The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1852-05-22
The Theatrical Corps of Messrs. Lang

Inc lneatrlcal OOTpS Oh heSSIS. Lang
rishe g. Atwater, of which we have no.
ticed the most favorable mention in the
papers of Wisconsin and Illinois during
the past six months, arrived by the Nomi-
nee on Thursday morning. 1t will be
seen they open at Mazourka Hall this
evening. 1t is TO be hope,l our amuse-
ment loving citizens will be on hand to
give them warm reception; for taking
all we have heard of them into considera-
ton, it really must be that they are artists
far superior to travelling companies gen.
orally. In Galena their entertainments
were received with great eclat for sever
al week. Our neighbor of the Jefierso-
MAN, who is good judge of such matters,
has the following farewell notice of them
and their performances
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS & Atwater's
Theatrical Corps, leave this city, to-day,
by the Nominee, for St. Paul. To our
friends Of the Minnesota Press, we beg
to commend the Managers as honorable
and gentlemanly men in all their dealings
with the craft, and, SO far as our knowl-
edge extends, with all others. To the
play going public, we may with equal
confidence commend the whole Company
for their correct department, both off and
on the stage. AS for the character of
their entertainments, our opinion, during
their stay, has been often and freely ex-
pressed, and that our judgment is sustain
ed with singular unanimity by all who
have visited the Theatre, we have rea-
son to know. We beg our up stream
friends to treat them particularly the la
dies) kindly, and in due time, to return
them to Galena, for henceforth we shall
claim them as veritable burghers of our
thriving city.
No person who has not been down the
river this season can form any idea Of the
magnitude of the california stampede. -"
In numerous instances in Illinois and
Iowa-and we presume in other Western
States farmers have sold what articles
of stock they could, for any price, locked
their dwellings and barns, and taken up
their wives and children and departed,
leaving their farms waste, more desc
late than when in state of nature. We
have seen an estimate, that the number
who have congregated at St. Joseph and
other points on the Missouri river this
spring amounts to 100000 This is some
what over the mark, but not greatly.
The thought of the amount of suffering,
sickness and death which will be the in
evitable result of this fanatical exodus, is
horrible to contemplate. The large pro-
portion of women and children, which is
a prominent characteristic of this years
emigration across the plains, adds much
to this painful reflection. The eagerness
to reach the land of gold appears in some
instances to have entirely broken all bonds
of moral and legal obligation. We have
heard of case of an Illinois country
merchant, who was largely indebted to a
dealer in one of the river cities for his
last falls stock. He had sold out and
started for California, bag and baggage.
wife and babies, before the wholesale gent
was aware of his movements. The latter
followed him into the interior of Iowa,
where he overlook him. The services of
an officer having been procured, the nim-
bic creditor was very decidedly requested
to disgorge. He refused at first to tell
where the money was secreted but upon
a threat to take him back to prison, he
said to the sheriff, in firm tone: 81 will
tell you where it is, but it will do you no
good; it is in belt, about my wife's
person, underneath her dress-touch 1t If
you dare - The sheriff and creditor &C
knowledged themselves beaten, and left
for home.
People below, who think we have no
"garden sass' up here except what is
brought to us from Galena and Dubuque
by Father Blazdell on the St. Paul, are
very much mistaken. Mr.. Mappa, of
Groveland, has just presented lis with a
basket of fine, full sized lettuce, grown
by him in the open air. Notwithstanding
the backwardness of the season, if people
had planted their gardens early, they
could now be reaping the benefit of
them.
The old favorite, DR.. Franklin No. 2,
bids fair to hold her fame and gain new
laurels under the command of Capt.
Brock. She came up on "Wednesday
with full freight and crowd of passen-
gers. Her passenger list for the trip,
accnrdin0 to tho ,popifoSf ,,,,poboroJ CO..