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

Nature, in her arrangement of the seen
cry of the South, differing from the rule Of
the artist, has thrown her most imposing
forms and aspects into the background
Her mountains and ma jestc atar-places are
nowhere visible along the sea; and the SUI
per6cial traveller is prepared to doub, the
existence OF any such throughout our land.
Their absence on the Atlantic would not
perhaps he go greatly felt if men were not
always most easily taken by The bad out
line, the surface, the simply salient and ex-
ternally imposing. There is much in the
scenery along our coast which, closely ex-
amned, would, by its exquisite deIicacy
and nice variety Of detail, quite as much at
tract the mere explorer AS the artist. The
peculiarly of this region, as distinguished
from the Northern coasts, is the presence
of the numerous beautiful isiets that seen,
to guard our shores and cities from the
wave. Rowing in boat or steamer along
these islets, or among them, they appeal to
a moral instinct the exercise of which puts
a thousand genial fancies into activity
They rise up suddenly around you, like
gems from out the sea-fairy abodes, at
least, sometimes green in shrub ami vine,
and tree, to the very lips of ocean and
So" EP' S"N N"' S""y P'"''', So ''o
with myriads of diamond sparks, garland
ed with myriads of fantastic shells, and
seeming for all the world, particularly when
seen by the moonlight, TO have been devils
ed and chosen as favorite places for the
sports of Oberon and Titania, of Puck and
Little John, the capricious Lohne and the
tricky Anatilia. South of the mouth of
Charleston harbor they spread numerously
along to the very waters of The Mississippi.
They are less numerous as you advance
nOrlhwardIy. Still they are here in suffi-
Gent number to form mar, in for the coast
to the Cape of HatteraS, which, from its
dangers and the cruel misclliefs which it
has wrought upon the unwary vessel and
its perishing Inmates, may be supposed to
have been heaved up by race of beings
less gentle and genial than any Of our fa-
miliar tribes Of fairies. Here we may sup
pose that the demon races inhabit, and Ire
in watch for the unconscious harque, siyly
slipping beneath the wave, seizing without
noise upon the PROV Of the vessel, and
drawing her into the insidous currents and
upon the sands Of the treaCherous islet.-
The fancy that peoples the innOcent islets
which wreck no vessels with the 'good
people," may with equal propriety refer The
dangerous capes and headlands to such hos
tile tribes.of demons as haunt the wilds OF
Scotland, the Harz mountains and Black
FCrests Of the German, and the stormy
shores Of the Scandinavian.-(Correspond-
ence Charleston News.
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CHEAT PHENoMESoS.-The Winnsboro
IS. c. Register Of Friday says~-"ln this
neighhorhood, we understand, the good
people were witnesses, on Thursday, the
7,h inst, of a most unusual phenomenon
Abou, four O'Clock in the evening, large
cloud arose in the South, covering, per-
haps, sixty degrees in the visible horizon.
This, of course, under the circumstances,
was watched with the greatest anxiety
After increasing in density and size for a
bout an hour, it seemed to move up with
rapidly, having all the appearance OF one
from which an abundant rain was descend
ing This, however, proved not to he the
case, for in q few minutes the whole face OF
nature was covered with deep blue smoke,
extending, RS far as yet ascertsined, over an
area of eighteen or twenty miles square,
So thick, indeed, was it, that the vision was
much interrupted, and trees and houses on
~ half mile off were entirely hidden from
view. When the smoke disappeared, which
was in about an hour, the cloud had evap-
GRATED or wasted away"
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QUITE A MIsrAKE.-An outside traveller
on a stage coach, ga little over the bay" a
short time since, while the coach was pro-
ceeding along quietly, the wheel came in
contact with huge stone; our hero lost his
equilibrium. and was thrown overboard.--
He arose to his feet, dug the gravel from
his nostrils and ears, and commenced be-
rating the driver for his carelessness in up
setting the coach, and thus cndangering the
lives of the passengers. "Woi'n thunder
yer doin'!" said he, "you mis'able saw
ic-sawney, knock--"ic-ock'n peoples
brains out'n this way?" The driver in
formed him that the stage had not been
overturned at all; and he passengers also
assured Bill that Jehu was right upon
which he approached the vehicle again, and
remounted slowly TO his former seat out
side. "Didn't upset dye say'" "Not AT
all ;" replied the driver. ''Well, SIC, if I'D
know'I that" said Bill, 81 wouldn't ave
got off %
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SINGULAR PHENoMENON.-A short time
since, MIR. Samuel Evans, of Atlantic Co,
New Jersey, with team o: mules, was in
the woods, and while hauling out a log pre-
paratory 10 loading, from under a large
tree. he was struck down with his four
mules by an electric shock. He did not
lose his consciousness, hut he was wholly
unable TO move hand or foot, and his mules
were in the same helpless condition. Af-
ter remaining in this state for about fifteen
minutes, vitality returned, first in the fore
finger and thumb on one hand, enabling him
to rub them together. Fearing that the
mules might recover before he could ge,
from among them, he worked his fingers and
by slow degrees regained the use Of his
hand, then arms, &c, when. by great exer-
tiOn, he dragged himself out of the reach OF
the mules heels. The mules gradually re-
covered also, and he go, them upon thei,
feet. A bright red line marked his arms
and down his chest and legs. He Glr sore
for some days after the occurrence. There
was a cloudless sky at The time, and no in
dication of lightning or rain. The tree
was completely shivered to spiuters.
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Miss Weber, it would seem, has at least
one disciple at Newport. A letter from
that watering place says: can accident oc-
Cured at the Ocean House, yesterday,
which has created considerable excitement
