The Minnesota pioneer. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. Territory) 1849-1855, 1850-08-08


morning, and tailed on to the end of the
chain gang, and was just three hours IN
getting up to the window. It costs a '
here 10 look into restaurateur's win.
dow, ten-pot to read the sign, and al
ounce to look at woman. | must re.
fer you to the papers for a description o
this place. You may believe with per-
feet safety everything you read, but you
may read everything that is printed oil
written, and you can never form cor
rect idea of the place until you see il
yourself--which ! would advise you t
be slow in doing. ft
Post Master General, The incurnben
Of that office is Mr.. n X. Hall, of But:
falo. law partner of President Fill
more's, and very shrewd and active
business man. He represented the Erie
District in the last Congress.
President Fillmore has signified hi:
intention not to take back from the Sen
ate, the nominations made by his prede.
cessor. .:4
Rev. Henry M Denison, of Brook.
lyn, L. L., was on the 18th ult. married
to Alice, daughter of Ex-President Ty.
Ter. u5-.
The REMAINS OF THE LATE PREsI.
DENT.-It is decided that the remains o
Gen. Taylor are to rest permanently ii
! tho Coprraccionol P,r,;rr Cround n
Washington, and bill has been passee
in both Houses, providing for the cree
ton of suitable monument to the de-
ceased Hero's memory. His widow will
spend the remainder Of her days witt
her daughter, Mrs Dr. Wood, in Balti
more.
PRINTED BY SrEAM-The Milwaukee,
Sentinel and Gazette is now printed BY
steam; the first instance of the kind il
the State of Wisconsin. The engine
which drives their Power Press, wa
made to order by Sidney Sheppard s Co.
of Buffalo, and is perfect specimen O
machinery.
CoPPER.-T'he steamer Franklin
brought down last week, 90, 600 lbs. o
copper in pigs, from the Bruce Mines
smelted there; and also, considerabl,
from the North American and Cliff -
Milwaukee Sen. s. Gazette.
MILL's STATUE OF GEN. JACKSON
A Washinton Correspondent of thu
Camden, IS. c. Journal, says: cat al
early hour | repaired TO the studio o
Mr.. Mills, in order to witness the ad
yancement he had made upon his nobl,
work of art since | last saw it. The oil,
General had now mounted, and for
moment, | felt as if l was really in hi
presence. The horse, with all the lock
Of life and vigor, as if a thing Of life
indeed, rearing as if impatient for tn
charge, while the rider was calm and sci
collected, with face in which the his
tory of Jackson is written. Those VIII
recollect his features, say that there new
er was such fac-simile. 1t is a com
plete, a glorious triumph of native geniu
leading art. L now remains to be Gas
in bronze from the cannon taken b
Jackson, many pieces of which he say
lying about
VIII our exchanges try and learn t
spell the word, Minnesota. Begin now
minnesota. And observe too, that on
patron Sain, spelled his name, ST. Paul
not, ST. Pouls.
Rev. II. w. Beecher of Brooklyn, n
Y, has sailed for Europe, for health.
A correspondent of the Missouri Re
publican, writing from $40 miles west {
Fort Kearney, the 10th Of June, give
the following gloomy account of the pro
gress Of the emgrants:
visited train on Tuesday last c
the II men composing it, IG were sicl
Another train / passed, buried 7 g
one time, 5 or 6 more sick, and one dy
ing as | passed. In two instances,
have passed trains where all bM one ha
died In one instance saw at an er
campment, one tent left standing, an
another struck, but lying the ground
also barrel of crackers, several blar
kets, six or eight pairs of boots, hats
coats, shirts, Sc Sc, and near by fiy
graves. 1t was sad spectacle!
Several gentlemen have passed u
who left Fort kearney four days afte
we did, and one has counted $50 grave:
but he neglected to take names. Frol
all | can learn, have no doubt that q
least $50 emigrants have died within tn
last fifteen days between here aud Plul
Creek.
Territorial Convention.