The Minnesota pioneer. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. Territory) 1849-1855, 1850-10-03

100 acres OF more 4 he Falls 10 one Of the places,
take it UP one side and down the other. II
Lieut.. Johnson and other officers Of the IT, s.
Army, with part Of the troops lately engaged in
removing the Sac and Fox Indians in Iowa, re-
turned to Fort Smelling in the DIR. Franklin No.
2, last week, Tuesday.
No, many Sundays ago, a clergyman at ST.
Anthony, having an appointment TO preach at
Fort Smelling, miles below, and being una BILE to
procure horse 10 ride, accepted of proposal
from a friend, 10 glide down in bank ca
noe. So the two shouldered the canoe, and took
il from above to below the Falls, and embarked,
by 10 O'Clock in the morning; but IN attempting
to make, The short bend, near Cheever's, were
both precipi,aied into the Mississippi but got out
with merely thorough immersion. The people
Who were expecting Divine service at the fort,
were unable that sunday, ITO enjoy the stated
preachins of the gospel sol.
MIR. symons has erected hay scales at the east
end OF ear town, with the sanction Of the Town
Council; who, after deliberately aeeighiag the
matter, granted a license for the purpose. fixing
scale of prices for weighing We think the
balance Of purchasers, viii go in for the scales !;
and as the majority must preponderate. the mi
nority will have to ''kick the BEAM
"a watch is part of travellers baggage a nd
bis trunk is proper place to carry it in.'' Jones
VS.. Worries, 10 Ohio Reports; and yet Ohio tail
ors, persist in making watch fobs!
The arrival of Jenny ind cooled off the slave
| ry excitement of Congress, like wet blanket !;
just as the ardor Of a stump orator is quenched
by the huuymg away of the multitude to see
dog fight Congress had grown to be mere mob.
The nation is indebted to Jenny for dispensing it.
| Proprietors Of livery stables, &C. take Motive
Every conveyance must, either on its face or
by words Of reference, give to the subject lis this
/ English law?) intended to be conveyed, such a
description as to identify it, See Conveyance
/ kinnie's Law Compendium, p. lao. If every
/ horse as well as carriage, must be labeled, like
drGy, the law interests sign painters also. How
ever, saw-h0rses and saw mill carriages, do not
come within The purview Of the law; and con-
veyance may be SO dra,ca, as to evade the rule
as if Il conveyance in fee in male tail, be drawn
by span Of small, bobtaed ponics..
"a singular petrication was discovered in an
adjoining county (Chickasaw,) some month since,
a HUMAN bod, changed to rock The subject
was woman, aged 10, who died in full health
hive years since OF apoplexy.
As the trenchman says: Who ever heard al
a .fems turning to con stone II beats Lots
wife spot.
Capt. Hendrickson is now in command
at Fort Smelling.
The first killing frost Of the season was
found on Sunday morning, the Goth of Sep
tenber.
FEET BURNED.-Last Monday night, Mr.
Harrington, al The upper end Of town, LOST
several thousand feet of lumber by fire
Boards We're seasoning in kiln, constructed
in that oblopg old subierranean drinkery
opposite MIR. lrvine's, on Bench-st. The
crater of IA burnt-out hell is dangerou.
place for board. kiln. Being too hot in il
was habituai long ago. IL has crin,soned
hundreds of faces and burnt up scores oi
stomacbs, before the Blue Flame like fam.
lshed wolf, knelt down and licked out the
contents of the old whiskey trough, or
Monday night.
WEDNESDAY, MeRnING AT SUNRISE
The sun is just out of his rosy bed, and
CHANGING across the Red Rock bill-tops into
81. Paul. A long crooked winrow of fog
shines like silver an the channel Of the Mis-.
slsslppl, TARTAR down; the smoke is Just Wis
ible through The azure, rarified atmosphere
rising from Mr.. Dayton'S chimney, mile
northeast of town, and no sound breaks The
stiffness, hut the faint, distant roar of the
falls of Saint Anthony. Is it strange thai
Carver treated for the ownership, of TIN.
landscape which spreads ~ such magnif
cent beauty here around US ; There are
but two scenes of quiet loveliness on thi,
continent 70 compare with thus, viz: the view
of the Connecticut valley from Mount Hnl
yoke, and the view from the summit of The
Eastern Platte manufacturer of which
views is worth pilgrimage.
81 lNcoMBUsTIBLE CoRDAGE-C ordage ha
been prepared hy Professor John>o on, of ST
, Louis, when reSlsts the action Of heat a.
easily, aud with ahout the same effect as i
does water. The vegetable fibre of tn,
hemp Is submitted to q process which alb
stracts The oxygen, the most important ele
nent in combustion. He then submits tn
material II the influence of other substance
which resist or oppose combustion, thu
making it indestrucuble by fre.-[Dubuqu
Express.
OREeoN CoAL.-We have been show
10y Mr.. Benjamin Reynolds of this city, an
, have now in our office specimen of Goa
&. taken from vein recently discovered npo
+, the Columbia river, near the Willamette
n We are informed that it exists in yrea
= ANU u WI I'D tie TeantI
: got out. The piece we have in our posse.
f sion is IA portion of the upper strata, an
4 consequently cannot be SO pure as the lowe
: strata. 1t has the appearance Of cam,
: coal. The resources of Oregon appeal,
e be developing themselves. Il Saint Lou
o paper.
= CANAL NAVIGATION BY STtAM.-A nun
= Der Of scientific gentlemen attended yeste
- day evening to witness the trial of mod
= canal boat, which was made in the Wasl
ington canal, hearth Seventh-street bridy
- The canal boat, of which The one und,
- trial Is the model, is called Bonds prone
Ter, and was patented in lS4i. The mod
:, boat was propelled by steam yesterda
:, across our canal, where il is one hundrt
:, feet wide, in forty-three seconds. The DO
= seemed t" move Handsomely, Causing, how
:, ever, some ripple at her head. We unle
- stand that the trial previously made on ii
Schuylkill the same model boat was Or
:, pelle'l O5 yards in 81 seconds. We unir
~ stand that there is boat now on the Del
=, ware worked by Bonds propeller that
:" forty feet in length; and another is bell
:" built sixty feet in length, whirh is intend,
to he run on the Rappahannock canal. II