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THE MINNESOTIAN.
St. Paul, Minnesota.
SATURDAY, JULY 3,1852.
FOB PRESIDENT OF THE EXITED STATES,
GEN. WINFIELD SCOTT,
or NEW JERSEY.
FOB VICE PRESIDENT,
WILLIAM A. GRAHAM,
Or NORTH CAROLINA.
TREATY RATIFIED—PROSPECTS AHEAD.
Since our last, the most important news
to Minnesota that ever found its way up
the Mississippi has carried joy to the
heart of every man, woman and child,
white and red, in the Territory. The
Sioux treaties are ratified, and from this
time henceforward we assume before the
world the position which nature has as
signed us. This is of more—much more
importance to us than Presidential nom- i
inations, or the decision of Presidential
contests, whichever way they may go.
The news was telegraphed to Galena i
on Wednesday evening of last week, first
by Senator Jones of lowa, and immediate
ly after by Mr. Sibley to the Galena and
St. Paul press. The Excelsior, just one
year and a day from the time she left
our landing to carry Commissioners Lea
and Ramsey to Traverse des Sioux to ne
gotiate the treaty, brought the glad tidings
from Galena, arriving on Saturday after
noon, about five o’clock. Of course there
was a general rejoicing. Bonfires were
kindled in the evening, speeches made,
and every demonstration of delight mani
fested which our long hoping people could
think of, after so continued a suspension
of the consumation of their dearest wishes.
It is needless to attempt a prediction
of the results, immediate and prospective,
which will flow from this act of the Gov
ernment. Already has a great change ta
ken place for the better. Business has
revived, and people have more confidence
in each other, in their own plans, and in
the country. Let us all now move with
a firm determination and a steady hand,
and a glorious future awaits us. Nothing
can now check Minnesota if she is but
true to herself.
VERMILIO.Y FALLS, POINT DOUGLAS AND
PRESCOTT.
We paid a visit to each of these places
Monday and Tuesday of this week. With
our fellow-citizen, Dr. Thomas Foster,
and Messrs. Turner and Harris, of Penn
sylvania, we landed from the Ben Camp
bell at Bailly’s, or Olive Grove, a short
distance above Point Douglas, on the west
side of the river, and proceeded to take a
view of the region thereabout. Mr. Bad
ly has a most eligible location for a town,
with an excellent landing in front. The
country back of it being of the most fer
tile character, it must soon rise to a place
of some note. L'pon the adjoining claim,
Dr. Foster has erected a neat cottage, af
ter the “ early pointed style,” and intends
removing his family thither as soon as
his improvements are completed. He
has a most beautiful location upon the bor
ders of a lake, and bounded south by the
V ermilion river.
The falls of the \ ermilion are three
fourths of a mile distant—a most excel
lent and extensive water-power, surround
ed by as romantic scenery as can be found
in the North-west. Here we found our
friends, Van Rensalaer, Truax, and the
brothers Orsborne, hard at work, crops
looking well, and themselves hearty, rug
ged and cheerful, after a suspended resi
dence upon the Sioux lands of several
months. The Vermilion is a beautiful
clear stream, running through a high, roll
ing country, timber and prairie, of the same
character and beauty w hich we generally
find upon the w'est side of the Mississippi.
There are some natural curiosities along
the V ermilion, which upon our next visit
we will examine more minutely. Near the
mouth of the river, upon an unusually
heavy timbered tract, Mr. E. F. Parker,
an ex-typo, has a claim house, and is living
alone in the shady solitudes.
Through the politeness of Mr. Truax,
we were ferried over to Point Douglas,
where we passed the night with friend
Barker. He was about transferring his
hotel to the new house which he has built
at Prescott on the opposite side of Lake
St. Croix. Point Douglas appears to be
standing still at present; but it will take
a start one of these days. It must ever
continue a point of importance as a place
of shipment for the produce raised upon
the unsurpassed fanning region adjacent.
As the resources of the country back to
wards Cottage Grove are developed, Point
Douglas will grow.
Prescott is going ahead rapidly. It has
risen from nothing within the past few
months, and is now a town, as large as St.
