The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1853-02-26
FACTS AND FANCJES.


nesota, Especial order in the House on Monday
bill to incorporate the Minnesota Western
Railroad Company bill to incorporate the
Northwestern Railroad Company, from Lake
Superior to Puget's Sound, lost in the Housed
bill to authorize the exercise of all Equity
jurisdiction in the form of civil actions and fol
other purposes bill to incorporate the Lake
Superior AMI Mississippi Railroad Company
taiso passed the Housed; also, a memorial tc
Congress for grant of land for the same
pointment Of s, ,ecial commissioners for Hcnne
pin county; bill to provide for laying out q
Territorial road from the Falls of St. Anthony
to the western boundary Of Sibley county; q
bill prescribing the manner of contesting the
election of members of the Legislative Assem-.
bly, of this Territory bill to amend the char
ter of the town of st. Paul in the county oil
Ramsey; and bill to incorporate the town o.
Mendoza in the county of Dakota. The new
County Bill is still before the Council. The
Legislature concludes its sixty days session
and adjourns next Saturday
THE CRYSTAL PALACE.-Mr. LOOMS has intro
duced resolution in the Council, authorizing
the Governor to appoint some person to attend
the exhibition at the Crystal Palace New York
next summer, and to collect and there deposit
for exhibition such articles as the industrial
and natural resources of Minnesota may offer
The move is proper and timely one, and we
hope it will be carried out.
MINNESOTA OATs.-Wc were shown some oats
a few days since from the farm of Mr. Samuel
Middleton, which will beat anything. we think.
either in or out of the Territory They were OF
the kind known here as the barley oats. The
field averaged sevcnty-two bushels to the acre.
and they weigh fortytwo pounds to the bushel.
Can this be beat in any of the States where the
crop of fever and ague predominates.-Pione
Mr.. Coulter, Roberts street, has on hand a
considerable quantity o: these OATS acknowl-
edged the best sample of the kind ever seen in
this market, or perhaps any other. A bushel
Or SO of them should be sent to the Crystal Pal
ace by all means.
ODD FELLOWS BAIL--The brethren of John
G. Potts Lodge, No. 3, (St. Anthony contem-
plate giving ball at the St. Charles, in that
village, on Wednesday evening of next week.
If the dancing public wish to see things done
up in grand style, they had better be on hand
for this is bound to be one of the most aprcea-
BILE and fashionable entertainments of the sea.
son.
- Weather clear and gradually falling into
spring like temperature. Snow melting slowly,
with indications that the season of sugar-mak-
ing is close at hand. We notice those who in
tend going into the business are making prep
aratons accordingly. Dealers in fancy stocks
commencing to bet upon the time the "frst boat
will arrive. This is a much greater uncertainty
than the result of any Presidential election we
ever knew.
BAD ARRANGEMENr-Our subscribers down
along the river do not get their papers, al
though they are regularly mailed. Alexis
Bailly, Esq, at the foot of Lake Pepin, is
one of the sufferers and at Point Douglas,
although oil the papers go in one package.
some of the subscribers get theirs and some
do not
Ladies, of course. will go shopping these
fine days The "worlds Fair has another
lot of goods by Express.
Letters from Washington represent the ap-
plicants for Office in Minnesota as present in
twcnties and hundreds. We also see that a
runaway horse, in Harrisburgh. Pa, recently,
came very near upsetting the culture Cover
nor of Minnesota" Who is he.
-"Mne host of the Central House got the
idea into his head few days since to give the
girls and boys "hop;" so it came off, highly
creditablc and satisfactory to all concerned, on
Thursday night. Some sixty couple-good
and fair representatives of St. Paul and St.
Anthony-were present, and throughout the
evening enjoyed themselves, as the editor Of
the Democrat would say. ito the fullest ex-
tent" The folks at the Central know how to
do these things.
JOHN W. NORTH, Esq, of st. Anthony
heretofore leading and rigid adhcrent of the
Minnesota Democrat, publicly announced du-
ring the past week that he would no longer re-
gard that print as a guide for his political &C
tions.
We kept vacent space in this weeks
Minnesotian, up to the latest hour, for the pro-
ceedngs of the Temperance Convention, held
on Tuesday last, but they were not handed in.
"A consise and pointed expose of the whole
matter connected with the much misreprescnt-
ed "Sioux disbursement will be found upon
our first page. embodied in letter written
from Galena to the New York Tribune. 1t
would have appeared two or three weeks
earlier. had we not mislaid the paper containing
it. The writer bases his conclusions upon the
yet unanswered, and unanswerable, documcnta-
ry evidence we used in overturning the false po-
stions of the Democrat; but as they are here
placed in more compact form than it was in
our power to do at the time, republication of
them is not at all out of place.
A "BRlDAL CHAMBER" "know-
ing ones are prophcsying a speedy "break
up" and smash in the commercial world