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THE MINNESOTIAN.
81. Paul, Mlaaeitftft.
SATURDAY, AUGUST 14,1852,
-PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES,
GEN,'WINFIELD SCOTT
. pr SEW JERSEY.
FOR VICE PRESIDENT.
WILLIAM A. GRAHAM,
or NORTH CAROLINA.
STATE ELECTIONS.
A hundred guns for Iowa! Nobly lias
she redeemed herself and taken her posi
tion in the Whig column! She has come
up to the work with that quiet and order
lyjfr*cipline so characteristic ever of the
Scott forces. Thousands of freemen
throughout the land are now shouting a
welcome to the Whig State ol lowa.
We give in other places all the returns
we have.
Reports received last evening render
the election of Benton to Congress, in the
St. Louis district, extremely doubtful.—
The chances were thought to be best for
Caruthers, Whig. Bogy, the “ regular
Democratic nominee,” was fur behind —
clear out of sight.
TIIE COUNTRY.
We have not found as much leisure as
tome of our neighbors to travel over the
country this summer, and see what was
going on among the people who have been
pitching into old mother earth, and are
turning up to genial warmth the virgin
soil of our broad prairies. Business has
kept us so closely at home, that until
Wednesday of this week we had not been
at St. Anthony since October last. We
found our spunky little neighbor much
improved, both in size and business. The
addition of four saws to Mr. Steele's mill,
adds just that much to the lively appear
ance as well as the manufacturing wealth
of the town. Many good buildings have
been erected this season, and others are
going up, one of which is a large brick.
Many improvements are also going for
ward upon the lands between here and
St. Anthony. New fields have been bro-
ken up and fenced, and comfortable farm
buildings erected. The crops look fine.
We saw as good corn in the Groveland
settlement as we ever met with upon the
uplands of Ohio. Potatoes, oats, buck
wheat, &c., also look remarkably well.
A field of the latter grain upon Judge
Meeker's farm, we have never seen sur
passed anywhere; and be it known wc
were raised in a buckwheat country.
Hundreds of farms have been com
menced this season upon the Mililary Re
serve and the newly ceded lands west of
St. Anthony. Mr. J. 11. Stevens informed
us that it least one hundred and fifty men,
not counting women and children, had
settled in Hennepin county, north of the
Falls, this year. This country extends
up the Mississippi from the month of the
Minnesota to Crow river, and thirty miles
up the Minnesota from the Mississippi.
He thinks it is bound to be the centre of
wealth and population in Minnesota. The
Arcadian country around Lake Minne
tonka—a sheet of water fifteen milts west
of St. Anthony, and navigable for large
steamboats throughout its entire length of
forty miles—is attracting much attention.
Mrs. Ellelt and her travelling companion
had just started upon an excursion to this
romantic spot when we arrived at the
Falls. We have never been to this lake,
but intend visiting it soon when our read
ers shall know more about it. We would
advise every one, male and female, who
has leisure, not to fail taking a trip thither
while the weather is good. Those in
whom we have full confidence, say that
so far as natural beauty is concerned.
Minnetonka and the scenery about it has
no equal in Minnesota.
We took that delightful drive home
across the prairie by way of Fort Snel
ling. Many changes are there apparent
since we passed the same way, one year
ago. “Claim shanties,” with here and
there a tolerable house, dot the green
meadows in every direction; and nearly
every quarter section has a broad furrow
plowed around it, to mark the lines of
claims. But still the beauties of nature,
in their richest profusion, were there
spread to view, with the Little Falls in
termediate, by way of grand relief to a
monotonous prairie road. Surely there
is no such pleasant drive, amid all Minne
sota’s beauties, as from the Falls of St.
Anthony to Fort Snelling, on the west
side of the Mississippi. For some rea
son or other, we never enjoy it half so
much when our horses’ heads are turned
the other way, and we have heard many
others make the same remark.
“ t*°d made the country, but man made
towns. ’ That is a recorded fact; and
as much of “ an out-of-the-way. country
place as people at a distance may regard
St. Paul, it is quite enough of a citv al
ready to make one used to real city life
glad to get out of its dust and noise, after
a month’s confinement within its limits.