Paul was when we first saw it. The
new saw mill in course of erection is near
ly finished. It is a fine, substantial struc
ture, and when completed will be one of
the best in this region. Mr. Barker’s new
hotel building is a large and complete
house, and is now open for the accommo
dation of the public. It was much need
ed, as the emigration has been so great
this season that people were forced in
some instances, we were informed, to
sleep and eat out of doors. Several other
new buildings are going up. and many
more would be erected immediately but
for the scarcity of lumber.
The country back of Prescott is a most
admirable and excellent farming region,
and is settling rapidly. The land is per
haps better adapted to raising winter
wheat that on this side the lakp. This
part of Wisconsin should be better known
to people living in the eastern and south
ern part of the State. We presume it
will be soon, as a railroad charier has
been obtained for a road from Prescott to
Fort Winnebago. Of this more anon.
THE NOMINATION—THE PLATFORM.
The nomination of Gen. Scott appears
to be every where received by the people
with the most enthusiastic rejoicing. It
requires no efforts at “drumming up” to
get up ratification meetings. The people
flock together spontaneously to ratify the
doings of the convention. At the South,
where it was feared by a portion of his
party and hoped by the whole of the oth
er, that his nomination would be received
with coolness, the exact reverse proves
to be the result. Soon after the.nomina
tion was effected, Senator Jones, of Ten
nessee. rose in the convention, and read
a despatch from Gen. Scott, fully endors
ing the Whig platform, in all its particu
lars, and pledging himself to stand by it.
This announcement was received with
great enthusiasm, particularly by the
Southern delegates, who severally rose
in their places and pledged their hearty
support to the nomination. The follow
ing despatch from Washington gives evi
dence of the feelings of the other distin
guished gentlemen whose names were so
prominently before the convention :
Washington, June 22d.
A large number of our citizens, with
a band of music waited on Gen. Scott at
his lodgings last night, who appeared on
the balcony and made a short address.
The crowd then visited Messrs. Fillmore,
Manguin and Webster, who severally
made good-humored addresses. Messrs.
Fillmore and Webster expressed them
selves perfectly satisfied with the nomi
nations. Mr. Mangum delivered a warm
eulogium on Gen. Scott. Gen. Scott re
ceived the news of his nomination with
expressions of gratitude to the greit par
ty which he said had seen fit to make
him its standard bearer. A great many
political and personal friends called on
him in the course of the day to tender
him their congratulations. Mr. Fillmore
heard the result with calm and dignified
complacency, so characteristic of the man,
warmly expressing the hope that the
Whig party of all sections would rally
for the General and elect him. He as
sured his friends that he looked forward
to the retirement from public life with
teelings of far greater sol fact ion than he
could had he received the nomination.
Mr. Webster also expressed himself per
fectly satisfied with the nomination, and
does not seein to be much disappointed.
] A despatch of the same date, to one of
the Baltimore papers, cont dns a more full
account of this spontaneous demonstra
tion at Washington. As Gen. Scott’s
happy little speech is given in full, wc
copy the whole of the despatch :
IV ithout public notice, or apparently
previous concert, several thousands of
our citizens, with a fine band of music,
marched in procession this evening, along
Pennsylvania Avenue, to the residence of
j UrciiG rnl Scott. The band played “ Hail
to the Chief,” anu loud and prolonged
cheers were given. General Scott ap
peared at the balcony and addressed the
assemblage as follows:
Gentlemen : This is the first political
greeting I have ever received. This
manifestation of your kindness touches
my heart deeply, coming as it docs from
my near neighbors and friends. My
residence in the city of Washington has
been very agreeable to myself. This city
was laid out under the eye and direction
of the immortal Washington, and I trust
the prosperity of the city will continue
to advance with the growth of the Union
until it becomes every way worthy of the
Union, and ot him whose name it bears.
