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Minnesota weekly times. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1854-1859, 1857-02-28
A Picture of Southern Minnesota.

The editor of the Owatonna Waterman and
Register has gone into the States, and writes to
his paper in the following ardent and romantic
style. He is in rhapsody! We suspect he may
have an interest in some of that sfairy land"
"The long monotonous routes-the vast stretch
es of prairie of Northern Iowa, owned by foreign
spectators, almost wholly unsettled, and the
shifting drifts of snow, remind you constantly of
the DESERT and sitting in the sleigh, and listening
to the monotonous music of the frozen road as
you glide over it, you doze into reverie, and fan
cy transforms the bright snow into burning sands,
suffuses the sky with the glow of the East, and
converts your prosy two-horse sleigh into cara
van laden with the "wealth of Ormus and of
Ind" journeying toward Observation-Disclosures,
Martineau, the {" Laughing Howadji," and all the
rest of the Poets of the Orient sing in your ears
and you sit dreaming of palms, gushing fount-
aims, and all the GLORY of the realm of romance,
peopled by impossible heroes and poets. This
figure of the desert is constantly in your mind,
turn where you will. 1t is heightened, moreover,
bv glimpses that few lands but ours, and the de-
sert and the ocean reveal-the mirage. With the
sunrise come trooping around the horizon visions
of far off forests, perfect and beautiful as Dreams
villages away, hang suspended in the air and dis.
taut valleys lie bathed in the brilliant radiance of
the morning. To make this fairy land needs
only the warmth of Summer" e
Minnesota weekly times. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1854-1859, 1857-02-28
A Beautiful Sentiment.

| Life bears us on like stream of mighty riv.
Our boat at first glides down the narrow
e OF. through the playful murmurings of the
E S;as1 toe winding Of the grassy borders
The trees shed their 4. =, 70 ofFSr them 20:
the flowers on the brink see... = IN hors onJ
to our young hands we are happy 3: buI
we gaze eagerly at the beauties around u.
the stream hurries on, and still our hands are
empty. Our course in youth and manhood is
along wider and deeper food, amid objects more
striking and magnificent. We are animated at
the moving pictures of enjoyment and industry
passing round US. We are excited at some short
lived disappointment. The stream bears US on,
and our joys and griefs are alike left behind US.
We may be shipwrecked-we cannot be delayed /;
whether rough or smooth, the river hastens to its
home, till the of the ocean is in our ears and
the tossing of the waves is beneath our feet, and
the land lessons from our eyes, and the foods are
lifted up around US, and we take our leave of
earth and its inhabitants, until of our further
voyage there is no witness save the Infinite and
Eternal.-Heber.
Minnesota weekly times. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1854-1859, 1857-02-28

A STRAW RIDE.-A paper in the interior thus
describes the manner in which the young folks
amuse themselves in tie rural districts:
Young 'uns, do you know what ssstraw ride
is? You don't? Well, it is to fill the bed of a
large two-horse-wagon half full of straw, hitch
on the horses, turn their heads to the South;--
the first best seat for lady is the end of the
wagon, fat on the straw, with her feet to the
East; and the first best seat for gentleman is
on the opposite side of the wagon and next to
the FIRST lady, and so on alternately until the
wagon is full. The driver is then directed to
find seat as best he can, and is further particu-
larry directed not to drive slower than trot, and
to avoid missing every stump or boulder within
forty rods of the main road.
Minnesota weekly times. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1854-1859, 1857-02-28
The Burdell Murder.

This Tragedy thickens in interest, and &C the
end /" is more in the fog than ever. The N. Y.
Times think that the murder was not committed
by the house-inmates, but by somebody, to whom
DIR. Burdell (and there are many, it says,) had
given motives for revenge:
"It has been reported that he (Burdell) was in
strumental in sending to State Prison man who
committed a forgery upon him,-a desperate, de-
termined character, who solemnly declared at
that time, that if he ever left the Prison alive, he
would wreak his vengeance upon DR.. Burdell.
We have also heard it rumored that this man is
not now in prison,-that he was known to be in
this City within fortnight of the time of the
murder, and that he has not since been heard of.
If 80, here, certainly, is man who had motive
for the deed. The feeling which be entertained,
the resentment which be cherished, and the threat
he made, are all in keeping with the character Of
the act. Ten years spent in Prison, brooding
over such passion, would nurse it into such .
degree of vengeance adequate to the dreadful
crime. r4 ~
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RE- All at once we miss the music of the steam.

