The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1854-02-04

the packets between Louisville aud this city.
The price paid is $1,000 She is substantial
little steamer of light draught, and excellent
speed. She is to be placed immediately on the
docks for repairs, and when thoroughly over
hauled, re-painted and partially if not entirely
refurnished, she will not look like the same
boat. So soon as navigation permits, she is to
be brought to this city, and before the opening
OF the upper river, will be ready to take her
place in the line as neatly and as well furnished
as the best
Capt Nor ehousc informs us that Capt. Orrin
Smith, of Galena, is building two new boats for
the Galena and st. Paul packet trade; the hull
and cabin of one is nearly completed at Cincin-
natl, and the hull of the other bnilding at Mad
lson, is in q forward state and will be launched
In few days, The two boats will cost in the
neighborhoOd of $4,000, or from $50 to $685.
OOO each. They are not large, but will be of
the best material and workmanship, and in point
OF finish and decorations, will compare with any
boats of their class built for many years. Their
leugth will be about 225 feet, with proper
tionate width Of beam and depth of hold but
In construction they are to he of very light
dranght, swift and handsome. such boats as will
alone suit the taste and convenience of the trav-
cling public between the cities of Galena and
st. Paul. Both will be finished in time to take
their places as two of the four packets to be en-
ployed the ensuing season in the daily line.
The Nominee and DR.. Franklin are the other
boats named, but it is more than probable that
five will be engaged during the busiest portion
OF the season, and to that end another steamer
will have to be bought or built The names of
the two new packets have not been finally de-
termined upon. but it is rumored that one will
be called the U'dr Eagle and the other Grey
ClOnd.-Capt. Smith Harris will command one
and old friend, Capt d. b. Morehouse of Iowa
memory, the other. Both good selections, none
hot for md alI
Louis. Intel.
The present stagnation of business caused by
the interruption of navigation, is, we are glad to
see, having one good effect. All communica-
t!on with the Missouri, the upper Mississippi,
the Illinois, and the Southern States, is cut Off
by the ice and the low water in the several riy-
ers, and no immediate prospect OF better state
OF things tor six weeks to come. Even the old
FOgies begin to see, that if our Railroads were
completed, or so far advanced as to take us any
distance in the interior, we should not be de-
prived of all trade, nor he idle for SO long pc
Rod OF time. If we had Railroad connection
with Alton. we should be relieved from the I'M
certainty and danger attending the navigation
OF the siveri through the ice, to that city. We
should have perfect communication and an
excellent trade in that direction So, too ifthe
Ohio and Mississippi road could be used so as
to bring us the trade of Central Illinois, we
should greatly profit by it. There are other
roads in the State, as yet only projected which
if they only extended a few miles into the inte-
rior, would be of great service In our own
State, even greater benefits would flow from the
operation OF our three most important Railroads
If they were only SO far advanced as they OH pb1
to have been with proper liberality on the part
OfOur rich men and capitalists
But the most OF them have done nothing
have contributed nOthing--tO build these roads
and the consequence Is that trade is, and must
be for some weeks, at a stand STILL This will
not do These roads ought to be put under way,
and prosecuted with far greater energy than
has yet been exhibited. Cincinnati knows no
such lnterrcgum in business--she has made doZ-
ems Of Railroads, branching off in every direc-
ton, and she can do without the river trade in
the winter tme.-Chicago, a city of sixty thou
sand inhabitants. has thirty or forty trains ar
irving. and as many departing daily: and they
have not begun to think of stopping the build
ing Of roads. They have made her what she is,
and she must continue to increase in wealth
and population Cleveland, Toledo. and Pitts
burgh have all prolited by these Railroad enter
prises; and the Ohio dry, or frozen up. for sew
eral months, and yet there is no cessation of
trade in those cities. The manufacturers and
the merchants are all kept busy to keep up with
each other in the race Ofcntcrprisc. and all profit
by it. When we look back at those cities and
then at our own, and see that we only have one
pect of another for twenty or thirty miles in a
little while, We confess that we do not feel as
comfortable as we might or so sure that we
have done all that should have been DONE to
keep trade moving, in winter as well as summer
and all the time.--.No. Rep.
u. S.CoNSUI At GENoA-Mr F. Foresti upon
whom this appointment was conferred by the
President, has been rejected by the Government
at Turin. They refuse to recognize him. because
OF his having been concerned in the Italian
movement in New York last spring, in the af-
fair OF the refugees brought there by the frigate
San Giovanni. Another ground of offence is
that forest is said to De implicated with the
friends of Mazzini in their hostility againt the
present Government of Sardinia.
1t is stated that Leutze is now busy at work
on large painting, representing Washington
at the battle of Monmouth, with the arrest of
General Lee. This work of art has been order
ed by Mr.. Leavitt, Of Brooklyn, who pays Sl0,-
900 for it,