I trust, gentlemen, that so long as I shall
continue amongst you, the same friendly
relations will be cultivated, whether I con
tinue to occupy the position of a soldier,
| or shall be elevated to that of Chief Mag
istrate. Gentlemen, the high honor which
the Baltimore Convention has conferred
upon me, over my illustrious and friend
ly rivals—the Chief Magistrate of the
country, and the Secretary of State, al
ready known to fame—was wholly un
merited, and will be a cause for my mak-
I in g greater efforts to merit the ap
; probation of my country and of that Con
vention. I know that much anxiety and
; many trials are to be passed through be
fore the ratification of the people shall be
heard. Whether it shall confirm the ac
tion of the Convention or not, I shall be
satisfied, for I know that it will be con
ferred upon a man deserving your confi
dence. In whatever position I may be
placed, it shall continue to be the great
aim ol my life to discharge my duty to
my country. If I should be elevated to
that distinguished position for which I
have been named, I shall seek so to con
| duct myself as to merit the confidence
; which you have so kindly bestowed upon
me, m advance. Gentlemen, you find
me greatly fatigued and exhausted, and
tor the present I can only thank you for
this kind congratulation, the first*of the
kind which I have ever received, and bid
you all a good night.
After enthusiastic cheers, the process
ion proceeded to Secretary Graham's,
j ''here, in response to patriotic music and
loud calls, that gentleman appeared and
made a neat and brief address.
.L. resi( i e nt Fillmore was next visited hy-
after some delightful
ceived with tremendous applause
They next proceeded to Secretary Cor
win’s dwelling, but to the cheers and mu
sic there was no reply.
Senator Mangum came next on the
route, and the procession having halted,
he came forward and addressed them.—
He alluded to Bunker Hill, and eulogized
Gen. Scott in the highest terms. He
pledged old North Carolina to his sup
port, and had no doubt but a grateful
country would elevate him to the Chief
Magistracy.
Mr. Webster was then visited. He
had retired, but opened the window and
said: You have been engaged in the
performance of a great public duty—the
selection of a man for the office of Presi
dent of the United States. It has hap
pened my name was before the Conven
tion. Their choice has fallen upon anoth
er. probably for the best. One thing he
could assure them ; in principle and prac
tice he remained unchanged. No man in
the assemblage could sleep better than he
would to-night, and in the morning, God
willing, he would rise with the lark, and
though the lark was a better sonster than
himself, he would not rise with more joc
und heart to greet the purplings of the
East. He thanked them for the kind
compliment they had paid him, and bade
them good night.
On passing Brown's Hotel, loud cheers
were given fer N. K. Hall, Postmaster
General, but probably on account of his
recent severe affliction that gentleman
did not appear. The assemblage then
dispersed in excellent order.
A private letter from Philadelphia, da
ted the 22J, says the enthusiasm mani
fested in that city at the nomination of
Scott has never been equalled by any
similar event. A great ratification meet
ing was to take place that evening in In
dependence Square, at which numerous
prominent orators from the South would
be present.
The 53d ballot of the Whig National
Convention, upon which Gen. Scott was
nominated, stood as follow :
Scott, - - - - 159
Fillmore, - - - 112
Webster, - - - - ‘2l
During the six previous ballots Scott
had gradually advanced from 135 to 148,
only one less than was required to nomin
ate. Mr. Graham was nominated lor
l ice President upon the second ballot.
It stood thus :
Graham, - 223
Bates, - - - 52
All others, ... 7
Upon the first ballot, Mr. Bates had
the highest vote—some ninety or more ;
but we presume it was deemed best to
compliment an undoubted Whig State,
and one that had never previously receiv
ed such an honor at the hands of either
party, by giving one of her most distin
guished sons the nomination. The Wcet
would have preferred Mr. Bates, or Mr.
Jones, or Mr. Crittenden, but it is all
right as it is.
We give below the “Whig Platform”
as adopted by the convention previous to
the nomination. There is no dodging or
prevaricating about this, but a broad and
full declaration of Whig principles ; such
as all true Whigs delight to do battle for.
We call particular attention to the clear
declaration in favor of improvement of
rivers and harbors. The difference be
tween this and the Democratic doctrine
j is very plain :
! The Whigs of the United States in
j Convention assembled, adhering to the
great conservative republican principles
by which they are controlled and gov
erned, and now as ever relying upon the
intelligence of the American people, with
an abiding confidence in their capacity for
self-government and their devotion to the
Constitution and the Union, do proclaim
the following as the political sentiments
and determination, for the establishment
and maintainance of which their national
organization as a party was effected—
-Ist. The government of the United
States is of a limited character, and it is
confined to the exercise of powers ex
pressly granted by the Constitution, and
such as may be necessary and proper for
carrying the granted powers into full ex
ecution, and that all powers not thus
granted or necessarily implied are express
ly reserved to the Stutes respectively and
to the people.
