The Minnesota pioneer. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. Territory) 1849-1855, 1850-11-28

room, and u salooa of TOO feet III 50, Cor break-
fast dinner ami supper The third story is fitted
up as bed rooms for 100 persons. The whole is
warmed by hot air furnaces. .s.s..a..s......a,ss
The diversion Of trade from New Or
leans, in consequence of the progross Of internal
Improvements 10 the neiglboring States, partic,t-
larry by the recent extension Of the railroad sys-
TEN in Georgia and South Carolina, and its pros
pectiye extension into the heart Of North Ala
boina and Tennessee, is beginning to attract at
tentiols., ....s
Advices from Paris to September 18th,
states that the Senate of Brazil has passed six
days in secret session, discussing the amendments
made by the Chamber Of Deputies 10 the project
for the abolition Of the slzve trade, first introduce
ed INTO that Chamber as early as 1917. Finally
they were adopted, and the bill was passed and
submitted to the Emperor for his approval.
Two distinct policc>forces continue to
be on duty in Pittsburgh--one appointed by the
Council and the other by the Mayor The May
or's police arrest two Of the Council
force every day or so, and complaints are often
entered agans, Joe Barker, the chief magistrate,
TOR Inisderneanor in office.
There is great falling Off in Califor-
nia emigration from New Orleans. A regular line
OF seven schooncrs, which, for considerable
time, had full business in carrying passengers to
Chagres, is now wholly Withdrawn for want OF
patronage.
A pair Of water oxen have been i'm
ported from Constanlinople to the vicinity of
Charleston, s. e. They feed in the marshes, and
lie the greater part Of the day in tue water These
animals have thrived well in their new abode, and
will, ii is said, prove valuable in tile marsh lands
Of the South. taA.sr
The New York Herald says that sew
eral persons from the Southern States have gone
to Europe, to open direct trade between Eng
land and the southern ports Of the United States.
Modesty is quality that highly adorns
a woman.--Ofd .fiage
And ruins man. Louisville Dem.
The Shcboygan Democrat of the 26th
inst, states that the plank road from that place to
Sheboygun Fails--iive miles--will be finished
within week. Tt
A scheme is now progressing for the
establishment Of line of steamships OF largecar-
rying capacity, between the Mersey and Quebec,
in order to promote the prosperity of the Cana
dian provinces.
The people OF Vermont are preparing
to send mammoth memorial to Congress and the
President, in favor of universal peace on the ba-
ais recently suggested at the Frankfor, Peace Con-
vention.
Indiana has, according to the State
census just taken, ,000 white male adults, an
increase of 20 per cent in five years.
WIN. X. Armstrong, former sheriff Of
Grundy county, committed suicide by cutting his
throat with a razor. at his mothers residence,
near Ottawa, on Friday last Chicago Journul
Of the llih. ID
A merchant Of this city, largely in the
trade, estimates the value Of the shoes annually
sent south from New York alone, at IS 900 900.
Allowing Si1 as the averag. value Of each case,
the number of cases sent during the year al this
estimate is I25, eco. Boston and Philadelphia
send perhaps as many more. The trade was new
er more foursbing than it has been during the
current season.-[J our. of Gem. - ..t
An Eastern lecturer, in expatiating
upon the inventive genius Of the Yankees, remark
ed that il would not be very violent stretch Of
the imagination to believe that ''a Thoughtful Mas
sachusetts or Connecticut baby, six months old
sits in its mothers lap, eyeing its cradle, 10
see if he could not invent better or, at least,
suggest some improvement.
During the past month, several large
whales have been captured in the st. Lawrence,
below Quebec. One of these animals, says the
Quebec Mercury, seven y-fve feet IN length, was
harpooned a, Kamouraska.. Another, caught on
the 18th Of Sept, was 100 feet long.
Baltimore is soon to have another adj
diton to its number of monuments. The Govern
or of Maryland recently laid the corner stone Of
monument which is to be erected in honor Of
Wells and McComns, two boys who shot Gen
Ross, commander of the British army, at North
Point, and who were, in turn, shot by the British.
The editor of the Paducah Journal,
speaks, Of Perryyille, Bowie county, Ky, and the
ten miles square around it, in the following ex-
trayagant manner: lie saws that, in that scope
of country, ian ugly woman was never seen, and
beautiful buxom iassies grow in clusters, like
roses, around every chimney corner, whether of
stately mansion or lowly cot
Mr.. Hunt, Wing candidate for Gov
ernor, says the Albany Atlas, can beat the RaveI
family in the art of balancing. lie can Jump from
the democratic charger at full speed, and mount
ing the two wing nags, Sewardsm and Fillmore
,sm, ride both AT once, aud throw back somer-
set through the Anti-Rcnt Ccnv A man so
vcrsed in the art of counterpoise, might, in time
balance the books in the Comptroer's ofiice--or
even Of the Lockport Trust Company.
A Yankee and Southerner were
playing poker steamboat. Il haven't seen
for some time, > remarked the Southerner
We'll, guess you hain't, said the Yankee; but
can tel you where they are. One is IN your
shirt sleeve there, and the other three are IN the
top of one of my bntes.'
The Springfield, (Ill. Journal. relates
case which evinces very scrntinizing mind on
the part Of the iailor in that town. A notorious
robber, named Charles Baker, is imprisoned there,
and few days since, an elegantly bound book
was sent to him by female, who passes for his
wife, and it lellered with gold all for love
The iailor examined the book, and afterwards
took ii to book binder, who also examined it,
and pronounced that nothing could be concealed
about it, Not satisfied, however, the jailor re-
turning home resolved to cut up the covers Of the
book, and on doing this, two small saws labout
eight inches in length, such inachinis,s ase in
saving iron, were brought TO view
The Springfield Republican learns
that there are about thirty different factories or
places for making cigars in Suiiield, at which one
hundred and fifty men arc employed. These men
average 1000 each per week--amounting To 800,
900 cigars a week! Part Of them are made Of
Spanish tobacco. The regalas' made here. are
sold in New York for the real imported. Many
-four center is smoked by the daudies, without
thinking it is American weed.
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