The Minnesota pioneer. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. Territory) 1849-1855, 1852-03-25
MINNESOTA AFFAIRS.

HOME PRoDucTIoN: POLITICAL EcoNo-
My.-Ihe secret Of wealth is large produc-
lion and small expenditures. Whatever
we can produce in the Territory, it is money
saved in the Territory to buy here. Ii is
better to pick bu>he of cranberries than
to buy load Of pine apples. For instance,
if a nan here has S 90 TO expend in works
OF fiction, there is no propriety or economy
IN sending off for Sinbad the Sailor, Nun
chausen, the Arabian Nights, or Paul De
kock's novels. Let him go and subscribe
for the Minnesotian aud the Democrat.
HE SoNs.-We learn that some of the
freternity are fearful, if cur liquor law is
enforced, their vocation will be gone and
there will he no more use for further ssiniii
ations." They are some like a righteous
man we read of, good deacon, at a con-
ference meeting near Boston, who address
ed his auditors one Sabbath evening as fol =
lows: "There is new doctrine going about
nowadays. We are told that all mankind
are going to Heaven. But, my brothers
and sisters, we hope for better things
STAGES TO ST. ANrHoNY-Messrs. Patti
son s. Benson, have ordered two new coachas
large, elegant carriages, the best that can be
manufactured in Concord, n. II :, to run as stages
between St. Paul and St. Anthony. Travellers
will find Benson right clever, obligins man.
who performs all that he promises. There is no
lou,h i,l,,r ohs,fip,r L., al
SON. His livery horses, are none of your hnk
spawned, ne-boned, foundered, half-hpped
wheeling, hoof-bouad, knock-kneeI, g,mbrel-
legged, sore-beaded, sladowy animals, that look
as ifthey had just come lim?ing out ofthe Apoc-
aIypse--the progeny of tn. Pale horse described
in Revelations, which "Death and He'll followed
AFTER
TAILoRs.--i, is good thing Tor people TO 20
10 their tailors and get THEN clothes made. Let
our mechanics live. Tai!ors must have a living
well as other folks. They are modest men.
who do not, to be sure, like Boomers, "punt for
notoriety;' but who 10 pant fa money We
have now several good establishments of the k ind
in town.
DUEUQuE AND PEMBINA RAr1RoAp.-
There was railroad meeting away back some
where in Iowa, in place which nobody ever be.
fore heard of, held in pursuance of notice given
at the Dubuque Railroad Convention. Captain
John A. Wakefield, late of ST. Paul, author of
the Black Hawk War, the Early Pointed Style
and an unpublished novel, was President Of the
Convention. Amongst other resolutions, was the
following:
Resolved, That railroad from Dubuque to
Pembina should pass through Yves, Union md ST.
Paul, and these points are nearly in direct line,
and IT would traverse country rich in mineral.
unsurpassed in fertility, and redundant in re-
sources for its construction.
Geo. Madeira, Of Dubuque, and Col. Hughes
Of Willowriver, do not appear to have been pres
ent; and we are apprehensve that the railroad
will not be built this year. Their absence from
the Convention, reminds us of the following anec-
dote: western N. Y. farmer, wrote as follows
10 a distinguished scientific agriculturals,, 10
whom he felt himself under obligation for intro
ducing a new variety of swine:
heSpeCtSH SH.-t went Yesterday 10 the falr
at NJ; found several pigs Of your species, there
was very great variety Of beasts and was very
much astoashed at not seeing you there ~
CROMWELL ON THE MAINE LAw-The op-
ponents Of the Maine Law, are not probably aware
tina, they can fall back upon the opinion of SO
great man as Oliver Cromwell The following
is an extract from letter written by the sturdy
old Puritan to the Governor of Edinburg Castle,
in 1854:
''Your pretended fear lest error should step in,
is like the man who would keep ali the wine out
Of the country, lest men should become drunk /
1t will be found unjust and unwise jealousy to
deprive man Of his natural liberty, upon suppo-
'ition that he may abuse it, When he doth abuse
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