The Minnesota pioneer. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. Territory) 1849-1855, 1850-03-20

BRITISH IS. AMERICAN MANUFAc-
ruREs.-The Lancaster Mills, in Massa-
chusetts, have acquired a great repu-
tation for the manufacture of ginghams,
particularly as regards excellence of
fabric and color. To do this, the pro-
prietors have been at great expense, and
Boston paper mentions most discred-
table attempt at transatlantic imitation,
as follows:
We are surprised to see ginghams in
market, sent out from England by the
house of A. & S. Henry s. Co. of Man
chester, initiating the above goods in
patterns, width, and style of finish. But
most palpable and unfair imitation is
in the label, where, preserving the same
general appearances as to size, color of
paper and ornaments, the word Lancas-
terrain is substituted for Lancaster. That
the whole is manifest and intentional
counterfeit, there cannot be a doubt.
The goods will undoubtedly be sold for
American Lancaster ginghams, to which
they are inferior in firmness of fabric
and permanency of color, to the mani
fest injury of the profits and reputation
Of the American manufacturer.
IMPROVEMENTS AT GALENA.-The JEFF
fersonian says that more good buildings
will be put up in the Lead city, than in
any previous season. The whole of the
so called ''burnt district is to be re-
built.
m A man in Cincinnati, lately,
amused some friends by using indecent
languag as lady passed. The lady look
ed around, and the facetious young
gentleman discovered that it was his own
wife.
a. The steamer Lamartine has been
sold to a company on the upper Missis-
sippi for Sl3, 900. She is to be put in
the trade between the head of the Low
er Rapids and St. Peters, Mo. Rep.
FIRE AT MuscArINE.-The extensive
packing establishment of G. Stone, at
Muscatine, Iowa, was destroyed by fire
on the I'd. Loss about $1,000.
Niles, Feb. 18th.
The new iron foundry, ownedb by Chadd
Brown s. Co., was blown up at ii o'clock
to-day.
a. Horace Greedy says, that it is a
notorious fact, that almost every man
who has advertised literally has grown
rich-those who have cut their adver-
tisements short in order to save a few
dollars expense, have barely succeeded
in making living, while those who did
not advertise at all, have, in ninety-nine
cases out of hundred failed in business.
He farther says, that large majority of
those who took the bankrupt law in New
York city, were men who never paid the
printer dime for advertising. Let all
advertise, and advertise liberally-just
as people do about here. Whenever
you see newspaper filled with adver-
tisements, you may depend upon it that
that paper is published among an enter
prising, prosperous people, and, on the
other hand, whenever you see paper
devoid of advertisements you may set it
down as an lncontrovertible fact, that,
not only the printer, but every body else
in that community is going down hill.
A NovEL SPECULATIoN-JosephC Clark
of Albany, N, Y, sends to California,
by the February steamer, 5000 "Illinois
grouse" or prairie hens, 5000 turkies,
and 5000 pounds of venison, to say moth
ing of the chickens, ducks, quails, &c.,
&C., by which the pyramids of game are
relieved"
ATTEMPTED SUIcIDE.-A Girl in Gin
cinnati, named Matilda Jackson, aged
only 10 years, threw herself into pond
of water, for the purpose of taking her
own life. She had been the victim to
the arts of seducer, which led to this
attempt upon her life.
A MAN SHOT BY A WoMAN.-In a
quarrel in one ofthe Five Pointish local
tiles of Ithaca, N. Y, known as Can
ada,' one David Let's was shot by a
woman named Susan Walker.-The
wound, if it does not prove mortal, will
cripple him for life. Let's had first brok-
en- the woman's jaw bone by blow
with billet of wood.
MARRYING WITH A DECEASED WIFE S
SIsTER.-The commissioners appointed,
in England, to inquire into the propriety
of marriage with deceased wife's sis
ter, have reported that they 'fnd, from
a mass of evidence, that marriages OF
this kind are permitted, by dispensation
or otherwise, in allthe continental states
of Europe"
~ The Keokuk Dispatch says that
about one hundred persons have recent
ly joiued the Methodist chnrch at that
place. A protracted meeting of the
Presbyterian church was also in pro-
gress. The efforts of Mr.. Ross in ia
vor of Temperance were also produc-
ing happy effect.
CoNGREss.-It is now stated, that
Southern members of Congress will not
interrupt the public business in it's ordi-
nary course; but in the event of any
measure being introduced for the admis-
sion of California, or extending the Pro-
viso over the territories, an ef1ectual
stop will be put to all proceedings. This
is to be accomplished by using the con-
stitutional right of one-fifth of the men,
bers to call for the yeas and nays; in
this wagon some question, the yeas
and nays will be called When the vote
comes to member in the plot, he asks
to be excused from voting, and demands