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THE WEEKLY MINNESOTIAN.
OWENS A MOORE,
VOLUME 1.
THE MINNESOTIAN,
PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY,
BY J.P. OWENS Sr G. W. MOORE,
Saint Paul, Minnesota Territory.
TERM :-Two Dollars per annum
In advance. Three Dollars it not in ad
vance
RATES OF ADVERTISING,
[moki areil tvh on it* equivalent.]
Transient Advertisements, $1 00 per square ui
twelve Hues, for the first insertion, and fifty cents per
square for each subsequent insertion.
YEARLY ADVERTISEMENTS.
One column, ..... SSO 00
Half a column, ..... 30 00
One-fourth or a column, - - - ‘2O 00
Business Cards not over six lines, • 6 00
Over six Hues and under ten lines, - 700
Over ten lines and under ttlteen lines, 10 00
For all change* ordered in advertisemants a charge will
be made of thirty cents per 1,000 eni> composition.
We agree to charge the above prices, uniformly for ad
vertising.
James .V. Goodhue, Pioneer,
D. A. Robertson, Democrat,
Owens Moore, Mmncsotian.
St. Paul March 24th, 1862.
Af. E. AMES* R. R. NELSON.
AMES & NELSON,
ATTORNEYS AND COUNSELLORS AT LAW,
AND SOLICITORS IN CHANCERY.
St. Paul, Minn
WILL attend with promptne>s and dddlty to all law
business intrusted to their care in Minnesota, and
the adjoining counties of Wi*coii»iu.
13- Particular attemloti wil be given to the collection
•f debts, and the location of laud warrants. y
W. P. MURRAY,
ATTORNEY AND COUNSELOR AT LAW,
St. Paul, Minn. Terr.
WI LI. attend promptly and diligently to all business
intrusted to hiiu. Halvng made hiiuse.f acquaint
ed with the qualify and situation of the surveyed lands
In the territory, he i* prepared to locate land warrants
to the best advantage. Persons at a distance may send
their warrants here and their Interests w ill be attended
to a> if they were present. rr Office on Third sreet.
September 17, 1851.
H. L. MOSS,
A TTORNEY & COUNSELLOR AT
il. Law, Siiklwa.rr, Min. Ter., will attend to pro
fessional business in ad the courts or the Territory j will
attend to the location of Land Warrants, 4u*.
53 “* Land Warrants for sale.
A. VAN VORHES,
A TTORNEY & COUNSELLOR AT
Law and Solicitor In Chancery, will attend t<» all
professional business iuirusted to his care, in the dittereut
court# of the Territory. [Stillwater, 1852.
Isaac Atwater,
A TTORNEY & COUNSELLOR AT
\\- L»w *n<l Sulicit..r in Uuanovry. Will give prompt
attention to any bu>im-ss intrusted him in the line of his
profession, in any part of the Territory. Particular at
tention paid to locating !a»nd Warrants, Payment or Tax
es, sale of Patents when issued, and Real K>tate in gen
eral. Office at St. Anthony, ou Main street, opposite the
Falls.
W. Richardson,
ATOTARY PUBLIC, Conveyancer,and
J- v Land Agent. Office, opposite the St. Charle.*
House, St. Anthony Falls.
WiLH.IV Js. V.VV ETI'EV
ATTORNEYS AT LAW
Office over Farrington’s Brick Store, St Paul.
Ur. IC, Ulßßl’l'l *
HAS his nffi. e ill the r. ar .if Levi Sloan’s store, whop
he trill ll• rea'ly to attetiil to prof-, sslonal calls.
Saint Paul, Xov JD—min y
Dr. C. L. Viccherst,
PHYSICIAN, SURGEON AND AC
COCCUKK—WiII practice his pmlessioti in Saint
Paul and vie Hi ty. Ortlce, corner ot Fourth ami Roberts
Streets over Ca'heari &. Tv-on’s Store. Q>'
John Bradley,
Carpenter and Builder. Point Prescott and Willow
River, Wi*con*iu.
YV ILL attend promptly to all business
* V intrutted l*» Ills charge.