The sublime handiwork of Nature is al-
ready defaced to almost the extent of a
St. Paul denizen’s vision, from the centre
of his town; and those who can feel and
• the. presence of the Almighty
in the green fields apd blooming prairies,
"' have a yearning to go forth amtd the
scenes of incomparable loveliness which
so profusely carpet our allotted portion of
His footstool.
MAD AGAIN !
Something has again, after many weeks
of inactivity, stirred up the political bile
of neighbor Robertson’s stomach. Whe
ther it be the result of the lowa election
—the news from the Niagara frontier—
the general the Southern
Democracy, headed by Gen Quitman —
the gloomy prospects of the success of
his candidate generally—the funny jokes
of the newspapers and stump-orators
about Gen. Pierce’s fainting, buying can
dy, Sic.—the tremendous fight now going
on between his old political cronies in
11 Ohier” —or some other cause, which
lies deeply buried in his swelling, per
turbed bosom, we know not; but, as they
say in Yankee land, when he set down to
write his editorials of this week, it is
evident he was “ pretty considerably
riled, up." Did we know by what means
we could get him back to the complacent
humor he has been basking in during the
summer, we would certainly administer
the medicine ; but alas, we fear he is so
far gone, that the distilled juice of the
grape, after the modifying influences of
caloric have been applied, will not save
him. We can give him some advice,
however, and perhaps administer a little
consolation to his exercised feelings in
this, his hour of adversity. To com
mence with, we would advise him
to keep his nether garment on, and
not tear it just yet, although rags may be
needed at this time to exchange for pa
per, and are considered a more advanta
geous barter than even town lots at three
prices.
In the next place, the lowa election re
turns look rather blue, it is evident, but
then “ there’s no use crying over spilled
milk.” The Democrat man pretends to
be a great philosopher. What’s his phi
losophy worth if he can’t call it into re
quisition on occasions when needed?—
Not “ a cent's worth of candy /”
As for these mass gatherings of the
million who are going to vote for Gen.
Scott, why that is nothing new to you,
neighbor. You have seen the same be
fore, in 1840 and ’4B, when you raved,
and sweated, and fumed, and ranted, and
swore, and almost fainted at the thought
of them, all to no purpose. Will repeat
ed drubbings, such for instance as you
have received at the hands of the people
of Minnesota upon every political issue
you have set up here, never learn you
anything ? Do you want another grand
tumble from your war-horse ? Go ahead,
then!
It is bad, the discovery and exposure
of that trick by which Frank Pierce—
wlio rcdUy “lualtica tlic Fugiti\c Slave
Law”—was to sweep the South, and at
the same time keep snugly stowed away
a cosey set of home principles for North
ern use. But that is a Southern matter.
Wc had nothing to do with it; therefore
why abuse us in your mad rage ?
•• shake not t our porv lock* at me—
Thou caiift uot say I did It!”
Neither are we to blame because the
Democrat has a candidate who cannot
arouse the enthusiasm of the country,
and therefore the prospects of his elec
tion are so dark. tVe did not place the
uneven, volcanic surface over the route
which Gen. Pierce had to travel on the
evening of the 19th of August, 18-W, in
order to reach the battle ground of Con
treras, and consequently are not respon
sible for his fall from his horse. Neither
were we there to prevent his fainting the
next day ; nor did we hold him by the
coat-tails to keep him back from Molino
del Rey; nor were we his nurse or doc
tor at the time Chepultepec was stormed,
to keep liiin in bed by administering a
spider in his slow-and-casy “ plate of
soup.” Therefore, why vent thy wrath
on us, O most wrothy of used up mortals ?
Why quote from Santa Anna against us.
as thou didst quote from him the previ
ous week against Gen. Scott ?
But die cruel Whig editors will not
agree with thee that Pierce is a distin
guished military hero, and keep poking
un at the idea—their heartless jokes be
ing based upon historical scraps from the
pages of despatches from the army while
in Mexico! Is that it? It is, eh! Well,
well, we’ll stop jokes and burlesques,
then. We will try what virtue there is in
real historical facts. Let us see :
Ist. Gen. Pierce “fell from his horse”
on the evening of the 19ih of August,
during the battle of Contreras.— Vide
Gen. Scott's Report, Tacubaya, Jlug. 28,
1847, Vot. 2, Ex. Doc., Is/ Ses. 30 ih
Congress, p. 309.
