Saint Paul weekly Minnesotian., 1859-12-03

4 BY gentlemen who have been connected witt
the river business for some years past, tha
the business IL Our city and valley, independ
4 tent Of tie lumber srsds, has sbeen at least one
third greater than twas last season, This i
an encouraging omen, and while all gre suffer
ing from the general scarcity of money, woult
seem to indicate asubstantial improvement
in confidence and credit, or in the improves
condition of the money market or both.
/ Me- Armstrong, of the Lower Levee, whose
statements can be relied upon as entirely cor
/ rect, assures us the number Of arrivals was ai
least one.third more than during the season
Of 1851 Last year the number, Of arrivals
| was 462. The number the present season
was probably not less than 600. '''-''' '.lo' 4
1t appears by the following article in the
Messenger that the Saltwater Company is still
under arms: 0''' - = -z'1i''''
"GoNE AND DONE IT, AND PUr Hrs Foo1
IN IT.-We understand Brigadier General
Wagner has resigned his commission. Wheth-
er it was because the General would not hold
an Office under Black Republican Admins.
tration, or whether he feared Rack Repub.
lican Administration would not permit him to
do so, we are not informed. ri ejossar!A
| By the way, the General ought to have dis
i charged from actual service the w. L. Artil-
lery Company of this city before resigning-
a Company ordered under arms to march to
the seat Of war in Wright county," on the
9th of August last, by the authority Of Gen.
/ Wagner and Gov. Sibley. The boys have
! now had campaign of one huadred'and nine
days duration, and they are entitled to q little
respite. i. ~ 1E1Haeuhas i9asg &
| TELEGRAPH NEEDED The Nesssnger in
sists on our need Of . Telegraph to connect us
with the East It thus argues :adJ % gaiao
Our NEED OF TELEGRAPH.-Scarcelya o
day passes but we feel the necessity of Tel
egraphie connection with the East and South
not an hour passes but line connecting
La Crosse with the leading cities Of Minneso-
| ia would be actively employed. Ten days
ago we had every prospect of an immediate
close Of navigation; and every boat then des.
tined for the Upper Mississippi either dischar-
| ged their freight before coming through, or
hurried into port and hastened back, tearing
| they would be caught ia the ice "A large
amount of freight has thus been left behind,
or discharged at ports along the river where
it will have to remain until next spring, or be
conveyed by teams to its destination. Since
the first indication of q close of the river ten
days ago, there has been ample time for boats
to have loaded at st. Louis, reached this port,
and returned with perfect safety. And this
would have been done if we only enjoyed the
Advantages Of q telegraph by which steamboat
men and shippers below could be kept con-
stantly advised of the state of the weather.
By the early and needless drawing off of
the boats the present season, the business
men alone of Minnesota have suffered far
greater loss than the cost of the construction
and equipment of first-class telegraph from
this city and st. Paul to La Crosse. When
viii our people turn their attention to this not
expensive, but greatly needed enterprise |?
If the business men of Minnesota could enjoy
the advantages of such . connection long
enough to appreciate its, real value, they
would not suffer themselves to be deprived
of it for ten times its cost. I'll " ef1aH .l
PIONEER GUARDS HALL, Sr. PAUL.-While
in st. Paul a few days since some of our
friends who knew that we arc ''some military
showed US through the new and beautiful ar
mory of the Pioneer Guards, IN Bernheimer's S
block, Third street. The hall is perhaps the
largest, and certainly the most elegantly fur
nished in the State, and reflects much credit
taste Of this crack Company. The hall was
with brilliant ball. i "''' 7.', .'2g.s ss' q
j. W. TAYLOR has been ventilating him
selfover at Saltwater. The Messenger says
From gentlemen who were present, we learn
that the gentleman did not advance any prop
ositions calculated to encourage even those Of
our citizens in the Railroad interest. From
what we can learn of the lecture, we are led
to conclude that Mr.. Taylor has abandoned
the immediate hope that the people of our
State will be enabled to build all the various
roads over which he and others were so en-
thusiastic few years ago, and that he holds
it the duty of the people to now concentrate
all their energies upon one great road-con-
Meeting st. Paul and the Saskatchewan in
general, and Mr.. Taylor, the late Secretary
of the Minnesota and Pacific Company, (who
is said to be the holder of quite large amount
of Railroad bonds,) in particular" aa a'ED
The Hoyt House, at Hudson, was sold last
Saturday under mortgage for $4,000. A very
low figure, we should think. i1 D. a1ai ~
R The Albert Lea (Minn.) Eagle, Of
Nov -, has the following: HaaoI hsf.'a
EMIGRATION the past week sever
al emigrants have passed through our town.
One team was followed by quite a number of
cows driven by lady. In answer to our in
quiry as to their place of destination, the lady
informed us that they aoere going to Minneso-
ta. We sincerely hope that she will have
good time when she gets ''to Minnesota"
From the Rochester City Post of Nov.
c 19th M, s,sry,-
democratic Harmony this head
ing the Post has capital leader upon the rsw
amongst the Democratic newspapers of this
State touching the causes of the late defeat of
that party in the State, especially as to wheth-
sr Henry M. Rice, Senator Douglas, Mr.. Blu.
chanan, Squatter Sovereignty or Pro-Slavery
Intervention, ibid it" 1t quotes the last dy-
ing confessions of the Hastings Ledger. The
Post says :"
The Hastings Ledger goes so far as to init
mate, in pretty strong language, that the par
ty 'lent themselves" we quote,) ito the
most corrupt corporations that have ever dis
graced any one of the States of this confeder
acy." 1t believes that "the pretence of build
ing railroads was but the flimsiest veil to con
ceal the robbery Of the donated land"
Further, it says: haa .f
Sour State administration has been charg-
ed, and we believe with truth, with the dis
trusts and vexations and hindrances growing
out of our currency system. The Auditor
has never satisfactorily explained why he took
the Minnesota State Bonds at ninety-fve cents
on the dollar. For that, he and his co-adju-
tors and abettors have been forever politically
daruned in this State, and the Democratic
party has suffered for having made him Aud
itor. H b. eFsar Nod rr-t -s.,E. r,-.,,5. .
"Next-The Bank Amendment was intro
duced by Democrat And in that most ben.
Efficient measure, the gentleman out. generated
himself ~ 70 siiiAF Dds gr'.5Ho .0od ~
p q" Next-There are Administration Demo-
Gratis in this State, as well as Douglas schis-
matics, and the more the platform suited the
latter, the less it suited the former
Sand finally, to bring the matter to close
f1,o 90 orsroy, oT7< ~.,..