The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1853-09-17
THE GREAT NORTHWEST RAILROAD SURVEY

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1T is not altogether improbable that the
valley Of the Tete DIES Mort will not be found
as well adapted for railroad purposes as has
been anticipated An eligible route can, |
have no doubt, be secured but any grade like
that about which our friends in Galena have
been talking. is quite ont of the question. AT
the upper end of the valley, the ground rises
rapidly, and the high land shuts in on each
side, until at the head waters Of the stream. it
is cut up into two or three ravines which end
on the prairie in deep depressions. The bluffs
on each side of the creek are very rocky; the
building of a track along the slope of either the
one or the other, SO as to attain high eleva-
ton before arriving at the nip would be a
work of some difficulty, and not little cost.
No one entertains the opinion that railroad
cannot be built over the ground we have ira
versed but it is well enough to dispel the illu-
sion in which orr people have INDUCED. viz.
that road can be built as chcaply as on like
distance over level prairie.
ARRIVING at the prairie. We found the coun-
try before and west of us, rolling and broken,
resembling in its general appearance the high
prairie east ofGalena on the road to Chicago.
1t will be well to know that over such sur
face road will not be laid down with any
100000 per mile. Our route has lain across
the depressiOns and elevations to the point
where we now are. Without guide. our way
was somewhat devious and our examination of
course imperfect. In all probability a way
may be found to reach the ridge of which we
are in quest with, perhaps, tOrtuous. but in
expensive route. The only method in which
an opinion of the country can be formed that
would be valuable or useful, is to send out
competent engineer with his level. and let him
apply the test to ground that we have only
measured with the eye. We are assured by
Capt. Dixon, our guide, who joined us last eve
ming. that We shall to-day attain the divide be-
tween Turkey and Maquoketa, and that we
shall then have an uninterrupted straight
course, in the wished-for direction.
WAsHINGroN. Sept. 4.
The National Wing OF the Democracy are
greatly incensed because Of the appointment of
Ezrah l.. Stephens an Abolitionist, and devot-
ed friend of Giddings, to a clcrkship i'll the In
dian Bureu.
1t is rumored that Mr. Gordon, the Webster
Wing Postmaster, of Boston, will soon have
leave to retire to private life.
The St. Louis Post master question is still
undecided. Judge Bowlin is pushing the claims
of Mr.. Colburn. (anti-Benton) vigorously.
The Administration is anxious 10 please the
anti-Bentonians, but dread the wrath Of Old
Bullion.
years, elopcd from the Academy Of Visitation
connected with the Convent at Georgetown, d.
g.. this afternoon. and was soon in the arms of
her lover The affair created great excite
ment at the Convent Search was made in ey-
cry direction but in vain. The knot matrimo-
NAL has probably been tied ere this.--.N. Y.
Tribune
BALTIMORE, Sept. 5.
The southern mail, as late as due, has been
received.
The Picayunc says that, few days since, ten
Catholic Priests and three Sisters of Charity
had the yellow fever. and that the Rev. Father
GanthreauX and Sisters Alphonso and Saint
Charles died with it. and also that two Jesuit
Priests and five Christian Brothers are now sick
with the fever.
Among the other victims are Mrs Dobb the
wife of the clergyman, lately deceased, Thomas
Mckinson Of Boston. and Sarah Omstcad of
Newburgh y. !. The total deaths thus far re
ported are SIX thousand four hundred and iog-
ty-nine.
Lawyer Houghton. who was shot by Hall. the
editor Of the Crescent. lies in very danger
Gus condition.
SOLITARY AND ALONE. The Philadelphia
Inquirer says Col. Benton is now seventy one
years old, and adds:
We saw him the other day on the pavement
near his house in Washinton. He is the young
est looking man of seventy We have ever seen ::
rather fuller in habit and broader than he used
to appear. He wears his hat with a knowing
expression Il little on the left side. walks with
deliberate and measured tread, having some
thing like pride in its seeming-somcthing that
bcspcaks a consciousness that he is Thomas
Hart Benton. He feels his powers and so does
his country, and so will it ever. His mark will
he left upon the era Of his. Few men of cGual
intellectual power and knowledge have apnear-
ed upon the stage Of action.
ADVERTISING FUNDAMENTALLY following
advertisement appeared recently in the New
ork Tribune, but what it has ended in has not
yet been announced. We copy it as evidence
Of the spirit which prompts parties of the class
of the advertiser, in their seeming sympathy for
the " darkcs' =
MATRIMoNIAI--.7U 0rd for the COIored Prop!c
Of the United States.-A young gentleman
born OF scottish parents. now an adonted cti-
zen of the United States. besides doing a -four
lshlns business on his own accountn New York
clty-belng gentleman of thorough business
qualifications having studied for some time in
some OF the first classical schools with view
TO become Scottish minister of the GOSPEL
but owing to misfortune and failure in his fami-
". he has been obliged to abandon all his ideas
and his then present hopes. and seek refuge in
the land ofColumbia, where he has always been
successful in all his business undertakings.
But understanding that an advertisement ap-
peared IN the New DIRK Sun. from a wealthy
colored gentleman, in the year 1919. or 1850
who felt DESTROYS TO have his daughter welded
TO respectable white man. the advertiser be-
ing true abolitioujst of the English stripc.
and not having the slightest objection as to CO.
or, would feel very DESTROYS to contract mat
rimony with the above, or any respectable CO.
lored lady who may possess few thousand dol
lars-not that the dollars is entirely the object.
ana to prove this, the young gentleman never
wants cent settled on himself, but on the
young colored lady or her children. The gen
tleman who now advertises sustains a good mo-
raj character. is a lirst-rate business man. and
o, Sehteel appearance, besides only "a years
oid. and possesses many other qualities too te-
dIous to mention, but can be fully shown on an
interview with the parties. Address. for one
week Mr.: D., with real name and place where
an interview may be had Communications to
De oniidentlal--addrcsScd and sealed for Mr.
D., Chatham-square. Post Office, New York will