2d. The State Governments should
be held secure in their reserved rights,
and the General Government sustained
in its constitutional powers, and that the
Union should be revered and watched
over as the palladium of our liberties.
3d. That while struggling freedom
everywhere enlists the wannest sympa
thy of the Whig party, we still adhere to
the doctrines ol the Father of iiis country
as announced in his Farewell Address,
of keeping ourselves free from all entan
gling alliances with foreign countries and
of never quitting our own to stand upon
foreign ground—that our mission as a re
public, is not to propagate our opinions
or impose on other countries our form of
government by artifice or force, but to
teach, by example, and show by our suc
cess, moderation and justice, the blessings
of self-goverment, and the advantages of
free institutions.
4th. That, as the people make and
control the government, they should obey
its Constitution, Laws and Treaties as
they would retain their self-respect, and
the respect which they claim and will
enlorce lroin foreign powers.
sth. Revenue sufficient for the ex
j penses of an economical administration of
the government in time of peace, ought to
jhe derived from a duty on imports, and
not from direct taxation ; and in laying
such duties, sound policy requires a just
discrimination, whereby suitable encour
agement may be afforded to American
Industry, equal to all classes, and to all
portions of the country.
6th. The Constitution vests in Con
fress the power to open and repair har
ors. and remove obstructions from navi
gable river*, and it is expedient that Con
gres* should exercise »uch power when
ever such improvements are necessary
for the common defence, and for the pro
tection and facility of commerce with
foreign nations, or among the States—
said improvements being in every in
stance, national and general in their char
acter.
7th. The Federal and State Govern
ments are parts of one system, alike ne
cessary for the common prosperity, peace
and security, and ought to be regarded
alike with a cordial, habitual and immov
able attachment. Respect for the author
ity of each, and acquiescence in the just
constitutional measures of each, are du
ties required by the plainest considera
tions of national and individual welfare.
Blh. That the series of acts of the
31st Congress—the act known as the Fu
gitive Slave Law included —are received
and acquiesced in by the Whig party of
the United States as a settlement in prin
ciple and substance of the dangerous and
exciting questions which they embrace,
and so far as they are concerned, we will
maintain them, and insist upon their
strict enforcement until time and expe
rience shall demonstrate the necessity of
further legislation to guard against the
evasion of the law 019 the one hand and
the abuse of power on the other—
not impairing their present efficiency,
and wc deprecate all further agitation o£
the questions thus settled as dangerous to
our peace, and will discountenance all ef
forts to continue or renew such agitation,
whenever, wherever, or however the at
tempt may be made, and we will maintain
this system as essential to the nationality
of the Whig party of the Union.
Facts and Fancies.
All the Minnesota papers are interest
ing this week. The Express, of St. An
thony, comes down on Socialism with
some good and well-aimed “licks,” besides
containing much other interesting matter,
and the usual weekly escapement of gas
about running our class of steamboats to
the Falls. The Democrat we have no
ticed elsewhere; but must say in this
place that the editor’s business article is
rather doleful and gloomy, and calculated
to injure Saint Paul, and Saint Paul credit
abroad. We think it uncalled for at this
time. The Pioneer states truly and for
cibly some important things wanted im
mediately by St. Paul, and which St. Paul
must have, if she expects to “go right
along.” The editor also informs the pub
lic that his “horse steam ferry boat” will
be ready to navigate in a few days. Here
is one of the things wanted, and wanted
badly—this road upon the west side of
the river to Dubuque. It is much the
shortest winter mail route south, and the
country over which it will pass is highly
adapted to an easy and cheap construction
of the work; although we hardly think
the bridging and grading can be got
through with by means of a “general bee.’’'
Our neighbor of the Pioneer says :
“We require, immediately, a good road,
opened straight through from St. Paul to
Dubuque, with all needful preliminary
surveys, and adequate bridges, tu be
built, if need be, by subscription or by
tlie labor of our own hands, or by our
labor, going out to meet the labor of lowa,
in opening a road to Dubuque, at once.