CO All at once we miss the music of the steam
propeller spile. driver which has been putting and
wheeling and delving for the last two months on
the ice below our Office, laying foundation for
the piers of the new bridge. 1t has gone. We
learn that an injunction has been put upon the
enterprise, on the ground of interfering with
navigation''-but the question recuss, "How
much better can boats run with seventy five spiles
80 feet long, driven, as they now are, into the
bottom of the channel at mid-river with each per-
pendiclar log rising just above the surface. than
If the work were completed % And who's going
to pull the spiles out of the river We fear that,
just as it is easier to sink ten good regulations
into the mud of public odium, than it is to raise
one bad one from those depths into the pure air
of self-respeot, with these logs; easier far to
drive all of them into the ground than to pull one
out. Why not finish the job, now that it is begun9
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Correspondence Of them. 7. Tribune
LATER FROM WARRINGTON.
rnIrBusrrsMc- MINNESOTA = NEW CABINET.

fILLIBUSTIRNG- MINNESOTA - NEW CABINET
Washington, Feb. 2.
The Buccaneers of the House have taken to I'LL
libustering. The bill to repeal the Kansas bogus
laws, introduced on Saturday, would have been
carried in the House if direct vote could have
been got upon it; but by motions to adjourn and
calls of the House, the bill was defeated. There
is fixed determination to prevent its passage at
any time.
To-day the same thing was tried on the bill to
modify and simplify the laws rel alive to naviga-
ton. The Gay was wasted over the bill when
large majority were DESTROYS to pass it.
Although the bills to pave the way for the ad-
mission of Oregon and Minnesota as States, were
passed the House on Saturday, no one presumes
they will be allowed to 60 through the Senate
The guardians of slavery in that body are too
watchful for that. Yet Minnesota has already
population of near 100000. But it must wait
for Pro-Slavery arrangements. The Kansas man
ayers seem to be quietly progressing in getting
up Slavery Constitution there. Lecompte Is
stoutly defended in the Senate, and it is quite
doubtful whether he is turned out after all. The
Slavery men know just exactly what they are
about, and they hold this Government in sling.
movement was made in the House to-day to
bring the New York Times Correspondent before
the Investigating Committee again under the
new law. 1t is understood that he will refuse to
disclose, and that he will be turned over to the
civil authorities. Probably the Grand Jury will
find bill and he will be admitted to bail until Q
trial can take place. Meantime the investigation
will end by the dissolution of the House, pre-
vious to which, however, the Committee must re-
port, without Mr.. Simonton's story.
The Cabinet makers are growing very thicl
about the hotels. The Nationals getting throng
ed. Just now the difficulty is to fix upon Sc
cretary of State. The time has come, but no
the man.
Nobody projects out of mob of names can
vassed in connection with a Cabinet appoint
ment sufficiently to point him out as premier
Cass seems to be dropped. Pickens is though
of, but this does not seem to do. Hunter ditto
Cobb ditto. The redoubtable George Saunder
, sticks to Robert j. Walker. Meantime Marc
swings back in his chair and sits smiling. He
perfectly willing to see if they won't be COMPEL
ed to take him at last. Toucey and Cl iford'
claims clash. A controversy is arising betwee
their several friends which is likely to result i
the exclusion Of both as the easiest way of set
Ting the matter.
Minnesota weekly times. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1854-1859, 1857-02-28
Arrange ments for the Funeral OF the late bisnop
Cretin, which takes place To-Day.

