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

4 oauCiig tue Nur dance, pelOTe various front
! doors, not so much for the pleasure of dane
ling, as The presents they receive Of calico.
crackers, flour, tobacco, SC. If they tpili
j get up fairs pf this kind, il is no affair OF
ours; this however, like other fairs, reyers
Us The rule that those who dance must pay
The fiddler These Indian fairs commence
thus: One OF the head men, who acts as
crer, first comes over the river, and com.
nences crying in loud voice, so AS to be
heard on the In,lian shore, Here come all
!, my young men,my braves, my fighting Da-
kota lads, to dance a war dance to the
good people of Saint Paul, who like US are
native Americans, though not exactly lit
tie more so. Come on, boys, and give the
pale faces little touch Of our science in
primitive dancing;' much as Puss Horner
in the circus, introduces his equestrian
troupe into the ring. @
A lady advertses, in a late San Franisco
paper, for female help, and finishes her
notice with Il statement that she has got a 6
rnonth's character from her last servant.
Judge Bissel said in Congress the other
day that for one he did not think much OF
that class of politicians who were trying to
RIDE t,co horses at once, besides leading a
free soil coitP e~.1
: The Boston Times says: Hon. Caleb
Gushing is expected back from his MINES
ota property, in time to deliver the address
at Newburyport, on the 4th July, when the
corner stone of the town hall is to be laid.
We have always been reading in the papers
about his coming to Minnesota; but he sell
dom or never comes. No subject is too
hackneyed for paragraph in all eastern
print. t..
a Mr. Archer, of Eaton, o., recently
presented her husband with four little re-
sI'onsibilities.
'lnsatiate Archer, would not one suffice.
We have received copies of the Burling-
ton, Iowa, Tri-WeekIy Telegraph. 1t is
exactly such paper as we like: published
by Morgan & Mckenney. Two dollars Il
year: weekly.
Mr.. John Banfl of our town, had ii
fine pair of horses run away last week
they ran into a pile of rocks, and one OF
them had a leg broken. He is placed in a
swing, with his broken leg splintered, and
will probably recover in few days, and be
about again without crutches.
DR.. Jarvis, in returning the other day
from lake Phaln to Saint Paul, captured a
turtle of 40 pounds weight.
We learn that there are several nuns IN
St. Paul, waiting for the arrival of the Red
River train, to proceed with them to the
Red river of the north.
Mr.. VIM. Dahal has received the APP
pointment of Deputy Marshal to take the
census Of the Pembina district.
The building of an Episcopal Education
al establishment is commenced in the rear
of ST. Paul fine church will also soon he
constructed by the Episcopalians.
The steamboat Gov. Ramsey, finds am
pie employment in the trade of the river
from St. Anthony tn Sank Rapids. Anoth-
er boat will he needed soon; and boat wi II
ais be wanted next season, to run above
Sank Rapids SO that by short portage
from St. Paul to ST. Anthony, and shorter
portage around Sank Rapids, several hun
dred miles will be added to the navigation
Oft Mississippi river,
Perhaps no other place as small as Saint
Peter Meudota now is as widely known
throughout the United States. Besides 8
stone buildings belonging 10 the firm Of P.
| Chouteau, jr. & Co., Gotten ignorantly cal
! led 'the American Fur Company the
whole of Mendoza scarcely makes up re-
spectacle sized hamlet. 1t is about half a
mile below FIT. Smelling, the fort being in
the angle made by the junction OF the Saint
| Peter and the Mississippi rivers and Men
I dota being just below the mouth Of the St.
Peter. Saint Anthony is about 9 miles a.
bove the Fort, and Saint Paul il about
miles below the Fort. The river in run
ming from Saint Anthony to St. faul makes
an elbow at The mouth of the 81. Peter /;
aud the distance by land across from Saint
! Paul to st. Anthony is 8 miles; and the di-
rection, west, by about miles north. We
mention these facts for the information of
persons abroad who almost invariably have
formed mistaken opinions as TO tne relative
position Of these places and the, course Of
the river.
Mr.. VIM. Hancock writes to his brother
in Charleston, from Callforna, tt at he cam
not 'counnre Sacramento and San Francis
! co cities to anything but hill in all its
glory, with the gates taken Oft and thrown
away
An elderly lady, telling her age, remark
ed that she was born on the 22d of April.
| Her husband, who was present, observed
81 always thought you was born on the first
Of April 'People might well judge so,
tTespOIueu tIe niattoil III the CHOlce Hluue
of husband
The DIR. Franklin, No. /, came to our
levee last Saturday morning. She brought
about 100 passengers.
A prripatetc phrenologist has arrived to
examine the head of the Mississippi. He
must be remarkable man in his profession;
for he has paid us for a job of printing.
Barnum, it is said, having been encour-
aged Ivy his success in procuring Jenny
| Limbs appearance in this county, is now
making great efforts 10 bring Queen Victo-
ria out next year. He has already obtained
the consent of Prince Albert; and the only
opposition now to overcome is the Minis
tiers. 'H.
! We are opposed to corruption wherever
we find tive shall never fail to denounce
it when we see it rearing nloft its hydra
headwe shall oppose it in every alIuring
form in which it may present itseIf-by our
permission, it shall never control the noml-
nations of our Democratic Conventions
The glorious principles of democracy must
he permitted to flow on with as much pur-
ty as they did in the days of the ilustrous