among certain paites. A person to all ap-
pearance not more than 1S or 20 years of
age, dressed in the most stylish and fashion,
able apparel of gentleman, came to the
hotel, fiourished extensively in the drawing
room, flirting with certain ladies, dancing
&c.; drank freely of sherry cobbIers, smok-
ed cigars, laughed and chatteG with friend
over bottle Of champagne at dinner, aud
turned out to he girl in disguise Wha,
makes the matter still more exciting, it il
said she belongs to very respectable fam
ilvD
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The papers in the Cuban interest, North
and South, are exchanging teiegraphic com
uunicatioDs full Of glory. We see what
the New York papers receive from New
Orleans. The New Orleans papers have
the same stories Of "great excitement" in
New York, and the ''irrepressible en,hus-
asln' with which oil classes were urging
the independence Of Cuba, contributing
their money, and with difficulty restrained
from rushing to the aid of the patriots
Both stories are doubtless originated by the
same parties, and for the same purpose
We repeat, if the men who publish this
false news would but accompany the men
contont.-[ Prov. Jour.
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The Joseph Bonaporte House.-Mr.
Beckett, who purchased this place at Bor-
dentOwn, has demolished the old buildings
in The rear Of which be is about erecting a
splendid mansion Of brown stone, and he in
tends also to put many expensive and beau
tiful Improvements on the grounds IN.
Y Trih
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A WoNDERuL EsCApB.-A smal! boy fell
from the third story of house on Cranston
street, yesterday afternoon, striking upon
the outside cellar door, when he jumped up
and ran off as though he had made but a
common leap; he started head-foretnost, but
turned a summerset on the way down. DR..
Baker was called in afterwards to see the
boy, but could find no external bruise or in.
jury. The boy complained Of not feeling
quite well, but nothing serious WAS aniici-
pated.- Providence Post, Aug. IS.
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DEN HARDIN.-Who has not heard of
Ben Hardin, of Kentucky, whose rOugh el-
oquence was described (by John Randolph,
we believe,) as resembling Kitchen knife
whetted on brick batr' He has long been
famous for many eccehtricities of character,
and foi an extraordinary perversity OF tenn
per, which led him to oppose whatever 9TH
er people advocated. He is now a candi-
date for some office in Nelson county, Ken
,ucky, and the "Bardstown Herald" takes
him off in The following graphic style:-
Mr.. Hardin, though he knows he will
have no opposition, is still making speeches
il this county, in which he abuses the rail-
road, the Herald, and almost every thing
thar is great and glorious. He is a curlOs-
ity. He is opposed to common schools and
sub-soil piOughs, and railroads and blue
grass, and every breed of hogs except the
razor-backs, which can go in aud out OF his
fields at pleasure, and gather his crops for
hm without ever accommodating any trouble
some quantity Of lard, and he is opposed to
every means of carrying surplus produce to
market, because he Is opposed 10 having
any surplus. His ideal of human felicity is
TO 1--we in Il hollow sycamore and have a
"truck patch'' in which he can raise plenty
Of cabbage, so that he may have cabbage
for breakfast, aud boiled cabbage for din
ner, and fried cabbage for supper,
He once said of himself, as we have been
told, that he was twenty years behind the
age. While he has been jogging along
through the mud on lis old horse, with his
pantaoons half way up TO his knees, his
shocking bad hat hanging in tatters around
his meditative brow, talking 10 himself a.
bout some musty qubble of the law, he
seems not to have known that the world
was in motion all around him--that steam,
railways and telegraPhs were changing the
face of the globe. Or, if he has had some
dim notion of what was going on, like the
man who walked up in the midst Of an
earthquake, aud drowsily asked what all
the fuss out Of doors was about, he has on
ly been vexed and annoyed 10y what he has
heard of the progress Of The age. The fire
horse has been yoked to the car of com
merce, the lightning has been made a news
carrier; the germs of new empires have
been planted in Africa and on the shores OF
the Pacific, and amongst the islands Of the
South Sea. The free-school system has
been shedding its benign light over the Da-
tions, and as the news OF each triumph
of civilization has rung through the
world, the old gentleman has mutterec
"huml,ug, all humbug; the country and the
world are going to the devil, and nothing
can save them but the new constitution"
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JOSEPH BOWRON,
Notary Public and Land Agent,
Wiuow Rircr, st. Croir CO., Wisconsin
Pre-emptiou claims secured and entries made by
Military Land Warrants. Blank Deeds an
Mortgages constantly on hand, and conveyan.
ces carefully aud promptly attended to-
REFERENCEs:
Hon. Caleb Gushing, Mass.
l. L. Walker, Wisconsin
/" Charles Dunn,
II. l.. Dousmap, Esq,
Gov'r Nelson Dewey,
OctlS XVI If
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On Saturday las, during the squalI. two
or three men were getting in hay, on the
farm of Mr.. B. Peckham, Oh Prudence, and
as the rain came on, they took a yoke of
oxen from the wagon and left them in the
field while they took shelter in the house.
On their return to the field, they found one
of the oxen had been killed by lightning,
and the yoke shivered to pieces. The 9th
er OK was uninjured.-[ Bristol Or. ~
Phenix.
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FIRE.-The alarm of fire about IL o.
clock on Saturday night, proceeded from
the burning of barn Of Col. Halsey, stand
ing in field west Of Prospect Hill. The
barn was filed with hay and was rapidly
consumed. This is the third or fourth barn
burnt in the same field within the last few
years; the second within year. OF course
the work of an incendiary.-[ Prov. Post.
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Freaks or LreHrSrse.-A correspond

