The Minnesota pioneer. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. Territory) 1849-1855, 1850-07-11
LOCAL AND TRANSFORM.


Franklin, No. l, on Saturday morning
last. Asa @ 81
On the 5th of July, 10 years ago. Mr..
/ Joseph X. Brown and others, troeght 9
FOUNDER down from Fort Smelling, with a
supply of powder and provisions, and GEL
ebrated independence day. in the mouth Of
the cave, w hch is now Christened Founfaia
Cave, two miles above Saint Paul. They
: discharged their gun once within the mouth
OF the cave; but as the discharge loosenetl
so,ne OF the sand and rocks in the arch oil
the cave, there about | 5 feet high, they did
1.-THE rest of their firing out Of the cave
After making repast, Mr. Brown and
two others proceeded to explore the cave,
with lighted wax candle; they proceeded,
now walking through spacious caverns, and
now stopping under the low cap rock and
arch, crawling on their hands and knees,
mostly in The channel of the little stream
which runs out of the mouth, to very
great distance, far, far beyond the explora-
: tons Of that cave now daily made; and
MIR. Brown thinks, for distance of near
ly one mile, when they reached precipi-
tous water fall. Here their candle burnt
out; and as matches were then, if invented,
but little used, they had no means with them
of lighting another candle, and after long
retrogression, reached again the mouth OF
r the cave and the light Of the sun.
The man who once becomes journalist
mnst almost bid farewell to mental rest or
to mental leisure. If he fulfiis his duties
truthfully, his attention must be ever awake
to what is passing in the world, AMI his
whole mind must he devoted to the instant
denomination, and discussion, and record, of
II ho- l..,l
erary it!leness, with such literary iabors OIL
his shoulders. He has no days to spend Oh
catalogues, or in dreamy, discursive re-
searches in public libraries. He has no
months TO devote to the exhaustion of any
one theme. What he has to deal with
must he taken up at moments notice be
examined, tested and dismissed al once: and
thus his mind is ever kept occupied with
the mental necessity of the worlds passing
hour.
MIR. Robson of Kaposia, long familiar
with the river St. Peter, says that in the
lowest stage of water, there is over feet
OF water on the bar, just above the village
,ot Wahpaytons-tha the bar is merely the
narrow backbone of ledge, through which
a channel may be cut with ease; and that
no other obstruction is found nearer than
dttci SUI IdpilS, OSU IIliieS dDOVe lie
mouth, unless 1t be the short bends of the
river-that Patterson's rapids, is merely
such obstruction as is often found in swift
rivers where the bottom is rocky, making
in all, a gradual fall of 90 feet, which a
boat could not well pass in low water, and
that above Patterson's rapids, the naviga
tion is good again for an immense distance
We consider il now well established that
the Saint Peter must soon be an important
avenue from the Mississippi to the Pacific
Ocean.
A Mr.. Hopkins, of Lowndes county,
Mississippi, age 56, recently married 3
! Miss Matthews, aged about Sc.
What renders this alliance so extraordi-
nary is, that both parties are so afflicted
with The rheumatism, that neither has walk
! Ell II step for IS years, and the bride is una
BILE to dress or undress herself. The reason
assigned by Mr.. Hopkins for marrying Miss
! Matthews is, that some two years ago he
married a woman that could walk, and she
ran off with stage driver, and he wanted
a wife that he was certain couldn't 90 off,
Most Of the STEAMBOATS, now On the river
are provided with steam whistles. Their
;:oise produces most startling effect ana
one of the most animating sounds that ma
ture or art produces. The Indians about
kaposia, have learned however, to initiate
the steam whistle so nearly, as often to give
false alarm of the approa Oh Of boat.
Two opposition boats started from Pitts
burg, lately, down the river; one employed
German band to attract passengers. The
other being minus the music, and not desir-
ing TO be out done, started the steam wills
tie, which drowned the noise of the band
The mayor beng called upon, declined to
interfere, saying that one was "a specimen
of German mnsic,' and the other genuine
American
NARY, COOP NIGHT! The Hi ghland Ma
ry, No. @ the first boat for the two past
springs, to break the ice into our hyperbo-
rean REGION and arouse us from hyberna-
ting, is sold, aud will probably return
into our waters no more. Mary, fare
well.
ALUM IN GEoReIA-lhe Augusta Sen
n.1.iel states that alum has been foand in con-
siderable quantities IN Columbia CO., in that
state.
In Grant county, Wisconsin,, they paid
last year for county printing $S74,0O; and
for stationery of which a large part means
blanks, 27S, 77-making in all $652,s7 The
tax payers there, begin to find themselves
more oppressed than they were under the
honest old regime of printers.
MoUNrsIN ScENERY-There is nothing
we SO much miss in the west as mountain
scenery. Readily would we give enough
of our undulating plains in Minnesota, to
make German princpality, in exchange
for Mt Washington to stand in solemn
grandeur, looking every way outward over
our territory. We are reminded of scenery
familiar to us in boyhood, by reading in The
Home Journal, travellers description of
the fair smiling valley of the Connecticut,
below him, with the silver band of water a
way in the distance dividing in twain; there
will be, ever and anon, daShing waterfall,
with its rainbow crown; there will ever
stand 'the grand Monadnoc,' towering yet
beautiful, with its lofty summit, round as e.
ternity, clothed with veDdure. There will
he ever stand, in awful grandeur, night up
above the almost presumptuous work of
man, which has dared to attempt to level to
| is use, the handiwork of the Almighty
There will ever, boldly before him lie the