We are half inclined to fix a day, when
wc will turn out in a general Bee, and
meet our neighbors from the South, at
least half way, with a spontaneous road ,
got up suddenly with our own hands.”
Wednesday. June 30, 12 M—Steamer
Dr. Franklin, No. 2, left St. Paul for St.
Anthony. Price charged for the adventure,
SSOO. Six P. M., had reached a point
one mile below C'heever’s,and some four
teen, by the river, above St. Paul. At
dark, laid up on the other side. Seven
A. M. Thursday morning, reported still
laid up, and all hands ashore, cutting
wood. Four P. M., same day —a report
has just been received that the boat is
near where she was this morning, no
higher up, choked in between huge bould
ers—Capt. Brock refusing to attempt any
further headway up stream unless he is
fully indemnified in the value of his boat.
Half an hour later—News is received
that the citizens of St. Anthony, with
their accustomed enterprise, have insured
the boat against all loss, provided she
will make the attempt to reach Cheevcr’s.
Five, P. M.—Stage just in from St. An
thony, by which we learn that the No. 2
reached Cheever’s at two o’clock, twenty
six hours from St. Paul—distance fifteen
miles—thus beating the West Newton’s
quickest time, from Galena to St. Paul,
six hours and twenty minutes ! This was
said to be the contest, and the No. 2 has
nobly won it. A splendid ball on board
last night to celebrate the victory, at
which St. Paul and St. Anthony shook
hands, cordially, and with the best of
ieeling towards each other. Friday, 12
M.—Franklin No. 2 arrived at St. Paul,
having made the trip to Cheever’s and
back in just foity-eight hours ! ! !
Among the visitors to Minnesota this
week, we are happy to welcome C’apt.
Hiram Bersie, the popular commander of
the Golden Era, Galena and St. Louis
packet. He came on the West Newton,
W ednesday, and remains a few days to
| enjoy the beauties of the country.
VV hat is the reason those improvements
upon Third, Fourth, and Jackson streets
have been stopped ? The work has just
gone sufficiently far to render these thor
oughfares impassable. There can be no
imaginable excuse for allowing it to stop
at this stage.
Major Jacob J. Noah has been select
ed to deliver the oration at the general
celebration of citizens, which will be
held at “ The Cave,” on Monday, and
Dewitt C. Cooley, reader of the Declara
tion of Independence. An impression
prevails in the minds of some, that this
celebration was gotten up in a spirit of
factious opposition to the Temperance
celebration. Such wc known was not
the motive of very many who participa
ted in the primary meeting, and are ac
tively engaged in the necessary prepara
tions. Rev. Mr. Cressey will deliver
the oration at the Temperance celebra
tion.
The continued drought for the past six
weeks has demolished the theory enter
tained by some, that the soil of Minneso
ta could not stand dry weather. The
crops still look remarkably well, although
their growth is much retarded for want of
rain. We expect to get it heavy, just at
the time good weather is needed—in har
vest.
The Baptist congregation of St. Paul
have ordered a fine large hell for their
church, from the foundry of Geo. L.
Hanks, Cincinnati. They found the bell
could be purchased upon much better
terms at that point than at Troy or other
places East. We know Mr. Hanks, and
know his bells, and can recommend them
to all who may wish to purchase. We
invite attention to his advertisement.
Some several millions of feet of logs
have been collected in the boom above
town since it was completed. The busi
ness of rafting at the boom has been going
on briskly for several days. Thursday
we learned the first raft was about ready
to leave for St. Louis. The logs of this
raft belong to J. 11. Stevens, of St. An
thony, and will be run to St. Louis under
the command of Capt. J. W. Cormack.—
Several others will shortly follow. We
notice some of our grocery and produce
dealers busy filling orders of the raft
captains for supplies. We regret to iearn
that the low water will probably prevent
a large proportion of the St. Croix lum
ber from getting to market this season,
and also some from above here on the
tributaries of the Mississippi.
New Candidates.— The Harrisburg!)