Referlnc es.—The house- he has builtduring the past
year iu the towns above named. 43y
W. H. Semmes,
Attorney at Law, and Solicitor in
Chancery, Willow River,Wis
Will practice in the counties ot St. Croix and LaCrosse,
Wisconsin, ami in tin* District Court or W ashington Coun
ty, Minnesota. £3“ Valuable town lots in the village of
Willow River for sale. 38y
W. H. C. Folsom,
Taylor’* Fall*, Min. Ter.
TAEALER in Dry Goods, Groceries,
U Provisions Hardware, Cutlery, Crockery, Uuecns
ware, Ready-Made Ulotlnnu, Boots and Shoes,fee. 4d.v
DR. J. H. DAY,
WILL practice his profession In Saiut Paul and vi
cinity* Office ou Bench street,
nov 29 ram y
L. A. BABCOCK,
LVW FIRM,
BABCOCK & WILKINSON Attornie* and counsellors
at haw, Solicitors in Chancery, fcc.
Office near the corner of Third and Roberts streets, St.
Par.h Min. Ter.
B 111 attend «o business of their profession In all the
Court! of the Territory.
. nov. 22,1851.
BRECK & WILLIAMS,
ATTORNEYS AND COUNSELLORS AT LAW
OFFICE ou Tuird St* Saint Paul.
Daniel Brelk. A. l. Williams.
dec. €.
\V l. 11 GARY WOO.*,
ATTOKNKT a COCSSELEOR AT LAW. Notary
Public, and Land Agent, bauk Rapid.”, Mluuesota
Territory.
JACOB J. NOAH,
ATTORNEY AT LAW and Justice
JTjL of ttie Peace —Co*nini#aioi»erf«*r the Stales ur Maine,
Connecticut, Rhode Island, New Y«*rk, Pennsylvania,
Kentucky, Ohio, Virginia, Alabama and Louisiana.
Office on Third St., St. Paul.
DR. T. U. POTTS,
Corner Roblris and Sixth streets, St. Paul,
11/ ILL attend to the duties of bis profession In Su Paul
\V and vicinity. September 17.
BILLS OF EXCIIA.NGE,
AND DRAFTS Oil all part# of the United States, at the
office of the Minnesota vuuU, by
CHAS. W. BORUP.
J. QUINN,
BOOT AND SHOEMAKER—Corner
ol Third »nd Mmuesol»Sl*.—Geullvmeu’* bom.*
■ml shoe*; »l*o l-alles’ »nd Children’s »hm s, made to
order Id the ueatest and most durable manner, and of the
best u)»tert»ls.
J. R. BRfcWSTER,
House, Sign, and Painter.
St. l'aul, Minnesota Territory.
INSURANCE!
TBS undersigned Is agent for, and will Insure buildings
and goods in tbe following Companies:
Utica Insurance Company.
jEtua Insurance Company of Utica,
Orleans Insurance Company.
Jackson County Mutual ln>e.ranee Company.
Mew York Protection Company.
—ALSO—
Will Insure Uvea in the Connecticut Mutual Life Insn
fan a Company. ALEX. WILKIN.
Sl Paul 9 November 5,1861 8
a/IONEY TO LOAN—In .urns to
If X nit berrowert. Call at tbe Office of
4ttf WILKIN fc VAN ETTEN.
t entral . onse, St. I aul
C'l AVE k BURTON have taken this old and well known
J house. They have fitted It up anew, and are now
prepared to accommodate boarders and travellers with
comfortable quarters. No pains will be spared to make
the Central House one of ths beat Hotels in the West.
November, 1851.
Maa&OLs EGtsm
RODNEY PARKER, late of the American House Low
ell, Mass., liAvtne a leas** or the large hotel at the
upper end of St. Paul, with everything in proper order
for the convenience of travelers, boarders, or families de
siring furnished apartments, respectfully Invites his
friends and the public to give him a call, believing that
he can do a> much for their Comfort a* can be expected
In a new country, not yet supplied with regular markets.
St. Charles Hotel.
J. C. CLARK, Proprietor,
St. Anthony Falla. Minnesota.