FREAKS OF LIGHTNING.-A correspond
ent of the Hartford Courier, writing from
Meriden, CT, says:-
81 notice by the newspapers, that the
thunder showers in the New Eng land
States have been more than ordinarily fire.
quent The present seas,n, and some simgu-
lar stories are told of the queer freaks of
the lightning. notice that the same stroke
which killed a young Frcnchmnn last Sat-
urday at Spring field knocked down another,
and tore the shoes eff from young woman
in another room. In Waterbury, the same
day, Il stroke killed horse, and tore the
boots Oft from young man named Sey-
mour. There appears to he something at
tractive to the fluid in boots and shoes.-
During The exceedingly severe shower that
occurred here several weeks since, the
lightning struck in several places. Among
others, the house of Mr.. Atkins was struck.
His daughter, young lady about 10 years
OF age, was in the front parlor at the com
mencement of the shower As the flashes
came very taSt and with binding vividness,
she arose with the intention Of going into a
back room. AS she was passing through a
small room in which stood trunk with
iron bands, the thought struck her--'here
will he good place' and she immediately
sat down, resting one Of her feet upon the
trunk. In the same instant she was struck
down helpless, but not senseless. The
electric shaft bad entered the building, leav-
ing its marks in the cellar, and game up on
n PARTITION, entering the room where Miss
A. sat, by large nail in q mop board. 1t
turned the color of bunch Of keys lying
upon the trunk, and ripped IN pieces the
shoe of Miss A. that was upon the foot
which rested upon the trunk. Isn't the
lighting distinguishing itself this year, Mr..
Editor, in tearing off shoes?
IL is reported that when there is a grea'
deal of lightning there is no cholera. There
has been no cholera in New England thus
year, but have noticed that wien the
dreadful disease has shown itself in this re-
gion, there has been very little lightning dur
ing the same season.
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ExrRAoRDISARY WoRKwoMAN-Mr.
Deborah Peavey, wife of John Peavey, of
Centre Carnstead, a lady seventy-seven
years of age, few days since, cut and
made satin vest for her husband, which
was pronounced by workman to he of a
good work and finish as can be produced in
the county. Where can he produced par
allel?-[Dover (N. H. Gazette.
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How Cities ExHAusr THE Fertility

