The Minnesota pioneer. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. Territory) 1849-1855, 1850-07-18

Hfy l0r at too tails has gone over the dam
also that Mr.. Seizer, of Marine mills, hat
I lost half Of his logs.
The steamboat Gov. Ramsey, was baffies
3in her attempt to run up to Sank Rapid
klast Friday, as no wood was left by tht
Efreshet, and she had nothing but green has.
woodt TO make steam with; which rs a com
Sbustihle, can be classed but one degree a.
bove ice from The river Siyx.'fF agevsou
We learn that 'old DR.. Jacob Townsend
has forwar.led. a box of his Sarsaparila
accompanied 10y complimentary letter, tc
Senator Benton. 49, al E.
Can any body. tell what has. become OF
Judge Meeker, who left Minnesota last au
&tumng NJ $50 e fsB@sFr tHs #eaa&
Mr.. Neill's church is to be built on the
north side of Bench street, half way be-
tween the upper and lower Landings of St
Paul.
Some frien,l, whose name we did moi
learn, sent US a quantity of fine cucumber.
one day last week, from his garden neal
our village.
We learn that Capt. Monroe did not leave
Fort Smelling without an adeqate force fol
4 It's defence, when he marceed with his de-
&tachment of troops the other day TO Saul
Rapids. eaE
j Hon. S. s. Prentiss, the distinguished or
atcr of Mississippi, is dead;. also. Nj. l.
aDayis of n. Y. a e. Slle a.lea s
On the 9th of July. Alexander H. Liv
ingston, of Wolf Greek, Wis, was murder
ed by a Chippewa Indian. tc,Fs efr
Fl, NJ. Rice, Esq, and family returned b,
1.-THE Yankee, on Monday last.
h One Of the toasts ut the Sank Rapids eel
kehration WAS rs follows: TO our worth,
4 Commanrlers, Captains Monroe and Mich
Eel: The flint and steel of our forces. Atthei
word the fire fes' As We understa nd thu
RELATIVE position Of these gentlemen in com
maid, i, would be more appropriate to reaC
the trigger and percussion cap of our for
Ices, etc. r
s The Mississippi to the Penobscor,' nj
article last week which we attributed to 'ont
of the pens of St. Paul. was not written b,
any one in our village, we since learn.
1t would do a stranger good to hear Cap
Smith Of the Nominee, depict the rich anu
beautiful scenery of the Saint Peter The
Capt. was SO enraptured that he actual,
8grew incoherent: 'Why,' says he, the ST
&Peter--l never would have beiiered-l as
rs as rich as garden and such a growth o.
Hveg - when we came with the boat in
Ito the grand forest, trees so large and thict
Hand foliage so dense, the Nominee almos
needed her bow lanterns out. and CROPPED a
long-it seemed like vas,--and such pra
ries as sloped off right and left as far as The
sight could extend, skirted with growing
forests, never were--wel upon my word
you may talk of the Mohawk valley, oil
Rock river valley, or what not, the valley
of the Saint Peter, from your Saint Pau
clear up--in fact it grows more beautiful
every mile you 60 up, is as much ahead OF
any of them as they are ahead of the deser
of Sahara-the making of your whole'c oun-
try--your town, gentlemen-Saint Paul
why the thing is perfectly pIaiu---no getting
!around it--you are bound 10 be the pei.
of shipments, the centre of an i'm
IMMENSE business for all the small steamboats,
. on all those rivers above.-l never would
ahave believed that there was such country
the world wont believe it till they 60 ant
see it with their own eyes-for certainly il
is not in the power of words in the English
lan-all ready? cast off her lines!'
MIR. Folsom sent us in the other day from
This farm, several large beets, some cucum
bers. new potatoes, and green tomatoes as
large as eggs, raised without any artificial
laid at all.
Col. Bruce, agent of the Menominee In
3dians, has returned from the land of thai
Utribe, which he went to examine, out north
west of St. Paul. He describes the coun,
try there as being beautiful and rich beyond
description--a deep black mold resting here
kupon clay and there upon gravel, interspers-
led with lakes so clear that they could see
Binnumerable fish in them, to the very bot
H,om. They found more than 40 of these
Makes. The vegetation, grass and weeds, Is
Ehicher then the heads of men riding on
horseback, and there are hundreds of haze
5patches where the hazel bushes grow over
Ito feet high; and as for wood and titnber,
there is not only a large supply of it, but al
so great variety.
Tuesday morning. - Rain again last
hight and the river still rising. grea,
Gmany mill logs are lodged on the upper end
gof Raspberry Island. They are to he used
&up in a shingle and Ia'h factory, which is
+ Just going up in Saint Paul.
8 Somebody says the Mississippi has raised
: lone foot. When it raises the other it will
8probably run. [Chcago Jour. ...
pa, was II IN w indsOf Casfle tiat MARY
EQuecn Of Scots was couined?' asked little
NAnthony Augustus, one day, Of his father.
n mo my son, not Queen Mary but Queen
sVictoria-she poor thing, has been coyta
led in the Castle repeatedly
w. G. Coffin, Esq, of Parke county, In
diana, has been appointed Mineral Agent
for Michigan and Wisconsin, to reside AT
&Saut St. Mary. We understand that MIR.
HCofiin win. proceed Immediately to that
Nplace.
3 There is 4 single religious congregation
HON Long Island which contains five persons
Eover one hundred years of age, eighteen o.
yer ninety, fifty one over eighty, and forty
Hfye over 10.
George P. Marsh has been appointed
Minister TO Turkey.
THE GREAT BELL MAN Meneeiy, of
West Troy, must make great deal of
noise through the country, and what Is
more he creates none but pleasant sounds.
In lS49, 46S bells were cast by him, the av-
9erage weight Cos los. During the past week
upwards OF: 80 bells were shipped-one OF
348O lbs, for Oahu Sandwich. Islands; one of
go IL, cor N;uuno China and one of 200