The Minnesotian. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. Territory) 1851-1852, 1851-10-29
Facts and Fancies.

Uncle Sans operation of setting his
gallant soldiers to raising potatoes, does
not appear TO work very well, at least at
Fort Smelling. The boys were made to
plant four hundred bushels the past sea-
son, and, we understand, harvested but
serenity bushels. No rot of any account
was amongst them at that, and the ground
is highly fertile. This shows bad farm
ing under bad system, and we hope the
whole thing will be abandoned for the flu
turc. The yield amounts to about five
potatoes per man, each week, during the
winter, which is all they will get as this
branch of their rations. Their cabbages
turned out somewhat better, an acre
yielding about 10000 pounds.
MINNESOTA YET Hardy a week
passes that we are not called upon to re-
cord some triumph Of the soil of our young
and beautiful Territory in the field and
garden. Amonster cabbage, large enough
to fill a wash-tub-provided the tub isn't
too large, of course-raised by Mr.. G. C.
jerks, on Coon Creek, has been sent us
within the last few days. 1t can't be beat.
BY the way, friend jerks has Just open
ed house at Coon Creek, as our readers
will see by his advertisement, where he
will be happy to see all who may favor
him with call. Mr.. jerks is staunch
Whig.-& .f'lhony Express.
Big beets, cabbages, carrots, onions,
parsnips, potatoes, pumpkins, ruta bagas,
turnips, &c., flock so thick and fast upon
us, that we can't begin to notice half of
them. Since our last, we have a ruta ba-
ga from the farm of MIR. Russell, at Sank
Rapids, eighty miles north of 81. Paul,
weighing twelve pounds, and another, left
at our office by George Wells, from gar
den in our town, weighing fifteen pounds!
We have also seen a cabbage from the same
gentleman mentioned by the Express, that
would cut close on towards half-barrcl
of hrouf! Two red bects in the possess
sion of Major Iixson, weigh jointly Mir-
fy-eigt pounds. They were raised at St.
Anthony city. What next?
VIM. II. Wood, Esq, the recently cleo
ted Prosecuting Attorney of Benton coun-
ty, did not allow his name to he used as
party candidate. He was voted for and
elected by the People of that region aside
from political considerations.-M. .4qlho-
ny Express.
Promotions seldom follow sooner than
in the case of Mr.. Wood. He had been
in the Territory but four days when cleo
ted. He has settled permanently at Sank
Rapids; and, Judging from a slight ac-
quantance, he will make a most faithful
and efficient officer.
The Democrat, in noticing recent re-
movals in Minnesota, inquiries:
elbow is it that the chief offender of
them all, the man who has bartered his Of
fetal influence to Pierre Chotcau, Borup
and Sibley, whom every body knows to be
Governor Ramsey, has escaped? 20
The "how" Of the matter is, that no
one but you, and your master, and few
Of your own and his hov-Iers, ever made
any such foolish charges and the Presi-
dent knows, as well as you do, that they
are falsehoods, coined to suit your own
pccuniary purposes.
The Shawncetown, (Ill.) Argus wish
cs all exchange from Minnesota. If we
thought the sending of our paper into that
ague stricken land would be the means of
inducing the inhabitants TO flee to heal
thy country, we would comply. The
longest we ever stopped in that region
was while a steamboat wooded" and
then it took three of the deck hands to
hold the owner of the yard from shaking
TO pieces until he could tell the clerk the
price Of the wood.-.Winnesotidn.
Our object in desiring an exchange
from that frozen region was to ascertain
the whereabouts of our departed friend of
the wood yard, who stopped here for
short season on his winding way TO Min
nesota. His shaking propensities were
the result Of large boulder of ice which
he had been wearing on his stomach, for
the purpose of gradually acclimating him
self to the frigid regions of Minnesota
When last heard from he was calmly
medltating the Falls of St. Anthony with
long icicle pending from the extremity
of his probosis, praying to old Sol for
thaw.-MawneetOlrn Argus.
We have Just had visit from the