2d. Gen Pierce “fainted in the ac
tion” of August 20th—the battle of
Cherubusco.— Vide same despatch, same
volume, p. 313.
3d. “ He” [Gen. Pierce] “ fainted”.
Vide Gen. Pillow's Report, JUixcoac, Jlvg.
24, 1847, same battle, same volume, p.
339.
4th. “ Pierce’s brigade’’[was] “under
my command in this action.”— Gen.
Shields, San Jlugustin, -lug. 24, 1847,
Report of same battle, same volume, p.
344.
sth. “The battle” [Molino del Rey]
was won J ust a * Brigadier Gen. Pierce
reached the ground.”—Gen. Sdott, lacu
aya, Sept. 11, 1847, same, volume, p.
ODD.
6th. “The immediate command” [of
Pillow’* division after that doughty Gen
eral was wounded in the boot at the
•torming of Chepultepec] “ devolved on
Brigadier General Cadwallader, in the
absence of the senior brigadier (Pierce)
of the same division—an invalid since the
events of August 19,” [the day he fell
from his horse.] Gen. Scott, National
Palace of . Mexico , [“Halls of the Alon
/ezumas”] Sept. 18,1847, same volume, p.
378.
There now ! That’s all we can do for
you in that line—that’s all Gen. Pierce
did on the entire line from Vera Cruz to
the “Halls of the Monlezumas,” (so
triumphantly entered by old Chippewa on
the 14th of September, 1847,) except to
march, eat, drink, and sleep. He might
have been guilty of some other tri
fling acts occasionally—dancing fandan
gos, brushing the moisture from the rich
lips of the senoritas with his fierce red
military moustache, Sac., but none of that
is recorded as yet. Maybe it will all
come out in the next edition of his biog
raphy.
But perhaps, after all, our neighbor is
so very mad at us this week, because of
the Kilkenny fight among his old confed
erates in political corruption in Ohio.—
Here, perhaps, we are in a measure guil
ty, although we have not been there this
three years and upwards. But we re
collect when we were connected with the
press thereabouts, we were in the habit
of saying just the same things of those
chaps that they are now saying of each
other. But we guess it will all come out
right. Therefore, neighbor, “fret not
thy gizzard nor worry thy internal
parts.”
Facts aud Fancies.
An article of some length upon the
Duguerrean art, prepared for this num
ber, is crowded out until next week.
Rev. Mr. Riheldaffer’s congregation
will in future worship at the Court
House. Services to-morrow, and everv
subsequent Sabbath, at half-past ten, A.
M., and three P. M.
A large number of the Sisseton and
W.irpeton Indians were assembled at
Traverse des Sioux recently, clamorous
tor their money, goods and provisions
under the new treaty. Their attentive
Agent, Maj. M’Lean, was upon the
ground, using his endeavors to keep them
in patience and alleviate their immediate
wants. Gov. Ramsey also visited the
Traverse at the same time, to give coun
sel and allay excitement. The Indians
say the time is up, and they want their
money. Living in expectation of this
the past year, they have made scarcely
no exertion, by way of hunting and rais
ing corn, to provide the means of present
subsistence. Mr. Rice had a considera
ble quantity of flour at the Traverse,
which he rolled out to the Indians on tick,
and other traders, and the Agent, did
what they could to satisfy their wants.—
The slaughtering of the settlers’ cattle,
which we mentioned hist week, turns out
to amount to the killing of one cow,
which at the time was depredating upon
a small corn field belonging to the Indi
ans.
We would suggest to our Delegate in
Congress that an appropriation of S2OOO
would pay in the low water of this season,
for removing the snags in the Minnesota
river, to the ordinary head of navigation.
— Democrat.
