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

TRCE HcNEsrY.--Scme years ago, two aged
men near Marshalion, traded, or according 10
Virginia parlance, snapped horses, on this
diiion-that on that day week the one who tho't
he had the best Of the bargain, should pay TO the
ether two bushels of wheat. The day came,
and as luck would have it, they met halfway
between their respective homes.
"Where art thou going % said one.
ITO Thy house with the wheat answered the
stl.eE- sAnd whittier art thou riding"
s~rs,sy," rrp!ed the first, 81 was taking the
wfea, TO thy house.
Each, pleased with his bargain, had thought the
wheat justly due his neighbcr, and was going to
pay it.
Mrs. Boomer, editor Of the Lily, paper pub
lished at Seneca Falls, n. Y, has adopted the
'.sllort dress and ,rowsers She says tina, many
Of the women in that place find fault, others
laugh, others still in favor, and many have
already adopted TIE dress.
The fare from San Francisco to Sacramento
and Stockton is one dollc1 only; two years
since it was fifty dollars.
The last words Of Gen. Brady, before he died
were, "Let tbe drums beat; my knapSack is
sluns'' lis fall had rendered HIM derlous.
KossUrH NOT TO BE RELEAsED.-The
of Turkey having been charged by compact with
Austria, with surveillance of kossnth and his COM
tansons, and finding the expense OF maintaining
them burdensome, applied 10 lie relieved The
application was granted 50 far as respected all
but Kossuth and eight or ten others. An appeal
for the relief Of kossuth is about to be addressed
to- Austria by our Government, ngfeeabIy with
the spin. Of the resolution adopted by Congress
urging his removal to the United States.
RopE ENouGH.--A a late disunion festival
IN South Carolina, one Of the tossts drank was
His: "A rope TO every northern aboionist." A
kentucky editor proposes TO amend, by attaching
"a southern disunienist TO the other enG Of the
rope; and he thinks Kentucky viii furnish gratis
all tie hemp necessary for the whole operation.
SpEcULATIoNs.--Now, speculation is so far
rife in the neighborhood Of this city, the follow
lug nhec.eie comes in very well. We are in
debtcd for il 10 the Albany Dutchinan:
Some ten years since an old Dutchman pur-
chased in The vicinity of Brooklyn snug little
farm for nine Thousand dollars. Last week LOT
Of land spectators called on him to buy him out
Or nskia. his price, he said be would take sixty
thousand doliars--no less
=, SAID how much may remain on bond and
nsor'gage:'
ssNine thousand dollars"
"Ani why not lnore :" replied The would-bs
purchaser. Jr
s.Bccaase, der tam place amt worth any
more
Major Noah was Sheriff Of New York city in
1922, when .ae yellow fever broke ont there
nod with characteristic iberaity Inc liberated al
then in prison for debt, and thus assumed iheil
debts, some of which he was compelled 10 pay
IN. K. Mirror. a.T
Gov. Ujhazy writes to Mile Jageo that eve
are peasants, have peasants appetites, and EMO,
lie accordingly II is very cold, he says, bu
we hive managed not to freeze to death. liz
writes pccsely about being United States Gov.
ernmeu, officer postmas,er--and is very crate.
full TO the government for the consideration which
has been manifested towards him. -
1Rrronr>--A very great parsonage, in bis owl
ESTIMATION, who had recently obtained one Of tn,
military orders, exhibited himself with all his de-
cora,ians in the lobby Of Diary Lane Theatre
and after calling very conscqueniay for the box
keeper, who happened TO be absent at the mo
u,cnt, Sheridan came up, when the knight ad
dressed him in tone Of much importance, spray
are you the box-keeper:' 'sNo,'' said Tom, =.
ana not indeed; are your and then passed O.
without any further notice.--[ Life Of Sheridan.
NEwspApERs OF THE WoRLp-There arr
10 newspapers published in Austria, IA in Africa
u in Spain, 20 in Portugal. 80 in Asia 65 in Be.
: xiun,, IS in Denmark, 80 in Russia and Poland
900 in Prussia, ago in other Gern,aaic States
500 IN Great Britain and ireland, and 800 in tn
United States. ~' ts's A'71s7
Fsryr DsLLAR PIEcxs.-The following j
the description Of tho new FIFTY dollar gold coli
pecenily issaed in Californian. ff.3lfzp
z II il not exactly circular, but an octagon. h,v
: ING on each side Of the edge the following cen
s.ssses: !" Augustus Humbert, United States As
saycr Of Gold. California, 1851" It contain
the figure Of spread eagle, with scroll in hi
..L,us. on which Is inscribed = .Eureka" Under
reaih are the figures and initial $50 d. . and owe
..ehe sssje are The following figures and ubbreyia
non OF The word thousand, as. follows 1857
slsous,r designating us ineness. namely, ss7 ca
rats out Of i 900 pure gold. Its diameter Is ne
!. ess.ses than silver dollar piece, bat it Is thick
~.
We don't think they wouid be very handy {
carry. yet we nigh, nlaiage to worry along y
few Of them.