The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1854-06-03
MAINE.--The Democratic State Convention
to nominate candidate for Governor, is to be
held in Portland on the 2lst of June next

10 nominate Canuluate IOr NOSeTnOT, Is W DE
held in Portland on the 2lst of June next.
OFF TO THE WEsr.-Scvcral families left Che
mung county few days since for the wilds of
Minnesota Elmira ~. Y. .4drertiser.
Similar tidngs are flowing in upon us from
nearly every section of the country. Well let
them come; there is plenty of room for them
ell, and us many more possess the requisite
energy and enterprise to become the pioneers
in the settlement of new country We bid
them welcome to our growing community, and
offer them as fine farming land as the sun ever
shone on. and climate uncXccllcd for unifor-
nifty ofbealtl and growing power in all Of Tn
Gle Sans domain.
MOUNT vERNoS--The t. S. Senate Committee
on Agriculture has reported in favor of the
Mt. Vernon Estate, to be converted into an
Experimental Farm and Agricultural School,
to be attached to the Smithsonian Instit Ie
SHIP BUILDING IN MAINE.-The State of Maine
is now the great building State Of the
Union. From recent official reports from the
Treasury Department., it appears that the
amount of shipping built in the United States
in 1853, is 295 ships, 95 briggs, Gsl schooners.
1914 sloops and canal boats, and I'll steamers,
showing an aggregate Of ITO vessels, amount
ing to 2,57l tons. OF this amount, the States
producing them were rs follows Maine, 35l
vessels, 1896 tons New York, 2S9 vessels,
S3224 tons Massachusetts, 205 vessels, 81, Obs
tons : Pennsylvania, l9l vessels, 81 $50 tons !;
Ohio, 90 vessels, 2l,5l3 tons Maryland 122
vessels, l6,00l tons Connecticut, 81 vessels.
9l22 tons: New Hampshire, 10 vessels. S,GGG
tons Kentucky. 30 vessels. $3.50 tons: New
Jersey, IS vessels, 7,lO7 tons Virginia, 40 YES
sells. $500 tons; Delaware, So vessels 3435
tons; Missouri, % vessels. 1858 tons Indiana,
9 vessels, 4, l55 tons Rhode Island, IL vessels,
$40 tons District Of Columbia II vessels,
2,713 tons; Wisconsin. II vessels, 1922 tons
South Carolina, IS vessels. ,993 tons North
Carolina, % vessels l.7iG tons Louisiana, II
vessels, 1916 tons; Illinois, Q vessels. l,ljS
tons : Vermont. vessels, 2lS tons: California,
vessels, $50 tons Tennessee vessel A. tons
Total, LILO vessels, I55 .572 tons.
EIs- The Canada Times states that should
Prince Albert have his health and the Queen
survive for ten years to come, the Island of
Great Britain will have to be sold to dcfray the
expenses of the Royal Family.
SLAVERY EXISTING IN NEEEASKA.-A letter
from William Walker, chief ofthe Wandot tribe
of Indians, formerly of Ohio. says that slavery
exists in Nebraska among the whites ard In
dams in defiance oftllc compromise oflS2O. 1t
has been in existence ever sinceit was organ
lied as an Indian Territory. True there are
: not many slaves but still slavery exists Some
slaves are held by the Indians by virtue of
their own laws and usaGcs, and some by regu-
lar bills of sale from citizens of Missouri while
white settlers from the latter State never hes
tate to bring slaves with them.
10 When man stops his newspaper on ac-
count of pccuniarv forcbodings, we consider
him about As gone case As if he should con-
cludc to stop his daily bread for fear he should
come to poverty.
MISSISSIPPI AND ST. CKo,X VALLEY Raj. RoAp.
The Prairie du Chen Courier of the oath inst
in speaking of the urgent ncce .sty of Railroad
communication between the Upper and Lower
Mississippi, says:
! The immense and rapidly increasing trade
;, and travel of the Upper Mississippi must have
and that soon. some other outlet than the river
which is frozen up nearly half the year, and
dur;n" the season of navi CATION frequently rel
dcrcd impossible for large boats by low water
( and high sand-Ears. There must be railroad
up the valley of the Mississippi. that question
is settled in the minds of all men who know
anything OF the present and prospective extent
and importance of the up river business. The
questions that remain to be solved are first
when shall such roal be built and next. on
which side of the Mississippi. II seem to us
that when We take into consideration the mag
nitudc Ofthc undertaking and the length of
! time necessary for its completion. that NOW is
the accepted time for commencing. Asrrgards
the location of such road, it is very certain
that the present generation there iSno prol,a-
! bic Use for two roads along the Mississippi and
tat the road first commenced in good faith is
the one TO command the confidence and the as
slStancc Of capitalists. The stock already sub
scribcd in the two companies amounts to up
wards Of $500, 900. and that too bv men who
are not IN the habit of throwing away money
upon schemes that do not promise TO pay
! Prairie du Chen has Il vital interest in this I'M
ucTtakilS-she Is the southern starting point
named in the charter. and if the road is ever
commenced it will he commenced hrrr The
Milwaukee 4 Mississippi Company have now
an Incentive to push their road through to the
Mississippi without the unnecessary loss of
moment. II there is any toolng in this matter
nor. the Mississippi and st. Croix Valley road
will be pushed down the river where Chicago
will meet its untold trade and travel with opcn
arms. We expect, in the course of a few DAYS
to be in possession of the facts necessary to en-
able us to lay this matter fully and particular
ly before readers.
Pacific RAII.RoAD.-Evcry day gives a,lli-
tonal force and weight to the reasons that will
impcl the buldin" OF Il railroad on the northern
route from the Upper Mississippi to Puect's
Sound and the Pacific. 1t is now demonstrated
by Coy. Stevens in his late survey, that no OBJ
siarlrs L., tho s.r.,.