The Minnesota pioneer. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. Territory) 1849-1855, 1851-06-19

Wihnebago Organization" meeting, week before
last, and made a speech, unparalleled since the
time Of Balaam, He i very anxious to be sen,
somewhere.
The controversy in the last ST. Anthony Ex-
press, batween the Rev. Mr.. Geer and the editor
Of that paper, about the Gothic communion SER
vice, and ths Apostolic succession" is very
sharp, being in the original .eary pointed style.
The Tiger came growing up to our levee. last
Saturday eveniug--her voice (much like that Of
a whelp of the old Senaior) being audible for an
hour before her arrival. Every body thus
had notice Of her coming, and it being an idle
hour Of the week, the whole town turned out a.
if to see caravan, and greeted the scream of the
Tiger, with a vociferous shout Of welcome; and
on her landing, boarded her as thick as bees
swarming. There Is no other town on the Mis-
sssppi river, where it il the practise to pour such
| rushing human stream, over the decks and into
the cabins Of a steamboat, when landing. 1t
must be annoying to the officers Of the boats, as
well as to passengers. who naturally want to get
ashore, and get into town, before every body in
town gets out Of town, and on board the boat
The Collector Of the port Of Saint Paul. is SO
absent-minded, that the other day instead Of
branding barrel Of Cognac, he branded him
seI'
We learn from the St. Anthony Express, that a
horse ran away with cart, at St. Anthony, last
week, and made flying leap with it down the
bluff, forty fee, into the river. The cart was
shivered but the horse only shivered little
The Express complains Of the melancholy dearth
Of crimes and casualties for the manufacture of
news. If the Express wants to make a record of
larcenes, we can well spare the Secretary to take
up his abode at St. Anthony, until the completion
Of the Territorial Penitentiary, at Saltwater.
Counsellor Phillips, District Attorney Of Ben
ton County, informs us that there were three tri-
ais at sauk Rapids for violations of the Indian
liquor law. One Of the defendants was acaut-
ted, and other two was as good As acquitted by
the hanging or disagreement of the jury.
The Tiger laid at levee all day Sunday, as
meek and devout as millennal lion.
In Saint Paul, oats are worth, at retail, SOC
corn, so; beans, $3.50 to S., 90; potatoes, 75c;
dried apples, $3.50 to $500; butter, IL to zoe;
beef, Z TO Sc; eggs, 10 TO l2c; hams, 10 to l2c
pine boards. $40 TO $50; turkeys, none; eagles,
$1,000 and scarce; newspapers, $500, without
reference to quality; flour, $3.50 TO $500; corn
meal, 75c to $500 per bushal.
Last Monday night the suckologist who is ex-
hibitins in st. Paul, had subject under the in
fuenee, and standing up before his victim, as
fierce as lion-tamer, says: 81 will you not to
sit DOWN in that chair. behind you! You can't do
it for your life, Sr.' The surprised victim stood
trembling like Belshazzar, unable. apparently, to
"bend the supple hinges of his knees when
spectator cried cut to him, ''Sit down, you fool
you!'' and down he sat, much to the discontinue
Of the sucko!ogist.
The Winnebago Indians, up the Mississippi
river, or large portion of them, who have been
threatening ever since the payment made at Wa
| tab Prairie, to make another stampede and break
out of the country, and who are, no doubt, en-
couraged to leave, by those who want contracts
for bringing them back again, made break the
other night, crossing over to the valley of the St.
Crox, Il picket at Fort Smelling being on guard
to prevent their escape down the Mississippi and
have put out, bag and baggage. The refractory
scoundres ought to be followed and driven back
at the point Of the bayonet; and nothing short of
killing few of them will cure them of their pro-
pensity to run AWAY propensity which they
manifest most, when best fed.
If the Democrat is incapable of understanding
the difference between constitutional provisions,
and the conventional rules adopted by legislative
bodies for their convenience, the people are not II
the rule had required the attendance of every
member, to make quorum, and one of the Is
had chosen to 60 home week before the end Of
the session, would the absence Of that single
member dissolve the legislature: Answer US
that, Mr.. Dogberry!
The Democrat has got up little, breeze abou,
Minnesota politics in the Dubuque Express, by
rubbing itself against that journal, and purrng
about its legs like a tabby- counting attention.
The remarks which it has thus coaxed out Of the
Express, the Democrat heralds as "public opinion
outside" The Democrat is great at playing
echo. ..,.f
The Democrat besmears Saint Anthony with
one Of IFS nauseous pus, for liberaity, in raising,
as that print says. "$l5 ,O0!'' toward erecting u
College sum insufficient to build the sma Hest
kind of college. We have heard from sources
more reliable. that ST. Anthony has raised at least
fifteen hundred dollars for University buildings.
The Yankee, on Tuesday evening, arrived with
many passengers and little news, but bringing up
terrible thunderstorm, which ragged until We'd
nesday morning.
The Harisses have on the way up here, we
learn, the famous steamer Lady Franklin, to run
twice week from Galena to St. Paul and back
If 90, she will be enough for her consort the Dr..
Fran lin and the Old Doctor beside.
ARRAY At THE MOUTH OF GRANT RIy
ER.-Robert Wilkinson was shot by William
Kemey, yesterday, near the mouth Of Grant river,
Wisconsin, in consequence of the refusal an the