This House has been thoroughly repaired and renovated,
and will be kept in a maimer equal to the best Hot Ms in the
West. The Kalis of St. Anthony, with the fine fishing and
hunting grounds adjacent, together with a climate unsur
passed <*n the Am -rlcan continent for health and lovell
u~ss, render this the place of all others to enjoy the hot
season. 44tf
Temperance House,
T OT MOFFET, Proprietor,—Corner
-LJ of Fourth and Jackson St>., Saint Paul. Perma
nent an 1 trattsictu boarders furnished with good and com
fortable apartments. Charges moderate.
Half-Way House.
TOHN MORGAN, (mid-way between
•J St- Paul and Stillwater,) begs leave to say to stran
gers visiting Minnesota, and the public generally, that
having made his arrangements complete for the accom
modation of the public, and being situated in the midst
of the most delightful scenery, surrounded by lakes that
abound with lish, and in an atmosphere of unsurpassed
purity, he hopes to see company from abroad, as well as
from the neighboring villages, they will And the charges
moderate.
Minnesota Boarding-House.
SC McCRAY would inform the pub
• lie—residents and strangers—that he has taken
the large house on Eagle Street, opposite D. L. Fuller’s
Brick Store, where he is prepared to accommodate his
customer# with the best style of boarding. The house
has been thoroughly repaired and paint d. His table will
be furnished with every thing the market affords; and
th«*se who come prepared to plank up the Ca h every
Saturday night, will find the “Minnesota Boarding House”
a comfortable and pleasant home. None others are de
sired. [April 17—6 m.
Emmett 8c Moss,
Attorney* and Solicitors.
IT’ILL attend to professional business
* * In the various Courts of the Territory. Particu
lar attention given to the location of Land Warrants,
buying and selling of lands, &.< . Land warrants for sale
for ca»h or on time. Office on the corner of Wabasha w
and Third streets, St. Paul Minnesota.
July 1, 1852.
OAK HILL CEMETERY.
A LL persons desiring burial lots can
-4A. obtain Information by calling upon the Secretary,
J. W. Selby, or the President, C. W. Borup. 29yl
P. CHOUTEAU, JR. JAS. HARRISON, FELIX VALLE
CHOUTEAU. HARRISON k VALLB.
Commission Merclia .Kami Proprietors of the St.
Louis Rolling Mill.
AND manufactures of bar iron in all its
various shapes. Sheet Iron and Boiler Plate, Nails
and Spik -s from the ore of the iron Mountain. Iron Store,
No. 129 North Second street, St. Louis.
September 1, 1851.
Nathan Spicer,
JEWELER AND WATCHMAKER,
J at the *iKli of Ihc Hia Watch, Third slr.-ct, a
next door to the St. Panl Dhir Store, is prepared
to mate Bold and ..ilver watches, rings, spoons.
well a. music hooks, shell combs, or linker rings, hue -
let> and -ar drops. He also keeps for sale a great variety
of rings, perfumery, and whatever goods are usually en
quired for at a Jeweler’s.
W. H. FORBES,
PUR COMPANY—St. Paul Outfit—
X Also Dry Goods and Groceries, corner of Third and
Jackson streets.
J7w7 ba bcociT
FORWARDING and Commission Mer
chant, Upper Lauding, Saint Paul, Minnesota Ter
ritory.
SPENCER, KIRKPATRICK A .MARKLEV,
Forwarding and Commission Merchants,
LEVEE, LOWER LANDING, ST. PAUL.
feb 14 22 ~ tf
S. P. FOLSOM,
County Surveyor .
May be found at office of of Register of Deed#, on Third
Street, one door below .Minnesota Out tit. 17—y
E. M’LAGAN,
STORAGE AND COMMISSION MERCHANT,
Jackson street, Lcwcr Landing, St Paul, Minnesota
1> ROM IT attention given to all consignments, and char
ges moderate.
St Paul, October 19, 1851 ?
THEODORE E. PARKER,
Attorney and Counsellor at Law,
STILLWATER, MINNESOTA TERRITORY.
31. S. WILKINSON.
To ill)’ old friend#,
AND THE “REST OK MANKIND,” I would say,
that 1 can be found during the winter, at the old
stand of Charley Cave, on Third Street, where 1 will al
ways be happy to wait upon them. Bar and house fur
nished with the best of every thing,
uov. 22. tt. WM. HARTS HORNE.
