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The Minnesota pioneer. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. Territory) 1849-1855, 1850-03-13
News Of the expedition in pursuit Of Sir
John Franklin!

The following important news was
forwarded by Capt. Kirkham from Capt.
Todd of Fl. Gaines; where the news is
fully credited. Ed. Pioneer.
Highly Notwithstanding news
from the North! Arrival of party of
Exquimaux SIR JOHN FRANKLIN {! I!
The Plover
A rumour was in circulation at the
mouth of Crow-Wing river on Thursday
last, that a party Of Esquimeaux were
at Gull Lake, having just arrived from
Hudson Bay. They report having been
two months en- route, and that Sir John
Franklin, with his ships, had been seen
during the past winter frozen in the ice.
A second report changes it to the ship
Plover which was seen frozen-The Plo-
YER it will be remembers was out in
search of Sir John.
Further particulars by the next ex-
press from Fort Gaines.
Mr.. Warren, of Gull Lake, writes on
the 5th of March:-Ed. Pioneer, Sir;
l send this by Halcbreed from Penn
bina, who came on express to TT. Smell
ling from the North West Expedition
ship "Plover," whose crew have enter
ed Mckenzie s river and are wintering at
Fl. George.-Mr. Warren adds:
We have heard from the ''Bois Forts -
Chippewa or Musk-e-goes, who live on
the northeast boundary of this Terrific
ry. They are in a starving condition;
so much so that many will be obliged, as
they have sometimes been, to eat their
fellows. Their rice crop failed last fall,
and the rabbits have almost entirely,
through some malady, disappeared from
all the upper country.
Among other items of news in this
quarter, there have been sent to some of
the Pillager and Mississippi Chippewa
bands, tobacco, as an invitation to join a
war party to collect this spring at Penn
bina, against the Sioux. The party is
headed by Wat-ish-ance, Halfbreed
of Red river, whose nephew, also Half
breed, was killed two years since by the
Sioux. "The party will NUMBER" it is
said, 81, 500 men, Chippewas, Crees and
Assineboins.
The Minnesota pioneer. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. Territory) 1849-1855, 1850-03-13
News from Lake Superior.

Mr.. Cakes, a halfbreed, arrived in
Saint Paul on Thursday last. 8 1-2 days
from Lake Superior, being so miles each
day, with sledge and train Of three
dogs. The ration of each day is one
fish, eaten at night. Lake Superior is
quite free from ice, and has not been
frozen to any extent, during the past
winter. This is the first winter for at
least many years, when that lake has
not been frozen over.
The inhabitants around the Lake are
suffering severely for want of their usual
supplies of fish-not being able to resort
to the usual fishing places, as there is
no ice on the lake.
Flour is selling at La Pointe, at the
unusual high price of Sl2 per barrel
Mess pork is worth so per barrel.
The copper mines arc unusually pro
The Minnesota pioneer. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. Territory) 1849-1855, 1850-03-13
A BURIAL GROUND.

One short year hence and the frame
Of our already gigantic village will at
tain to the magnitude of a city. Streets
already laid out will be crowded with
buildings; and new streets, and new
blocks will be laid out. Those who
wonder at the growth Of Saint Paul du-
ring the past year, will be astonished at
its growth next year. A world of CAPT
tai and population, is ready to roll in as
soon as the ice moves out of the river.
We hear notes of preparation for re-
moval to the healthful climate and pro-
ductive soil of Minnesota, from ev-
cry qnarter-from the pine valleys
of Maine, the snow-clad mountain-cliffs
of New Hampshire, from Vermont, from
the great State of New York, from the
iron hills of Pennsylvania, from the oak
barreus of Michigan, from tho Forests ~s
Ohio, from the bilious bottoms of Ini-
nois, and the rich prairies of Wisconsin.
One year hence, every acre of ground
in the vicinity of Saint Paul, will be
bought up and held at high valuation.
Healthful as it is here, beyond parallel
on the face of the globe, free from every
symptom of bilious diseases, to the very
margin of our lakes and rivers, without
a solitary disease that may be consider
ed in any way peculiarly incidental to
our region, we shall nevertheless, in the
course of nature, have to bury friends,
and in our appointed time shall ourselves
die and be buried. Is it not important
then, that now, before the opening of
navigation, before Avarice and Specula-
ton deprive us of the power, the citizens
of Saint Paul make arrangements to buy
an ample burial ground, say 40 acres, at
a convenient distance from town, ample
for the purpose when our town shall be
numbered amongst the cities, which may
forever be consecrated to the undisturbed
slumber of the dead?
The Minnesota pioneer. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. Territory) 1849-1855, 1850-03-13
MINNESOTA; CONGRESS.

