The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1859-03-24
Our Own State.
onGsAL AND SELECTED PARAGRAPHS.
The Lake City Tribune says:


The Lake City Tribune says:
Minnesota has "a, 900 more men than women !.
Massachusetts, has $50, 900 more women than
men! Let the old Bay State send out few
car loads OF girls. % that oar bachelor farmers
and mechanics may secure 10 themselves good
wives. We 60 In for equsiixing matters and
things little.
Now, the truth is, that we are not as a
general thing ready to 60 into any such ex-
travagsnt !uxuries a. the Tribune proposes.
We are quite too poor, most Of us, TO 60 to
any great expense at present, for crinoline.
Did it ever occur to the Tribune that one
great reason for the rapid increase of wealth
and population--yes, and population in
the Western States, ia, that masculine indus
try is unembarassed here by feminine extrav-
agance-the burdens Of family support,
and that We owe, perhaps, no small proper
ton Of our population, to the desire on the
part of henpecked husbands and Others, to
escape from these same Bay State women +?
Why, Mr.. Tribune, it would cost men more
money to support these twenty-five thousand
women you propose to import from the old
Bay State, than would paythe interest on at
least three Five Million Loans" to say
nothing OF the emulation of family bur.
dens which would accrue in consequence, in
the regular course OF nature. No, sir, the
thing is not to be thought offor moment.
The Red Wing Sentinel tells about q
child born in that city, now three months
old, which has not manifested the slightest
perception of pain or pleasure, or any sense
Of feeling whatever. The Lake City Tribune
seems doubtful whether child with such q
negative outside can have soul or not. 1t
is very much like the question which once
agitated the philosophic world as to why
. fish weighed more out Of the water than
in. After an abundance of argument on
both sides, and after eYbausting every posi-
BILE explanation, it at last occurred to some
one to ascertain whether a fish did really
weigh more om than m its native element
We imagine the result of the Investigation
would not be much different from what
would follow an inquiry into the facts
about this wonderful child. An idiotic
child, with impaired sensation, is posi-.
BILE, but child absolutely without
sensation or perception could not live three
months, or live at all. Without the sensa-
ton Of hunger, it could not take its natural
food, and must die of course. 1t may be o
very administrative babe, but if it lives
and performs vital functions, it Of course, is
not without the apparatus Of sensation, how.
ever limited, which makes existence possible.
Probably it is simply very stolid, quiet,
thick-skinned, sensible Dutch babe, too good.
natured to make fool OF itself in the ordi
nary way, and so, as agreat many great but
misunderstood people have been beiorc--is
charged with want of sensbility. 1t is a
charmingy philosophic babe, and We wish
there were more OF them.
The papers of Minnesota are loud in their
denunciations Of the Agricultural College
Bill and in commentator of the President 8
veto of that odious and unjust me asure.
The steamer Colona. drawing ten inche ,
will ply on the Chippewa river during the
entire coming season.
Old Tarmahhsh lone eye), the we'll
known Indian chief and warrior, was in
Wabashaw last week. lie is supposed to
have been born about the year 1853, ac-
cordIng to the Wabashaw Herald, which
would make him l0l years OF age He was
chief, says that paper, one Of Red Wings
bands Of Sioux. and in the war OF 1872,
fought nobly and galantly with the Amer.
leans against the British. lie was also on
the side OF the Americans in the Black
Hawk war, and has rendered the whites
valuable services at other time The Herald
gives copy of the commission given him
by Gov CLARE. OF Missouri, in lsl6. Old
TARNAHnAu takes great pride in showing
this commission. and also demands a ci.,h-
pop for sight OF it. The marks of extreme
old age are visible in his eoun,enance. He
is childish and imbecile, and is but wreck
Of the once mighty warrior who led his
braves to battle and to victory.
One wing of the Minnesota State Unver.
sity, at St Anthony, was completed last
fall a, a cost of $4,000. 1t is built in the
style Of one Of our famous Hotel architects
-" with mortgage and cupols on the
top" This wing is about one,hird Of the
whole proposed structure according to the
original design. The Ness says that this
costly structure is going to ruin, no care
being taken of the premises all tho doors