The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1852-07-31

her trip up last Friday and Saturday,
machinery out of order, getting aground,
&c. The Nominee beat her into St.
Paul some four hours, making much bet
ter time than most people supposed she
could this low water, and again proving
that those who pronounce her slow, or
even an ordinary running boat, do her
great injustice. She crowed loudly when
she came in. But it was her turn to suf-
fer next time. Coming up on Wednes-
day morning, she grounded between four
and five o'clock, on Pigs Eye bar, four
miles below St. Paul, where she laid all
day. The Newton, which had left Gale
ma nine hours and ten minutes behind
her, came along side of her at six O'Clock,
had the luck not to stick hard, and pass
ed over with shout and hurrah, of
course. The Newton left Galena at ten
minutes past eight Monday evening, and
arrived at 81. Paul, ten minutes past sew
en-. Wednesday morning. When we
mention the time of boats leaving Galena,
we wish it understood we always set
down the exact hour, as given by passen-
gers Of the respective boats upon which
they travel. The time of arrival here,
of course, we note ourselves. We wish
to represent the matter fairly, and with
out prejudice 10 either side. The fierce
opposition now going on between the
Nominee and Newton is deprecated by
many, and not few refuse to travel on
either of them, but wait and take the 9TH
er boats at higher prices. Nevertheless,
we have the most unbounded confidence
in both Capt. Preston Lodwick, Of the
Nominee, and Capt. C. S. Morrison, of
. the Newton, as faithful and careful off,
GERS. In carrying out the instructions of
the owners Of their boats, they will not
meet with any accident, if they can help
it.
Will the editor of the Galena Advert
ser please inform us who Koleps" is ?
The charge put forth in his article head
ed West Newton Us. Nominee" is a
lie, so far as we are concerned, and we
should like to expose the perpefrator of
it. Who is he? No mincing of mat
tiers, friend H,ughton.
Chauncey Godfrey, the murderer of
his wife, wrote letter from Halls Land
ing, near Wabasha Prairie, to one of our
citizens the first of the week, stating
that he was there, and would return and
go to work, if it was advisable. The
letter was brought up BY the DR.. Frank
lin, Tuesday, whereupon three of our
citizens, Messrs. Dunwell, Cave and De
Weber. started down on the boat, and
succeeded in capturing the culprit. They
brought him mp yesterday by tho Camp
bell. He has been committed.
The hot weather of this month has
been severely felt all over the country.
Editors are growing awfully at the
warmth under which they are compelled
to indite their editorials, and talk of in
dieting the clerk of the weather. One
in New York lets out thus: "W-h-i-e-w!
ANY man who can deliberately sit down
and write editorials when the thermome-
ter is at 80, or Whereabouts, can meet a
dun with stoical Indifference, or 90 to
sleep and dream of angels while half a
dozen laundresses are scrubbing and
scolding in the next room" Another in
Massachusetts makes miserable attempt
at ALTERATION as follows: Yesterday,
says the Springfield Republican, was hot.
, Fat women felt fuzzy, and famed furi-
l ously. Lean women leaned languidly on
lounges, or lolled lazily like lilies on a
lake. Shabby, slipshod sisters sat silent
ly and sadly sweating in the shade, while
soiled and sozz'ing shirt-collars, and
: sticky shirts, stuck to such sap heads as
stirred in the sun. Babies bawled bust
: ly, and bit bobbins and bodkins till bed
l time. Literary gentlemen who under
) took severe task of ALTERATION became
. exhausted in the middle of a weather
paragraph, and gave it up for a cooler
day." Thursday morning our suAerings
in this quarter were relieved by a copi-
Gus thunder-shower, and during the day
enervated nature was braced up by a fine
breeze from the north. On Wednesday
= afternoon the thermometer, at different
exposures about town, stood at ninety
, eight in the shade!
Mr.. Sibley has taken the initiatory