The Minnesota pioneer. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. Territory) 1849-1855, 1852-07-29

WERD TO PARENTS IN Sr. rAUL.-Ierhaps |
YOU are aware that there is free school, the lower
landing in st. Paul. where your children can be
taught all peccudloes and vices, from lying and
profnc swearing up the her calendar OF crimes
You have on, to turn your children out there, with
the est,--et them go wild along the docks in the
water and ont of it, sort of amphibio1s condition,
for few months snaching irregular meals or little
smber at home by nigh. and away to the dock again.
They will soon be beautiful graduates every one OF
them with diploma from the Devil Oh, but this
is great institution, these free American schools,
along the shores Of the Mississippi!
AFLoUR Mill AT SAUK RAPIDS, BENTON
CoUNrY.-Dr. Borup, who is behind no man III ma
king and introducing improvements really beneficial
| to the Territory, has bought and sent up to Sank
Rapids, one of Todd's celebrated patent Touring
mills, to be propelled at present by horse power
There is now encouragement for our neighbors in
Benton County, devclope the capacity of their
cell-nt land for wheat. 1t will be great thing for
all that region, to produce and manufacture all their
own wheat. This they would have done so before now
but Cor want Of mills. BY next year Dr1 Borup de-
signs to build good Touring mill, to be propelled
! by the water of the Mississippi, at Sank Rapids
water power unsurpassed by any other we have ever
seen.
BENroN AND CAss CoUNrIEs.--Somc jackan-
apes in the 81. Anthony Express, is trying to make
ont that the st. Paul press never says anything for
the upper Msssissipp lie must be little better than
Ounce who tries palm off such silly stuff for fact.
: h., ,lo J,v ,oJ h,
innumerabl,, making that region of Territory
known, before there was any st. Anthony Express
nay We will prove by the files of the Pioneer, that
there is not fact or an event, connected with the
history and condition of Benton and Cass Counties,
of any Importance, since this Territory was organ
zcd tlaat has not been chroncled with more detail
and scrupuous accuracy in the Pioneer, than it
either has been could have been, any such sort
of newspaper the st. Anthony Express.
! RAIL ROAD TO LAKE SUPERIoR.-The time
will be- and that too, before many years, when Lake
Superior will be connected with the Mississippi iv-
er b. railroad. We predict that will be in five
years and seven months; and that its terminus on
the Mississippi river, will be between the Lower
Landing in ST Paul. and the mouth of Trout Brook
"a natural, easy avenue tn the river. This town
will then contain not less than 10000 people This
viii then be avenue of summer travel, utterly
incredible. One of the most sagacious men in the
/ West was here last week and bought lots in Kit
sons addition St. Paul, the amount Of $1,000 90
for which he paid ali cash. The same man bought
a lot here, in Aug. 1915, for about $50 90, which
he gets annual ground rent from, of 500 90,
lease of five years. The lease could be sold
at handsome premium. There as more croptA N
kMson's addition for the neat years. than in any
other property we know Of. The low price at whics.
lots there selling. added the con,m,andn. nat
ural position for business purposes, is bound to at
tract to it an abundance of capita, for investment, for
grading, filling, building, and all purposes requisite
to make it the business part of st. Paul.
| WEATHER AND MARKETs.--'The weather con-
tnucs very warm; the river is still falling; but boats
have particular difficulty. The Excelsior discharg-
ed an immcase freight Monday, never having
stuck her passage up We look for much lower
water. yet.
we .,a,,n,e tue ,oo~ng quotations Of retail price,
! in ST. Pau
cheese, To-; lard, 12c; taIow candles IL to l5c; ;
flour SS1.5o to Sab fresh beef, &c to l0c pork
&c to 10; lumber, common boards, Sl2; dried APP
pies, S2.75; board, common, 800 per week; board
at hotels BY the day, $sI.O0.
LADoR.--Thcre is not person in ST. Paul. who
cannot make good living, by good old fashioned
honest labor. Whenever you show lis man who
complains of onr Territory and says ''this is hard
country to live n,'' we will show YOU person who
is either too lazy take hold Of manual labor or too
proud to live upon his actual earnings and real
income. A town Territory, must 1uo1uce some
thing. Labor is the thing. people more
raise themselves into opulcncc, without actual pro-
duction, than beggar raise himself into a
pceragc, by pulling at his shirt collar Speculation
won't do-buyins and selling is not the thing-traf
Ticking and trading and swapping n, Won't do 1t
takes muscle and toll and sweat, labor wisely directed
and vigorously applied. to produce wealth, or those
things that wealth will purchase
DIsTRICT SCHooLs-Trrth compels rs to say.
that there is not building in all st. Paul, fit to be
called District school house. The only building
known such, is hardly fit for a horse stable
There was another miserable substitute for school
house, on Bench sereet, belonging the upper Dis
trict; but that was sold the other day, satisfy
mortgage OF less than $500 co. All this in an opu-
lent town. swarminy with children, little ,u,tareht
hrats swarnng about the streets and along the lcvce
in utter idleness, like wharf rats. All this in town
too, that boasts of half dozen steepcd churches If
ST. Paul not priest ridden town, it is in fair
way to be. This is blunt homely truth; but We
arc perfectly Indifferent who dislikcs it.
NEWSPAPER AT POTOsI WIscONsuN.-We
never knew What become Of the old Republican,, at
Potosi; but here is very fine looking, new, Demo-
cratic paper, just commenced at Potos, by David &
Robert NJ kee What surprises us, is, that town
that boasts OF exporting annually 5000, 900 pounds
of lead, does not give its only respectable newspaper
50 much column of mercantile advertisements,
ARRIVAL OF THE RED RIVER TRArN.--An
advanced party of the Red river train has reached