The Minnesota pioneer. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. Territory) 1849-1855, 1852-05-20
MINNESOTA krrA1ns.
TIE TIGER

IN REAL EsTArE. GRoeNTH OF THE Town.
/ The New ADDITION rd SrIILw ATEn.-ln
the rear 81 the beautiful Village Of Saltwater,
which neslles under the hi sides at the head Of
Lake -. Crclx, IN our Tert ,ory, is lake Of con
siderable extent, high upcnihe b.uh. This lake
has It's outlet through the Village, into Lake ST.
Csoix, down through raviic OF gorge IN the hills,
which composed Of sanA and gravel; and the
latle stream running from ID is carried high up,
across the village, IN trough, and propels large
oyeIshot wheel that dives The machinery of Nc
kusicl's saw mill, in the iyiilage, on the lake
shore. The recent heavy r;ins, raj ed the waters
+ of the lake back Of town vety much, and satura-
ted the hills nh water; add sent down through
The rayne, mighty vonm! of water. Early IN
the morning Of Friday last, lhe villagers were
awakened by heavy, tushEn, noise; and look
ing out, saw an Immense rider of melted earth.
slowly coming down through tie ravine, earth,
sand and gravel dissolved II water. and bearing
Islands OF trees along, rolling ana struggling along
with su.'en roar, spreading wider its current as
il emerged from the hills siINly spreading over
al! obstacles, buryiny one OF two stables, nearl,
IN sand and gravel, crossing 1.-THE street and Cling
/ M'Kusicl's mil, half full Of ieposiis-rnoying on
ward INTO Lake ST Cron tnd deposlting there
some eight ten acres Of nav terra iifn,l in the
lake, and making not Only ! permanent addition
Of much land to the town, tu, $50 an excellent
steamboat landing, at the edge of the new en-
bankment. In one Of the blrns which was over
hoWed, there were two HOSES, which, TO save
their lives, bad struggled inl scrambled up, to
keep out OF sand and water finnns into their sta
bic and saved their lives OILY by hanging upon
the Danger with their fore heys; they had to b.,
taken cut over the girt. Soile cows in stable,
were saved with much difficulty. Some half a
dozen houses were buriedl Altogether it was
"A very extraordinary moved bent in real estate
ard we think will permanently advance the in
tercSts OF Saltwater.
"WHo owns THE NIGE ER"'--We would
not do our neIghboy of the Democrat, the least in
justice /, IS doubtless trud, as he says, that in
point Of )orm, or if you pIoajc, in point of legal
fact ('vhich often means fctpn) that our neigh
Dor never otCaei the old VIA! Chronicle, in the
technicQl sense Of ownership, until a few days
before the appearance of the last Number Of that
pa per; but still, Us he advaiicel 10 a mere man
OF straw, who was the ostensihlc purchaser of the
press, all the money to pay for ii; and as the
press itself was the only security for the repay
ment of he $1,000, loaned by BIN for the pur-
chase of iI--and as, by has own showing, the
press was actually sold and delivered to hun, be-
fore the issuing Of the last Number, we can only
say, viewing the matter most !avorabiy, that while
Il IS true, as we cannot doubt, upon his own evil
deuce that the publisher Of the Democrat was
not the literal pUbshcr Of the Chronicle, vet such
was the relation Of dependence and Obligation
and necessity, tha, both papers III ght just as wei!
have been issued by man; and the Chronicle
was about independent suffrage in France
And eventually, ii so turned ont that the Chron-
Gle came into The possession Of the proprietor Of
! the Democrat, and was sod by HIN; whether it
came TO be his egitimately or not, we ne ither
know nor care; at any rate it was all in the fam
ily Who first got the press, the affair With Ohm
stcd, is Of no consequence. lie nalliy concluded
il was his, whoever bought il. At any rate, i,
was caught in his trap. Thai finally settled The
question 'wh> owns ii ;" That is what the
Democrat looked al, rather than at lis well known
alliance, through the Chronicle, with SO base
fraction Of The Wing party Of Minnesota. Upon
The most charitable construction, our neiyhbor's
perP'eAity and doubt about the real ownership Of
the Chronicle, seems TO have been finally resolved
in favor of his own title. The Iulniary he Wa.
IN, seems very well illustrated b. the following
anccdoc, for which, The Detroit Daily ADVERT
ser is responsible: "a shrewd Yankee, pere-
srinaiing through the South on a voyage of adj
venture, cane to The Irritation of a widow lady,
well to do in the world, who had an only daugh-
ter. After tarTying few days. the Yankee and
the maiden became mutually pleased witt, each
other, the latter remarked TO him that if he liked
the daughter well enough to marry her, he might
stop and become tho manager Of her estate. The
bargain was closed, the nup,iaIs We're consumma-
ted; but the Yankee was more surprised than de-
| lighted about three months after the wedding to
be presented with an heir, whose complexion and
har indicated a paternity not purely Caucasian.
The husband started for Nash, lie. ard LAYING the
case before a lawyer, waited for an answer 81
can obtain a divorce for you, said the lawyer,
upon proof Of the facts stated without delay
"a dvorce!' sand the Yankee, "who said any,
thing about divorce! What waited to know
was: Hto owas the niggei? That's what
look al -
DIppLEp.--Most Of our iumbermen, have sub
mitled To pay Mr. Fillmore one bit per thousand
slumpage aud pine logs We would have sooner
seen him in The remo,est possible place from
heaven.