The Minnesota pioneer. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. Territory) 1849-1855, 1850-10-17
LOCAL AND TRANsITORY.


On Friday morning of week before last, fke
/ Nominee reached our levee, having lost iler
whistle and Is feet Of the tops Of her chimnsys,
brushed of by tree top against which she(was
driy en- in gale. Any other boat would have
been driver, into ''the middle Of the ueXt week."
I but the Nominee only run hard gainst the FIRST
end Of Il, baitering Sunday little without eak-
ing it entirely.
The Nominee reached Gaiena on Sundaylmorn-
ing, Oct. 9th, before sunrise. Having lost her
whistle, she could not &c, off 'old hundred"
audibly.
On the 9th instant good new mich cows, were
worth, on the river, $50. We noticed one sale
below Cassville.
The Or Franklin, Ne. 2, arrived at ST. Paul
on Sunday night last. She brought up
nous heavy ireight-some $50 tons; also large
number of passengers. Among them, We noticed
several families from Name, who about To-
eating a, 81. Anthony. Her freight un
usually large, that it took her some ten days 10
come ironl ST. Louis to 81. Paul
The California fever is now a; It's highest point
! in PARIS. One of the Journals publishes the names
of foury- four mining societies which have been
formed there. Their signs are stnck out in every
street. Permission has Just been given by the
GONeihiEent 10 one OF lueut 10 open u iOtcfy ~
seven millions, the profits to be applied 10 the
mova 10 California Of I'VE thousand Puyis work
mca.
J Oniy few hours before Jenny Lind Jeff New
York for Boston, she gave $1,000 10 the Swedish
Episcopal Charch al Chicago, for which appica
ton bad very recently been made 10 her.
In fifty years the banks of The Upper Misss
sippi, FROM Galena to ST. Au,hony's Falls, will
be studded with willows; the lawns are already
there, formed by the hand O! nature. So says
an exchange paper.
: Mr. A. W. Taylor, OF Boston, gentleman
whose enterprise has done a vast deal for Mime
sofa Territory, having invested more than $50, 900
IN 81. Anlh0Ay hydraulics, while that town was
in It's infancy, has now returned here for Il short
tune.
! Il viii be recollec,ed. that last Fall generous
premiums were offered through the medium Of the
press, 10 the farmers Of Minnesota. Those pre-
miums were oifered by this truly liberal, whole
souiei man; and VIII be paid promptly by him,
according 10 the conditions then published The
committee Of preinirn,s, selected by Mr. Taylor,
are John Rollins. James Nj. Goodhue, VIM. r.
/ Marshall, j. ". North, Wn,. IL. Forbes, Stephen
| Burkleo ana Capt Wu. HoIcomb.
/ Mrs Parting,cn wants to know il this Jenny
Linden thai they are disgusting about much.
is any relation TO old Hoben Linden that "saw
another slghl.
Nnhin the last ten years, says the London
Chronicle, one hundred aud forty thousand Nor
mons have enugrated from Great Briiion 10 the
United States, most OF then, men of some means,
from Wales and the northern and eastern ports of
England.
MINNEsoTA Rocx SALT.--We are inform
cd BY gentlemen who, iiiteeli years since had a
trading esiab sh;neit 2aJ mikes ur the 81. Peters
river, ,ha; rccS salt was IN co,DiGon use among
the Siolx lRdi2nS 4, that time, who said ii was
found IL large quantities back in the interior of
their country. II is not Impossible that mines of
of this article, as extensive those of Cracow,
are now hidden beneath the rolling prairies OF
Minnesota, west Of the Mississippi - Prairie du
/ Chen Patriot.
The following from the Missouri Republican
shows what the 81. LoIis folks think of our Min
nesoia potatoes:
PorAroEs.-Wo are Indebted to our friend
James VI. CoodhIe, Editor of The Pioneer, St.
Paul. Minnesota Territory, for a sack of the finest
IRISH potaioes We have seen this season. The
sack contains number 81 varieties, and GER
;ainly finer or better could not be prodaced. Ii
The spiii Of envy had place in our composition,
We would indulge 1t towards our nelghbor who is
so faYorably surrounded by such table luxury.
Here the crop IS quite failure Many planters
viii make their seed, owing to the dry wealth
er. and VIVA. they do raise are OF inferior quality
Ii will be sfa,ifyIng news to many OF our readers
to hear that Minnesota expects 70 supply our mar
ket IA few years with this excellent food. The
editor says--"A neghbor in sight of my office
has ten acres growing, as fair those I send YOU,
aud entirely free from rot" Unless we fad some
q gf, no al 70 no
growers Of Minnesota.
! In Norway, il is estimated tina, the number Of
! persons who are preparing 10 emgraie 10 America
amounts 20 twenty thousand, beng two per cent
Fof me entire population If the kingdom. From
tat commune Of i.oeag alone which contains FIVE
thousand one hnndred and ninety five inhabitants,
SIX hundred ard siS,y-,hree individuals are about
10 embark for New York.
: Our vilSge was last week startled BY the rumor
that oar !esiow-iownsgnan, john A. Wakefield
Esq, had resigned the Office Of Justice OF the
Peace. The public were at first incredaIous, ,hen
amazed, ard as the Intelligence proved 10 be
founded on fact, they were completely bewiidered
N astonis,.nien,. The excitemea; mas since some
what abaiej, aad we opine that the paSlic loss
Will net prove 10 be so great as was at frs, appre
hen ed. Nc cause has as yet, We believe, bsen
assigned by Mr.. Wakefield for taking ibis irnpor-
Tan. step; though we understand that the cares
and responsibilities Of public life have mad very
deleierlCas eiiec. his health.
/ The steamships ifibernia and Caledonia, for
merry belonging 10 the GUARD line betv cen Bos-
ten and Liverpool, have been sold to the Spanish
Government, for $3.50 ,010. The Caledonia is
! ter years old and the Hi5ernia seven. They are
10 run as mail steam packets between Havana
and Cadiz-
| Land Warrants are selling in New York from
Sis 20 Sl25 each. The Tribune thinks that the
market will no, be sensbiy affected BY the pas
sage Of the Military Land Bounty Bill.
! Tire receipts Of ,he New York and Erie Rail-
road fer the month Of September, abcu,
) Isl, 100; beng increase OF So, 900 over the
receipts Of the same month of last year.
! LARGT GoLp CoIxs-Senasor GwiR has
brougi; forward a measure providing that gold
celns ii tie yalIe Of from one hnndred 70 ten
thousand dollars each, shall he siracI at the Mint
They are 10 be rectangular, suitable for packing,
being designed for commercial purposes. They
are 10 be struck of refined gold, Of uniform fine
ness, and with Appropriate legends and devices,
similar 20 ihos~npoa smaller COINS, with their
values ocuspiciossly marked. and the inscriptions