It the editor of the Democrat is sin
cere in his belief that Frank Pierce will
be elected, and also sincere in his desire
to have the Minnesota river improved, it
is no wonder he wishes the appropriation
made “ this season,” while a liberal mind
ed and national patriot occupies the Presi
dential chair. It he and his party suc
ceed in marching Frank Pierce into the
White House, over the dead body of
England’s humiliator and Mexico’s con
queror, he knows it will be all day with
appropriations for the Minnesota or any
other river. These are the very kind of
appropriations that Pierce always voted
against when in Congress, and is pledged
to veto should he succeed to the Presi
dency. The man who deliberately voted
against thousands for the improvement ol
the Ohio and Mississippi, upon constitu
tional scruples, could certainly not be ex
pected to give his sanction to the im
provement ot the Minnesota. Dare the
Democrat editor himself give the full
“ approval of his judgment” to the sug
gestion he here throws out to Mr. Sib
ley ? We doubt it very much.
If our neighbor of the St. Anthony-
Express is the man we take him to be, he
will tear the patch-work “ leader” in
this week’s Democrat to tatters—“ to
very rags.” Even Robertson, with all
his Quixotic phantasms, has never before
so completely laid himself open to a
Lundy’s Lane broadside. Give it to him,
Scott fashion.
Rev. Mr. Cressey, of the Baptist de
nomination, preached an interesting fu
neral discourse last Sabbath afternoon, in
commemoration of the sad death of Mr
Terry, at Pembina. Mr. Terry was a
member of the Baptist Church, St. Paul,
and not connected with the Methodist
Mission at Red river, as erroneously sta
ted in some of the papers,
There has perhaps never, within the
United States, been so reckless—we may
almost say deliberate —an instance of
wholesale murder by steamboat officers^ 1
as was witnessed by the burning of the'
Henry Clay on the Hudson, two weeks
ago. The New York press, without an
exception we believe, speak right out,
and call the outrage by its proper name—
murder. The officers have been arrested
and held to heavy bail. It is clearly prov
ed that the boat was racing with the Ar
menia at the time of the accident, and that
the passengers received nothing but in
sults for their repeated remonstrances
with the officers. Two Western steam
boat commanders with whom we are ac
quainted, and know to be competent
judges of such matters —Captains Dean
and Baolie’idor of the Cincinnati and Pitts
burgh packet line—were on board at the
; time, and are strong witnesses against the
| officers of the Clay. Over sixty dead
bodies bad been recovered at last accounts.
Among those lost were Mr. Downing, the
celebrated horticulturist. The Cleveland
Herald thus speaks of him:
“ The death of Mr. Downing, editor of
the Horticulturist, by the destruction of
the steamer Henry Clay, is a national ca
lamity. He had done, and was doing,
much to refine the taste and elevate the
social life and habits of the American
people. His works on rural architecture,
landscape gardening, horticulture and flo
riculture, exercise a wide influence, and
have become American standards. Mr.
D. was employed by Government to lay
out and beautify the public grounds at
Washington, and many private mansions
on the Hudson and elsewhere bear testi
mony to his taste and judgement in their
lovely surround ngs. He was an artist,
scholar and gentleman, whose sudden and
lamentable end his countrymen deeply
deplore.”
The bell for the Baptist church, from
the foundry of Geo. L. Hanks, Cincin
nati, arrived by the Martha since our
last. It is large, weighing 850 pounds,
, and said to be of very fine tone, of which
fact we can all judge in a few days, as it
will be hung immidiately.
The Galena Advertiser claims that
Cook lias been elected to Congress from
lowa, and that the W’higs have carried
the H. of R. of that State. Reliable news
next week.— Democrat.
There, neighbor Houghton, you’ve got
it now, right in the face and eyes! Your
news is not reliable! What business had
you to refer to the lowa election at all?
You have been entrenching upon “ Dem
ocratic” ground, and for your pains you
are set down in the Democrat's cata
logue as a journalist unworthy of confi
dence, even in matters of common-place
news.
“J. P. Benjamin, U. S. Senator elect
from Louisiana, lias written a letter sta
ting that Scott cannot carry that State.”
We see this paragraph waiting about
in the papers. Both the .Democratic
journals in St. Paul copy it this week.
