The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1853-09-10

returned to ST. Paul by the west Newton,
Wednesday. Their duties being completed,
they left the party at Fort Union, and journey
ed down the Missouri on board the steamer St.
Ange. which, very OPPORTUNITY for them, hap
pened to be at that point. The route from here
to the Yellow Stone is represented as highly
satisfactory to Gov. Stevens and his engineers,
for the especial purpose intended by their mis-
sion. The topography of the country is unex-
ceptionable; the soil remarkably fertile, and
the timber plentiful. a correspondent of the
Democrat writes that the difficulties which sur
rounded the expedition at the outset, and which
induced many to fear that it would prove fail
ure, have all been removed. We are heartily
rejoiced at this-feeling as we do, well assured
that if our route has half chance, it will be
able to maintain itself in competition with any
other named. We extract the re nocrat cor
respondents remarks -
up to this point, the Governor congratu-
lates himself for having secured so efficient
cOrps-nOt a man has failed to secure his COM
mendation, and where all have so we'll perform
ed their duty, mention of particular names
would be but an invidious and undcscrvcd dis
tlnction. AnnOyances of no unusual character
beset our early path, rctarding our progress.
and subjecting us to Inconvenience heavy
load of responsibility unserviccable con
dltlon OF so many young animals, the distance,
and the important accidents of soil to be over
come and an entire unacquaintance with the ma
terial OF the command rendered, at first, the
duties Of Gov. Stevens, of the weightiest char
actcr That these circumstances harasscd him.
he frankly admitted, in his remarks made to MS
on camping near the Yellowstone. But before
this part of the journey was through most of
these difficulties ceased to exist, and we are
now admirably provided with the means vigor-
ously to prosecute the survey before u.s. The
latter part of Our march, for weeks. exhibited
the true character of our cOmmander-kind to
his men-looking carefully to their every in
terest-in person, seeing that from the highest
to the lowest i'll the command all Jared alike
he must have commanded the confidence and
esteem OF his men. finding out each man $ quail
tiles, then appropriate sphere of duties was
found, and, like great machine, properly re-
gulatcd, we moved quietly and pleasantly for
ward to the consummaton Of our labors. Many
may think that the worst is to come, such is
not the case. Say to those who have friends
and relations with us, there is nothing to he
unprecedented from the Blackfeet. That leaving
here on the Sth August, we shall reach Fort
Benton by the LIST September that we have
secured as guides. CABOT, the great hunter. who
has crossed the Mountains some six or eight
times-on one occasion with Father De Smet
and that he assures US that we can take every
wagon to the Flat Head Village, on the western
side Ofthe Rocky Mountains, in eight days from
the commencement of our Standardization
and Mckenzie accompanying us also that the
animals are lit for service, the men know their
duties and are accustomed to working tooe-
thcr,-that scarcely doubt is to be entertained
that our whole train will be in Washington Ter
ritory in the carly part of October"
DEFINING POsITIoNs-This business has been
commenced among candidates, and we presume
will now go on until the election. Neighbor
Brown, of the Pioneer, who edits paper in one
district and is running for the Council in ano-
ther. has been called upon by one of his Kaposia
constituents in expectancy. to come out in the
Democrat and tell all he knows about himself :;
and so he comes right out, not in the Democrat
but in his own paper, for the reason that he is
"not contributor to the Democrat owing to
the fact that "nothing worth reading ever ap-
pears in that print" He then lays down his
Democratic principles as follows -
ave are in favor of General Pierce and the
Compromise, opposed to the distribution of the
Public Lands, and National Bank.--we advO
cate the election Of Henry NJ. Rice for Delegate
| to Congress. and the early admission of Mime
sofa as State, but will oppose the nomination
of kOssuth to the Presidency of this Republic
or the annexation of Austria--for the present
We are thoroughly in favor of a Pacific Rail
road, Through Minncsota) and the carly re-
moval of the Sioux to the land reserved for
them-whiie we are opposed to the Road to
| KUN, and the new location for the Winncla-
goes. In short. we are a Democrat--havc never
been, or protested to he. anything else have
never allowed any combination OF circumstaIl-
ces to Withdraw us from an advocacy of Demo-
cratic measures. and having the utmost conf
dence in our Democracy, we will give our
hearty support to-ourself for the Council from
the 9th Council district
That's making clean breast of it, particu-
Iarly that part giving back-handed lick to
Gov. Gorman's Winncbago treaty. We won't
Zine issu' with You there, neighbor. His
questioner, however. strongly intimatcs that as
he Brown) was Clerk of the House last winter,
it is about time he was choked Off from the pub
lie crib. In reply to this. the editor and Coun-
cillor in expectancy takes occasion to state a
historical fact in rather quaint way -
AS to our election, it was a very singular
ahair altogether. We served one half the ses-
| ',.o'i "NioiS We "SIc etCltu, during which time
dligcnt search was made for some other person
but none could be found, suitable and we were
compelled to be elected. We received the en-
tire vote of the House, with the exception of a
few bogus democrats
Two NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. AND SorTH.-Among
the distinguished personagcs visiting at sara
toga this Summer, correspondent of the New
York Times mentions Princess Murat. of Flori-
ga, and Lyman c. Dayton, Esq, of st. Paul.
MinnesOta.-Pioneer.
We have before us the Times containing the
letter alluded to. After giving long list of
distinguished visitors at Saratoga, the writer
ends his paragraph by placing these two per-
sonagcs in juxta-position as above What does
1t mean? As we understand her pedigree, the
Princess Murat of Florida, is granddaughter
OF Joachim Murat, formerly King of Naples.
and Caroline Bonaparte, sister of the great Ma
poleon consequently the Florida Princess is