The Minnesota pioneer. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. Territory) 1849-1855, 1853-01-13

HUNTISG.--A friend writes from Minnesota:
81 took weeks hunt when the snow first fell, and
killed nine DEER which he also informs US, were
worth eleren dollars in the St. Paul market While
the ST. Paulers able buy nine deer for eleven
dollars, they will he likely to escape Starvation
fGa!. Adv.
venison has been worth at retail 10 cents y ID, all
Of starvation. You people below will see provisions
come d90n before long.
| LATEST FROM ST PAULA small boat,
tanning six passengers, arrived here Friday after
noon from St. Paul, having left that place the
previous Saturday. The ice III the Lake obstruoted
their passage, aud they had to make the circuit of
the lake by lind and mlstls Oh foot Lansing lat
! Nov. "a.
crew Of the Greek Slave. which having been dis
abled, has wintered ia St. Paul.
SLEIGH RoDr!-The Minnesotan says
The handsonest and richest sleigh robe seen
IN 81. Paul, noticed the other dav the Mime.
sofa Store. II was made principally Of beaver skins,
with trimmings Of bear and otter The family Of
/ Hon. James Wells, Of Wabasha county, the
manufacturers. 1t sold for sevent, five dollars.
Nj. Grcely, Of the Tribune, says:
''To save sunI,y known and unknown frends the
trouble o! writug any letters, soliciting loans
gifts of > 900 To SO 000 the Editor OF the Tr-
bune begs leave to state that he has made I00
! 900 by speculation in City Real Estae-as, indeed.
he could not well have done, seeing he never owned
$1,000 worth nor bought any speculation in his
life. Should he ever make any such haul as he
seems TO have the credit of, he viii give all his
friends early public notice. so that each may have
Il tar start. At present, however the probability Of
his making any such sum Is not visible even u the
eye Of Faith.
LIEUT.. GESERAL.--The resolution conferiag on
Gen Scott the office of Lieut.. General has passed
the Senate by vote oi 81 Yeas to Il Nays.
! EXPEDIrIoUs WAsHING.---In the St. Nicholas
Hotel just completed in New York, steam engine
drives the washing machines, two in nnmber--one
holding ahout rs much two hogsheads, and the
other ab'u, two barrelS--and the drying mach 'ne-
BY this apparatus shirts can be washed and dried
ready for ironers in minutes. The most 2bo-
rions work Of The laundry viii thus be pen tored by
machncry-as il oaght to be.
NOPE OF ELEcrING PREsIDENT-By act OF
Congress Of March, 1898, and the OF January
1915, establishing uniform time for choosing tnc
electors will meet in the Capitols OF their respective
States the FIST Wednesday Of Deceuber--bcny
this year the first day Of the month and will proceed
to vote for President and VicePresident 1 he vote
will be duly recorded by the Secretary of the College
and authenticated copies made and sent to Wash
layton, there be delivered To Congress. On the
day fixed for that purpose, the second "Wednesday OF
February; the votes 10 he opened and counted in
the presence of tc two houses o! Congress- and the
result declared. Gen. Franklin Pierce, will be de-
cared be elected President, and William K. King
Vice President, of the United States. Messengers
viii then he dispatched to those gentlemen, informing
them Of their election, ana requesting them to appear
at Washington 10 take the oaths of oiicc, and enter
upon the discharge of their duties.
PRIM PEorLE.-Thare il Sc, Of people whom
| cannot bear, pnks OF fashionable propriets Whose
every word Is concise, and whose every movement Is
uneA ceptionaLc bu, who, though we'll yeised in al
the categores of polite behavior have not particle
of soul, corda'i.y about them. We allow that theiI
manners may b. abunlantly correct. There may be
elegance in every gesture, and gsaceluness in every
position not smile out o! place, and not step tha
would not bear the measurement o the severes scru
tiny This Is all very fine but what want Is tle
heart and gacty Of social ntcrcoursc-the eye thai
speaks aiabiiity to all, that chases timdity from
every bosom and tells every man in the company tc
be confident and happy. This is what conceive tc
be the virtue of the text, and not the sickcnng for
+ nay of those who walk by rule, and would reduce
the whole Of human life to wire bound system o
misery and constrant-tDr, Chalmers,
a SATISFACTORY EXPLANATIoN.--A lady OF
being told that the skull shown her at the British
Museum was that Q. Oliver Cromwell, observed ;ha
il strange, she had another skull Of tn,
u<urper in the Oxford Museum, which was much
larger. Yes madam said the conductor, 'Lut our
specimen is that Of his head when he very young
Dog scer; That haunima's the real stock
Mum. and Iog-cheap at thirty doars.'
Young widow; 1t is a sweet, pretty darling, black
and white; but in my present bereav enent YOU mus,
procure me one entirely black. This will do very
well in abou, SIX months, Tor hall mourning
Three Thousand two hundred live. ana four thou
sand four hundred and twehty-seyen dead hogs have
been shipped from Rockford TO Chicago thus far, b.
railroad
BRrADsrurTs.--A Liverpool letter of the 10th
inst, says: Pro'rs'9as the transactions have hn>r
trdiag, without change in value of any auic.r.
Byeajstufe; All articles are d,arer. Large sales
Of wheat and -four the spot and 10 arrive prices
alnos; daily advancing, bat consume deal cautious
Is, and have lc't the most important transactions e
spectators. Indian corn is very firm, at cXtseul,
rates.
JAIL ENrrr.--AN the prisoners in the Madison
county ial, ILL.,, seven in nunber, entity made teil
escape.
The only prisoner in oar Jail, is an lndian. II,
would escape, but ,h> poor fellow has friends
well mothrr, the foundations Of tn. great deer
arc broken a., N last.
WHAT 10 Won mean. Tommy"
INV trousers has got a hole n them, THAT'S wha,
mcaa.'
NIAGARA FtLLs-WATER PowER.-Thc cit
izens oi the ais and Eastern capitalists are
about 10 put TO practical Use the immense water pow.
ct now nearly useless. The Lock port Courier saws
eve are Informed that an Eastern Company has been
organized tor the purpose of constructing a canal al
Niagara Falls The canal is Il commence about
half mile above the Fails, and pas. directly t,ro'
the village at the Falls, and empty, If course into
the river below the cataract. The Potcrs have
made liberal donations the enterprise, and there is
doubt in the opinion of our Informant, but that the
project viii be successfully carried out"
PnESOMrYoY At SEA.--Capt Home, Of bar k
J. ". Dyer, iiom Mess ina, reports that-Nov. ] ith,
lat. 81 40, long 10 81, II sop NJ. the wind from,
the southwest, with fresh breczes and squally, the
bark being under double rceicd topSas, thata ball Of
fire from the ~ t., struck the fore topsai, and
burst 18th the report Of a cannon; 1t about the
size of 80 pound ball. and II it had not been iain-
ing heavy at the time, IT would probably have set FIRE
to the vcsselt split the fore opsail and done some
slight damage ca deck.
A DEMoCRATIC SIGHr.-To see the President
oloc rf tho I-piteb I11rfl.