Cretin, which takes place To-Day.
Five marshals have been appointed to conduct
the proceedings, viz W. j. Brownson, John Bell,
F;rmau Cazeau, W. B. McGrorty and A. L. Lar
penteur.
ors. CIV. williams, Patrick Ryan, j. A. YER
vais and Francis Weissel Messrs. L. NJ Olivier
ona Patrick Nash will act as Armorial bearers.
T. has been decided that the corpse shall be
horne to the foot of the hill on st. Anthony st.'
nv bearers, eight of whom have been chosen from
the St. Vincent of Paul Society, as follows =
Richard Ireland, William Markoe, Thomas Daily,
John O,Gorman, Thomas Grace, Mathew Flood,
f. N. Larpenteur and N. Hendy. Eight are to be
selected BY the Benevolent Society of the Sons OF
Erin. Eight are to be selected by the st. Jo-
seph's Society of the German Congregation.
The following order of procession has been
agreed upon:
LIST. Chief Marshal, Military and gentlemen on
horseback.
| I'd. Benevolent Sons Of Erin.
Sd. st. Vincent of Paul Society.
4th. St. Joseph's Society.
9TH. Gentlemen on IOOt anu tne CSnoVi "oyo'
| 9th. Members Of the Choir.
7th. Clergy.
9Th. Armorial Bearers.
9th. The Corpse.
10th. Tho Pail and Corpse Bearers.
18th. Sisters of Charity and School C.ee'laren'
18th. Ladies of the Rosary Society.
18th. Ladies Society of St. Ann, and Ladies on
foot.
14.h. Carriages.
On leaving the Church the funeral cortege will
pass down Wabashaw street to the junction of
Third and St. Anthony streets, up St. Anthony
street to the foot of the hill, where the corpse
will be deposited in a hearse, and from thence to
the new Catholic grave yard. The procession will
return to the Church in the same manner in which
IL left IL.
Minnesota weekly times. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1854-1859, 1857-02-28

Bill granting to j. W. Thompson and others
the right to to establish ferry across the Mis-.
sissippi.
A bill to incorporate the Emigrant Aid Asso-
citation. Mr.. Whitlock asked if it was the Kansas
Aid Co., it so, it certainly should pass, as he
heard they were in want Of funds.
A bill to incorporate the town of East Red
Wing.
A bill to incorporate the Root River Valley
and Southern Minnesota Railroad Co.
A bill to incorporate the town of Union city.
bill to regulate the compensation of County
Surveyors.
bill to incorporate the St. Paul Library AS
ISOLATION.
A bill to incorporate the town of Woukonsa.
An act to amend Revised Statutes. Referred
to committee on Judiciary.
A bill to incorporate the st. Paul and Taylor's
Falls Railroad Co.
Some of the above bills were amended and all
of them ordered to third reading.
The House adjourned.
Minnesota weekly times. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1854-1859, 1857-02-28

We see by the last number of the Rice County
Herald that r. A. Mott has retired from the edi-
torial department, and is succeeded by the
Bros. Pond. From an editorial exhortation, in
viting Eastern readers to come to Minnesota, we
clip the following:
ssCome along young men, even if you can't Sc
cure any more than the New Orleans Spectator
did, in Chicago. last summer, when he invested
his 81 900 in lots at $1,000 per foot-like him,
you can at least buy sir inches and get start"
Minnesota weekly times. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1854-1859, 1857-02-28

WDuring the recent detention on the Hudson
River Road, one poor fellow on the train was re-
ally to be pitied. He had an engagement to be
married on Tuesday, and of course could not be
present to claim his bride. His disappointment
was so severe that it found vent in tears, and the
Door fellow cried like child.
Minnesota weekly times. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1854-1859, 1857-02-28

e. Madame Oceana, the largest limbed wo-
man in the world, is in the museum at New Or
leans. She weighs SIS pounds, is 9 feet 2 inches
in circumference, measures 20 inches around the
arm and SO around the calf Of her leg. and weara
No. shoes. She halls from Kentucky.
Minnesota weekly times. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1854-1859, 1857-02-28

o. We would again call the attention of our
readers to the literary entertainment of the St.
Paul Library Association this evening. The af-
fair will well be worth the large patr onage which
it will certainly receive. Go.
Minnesota weekly times. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1854-1859, 1857-02-28

e. new paper has just come to usl"The
Lake Pepin independent published, as il name
indicates, at Lake Pepin. lts first number is en-
tirsly illsgible on the inside-from which We
Judge that the next will be better.
Minnesota weekly times. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1854-1859, 1857-02-28
Trade Of the Upper Mississippi.

