The Minnesota pioneer. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. Territory) 1849-1855, 1850-12-05

for Aem, reminds as Of this anccdote, as oar
Chef Justice would say: Ben Coates, a hard
swearing miner, sor Beetown, Wisconsin,. had
been on the anxious seat at p-otracted meeting.
Cog seven nights Thinkingit was timeBfor some
resnlf, Elder -, came to him, on the seventh
evening. and said 10 him. swell brother Coates,
what has the Lord done for your poor soul,'
"Done" shouted Ben, Dumping up from his seat,
and gcsticuaing with both hunds.) Well IN tell
you wha, It's, Elder, he hahn done the first (here
occurred some hard words.) ihins.ps II
regular, odd fashioned snow storm commence
ed on Saturday night last, and by Sunday evening
we had snow enough for sleighing
II may be interesting to the people of Mime
sofa, to know, whose fault it is, that no Marsha >
not the ianli Of deputy Marshal Tilden, nor of any
body else, but Of Col. A. NJ. Mitchell, the absen-
tee Marshal of Minnesota; who never executed
and filed his bond of office, until abou, month
ago; aud OF course, not autloriz ii to receive
or 10 disburse public moneys. Al, the ia,c term
OF the District Court IN Benton county, the pan
nels of grand and petit jurors, travelling. many
of them, great distance, and renal ming on ex-
pense through the Whole term Of Court viii h
was rendered irui,less, by tricks to delay and to
defeat justice, were obliged to sell or to pawn
their Marsbal's certificates This is the return
which Benton county gets for the generous sup
port there given 10 Col. Mitchell, by Democrats
as well as Wings, for The Office of Delegate.
The deputy marshals, TO take the census, ought
TO have their pay. We should like to know what
Col. Mitchell ''has done for their poor souls:''
The piston head Of Messrs WATSON & Barnes
new steam saw mill, was blown out last Friday
The accident occurred from key becoming loose
The number of steamboat arrivals a, St. Paul
the past season, published in the Pioneer last
week, Except in few Of the first copies, } was
correctly reported rs being IO2
The amount of the business of St. Paul, done
this season upon The Mississippi river, clearly
niaulies,s The great advantage which would result
to our Town, from, having here, the prpprietorshp
Of some steamboats,. Especially do we need, as
we remarked last week, a steamboat or two on
our own hook; so that if any body makes from
s so to 81 90 per hundrcd, for late freights, it
may be here, by our own people.
H., Y
and his associates indicted for their oulrages cou-
mittcd last summer, upon of the people Of
Benton county, was brought about, not through
any faui, If the Court or Of the able District At
torney Of that county. VIM. d. Phillips, Esq. but
by the interposion Of various frivolous motions
and technical exceptions, which the time of the
Court was necessarily taken up for the considera-
ton of, until it was too late for a trial. The OBJ
jet Of the delay doubtless is, if possible that the
scoundres, by hook or by crook. shall finally cs-
cape, s'unwhip, of Justice
A petition TO Congress for a grant Of land to
construct uc Of telegraph TO ST. Paul, in cir
cula'ion. This is subject which VIC have often
The petition will be signed by all.
Mr. Watrous has recovered the oxen that were
taken away by the Chippewas.
PERILoUs ADvENTURE.-On the west side
of the island at Saint Paul, the river has been
closed for several days. Tuesday was cold
day--inercury at 8 deg. below. The ice was
moving thick and choking in the narrow channel
between the ISLAND AMI the bluff on the east side,
and about O'Clock, p. NJ, the masses of ice
were c.owding, crashing and J'mbling together
in The gorge, like hungry multitude at the dining
room door Of a mammoth hotel. A Frenchman,
who had started two hours before, TO come across
in his canoe, found his craft immovaby fast in the
firmly wedged together in the gorge below him.
His fate seemed to be inevitable Our intrepid
eow-citizen, Capt. DAVID OLMsTED, who
was destined TO achieve something nobcr than he
could have achieved as our Delegate in Congress,
took couple Of plank, to ma movable
bridge the fragments Of ice, by advancing
upon one plank, aud then drawing the other for
ward Thus, at the imminent peril Of his life,
he proceeded until he reached the Frenchnan
and drawing his canoe out upon the ice, c,ndpct-
ed him safely ashore by the same pcriious bridge
over which he had Just passed, in view of the
multitude who stood Icoing down from the bluff,
in brca,h,ess 1c2icty,
MISCELLANEOUS NEWS.
Mr.. White Yesterday completcd his