SHERMAN A MOREY,on Fourth street,St. Paul,near
the middle «*l town, in the building of Mr. Knox, up
stairs, may be fotitld, ready to attend to Painting in all its
departments. House painting, sigh painting, carriage
and ornamental painting, all done up promptly, otid .with
paints of the best quality. If we do our work in a slov
enly, uuworkiuau like manuner we do not expect to gel
business in the enlightened town of St. Paul.
Dec. 13, 1851. SHERMAN fe MOREY.
Tnr. subscriber would respectfully iufojni the citizens
or St. Paul and its vicinity, that he Is now carrying on
the above business in the 2d story of Spencer’s new build
ing, on the corner of Ftth and Roberts street.
O* Particular attention paid to rebinding old books and
periodicals. JaMKS MACKINTOSH,
feb 7 21—1 1
J C Burbank & co. St.Paul] [W L Fawcette&co. St. Lou 1#
NORTH-WESTERN EXPRESS COMPANY,
CONNECTING AT GALENA AND ST. LOUIS WITH THE
American and other Express Companies.
f'pO and from all the principal citie# in the United States,
Ua Forma and Europe, for the speedy transportation
of money and valuable package#, cot eclion of drafts, notes,
bills, acc ount*, Ac., purchase and sale of all kind# o!
merchandize.
AGENT*.
c. R. Rice 4c Co , St. Panl, Otis West, St. Louis.
J. Brookes, Galena.
N. B. —Particular attention paid to forwarding and
commission business generally.
may 1. 33-tf
AMERICAS' SALOON’
I?RED. fIAHIIY now ke**ps tills well-known establish
ment “uii his owu h00k. ,, lie hopes by a continued
attention to the wants of bis customers, to merit their
patroiiiige as heretofore.
SADDLE, HARNESS AND TRUNK MANUFACTORY.
I 'HE subscribe! solicits the patronage of the public,
and assures all purchasers In his line, that he will
e II for cash, saddles, harness or a.l kinds, and trunks, of
a better quality, and cheaper than any other establish
ment in Minnesota. Pur baser* will do well to call at
his shoj*, on Third street, St- Paul, next door east of S.
11. Sergent’a and Judge for themselves.
A. R. FRENCH.
CKETCHES OF MINNESOTA, the
O New England of th« West, by E. a. Seymour. For
Ml* by I.EOI'O fc 'miUHCU.
FIRE k MARINE INSURANCE,
T»y the unUentiKUttl agent fur tbe Protection Insurance
■O Company of Hartford, Conn. Policies Issued upon tb«
moat favorable terms by
W. P. Iduat, Agent, Minnesota.
9t. Pant, February IS, 18SS ?t-l*
SAINT PAUL, MINNESOTA TERRITORY, SATURDAY, SEPTEMRER 4, 1852.
L. EMMETT,
HENRY L. MOSS.
PAINTISG.
HOOKBINDING
Office—Corner of Jackson and Fifth Streets.
THE MINNESOTIAN.
Correspondence of the St. Anthony Express.
West sf the Mississippi—Sank Rapids.
Snuk Rapids, Min., )
August 14, 1852. $
Mr. Editor : —Through the columns
of your paper, I desire to call attention to
a most beautiful tract of country, hitherto
little known and little noticed; namely,a
belt of land lying on the west side of the
Mississippi river, bounded north by Sauk
river, running west on Sauk river about
ten miles, and from the mouth of the
Sauk, south, on the Mississippi thirty or
forty miles, including the steamboat land
ing and the entire water power of the
Rapids on the west side.
Without the least wish “ wilfully to
misrepresent,” your Sauk Rapids corres
pondent asserts it as his honest convic
tion, that no other region of country, here
or elsewhere, of equal extent, combines
so many elements for making beautiful,
productive, and valuable farms. Unlike
some sections of Minnesota, otherwise
desirable, it is well wooded and well
watered. While there is an abundance
of rich prairie land for farms, such farms
as old New England men own and till in
the valley of the Connecticut, and the
Kentucky hemp growers on the bunks of
the Ohio, there are, also, close by,
groves of beautiful timber, and lands cov
ered with stately forest trees, while clear
lakes, musically murmuring rivulets, and
perennial springs enrich and beautify the
whole.