OF LAND.-The following is an extract OF
a letter from DR.. Daniel Lee, to Hon.
Thomas Ewbank, u. S. Commissioner OF
Patents, published in the Agricultural Re-
port of the Commissioner Of Patents, for
IS49. DR.. Lee attributes both pestilence
and famine to ignorance of the laws which
govern the veg, table and animal economy.
He says
"rhere has been enough of the elements
of bread and meat, wool and cotton, drawn
from the surface of the earth sent to Lon
don, and buried in the ground or washed
into The Thames, to feed and clOthe the en-
tire population of the world for a century,
under wise system of agriculture and hCr-
ticulture. Down to this day, great cities
have ever heen the worst desolators of the
earth. Ii is for this that they have been SO
frequently buried many feet beneath the
rubbish Of their idols Of brick, stone and
mortar, to be examined in after ages by
some antiquarian Layard. Their inhabi-
tants violated The laws of nature which
govern the health of man, and secure the
enduring prOductlveness of the soil. How
few comprehend the fact that it is only the
elements Of bread and meat evolved during
the decomposition Of some vegetable or All
imal substance that poison the air taken in
to human lungs and the water that enters
the human system III daily food and drink
These genei ate pestilence and bring mil
lions prematureIy TO their graves!
| Why should the precious atoms of pot
ash which organized the starch in all the
-four, meal, and potatoes consumed in the
cities OF the United States in the year 1850,
be lost forever to the world! Can man
create new atom of potash, or of phos-
phorus, when the supply fails in the soil, as
fail it must under our present system OF
farm economy? Many a broad desert in
Eastern Asia once gladdened the husband
man with golden harvests. While Ameri-
ca is the only country on The globe where
every human being has enough TO eat, and
millions are coming here for bread, how
long shall we continue to irnpoverish nine
ty-nine acres iu IL hundred of all that we
cultivate!
! Both pestilence and famine nre the off
springs Of ignorance. Rural SCIENCE i. no,
a mere plaything for the amusement OF
grown-up children. 1t i. a new revelation
of the wisdom and goodness of Providence
IA humaniZing power, which is destined
To elevate man an iinmeasurable distance
above his present condition. To achieve
this result, the light of science must not he
confined to colleges; it must enter and illu.
inmate the dwellings of every farmer and
mechanic. The knowledge Of the few, nc
matter how profound or how brilliant, can
never compensate for the loss incurred by
ueglecling to develop the inlellec,s of the
many. No government should be wanting
in sympathy with the people, whether the
object be the prevention of disease, the i'm
provement of land, or the education of ths
masses. One per cent. of the money now
annually lost 10y reason Of popular ignor
ance VIII suffice to remove that ignorance
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p CHouTEAu, JR. JAS. HARRISON. FELIX VALE
IRON MOUNTAIN IRON AND NAILS.
Choteau, Harrison & Vale,

uNRoPRIEToRs of lie s. rOUIs ROLLING MILLS,
il will keep OF hand ,''i' supply of merchant bar
IRON boiler p,ste sheet on aud nails, manufactured at
their establishment from the Of the Iron Mountain.
ana will also keep all other articles usually kept l an
ron store to watch they ovte the attention Of country
merchants -
NV arehouse, No l29, Second street ST. Lous, Mo.
- CHAS. w. BORUP,
Agent al st. rsul.
u.vs ls5l ST
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Saint Eouis.

HENRY srAuFFER. WM. NJ. DONALD. II. ii. BEEsoN
III. STACFFER & CO.,
PAPER MANUFACT
Paper Mill Warehouse, No. lI6 North Second Street,
Saint Louis, Mo.
Always on hand, Printing, Wiring and Wrapping Pa
per- &c., ut very low prices 2-oz-
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CITY HOTEL, ST. LOUIS

