The Minnesota pioneer. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. Territory) 1849-1855, 1851-06-12
MINNESOTA AFFAIRS.

We learn from the officers Of the steamer DIR.
Franklin, No. 2. which arrived at ST. Paul last
Monday morning. that CORTLAND Starr, OF Adj
ans county, Illinois, while in the act of drawing
and was drowned on the 9Th inst, opposite Cor
doya. lie had wife, child and sister on board,
and was moving to Minnesota.
The report which we published last week, Of
the prevalence Of Cholera in Galcna, is wholly
unfounded in fact, as we are now informed. 1t
is certain, however, that this awful malady has
re-appeared on the Lower Mississippi. and whether
health regulations require TO be adopted at the
port of Saint Paul, is for the town board to de-
eide.
+, MONDAY MoRNING.-The river is falling
slowly. 1t is not high by four feet and half,
per Landing Of Saint Paul, and the foundation Of
the lower steam sawmill, SO as TO prevent saw
ing.
The 9Th Regiment Band, on the way from Fl.
Smelling TO Jefferson Barracks, went down on the
DR. Franklin, No. 2, last Monday. Saint Paul
safe upon the Bluff and listened and dropped a
silent tear as the last strain Of the Band faded
away in the diSiancc--a tear Of fond regret.
Nothing so quic,ens tender recol!ectons and fond
remembrances, as the music to which We have
often listened; its last notes are line suaset to the
heart. . .i,m8 81
Prominent amongst the events Of the past " eek i,
is the arrival Of .'Pschyclogist' - We have
had before. in Saint Paul, equest,iins, yulgariy
called crc us-riders; also organ girls, minstreIs
phrenologists, and various other performers, who
by various methods, conlrive 10 coaA coin out Of
the pockets Of other people aud pnt it into their
own; but the Psychologists, or Mesn,erizer. comes
at the pocket in different way. He Paraly yes
the brain aud the currents Of the subject,
freezes them over, and then rours through the
nervous channels of the 81 Jet nervous current
from his own braia, thus borrowing the subjects
brains, muscles, limbs, and what is more mpor-
tant, often, his money. Good honest Democrats,
will sit down in circle, each With stone in his
hand, and look ut the stones until lhei, brains are
paral zed -;llow the suc1-oiogist to come around,
take away their stones, one after another, pour
his own servine into their nervous systems, max
ing their nerves the conductors Of his own Volt
tions, by what he calls connection t, and pay for
being thus ensaved and experimental upon. Let
those who are willing to be emasculated, TO lend
themselves to this sort of mental prostitution, DO
H.; bat is il consistent with proper self-respect to
| be got into in this way: Let these perpate1ic
1ft,1opphers, 4yho have learned how to disturb
shs sarssrs:of ether mems minds, and break into
their intellectual laboratories, practise their arts
! ioa sStsssi; sf !hsf.tse who sunni. for sill
pend. .to:saeb nshs :snd:ise.I prostitution. As
for Phrenoogy. which is always made an essential
part Of the practice Of the suci-ologist, ii such
a miserable. baseless humbug, that any person Of
] sense ought to be as much ashamed Of buying a
chronological chart, as he would be Of pnyiag an
old hag for telling his fortune.
/ we received, the other day, frcm Rev. Geo.
/ p Williams, l.. L. d., very beautiful Catalogue
Of "The University Of Michigan" by which !,
appears that the Institution nua.bers ,59 souls,
Including the Faculty, medical students and -four
| classes Of undergraduates. But in the whole
Catalogue, fiom beginning to end, there is not an
/, intimation in what town county Of Michigan
the University is; and We dare say. that not one
person in fifty, in the Western States, knows that
4 it j. At Ann Arbor. AT any rate, the institution
need not be ashamed TO acknowledge the beausi-
fuI town Of Ann Arbor for its home; nor to pre-
SHINE that its locality is knowp every where and
by every body; like the boy who wondered the
inquirer did not know his (the boy's) name. sfor
says the boy. 81 am only a younssser, and
know it., just as easy.'' ssf e3Fea ~