The Hon. Mr.. Sibley has moved to
instruct the House Committee on Terri
tories to to inquire into the expediency
of making the Office of Judge elective,
in Minnesota and Oregon: Also, to in
struct the com. on post Offices and post
roads to inquire into the expediency of
post routes from PIT. Douglass, through
the intervening towns, to Fort Gaines,
Long Prairie and Pembina and from PIT.
Douglass through the intervening towns
on the St. Croix. TO Pokasomon and
The Minnesota pioneer. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. Territory) 1849-1855, 1850-03-13
THE FINE ARTS.

We beg leave to say that there is at
Fort Smelling, painter of rare merit
What the experience of Sergeant E. K.
Thomas in the art, has been, what his
opportunities for the study of the great
masters, we cannot say, having no knowl-
edge of his personal history. 1t is proba-
bic that in his humble sphere in the army,
with the daily, arduous duties of a nom
commissioned officer to discharge, he
has not even the leisure requisite to per-
feet the labors of his pencil and brush
according to the standard of his own
conception. We learn that he sketches
with great rapidity. OF one thing we
are certain, without pretending to be
connoisseur, that his pictures are as
faithful to nature as the reflections of
mirror. We have now before us one of
Sergeant Thomas landscapes land
scape that is never effaced from the
memory-the view of Fort Smelling
We see nothing IN it to criticise, unless
perhaps, that the masonry of the fort
lacks in that depth Of coloring which be-
longs to massiveness. The buildings
look rather too fresh; but then, a new
painting, like a new building, ,riU look
fresh. There are but few scenes in our
new country, to remind US of the mass
i've grandeur of European architecture;
and this of Fort Smelling, perhaps APP
proaches as near to it as any other. But
even Fort Smelling shows something up
on its face, of the fresh impress of our
annering Democracy. We suffer moth
ing to decay-we have no broken turrets
for the ivy to entwine, no crumbling ru-
ms, no ancient castles.
Sergeant Thomas is said to paint the
portraits of Indians with astonishing f.
deity. In a few years, these swarthy
representatives of primitive Minnesota,
will have passed away, one and all; Lit
tie Crow, Little Black Dog, Father Mat
thew with one leg, Old Bet, who may
literally be said, with all her energy and
industry, to connect the link of the white
race with the red, will have mounted
their ponies and taken an everlasting
farewell of these lands, already swarm
ing with the stirring representatives of
''the rife, axe, and plough" Why will
not the Minnesota Historical Society,
employ the pencil of Mr.. Thomas, to
furnish gallery Of Dakota portraits?-
What mementoes Of the past, what rel
les of history, snatched from the oblivi-
on of time, would be looked upon here
after, with more interest, by our children
and our children's children? -r
The Minnesota pioneer. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. Territory) 1849-1855, 1850-03-13

q Napoleon said: "You must not
fight too often with one enemy, or you
will teach him all your art of war. p
Talk much with any man of vigorous
mind, and we acquire very fast the hab-
it Of looking at things in the same light,
and on each &C currence, we anticipate
his thought.
The Minnesota pioneer. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. Territory) 1849-1855, 1850-03-13

