The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1854-07-22

ing the remainder of this season between Gale
ma and Rock Island. She, in connection with
the Royal Arch. will form daily line between
Galena and Rock Island. The former popular
officers of the Golden Era remain in charge Of
her, which is an arrangement that exactly suits
the whole travelling world who journey up
and down the Mississippi. The Company have
abandoned the daily mail arrangement between
Galena, Dubuque and St. Paul, for the present
season. They will bring us mail just as often
as they possibly can but there being no pros
pect Of sufficient water to undertake the fulfil
ment Of the contract, it is scarcely reasonable
to expect strict compliance with its provisions
~ We learn from Mr.. J. L. Strykcr, who
has just returned from a trip through the south
ern part of Minnesota and northern Iowa, that
there is no cessation, day or night. to the steady
stream of immigration into our southern and
southeastern counties. Mr.. S. saw as many as
sixty teams day pushing on from the Iowa
line into that fertile portion of our territory
lying along the Root River, and from the new
town Of Minneowah on the Mississippi, through
to Chatfield. 1t is really incredible to see the
are already under improvement. This gentle
man also informs us that as regards good soil.
plenty of timber and abundance of water, he
has seen no portion of Minnesota that surpasses
that section lying between the Root and Mis-
sissippi Rivers. He also gives good accounts
OF the trout fishing and hunting in those parts,
and as early as a week ago partook of green
corn from the garden of Mr. W. B. Bunnell, at
Minneowah.
LAKE SUPERIOR.-Mcssrs Slaughter, Williams
and others, arrived from Lake Superior on Fri
day evening last, only four days from Superior
City. They represent the new city at the
mouth of the St. Louis river to be in a flourish
ing condition. There is already population
Of two hundred persons, and the number is rap
idly increasing. A copper company with
large capital will soon be formed for the pur-
pose of working one of the numerous mines in
the vicinity. There had been arrivals of two
time the above party left.
~ Quite an amount of spurious money is
in circulation. We were yesterday shown a
new fve-dollar counterfeit upon the State Bank
Of Ohio. 1t is not particularized in the Detec-
tors.
THE WoRsr WINE. - The japanese made it
point when entertained on board the American
vessels, to taste Of every dish, also to take notes
of everything. One of them drank wine
glass of sweet oil, and some one being curious
to know what comment he made upon it, ap-
piled for an Interpretation, when it was found
to read, this is the ,corst ,cine they have got"
House by 40 majority, raising the present rate
of postage from three cents the single letter, for
any distance not exceeding 5000 miles, to ten
cents for the same service. There are other
changes, aud among them a reduction in the
present rate of ocean postage but the burden
of the change falls upon the correspondence I'M
der 5000 miles. The Northampton Courier
says 80 All the Massachusetts, members pre-
sent voted against the increase. 1t is feared
the bill will pass the Senate, as everything OPP
pressive and mean is sure to succeed there
a CALIFORNIA GARDEN.-A gentleman by the
name of Woliskill has at Los Angeles, on the
Pacific shore, about fifty acres Of land, devoted
exclusively to the raising of fruit Thirty-five
acres of this land is allotted to grape vines,
which produce annually about IS 900 gallons
of wine. valued at 49, There are three
acres of peach trees, with one hundred trees to
the acre. which bear about $4,000 pounds of
peaches worth at least $780, Seventy pear
trees produce $4,000 worth of fruit. Twenty
orange trees afford 40, 600 oranges, worth $4,000;
and other fruit of various kinds, such as april
cots, apples, citrons, make up an annual income
kill, the proprietor of this garden, possesses,
also, rancho, situated some eleven hundred
miles of, in the valley Of Sacramento. Here
range three thousand head of cattle and two or
three hundred fine horses and to amuSe him
self while herding stock. he has planted an ex-
tensive vineyard, and set out thousand trees
of various kinds, including some fine olive trees.
MIR. " olfskili has just contracted to furnish
thousand head of cattle at $40 head.
D- We are informed (says the Cincinnati
Commercially by a gentleman just returned from
a tour through Missouri, Iowa, Illinois, and
Minnesota, that the number of men from the
older States, travelling in those regions, with
the purpose of buying land, is, for the season,
large beyond precedent. The same gentleman
informs US that the quantity of old corn in ILL
nois, Iowa and Minnesota, is prodigious, and
that the new crops along the line of his journey
ing will average an average yield.
GERRIrT SMITH, THE ABoLrTIoNlsr, IN FAVOR OF
CuBA.-lt is a noticeable fact that Gerritt
Smith, the most ultra Abolitionist in Congress,
boldly avowed himself in favor of the acquisi-
ton of Cuba, even with slavery remaining in
the law of that land after its change of govern
meDt He Sustained himself in so 5n;pU }y =,