The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1855-05-05
MONDAY MORNING, April, 80, 1855.
River Items.

cta MONDA1 MONNlNCI,, Ar 1AJ OU, 1oC0.
River Items. -~1s4
ms The Blackhawk, Capt Maxwell, left
on Saturday last for the Rapids on the Mime
sofa River, loaded down with freight and pas
sengers, majority of whom are emigrants des-
tined for various points on the river. The
steamboat trade on this stream is beginning to
assume an Importance that it has not hereto
fore held. .5si.l aH l.aF 80 --.s.r
~ The Globe and Montello run in connec-
ton with the Blackhawk above the Rapids, dis
tributing freight and passengers along the Min
nesota as far up as they can go. rs.-s
va The Golden Era, packet and mail boat
arrived on Saturday morning with the usual
average complement of passengers and freight.
She left in the afternoon.
@% The Hamburg, J. B. Estes, Captain, and
Frederick K. Stanton, Clerk, reached here yes
terday morning, with $50 passengers. She left
Dubuque on Thursday noon. This boat is call
ed the Dubuque Independent packet"
va The Board of Health held meeting
on Saturday evening. Reports from the seve-
raj wards were received. The health of the
citizens, was ascertained to be universally
good; and the few strangers at the hospital
we're convalescing.
N1- Thermometer on Saturday 81 to 900
| in the shade. A fine breeze was stirring yes
terday, and it was not so warm.
The RED WING LAND OFF1cE.-Mr. Graham,
the Receiver of the U. S. Land Office at Red
Wing, was in the city day before yesterday, and
we learn from him that Rouge d'.aile, as the
Canadians call it, was getting its share of the
rushing tide of emigration. The Land Office has
been doing thriving business. 1t was only
opened on the 10Th of February last: since which
time 500 declaratory presumption statements
have been filed; forty persons have proved up
and paid; and there have been about twenty
contested presumption suits.
| The Office would have done even heavier
business, but unfortunately the plats of surveys
made the last summer, including those on the
Minnesota river, are still withheld at Washing
| ton-the fourteen townships at the Office when
it opened being all as yet in their possession.
This is a great drawback upon not only the
office; but large and flourishing extent OF
country. which would flourish still more if the
people had an opportunity to complete the title
to their lands. r..
We see by the st. Peters Courier, that ar
rangements are being made by the st. Peter
Company, to have a line of steamboats, running
regularly between that place and st. Paul.
Dubuque paper,
- Yes: the arrangements are all perfected,
except the steamboats, and the water to run
them on fkr.
Samuel Hearn, of Keokuk, claims to have
been the first white man who ever cultivated
the soil of Iowa. He commenced on the Des
Moines river, opposite st. Francisville, Clark
county Wisconsin: when. the deponent saith
not.-lO,oa paper.
- Mr.. Hearn may have been very early
settler in Iowa; but the Frenchj Priests, and
after them, old Dubuque himself cultivated the
soil long before he was born. He has never
"hearn" tell of them, probably.
magistrate in Wisconsin, who performs most
of the marriage ceremonies in his county, bears
the very appropriate name of Yocum-Er-
change paper.
- Those may think the name appropriate
who regard marriage as a yoke" which we
don't. At all events, we can assure our bach
elor friends, "that the yoke is easy and the bur
den is light" If they don't believe it, just try
it!
G@-The Times, Saturday, lodged the issue Of
fraternity with the Spy, and the probable par
ticipation of the Times clique in getting up the
crusade upon the settlers of the Reserve.
Let the people jot this down in their note
books for future reference. . ..:.-s-...r
The Times, the better to cover its lodging,
resorts to personalities-its old, never-failing
resource whenever beaten by facts or over.
whelmed by argument.
The personal quarrels of editors cannot in
terest the public: and we shall respect them
and ourself by not answering a fool according
to his folly" ~..-...s
The Tines opinion of our editorial capacity
is accounted by the old couplet-
ssNO man ere felt the halter draw,
With good opinion Of the lawp'
and as to "patent medicines" the Times hav-
ing admitted our ability in that line, we shall
continue dosing it occasionally, trusting in
short time to either "kill or cure"-though the
former is much the easiest task of the two
natural vacuity of brain being a desperate
disease Tor medicine to reach. Iva .r
GOVERNOR REEDER Of Kansas has arrived in
St. Louis, on his way to his old residence in
Pennsylvania. He will be absent two months.
The excel t We head of the affairs of the Terri
tory, in the mean time, is Mr.. Woodson, the
Secretary. Governor Reeder, before his depar-
ture, issued proclamation for an election to be
held on the 22d Of May, to fill vacancies that
occur in six or eight districts. He also issued
his proclamation to convene the Legislature on
the first Monday in July.
Mg- The Ohio State Teachers Association,
this season, is to he held on board one of the
Lake Superior steamers on trip to Lake Su-
perior.
"THE CAMELs ARE COMING."--The storeship
Supply, at the New York hip yard, has been
ordered to re ready for sea in a short time, for
the purpose of proceeding to the East under
the direction of Col. Wayne, for the purpose OF
hri OIL cvar hot 1oo1 IF camp1S which tn