There is a marked peculiarity in the
soil of these prairies. The only objec
tion I have ever heard expressed by emi
grants, to Minnesota prairies, has been
that they are too sandy to last. This ob
jection can be urged with some truth to a
lew localities, within my own knowledge.
The little prairie a few miles this side of
St. Paul, and small portions of the land
adjoining Fort Ripley, are examples. In
both places the proportion of sand is cer
tainly too large, and after a few yaars’
use, they will present a dry surface of
dead sand. There is no denying this.—
The composition of the soil is a standing
refutation of every other supposition.—
But these are exceptions to the general
rule applicable to our prairie soil. The
soil, however, of the prairies on Sauk
river, is not liable to this objection. It
is not only not sandy, but it has the ap
pearanc of bottom lands cleared of heavy
timber, such as border the St. Joseph, in
Michigan, or the Maumee, in Ohio, deep
and loamy ; while at the same time it is
high, dry and undulating Tliprn U a
charming lake about four miles distant
from the mouth of Sauk river. A beau
tiful stream traverses the claim of John
C. Hanley, known as Hanley’s creek,
possessing important hydaulic powers.—
Farther down the river, twenty, thirty,
and forty miles, such is the beauty and
fertility of the country, that I feel assur
ed, could the toiling hundreds on the
mountains of the far East, once behold it,
they would, if they could not sell them,
give away the rick- ty old lands of thier
grandfathers, for the privilege of coming
and making homes for themselves and
children in this delightful country. Many
are coming, but many more ought to
come. I wish your paper could be read
in every dilapidated old house in New
England, and by every young man now
hoeing his acre of poor corn, in that
most respectable, but worn out and rusty
region. I think you would open their
eyes to the folly of eternally digging
among rocks for a living. The rotten old
mansions around the base of the frown
ing Kearsarge, and in the shadows of
shaggy Hoosac, with their appurtenances,
would be left to the bats, if their owners
knew but half the true story of our prai
ries and rivers in Minnesota. Merely
as a philanthopic act, can you not send
the Express to some of those moth-eaten
corner towns in New England, whose
only merit consists in Gen. Washington’s
having stopped over night in them, on his
way from the Continental Congress or
some other old gathering in Revolutiona
ry times. In so doing, I verily believe
you be doing God’s service. It
would tell them of a country which they
perhaps have never read of.
Our enterprising neighbors, Messrs.
Lowry and Gilman, are now having two
hundred acres broken on one of the prai
ries above named, and nearly opposite the
landing. Mr. Lowry also designs erect
ing a large warehouse at the landing, on
the west bank of the river, and men are
now engaged in getting out the materials
tor the building. John C. Hanley, our
efficient Sheriff, has also the lumber
drawn for a substantial dwelling on his
choice claim opposite Ewing’s landing.—
We therefore soon expect to see a busy,
growing community settled up and down
the western bank of the Rapids.
Of “ our side,” I am happy to be able
to say, that a large substantial building,
block, designed for the common jail of
the county, is in course jt erection, and
will be completed in two or three weeks.
It is built on the site selected by the
County Commissioners, for the county
buildings.
We are all pleased at the prospect of
having a Land Office ere long established
in Benton county. It is a desideratum,
the importance of which is being to be
realized. We are surrounded by a large
tract of country soon to come into market,
and our citizens certainly should not be
compelled to perform a journey of a hun
dred miles, to locate a quarter or half sec
tion of land.
In conclusion, allow me to congratulate
you m having succeeded, after so long a
time, in awakening the slumbering affec
tion of the amiable editor of the Minneso
tian, for the Upper Mississippi. He
now declares his former attachment, which
I never heard of before. But then lam
a “ new comer." 1 know nothing, and
until now have heard nothing, of the ar
dent love which our new friend “bore
us” in “ auld land syne.” If it is truth
that he speaks, I certainly cannot help
feeling thankful that his Rip Van Winkle
sleep is at length broken.* This is writ
ten for the purpose of calling attention to
a beautiful region of country on the Up
per Mississippi, not hitherto noticed.—
Will the editor of the Minnesotian prove
his words by his work, by copying it
from the Express into his paper. JVous
verrons.
Respectfully yours,
BENTON.
• Th* Sauk Rapids man will. If he Is honest and can
did, acknowledge that he is the Rip Van Winkle.— Afm
netotian.
