The Minnesota pioneer. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. Territory) 1849-1855, 1850-09-12

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Corn, potatoes, and all vegetables nearly,
are rpsned so to be secure from Frost
'fhe weather is clear aud invigorating.
Some facts are being gradually disclosed,
in relation 10 the Selling and carrying away
of the ballot box, last week Monday, at
Wabashaw precinct, which if published,
will reflect deep shadow of guilt upon
certain persons in as well ms out of this
| Territory. We want tn learn more def
nte facts; but if pressed, will tell what we
do know about it. At present, we will on
" say, that the ballot box at Wabashaw,
was violently seized and taken away from
the election hoard--an ACT of high handed
vlilainy, without parallel IN the whule his
tory of our government. Ii is not true, as
we stated last week, that the election pass
ed off through the ballot box without shat
tering anything; on the contrary the ballot
box has been literally broken; and blow
struck at that sacred instrument of the pop
ular will, which demands the searching ia
quest Of Grand Jury.
! We have heard no instance of the potato
rot this season, ia Minnesota The crop is
remarkably fine. Mr.. Selby near ST. Paul,
has potatoe field of ten acres; and pota-
toes have fallen to half dollar hushel.-
! Another gentleman, who has devoted a part
/ Of his leisure time the past season TO the
growth of potatoes. has raised five hundred
dollars worth, being several huadred dollars
more money than the land. the fence aud
the whole labor of cultiyating has cost him.
We refer to MIR. Farnham; who will show
any person the figures for the facts here
stated.
AN ho,t H.
crop, which promised so fair in the Spring,
is likely to he a failure; the cranberries be-
/ ing rotted by the extremely high water
This is the report from Rice Lake and all
the other cranberry localities ia these parts.
There is a fellow hobbIing about in Saint
Paul since the Election, who ought To sym
pa,hize with the following amentatlon of a
"water thief" or wrecker, whose whole
crop was destroyed by gale;
"Here," said he, ''i've been, and worked
day and night, and planted this truck, and
hoed it and tended il, and took all the pains
| could with it. and got il CROWN nicely;
and now IFS all spilled! There aint a mig
ger as has worked harder'n me. l've been
here in the sun, an... in the rain, and ]
thought should get something; and now,
Jest look there amt cussed corn-staIk
iivin.' It's all the work of that Internal
storm. It's rulnated my hull crop. It's
been clean over everything, and ant left
sign Of green. And what's wuss," and he
ground his heel in the soft sand to empha-
size his sorrow, "there Amt ID wreck
IN my coast, 'cep,ing an old coal barge, and
coal aint worth nothing to me, specially in
summer time!'
A camphene merchant of Lowell, Mass,
albeit possessed of charming wife, was, a
few days since, tempted from his loyalty
by the sparkling eyes Of widow who vend-
ed cigars in an adjoining shop. The two
] tenements were contiguous, and access from
one 10 the other very easy. The injured
! wife, who had her suspicious, awake one
night, and found her spouse non est
Throwing shawl over her, she first asrer-
tanned the fact she dreaded TO know. then
crept gently out of the house, and collected
q bevy of watcbmen. The door of the fair
fral one was then broken in, and the
sscharmer" was discovered in an attitude
1 Of despair, en- chemlse, over her deserted
\ couch. Further on, in an entry. they found
| tho carphcno merchant. looking like Il col
lapsed clothes pole, with shirt thrown
\ over it. Both were arrested ard held to
| bail TO answer.
! The following apostolic advice is given
| to the Mormon saints who are troubled
with horse thieves:
! "Persons who have horses had better
keep their fire arms in good order, and if
they see thief taking off their horses to
check him by shooting him down"
| Down south, recently, young lady ask ed
clerk in book store, if he had the E,x-
lie Of Siberia e" mo ma'an," WAS his re-
ply, "ws haint got no eggs lie, but we've
got a prime article of bars lie, if that'!l
+do.''
We are PANIED to learn, from a letter in
the Milwaukee Sentinel, addressed to its
editor, that the Rev. Elhu Springer pre-
siding elder, of the Methodist Episcopal
Church, IN thta district, died OF cholera on
the 22nd instant, al Oconenowoc His
wife, residing at Milwaukee. was sent for,
but did not arrive till after his decease.
On the LIST inst, the contractors for the
u. 5. mail service between Santa Fee and
Independence, Mo, started their first stage
/. from the latter point. stage drawn by
six mules is to leave independence and
Santa Fe on the frs, Of every month. The
trip through is expected &c he made in from
twenty to twenty-nine days. A strong
s,arions have been prepared for relays and
provisions.
The Propeller Spalding sunk on the 18th
| off Erie. She had on board 1000 bbls of
-four from Detroit 1t is said that two tiers
OF the -four are under water.
A VERSATILE EDITOR. -rhe Pari, cor
respondent of the n. I. Commercial speaks
of an editor who some time since edited
three papers at the same time-a bitter
Royalist, a moderate Independent, and
| tanatical Socialist, of the CADET school. la
each one he played his character perfectly.
Sometimes he amused himself by carving
on a furious discussion between his three
papers, striking terrible blows at himself,
and parrying them With great skill.
Great natural discoveries have been made
in Kentucky; the last was that Of Il human
bone protrudipg out of the sand on the bank
of the river. 1t proved to be thigh bone,
measuring about six times the size Of
common man, and must have belonged to a
human being some twelve or thirteen feet
high. A collar bone of the same proper
tons was also found. No one doubts that
they are human bones.