The Minnesota pioneer. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. Territory) 1849-1855, 1850-04-17

As she was about decamping with the
pair of socks she had stolen, the clerk |
said, MADAM, will thank you to ieare
those socks!" 81 a |
"Oh," said she, "were you looking
this way all the time '-Here then, F"
said she, producing the socks and throw
ing them in his face, ''you may take the
socks" t,s. ~~
ss5- The Pittsburg Chronicle says,
that fastidious lady in that city was
greatly shocked the other day, on read
ing that the male and female strawberry
plants were frequently found in the same
bed.
- On Saturday last, building on
the bank of the river at Mendota, con-
tanning 25 cords Of wood, was swept
away by the freshet.
BArIsTE (half French) the most intel
ligent man in the tribe of Winnebagoes,
attended public worship at Mr.. Neill's
church, last Sunday. Batiste converses
readily in twelve languages. His dress,
is mixture of European and Indian
costume.
~ What Yankee will invent pair
of circular saws, running parallel upon
an axle, propelled by the engine, to cut
a passage before the bow of steam
boat, SO that the boat may cut her way
up through lake Pepin, as soon as the
river opens below? What better plan
for obtaining large quantities of ice for
the southern market, than by thus rip
ping it out of the frozen heart of lake
Pepin' Every thing in nature, has it's
use; and it is difficult to imagine bet
ter use for the ice Of lake Pepin, than
to convert its ice into gold, by the aid Of
commerce. Why not, when Bostonians
can coin Fresh pond:
81 The chances are that the two
Aristocracies of Brain and Pocket will
not, by any natural course of things, "
come together in this our day and gen.
Grafton.
! CJ- Tuesday, o'clock P. NJ: Two
men have just arrived from lake Pepin and
report the lake open two miles at each end
and that all the steamboats, have gone back
to Galena, except the Highland Mary.
@~ In Paris new style of pocket
has been ntroduced--''ours is without
change" says a candid contemporary.
l~ Jacob r. Simpler, indicted for as
saulting Margaret his wife with intent to
kill, was found guilty by the jury, on
Monday last, and on Tuesday morning
was sentenced by the Court to-year
Imprisonment in the penitentiary Ship
Ter was very ably defended by MIR. Muir
ray.
~ PERFECTLY ISDIFFERENT.--Ship-
Ter took SO little interest in his suit, that
he actually put out without waiting to
hear the judgment of the Court; and
has left town.
sa- We learn that the whole number
of indictments found by the Grand Jury,
was thirteen. The Grand Jury was
| faithful.
! g3~ On ain appeal by Brawley s. IT.
vine, from the decision of the Board of
Commissioners Of Ramsey county,
against their application for license to
retail liquors under a tavern license,
Judge Goodrich sustained the decision
Of the Board of Commissioners; deci-
ding that all licenses to retail liquors I'M
der the statute, must be grocery licens-
es and nothing else.
THE WEATHER, &c.--Since our last
publication, the wind and the water have
both been son tear" getting very high.
Such flood has not been known for
many years. Great quantities of fire.
wood have been swept down the river
and every ware house on the levce of
st. Paul, both at the Upper and the Low
er landing, is partly submerged in the
flood. The wood piles of Louis Roberts
* WIN. ri. Forbes containing twelve
hundred cords Of steamboat wood, have
been saved only by extending around
them a strong boom. The water is over
flowing much of the bottom land opposite
Saint Paul. Pigs Eye is also in peril
being in a cold scald. The stream of
the Mendoza is subsiding; but the flood
from the Mississippi is still increasing
At Saint Anthony the water running over
the dam is about two feet deep; and the
ice, crowding into the boom above the
mills, has driven an immense herd Of
logs upon the dam, where they stand and
lie tumbled up in admirable confusion
A steady cold blast is sweeping down
from the northwest, and prairie fires light
up the distant horizon in the south, by
night, and far away on the vast buffalo
ranges ofthe north. Saturday morning,
the sun shines, but the wind is very keen
We have experienced more wind in the
week past than during the whole prece-
ding winter. At about 3 o'clock p. NJ
on Saturday, the mail arrived and re-
ports that the Nominee and Highland
Mary were lying at the foot of Lake
Pepin on Wednesday morning last. On
Sunday several passengers arrived in
Saint Paul, from the boats at the foot of
the Lake; which are reported to be
crowded with passengers. Monday and
Tuesday the weatheris fine, but yet cool