Telegraph says, “ There are some gentle
men in Baltimore, anticipating that the
difficulty will be so great in regard to
Fillmore, Webster and Scott, that a new
man may be selected, and stand ready to
propose Gov. Ramsey, of Minnesota, as
the candidate for President, with Edward
Stanly, of North Carolina, as Vice Presi
dent.”—Baltimore Sun.
If ever the representatives of the Whig
party fall into the pernicious and anti-re
publican practice of nominating men for
the high office of President not previous
ly put forth by the popular will of at least
a respectable portion of those whom they
represent, we hope the choice will never
fall upon a worse man than Alex. Ramsey.
Indeed, had it been deemed advisable to
take up a new man, no better choice in the
Union could have been made, or one that
would have carried with it a greater
prestige of success. But we don’t think
the Governor cares much about running
for President, at least until the people
ask him to. Perhaps no man of his age
in America, who has held so many respon
sible public positions, lias been less of an
office-seeker.
The Democrat ibis week has an inter
esting editorial about the upper country,
which the editor visited a few days since.
He reiterates what wc have often said,
that (his region offers grealer induce
ments to farmers than any other portion
ol the Mississippi valley, and proves what
he says by facts and figures. We make
the following extract from his article,
looking to a matter disconnected with
farming, but one in which the friends of
Christianity and education in the Territo
ry and elsewhere should take a deep in
terest. Not at all connected with any of
the Boards at the East, Mr. Ayer and his
assistants labor at great disadvantage, so
far as worldly remuneration is concerned ;
and we know of no persons in Minneso
ta so much entitled to the consideration of
all good and philanthropic citizens. If
there is such a thing in the world as de
voted, disinterested missionaries, in the
strictest sense of the term, (and wc
doubt not there are thousands) it is these
people :
“Rev. Mr. Ayer's Seminary, a short
distance above, deserves especial notice.
It is an independent mission school, on
the manual labor system, the object being
to make it as far as practicable, self-sus
taining. Mr. Ayer has resided many
years in the country, and deserves the
assistance of the friends of education.
He has a good two story frame school
building, a comfortable dwelling, and some
40 acres in crops. Twenty-two pupils
are in attendance, who are taught all the
English branches and music. The fe
males are taught housekeeping and nee
dle work, and the boys agriculture. The
teachers are, Rev. Mr. Ayer, Mrs. Ayer,
Mrs. Sarah Mahan, Miss A. J. Fobcs,
Miss Jane Merrill, Miss Harriet Nichols,
and Mr. L. M. Ayer. The pupils give
evidence of making rapid progress.—
Many of them are half-breeds from dis
tant posts. The teachers labor without
specific reward, and deserve the pecunia
ry aid of the enlightened and benevo
lent.”
The boats of the mail line now lie over
at St. Paul from twelve to twenty hours
nearly every trip. This is a great accom
modation, and another evidence of the de
termination of the officers and owners to
do everything in their power to please the
public. We regret to learn that the
health of Capt. Lodwick is still so poor
that he is unable to take command of his
boat. Meantime, his brother has charge
of the magnificent Ben, and does things
up to the entire satisfaction of the travel
ing public. That staunch old favorite,
the Nominee, had a full trip up this week.
| Among her passengers were our fellow
citizen, Rev. Mr. Hobart, who has been
absent since April, Mr. Mix, Mail Agent,
and Mr. Huntington, of the Galena Ad
: vertiser.
The editor ol the .Vinnesotian makes
his recent visit to St. Louis the subject
of a long and admirably written article.—
His delineations are exceedingly apt, and
his hits decidedly palpable. We are sor
ry that he didn’t learn that any place
above St. Louis save Burlington, “ has
Editors." Our neighbor of the Whig
ought to get up a muss about it. Better
call here next time he comes down.—
Guess he’s a good fellow.— Quincy Her
ald.
Our Quincy cotemporary mistakes us.
We didn t wish at all to detract from the
merits of editors at other points, by speak
ing well of our neighbors at Burlington,
with whom we happen to be acquainted,
while those at Quincy are entire strangers
to us. The rapid growth and importance
of the city of the limestone bluffs sufficient
ly attests that she too has editors. Life
spared, wc will, some time or other, drop
in upon the Herald man to thank him in
person for his voluntary compliment.
