The Minnesota pioneer. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. Territory) 1849-1855, 1852-12-30


Mr. EDiroE:-lIuinan curiosity i always reach
ing back the first in chronological order-always
looking for butt ends of precedence Tor brth-houls
and starting poills The first event of series is
yeneratcd the sire Of a race, What were p lynn
9th Rock, where now thousand hearts confess the
Genus OF Prophecy to one that bows at Mecca
what il without its first! What Is Lexington
to history but that IL was the fist whose last is 10
cmancipate the world! And Columbus, what wore
he and not the first. La subordinate casScs Of facts
note that the first frame house IN 81. Paul, pointed
at already by an'IqutrIans object OF pecu-
liar veneraton. And who does not share the hai
interest with which the Pioneer is regarded as the
first printing press in the Territory! Traverse des
: ioux has lately been convulsed with FIRST times.
The golden era OF payment, lust concluded. has
Matched brood Of Heterogeneous. epochs-sone 81
which It found, not adapted To the climate.
Some sagacious individuals undertook the brilliant
feat Of establishing the liquor traffic here the time
of payment, In opposition To the missionaries for the
spiritual benefit of the heather. With zeal surpaSs
ng that of those selisacrifcng heads Of the cross,
they proposed not only to give drink to the thirsty
but t. create vet uuthrsv tribes appetite for
them TO feed, cheap tor cash-and thus indefinitely
widen the sphere of their apostolic labors. TINS be-
nevoent design. however, defeated in Its iBccp.
ton by that ''nernal Dodd." WHO had lust arrived
with a magistrates commission III his pocket The
frs Official act of the filst mag istra;e Of Traverse
70 smoke the first Grocery, the last We shall
nave 10 fcCcIu III lL.S town. Ndijt H. lhsS Tcst
snred he viii be supported by ever, true man in his
efforts to beautiful plairies from any spark
of that ii,c which has burned much social land
scape ilo Il chlrrc and bacAcned waste. let WINS
key pedicrs know tI.at according to the provisions
OF the treaty. the article, ii found in the recently
quIrcd territory is liable to cOniscatou, and the trat-
lcers 10 severe penalty. Let them get that by heat,
and be assured the ,pniatioi Will bc carried out 10
the letter
Last evening the first literary association, = Ly-
celm WAS formed here and Traverse Was wed to CIV
ilizaiion tho altar of Apollo. \ lw hours after
ward, at soree given By the fa-tlmcd Israel Full
Ter. on c heern tell oi Is;cl--nmate Il lend OF
FRANZ, Piercc--you know Frank-rscd IN Manches-
ter and knows Il thing two.) the i:st social en-
tertanmcnt IN the town records. The nuptias were
celebrated with dancing and tca>tng
and melo dy in unlimited quantities, and with highly
cXtemporc outbursts of animal spirits. Full lilatons
Of coffee and tra and hecatombs of mlequiyocai Sil-
gcrbrcad consCcraicd the soi of the savage to the
genial spirit of civilization. Ii WAS a decidedly u.-
iue and brilliant affair." having all the iclicious
-graces of improvi saton aud The Of fort
nights PREPARATION 1t the Had Of future sup
pc,s. 1t was got up the universal compound
Yankee principle Of doughnuts PEE aud apple sauce
gals and films included About fifty re.sons sat
down to the groanin5 board, among whom were sew
era ladies that, If there is any relation. pre-
tend, between astronomy aad gastronomy, would
have highly adorned one of the consultations near
the Pee, und besides creating considerable sensation
IN the Milky Way. As torathc rest our town shows
evident signs of prosress-towards There
are haIla dozen here in the 'ul tide of sue
ccs>hl experiment -olstcrs and cigars in abundance
and all the clements of heaithtul pleasant winter
in profession. ALBERT.