The Minnesota pioneer. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. Territory) 1849-1855, 1850-07-25

giniugto pay msre de.lerence TO the Ieligil
Gus sentiment OF the people, and refrain, as
inucil as possible, from doing Business at our
ieyee on Sunday. W 2
Some sensible fellow has said that where
one man reads merchants sigma hundred
will read his advertisement.
The Detroit Free Press comes to the de-
fence Of Mr.. Forrest, and thinks that he
was justified in whipping Wilis-because
he was the chief of those who destroyed his
domestic happiness.
IssrINcr. Many remarkable cases of in
stinct are related of the canine race, and a.
mong others the following: A slut that had
lost a whole litter, was seen trying to poke
piece of Grape through the handle of Que
of the sausage shops IN Albany city: and in
Saint Paul, dogs studiously avoid Roberts
street.
A Run LoGIcIAN.-Wat er is composed
Of certain gases, one of them quite explo-
siye. The other night, when Prof. How
land, in Pitisburg, was decomposing water,
and causing terrific explosions of its com
ponent gases, rather free-liver in the au-
dience exclaimed, as he held his hands to
his ears. Catch me putting water in my
brandy after this-l might blow up like the
boiler TO steamboatp
Last Friday, in the morning, we had q
terrible thunder shower thunder bolts seem
ing to explode like cannon, shaking the hous-
es. The night before the Anthony Wayne
sta rted up the river Sain, Peter. The
Wayne had to supply herself with wood by
conveying it in canoes from the woodward
below Roberts, Steamboats, now run their
bows up Jackson street, between Randalls'
store and Roberts; and bave nfringed some
what upon the corner Of Roberts roof and
broken Randalls' stairs.
Ralph Waldo Emerson has been visiting
the mammoth cave Of Kentucky, and is
now voyuging up the Mississippi to the falls
Of St. Anthony.
a narroU escape.-A lady in Rochester
was awakened lately at night, 10y noise
which she supposed was made by robbers.
She arose and opened the windows, and in
so doing, disturbed the slu:nber of her bus-
band, who was impressed with the same
idea, and Immediately seized a loaded gun,
and fired il at his wife The ball Fortunate
~ missed her.
Gold has been discovered in Jackson,
Monroe. Brown, Owen, Greene, and Clay
counties, Indiana. There is no doubt a.
bout that fact.
The Cincinnati Gazette, says friend
who recently made a tour through Brown
county, Indiana. reports that at one place
there are nearly three hundred men digging
gold. He says the majority average from
IS to IS per day each.
The Memphis Eagle says
chose gentlemen who have been seen
wandering through the streets Of our city
and looking unutterably mysterious and he
role things ARE not Hungarian exles, rs has
been falsely reported, but delegates to the
Nashville Convention
There has been reconciliation between
Li,tlefeld and Dr. Webster, and that mu-
tual wish for an interview has been express
ed, which the sheriff has consented to
grant.
Mr.. Downell writes us that on the 18th
instant, John Hail. lawyer, in a fit of des-
pair, committed suicide by jumping from a
high cliff into the river at the foot of Saint
CroiX falls; in a fit Of despair, or mania a
potu; aud during the week, a Mr.. Douglass
came to his death from the same cause ,hav-
ing unsuccesfuIly attempted to stab himself.
Hall WIS a lawyer by profession, and was
recently from Philadelphia. Thus, truly,
.'are the ways of the transgressor hard"
But under the auspices Of the "Saint Croix
Lumberuien'S Union" association, just or
ganized here, we hope to remove at last
from among the Indians, this most misera-
Die traffic in whiskey.
Within the past five days, too, the Saint
Croix river has arrived TO a very considera-
bic deluge of water. Ii is now about to
its highest known stage of l6 feet at the
Falls, having done quite an amount of dam
age by sweeping logs, 'booms,' etc., along
with it, down into Lake St. Croix. Here
at the falls we have suffered quite our pro-
portion of the loss; but it is believed that
there is yet n sufficient supply of'ogs above
the lake for the mills, so that the damage
will not be materially felt, or the usual a
mount o.r lumber manufactured much d.
minished.
Rufus Pemberton, formerly clerk in
the Albany post office, was arrested ON the
7th instant, on the charge of robbing that
office. He confessed the robberies and I'M
plicated two persons named Bramhall and
Gnylor, both Of whom have been arrested.
Sir. L. Poor, Bart. of Canada, with three
attendants, reached ST. Paul on FRIDAY last,
just arrived from the Pacific ocean, by way
Of the Red River Of The North. They left
OregonCny last March with II pack horses
and came part of the way m snow shoes.
They passed through the nation of Black
foot Indians without being molestcd they
found plenty of fuel and sweet grass started,
plenty of forage for their horses. In COM
ing from Red river, they had to swim more
than 30 rivers. Sir P. sold his IL horses
up the Mississippi river, for $500, and on
Saturday took the steamboat DR.. Franklin
No. /. down the river. He says OregonCity
looks dull, and is not as much Of town as
Saint Paul; and that provisions are scarce
IN Oregon.
Wonderfu! ireaiher-As a specimen Of
the wonders of the west and the weather,
we may state that a couple were married on
the north side, some four weeks since-be-
came father and mother--gave away the
child--separatcd-'made up, and are now
en- route to Minnesota. [Chicago Jour.
The Newfoundland seal fishery of this
season has terminated most successfully
In ST. John alone $350,0OO seals are how
being cured, and the arrivals into the diff
farcnt son varfS 81 re cot dawn at ono hrp