It is undoubtedly false, the same as thou
sands of other stories the opposition are
setting afloat daily. Mr. Benjamin a few
weeks ago. addressed a large ratification
meeting in New Orleans, and during his
speech pledged Louisiana for Scott. We
have the papers to show for this.
A lew weeks ago the Democrat made
a prominent parade in its columns of the
name of Hon. Win. W. Hunter, member
or Congress from the Belmont, Ohio, dis
trict, as a “ bolter ” from tire Whig ranks.
We felt certain at the time the story was
false, and can now contradict it with the
documents before us. Thus h.'ir false
hoods tumble, one after another.
The American Whig Review for Au
gust, contains fine engravings of Gen.
Scott and Hon. M. P. Gentry, side by
side. Events are developing which will
soon bring the distinguished originals into
the same position.
The St. Charles Hotel, St. Anthony,
under the management of Mr. Clark, and
] his faithful lieutenant, Mr. Dubois, has
not its superior north of St. Louis. We
have been there and speak knowingly.
A walk out to the Capitol any day about
these times, will satisfy- the most incred
ulous that things now look as though the
building would really be enclosed, and a
portion of it finished before the first of
January ensuing. Ten or twelve work
men are engaged laying brick, and other
| portions of the work is keeping pace with
'the walls. So far as we could judge, we
I thought things were going on about right,
both as regards despatch and workman
ship. The capitol promises to be a fine
imposing building, much more so than
our citizens generally suppose.
The Court House is now nearly finish
ed—the Hall of Justice, and the stairs
leading to it, entirely so. The County-
Commissioners have taken the wise plan
of paying for it at once, and getting the
county out of debt as soon as possible.
For this reason the taxes this year will
be high—in all, fifteen mills on the dol
lar. Better pay it at once, however, with
out grumbling, than to have a debt hang
ing over us, with ten per cent, interest
eating us up by inches.
We are pained to announce that the
editor of the Pioneer continues very se
verely ill. Some of his friends think his
recovery is doubtful, but we hope their
fears are groundless.
TTie “ Democracy ” of Ohio are having
a sweet time of it. A violent quarrel has
broken out in Cincinnati between Dr.
Geo. Fries, formerly a leading “Demo
cratic ” member of Congress, backed by
many of the most influential of his party ?
and the editors of the Enquirer and their
adjuncts. It is extending all over the
State; and from what we know of the
materiel engaged in leading off, we are
sure it is bound to assume, before the fall
elections, as virulent a type as the war
which rages in Missouri between Benton
and the Anties. The Ohio Statesman,
“ Rob's ” former file leader, and political
cynosure since he came to Minnesota, has
“locked horns” with the Fries men
of Hamilton county, and is decidedly
choice in its epithets when speaking of
Democrats under its ban. A well known
German politician, Mr. Recmelin, of
Hamilton county, is one of the ablest men
of the Democratic party, and yet the
Statesman thus introduces him to its col
umns—“ The canting, ranting, white-liv
ered charlatan, Reemelin, is in hot water
in his efforts to force his nomination down
the reluctant throats of the Democracy of
his district.” How they love each other !
Scott is a dead letter in this county. —
Coshocton (O.) Democrat.
Like other dead letters lie will be sent
straight to Washington. —Raleigh Regis
ter.
Scott is famous for “dead letters.”—at
any rate who ever saw one that did not
fall still-born from his pen ?— Exchange.
Yes, “like other dead letters,” he will
be sent straight to Washington, into the
“Dead Letter Office,” and thence, like
all other worthless rubbish, into the “dirt
cart.” —Dubuque Spike.
We would like to see the editor of the
Spike go into a crowd of old soldiers, and
tell them that their former gallant com
mander, who carries more British lead in
his body than any other man living, should
be carted out as vile rubbish. lie would
be very apt to get carted out himself.
As part of the passing history of the
campaign, we must chronicle the fact, that
there is, at this time, an awful commo
tion among the Pierce party at the South.
They at first made the issue there upon
the relative soundness of the two candi
dates upon the compromise measures, sta
ling that Pierce gave the Fugitive Slave
law “the approval of his judgment,”
while Gen. Scott took it merely as an en
cumbrance attached to the Whig platform.