The West Newton. —This favorite
little boat is taking things through “from
the word go,” making semi-weekly trips
from Galena to St. Paul, while the oppo
sition boats make hut weekly trips. Com
petition between the two lines, has had
the effect to reduce the passage to a mere
ly nominal price, and it is pretty much
the same with freights. The West New
ton has become quite popular under the
command of Capt. Harris, and is doing
a large, if not a profitable business. Wc
learn that Capt. Harris designs relinquish
ing the command to Capt. Charles S. Mor
rison, on account of ill health. Capt. M.
left here last week on his way to Galena,
for the purpose of taking charge of her.—
St. Louis Bepublican.
Capt. Morrison fully sustains his rep
utation upon the Newton, as an efficient,
polite and attentive commander. Ho
keeps the little clipper moving, and no
mistake. Last Saturday evening, she re
ported herself at our landing in thirty-two
hours, thirty minutes from Galena, which
is the quickest trip ever made. She was
not trying to make a quick trip, but atten
ded to all her business along the way as
usual. Upon a gool stage of water wc
think she can come up in twenty-eight or
thirty hours with ease. She was up again
by sunrise on Wednesday morning, hav
ing left Galena at eleven o’clock on Mon
day, and called at Stillwater previous to
coming here.
Northern Tours.— A large party of
ladies and gentlemen will go up to-day on
the Nominee, for the recreation and pleas
ure of a ride on the Mississippi. These
parties are getting to he much in vogue,
and we expect to see (he time when St’
Paul, St. Anthony, and other celebrities
that arc yet to be discovered in tlie wide
range of territory in the Northwest, will
he resorted to by the people along the
Lower Mississippi, in vast numbers—
that St. Anthony will be sought as a Ni
agara, and Sauk Rapids and Lacqui Park
as a northern Newport or L ike George.
Galena Advertiser.
That’s right; and wc are thankful to
our Galena friends for so often telling the
world at large, that this is a comfortable
and pleasant place to spend the hot months.
All we want is more hotel room, and that
will soon be obviated, as wc learn that
Mr. Daniels has taken the whole range
of Mr. Rice’s brick buildings on St. An
thony street—store and dwelling—and
will immediately open a hotel, and proceed
to make large additions thereto. Added
to this, the new hotel on Kittson’s addi
tion is progressing rapidly.
Sport ahead —A Grizzly Bear
and Bull Fight.—A match lias just
been got up, to come off at the Prairie
House Course, on Saturday, July 3d, be
tween a large and savage grizzly bear,
(a female, called the Belle of California,)
just arrived from California, by the way
of the South, and a furious prairie bull,
called “ Tuscogce.” The belle, they say.
has been already tried several times, and
they who should know what bar fighting
is, say she is some in a “ skrimmage,” and
nothing shorter. Bets arc now making
that she will tear tlie very horns and head
right off of “ Tuscogce,” in a little less
'han no time, and after she has done that,
eat him up by way of a lunch before her
dinner.— St. Louis Union.
We read the above, and imagined for a
moment wc were not in enlightened, free,
Christian America, but iu Spain or Por
tugal, or some of the appendages thereto.
St. Louis fashion and refinement speaks
of Minnesotians as a rude frontier people;
yet were any fiend in human shape to
come here and advertise such a brutally
savage entertainment as this in any of our
towns, his bear would be very apt to be
set at rending him instead of the bull.
The Senior Department of the Minne
sota Female Seminary will open on Tues
day, the bth of July. Those who wish
to become pupils, can apply for informa
tion to Rev. E. D. Neill or any of the
instructors in that department.
“Beautiful Bouquet. —We are in
debted to our old friend, Jno. Evans,
Esq., for a beautiful bunch of flower* of
the season. He keeps the plants for
sale at his horticultural garden.”
