The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1860-01-20
News of Oar Own State.

The Minneapolis Attos states that
brutal murder was committed at place
called Pleasure Greek, six mics from Min
neapolis on Wednesday, the llth inst. One
NIKE DURGAN, who kept a liquor shanty
in that place, was set upon by couple of
murderous wretches, by name OF SANFORD
TRIP and CHvRLEs DUMFREY, of ST. An
thony, who beat his brains out with
batchct, and dragged the body out doors
where they left it. The murderers have been
arrested.
THE Statesman says that men are now
engaged at st. Peter, in buying cattle for
shipment East. II beef and pork can now
be shipped from Minnesota to the East,
with profit, stock raisers can perhaps esti
mate some of the great advantages to be
derived from this branch Of trade five or tea
years hence.
| Mrs. SWIssuELM takes it in high
dudgeon that her nomiD1tiop by Col. ROE
ERTsoN as Surveyor of Logs and Lumber.
should be considered by the Representatives
as "slur" cast upon her She says nobody
can insult her by the oilar of work that XII
bring honest wares; aud thus discourSes
upon womans rights and W mans wrongs
s. Men are quite as anxious that
| wCmen should remain quietly under the shadow
| OF their protecting wings, as are Shareholders
that their property should stay at home and be
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,oorking for the Wages accorded t. WJthood
don't take our 'daily bread second-handed;
but, like the ''lion's young" which King David
speaks of, we ''seek our meat from God''-earn
it and eat it. saying "by your leave" to none.
And, as to surveying logs, we would rather
them into boards with handsaw, for our bread
and butter, than take the dOled pttance which
keeps most women's souls inside their bodies.
Nobody can insult us by the offer of scork
that will bring honest wages; and we are very
much obliged to Col. Robertson for naming US
in connection with SO useful and lucrative a
business as surveying logs.
Not one man in FIVE hundred would
object to any woman doing the ,cork of Sur
veyor General. They are only shocked at her
receiving the honor and emOiumentS.
The reign of Might over Right is not yet at
an end in this world; and under it, man, in the
might of his physical strength, has SO ordered
that all occupations which pay fall to bis
share. Instead of making a just use of his
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the worlds rough heavy work as his share,
leaving to woman exclusively such employ
ments as her feebler frame make suitable for
her alone, and sharing with her that class of
business which partake of the natures of both
extremes, he has mOnOpOlized everything. He
has made himself lord of the Senate, chamber.
and cook roOm struts like a turkey-cOck. in
the public walks of life; and crows like ban
tam rooster, over the domestic hearth. He
manages navies, and measures tape: builds
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and ribbons sells stocks and satin slippers
advertises himself as the manufacturer of
dynasties and dOllbables, steam engines and
whalebone bustles. locomotives and ladies'
hairpins. Nothing is too effeminate for great
brawny man to do, provided it pays; and no
work is too labOrous, too mental, Tor a woman,
provided it does not pay. woman may fell
trees, and cut them into sawlOgs or tirewood--
she may build fence, pillow. NOW, drive oxen,
do any drudgery that circumstances seem to
require, and there is no trouble about it. pro
vided she do not ask the same wages man
would get for the work. How much mans
work do women perform in our frontier life,
without shocking anybody's sensibties? So
long as she does it in a subordinate position. it
is all very well; but the moment a woman
pires to use her own hands and brains for her
own benefit, she must engage in only such avo-
cations as his serene highness-that magnifi-
cent animal, man--has assigned her.
The Red Wing Sentinel says:
One of the farmers of Goodhue county. Mr..
VIM. Featherstone, last week sold in this place,
from the products of his own farm, twenty.
eight hundred bushels wheat. at Is cents per
bushel ''cash." Mr.. 0. B. Pasco was the pur-
chaser: His crop averaged twenty. eight bush.
els to the acre, and quite large portion still
remains unsold. This is. we believe. the largest
sale yet made by any of our Goodhue farmers;
but there will be many such the next season.
As three-fourths of the amount bove realized
is clear profit, some idea may be formed of the
prospects for enterprisng farmers in Minnesota.
NUMBERING IN THE UPPER COUNTRY
We learn from a gentleman just down from
the timber region, that the hardy lumber
men are driving ahead finely this winter, and
are banking good large quantities of solid
pine, which will find its way into our mar
kets next June. 1t is to be regretted that
so many of our enterprizing business men
have heretofore seen fit to employ their cap
ital in other channels, rather than investing
it in opening up the wealth of Northern
Minnesota. This winter iD particular
there are but few teams in the woods, but
those few will reap rich harvest. But
few teams are on the Upper Mississippi
proper, where there are such heavy fine
forests, but on the tributaries such as the
st. Croix, Rum River, &C.
Sioux IND1ANs.-The st. Anthony News
says that those Indians to the number of
23O0 have been scattered through the Big
Woods. So we are informed by Mr.. Will
liam Archibald of Medina, who says that
is the number, as reported ~ Little Six"
himself. They have killed over 1000 deer,
cutting off the supply upon which many of
the poor whites relied. Mr.. A. says their
presence is a great nuisance. They are
inveterate beggars, and sometimes enforce
their applications by threats, though they
always retire when they are met boldly by
the whites. Can nothing be done by the
Indian Agent to keep them on their Reser-
vation Mr. Gilman covc tho Siouv loft