The Minnesota pioneer. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. Territory) 1849-1855, 1851-05-15

y 4 to % eomnenced BY Mr., Fridcy. u, Long
P uric. lsst Monday. Ell
a Frenrhman named BushnelI, formerly resi- I
lent at the Chippewa river, FELL off the steamboat
Dr. Franklin No. 2. last Friday. in fit Of deli
-iam tre,nens, and vas drowned
Mr.. Mon,fort, formerly clerk Of The Steamboat |
DR.. franklin No. 2, came up, passenger, by that
boat, last Saturday, with his most effulgent coun
enance. lie has with him an interesting statu- |
rtte Of Jenny Lind, the Swedish nightingale, also
4 night-hawk and monkey, with several Swed- |
ish har0s--a great curiosity 10 those who have
never seen the like.
Amongst the new branches Of trade in ST. Paul.
we are pleased TO that our friend Collins, Of
Galena, has opened leather and furnishing store
nearly opposite the American House,
Last Friday, gentleman in st. Paul, with .
horse and buggy, hurrying around the corner Of
of Jackson and Third streets, tilted against the
cast iron pump and broke The shafts Of the buggy
The pump, by its mex, friend, The ST. Paul Diris-
ion No. l, Sons Of Temperance, has commenced
an action against the driver; who, in his own de-
fence, is ready to that the pump ran against
him. The lawyers on both sides, are examining
for authorities the celebrated case Of ''Bulum
Boatum.'
Mr.. Simpson and lady, arrived BY the Nominee
last week Thursday. Mr.. s. is Of the corps
Of U. s. Engineers, having in charge the survey
Of certain Government roads in this Territory;
and sili make his home at St. Paul.
After spending two three days in troting over
the unique sidewalks Of Main street, Galena,
which is more crowded with people and boxes and
bales than ever-and after eating some capital
dinners at the American House, which, like rag
ged oyster iu the shell, eats well, bad as it may
look, VIC are in st. Paul again, having been gone
nine days, during which time, many new resi-
dents have arrived, and several new buildings
have been erected, mostly of the gingerbread or
baitlement style Of architecture; and which look
like rows Of ugly dry goods boxes, summoned
We learn tina, there is being erected a, the cave,
two miles west of St. Paul, an extensive powder
mill and powder magazine. a4..
That Frenchman, Mayrand. who was put in the
guard house at Fort Smelling, last summer, for
selling whskey to The Indians, and was afterwards
discharged, has been taken again for the same Of
fence, and put in irons al Fort Ripley.
The Government contract for hauling supplies
for the Chippewas at Sandy Lake from ST. Paul,
being nearly three hundred miles, is awarded to
MIR. Cakes Of our town, 1T - 25 per hundred
pounds; also the contract for furnishing corn aud
pork. Mr.. Cakes receives, for corn delivered at
Sandy Lake, 81 20 per bushol; and for mess
pork, S23 IS per barrel.
Our readers ought to know, that there Is an in
stitution known as the Philadelphia Arts Union
which distributes prizes annually, of paintings, to
such subscribers as are fortunate enough to draw
prizes Every subscriber, by paying annually S.,
has ticket In the lottery; which ticket, if it does
not draw one Of the paintings as prize, entities
the subscriber to superb engraving, at least. DIR.
Potts Of st. Paul, is authorized to receive sub
scripiions. At the St. Paul Hardware Store, there
is now fine painting, which was drawn as a
prize, the other day. in the Arts Union, by Hon.
Martin Mcleod, Of our Territory. The painting
represents farmers boy with sheaf of wheat
and sickle in his left hand lie stands leaning
upon n post and rail fence; and is fourteen years
and three weeks old. 1t is capital picture; and
the only fault find with it, is that the rails Of
the fence are too wide apart to exclude from the
wheat field, our long-lesg,d, sh,rp noscd Western
hogs, which would certainly so through that fence
"like knife
Or Wednesday Of last week, the wind blew a
; complete gale; and tumhled the lumber about our
streets and racked many Of the slender balloon
frames, very much. The new Baptist church,
lurched 80 much 10 the ieeward that it was neces-
sary to prop it with shoars. A partition pm, up
through the middle of il, would do more to
strengthen it, than any petitions likely to be put
up.
The Doctor franklin No. 1, came up last Mon
day, leisurely having plenty of time for regular
weekly trips TO and from Galena. The Yankee
arrives on Tuesdays, and the Nominee on Thurs
days.
Some sneaking coward in Saint Paul, who
wears the collar Of Henry NJ Rice, and who
would not hesitate to light The torch Of an incen-
diary to obsfruct railroad or TO do any other
act Of a bastard, in the dark has sent string OF
malignant Ealsehoods to the Galena Jcffersonian u,
over the anonymous signature rs rutator,'' con-
corning the Legislature and the Governor Of Min
nesoia. We need scarcely say to eur readers
down the river, that there is not even a color OF
truth in the communication referred to, from be-
ginning to end; and If the writer would announce
his name TO the public, we will convict him of be-
ing the most nrrant liar thu, has lied by pervert-
ing truth, since the days of old Jack Fastatf.
J. E. Smith, the jcwelIer, in Galcna, has in his
rich stock Of wares, some things Of curious and
rare workmanship; but nothing that more attract.
ed our attention than an ornamental golden clasI
| for the wrist with locket IN