We get the above from one of our ex*
changes, we don’t this moment recollect
where Few flowers are cultivated in
Minnesota, save those grown in the great
garden of nature, and which receive all the
care bestowed upon them directly from the •
hand of Him who causelh the rain to fall
upon the unjust as well as the just. We
often wish our people, particularly in tha
towns and villages, would pay more at
tention to the cultivation of flowers f
though where so many beautiful varieties
of wild flowers carpet our luxurian t
prairies, perhaps it is not considered a .
matter so essential to the good taste and
enjoyment of the people. We received a
l fine bouquet of these rich beauties of na
-1 ture’s garden from the hands of some lit*
1 tie school girl friends some weeks since,
’ when we were quite unwell, and ought
!to have thanked them for the pleasing
gift at the time. We warrant it was
more becoming and beautiful than the one
from “Jno. Evans, Esq.;” besides the
motive that dictated the sending of it,
and the hearts of the little donors are
more pure, and consequently in truer
harmony with the present itself, than
those of all the John Evanses, or other
“ male creatures” in Christendom. Bou
quets and John Evans! What a shock
ing degradation of sentiment—what a step
from the sublime to the ridiculous—
what a blending of poetry with the flat
est kind of prose! Our friend, Mr. G.
IV. Farrington, has the finest variety of
flowers we have seen in any garden about
St. Paul.
A contract was entered into on Thurs
day for the erection of an extensive addi
tion to the Central House. It is to be ol
brick, three stories, fronting on Third
street, and extending the full width of
the lot. The wt rk will be commenced
immediately, and completed in time for
the fall business. Dr. Borup says he i«
determined to have sufficient hotel room
to accommodate all who may come; and
we presume the two extensive buildings
which he will have ready for use before
the season closes, the Kittson and Cen
tral, will about do it.
We have half concluded not to ex
change with any editor who writes the
name of our town Sf. Paul's. The Pio
neer, as well as ourselves, have endeav
ored till wc arc out of patience to learn
them there is no such place in Minnesota-
Meant ime editors at home should be more
careful in examining their proof-sheets.
IVe notice the Democrat this week speaks
ol St. Paul's—an oversight, doubtless.
Mr. Johnson, late of the Galena Ad
vertiser, was in town a few days this
week. IVe regret to learn he has left the
Advertiser, as he is a good writer, a
staunch Whig, and a firm friend of Min
nesota.
11. L. Moss, Esq., U. S. District At
torney for Minnesota, is about to remove
to St. Paul. His residence, as is known
to most of our home readers, has hereto
fore been at Stillwater.
Maj. I- ridley, II innebago Agent, is hi
town, in good health and looking well af
ter the usual semi-annual conflict with his
1 elrac-tory children and their dependen
cies.
I he pockets of some of our ardent 81.
Paul gents were lightened a few dime
b} the advent ol the Franklin, No. 2, to
Cheevcr s Landing. The transfer was
into good hands, however.
c hud the following paragraph, of
some interest to our produce dealers, in
the St. Louis News of the 25th:
Adv ance in Pobk.—By a dispatch
published in another column, it will be
seen that mess pork was Held in New
Orleans yesterday, the 21st, at S2O pci
bbl. '1 lus is a higher price than it has
attained before for years. The stock
there is less than 10,000, and in the cn*
lire West less than 25,000 bids.
Ihe unterrified Tiger, with the ele
phant and all the smaller animals aboard,
came up on Thursday, and yesterday was
talking of going up tlie Minnesota. Ma
ny are anxious to take passage.
Mr. R. M. Spencer, of the Ann of
Spencer, Kirkpatrick & Markley, has re
turned home alter a long, and we trust
profitable, business tour to tlie cities of
the Ohio river.
Best Time Ev er Made.—The North*
ern Indiana and the Mayflower came up
iroin Uuffalo this morning “ on time,” the
Indiana beating the Mayflower fifty-three
minutes, and making her time from Buffa
o to Cleveland only nine hours and forty
seven minutes. The officers of the May*
Mower give up beat and “ cave” with a
good grace.
Captain Bob IVagstaff runs the boat
that carries the broom, having landed pas
sengers in Cleveland at ten minutes be
torc eight this morning, who left New
lork alter breakfast, yesterday.—C7m
land Herald.
The completion of the Central Railroad
across the peninsula of Michigan, has
brought the cities of Detroit and Chicago
within twelve hours of each other, and
obviated the circuitous steamboat route of
a thousand miles, through lakes St. Clair,
Huron and Michigan.