We find an interesting editorial in the Hudson
Chronicle, from which we take the liberty of ex-
tracing as follows:
cit is expected that the Milwaukee and Missis-
sippi Railroad will be entirely completed to Prai-
RE du Chen by the first of March. From thence
line of five splendid steamers will each make
two trips per week, to st. Paul. By this route
the distance on the river will be shortened some
eighty miles so that the trip may, in good stage
of water, be made in twenty hours. From Prairie
du Chen to Milwaukee the time will be only sew
en- hours, or nine hours by way of GAINESVILLE to
Chicago, so that passengers may reach the latter
place as soon as they can arrive at Dunleith by
the old route. This new avenue of trade and
travel will be of incalculable benefit to our mer-
chants and business men, not only by reason of
the decrease in the expense of transporting goods
but also on account of the competition which will
be created between two rival routes, thus making
each more prompt and saving them from those
| vexatious delays which freight has hitherto been
subject to by reason of the immense accumula-
ton at Chicago and Dunleith, little cared for by
| by Railroads, forwarders and packet companies
so long as they are retained as matter OF ne
cessity, monopoly Of the whole trade.
The Minnesota Packet Company are also pre-
pairing to add FIVE new boats to their line, bull
after the model of the Northern Belle, which las
season took the palm of the Upper River Boats
Besides this regular line Of boats will run from
Dubuque and We presume also as many or more
transient and independent boats than heretofore
Yet with all this increase of tonnage, we pre-
dict that the coming season will like the previous
ones. furnish more business than all the boats
which will be in the trade, can accommodate.
The rush for the Northwest has hardlp ye
commenced. Millions of acres of the most fer
tile land yet remain unoccupied in Northwestern
Wisconsin and Minnesota, and the delusion here
tofore prevalent at the East that our climate il
| more rigorous than that of the eastern and mid
die States, has but just yielded to the conclusiv
evidence of facts. The population already her
have doubled their business capacity within tn
past year, and the rush of emigration during tn
next will double it again."
Minnesota weekly times. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1854-1859, 1857-02-28

q Mr.. Keim, the intimate friend and secom-
plice Of the late Preston s. Books, and partici-
pator in the Sumner assaalt Is confined 70 his bed
with the identical disease Of which MI. Brooks
died.
Minnesota weekly times. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1854-1859, 1857-02-28
81 JOHN J. LOCKE,
HOUSE, HOTEL AND STEAMBOAT
FURNISHING WAREROOMS,

WHOLESALE AND RETAIL,
No. los Fourth street, Ten Buildings,
ST. LOUIS, MO.
TIME CUTLERY Sver Plated britannia, Plantshed,
panned Plain Tinware, Wooden and willow Ware,
Feather busters, Brushes, Brooms, &C. sc.
Including every article in the HOUSE FURNISHING LINE.
Dealers generally throughout
stock House Furnishing and Fancy Goods
not equaled variety the West. Having de-
termned do strictly cash business and receiving
goods the Manufacturers enabled offer
Inducements other house in the
Western country.
Country Merchants while in the city, invited co
Goods packed and sent any part of the country
Sept. 23d-3m
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SAINT PAUL AND DUBUQUE STAGES
IN CONNECTION WITH EASTERN RAILROADS.

A Daily Line 2 Of stages
WILL LEAVE ST. PAUL FOR DUBUQUE, via Cannon
w Falls and DEBORAH and TrWeekly via Hastings and
Red Wing, during the close of navigation.
will be called through the central Of the
ciy and at all the principal Hotels, by leaving their
and directions office Ste Anthony Street, opposite the
American Hotel.
No will be considered engaged until the Fare is Paid.
Through Tickets part of the United States, all
Eastern Railroads.
Stages arriving at ST. Paul, will deliver Passengers at all the
principal Hotels giving notice the Driver Agent
M. o. WALKER, Proprietor, Chicago.
nov114m 10. GEORGE, Agent Saint Paul.
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ct. Conis.
JAs. cUDDYs
r. KIN0sLAND. JAS. cUDDs
s. KINGSLAND & CUDDY,
II n q ADV AY FOUNDRY.