FIRST Towns IN AMERIcA.-The Ma
tional Intelligencer relates the following
curious facts which will be news to many
of our readers:
1t will seem curious to those who are
not aware of the fact, that the first towns
built by Europeans upon the American
continent, were st. Augustine, in East
Florida, and Santa Fe, the capital of
New Mexico. The ella river was ex-
plored before the Mississippi was known,
and gold was sought in California long
ere the first white man had endeavored
to find home on the shores of New
England. There are doubtless, trees
standing within the fallen buildings of
ancient Panama that had commenced to
grow when the sites of Boston and New
York were covered with the primeval
wilderness.
The Minnesota pioneer. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. Territory) 1849-1855, 1850-03-13

saddle-bags, were injected through an
air hole into the Mississippi; but the
doctor scrambled and struggled out
again with his plumber. The river be-
low soon after opened and the ice COM
menced running. The doctor acts like
Croton oil; and is bound to have free
passage through this world.
MAJ. NOAH says:-"Of course every
body admits that it is the inevitable des-
tiny of this city to be one day the me-
tropolis of the whole world" Now we
of Saint Paul, do not admit any such
thing. We are willing to concede that
New York is stirring place, and may
be the second city in the whole world;
modesty forbids us to mention the name
of that city which will be first.
REV. Mr.. LACoMPrE, Catholic Priest,
who went through to Pembina with one
of the latest Red river trains last season,
experienced very great hardships; the
journey occupied AZ days. Three
times the company was entirely out of
provisions, but were as often providen-
TALLY supplied by persons from the North
with whom they CHANGED to meet. Once,
says Mr.. La Compte, "being driven to
the last extremity, we were about to
kill one of our horses, which were ex-
tremely poor; and l assure you would
have made very thin soup, (soup maigre,
when we happened to meet some persons
of whom we obtained small supplies. -
The company was also attacked and
robbed by the Indians; who of course
searched all the baggage to find whiskey.
They found none; but they found a
small vessel of wine which the Priest
carried for sacramento purposes. They
held consultation, saying that though
it was not whiskey, it was related to
whiskey; but when the Priest informed
them through an interpreter, that the
wine was consecrated to the Great Spirit,
and that if they drank it, they might
suffer the curse of God, they spared the
wine.
About nine years ago, the humble
Catholic church in Saint Paul, was
erected; and for years the churches
at Saint Paul and at Saint Peter, were
under the pastoral charge of the Rev.
Mr.. Galtier now of Prairie du Glen, who
officiated alternate Sundays in both pla-
ces. For the last six years, these
churches have been under the charge of
the Rev. Mr.. Ravoux, their present de-
voted pastor, who also officiates alter
nate Sundays at Saint Peter and at Saint
Paul.
Although Bishopric is erected here,
we are unable to say yet, who is the
bishop; but a bishop will be here the
ensuing season; when arrangements
will be made for the construction of a
superb Cathedral.
The "Great Medicine'' of the Sioux
nation, after several days CESSATION of a
sorry joke about squatting, got himself
delivered of it at the claim meeting last
week, and took two columns of the last
Chronicle to carry it out in.
CAPT. JOHN A. WAKEFIELD, author OF
that popular work ''The History of the
Black Hawk War;" will deliver the most
important of his series of lectures on
Temperance, next Saturday evening, at
the brick Methodist Church.
The Minnesota pioneer. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. Territory) 1849-1855, 1850-03-13
Mutiny.
New York, Feb. Is

New YORK, Feb. I6
The schooner II. Lindsay, of Norfolk,
arrived at ST. Thomas from Trinidad, on
the 5th. When the captain was asleep,
two of the crew shot the mate dead
The men then brought the captain on
deck and several shots were fired at him.
one of which took effect in the neck.
causing him to retreat.
The men then took boat and at
to scuttle the vessel, in which
they were prevented by the boat being
cut adrift. The schooner reached Trim
idad short handed, where the captain is
recovering from his wound.
The Minnesota pioneer. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. Territory) 1849-1855, 1850-03-13
AGITATIoN.-The Albany Argus says:

AGITArIoN-The Albany Argus says:
eff we could wish that there was less
feeling in the south; we could desire less
agitation and irritation at the north
Each section has its agitators-partisans
seeking personal objects--in search of
political capital-and not unwilling to
sacrifice the higher interests Of the coun-
try in the prosecution of their designs.
1t is yet to be hoped that the great body
of the people-the friends Of the Union,
north and south-will discard both, and
pursue just, considerate and concilia-
tory course-occupying and maintaining
ground, in the language of prominent
and democratic member of our own leg
islature, con which all of both the great
sections of the Union can stand, with a
just regard to the position, and fair
recognition of the rights and feelings of
each"
The Minnesota pioneer. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. Territory) 1849-1855, 1850-03-13

MELANCHOLY DEATH.-Mrs. Ser
win, of GAINESVILLE, Wisconsin, on her
way to California, was lost overheard
from steamer, near Vicksburgh. She
had been sitting in the evening on the
hurricane deck, and in starting to de-
scend, at the head of the stairs, she
tripped in her dress, and pitched head
foremost, distance of twenty feet, into
the river. Her husband had descended
three steps, and was turning round to
take her hand at the moment she plung-
ed off, and only had time to see her sink
into the deep,
The Minnesota pioneer. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. Territory) 1849-1855, 1850-03-13
ExplosiOn....Onem man Killed and four
Severely Scalded and Wounded.
CHICAGO, Feb. lG

CHICAGO, Feb. Is.
About 2 o'clock this afternoon, the
boiler ofthe extensiv Wagon and Plough
Factory of H. Witbrek, on West Ran
dolph street exploded, killing the engi-
neer, Mr.. Luner, Immediately, and
scalding and burning four others, and
completely demolishing a part of the
building. The explosion was occasioned
by pumping cold water into the boiler
after it had become nearly dry. Mr..
Witbrek, the proprietor, is among the
wounded and scalded, but is expected he
will recover. Loss $500 to $1,000.
The Minnesota pioneer. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. Territory) 1849-1855, 1850-03-13

MINERAL ON TETE DEs MoRTs.-We
learn from the Democrat, that p. H.
Conger, Esq, has very fine prospect
for "big lead" at the mouth Of Tete
des Morris, in Jackson county. In one
day 800 lbs. had been raised. We
are very glad to hear it. Hope MIR.
Conger will make fortune, without 60
ing to California Miner Express.
The Minnesota pioneer. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. Territory) 1849-1855, 1850-03-13

THE CHRONICLE has tale in it, about
''the Black-feet Indians" If these In
dams had been described as the Black
foot Indians, would it not have been a
legitimate inference that they may have
been one-legged Indians, or at least
that each Indian may have had only one
sable foot: Is not the form alton and use
of plural adjective in this relation, a
great desideratum in the English Ian
guage? This ingenious variation in the
formation of the adjective to correspond
with the plural termination of it's noun,
finds analogies in the Greek and Lat
in languages, blu, is quite original in the
English tongue and deserves the notice
of grammarians.
The Minnesota pioneer. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. Territory) 1849-1855, 1850-03-13
CONGRESS-.


Our Washington correspondent, man
ifests much alarm at the threatning
aspect of the slavery question.
The real ground Of contest in Con-
gress, in regard to slave territory, APP
pears to be that portion Of New Mexico,
which Texas claims to be within her linn
its. The declaration Of Texan INDIE
tendance, extended a claim to that
part Of New Mexico; but then, it is as
serted on the other hand, that Texas
proper, does not embrace it; and that it
was never subjected to the Government of
Texas; although it is true that in the trea-
ty which Santa Anna made with theTexan
General after the battle Of San Jacinto,
April LIST, 1886, that part of New Mexico
was yielded up, yet that treaty was new
err acknowledged nor ratified by Mexico.
In fact, the one-legged, everlasting
Santa Anna, in making that treaty, APP
pears to have been in the condition of a
mouse drowning in beer vat, asking a
cat to help him out. The cat replied she
would do so, and eat him afterwards.
aRetter be eaten than drowned" said
the mouse; so the cat lifted him out
But the fumes of the beer made her
sneeze, and she dropped her prize. The
mouse fled to his hole. "Come out, "
said the cat, "and keep your word. Did
you not say l should eat you'" "Ah!'
said the mouse, "but you know was in
liquor at the time
The Minnesota pioneer. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. Territory) 1849-1855, 1850-03-13
PHILADELPHIA, Feb. IL.

