The Minnesota pioneer. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. Territory) 1849-1855, 1851-12-04

The Mnneso,ian has few lines written sin
Justice to the memory Of the departed Secretary"
as if the old scoandrel was dead. So he is,
s.dead in sin and iniquity;' but ''to do justice"
to such felons, lines not Drittsa but taoisted
CRossive OVER THE RIVER (with)
SrIcks.--On Sunday, Thomas j. Odell, with a
stick in has hands to try the ice, ventured ucross
the Mississippi; aud was soon after followed by
three other men, representatives Of the three
races; viz: white man, an Indian and negro.
THE WEArHER.--On Sunday The wind turn
ed into the South, and on Monday morning,
brought damp. chilling snow storm; still there
i, not SNOW enough for good sleishng.
CLERK or THE WEATHER OrFIcE.-It is
whispered about, in the wing lotteries, that if the
present incumbent of this office is to be removed,
J. w. Bond will receive the appointment; in
fact, he already discharges the most onerous du-
ties Of that office. such as taking invoices of ,hun-
der and lightning keeping an account current of
hailstones sent and received, winding up the Their
moneter, &c. Bot Mr. d. dsclams all agency
in the distribution Of days and the administration
Of the weather.
! THE CLOSING SCENE.--.it o'clock in the
morning, Friday the 28th, the ice came to halt,
choking up, like the Group, in the throat Of the
channel in front Of town, grinding, crushing,
wedgng in, until it could move no more. The
masses Of ice thickly running down from above,
fetched up against this stationary bridge Of ice,
all standing ding and budding into close
column; and in ten minutes, the whole mass stood
stationary as far as we could see up the river, on
both sides of the islands. And now, like some
venerable old patriarch, who died las! night of
the asthma the hoary Father Of Waters, lies COW
cred in his icy winding sheet; also ticking, COM
forters, and all sorts Of linen and wooden goods
for sale remarkably low, by all Of advertising
customers iF- See our new advertisements
every week.
BEATING 1T UP FINE.--No doubt the Mis-
sissppi river would close earlier here, but for the
fact that the masses of ice running from above,
are broken into atoms, in tumblng over the Falls
! Vi -t. iuiNtuS IL I'LL ut NJ AAoiuy
at the American Saloon, mixes the ingredients Of
a cold punch, by pouring the liquid stream from
tumbcr to tumbler.
THIRrY-oNE GEESE IN FLocx.-An ex-
change paper says: Governor Slade is again on
his way to Wisconsin with thirty young ladies for
School .Mstresses. Nice birds. They said
to be excellent for feather beds; but if we had
our pick of them, we should certainly pass the
old gander.
"YoU CAN'T RAISE GAVIN IN MINUs-so-
ia. You CAN'T LlvE!''-We have abundant
" proven that we can raise corn, all over Min
nesota; but suppose we could not! As an Illus
traton Of how easily life may be sustained in the
Polar attitudes, Surgeon Kane mestons that he
fell in with Dane over seventy years Of age
who had spent fifty -6ve years Of his life north o.
10 deg, subsistiug during that period entirely or
birds, fish. bears. and other animal food. He
had not seen vegetable the whole Of that time
TAKING THE RIGHT PAPER BY MISTAKE.
Our carrier, the other day, left the Pioneer, b,
uiShdHCb WIN eooA Oh'I "SCNiJ
prescription Of the Democrat. The man Of tn,
house, after reading the Pioneer through, callet
and subscribed for it; saying, that his agreeable
surprise on receiving the Pioneer, reminded hin
Of the anecdote Of an apothecary's boy, who wa
lately sent to leave at one house a bsx Of pills
aud a, another six live fowls. Confused on hi
way, he !en the pills where the fowls shoul,
have gone and the fowls at the pill place. TIL
FOLKS who received the fowls were a.tonished a
reading the accompanying drectons-"'Swallov
one every two hours"
l THE GRANARY OF THE NoRrH.-Govern
or Ramsey says, that in his trip to Pembina an
Red River, he saw great deal Of excelen
wheat, very fair and plump. resembling winte
= wheat; but thinks it was all spring wheat; an
that winter wheat has not yet been tried there
r The crops of spring wheat entirely satifac
h tory to the people. There can be no doubt how
ever, that winter wheat will be sure crop there
f as it has proved to be, thus far, uniformly, in
e these regions. The Galena Advertiser, speakin
d Of wheat sent from our neighborhood, says:
"Fine specimens of wheat are daily brougi
: into this city, which have been raised above,
Northern Iowa, along the borders Of Black, Chip
> peway and st. Croix rivers, aud other places
O Wisconsin, Iowa and Minnesota. Nliliers hav
- high opinion of its quality. The Upper Rive
). country, many are disposed to think, is destne
to be the '.Gennesee'' Of the West, and in tn
opinion of those qualified to Judge in the matter
!. in five years, the -four manufactured from tn
grain grown in that country, will be as famous
. that made from the wheat grown in the valley
IF the Gennesee. We suggest to farmers desirou
of making change of seed, to try this up riv.
wheat. Ii may be had in this city, by applyin
/ in season. The kind known as the Red Rv,
J., wheat, yielded remarkably well for a few season
until it run out, and it would seem worth viii
to try that from the Chippeway Or St. Croix."
'PAY you SIR, AFTER THE INDIAN PA,
MENT."-We never heard Of an Indians pa,
ing an old debt, out of the proceeds Of hts hun
RI he is honest, he gets credit for outfit of
munition, &C., for the hunt, according to his rep
;. tation for skill in hunting; and he brings in
), skins TO pay off that debt; but never pays ar
r. thing his old debts, for balances due on form