The Minnesota pioneer. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. Territory) 1849-1855, 1851-05-01

creeping thngs,) span OF large dogs, harnessed
/ to wagon, used. we learn, by a Canadian, 10
peddle isil---a branch Of business which the Ca
madam is about to establish at Saint Paul
Around the hill sides surrounding our town, it
is gratifying to see many beautiful cottages and
other residences in progress Of building. Those
new houses will soon be surrounded with delight
fu gardens.
Armies of thin, feeble mosquitoes, begin to
make their appearance. All the indulgence we
crave of them is, that they will be as slow in
settling their bills as Secretary snill, is.
Saturday, 2 o'clock, p. NJ. A driving shower.
commencing with hail and high wind, and con-
tnnng with intervals Of sunshine, through the
afternoon. Fine for gardens, which our villagers
have now generally made, or are making, except
those who expect to rely upon the boats again This
Year for vegetables. Just think of buying your
lettuce and your cucunbers, behind the hot en-
CINE room of Il steamboat, instead of gathering
them from your own little garden at sunrise, with
the cool, fresh dew upon ,hem Make garden.
if it be not ten feet square,
AT the late term of the United States Court for
the FIRST Judicial District, Abran, nj. Frdley, Esq,
was admitted to practice Attorney and
Counsellor at Law, and Solicitor in Chancery of
said Court.
The Secretary is tr, ing TO convert some Of those
$50 drafts" into draughts of Dayton ale, and sun
dries, &C., SC, for the Historical Society, Sc
If he succeeds, there will be no more trouble
about getting them casied, and no need of credi-
tors longer dancing attendance upon him. His
only anxiety now, is to trump up offsets enough
TO cover over his defacations. He is very busy
now in trying 10 cover up his tracks Knowing
that he must 'walk the plank he is determined
to strip the safe of ITS contents. Sovereigns and
eagles stick like ticks to his hands; his fingers
act like loadst"nes upon specie, and he will draw
out every dollar, when he leaves, be it more or
less
BY direction Of the War Department, we learn
that the soldiers at Fort Smelling are INDUCED in
the privilege of farming upon garrison farm;
and that each soldier receives half the crop or its
equivalent. Farming is a delightful employment,
and It's praises have been sung, much to the same
tune, ever since The days of the Mantuan bard.
Bucocs are well enough to read in the shade,
but it takes muscle to raise corn. Farming is
fine thing when you "cGuse it to be DONE"
Is not the drill agricultural, a new feature in
military tactics Probably Government intends
to mould the habits Of the soldier into conformity
with the new law for bounty land warrants, which
requires every soldier when discharged, to turn
farmer for the sake Of enjoying the bounty of
Congress- inasmuch as he cannot sell his warrant
nor his land. Or perhaps Government intends to
train the 9th Infantry for miners and sappers
clusisely, and teach them the spade exercise, and
how 20 make an iatrenchmeat or throw up breast
,oorh with despatch, OF dig q grare with dexter
ity; having the advantage in implements, GER
tainly, over the British soldiers Cat the siege of
Acre:) in the duty Of sections, who buried Sir
John Moore:
--"darkly at the dead Of night,
The turf with their bayoRets turning
Speaking Of cutting blubber, or, that is to say,
in other words, "cuttng It rather fat" out Of the
Winneblgo annui,ics, we learn that Messrs. Rice,
Honshead and Becker, had their fees certified
by the District Court of Benton County, at the
moderate little sum of $1,000, for defending the
Indians who were there Indicted for assauing and
attempting to kill white man last summer al
are not all built yet. The Winnebagoes will soon
begin to comprehend the meaning Of fee-ionious,
if the Court permits their attorneys TO muct them
to the tune Of $1,000, in cases Of assault and
battery. The poor devils doubtless thought the
$1,000 was fine imposed by the Court, on sus-
picion of their guilt.
There should be "honor amongst thieves, -
thing impossible though, in the gainful partner
ship between the Secretary and characterization,
the thief Of time
We are indebted to Col. J. Robinson, of Gale
ma, for Giles of papers, but he canno. furnish US
We feel qualified now, after making full and
fair trial Of the beer made at Saint Anthony, to
pronounce it an excellent, wholesome beverage
II was impossible to judge Of its qualities, by
barely tasting it, in the little glasses in which it is
retailed at the bars in St. Paul; and so we have
made trial Of a cask Of it. 1t has vivacitv and
body enough, and cannot be considered small
beer, provided it is not taken from small tum-
Uers.
For the first time this season, that superb boat,
the DR.. Franklin, No. 2, came to our lcvee, one
week from st. Louis. Capt. Harris looks quite
renovated. Mr.. Montfort, clerk, was not there,
with his blooming cOuntenance; but his success
sor is fine fat portly looking man, weighing over
200 pounds, and will no doubt, nearly or quite
in the place Of Mr.. Mon,ior,, to wit, the Clerks
office.
In Saint Paul, com is now selling at 40 cents;
oats, As to soc; potatoes, 81 90; beans, SO 90;
-four $500: fresh beef 3 to IOc: butter l5c.