The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1854-06-17
NUMBER 40.

NS Mr. Eaton, the lessee of the winslow
House, returned by the Grand Prairie with ri.
furniture. The House will be opened an N.
first Of July.
~ Several Of the party who were he,e on
Thursday will be back in few weeks to remain
with us some time.
ES- Pattison, Benson and Ward have started
their line of city omnibusses. Such enterprises
will not so unre,carded.
es- The Grand Prairie arrived on Saturday
morning from st. Louis. She had the usual full
cargo of boats this season from her desti atiou.
lS- The Democrat reminds us that much Of
the credit for the tasteful manner in which the
capitol halls were decorated on Thursday eve
ming, is due to the ladies Of st. Paul. We beg
the ladies' pardon. Having been absent for
several days, We knew nothing Of this fact when
we wrote our article of Saturday although
we deserve combing for not noticing the "trim-
mings" more particularly on the evening of the
festivities, which would at once have betrayed
the fair and modest hands that arranged them.
TO Mr.. Horace Penfield has arrived from
Utica, n. Y, with splendid lot Of carriages Of
his own manufacture, which he will offer for
sale this week.
10 A citizen, who came down on the Black
Hawk on Saturday informs us that the Sioux
Indians had fresh Chippewa scalp aroundwhich
they were dancing at Traverse when the boat
left. He understood it had been taken on the
St. Croix few days since.
EG- The Black Hawk arrived Saturday from
Traverse dcs Sioux. She reports the Minnesota
falling.
IS- Mr.. Heenan, in addition to his extensive
dry-gOods establishment, has opened a family
grocery next door, at the old stand Of Alex.
Rey. He has everything in that line, fresh and
of the first order.
gs- The editor ofthe Lansing Intslligencer
is happy dog. He has no competitor within
his whole region of country, and when he wish
es to 20 fishing, hunting or what not, he only
has to make some plausible excuse to discon-
tinuc his paper for week or fortnight. His
last effort in this line is as follows:
"The editor of the Intelligencer having to
attend Conrt, no paper can he issued from this
Office next week"
We belieye our friend of the Intelligencer 10
not bachelor, or that word Court might have
placed upon it more constructions than one.
1s- The Dunkirk Journal says a gentleman
passed through that village en- route for Gin.
cinnat, with some twelve native Chinese tea
culturists, for the purpose Of testing the prac-.
ticability of growing tea in the vicinity Of Gin.
cinnati.
gs- Rumor has it that thirty persons are IN
carcerated in the Springfield Jail, Clark county
Ohio, for offending against the liquor law.
MISSING FREIGHrs.-A large amount Of goods
destined for Minnesota are behind their time
six or eight weeks. The complaints are gene
ral in other western communities but where
the blame rests none appear able to decide. Se-
rious losses are consequently suffered, with NO
hope Of o correcting remedy until the lines Of
transportation increase their facilities Of con-
veyance. This We are assured by railroad men
they arc doing as fast as possible. The fact ID,
all calculations, even those characterized -
the most visionary one year ago, have been hr
exceeded by the practical result of business op-
erations upon the East and West lines of trans
portation. We make the following extracts
from Chicago and Toledo papers:
The amount of business on the eastern line
of Roads is absolutely overwhelming. The mer-
chants are loud in their complaints It requires
ON two to six weeks to get goods from Buffalo.
At Detroit and Toledo goods have been piled
up by the acre under rude sheds, awaiting trans.
POI; ;aton. Chicago Jour.
RAILROAD GooDs AT TOLEDo.-We are author.
lied to say, that all the goods for the west which
have accumulated at Toledo, will be started
for Chicago by Wednesday, the 18th inst. In
regard to the delays which havs occurred at
that point we also learn, that the Michigan
Southern Railroad Company has not solicited
freight, through agent: or otherwise, its officers
feeling fully satisfied that quite as much busts
ness would press upon their road without solic.
itation as they could possibly accommodatss-.
Chicago Dem. Press.
"1he warehouses here are now pretty thor.
oughIy cleared of the accumulatious, and all
freights for the west arriving here, are forward
ed without detention.-Ioledo Republican.
The Detroit Tribune learns that Q severe hre
occurred week ago at Forrestvilie-a lum-
berDg village some fifty miles from Port Hu-
ron, on Lake Huron-which destroyed COM
plctely ten buildings, and left entirely desti-
tute fifty persons, beside others who were en-
abied to save portion Of their effects.
cS- The Presby terian General Assembly ss
Philadelphia, resolved to raise one hundred
thou sand dOllara with vhich tn asaist u<nAnoe