[Correspondence of the New York Tribune,
A Working Woman oa Country Life.
Horicon, (Wis.) July 29, 1852.
In this day of Woman’s Rights and
Woman’s Rights’ Conventions, I thought
I would take the liberty', to address a
few lines to The Tribune , in answer to an
article from C. D., on “ The Tendency of
Population to the City—its causes.” C.
D. must be grossly ignorant of country
life, I think, from the description he
gives of a farmer’s, or, at least, in Wis
consin. I think therearea very fewthal
are saucy enough to rise before the sun,
and il one’s hands do grow hard, that is
no sign that “ his manners are uncouth,
or his mind uncultivated.”
ll C. D. would come to Wisconsin and
see our fields of wheat nodding yellow
heads invitingly to the harvest-men, our
tall corn, our beds of rich garden vegeta
bles, our tat, contented hogs and cattle,
and our flocks of hens and turkeys, he
would think a farmer might contrive to
exist, in spite “of the plainness of his
homespun ” suit.
Alter having held up a «carecrow of a
farmer to frighten people from the coun
try, he paints out a city clerk, with “glit
tering apendages and graceful manners,”
and takes him for a decoy pigeon to lure
them to the city.
Perhaps C. D. docs not know how
much better healtli a person can enjoy in
the country than in the city. He does
not tell you how the pale dyspeptical
clerk turns away with a sickening stom
ach from “the table loaded with luxu
ries or how, amid the smoke and heat
and dust of the city, he closes his aching
eyes and wishes himself among the sha
dy groves, the green hills, and cool
sprinprs of the omm try
“ Then as to the respective condition
of the women.”
We do not think that that class which
consider “ shopping, visiting and thrum
ming the piano,” to be the object of life,
comprises all the women of the city. We
would beg leave to compare another class
of city women with the country ones.—
The country girl comes forth in the morn
ing to breath the fresh air, burdened with
sweets of a thousand fragrant (lowers, and
as she trips along she carols forth a song
in the very gladness of her heart; her
step is light as the fawn’s, the rose of
health blooms on her cheek, innocence
and happiness beam from her eye. Com
pare her with the pale, sallow counten
ance, the bowed form, and weak step of
the city sewing-girl who sits stitching
away her life in a garret, or a shop; and
which, will reflection tell us, is the more
desirable condition of the two? Then
compare the large, airy kitchen of the far
mer, to the sweltering cellars of the city.
And then, a girl in the country, is paid
from eight to ten shillings per week. I
do not know what they average in the
city, but I presume no more.
Now I would sincerely advise all young
men and girls, who have not the fear of
hard hands and dumpy fingers before their
eyes, to come to this country. They will
find labor well requited, and thanks to the
Free School law, there is no lack of edu
cation, and there is no excuse for being
ignorant when we can get The Weeekly
Tribune for two dollars per annum. Anil
if they have any such fears for their com
fort, I would say that 1 can show them
hands that have milked, made butter,
washed, scrubbed and done all kinds of
housework for a quarter of a century,
and I am not afraid to compare them with
the hands of any woman in the city, al
though hers have never been used for any
coarser purposes than to thump time into
eternity on the keys of a groaning, shriek
ing piano. Now, Mr. Editor, as we have
a good Whig Governor, we shall of course
have Thanksgiving duly announced: I
would take this opportunity to invite you
and C. D. to take supper with us. And
if we have none of the “ luxuries of the
city,” our fare will be the product of our
own labor, and though we eat in a log
cottage, from a pine table, it will he be
neath the shade of our own spreading
oaks, (if not “our own vine and fig
tree.”) We will venture to promise you
as good a turkey as you can get in any
city, and I hope when C. D. becomes
better acquinted with the country people,
he will think that vulgarity and ignorance
are not necessarily tne attendants of the
farmhouse.
Oh, if my voice could reach the gar
rets and cellars of New York, I would
try and lure forth their inhabitants to the
spreiding prairies and green oak openings
of Wisconsin.
Mr. Editor, if you think these few
lines worth your notice, they are at your
disposal; if not, it is no great loss in these
days of cheap postage.
