The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1855-06-16
Correspondence of the Minnesotian.
Quick Trip from st. Paul to Piltsburg h. Steamer
Falls City--Happy Omen - Pioneer Hook and
Ladder Co.
PITTSBURGH. JUNE l 1855,

Ladder Co.
PITTSBURGH, JUNE l 1855.
MEssRs. DEMONSTRATING St. Paul. on
board the War Eagle, on Wednesday, oath nit.
at II o'clock A. NJ, arrived at this place at s
P. NJ. the following Saturday. after lying over
six hours in Galena,) making the trip in three
days and nine hours
The Steamer Falls City, Capt Gilbert, left
this port yesterday, destined for ST. Anthony
Falls. The Falls City is said to be one of the
best jobs of steamboat work that has left this
port, and is pronounced by the Inspector an A
No. boat. Her dimensions are as follows
Length, 1855 feet depth of hold, #. in.
width of beam, p feet; three boilers-lengtb
"a feet-diameter 36 inches; stern wheel; 400
tons burthen.
There is rather a singular Incident connect
ed with the first movement of this boat; and
which is viewed with considerable superstition
on the part of Capt. Gilbert. give it as pub.
lished in the Daily Post Of this city:-"On
Saturday last. as the Falls City backed into
the Ohio river at Wellsville, to make her trial
trip, large grey eagle, which had not been
observed before, flew across the boat, through
the dense smoke, and between the chmneys,
taking up position directly in the van, where
it continued until the boat had made the dis
lance Of several miles up the river-all the
time flying very slow, in order not to get out
Of sight Of the steamer. A bird of this kind is
not often seen in this neighbcrhood, and as the
Falls City is intended for the Upper Mississippi.
Capt. Gilbert seems to think it must have come
from the Falls of St. Anthony. expressly to
witness the first trip of his new.l,oat."
The Captain and myself have made various
small bets as to the Falls City arriving at the
Falls this scascn-hc that he would take her
there. and I that he would not. But We shall
see. The following is her manifest for St. Paul:
Nichols & Burkey, 1875 slabs steel, kgs. nuts
and washers, 5 bars steel, 800 half boxes glass.
J. L. Farwell & Co., Is bdls sheet iron. 3.
Presley IL boxes glass. B. Weide. IL bxs. axes.
IL doz. hoes, doz. mattocks, 6 doz. spades,
doz. forks. The largest portion of her cargo
is for st. Anthony, aud Capt. Smith, of the
steamer Anoka, now building above the Falls.
On account of low water in the Ohio, Capt.
Gilbert was forced to leave behind a consider
able quantity Of St. Paul freight now ready for
shipment at this place. But there is now eve
ry prospt ct of rise in the river
The steamer Fanny Harris, left this port the
week previous to the departre of the Falls City,
destined also for st. Paul, with large freight
and cabin full of passengers.
About 700 Mormons arrived here on Monday
last, from England, Scotland and Wales, en-
route for Salt Lake. With the exception of
their leaders, they seem to be of the very low
est order of beings.
Tomorrow l start for Philadelphia to pro.
cure an apparatus for the Pioneer Hook and
Ladder Company-being unable to purchase
such an one here as directed by the Compa-
ny. II hope to be in St. Paul by the last of
this month, and think shall.
Yours, &C., J. ".