The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1862-07-04
Minnesota News.

minnesota News.
The Democratic County Convention in
Blue Earth county, to elect delegates to the
State Convention, was held on the 18th
inst, at the City Hall, in Mankato. The
Delegates selected are: J. A. Willard, j.
A. Wiswell, j. j. Porter, j. S. Bachelor,
John G. Wise, Daniel Buck, Isaac Marks,
and Nicholas Kramer.
We clip the following items from the
Mankato Record of Wednesday:
A PARTY of eight or ten from New York
arrived here last evening, en- route to Blue
Earth City, in the vicinity of which place
they intend locating. They have some
means and we suppose intend making claims
under the Homestead Act. If they are
pleased with the country, others from the
same State are expected to follow. Two
or three 'prairie schooners" passed through
town yesterday and three this morning.
WINTER wheat, of which there is large
amount growing in this county, never pro-
missed better yie.d than at present. 1t is
unusually heavy and presents healthy APP
pearance. 1t will generally be ready to cut
by the 9Th or 10th of July.
SEVERAL gentlemen arrived here yester~
day with buffalo calf, which they captur-
ed between this place and the Dakota line.
IMM1GRArIoN.-1fa at the present rate of emil
grafton to Minnesota that State is not filled
up this year, how much does it hold! We
should like to know. LA Crosse paper.
1t may not be known to the residents of
this immediate vicinity, yet it is a fact that
there is much larger immigration to Min
nesota than at any season heretofore, and
mostly of the bone and sinew," who locate
on our fertile lands and help build up
State. A gentleman connected with this
Office having just returned from an extended
trip in Southern Minnesota, states that the
principal roads are literally thronged with
covered wagons, horses, sheep, and cattle of
immigrants. The fame of our State as an
agricultural paradise is becoming extensive.
ly circulated in Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois.
-Wiaona Republican,.
By the following, which we take from the
Faribault Republican, it will be seen that
there are still unreclaimed lands in the cen.
trail part of the State:
The passage of the Homestead law by
Congress has had the effect predicted by its
friends in Minnesota. A steady tide of EN-.
igration has been rolling into Minnesota
ever since, and at the present rate every
vacant quarter section for one hundred
miles west will be occupied before the close
CT navigation. We understand the emigra-
ton is pouring into the southwestern part of
the State very rapidly. During the past
week not less than fifty families have passed
through town, with large numbers of cattle
and horses, seeking homes in the West.
Emigrapts should by all means give the va
cant lands between this point and the Min"
nesota river look before going farther
west.
There are fine farming lands in Steele,
Waseca and lie Sueur counties, which, we
understand, are unclaimed and those who
frontier life, can find excellent lands in the
hands of spectators which can be bought
cheap.
There is room for thousands in Mime.
sofa, and all emigrants can find fine farms
and free homes.
The CRops.-The crops in this vicinity,
and in every portion of this county. so far
as we have observed, look beautiful and
thrifty. 1t cannot now hardly be otherwise
than that the crops will be heavy. The
winter wheat in the Big Woods looks fine,
and it is now beyond contradiction that
winter wheat will do well in the timbered
portions of Mnnesota.-Le Ssuer County
Herald.
DIED in Ottowa, this county, on the 18th
inst Washington Brockway, aged twenty
eight years. Mr.. Brockway enlisted in the
End Minnesota Regiment of Volunteers
Company E, Capt. Donahower. MIR. B.
was at the battle of Somerset, where our
arms were so victorious.-Ibld.
THE CRoPs.--The crops hereabouts, of all
kinds, are looking magnihcently. Wheat
never looked better. We notice, too that
good many farmers are trying small pieces
of winter wheat, and in every case it is de-
ing very we'll. In fact it looks better than
ever we saw the same kind of wheat looking
at the East. CorD oats, rye, barley, pota-
toes, etc., are all doing finely, and the pros
poets are for good crops all round.-Caroer
transcript.
TATAb w IUoC
man by the name of Leander Gagnier, a
Frenchman by birth, met with sudden
death at this place. He was engaged at
work upon the cupola of the Catholic
church, when the staging gave way, preci-
pitating him to the ground, a distance OF
about forty feet, killing bin instantly
FaT5bault Statesman.
DEAD.-Our readers will recollect that
two weeks ago we gave the particulars Of
an accident which happened in SCOTS saw
mill at Warsaw, on the 9th inst, by which
man by the name of Stephen A. Fergu.
son was seriously injured. Our fears for bis
recovery were well founded, as the injuries
he received resulted in his death on Wed,
nesday last.--Ib.
The Richmond papers have taken to
the rampage because General Mcclellan
presumed to name their battle. He calls
II the battle of the Seven Pines, and they