PHILADELPHIA, req. IL.
The original manuscript of Wash
ington's Farewell Address was sold by
auction, this evening at the Exchange.
1t was started at $500, and run up to
$4,000, at which price it was taken by
the Rev. DR.. Boardman, who purchased
it for a gentleman at distance.
The Minnesota pioneer. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. Territory) 1849-1855, 1850-03-13

So Mr.. Louis Roberts is licensed
to trade with the Sioux Indians.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1850-07-27
Iarieultural.


T'i.it Fox siArEnrzsIsG.--it has l-tely been
,iis.lrerei bv French chemist, that the flesh 81
Ysimals which nv killed in the latter part Of The
nj sh, VIII keep uiacila,y wishod, saiIins dan
Il, VIII when they are killed in tho day time.
ggi. p71ve, lint the fesh IS better iiteI fir kee-
frsg wi,es he be ani blood yre ;aktn from tie
aniral at the tame the temperature is ;he lowest,
md he respiration ), The lcls. ac.lrc. llenee the
reasoh IT, re lesh f,um animals that have beca
ligl,g l.e.ieior hard driven, will scarcely keep
n: all.
Itis no new discovery TIA, the meat Of an AMI
maj ,,dled after rest viii keep better than that
iitlei i-nmcaatry after eyerci'e, ~ animals
rest in the pislt ihs meat VIII OF course, o. bet
Ter u the morning
Tbs reason wh4 th' aA'vo f.c,s are 80, Is .ms /:
Txgrrse drives ti.e h.i1,l tolhe oXi,cEllie,. amt
distribu-ea !, dNur.aaI Ike veins. Ahcr re- 1t
griild,y ratgs t. the yi,al, and cjrcu!ates more
srg.hlv Ofcou,e, II the animal Is thea killed
the arteries aud Largo vein. being cut the b,'.t
is AT once cpiptiol Bu, ifhc i ki.icl while tbi
blood Is at the surface distributed through the
small VEINS, it wiln bl discharged A. hood
corrup,s sooner than ilesh the meat spoi''. Tbs
Is abJu. tho wlJ.e s.urf. I'rfjric Ia7RsT.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1850-07-27

TRr CsoFs G,--yhere Grecomp,aints from "
rious SECTIONS d lie country, Of the prospect Of
grow TX crui' IN some parts of the country II
has been uua,ut'ly cold and wet while in others
1t b. exceedingly dry AMI hot. The The Cn,n-
nat Gazette o, tht 18Th, says;
The first gaiG tntt visited ,s.s n..shb1rhHoi fiji
on Saturday ADD SUNDAY l,st--auI then barely
enough 10 royye ,pe PArtAeI vegetation ana "!ay
the dust
Thcrouebt tlis s1'o the crops have suffered
anl are alfjtun, iron continued drought, ani re-
feshrg; .lnver-, duly repeated ior . week, are
I,qrryi to save the farmer from serious injury
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1850-07-27

