The Minnesota pioneer. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. Territory) 1849-1855, 1851-12-18

nohl,. one the other day, and scnt us piece Of
it. veniscn begins to be offered in our market;
bu, VIVA, will people abroad think, when We in
form them that the price is tvs elvc and half cents
per pound?
PorrRY.--Wo publish ihis week, some verses
that the fair writer lives ia our own Territory,
upon the banks Of the Mississippi
CoLD.-I.ast Friday morning, the ,hermomc-
ter indicated five degrees below zero On Satur-
Day morning, i, was down 10 Is degrees below.
WOMAN BURNr.--I.ast Friday night, col
ored woman, living Il, the corner Of Fifth and
Cedar streets, ST. Paul, caught FIRE by her clothes
and was dangerously burnt on her bacS, while
sleeping in bed with candle burning at the bed
side She is an Industrious, faithful woman,
named Cornelia; AMI was for a long time do
mestc ., the Central House.
The INDIAN TRApE.--S. Desnoyer, who
keeps pubii, house between ST. Paul AMI ST.
Anthony, was arrested last Friday, for selling
whisaey to the Indians. We learn tina, iniorma-
ton psains, him, was lodged by man whom
Dcsnoyer had employed as barkeeper.
w. w. WARRrN.--If any wish to know the
true character Of this individual, they viii do
well to read Mr.. Boutwcils letter, in tue Mime
so,iau of last Saturday Mr.. Boutwell, is too well
known in Minnesota, as man Of truth and IN
.werying integrity, to require ANY Endorsement Of
h- statements.
THE Fourth SrxEEr SEwEK.-Ths i'm
mediate obisI ia contracting this expensive
work, which is stone acqueduci six or seven
feet wide by seven feet deep, covered with II
stons arch, is to maks q passage for tho water
under the street, as this street passes down
through a ravin., from Roberts street TO the bot
tom where the lower landing is situated, under
the bridge TINT il on Jackson street. This street,
with the acqueduct under it, when properly gra
ded from Roberts street TO Sibley street, at the
Zoo, Of the ravins, will afford very easy way Of
access to tn. lower landing. In fact the hill will
be hardly perceptible. The acqueduct will also
serve as the main sewer, for all the branch sew
erage Of the lower end Of town. Tn, work is
now being vigorously prosecuted under the ditec-
ton Of Lot Moffet, one Of the men who when he
does thing, does il with all his might.
GRADING FoUKrA STREET THROUGH
The BANK OF THE PLATEAU.-Thisw work
is being carried on, III connection with The sewer
age ana grading Of tbs same street down through
the ravine at the east end Of the street, no. only
because ough; to be done, for the sako of OPEN
ing from ono end Of town TO the other, The most
important avenue in town, bat also bccans. lie
rock excava.ei there, are wanted for the con-
<truction Of the acqueduct o. sewer. An i'm
msnse quantity Of ine rock have been excavated
and much more rom1ins to be excavatcd, TO CON-
plete The grade, which will extend as fur up the
plateau Is Cedar street. h is Row demonstrated
thai the whole Of the plateau or upper bench o!
ST. Paul, covering area Of pethaps Il mile, is
vast quarry OF rocks, lying in regular, uniform
strata, Z, depth Of less than two feet from the
surface--rock of excellent quality fur building.
1t Is no longer problenatical, that the principal
material for building town here, the cheapest
and the bes, material, will be rock, quarred on
The spot where buildings are to be erected. BY
opening quarry large enough, rock can be taken
out in any quantity desired, varying in thickness
that it is necessary TO break them, before they
can be removed from the quarry. We have seen
rocks taken ont Of this quarry ten feet long by
seven feet wide. Two or three feet of the top of
this formation, consist Of thin, shelly rock, mix
ture Of lime and sand; but which contains lime
enough when burnt. to make good strong NOR
tar.
TRIUMrH OF DAGUERREAS Aar.-Ths
artist who so long tried in vain, by deepening the
perspective, TO get front view of one of our
longest nosed citizens, into case, without break
ing the glas, Of the case Oh the protruding nose
Of the picture, has at last triumphed by snbsii-
tutns for the common dit glass, one Of Spicer's
very convex watch crystals, TO cover the face Of
tho miniature.
PtSERIEs OF THE MIssIssIPPr.-As the
numbering hitherto, of the ST. CroiS as well as Of
St, Paul and St. Anthony, has been chiefly con-
fined to the banks of Rum river, single tribu-
tary Of The Mississippi about $50 miles long,
which has its source in the highlands between tho
valleys Of the st. Croix and Mississippi, we have
learned bu, little Of the real extern, Of the pine
ries, further up the Mississippi. BY conversation
with gentleman who is familiar with the river
as FAR up as Pokugoma Falls, we learn that for
about so miles below those fills, the Mississippi
river rolls through dense fores, Of pines. Those
pine lands are still unceled by the Chippewa In
dams. There ought TO be a treaty made for all
the Chippewa lands east Of the Mississippi, in
GLIDING the rich copper mines bordering on Lake
Superior, the timber lands on Mile kac and Sau-
dy and Leech Lakes, and all the piueries above
u.s. All the Indians Of the Northwest ought to
be removed west Of the Mississippi river, and
have set apart to them forever, the country west
of the river and north Of line extending from
the month Of Crow river to the Mississippi, good