The Minnesota pioneer. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. Territory) 1849-1855, 1851-09-04

The Or. Franklin, No. !, came il OH Monday
morning, bringing one hundred cabin passengers
10 81 Paul, besides steerage passengers. Capt.
Lodw ck departs eastward in few days, to have
built for this trade, rapid, ihree-boiler boat.
Mr.. Willard, postmaster at Galenr and be-
yond all question, the mos, obliging, correct aud
popular postmaster in the valley Of inc Missis-
sippi, has thanks for a basket Of red-ripe
tomatoes. We have paid no attention yet to
gardshlng in Minnesota; but we are not afraid 10
engage ripe tomatoes, grown in Saint Paul, next
season by the middle of July
The Gal Jefersonian acknowledges receiving
by SIR. Barker of The Dr. Franklin, No. I, a corn
stalk grown by Gen. Wilson, at ST. Paul, meas
uring IL IL feet.
South Carolina devotts so much attention 10
arms, lhat she seems to have leisure to devote
10 literature. Two volumes Of the public acts of
that state were lately franked and forwarded by
The Governor of that State. directed to ''The
Governor OF The State Of .nanasoia, at the seat of
Government"
A gentleman at Peoria Ill.,. sends Us certain
inquiries about Minnesota, which we answer
thus: The land cas-, of the Mississippi is in mar
>ket--al' west Of The river is embraced in the
treaties Just made with the Sioux Indians. Fresh
beef retas at from to 10 cents per pound !;
which Is as near as we come at the worth
Of cows and oxen. We have every kind of prai-
RE. both on and or Of the river, much of it a red
sandy loan; some Of it with u scattered growth
Of sell NJ oaks and n clay bottom Our wood is
principally oak, (black and Whitley elm, ash,
blackberry, cottonwood and maple. Some for
es's are full Of ra,ines and some are level and
table; (but we do not care about seeing Get Of
bushwhackers eating down trees and destroy ing
timber. to make little farm in the woods, when
there is plenty Of good prairie aud oak-openings
ready for the plo~D We can raise coru always,
and plenty Of it, aud SC csa the Pembincse, who
live many hundred miles north Of Us. Apple
trees grow rs vigorously here a. any where in tire
world.
VIC fucffSh tis uuFeIuscHlcut pi EON-
lers & Wells, becasse j, is sent TO us to publish
But we assure our readers, tina; in our opinion, a
more arrani humbug was never Matched than this
same Phrenology. !, has neither fact nor philo-
sophy to sustain it-nohlng blu, the pruren, van
ity of mankind. We never yet saw a disciple
Of Fowler. who was not an empty, conceiied fool
The 'AVater-Cure,' - may be we'll enough; but il
it has any real merit, il is unfortunate in hayiua
for its champions, Fowers s. Wells, the high
priests Of humbug and quackery.
Hare 10 q specimens Of fax, raised upon the farm
ef Mr.. Selby. near St Paul. |, is all more than
3 feet high, with beautiful fibre, and is beyond
all comparison the best fax we ever saw grown
a specimen of it may be seen at the Pioneer Of
Zee. J, will evidently require 10 be sowed very
thick, TO prevent a growth too rank in our soil
which is generally sandy loam.
I Let law be supreme. W'hosoevcr opposes the
majesty Of the law or rssists it's officers, does
gross wrong 10 himself, his family and bis coun.
try. An instance secured, last Saturday. we
learn, in Roberts Street. 81. Paul, Of opposition
and avoidance, il not resistance, Of the service
q writ Of replesnl We know nothing and
'rnfG Icss of the merits Of the suit. That i. no,