CUE!ovs CA5rs ~ TIE CHARITY lio'FlrL At "
O1iEAvs.--We drorp0. III ~ the charity Hop,al
yesterday, iur t"'c minutes, AMI > curul, case
were politely shown To- Us !y the house rhy-i
oisn. The ar,t NA, that Of d. stout he'rty Irish.
man, who las M, brsllled through his mouth
or nnstr.s TOR two mnp,'7 He hjd suffered from,
- contraction If The uulcr part Of the wiulpinp
and was nj times urerlr suil,aiol An mri-iln
wt,m IL IL the neck into the winlp.pa. below
the diseased part AMI crooked silver tube, q.
b'.t5 ia'he5 low. with rim on one en3. insert
eI. through which the patient now hyea,hrs In
speaking, this NAV is obliged 70 put his finger oil,
the eIl of tho tUbr, in order To urtrplatr. The
patient now cats drinks, ms smokes with great
facility, anl SAYS 'na' he is heGrier than he eycy
was before. The disease Of which the patient
hos been CErci IL very Sinl1r to he one which
prorcl fatal TO Con. Washington The operation
which modern science bls introduced, had 20.
been thought in tie days Of Washington or the
't,heroi hI' country probably, nigh. have sur
yiYcd many years longer
The second case that We noticed. was That Of
Patrick Marley, a fine lOol.n. laboling man. a.
bout thirty wears uial'. he says that on Mon
dy nlgh' H,t he was quite drunk, and hi down
on the side walk. After time he arose uad
went home 90 diE imily, near by, going To bed
''' ''N' l'''' ''''' H.'''"'l5' va HNHhtNN'E W
the morning, be told his wife that he had n curi
ous pain and scnuton in hi, right ear. lie Mt.
tempted TO walk hut flll down. On an attentive
observation. Ii, Wiz discovered that tie cavity Of
his rish, ear WI, riiicl with lead, which would
not come out, as il was fitted 10 the different en-.
rorsly shaped cavities, and appeared to be urs
e'theyond the opening ofthe aperture. The lead
must have been poured into the ear in melted
state IN order to have thus shaped itself. beside,
the patients car oul face were badly burned, "a
y by contact with q haltel met,lhc substance.
M patient las not tio least recollection or con.
Jec'nFa by whom It coll have been done nor
docs he Remember having ieltnny pain in the ear
until morning. part Of The lead nearest the o.
pehiag OF the ear Was ats;ncted b. physician
previous to the pl'pn;, going to the Charity
Hospital ~ o. Pieavne, J,,nc IS.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1850-07-27

Ccalzn5 w,Ta,v1 EGGs-One quart oi new
milk, four tablg -pooatis oi flour, and ,wo ot -u.
gov Season with nutmeg or cinnamon, and aid
salt to our liSju. The milk should be- placed
over qnicl ire, anil when at boiling point, the
flour sholl be added, being previously stirred
up in cold milk. As SOON as thoroughly Scalied
ain The sugar -pjtc-, NIL salt lui,i an excel
lent dish md les..reIiy priz.l by every one who
has tried H.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1850-07-27

itoosrra N Bo,roS.--Tho editor Of the Gin.
cinnlii Inquirer writing from Boston, tells the fol-.
loving starry: Western men feel in this city as
though ina strait wd3tcoat for their personal lib
er,y !, so hcagei Ia That freedom Of action is gone.
Those addicted TO smoking especially, feel twice
the desire 10 promenade the streets cigar nmou.h
from the bare fact that the enomies ofthc fragrant
weed have forbid is use in the street Of Boston.
heard IN excellent anecdote of the adventures
OF live lloOsicr in this city, which illustrates the
municipal regulations of this mummy dssecting
cry, better than book After a good dinner AT
ms hotel he isnl,ed cigar, and started out for n
s'ron' hte a few Steps policeman tapped him
on the shoulder. and informed him that The pcnn
ty was two dollars for the offence of suokin,
he promptly pulled out a five dollar bill, and "a
ceved a three IN change. Proceeding ON his walk
IN few minutes he next met a beTrnr girl who
asked for something 20 cat. Reeollectiny that he
had The remains Of II hunk Of gingerbread tbe no
cullar Diet Of lloosierland. in his pocket, he ron
erously pru'icrcd II to the mendcant. Arnin was
he tapped on the shoulder BIZ the policeman, and
toldil was against the laws Of Boston to give away
oitil as il all belonged TO the city aud requested
two more dollars fu' his grave offence The tirce
dollar bill was drawn out, and when the policeman
tinlered one 10 change it was refused by the Hoo.
sicr. with the cool remark, NO, keep It, I shall
rant 20 rhfSiis ~ a Jcir minutes"