The Minnesotian. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. Territory) 1851-1852, 1852-02-28

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words. Of that inimitable darkey,' we
ask you to 'propel, and fro you SELF
upon de subjec' OBJ 'lucidatin' de same :
Had ST. PETER lived before the Deluge,
and been present at the escape from Sod
ON, would he, like the over-curious Mrs.
LOT, have looked back? And s'posin'
he had looked back, would he have been
changed into pillar of salt, or salt-PE-
TER? And if the latter, would he have
exploded?' 'E'yah e'yah! OATS what
are want to know!'
AS we expected, the Democrat refuses
TO publish Judge Thompson's letter, and
misrepresents the true construction Of it.
The writer of the letter does not say, as
charged by the Democrat, that his opin-
ion was formed hastily. On the contrary,
he intimates quite the reverse, and speaks
of his deliberate action in the committee
room upon the organic bill, before it was
passed.
Those Of our citizens who contemplate
going East this spring will perhaps find
the following programme ofthe new route,
by way Of the Michigan Southern Rail-
road, interesting. We can speak know
ingly of that portion of the staging
which lies between Toledo and Mon
roeville. 1t is over one Of the best
Macadamized roads in the United States:
Leave. Chicago at 10 A. NJ, in stage
coach, over a very bad road, and in about
twelve and half miles, the railroad is
reached; and going aboard the cars, ar
rive at Michigan city late in the after
noon. Those going to Detroit lie over
till morning. Those taking the direct
route to Duukirk, leave Michigan city
after tea in an omnibus, and proceed over
decent road, twelve miles to La Porte,
stay over night, and the following morn
ing take the Michigan Southern cars for
Toledo, which is reached the evening of
the same day. After tea the stage is Ia
ken, and we proceed up the banks Of the
Maumee, passing Maumee city, Perrys-
burg, and the Black Swamp, and Monroe
vile is reached in the morning, in season
to take the cars for Cleveland, say 9
o'clock. Then take the Sandusky and
Mansfield cars and proceed to Shelly;
there change into the Columbus and
Cleveland cars, and reach the latter
place in time for tea and stay over night.
At 10 o'clock the cars are ready for
Painsvile, 81 miles, which is reached by
dinner time. Here the stage is taken
for Quincy, 20 miles east of Erie, a
route of between IS and 70 miles, over
one of the worst roads in the country.
From Quincy, a ride of an hour and a half
by cars, brings us to Dunkirk, and the
hardship Of the journey is over.
The strength of the ice of the Mississ-
ippi at this. place would scarcely be cred
tied. A pier, composed of pen of logs
thirty by forty feet, and thirteen feet
high, filled to the top and heaped up with
stone, has been built uponit by the Miss
issippi Boom Company, a mile or two
above St. Paul. The ice has only set
tied slightly beneath it, and shows no
signs of breaking. We presume the
pressure upon this surface of 1900
square feet is over fifty tons.
Every paper almost from the mines,
brings intelligence of new leads discov-
cred; and yet from the region of this
heart Of wealth, hundreds are seeking the
uncertainty of a California fortune. A
late number of the Galena Advertiser
says: BY note received in town last
evening, we learn that Messrr. Alfred
and Jackson Seward, have struck a cave
full Of mineral, west of the Sinsinnawa
Mound, about half mile south of Fair
play, Wis. The writer says he thinks
there is 100000 in sight.
Mrs. Sarah Coates Harris, who impart-
ed SO large share Of her useful knowl-
edge to the ladies of St. Paul and St..
Anthony last summer, has been lecturing
in Galena. The Advertiser says of her
lectures Crowds Of ladies flock to hear
her, notwithstanding the difficult naviga-
ton of Our streets, in some places. There
being will, they find way. The lee
lures will do good. A Mrs Davis is
now lecturing TO the ladies of Chicago, on
the same subject"
The politicians at Washington are still
busy in figuring out the presidential
problem. The Wings are moving harmo-
niously; and having but few candidates,
will not probably have much difficulty in
making up their minds who is the strong
est man. The following is an extract
from letter just Written home by Mr..
Paschal, one OF the editors of the St.
Louis Republican. After remarking. that