There go a parcel of harvest-men;
Hurra for Scott! they are singing.—
Amen, I say. May the cry of Scott and
Liberty ring forth through the length and
breadtn of our land till the hackwoods
man in the forests of Maine and the
startled gold-hunters on the banks of the
Sacramento shall echo back the shout!
Yours, truly
s. n. c.
“Brightly Break* the Morning. )
“ The skies *rc bright, our he»rts *re light,
Once mure by thousands we unite.”
The campaign progresses gloriously.—
During the past week immense Scott
mass meetings have been held in Perry,
Mifflin. Luzerne, Columbia, Fulton, Bed
ford, Berks, and other counties in the
State, at all of which the greatest enthu
siasm was manifested. The people are
fully aroused ! The spirit of 1840 and
1848 is abroad in the land, and the locos
cannot successfully resist the current of
popular enthusiasm that is rapidly bear
ing General Scott to the Presiden
tial chair, Pennsylvania has never yet
deserted the scar-covered, lanrel-crown
ed Heroes who have fought her coun
try’s battles and successfully defend
ed her flag in every contest with a foreign
toe. The Electoral vote of the old Key
stone will be given to Gen. Scott, as it
was to Jackson, and Harrison, and Tay
lor. The indications of this glorious re
sult are as palpably evident as if written
upon the heavens with a system of sun
beams. We daily hear of Democrats
“ coming out from among the foul party,”
and arraying themselves under the Scott
banner. Such is our confidence in Scott’s
carrying the State by a large majority,
that we have no hesitation in saying to
our friends everywhere, this result “will
do to bet on."—Harrisburgh (Pa.') S.'ate
Journal.
Miraculous Escape — Capt. F. W.
Coffin and family, of this village, while
on a recent tour to the Upper Lakes, on
the propeller, Prairie State, came near
losing their youngest son, about three
years old, by drowning. The particulars
are these: When near the Manitou Isl
ands, in Lake Michigan, and while the
ladies on the boat were engaged in con
versation, the little lad strayed to the
edge of the vessel, unnoticed by those
around ; and in attempting to get upon a
chair that stood near the guards, the
chair turned with him and lie fell over
board. Mr. George Sanburn, sleward of
the boat, the only person that saw the
child fall, jumped into the water to rescue
him. The w heelsman discovered Mr. S.
in the water, and rung the bell to have
the engine stop. The propeller being
under full headway, proceeded about
half a mile before it could be stopped.
The boat was lowered and well manned,
wiUi the almost distracted fattier among
the number. The waves were rolling
high, and only as the boat rose upon the
foaming billows, could those in it dis
cover the young man and child. In a
short time, however, they reeched Mr.
Sanburn, nearly exhausted in contending
against the strong head wind, and took
him in the boat. It W'as believed that
the child had sunk to rise no more, when
the father discovered it floating on the
surface of the water, some eighty feet
distant. There was hope that the child
might yet be saved, and the hands rowed
to the spot with ail possible speed, upon
reaching which the child was taken from
the water apparently lifeless. On reach
ing the propeller, however, signs of life
appeared, and after some three or four
hours rubbing of the body and limbs, and
pressing the chest, the child revived, and
is now doing well. —Ravenna ( Ohio)
Whig.
Ho.v. Thos. F. Marshall. —The Whig
Central Committee of Kentucky have ap
pointed the Hon. Thos. F. Marshall, the
Whig candidate for elector in the Lexing
ton district in the place of Mr. Garret
Davis, resigned. Mr. Marshall has ac
cepted the appointment, and was to meet
Mr. Johnson, his Democratic competitor,
at the Owen county court yesterday.
Mr. M., we are told, made a splendid
speech at Frankfort on Saturday evening,
and with the finest effect. A distinguish
ed citizen who heard it, writes us that, if
sucli a speech were made in every neigh
borhood in Kentucky, Gen. Scott’s ma
jority would reach thirty thousand. We
hope that, after Mr. Marshall shall have
canvassed his own district, he may be
prevailed on to go into other districts and
administer on Gen. Pierce. —Louisville
Jour.
Gen. Shields’ opinion or Gen.
Scott. —The gallant Gen. Shields thus
speaks of Gen. Scott:
“ Gen. Winfield Scott is the candidate
of the Whig party. For him I entertain
the highest personal regard and esteem.