This has brought to light the fact, that no
longer ago than last January, Gen. Pierce
made a speech at New Boston, N. H.,
in which lie strongly denounced both the
institution of Slavery and tlie Fugitive
Slave act, staling that he “ utterly loathed
j Slavery,” &e. The New Hampshire del
egation in Congress have made a lame
i denial of these lacts, but two Democratic
I papers in that State, the Independent
j Democrat of Concord (Gen. Pierce’s res
idence) and the Manchester Democrat,
'back them up by incontestible proof.
I Although published at the time it was
made, right under the auilior’s nose, this
speech was never contradicted until aficr
it appeared in the Washington Republic
a few weeks ago, and then in such an im
potent manner, as to make the evidence
of its truthfulness a thousand times more
strong It is tailing upon the Pierce par
ty in Tennessee, Georgia, &e., with a
withering, deadening, crushing effect—
with a stunning blow more than equal to
| that visited upon the Whigs of the North
jin 1844 by Mr. Clay’s Alabama letter,
I which every body knows, at this day,
was the immediate cause of that great
i man’s defeat. The Nashville Banner
| thus speaks of the effect of the publica
tion of Mr. Pierce’s New Boston and
other speeches.
“It won’t do. They will have to get
rid of these speeches of Gen. Pierce.
They are tellii g like, grape, shoi at the
battle of Buena Vista. They must be
[disproved or Gen. Pierce’s ranks will
soon be terribly thinned.”
We stated last week that Gen. Quit
man, “ in a recent speech.” had passed a
high eulogy upon Gen. Scott’s integrity
and qualifications for the Presidency. In
this it appears we were slightly mistaken.
Wc now learn from the Memphis Enqui
rer, that Gen. Q. made the remarks at
tributed to him while conversing with a
party of gentlemen. He has made no
speech against Gen. Scott since the cam
paign opened, and will make none, unless
a Democratic candidate be brought out
upon a platform more suitable for him to
stand upon, than the rickety old concern
occupied by Gen. Pierce. Gen. Quitman
is not a Pierce man, and will not support
him under present circumstances. No
defection, eh!
The wrathful propensities of the Dem
ocrat man are terribly exercised, because
we published a certain M. C.’s (Gen.
Cullom’s) speech a few weeks since.
Now, a man that cannot read and enjoy
the jokes and sharp cuts of a witty oppo
nent, has no business to be a politician—
that s all. Numbers of the Democrat’s
political friends in St. Paul have laughed
heartily over that same speech, and never
once thought of getting in bad humor.
What a waspish little fire-eater our neigh
bor is, to be sure! Maybe he thinks that
he could stand the smell of gunpowder
and not faint.
No one can fail to see that the editor of
the Democrat is again endeavoring to pro
voke us into an interchange with him of
the fish market vocabulary, so readily at
the end of his pen. Our readers may
rest assured we will not gratify him. He
may befoul his columns as much as he
likes—if such stuff be palatable to his
readers, it is no affair of ours. He lias
applied much baser epithets than he
now employs against us, to much better
men than we—to the very fathers and
builders of the Territory —the very men
to whom she is indebted most for her un
equalled progress and present high posi
tion—one of whom, at least, he has re
cently been whipped—aye, fairly cuffed
into fawning upon, with all the humility
of a well chastised spaniel. And jet he
talks about “kicking” certain people, and
prates of cowards ! Bah ! Where do you
intend locating your graveyard?
Contemptible. —The scape gallows
class of Whig editors arc trying bj’ means
of falsehood to excite the Catholics against
the Democratic part}'. It don’t win.—
Democrat.
If this be true, “.the scape gallows
class of Whig editors ” —wc don’t know
any such, however—are highly censura
ble. Of all the base acts resorted to in
political warfare, this striving to array
the religious feelings of one part of the
community against those of another, is the
most to be condemned bj - good citizens.
