The Minnesota pioneer. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. Territory) 1849-1855, 1851-12-11
MINNESOTA AFFAIRS.

lower schOoI-neose, tnis evening, has been de-
ferred. 1t will be delivered before the Young
Mems Lyceum, at the M. E. Church, tomorrow,
friday evening, at z o'clock. A. this is a sub
ject which is new TO most audiences, and from
the welI-known qualifications Of the lecturer, we
may confidently predict that the public will be
both instructed and entertained
| SPRING WHEAr.-Mr. Bond has brought in.
to our office specimen Of spring wheat, of the
first crop ever raised in Benton county. The
berry is remarkably plump. The yield Of wheat
we learn, was over 25 bushels per acres acres
being sown. In was sown in the first week Of
May last, and cut curly iu August. 1t was raised
by w. +. Corbit, on Capt TOdd's farm, at Belle
Prairie. no miles up the Mississippi, above ST.
Paul. Mr.. Corbn carefully cleaned and weighed
bushel Of it. and found it weighed 81 lbs. The
seed was brought, two years ago, from Pembina.
GLANCE AT ST. PAUL BY MooNLIGHr.
Saturday morning at half past six o'clock in
the morning. Night still reisns and the round
,hony; and the shadow Of the bluffs on which ST.
Paul stands, is thrown nearly across the frozen
Mississippi; on the othe; shore Of which, me-
lancholy owl is hootins mathis; now the moon
has disappeared; crimson blazes in the path of
the rising sun. The King of day now looks over
the eastern hills, TO which OF the FIVE hundred
dangerous stove pipes in our village, with their
streams Of smoke, will set the town on fire. And
now are fully developed the skeleton outlines Of
our town, with frame large enough for city,
filling up daily with new buildings; and growing
with vigor which neither Winter nor Night
seems to chsck--growing, with cash or without,
more rapidly perhaps, than amy other town on the
Continent.
NEwsERoN LAKE SUPERIoR-Nr. Ne,tle-
ton and others, through in seven days on snow
shoes from Fond du Lac to Crow Wing, report
Falls Of the ST Louis river, 90 miles above its
mouth 10 Lake Superior; and is the head of navi-
CATION, afording seven and half feet Of water.
Fond du Lac is growing; has about 80 houses on
the American side. The St. Louis is frozen from
its mouth up to Fond du Lac. The mining ex-
element about Ontonagon has abated since sum-
mer; but many settlers are coming in there; and
Ontonagon is becoming n large village. Freghts
from Buffalo TO Fond du Lac, are generally about
81 Is per Dbl. bulk.
THE MAILs.--We had prepared caustic
inquiry for the Pioneer, in behalf Of the people Of
Minnesota, why we were over weeks without a
mail from below, after the last mail by the Nomi-
nee' We certainly expected better things Of the
present owners Of the contract, or different way
of doing things, from that of last winter Moth
ing that labor and human exertion can overcome.
no obstacle Of land water or element, that man
can master, ought to be an excuse for a single
hours delay, in the arrival of this mail; for this
is the pendulum that vibrates between our Terri
tory and the world outside and when it's pulsa-
tons cease. every living souI in our Territory feels
it and a sort Of paralysis ensues.
After writing the article, Mr.. Burbank, one Of
the owners Of the contract called and explained
10 some reasons for the failure Of the mail.
We are not quite satisfied that the obtacles were
such as would have deferred Napoleon from cross
ing the Alps in the winter, with his heavy arille-
ry; but such reasons Mr.. o. gave US for the
delay. we publish. He says, the delay in bring
ing the mail through, has been entirely unavoda-
ble--that the bridges were carried off and the
streams impossible, especially with 40 ba,hels of
mail matter. This certainly alters the case; as
no contractor can do impossibili,ie,. Mr. b. SAYS
that in fu,ure, the mail will DO in every Friday
morning, promptly. .r.....s.
THE DxMocRAr.-Some Of the contents
this week are "guerrias and guerrilla presses''-
virtual refusal to furnish files Of the old Fed
eral Chronicle and Watnb Reveille which were
published last winter under the auspices Of the
atom. w. w. Warren to figure in, as champion
ostensibe Of the interests Of the Winnebsgo Fur
Company long report Of an examination Of
Sergeant McIn,yre. Of Fort Ripley, for killing
private Falss, which resulted in showing that
Mcintyre did right. and that Judge Mesker had
no jurisdiction to inquire any thing about it, &c.
THE WEArHEh.-We have the m, st de-
Iigh,ful days and nights now that were ever know
Clear, bracing, weather, dry roads, thermometer
ranging from Is to Is degrees above zero. In the
still atmosphere, we distinctly hear the drums at
Fort Smelling, beating the reveiIe in the morning
All we want now. is snow for sleshing; the light
snow we had, having melted away.
PERIopIcALs.--We have had laid on our Ia
BILE, the American Wing MISUNDERSTANDING a
picture Of Leslie Combs, Of Ky. The Review
is Published at SIS 90. per annum. Also Godey's
Ladies' Book, Philadelphia; SO 90. AIss Bulle-
tin Of the American Art Union. Also SartaIn' 5
Union Magazine, Philadelphia.
We are authorized to state, upon the authority
Of Maj. Warous and others who have assisted in
The urduous labor of removing the Chippswas,