The Minnesota pioneer. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. Territory) 1849-1855, 1851-08-28
MINNESOTA AFFAIRS.

with about $3.50, with which he intended TO en-
ter Hand at Saltwater. Since then he has not
been heard Of His wife has been in search Of
him; and being able 10 learn nothing more about
him, connected with some suspicious circum-
stances attending his disappearance, she is filled
with apprehension that he has been murdered.
The Chippewa Indians, who are being re-
, moved by Agent Watrous, from the shore of Lake
Superior, to the west side Of the Upper MIssis-
siPpi. had well ccucocted plan, in which they
were aided and abetted by certain interested
whites and halfbreeds, TO resist removal and TO
insist upon receiving their payments at Fond du
Lac, Lake Superior. instead Of Sandy Lake, near
the Mississippi, BY vigorous, decisive, aud per-
severing measures, Maj. Wa,roas has broken up
their arrangements; and we learn by letter
from there of August il,h, is now quite sure oi
succeeding in their removal.
| Some people think we can't raise corn in Min
nesota. II is true. the corn raised here, is most
iy the small kind; that being preferred, especial
ly by the indians, who will pay s 90 per busheI
for 1t, sooner than they will pay rs cents for dent
corn; but we can take any Of those people who
are incredalous about corn. into field Of Gen.
Wilson's, near ST. Paul, where corn is growing
IL to IA feet high, and the ears above your reach.
II is the large kind of corn
| Oar readers and correspondents will pleas be
careful TO paste their postage franks carefully
upon the letters they send Us, so that they ma
not peel of. We mention this, because we have
received several letters on which We have to pay
S cents postage, while it is not presumable that
any gentleman or lady would send a letter with
out prepayment, or would rather make us pay 5
cents for letters than to pay 3 cents themselves.
For our part. we send no letters " ,hout prepay
ment, aud in future, do not intend to take a
letter from the post-otlicc that is not prepaid
letter of inquiry about ST. Paul, is received
by us from gentleman in KY, who says he is
ga school-teacher ii est the teacher of "A high
school, The letter is directed to saint Paul,
Nebraska Territory" No doubt we need teach
ers here, especially Of Geography, but not us
badly they do in that par, Of Kentucky.
An Internal scoundre went into the stable in
the of the Lafayette House, ST Paul. last
Sunday night, and threw vi,riol upon the legs of
horse that was standing there. He deserves to
have red hot lava poured into his cars, and TO
have his eyes poulticed with lunar caustc.
Some travellers are always ''weary" when
they travel; every trip is tedious and every Jour-
ney annoying" 10 them. Occasionally one Of
your supei fuous members Of the human ia mily
strays ap the river, exquisite from New York,
who puts airs because he has seen the Boule-
wards lounged in Bond Street for week,
with an ugly mustache on his lip and a quizzing
glass in his hand. One of these exquisites, would
affect the govt from mere vanity Of being thought
bon ricant and is never satisfied with any
thing; but wishes to be thought dying Of ennui.
If he come up from the sultry south in midsum-
mes, to bathe in the cool, nvigorating a,mos-
phere Of Minnesota, he grumbles at our cold
weather and affects TO be shivering with dread
that he shall freeze to death here in dog-days.
He IS as hard 10 please n boy we knew at
school, who was always circulating between his
seat and the Fireplace. He would commence in
the morning ''Sir, may go at the fire: Fire !
Fire: Eyes; yes;'' says the master, "take the
front seat next to The FIRE." In about two min
utes the same boy, on the front seat would begin
10 cry out ''I' warm! T. warm. T. warm" And
thus he kept iro,,ing nil day, from his sent to the
fire and back. correspondent Of ihe ~ Y.
Home Journal, writing fiom Saint Paul on the
End day Of July, says;
Before closing this lengthy letter, let me give
few words of advice TO any rash persons who
may have been de!udcd by the accounts sent
abroad by the papers here, Of the fneness and
heat of the weather IN this region during the sun-
mer, and who, under such delus,on, intend visit
ing this section. i his second Of July the stoves
are kept full Of wood and burning here, and have
been for the last three or four days In two
weeks experience of this climate, ! have seen
but three days in which an overcnat would not be
| agreeable, and advise all persons coming here
on pleasure trip not forget TO bring their win
ter clothing. Elsewhere it is common saving
that at rains when it peases but here it RI ms
so continually, that IL rains very often when ii
don't please"
This writer. for aught we know, may be the
same person, who when boy, used continually
to be singing out in school "Fire Fire: Fire
IT. warm T. warm, T. warm,'
! We learn, that at the land sale in Saltwater
some man had the n,eanness to bid agairs, an nc
tual settler, and run his land up TO 81 90 an acre
This is an unprecedented outrage. We do no,
know his name; but if we learn it, will try to
mark him, so that he shall be as remarkable as
Cain was.
! 1t would be a real benefit to Saint Paul and
would also be highly creditablc to the town, if a
good side walk were erected on the south side oil
Bench street, through the whole length Of it.
Bench street, on that side, ought, also to be well
lighted, with row of spirit gas lamps, set upon
lamp-posts; the expense will be little and the
convenience great; for that street is always liter
ally thronged with travel, and in dark nights
there is always danger Of stepping over the
bluff