We have always avoided any such ap
peals. Some of the Democratic editors
and letter writers, who are Catholics—
such tor instance as the editor of the
Boston Pilot and the correspondent of the
Buffalo Celt—have been severe upon the
State of New Hampshire, owing to the
bigoted religious test in her constitution;
but it is certainly no Whig appeal to
Catholics for their votes, if Whig editors
let their readers see what Democrats say
upon this head of their nominee and his
State’s constitution.
An old soldier who resides in the in
terior of Michigan, a strong Democrat,
writes to a friend in St. Paul that he,
with plenty ol other Democrats in his
neighborhood, are going for his old com
mander, Gen. Scott. How is it, if the
old hero of three wars is such an unfeel
ing aristocrat and vain, pompous fool as
his opponents wish to have people be
lieve, that you cannot find one scarcely in
the whole country, who has served under
him as a private or inferior officer, be his
politics what they may, that is not a strong
Scott man? No. gentlemen; it is the
elite of the army, and the codfish aristoc
racy of Boston and New York, that don’t
care much about seeing Gen. Scott elected,
just because the “common soldiers” and
“common people” ol the country are
going for him. The old gentleman re
ferred to above, also gives it as his opin
ion that Michigan will vote for Scott.
This but corroborates other accounts
which wc hear from that quarter every
mail.
We learn from the St. Louis Republi
can, that the steamer Banner State arrived
there one day last week from Fort Union,
about five miles above the month of the
Yellow Stone, on the Missouri river.
She was fiftj'-two dajs making the trip,
including seven and a hall days aground
on the downward trip. She was thirty
days going up and twenty-two coming
I down. She brought no news of impor
tance. The river was low and falling,
with three to three and a half feet water
on the principal bars above Council
Bluffs. The boat stopped but one day at
the Fort, and tncrc was no intelligence
among the traders or Indians worth no
ticing. There was not a death and but
one case of sickness on the trip, and the
only accident the boat met with was the
tearing away of a small portion of her
guard, a few miles above Council Bluffs.
0,1 the downward trip. Her cargo con
sisted of 1400 bales of buffalo robes, furs
and peltries, one pair of grizzly bears,
two live beaver, two badgers, one war
eagle, one mountain goose, a curious spe
cimen of the deer species, and one prairie
dog, besides any amount of elk and deer
horns. Her freight was all for P. Chou
teau, Jr., & Co.
Somebody stole half a barrel or more
of cucumber pickles from the farm of Mr.
A ante, of the Pioneer Office, out at White
Bear settlement, a few evenings ago.
Has the army- of devils, heretofore ordina
rily employed to tempt and perplex man
kind, been increased by recent recruits ?
We should think so, seeing it is becoming
fashionable to steal even from printers.
W hat unpardonable and original sin shall
we next hear of?
Some scamp entered Mr. Combs' book
store on Wednesday, it being left alone
for a moment, and abstracted about fifty
dollars’ worth of gold pens. No trace
has been discovered by which the thief
can be identified.
A little “sprinkle” of a claim war
came off on Monday evening in the neigh
borhood of the lower sawmill. Both
parties retired after blacking a few eyes
and tearing one or two shirts. As the
merits of the case involved will probably
have to be settled by an appeal to the
law, newspaper comment is entirely out
of place at this stage of the proceedings.
A correspondent writing from St. Paul
to the New York Tribune has the follow
ing notice of one of our best hotels, and of
the excellent means afforded here for get
ting about over the country, comfortably
and safely:
“The best thing visitors can do, after
establishing themselves at the Rice House,
the excellent hotel mentioned in my last
letter, and taking a survey of the curi
osities of St. Paul, is to secure places in
one of Willoughby & Powers’ stages for'
what is called 4 the grand tour.’ This
line of stages runs three times a day be
tween St. Paul and St. Anthony, and some
are always at the landing on the arrival
of the boats, to serve the convenience of
passengers who wish to accomplish
speedily what they have to do. They are
new and handsome coaches, and the dri
vers arc invariably civil and obliging to
accommodate any party desiring to make
the excursion, they will go on the lour
referred to; driving to St. Anthony and
allowing time for a view of the different
Falls ; thence to Lakes Harriet and Cal
houn. with the diversion of a picnic din
ner on the shore; to the Minneha-ha
Falls and Fort Snelling, and by the Spring
Cave to St. Paul, arriving in time for the
visitors, if in haste, to return with the
boat down the river. A more particular
description of this trip may be interesting.
