The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1858-07-22
Our Own Slsle.

HgSsEpix County TAxB.-AIl lands in
Ilcnncpin Go. on which the taxes for 1857
have not been paid will be sold at public
auction. commencing August 10th, as by
law required.
WAsuISaroS AND MRKKER CousrIEs.-
The Monticello Times editor having passed
through the towns Of Buffalo, Albion, Bris-
tol. Kingston and Ford city, says that sub
stantial improvements are being made at the
throe latter places. At Buffalo they have
large steam saw mill in operation--a no
tcl and store.
Kingston contains about hundred inhab-
itants and about thirty dwellings. with It's
hotels, mills and shops.
Forest city. the seat Of the Z. =. Land
Office, has beautiful location for city,
and is rapidly improving.
EXTENSION or TAxEs.-The Hastings IN.
dependent advocates the extension of time
Tor the payment Of taxes to the first Of Sep
tenber. on the ground that by that time the
harvest can bo converted into the where
withal. The wide destruction OF the crops
in the prairie States below which will ere
alto demand for our products, gives a force
to this suggestion which We commend to
the attention Of our Legislature.
Rgp VIVA MAsurAcrUREs.--A cores
pondent Of the Red Wing Sentinel says that
more than one hundred thousand dollars is
invested in thu manufacture Of lumber alone
at that place, and that the expense account
Of one Of the four different mills last year
there, was over $50 900, aside from improve.
ments, &c,
HAMLISE UNIVERSITY. The Red Wing
papers are quarrcling over the question
whether llamliue University constitutes
Red Wing. and Of its economical value TO
the town M compared 10 saw mills and sim.
liar institutions of learning.
Tux TsRRoss OF FwK Pgs CESr.--rhe
Hastings Daily Ledger has the following
groan
ahuddcrng as is the thought OF So per cent,
Il would dannt but few, were IL not for the psu,
atty attached 20 the non fudment of the con.
tract At the time specified. -Four, five, eight
aud twelve, and perhaps higher yet, are the
amounts per month that most of tho parties
obliged themselves 10 pay until the bond was
paid. q had been better that no redemption
haA haau all al lahtpf and that the
creditor had been compelled to take the home.
ste Ad and thus ended his claim. But no, The
Bond, the Bond" follows them, waking or
sleeping. Ii was not intended that such condi'
tons should be paid. no more than II II had
been "a pound OF iiesh = but the events be
and which must ever aud anon favor tho priyi'
lodged money lender will a. enectnally de
stroy the bone and sinew Of the soil, II these
hard conditions are enforced against them.
The Leigsr may console itself. 1t is the
opinion Of our ablest lawyers that the five
per zen, per month penalty cannot bc col
kctcd The contract expires with maturity.
After that the law fixes the measure OF dam
agc for the detention Of the mo ney in the
hands OF the borrowers. ut seven per cent per
annum. The tive per cent stipulation IN
notcs and mortgages is in the nature Of the
penalty expressed in bond which EVERYONE
knows cannot b. enforced, So that the
Ledger can sleep undisturbed by visions OF
the 1" bond"
WoMvS FAcroRy Chatteld DIN
ocrai. adycrtscs at that place. the only WOOL
en- factory in the state.
WAnAsnAw.-Thc wabashaw Journal.
on the second anniversary Of its publication
gives an extended history Of that town du-
ring the period Of two years prcocdiug,
The editor found few people and few and poor
buildings in the town ON his arrival in 1856,
The improvements which have bscn made
in the principal strets since then are cata-
loguei in detail AMI exhibit considerable
progrss. The review would be much more
valuable ii i, had embraced q few tigurs
showing the comparative statistics OF the
population and trade Of the two periods.