The Minnesota pioneer. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. Territory) 1849-1855, 1853-10-20

Monday last. There is over hundred cases on the
docket
1t is thought that there will be famine at WASH
Only 5000 per annum Poor fellows, they can't live
on small salary, says the correspondent Of the
Union. Then let them come to Minnesota and 60
farming. We have plenty Of rich soil and any guam.
tity Of bracing air.
The Hartford Times, says that child Of Mr.. Lo-
rim Field, Of Somers, CT, is supposed to have been
killed by eating colored candy. Dr.. Wood examin-
ed the of the stomach, and found sufficient
quantity Of lead there to death.
Liverpool. with 100000 population, is yet with
out daily newspaper.
Henry Ward Beecher, says s'there is great deal
more gospel in loaf Of bread sometimes, than in an
old dly sermon.''
An article in the London Shipping Gazette, states
that the wheat crops Great Britain and France are
very deficient and that prices necessarily tend
upward. Should the difficulty between Russia and
Turkey take place, much higher prices would prevail.
The ship canal at St. Marie is rapidly progressing.
The excavation has reached the bottom Of the canal
at two points, and for many rods is within a foot
two Of the required depth. So learn from the
Dubuque Express
destructive fire occurred at Buffalo, on the 9th,
which destroyed some sixty buildings. A boy Is
years Of age, persisted in the flames.
The Hartford (Conn.) Currant, says "that bill
holders Of the Woodbury. Bank need not make any
sacrifce them We should think not-they have
made sacrifice enough already Good, bad, or ndic-
ferent these rotten old charters on which this bank
was founded, should be repealed.
I The Dubuque Herald states that wheat is coming
in freely and brings, for spring, So cents winter, 60
to IS; choice lots, 20.
The first locomotive built in Chicago, was finished
on the Sd. So says the Democratic Press. The
company that built this, will be able in short time,
to turn out three per month. We believe this CON-
pany is from Connecticut and have the means to push
matters forward in the true Western style.
! Ii is stated that in France not death has been
caused by railroad acciden, since the summer Of
1851.
At cclored ball given in Albany recently. the fol-
lowing notice was posted at the door," No gentle.
man admitted, unless he comes hisseli."
Donald Mckay. of Boston, has launched a ship
called "Thc Great Republic" which is said to he
the larges, Of any vessel Of its kind in the world.
Cats arc bringing the of twelve dollars and 6f-
~ cents in Australia. One adver,ses that he
will pay SIS per head for a cart load
/ National Convention of the soldiers OF the war
Of 1912, and their sons, is be held in Philadelphia
on the S;h Of January next.
4, stone for the Washington National Monumen,
has been received at Washington, from Utah. 1t is
said to be similar to Bath stone, and not very hard
1t is stated that during the past summer the tomb
of Daniel Webster has been visited BY upwards Of
1900 persons.
A Greek merchant named Barbaks, residing at
Moscow, deceased time SINCE left his entire for
tune which exceeds 81 500 900, to the Greek Gov
ernment, to DO applied IN the aid Of education in
Greece. The money has safely arrived in Athens.
Whilst the Potato Rot has been making ravaces
in other sections of the country, ia this Territory the
crop is abundant, and the article is unsurpassed bv
anything Of ike nature which has ever before been
produced in Minnesota. There i. no rot or indica-
lion OF rot AMI the yield than meets the anci-
pations Of the mos; sanguinc
crazy mother in Baltimore lied her interesting
of seven years Of age, few weeks since l,y ad-
ministering to him chorofo. m.
/ PEARs.-Bartlet's Pears have been sold in the
New York market for l2k cents each-a few of an
other kind for Isl each. We wish our farmers
would make Of this, and enrich their farms by
raising few hundred bushels of this delicious fruit,
All they can raise for years TO will sell readily
at home, and bring good prices. We see no reason
why Minnesota should not raise as good pears, cher
ries aud apples, any ether portion Of the country
. IMPoETED CRuMr.-The latest national statistics
% crime arc found IN the abstract OF the Seventh Cen
sus From that 1t appears that the whole number of
persons convicted of crime in the United States Tor
the year ending June, 1850, about "a 900; of
these, l3,OoO were natives, (ncludinS coored pris-
oncrs0 and $4,000 foreign born. BY the same au.
thoriy, and to the same date, we informed that
our population composed of L. 1877 sos native,
of ITS SOIL 2,2l6, s2S born in foreign countries, and
S0,ol4 whose nativity could not be determined 49,
he we have, therefore, but about one foreign res
ident to nine native whites, there is fraction over
one foreign born criminal TO every native including
uhd'h anu Wnite. SuCn was the state OF
$780, and there is no TO suppose it has materi
ally changed since that time.
The above facts should receive the serious consid.
Grafton OF every wel-dsposed, law-abdng, natural
ised citizen. Il should be the aim Of e,vyy citizen
naturazed or foreign, to frown down all those evils
which are the legitimate sources of crime, but it is
more particularly the interest Of the foreigner to take
his brother By the hand, and direct him in the path
OF right Arriving in this country fororn and desti-
ute, the emgrant early falls prey to the wary, and
thus bitterly suffers the penalty of his acts-hence the
great preponderance Of crime laid at the door Of the
foreigner. This should not he So
| hrm in Vienna, have invented composition,
which, it rs said, will supercede the of Percussion
Caps The ingredients of the composition are fumi-
nary mercury, ch'orae of potash and suphde of an
tnony. The dangerous properties of the ingredients
are diminished by the application of colIodion which
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