Corner of Third and Zine Streets.
T. BARNUM, proprietor viii always be happy TO see
his C.ends who down business pleasure from
wisconsin, Mnpesots, aud ON elsewhere up the Mis-
si,sppi livef. Nov. Il, iS-i0
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UEMPSTEAD Il WASHBURNE,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW.
Galena, Illinois.
RIP We have constantly Oh hand supply ol
genuine Land Warrants, which will be sold.
Nav . tf
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l.. 5. FELT, Galena, Ill.
Wholesale and Retail Dealer in Dry Goods, Gro
ceries, Hardware, Boots and Shoes,
Crockery, Housefuruishny Goods,
Mattresses, &c.
ALSO-keeps constantly on hand large stock
of Rifle and Blasting Powder and Fuse. 2-lo
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w. & j. FIDDlCK,
NTO IO6. Nam street, Gacna, ii. Dealers IN Dry
~ Goods C .occreS, Eoots Shots, Hardware, Queens
wares, DC. May, le5l. 81
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GREENFIELD SLIDER CO..
No. 12I North Second Street, befUeen Locust dnd tIhr
Saint Lonfs,
Dealers and Importers in Pianos and Musical instru-
ments, Lamps, Girandoles, Plain and Fine Fur
riture, Looking C lasres, &c. 2-2s
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STORE,N SALTWATER.

VXYM. w HANKS. Main Street, III Stllwater,ohe
w door uotih Of DR.. Carli's building has open
e General assortment of Dry Goods, Groceries, frd-
ware Crockely, AMI all such goods are usually kept
country store, which he VIII sell eNIeei! ~" io'
rea,,,-pav. T. Cali and look.
May %, ISL. by
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Galcilu.

NJ. f. TRCETT,
No. 81 Levee, alena, lllinois.
Forwarding and Commission Merchant, Dealer in Pro
duce Tobacco, Segsrs, Domestic and
Imported Liquors.
Orders from Dealer and country Merchants respect
fun, solicited on board The steamer y Nominee, by
l,2 W. YOUNG.
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II. SLEEPER. p 4. HotHE
AUCTION HOUSE.
NJ SLEEPER & co, Auction, Commission, ard
w. Forwarding Merclanis--No. 1870, Main street,
Garna, Illinois.
Cash advances made cnnsignments. Particular at
teuti,n paid business entrusted to their care. 2S
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JOHN r. SMITH CO.,
Vatchpake.s and JetcciIerS Main ST., Ga[enG Illinois
Large aud well selected assortment oi CLOCKS
N Nn,c,es, JewelIv and Silver Spoons, constantly ON
band ior sale iow Engraving neatly executed. All
kods O, Jeweiy made order and neatly repaired -
AD o.Jers pauciuay attenued to. The highest price
paid for old gold anu silver. 2-lo
II. & S. DRUM.
MAIN STREET, OPPOSITE GALENA HOTEL.
MANUFACTURE and keep constantly on hand a
1VA complete assofmen, of isJcy aad Windsor Chairs
As" Bu.esos, T..bes, Stands, Writing Desks Loohrg
Gi3sses Bets,eats, &c, &c Persons wishing pJ-
chase W DO well to call before they buy elsewhere,
prepared sell good article and Terms
iowa ably cT>b, afford sell RS cheap,
chopper, than any o.her in the cty reasonable de-
due nade ouying TO sell again. All orders
fro a uisso pprciuaily attended to.
Ga,ena, May, 1851. SAY
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lOiliomriper.

B. ALLEN. w. ID. SbMMbS'
ALLEN & SEMMES,
attorneys al Lac, Vttlo'c Rirer, 81.
Croir Co., Wisconsin
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Saint Autbonp.

w. III. HUBBARD,
Attorney and Counsellor at Law and
Notary Public,
SAINT ANTHONY, MINNEsoTA.
OFFICE-Asin Street, in the rear Of the ~. Charles
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5tillmater Business pirsftorp.
Nj. T.. AMES,
Attorney and Counsellor al Lar,
saltwater, Min Ter.

Henry l.. Moss,
Attorney and Counsellor Mt Law, and genera
Land Agent.-Stillwa,er Minn. Ter. Lana
Warrants constantly on hand and Tor sale
,carraated genuine.
REFER TO
Messrs Woodward & Dusenbury, N. \. CITY.
Z. Choutean, Jr., s. CO., ST. Louis
h. N.KeDsie 4 Co.,
Hempstead s. Washburn, Galena, III.
James Carter & Co,
II. l.. Dousman, Esq, Prairie du Chen
Hon. Il. II. Sibley, Minnesota Ter.
H. NJ. Rice, Esq, 4"