The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1861-03-29

News Of Our Own state.
EDITOR PORTER, Of the Lake City Tribune,
has been elected Postmaster of that city; but
for all that be may not be called.
The treaty made on the 18th of April,
1859, between the Winnebago Indians and
the government, ratified by the Senate
few weeks since, is very important in its
provisions. By it, the western half of their
reservation, in Blue Earth county,-lO3,-
$50 acres,-is to be surveyed and sold. The
eastern half is to be surveyed into eighty
acre tracts, and the Indians located thereon,
as compactly as possible. The tribe at
present numbers 2,lOO Indians, Or about
400 families. Each family is to be located
on an eighty acre tract. After the Indians
have been located, which will occupy about
two and one-half townships, the lands re-
naming unoccupied are also to be sold. The
money accruing from the sale of these lands
is to be partially expended by the Govern
ment in the erection of comfortable homes,
in the purchase of stock and farming uten-
sils, and in teaching the Indians practical
knowledge of agriculture. A portion of the
money is also to be applied to the payment
of claims against the Indians.
The St. Peter Statesman says that the
farmers in the timber opposite that place
have made extensive preparations for max
ing sugar. Some parties design tapping
$500 trees, and many others 500 and 600.
Mrs. SwIssHELM don't think the Apostle
Paul is good authority on all matters. In
response to correspondent she says:
Paul being an old bachelor, and having
habit of talking by permission" is not al
ways good authority about women and chill
dren. What did he know about feeding babies2
Modern science has discovered that barley wa.
ter is better than milk in thousands of cases,
and any old woman in Pennsylvania knows
that sickly baby often wants slice of fat
bacon to suck, and will thrive on it, when doc
tors are at their wits end about medicine and
diet We are feeding the babes after this plan
giving them an auxiliary to the milk and wa
ter with which their stOmachs are usually dis
tended ; and substitute for castor oil.
Gov. BARBER, whilom of Dakota arrived
at St. Cloud last week in "dog train,'
from Pembina-a distance of five hundre d
miles. Mrs. Sw1ssHELM, having enjoyed
the luxury of ride in the novel vehicle,
thus describes it
The vehicle is very thin board split from
an oak log. 1t is about as wide as chair seat
and eight feet long. 1t is bent up in front like
sled runner and lies fat on the snow. Usually
this is all, but our Governor, with an eye to
elegance and creature comfort, had a cutter
sled built on his, of parchment, with back
high enough to support the shoulders, scroll
| shaped sides and a front curling over. The
| parchment is supported by oak slips as thick
| as mans finger. 1t is staunch and firm, and
yet the whole affair, we are told, weighs lutte
over ten pounds. In this bed the traveller sits
with his buffalo robes and blankets, while on
the fiat board which extends behind him is
strapped his pemican and other provisions
Before b N are his four dogs, hitched between
two long traces of raw hide, one before the
ot]' The traveller has a whip long enough
to ach the foremost, and usually keeps up
vigorous logging and shouting. The creatures
will travel from thirty to sixty miles per day,
and keep on day after day. Their allowance
is one pound of pemican each daily. But often
the traveller who goes we'll armed succeeds in
shooting game, and thus furnishes food for his
steeds. The dogs are of the wolf species, ugly,
treacherOus looking brutes, who would no
doubt eat their masters if they got chance.
The Democrat says there are 100000
bushels of wheat in store at Hastings,
mostly from the counties of Goodhue, Rice
and Scott. The same paper also says:
The engine and boiler for Prairie Wagon
is being manufactured at the Hastings Foun-
dry and Machine Shop. The whole when
complete, we understand will only weight
eighteen or twenty hundred. Something lighter
than 10 Browns wagon.
Mr.. D. B. Truax communicates to the
public statement of the crops of the town
of Nininger, Dakota county, for 1860, from
which we learn that in that town the average
yield of wheat to the acre, was 25A bushels;
of corn, 40 bushels; of oats, 5O34; and of
barley, "a.