The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1853-04-02
NUMBER 49,.

sosticc, and seeking rcfreslment and rcpose in
more cOngcnial climcs.
The limpid lakes of Minnesota, and the cool
and sparkling spray of st. Anthony's Falls,
Will no doubt attract a larger number than
ever before. This will be well for st. Louis
merchants and business men. Minnesota is
rapidly growing Territory and will soon be
rich and thrifty State. Her trade will be i'm
portant, and st. Louis citizens should be cult.
Vating such acquaintance, and establishing
such business relations with the settlementsH
up lnere: as may last "a hundred wears or
more; 20 up to st. AnthOnys Falls then,
merchants, and others of St. Louis and mnple
the utife with the duice in your summer excur-
sions
we understand, by private letter received
to-day, that excellent preparations are making
at st. Anthony's Falls to entertain yistcrs. the
coming summer. Mr.. James b. Gilbert is put-
ting the St Charles Iiotel'' in order. and will
not let his guests suffer for any of the delica.
cies OF that hyperbOrean region. We think it
mighty probable that the News will have n few
Jottlngs from the "Falls."-Sf. Louis .Ae,rs.
Hoes PACKED IN THE WEsr.-Yesterdav wc
published statement, taken from the Cincin.
natl Price Current of the I'd inst giving the
number OF hogs packed in the West during the
past season. We refer to it again. not for the
purpose of cOndcmning the whole statement.
but to show the injustice and inaccuracy. no
IpD0rt
our own State at least.
We have no doubt the figures are as correct
and as reliable as can be obtained in regard to-
the pork operations of Ohio Kentucky Indians
and Tennessee. but the statement, although
prOfessedly partial one for Illinois, Iowa and
Missouri, Is so far behind the true number that
we have thought proper to call attention to it,
nasmuch as we published the statement of the
Price Current.
To call attention directly to the main discre-
pancy Missouri is set down as having slaugh-
tered only $1,000 head. when the very lowest
estimate we have heard is 10000, and from
that to 100000 head. This city and one or two
other points we could name have alone packed
more hogs than are z iyen to the whole State.
ne iigures for Illinois are nearer correct, but
when the full returns are in we think the Gin
cinnati statement will be found to be full 5O,-
Ooo short. Iowa. too, has packed largely over
the number stated. The total in the three
States is given by the Price Current at AGA, ,7OS.
The best information here is. that the number
packed on the Missouri, Mississippi and Illinois
rivers, and through the interior will exceed
6oo,ooo head; showing deficiency in the
statement of from l30 900 to $50 900 head.
The increase according to the statement in
the three States of the past over the previous
season. was l23,252 head. This is nearer cor
rect than one might suppose, from the fact that
the estimates of the previous seasons work
were, like the present. entirely too low. For
instance. the total packing of Missouri for 1851
and - is given as only SO, 1876 head. In foot
ing up the grand total for eight States, fhc
Price Current shows an increase of 4sl ,425
head.
Taking the best Information here in regard to
Missouri. Illinois and Iowa, and the statement
Of the Price Current. for the remaining States,
we think the increase on the entire crop can be
very safely put down at 100000 head.-Saint
Louis .Neacs.
| y "Reminiscences connected with the United
States Hotel at Chicago, which was burnt only
few days since, shows the astonishing rapidity
with which Chicago has grown into a large and
hourishing city. Only sixteen years ago. on
the spot where the hotel referred to stood,
there were seated the L. S. Commissioners
with three thousand POtawatamas Indians,
arranged on the ground in a semi-circle before
them, the men in front three Deep and the
squaws and pappOOscs in the rear. The In
dians had met to receive their last payment.
and the government had decided to make the
payment to the heads of families. rather than
to the Chiefs. The Chiefs objected to it, but
the Commissioners answered there could be no
change. Then with gloom upon his brow, an
aged Chief named Mattawa, arose and broke
forth in a lamentation, saying that the Pota-
watamas must go far away, no more to roam
their own loved praires, or shoot the canoe
/
come" he said, "and he will build great
town, and many houses will cover the fields of
the POtawatamas." In sadness, these Indians
were led off to Council Bluffs, and afterwards
to Il district set apart for them on the Arkan-
sas. And sixteen years have passed, and O
large bustling city of the white man has usurp-
ed the place of the POtawatamas.
PERSONAL APPEARANCE OF LORD ABERDEEN
Ten years ago, when Lord Aberdeen was Sec
retary of Foreign Affairs, he was described as
a man of middle height, rather clumsily made
with an address more of sober dignity than of
pride or reserve. He had the name of being
the proudest and coolest aristocrat in England,
but these characteristics did not show them
selves in dress His coat was black. generally
much worn, and always too large for him
pair of coarse check trousers very ill-madc !;
waistcoat buttoned up to the throat, and
cravat tied in negligent manner. His man
ncrs are of absolute simplicity, amounting al
most to a want of style. He crosses his hands
behind him, and balances on his heels In con-
vcrsation, his voice is low and cold, and he sell
dom smiles, yet there is a certain benignity in
his cOuntcnancc, and, according to English no.
tions. an indefinablc superiority and high
breeding in his simple address, that would
betray his rank after few minutes conversa-
tion. 1t is only in his manner towards the
ladies that he would be Immediately distin-
guished from men of lower rank in society,"
lie is neither a drone nor a bustling man, but
works steadily and quietly, while those more
ambitious of attention are engaged in fiery
debates.
LIBERAL ESDOwMENT.-MissC Catharnc E Bee
cher has offered to endOw the professionally of
a Female Seminary in Dubuque with the sum of
$1,000, and also to furnish books and apparat-
us to the amount of 81 900, provided the citi-
zens of Dubuque will erect building and guar
antee certain number of scholars. The prop
osition has been accepted, and committee ap-
pointed to solicit donations.-Cincinnati Atlas.
MIcHArx, celebrated Frenchman, who tray
clled in America about half a century ago and
wrote valuable work entitled '.North Ameri-
can Sylvia" yet survives in Paris, active and
cheerful, at the age of eighty-three He was
passenger in Fultons first steamboat on our no
BILE Hudson, and recently executed bust of
Fulton, which has been placed in the gallery Of
the Louvre.