SAINT LOUIS, MO.
MANUFACTURERS Steam Engines of sllsizesj Saw ano
Nl Ggis Mil Machinery; Boilers and Sheet Iron work.
Parker and johnson Water Wheelss Tobacco OH
Presses Lead Furnace Castings and Iron and Brass
description. Also Patent upright Saw MIL
orders promptly attended and all work warranted o.
ne best description. al-6m
BENZ. RINEHARr. ALEX. zIEoLER.
b. RINEHART Co., =
IMPORTERS AND WHOLESALE DEALERS IN CIGARS
20 TOBACCO, &C.,
North Main Street, under the Virginia Hotel, ST. Lous Mo
We keep always hand large and superior stock Of lmpo
and Domestic Regaa, La Norma, Mar, londre Cheroot
Principe and other Havana Cigars, Of the best brands
May II, 1854. mylb;ly.
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GROCERIES-IN STORE AND FOR SALE.
z n hhds prime New Orleans Sugar. -
w 100 bbls Coffee, crushed and refined do.
1000 sacks corn.
1000 do oats.
800 bbls Pork.
$50 half bbls Lard.
5000 Picked and Smoked Hams.
500 sacks Corn Meal.
80 do white Beans. ttti
100 bags prime Rio Csffee.
l60bbls 8. II. and Syrup Nolassss.
g so half chests Extra Imp. Z. H. and Black Tsas.
100 boxes Soap.
100 do Candles.
100 bills Recthed whisky.
500 boxes choice brands wa Tobacco.
so bbs Rice.
~ or casks Champagne Brandy
800 bags assorted Shot. - stfes-
100 boxes Imported and Domestic Cigars.
Is bbs Old Aonongahela Whisky.
SO boxes Pearl Starch.
100 do Candy. casa
Also andNe selected assortment Groceries gen.
.ray, which we win furnish to the Trade At small advance.
sii41't.5 WOOD BARLEY, t~i
wn.es"o n0vZ7-tf.
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G. A. DELOYNES & CO.,
IMPORTERS OF
Brandies, Wines, Fruits s. Segars.

43 South Water Street, (up sfairs,) Chicago.
HvHE and Liquors sold by the above House
the importation Of their Ne0 York firm, and trans
ferred under the seals of Chicago
they lodged United States bonded In this
way the States purchase
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IMPO RTANT TO THE DEAF.
mr.. McIEOD. Of Scotand.


Proprietor the Institution the Deaf, ST. Louis. Mo
IIAS ARRIVED IN CHICAGO, ILL. AND MAY BE CON-
IL suited at ITO Dearborn street, stairs, south
of the Post Office. Early attention is desired.
Deafness Dizziness Noise in the Head, all discharges
from the Ear, Mouth or Nostrils entirely removed
IMPORTANT AND TRUE
Ihave fsteen years Of who has been deaf and
dumb from the of the effect scarlet
began give signs Of hearing, and
expiration of weeks he could hear we'll, and
rapdy} arnng speak. make this statement unsolicited,
and forthe good Of an afflicted community.
st. Paul, Feb. 1866. ALEX. O. NORTON
been suffering with DEAFNESS and many OF the Ills
accompanying Deafness from infancy which Is about
years. deafness became distressing that
could neither day night, looked relief only
the At length permitted to visit Dr. Mcleod,
Of the Ear lnrmay of this city. Trembling between hope
and fear, submitted to this gentleman. Beyond
sangune expectations, after short OF
ment by Dr. Mcleod in the enjoyment Of perfect hear
which formerly made life burden Any person wishing
me, find residence, No. 10 Fifth
Cincinnati, o., Jan. 1866 MRS EMMA CHANDLER.
Ihave been deaf In both my for many years which
affection affected mnd that life itself, at times,
burden, and almost uncomfortable to me. am Of
happest living. have been restored to perfect
caring by Dr. Mcleod, Ear Infmary Fourth and
Streets In his first examination of he stated
six operations he would give hearing
his word, the sixth operaton heard, and dis
tnctly powerfully did the sound my ears,
obliged partially stop them with cotton, until could
get to Those wishing see me can call at the
er Parthenia. PHILIP SHELL.
st Louis, July II, 1856. Steamboat Parthena.
1.1v
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yNO. BAKER

yNO. BAKER. RoBT TH0RNBURGH
FURNIT U r F..
THE UNDERSIGNED HAVE oPfNED NEW
FURNITURE STORE
in THE TEN BUILDINGS,
No. 90, Fourth stree
Too Doors above Locust Street, East Side.
TN calling the citizens ST. Louis and vi
cny, establishment, tOinduce patronage We
promise you
Three Things,
which endeavor, all times faithfully to perform.
First,
to keep constantly on hand,
Good Assortment excelled by Furn
House in the West
g 0 N d
Our work shall be well made Of the Best Materials this we
warrant.
Third,
will sell at Prices Low IL not Less than any similar
establishment St. Louis. All of which agreeto per.
form at q.
No. 80, Fourth street, st. Louis, Mo.
ja2s-1y BAKER THORNBURGH.