The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1855-11-10
The Land Sales Again.

The Land Sales Again.
Mr. Olds, the Register of the Minneapolis
Land Office, informs us that the amount re-
ceived at that Office for pre-cmption pay
ments between the lst and Goth of October
was $4,000 On the Goth the sales CON-
menced at that Office. The highest bona .flt
sale was a small tract of woodland, situated
upon the Lake of the Isles in Hennepin Co.,
which brought 500 per acre. Two or three
forty acre subdivisions brought $l2 and $l3
per acre and several headquarters were
run up to 81 so.
The amount received during the sales was
0O0-making the receipts of the office
Sl15,000 during the month of October
We believe there is no precedent I'M the
history of the general land sales of the West
showing actual purchases at SO uniformly
high prices as the above and those we men
toned on Saturday as having taken place at
Winona and Red Wing during tie last week
1t all goes to show the high value set upon
Minnesota lands by shrcwd dealers.
A PROMISE FrLrILLED.-Thc Pioneer and
Democrat stated on the morning of their
union. that they would now be enabled to
present more interesting paper. Judging
hy the manner in which they copy from the
Mnncsotian, they will come ';pretty near
doing it,
INDIAN DRuNK.-A drunken Indian, with
q jug of liquor under his arm, staggered
through Third street on Saturday morning
He was promptly arrested by Constable
O'Neill and locked up in the calaboose.
FINIsHED.-Mr Fuller's men laid the last
brick upon the top walls of the new Hote
on Saturday. 1t is splendid structure.
E A Washington letter, Of the Goth
says that Mr.. Buchanan has been ordered
home by dispatch which went out in the
last steamer.
Es Col. Benton's Secret History of the
intrigue which resulted in defeating Martil
Van Buren's denomination for the Presiden
cy in 1914, appears in the n. Y. Evenin:
Post of the Goth.
Gov. REEDER.-Thc story of the murder
of Gov Reeder is contradicted in the Leav
unworth Herald of the 29th. At the time O
the reported murder he was at Lawrence.
GROWTH OF MINNEsoTA.-MinnesOt hai
shown by her last census a population o
$1,000 pefsoiis, and ct the rate of increas,
shown by the emigration, the Territory viii
reach 100000 before the close of the mex
Congress. At Cincinnati, says the Galen;
Advertiser, the number of farmers bounC
thither by steamboat number $50 to POO pei
day. .-~s
g The New York Mirror says tha
Thomas Francis Meagher, the Irish patriot
is about to lead to the hymenial altar one o
the loveliest bellies of that city.
e At military parade in Brunswick
n. j., last week, Gen. Stryker, veteran
ninety-three years of age, took command
addressed the soldiers for some ten minutes
and gave the necessary commands. Th
general looked remarkably well, and is re
garded as the most extraordinary man in til
State.
e The article Of quinine is exhauste
in three of the principal towns on the Wa
bash, in Indiana. Terre Haute ran shol
first, and then made run on Vicennes an
exhausted the stock there. yicennes Dire,
ON Evansville, and cleaned that city out.
GREAT INLAND SEA IN AFRICA.-Dr. Rel
maun, traveller in Africa, has sent to Ell
fope map of a sea which he has discorere
iA@the interior Of Africa. IL is more tha
twice as large as the Black Sea, and is sit,
ated between the equator and, ten degree
south latitude, and between % degrees an
30 of longitude, east from Greenwich.