Harper's New Monthly Magazine Volume 21 June to November 1860 . FEKRY OVEK ROM RIVEB. low-cases of civilization to the blankets of barba-rians, and generally found our way at sundownto some inn. Still, along this crowded thoroughfare, andwith these dilutionsof camp-life, we metwith some sharp con-trasts. My sketch-book contains, uponconsecutive pages, apicture of the Astor-like Fuller House,at St. Paul, whereI slept one night,and the TravelersHome, where I ask-ed for something toeat on the next day. Our road passedover two tributariesof the Mississippi —Elk River and EumRiver. Spring fresh-ets
Harper's New Monthly Magazine Volume 21 June to November 1860 . FEKRY OVEK ROM RIVEB. low-cases of civilization to the blankets of barba-rians, and generally found our way at sundownto some inn. Still, along this crowded thoroughfare, andwith these dilutionsof camp-life, we metwith some sharp con-trasts. My sketch-book contains, uponconsecutive pages, apicture of the Astor-like Fuller House,at St. Paul, whereI slept one night,and the TravelersHome, where I ask-ed for something toeat on the next day. Our road passedover two tributariesof the Mississippi —Elk River and EumRiver. Spring fresh-ets had carried awaytheir bridges, and wecrossed by means oftemporary rope fer-ries. Over Rum Riv-er ferry, near Anoka,we were carried citizen?reasoned with theowner of the boat,whether patrioticallyor numismatically Iknow not, and b\oughthim to a sense of hiscondition as one ofthe pioneers of thegreat Northwest Ex-ploring body, when ithad crossed, organ- 294 HARPERS NEW MONTHLY O^JE OF OUU DOCTORS. ized itself into a convention and passed the fol-lowing resolutions: Wherea^^ by the kindness of the citizens of Anoka vrehave been ferried over Rum River free, Resolved^ That we tender them our heartfelt thanks; Resolved^ That we are deeply sensible of the able andskillful manner in which the ferryman managed his pole,and his assistant the rudder, in the trying transit of RumRiver; ?Resolved^ That vre are devoutly grateful that the ropedid not break and leave us tc the mercy of winds andwaves; Resolved^ That we cordially unite in recommendingto Charon, the proprietor of the Styx ferrj--boat, to re-frain from demanding the usual two oboli from the citi-zens of Anoka and the ferryman of Rum River. These resolutions were adopted nem. con. Thechairman was about to put the motion to adjournto a quarter where the rum was not so liberallydiluted as in the stream just crossed, when thegentleman who had offered the resolutions steppedon top of a p
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