The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1853-01-22

has passed the Senate, and is doubtless now n
law:
WASHINGTON. Jan, LIST, 1853.
EDITOR PIOyEER:-Please announce that
through the instrumentaiity of our unfailing
friend. Hon. A. C. DODGE, the Senate, on the
3Oth ult. took up and passed the bill which was
sent from the House at the last session, apprO-
priating S45, 900 for the continuation and con-
structiOn of roads in our Territory. The sigma
ture of the President is alone required to make
the funds available for that purpose, and that
will of course be given in day or two.
Respectfully yours,
II. ii. SIBLEY.
| On motion of Mr. DODGE, of Iowa, the Sen
ate, as in Committee of the Whole, proceeded
| to consider House Bill ''making further apprO-
priatiOns for the construction of roads in the
Territory of Minnesota"
1t proposes to appropriate for the cOnstruc-
ton of road from Point Douglas, on the Miss
issippi river, to the falls rapids on the Saint
Louis river of Lake Superior. $1,000; for the
construction of a road from Point Douglas to
Fort Gaines, now Fort Ripley, Sl0,000; for the
construction of road from the mouth of Swan
river or the most eXpedient point near it north or
south of said river to the Winnebago agency at
Long Prairie $4,000; for the construction of a
road from Wabashaw to Mendoza, $4,000; for
the survey and laying out of military road
| from Mendoza to the mouth of Big Sioux river,
on the Missouri $4,000 The said roads to
be constructed under the direction of the Gov
ernor aad Legislative Assembly of said Terri
tory.
The bill was reported to the Senate without
amendment, ordered to he read third time,
read a third time, and passed.
| APPLEs-A good many years ago, the vener-
able Mr.. Cakes, who is now residing with his
lsnn in cd how. lnf / Dnin m
on Lake Superior. He says that the trees bore
fruit in seven years from the seed, and contin-
ued thrifty. His son has now in his garden,
trees from the seeds of the La POinte fruit. A
correspondent in Northern Ohio. informs us
that he intends to bring trees to Minnesota, for
nursery, next spring We have heard of sew
cral enterprises of this kind that will start in
the spring-Pioneer.
| The great mistake of farmers generally, who
have first settled the West, has been that the
planting of fruit trees was neglected until the
very last thing in the way of improvements.
We hope and believe this will not be the case
in Minnesota. Mr.. Finley, ofDavcnport, has a
fine hardy nursery, and an agency in Saint
Paul, as will be seen by his advertisement
| CHCACo.-Thc Pioneer alludcs to the fact.
that the Chicago papers are taking an especial
interest in the affairs of Minnesota. We see
whole columns, week after week, copied into
the Journal and the Democratic Press from the
Minnesotian and other papers of the Territory
The Chicago people are wide awake, and their
editors are men who do not work with their
eyes closed to the future. 1t is the manifest
destiny OF that already great city to become
immensely more great and afiiuent by control
ing the trade of all the vast region of country
west and northwest of her, unless st. Louis
runs her iron horses into this region ahead of
her. The whole matter rests here i'm nut
shell: In less than ten years there will be an
agricultural. manufacturing and commercial
population settled within the area we have
named as numerous as the present population
of all Illinois, Iowa, Wisconsin and Minnesota.
In other words, the future acccssiOns north of Il
| line running due west from Chicago to the Mis-
souri, river, will be as great as the number of
people now residing in Illinois and Iowa, south
of that line. The question with us already is
where will then stand our great trading depot
A glance at the map answers, either ST. Louis
Or Chicago. 1t is for these cities to decide
which it shall be. Chicago, the past year, has
Travelled far ahead of her former entcrprising
and discerning self in pushing for the great
prize. She is this winter very scnsibly feeling
the advantageous effects of her numerous lines
of railroad already open. The following sure
indication Of this we copy from the last number
of the Democratic Press:
| Our 1lOTEIS.-During the winters previous
to this, our Hotels have been comparatively
unoccupied, except by boarders. Now. howcv.
er, there is not sufficient accommodation for the
strangers who visit the city. The list of arr
walls, published in our paper, make a display O
travel entirely beyond the expectations of any
one. The different public houses are not only
full, nearly all the time, but they frequently
have to turn away strangers for want of room
to accommodate them. A few nights ago the
Sherman House had to turn away over sixty
on that account. Within the last two years
our Hotel accommodations have been doubled
and we are worse off now than then. What
shall We do, next year. when the railroads tar
the Mississippi, and pour a constant stream up
on us from Missouri, Iowa and Minnesota =
That's serious question.
\ BEAUTIFUL WAIF.-IIOw often it is that al
editor in looking over his exchanges, finds the
most beautifully expressed ideas and sentiments
in his language, running astray, with no pos
sibility of his being able to discover the owner
The following is an instance; and We much re
greet at this moment we have no means of giving
} credit to the author, although we think the cX
, tract has previously met our eye somewhere:
, FEMALE SOCIETY.-NO society is more profit
able because none more refining and clevatin&
r than a refined and sensible woman. God ell
shrined peculiar goodness in the form of a wo
man, that her beauty might win, her gentle
; voice invite; and the desire of her favor per
suade mems souls to leave the path of sinfu
strife for the ways of pleasantness and peace
But when women falls from her blessed cmn
cncc, and sinks the guardian and the cberishcI
/ of pure and rational enjoyments into the vail
cOqucttc and fattcrcd idolater of idle fashion
she is unworthy of an honorable man admira
ton. Beauty is then but at best
4 ga pretty playthins,
Dear deceit"
We honor the chivaIrous preference which i.