On the
 west is the Mississippi; it's steamboats headed up or down, crowded with pleasure
 as well as health seekers boats loaded with
 freight are dropping the same and taking in
 more at each city on the route.
 The Devils Lake, Is in the centre of the
 State no bottom has been found no out
 let or inlet The old fellows arm chair, the
 old mans face, Cleopatra's Needle (three
 hundred feet up), are all pointed out by the
 captain of the steamer, as well as the mound
 built by nature the Indians" A good
 hotel at the head of Devils Lake is over-
 flowing with people who seek the most quiet,
 enjoyable place. Killborn City is 8 few
 miles away. The Wisconsin river winds its
 way there. Just below the falls these pillars
 of rock have been for ages, as now, worn by
 the washing current leaving them as they
 stand in the middle of the river bed. Won
 derful Above the dam the St. Paul rail.
 road bridge spans one of the most wonderful sights in America. The Wisconsin river crooks and turns. In ages past the current changed. Follow it for miles through solid rock for it's side from 50 to 200 feet high or more. Dells each side have also been cut by lateral supplies of water. These cliffs can be followed up for mile or more. One glen was occupied by bull which our guide informed us had been it's oc- cupant for three weeks He was glad to see society, as was evident from the way he licked our hands. Being in 6 favorable posi- ton the boat load are photographed Oppo- site is evidently the old bed of the river, now dry except in times of overflow, one of which happened few weeks since. Two steamers ply three times day and are well patronized by wonder seekers. Scores of 1 people, not finding hotel lodgings, are aocom- l modated by the best families For hundreds of miles the same geological wonders exist 1 all over the State, which leads the inquiring 1 mind to ask, How old7 How long has this | been going on to produce such results The | from Dubuque to St. Paul exhibits | the sarns aphenomens to . great extent. | Bluffs in continual view, many, es at Wis | consin river, appearing as smooth as mould ing cut by hand and resembling the hull of | vessel having been worn away many feet un- der. Again, towering rocks all in layers from | two inches to as many feet in thickness, fur nishing building stone of the Joliet style. 1 This kind of rock is found over entire States | a few feet under the surface.
 St. Paul is built upon rocks. The upper | city is beautifully laid out and built The | heights are about two hundred feet above l the river. Elegant residences of the weIl-to- | do adorn the bluffs. General Terxy's resi- |