The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1859-11-04

cash prices for wheat, oats and potatoes
wheat SIS to IS cents; oats, good and clean,
20 cents potatoes, pink eyes and peach blows,
20 cents. t-..isE. t..
One firm in Minneapolis shipped in one
day, last week, five thousand bushels oil
potatoes for the st. Louis market. l q.
About twenty five hundred bushels Of
grain were brought into Wabashaw on
Monday last from the back country, loading
heavily some twenty or thirty heavy wag-
obs. The receipts OF grain during the week
have averaged about twenty five hundred
bushels per day. 81 e4
The editor of the St. Peter Free Press
has been presented with couple of heads
of cabbage, each of which measured over
three feet in circumference ave are
AWARE says the editor, that this has been
frequently beaten but, then, these grew in
cornfeld, and had never received any cul-
tivation whatever-not even a hoeing
That is fair test of what the soil alone is
capable of producing. What it will do
when cultivated a. it should be, we leave
our readers to imagine.
The same paper says "a gentleman from
LIE Sueur county, just across the river from
this place, sent US specimens of Yellow Dent
Corn, which was planted on the Goth day of
June last, and which was perfectly ripe and
sound as any corn can be. 1t was raised
near Cleveland, IN that county, by Mr.
PETER"
AT the LIE Sueur county fair the premium
crop of corn was presented by Mr.. RAN.
DoLPH, and yielded seventy seven bushels to
the acre of shelled corn! We think that will
be hard to beat this season in any State
and is a pretty effectual clincher upon the
shallow nonsense so often repeated by some
of our Eastern and Southern friends, that
we cannot grow corn in Minnesota. It was
Of the variety known as White Dent Corn.
The last number of the Mankato Record
contains statistics relative to the steamboat
arrivals at that point during the season OF
navigation. The first boat arrived there on
the 9th of March, and the whole number
of arrivals was l3l-of which 20 were from
towns above Mankato.
Corn is selling in Mankato for 25 cents,
and oats 20. Potatoes, 20; and wheat, 60.
But little beef and pork has been received.
The prices paid for beef range from &c to
4c; and pork from Sc to SC. Butter, 1Oc
to 15c; eggs, l0c to 15c.
A gentleman from Mankato lately caught
in the Blue Earth river, pickerel weighing
twenty one pounds, and a Mr.. SHEPARD
caught three pickerel weighing seventy one
pounds, the largest thirty pounds. Others
weighing from ten to sixteen pounds, are
occasionally taken from the same stream.
We learn from the Mankato Record that
NJ. S. WILKINSON is promising the people
of that county, if elected U. S. Senator, to
remove all the distractions to navigation in
the Minnesota river, and to change the
routes of all the Land Grant Railroads from
St. Peter to Mankato.
A Mr.. BAKER, at St. Peter. has pump
kin in his store, weighing ninety two pounds
and measuring five feet and three quarters
in circumference! 1t was raised in the
vicinity of St. Peter.
Two of the horses belonging to the mai
stage company were drowned few days
since at the Henderson ferry. While at.
tempting to cross, the boat swung out into
the river, and the horses plunged into about
twenty-five feet of water.
DR.. Tom. Foster, of the M,nnesotian, closes
up "hifalutin," blood and thunder, extensive.
ly displayed, spread-eagle article on the result
of the election, in these classic lines:
''Shout, shout Republicans shout!
We've cleaned the breech-ciouts out ~
Some of the first settlers of this portion Of
Minnesota can readily discover the cause of the
Dr.'s chronic hatred to the breech clouts, and
can appreciate the hidden meaning of the
above exuberant expression CT joy, as there
was one occasion, near Traverse des Sioux.
when feminine representative of the bree Oh.
clouts cleaned the DR.. out rather unexpect
eddy st. Peter Statesman.
The editor of the Monticello Times has
potato weighing two pounds ten ounces
planted in the sod on the 5th of June. The
Lake City Tribune editor has a turnip
weighing twenty-five pounds.
The first Fair of the Wabashaw Agricul-
tural Society was perfect success, in point
of numbers in attendance, and the number
and quality of articles entered and exhibited
1t surpassed anything that the most san.
guine had dared to anticipate.
Something more than three hundred entries
were made, and the articles exhibited were full.
ly equal to those of any county fair we ever
attended. There were beets of unequaled di.
mansions. turnips that ''astOnished the natives
they did us at ast,-prime butter, large
cabbages, plump wheat, handsome oats, about
dozen varieties of potatoes, beautiful hive
OF honey. bunch of millet over six feet high.
with full heads Of we'll ripened seeds, and every
kind of garden vegetables or farm products
that can be imagined. G. s. Hendricks, of Wa.
bashaw had basket of turnips, weighing from
three to five pounds each, which he raised from
seed grown and ripened this Wabash a,c
Herald.
WIN. FREEBoRN has presented the Red
Wing Republican with an apple, fine fla