The Minnesota pioneer. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. Territory) 1849-1855, 1850-11-07


nights ana NOT The want Of Mater, -
There was much excitement the other day in
Ct iouiss the discovery there. that the bank
had taken as genuine, SO, 500 of counterfeit fifty
dollar bills, 50 well executed that they appeared
in no respect different from genuine bills, except
that they were an eighth Of an inch too short.
They were brought out from California, having
been purchased there with gold; the purchaser
paying eight per cent. premium for The paper.
How. ex,ensiye, they may be in circulation there,
it is impossible to guess. Is sassEros
Hon. Q, c. Pratt, formerly Of Galena, hut now
one Of the District Judges Of Oregon, Territory,
is in Galena again. upon writ ! but will resarn
si,orksto Oregon City. e s2s .'i' f1t'i
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1, The Doarl o., County Commissioners of Ram
sey County, at their session In ST. Paul,o on the
9th instant, concluded a contract with sIessrs.
Freeman & Daniels, to build Immediately spa
cioasnnd convenient Court House, on the bench
Of land in the rear Of the Territorial Library, and
near The centre Of St. Paul. There is not yet
Court House IN Minnesota, for either Of the Dis
1 rs va
trlci Court or for the Supreme Court. ~t
Amongst the various other enterprises in ST.
Paul, we observe that Mr.. Rice is removing the
soil which is only "a few inches deep, from the sur
face of the upper end of Bench street, which
work, when completed, will leave a pavement of
smooth ledge. The work ought to be extended
all the way from the American House TO the
Catholic Church. where ,he'ledge crops out into
the basin Of the Lower Landing. nfa'o
IL. L. Dousrnan, Esq, of Prairie du CHEN,
who left st. Paul ON Friday last, after a short
Menominec payment, two weeks ago last Sunday
at Lake Powayagen, north Of the Wisconsin river
and that although the payment amounted TO only
Sl4, 500, there was an im:nense gathering Of peo-
pie present, trying to make money out of it. A
tent fourth Of mile long, was erected of
green boards, aud there were more pedars, show
men, musicians, toy shops, dancing dogs and girls,
and more gew-gaws for sale, Of every description,
than were ever seen at a Yankee Brigade muster
Ii appears by the pay roll, that in the past
year, the Menominees, at least the adult males,
have diminished in number about one third, by
cholera and by other causes.
We bought fall apples the other day, in the
State of Missouri, at one dollar per barrel. The
best winter apples were worth one dollar and fifty
cents per barrel Were it not for the difficulty of
steamboating over the rapids, at this season of
the year, there would be very large trade in
apples from Illinois and Missouri, to the newer
portions of the river above, where we have no
bearing orchards yet.
There are nc symptoms of winter yet. 1T is
impossible for the river to be closed with ice du-
ring the next fortnight.
Irish potatoes quoted in the Crescent City at
| IS, 80 per barrel, in New Orleans. People of
Minnesota, can you not raise potatoes and send
them to New Orleans at such prices.
| The attempt to light Schenectady with red
headed girls has been Abandoned but the girls
have not.-[Ex.
As il red-hared girls, were any lighter headed
than others!
! We have in ST. Paul. and also in the other vii
lagos &C our Territory, much of what is called
good society, indeed good society may be found
almost any where in our country, however re-
mote fro;n the cities Of the Atlantic. As Mr..
Willis says; Society, to man of the world is
like boiany--the best specimens are not found in
! fenced girdens, ard nature drops down her sweet
est flowers, may be, in the least expected places.
Tie Nominee, last trip, did not 60 above ST.
Paul.
The Oquawka paper, says: ''The Mississippi
is OH sand We think that s-to be ques-
toned.
The representatives. Of Deaf Burke, the pugiI-
list, claim one hundred and fifty Land Warrants,
on account of the various battles he has fought,
by virtue of the provisions Of the Military Bounty
Land Bill
THE UPPER MIssIssIPPr.-IHe 81. Croir
Iagairer is IL small, neat Weekly, recently start
ed by Sexton s. johnson, at Wiilowriver, Saint
Croix County, Wisconsin, some two hundred
miles up the Mississippi, from St. Paul, Mime
sofa. IL Is printed partly in French, to suit the
otu tdhtuidH VI tOydStnF populaloD, VINO were
the first white settlers Of that region. We learn
from it that the iirst frost Of this fall was expe-
rienced there Sept. 18th, which is almost as late
as with us.-lN. Y. Tribune.
The Tribune ought to buy a copy of Peter
Parley's Geography.
| DEAN SWIFT ON PUNs.--Dean Swift, the
greatest wit of the age, says:-''The lowest and
most thoroughly contemplate wittcism man can
indulge III. Is punning upon proper names. No
persons will resort TO it but those Of depraved
TASTE, destitute of all ingenuity. and deficient in
the attributes of maniiness and sense.''-[ Min.
Chronicle, Oct. 18th.
The MORALS OF MINNEsoTA.-A NOBLE
HEARTED FELLOW FALLEN FROM GRACE
BY referring to our Married list it will be seen
that our friend Lieut.. johnson. has taken to
Siee!e-iag-(M Min. Chronicle, Nov. 4ih.
MISCELLANEOUS NEWS.