The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1852-05-15
Facts and Fancies.

place and Galena, and one boat through to
St. Louis. The Saint Paul, in all proba-
bility, will be the through boat, under the
command of Capt. Smith Harris. For
the present, only one boat will be pur-
chased for the Saint Paul and Galena
trade, and she the West Newton, St. Louis
and Nashville packet, or the Corneiia, St.
Louis and Louisville packet. Either can
make two trips per week, if required,
with all ease, and do whatever way bust
ness may be required. The West New
ton has made the run from Cairo to Saint
Louis, two hundred miles, in sixteen
hours, and landed at all the important
points. The current in that portion Of
the Mississippi, it must be remembered,
is mill-race compared with this upper
portion Of the river. We have before
remarked that we have no partiality on
the side of either of the lines. The old
line has been successful, and will continue
SO to be, so long as its owners continue
so thoroughly as they have to merit sue
cess. At the same time. it is the inter-
est of every Minnesotian to also keep up
the new line if we can.
The Nominee left Galena on Monday
at 2 P. NJ, and arrived here at half-past
eleven on Tuesday night. making her trip
up in 33 l-2 hours, the quickest time on
record. 1t is understood that she was
racing with time. She left at 2 o'clock,
A. NJ, Wednesday, and was at La Crosse
at noon, making half the distance down
in about ten hours. We received by this
boat a Missouri Republican of Friday
evening-only four days from st. Louis.
1t came to Galena on the Golden Era.
The Commissioners Of the La Crosse
and Mississippi Railroad Company give
notice that subscription books will be
opened in La Crosse at the house of limo
thy Burns on the Oath of June, and on
the 9Th of July at the Milwaukee Bank
in the city Of Milwaukee. Five dollars
on each share of the capital stock will be
required to be paid at the time of sub
scription.
The vote of Cass county was crrone-
ously returned, probably through mistake,
as 10 majority against the Liquor Law,
when it should have been 25 majority for
the law. This makes difference of Al,
and the majority in the Territory, instead
of being 1911, is 1888.
We learn from the Democrat that Capt.
VIM. B. Dodd has received from Chief
Justice Fuller the appointment of Steam
boat Inspector for the First Judicial Dis
trict. The Captain has examined the
Tiger and pronounces her safe. The
Tiger will make trip up the Minnesota
the ensuing week.
We are under many obligations to Hon.
Lewis Cass, s. p. Chase and II. S. Gcycr,
Of the Senate, and Mcssrs. Campbell,
Miner, Newton, Brooks, Sibley and 9TH
ers of the House, for various public doc
uments.
In the L. S. Senate, on the 3Otl, ult.,
Mr.. Atchison gave notice that he should,
on Monday the Sd inst, ask leave of the
Senate to 60 into Executive session i'm
mediately after the expiration Of the
morning hour, for the purpose of taking
up the Sioux treaties. Whether they
were taken up Or not, we have been una
bic TO learn. The proceedings of Con-
gress on the 4th and 9th have reached us,
but nothing as yet of the proceedings on
the Sd. We are inclined to the opinion
that they were not acted on during that
day, else some intelligence would have
been received.
Nearly every body is travelling west
ward this year. Our exchanges state
that all the different railroad, steamboat
and stage conveyances are crowded with
passengers, who are emigrating to the
West. The Michigan Central Railroad
delivered over six hundred passengers in
Chicago in one day. A large portion of
these will eventually find their way to
Minnesota.
"A large drove of as fine beef cattle as
we ever saw in any country, were land
ed from the Saint Paul upon her last trip.
They are for our market.
1t is gratifying to see the large number
of fruit trees that every boat brings up
from below. There is not q doubt but
what all the varieties of fru;t us,oII,,