The Minnesota pioneer. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. Territory) 1849-1855, 1852-10-14
Varieties.


FILLING UP.-The La Crosse Times says
that emigration is filling up every neIghborhood
in the vicinity of that place.
We infer that La Crosse is ambitious TO con-
slider herself in the neighborhood of Minnesota
DAWN OF THE MILLENIUM.-The N. T..
Tribune says il is understood that the Rev. Ru-
fus w. Griswold, ID. d., Of that city. has be-
come associated with Mr.. James Gordon Bennett
as one of the editors Of the Herald.
Poisonous CuLoRoroRM c. Il. Jack
son Of Boston, states that choroform made from
common corn, rye, and potato whiskey, is pols-
onous, and the cause of the many deaths which
have occurred from the Of this agent.
MURDER AT KEoKUK.--We learn from
Judge Brown, of Eliza beth, who came up yester-
day on the Badger State, that man named
Thomas Conner was murdered at keokuk, last
Saturday night, by two others. whose names were
not remembered. The parties were all stone
cutters. There had been some disagreement
about job. The two called upon Conner, and
he went aside; some words passed, when one
struck him, and the other drew a knife and in
flicted terrible wound in the abdomen, Of which
he died in IA short time .-[Gal. jeff.
RIoT.--On the I'd inst riot occurred at La
Sale between the Irish and German aborers on
the railroad at that place. The military were
called out, and 81 of the rioters arrested and
lodged in jail.-[b
The marble Guarres in Vermont are becoming
important; $4OO. 900 worth Of stone was sold
from one of them the last year. Statuary mar
Bile, SAID TO equal the aan, has been obtained
A successful trial of Phillips fire annihIlator
has been made at Utica, N. Y. which is attested
to by the mayor, city government, and other mag
mates of that place.
Gov. Slade arrived yesterday morning, accom-
panied by thirteen young ladies', teachers for
schools IN various parts OF the West -Four were
destined for Wisconsin, one for Dubuque, one re-
turned 10 seine town in Michigan, and seven left
IN last evenings packet for the South aud South
west.-[St. LOUIS Dem. Press.
The Governor has heretofore. indirectly done
something for the next generation in Minnesota.
lie seems now to have left US; as Mr.. Webster
said The mill girls Of Lowell ought to be lef-to
perform deslinies with such means as we have
Of our own.
1t Is said that there has been remarkable i'm
provement in the morals of the Wing party OF
late, as evidenced in the fact that they no longer
bet on elections. sob, no, we never bet, is
their motto IN this Canvass. - Gal. jeff.
We regret 10 learn that Richard Frothngh afn
Jr., Mayor of Charie>town, and associate editor
oil the Boston Post is dangerously III with the
brain tever.-[ Dos Cour.
An ingenious mechanic Of Nashua, n. IT,, has
invented "a new method Of driving circular saws
without an arbor. With arranged as H.
has II. four foot saw will cut a board three and
one hall feet wide, while now arranged, four
foot saw will hardly cut one and one half feet. -
1t Is also arranged 50 that it will cut when the
carriage is going either way, and WILL at the same
time, saw nearly twice as fast.
Senator Benton is urging in the National Intel
ligencer, the construction of his great plan Of ii
central road from ST Louis to California; he is
opposed to the Garay grant of right Of way over
lehuantepec, aS perpeluated upon the Mexican
Government, and ne is against Gov eminent max
Ing appropriations 10 naval steamships Less than
one tenth part of the annual sum now squander-
cd upon steamers he SAYS. would open a
wagon way from the frontiers of Missouri TO CAL
ornia, which could be finished with hree hun
dred laborers, IN one year, and made passable for
stages IN twenty days.
LANCASTER, Pa Sept 20
The celebrated -Erohaut, John Wise. has re-
turned 10 this place, having recently made his
lUJth ascension at Cleveland, Oiiio, during the
State Agricultural Fair. He Is now prep ,ring his
mammoth balloon, Hercules for the purpose of
testing the practIcabity of an aera voyage across
the Atlantic. Several gentlemen Of New York
and Philadelphia have raised the sum of > 900
to defray the expenses of an experimental tip
from 81. Louis to Philadelphia or New York -
The voyage, It Is SAID, can be accomplished in
fifteen hours. II will soon be attempted
Henry Ware. Of Cincinnati, took the first pre-
MUM for philosophical and telegraph instruments,
and p. McCormick of Pittsburgh, the first pre-
MUM on cut nails.
Professor Makes, Of New Jersey, delivered the
annual address.
Among the patents granted the week ending
September Z, was one 10 :. w. Abee, Of Wal
pole, n. H., for Improvement in apparatus for
feeding chichens.-[Ex.
We have no fear that this viii interfere with
the invention Of our friend the Rev Mr.. Day, of
Cleveland, which we had the pleasure nspec-
ting at the Ohio State Fair. Ills Is a real chick
en- treasure, constructed, that their food is en-
trely protected from all depredatonS, and yet the
chickens can feed themselves whenever they
choose He went East for six weeks, and left his
chickens with no feeder but his machine. and
when he returned found them in good order We
60 for Mr.. Days chicken 6xlng.-IN Wheel Ga
THE DEAD on THE PLAIys.-Col. George F.
Bodget who has Just reached st. Joseph from the
plains, has furnished the Gazette of that place with
list containing the Names time of death. and former
residence OF some $50 persons. whose gtavCS he saw
the roadside, on the North side Of the Platte. be-
tween Devils Gate and the Missouri river. There
many graves of the road he did see; the ma
jorIt, who died buried the different carnpinr
places, sometimes four or FIVE miles of the main trail
He describes the along the entire road rs truly
heart rCnding; from the imperfect manner in which
the dead are buried, the wolves scent and dag