A seat on the top of one of Willoughby
& Powers’ coaches is a capital eminence
trom which to view the country; those
not privileged to such an elevation, must
content themselves with a peep trom the
windows, from which they may discover
enough to reward observation.”
Maj. M’Lean, who has recently made
the voyage down the Minnesota river,
from Traverse des Sioux, in a canoe, in
forms us that merely a nominal expendi
ture would give an uninterrupted channel
of four feet from the mouth to that point,
even at this stage of water. The forma
tion at the Rapids is a single ledge, verj*
narrow, of loose, shelly sand rock, that
can be blown to atoms by two or three
blasts. Alter this, all that is to be dotn
is the removal of a few snags, and the
improvement is complete. If the Gov
ernment should conclude not to do the
work, private enterprise, verj- unjustly,
will be compelled to accomplish it event
ually.
The Democratic papers are full of wise
prophecies made fortj- or fifty years ago,
but just now come to light, concernin'’'
the future destinj' of the then infant
Franklin Pierce. Said Richard III:
“ 1 110 remember tlie Shot, iu-rv
P-opbcl-.l i hat tii.l.m .n.i would Mns,"
Wht*ii Hi biuoiid was h little pirevh.li boy. *
The Pierce editors recollect probably the
potent effect this idle report of a proph
cey bad upon the superstitious mind
iof Richard, and they think to scare
j some of the Scott men bj - the same trick.
Here is a specimen:
‘•lt is currently reported among first
political circles, that an accidental inter
view took place between Thomas Jeffer
son and the mother of Gen. Pierce, while
the latter was a child in her arms, upon
which occasion Mr. Jefferson kindly pat
ted the infant Pierce on the head, and said.
•Who knows but this child may live to be
a President of the United States?’ Up
on being informed of which, Old Ilickon
is said to have remarked, that he would
have made the same prediction had lit
been present.”
Wonder it Mr. Jefferson, on that in
teresting occasion,gave the infant Frank
lin who must have been “an entire
stranger to him”—'“ a cent to buy candy
with ?”
In November next, tbc railroads around
the southern shore of Lake Eric will be
completed, which will give an unbroken
chain of railway from Rockford, 111., to
Boston and New York. Meantime the
work between Rockford and Galena is
rapidly progressing,and will be comp’eted
within a year lrotn this date. A late
number of the Galena Advertiser lias the
following :
The ceremony of breaking ground on
i the Eighth division of the Central Rail
| road was performed, as notified, on sec
, lions .10 and 31, about -5 miles from this
j citj', last Wednesday. A large number
; of persons assembled from the immediate
[ neighborhood and from this city. (amoii«-
I the latter the Mayor and City Council.')
j speeches were made by Messrs. C. S.
Hempstead, 11. H. Gear and C. B. Dettio,
the usual ceremonies deemed appropriate
" ore performed, and the occasion was
one ol good Iccling and hopefulness gen
erally. The commencement of the work
on the whole line ol road from here to
Rockford, is an event worthy of all the
note that can po-sibly be given it, and
one to which all eyes have for a long time
been directed, and we have no reason to
suppose, that the work will not be push
ed forward to completion as speedily as
has been promised. We learn that many
of the contractors are already at work,
and that laborers are collecting along the*
line in great numbers. The favorable
weather, and every thing, urges progress.
GonruEv, the Wirt Kili.er. —This
man, who murdered his wire at St. Paul,
has been apprehended. We learn by a
gentleman from Minnesota, that his wife
disclosed, before she died, that lie was
one of a number who murdered a pedlar
in Grant county, Wis., some time since,
and that measures have been taken to in
vestigate the matter more thoroughly.
Galena -Idv.
This latter sentence may all be true,
but is news to us. The dying disclos
ure, if made at all, was probably made to
one who has since taken himself out of
Minnesota.
Appointment— Hon. Alfred Conklin,
L. S. Judge of the Northern District of
New York, has been nominated Minister
to Mexico, in place of Mr. Letcher, re
signed.