The Minnesota pioneer. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. Territory) 1849-1855, 1851-08-21

the unloading Of STEAMBOATS, ON Sunday, or sell
ing few glasses Of vhiskey on the same day I
There is Fourth Stree, to be opened and dozen
other streets to widen; but nothing is done but
talk. The marshal goes saillng about town like
schooner pitching about in a heavy swell; but
nothing is accomplished. As for the Ordinance
against unloading steamboats, on Sunday, ii i. the
most bigoted, absurd, senseless regulation ever
attempted since the enactment of the Blue Laws
Of Connecticut. We like quiet and good order
on Sunday much any body, and have done
all IN our power to encourage it. The force OF
public opinion and Of decency and pro-
pricty, not statutes and ordisances, have made
Saint Paul quiet orderly place on Sunday. But
here comes our potent Corporation, more rigid
than our Blessed Redeemer, and refuses TO let
Steamboat discharge her cargo here on Sunday,
though she may be sinking No matter if boat
has been delayed and reaches here Sunday
morning instead Of Saturday morning. she mus,
tie up "a hours, until Monday morning to unload,
and perhaps lose her mex: trip Or suppose the
last boat Of the season, Ca most Important arr
val) reaches here Sunday morning when the
river is freezing, She neither discharge nor
receive freight or passengers, until, perhaps, she
is locked in the ice the next morning.
Now is there any law that prohibits man from,
getting out of dilemma Sunday from doing
work Of necessity, anywhere else, even in Con-
nectcui' On the whole length Of The Mississippi
| pi, there is no other such steamboat regulation
and no such regulation can exist and be enforced
IN any business town the river. Steamboats,
must be somewhere on that day. Does our wise
corporation know that it costs every steamboat in
this trade, no, less than 800 to tie up for sin.
gle day Steamboats,, of late, have not often
been troublesome on Sundays. They are gencr-
ally very quiet. If boat does business here on
Sunday, it is only because she cannot avoid it,
for our boats all want 10 be popular; they know
we 60 TO meeting, and would rather see them any
other day of the week. Steamboats, have their
works of necessity, as well as other f,Iks. Does
any law prevent man from saving load of
wheat from the rain. by carting and stacking it
on Sunday! Next year, If our Corporation is
wiHiag. or certainly as soon as the year after,
there will be line of boats so as to make daily
arrivals at and departures from Saint Paul. Is
Sunday to be an obstacle VIII our Corporation
prevent ii In Boston and New York and every
other seaport on the Atlantic, more vessels de-
part on Sunday than any other day of the week.
Z When they can dispense with the Blue Laws
in the ports of New-Hayen and New-London, in
Connecticut, it appears to unnecessary TO re-
vive them in the port Of Saint Paul, new town,
in which Sunday has hardly yet become settled
resident We should like to any member of
this Corporation who voted for this Blue Law
coming home on a Steamboat, after an absence
Of two months from his family, the beat steering
| right straigh. by Saint Paul, with him and his
goods on board) TO run up and discl, rye freight
for Saint Anthony and up the river (for the rea-
son that it would not be obs,ructed by Sunday }
The next morning the boat would run back to ST.
Paul. Would our member of the town Council
be on board Oh, no; he hired conveyance of
Sam. Fmdley, as The boa. touched at the
Fort, and made a Sabbath doy's journey down
10 see his wife and children at Saint Paul For
decency's sake, let this Ordinance be repealed
before another week
Under the appropriate head Of "Humbugs,'' the
Saint Anthony Express thus writes Of those SUI
perlative humbugs, Fowler & Wells, OF New
York, Psychologists, &c. (By the way, we learn
that Dr. Underhill, phrenologist, Sc, a very anu
sing lecturer in his way, is at San, Anthony, and
will lecture in Saint Paul. OF Fow Ter, the Ex-
press says:
''Ihe frst-named Of these partners, is the head
and soul Of the establishment Next to Barnum
he probably combines many qualities requisite
Tor the perfect bumbug, as any individual wing
The butt of his class in college, he has since ac-
CURED no little reputation chronological lee
tnrer, possessing certain fuency Of language,
coarse, it is true, and often vulgar, fund of fun
ny stories, and power Of ini.a ion, equal 10 the
most perfect Of the simia species If YOU 20 to
hear HIM lecture, you will certainly laush-have
jolly good time. He is never dull or tresome.
vi course, he never aims TO nsiruct-smpl, to
a'nuse, hls whole object being to transfer the quar-
ter from your pocket 10 his. He may be said to
differ from Barnum in this, that the latter fire.
qaenty humbags the public, solely from the en-
Joyment he derives from the process, the former,
solely ifom the love Of money!
The Express is receiving the encoura cement
which every vigorous enterprise desers es, and
says:
''Since last Monday the ith inst, we have re-
ceived EIGHTY-oNE new subscribers all South
and East of ST Paul, good proportion of whom
paid in advance"
The Express has been removed and has good
office in that fine new building with Mr. Stevens
store.
J. McAlpine, Esq, in the last Express, writes
thus:
"Ihc wheat shown You from the farm of
my friend, Mr. A. ID. Foster, who is considered
one of the most enterprising farmers in ST. Antho
ny. Not one in ten in looking at the sample of
wheat have in the office, but will pronounce Il
winter wheat. From the whole crop he expects
at least an average Of 80 bushels to the acre. He
says confidently, that he viii have rs bushels of
corn TO The this year, as on each stock there
are not less than two or ears Sweet Potatoes
on his farm are looking beautifully, The vines
could not look heaIthier''
Speaking of wheat we have 500, Iudga Foster