I admire him as I do any man living, for
his great military talents, and 1 consider
him entitled to the gratitude of his coun
try, for glorious military services.”
Gen. Shields is a native of Ireland, a
United States Senator, a Democrat, and
was a brave soldier in the Mexican w r ar.
Our fishermen continue to be harrassed
and driven off from their fishing grounds
by British cruisers. If this question can
be settled, it should be done before the
public mind gets irritated on the subject.
A Good Notion.— We hear of a
“ Democratic Scott Club,” lately formed
in a neighboring county, composed whol
ly of Democrats. They assembled last
Saturday in a grove, in considerable num
bers.—Galena Adv.
lowa. —The Burlington Telegraph, neu
tral in politics, says there is no disguising
the fact that there is a pretty sour feeling
afloat, and that lowa will become a very
considerable battle field before the war
is over.
Double Entendre. —“You, Biddy,
what’s o’clock ? end where’s that chicken
pie?” “ It’s eighty ms’im.”
Insubordination among the Slaves
in Virginia. —The Richmond, Norfolk,
and Fredericksburg papers allude fre
quently to the spirit of insubordination
among the slaves, which they attribute to
a recent pardon by the Governor of a
slave who had killed an overseer. The
Fredericksburg Herald says:
“ It is useless to disguise the fact, its
truth is undeniable, that a greater degree
of insubordination has been manifested
by the negro population, within the last
few months, than at any previous period
in our history as a State. Our exchanges
from all quarters of Virginia come to us
freighted with recounts of attacks of ne
groes on their masters or overseers, and
a general laxity of punishment seems to
pervade the length and breadth of the old
Dominion. And not only is it abroad
that the spirit of mishief seems brewing,
but even here we might cite several no
table instances that have been named to
us.
“We have heard of negroes who re
fused to be chastised by overseers, and
who have gone so far as to resist. Kitchen
servants, who teach their children that
no such relative position as master and
slave ought of right to exist, and that
henceforth the term is to be repudiated,
and instead of master it is to be Mr., and
instead ot their offspring applying the
terms heretofore known as father and
mother, among the blacks, ii is to be pa
and ma! This might be ludicrous to
comment upon, but it shows the progres
•iveness of the times, and developes a
feeling among the colored population
which has never before been known to
exist.
“We conceive it to be time that all
parties understood each other upon this
subject, and while we should object to
anything which might smack of heartless
severity, yet personal safely may demand
some abridgement of the extended privi
leges which are now allowed to the col
ored population. It is now a debateable
point, as to which color shall use the side
walk, and which give way—a point that
wc think had better be settled at once.
Let the public see to these matters in
time, or great severity will be required
after a time, while a little wholesome re
striction just now will obviate its neces
sity and application then.”
“ Sleeve Gammon.”— Under this ap
propriate head, the Buffalo Commercial
Advertiser says that another civil war,
second only to the great battle of Bloom
erism, is about to break out in the female
camp, on the question of reviving the
large sleeve—hishou’s sleeves as they are
called.
The Extradition Case —The Lon
don Press has taken up the Extradition
case. The Times says that it is as much
the interest of the United States as it is
of Great Britain, that Kaine should be
given up to the agents of the British Gov
ernment. The London Globe wonders
why civilized nations should fling the
mantle of their protection over ordinary
criminals. The British officials will feel
astonished when they hear that Kaine’s
case has gone to the Supreme Court.—
What will they think if that Court should
differ with the administration in its con
struction of the Treaty.
English Merchants and Mexico.—
The London Times has arrived at the con
clusion that Ihe Republic of Mexico bas
reached the last stage of debility and em
barrassment consistent with the existence
of a State, and that there is only one way
by which she may continue her independ
ent existence, and that is through the
seizure of dictatorial powers by the Pres
ident, Arista. She is torn by domestic
dissensions and strife, and pressed by the
United States, France and England.—
English capitalists, it says, are the largest
creditors of the government, and it has
become, therefore a matter of grave con
sideration whether any means can he ta
ken, in the scramble which is about to en
sue, for the protection of British inter
ests.
Declines. —Hon. Robert C. Winthrop
declines running for Governor in Massa
chusetts. He intimates that by so doing,
he can better devote himself to the suc
cess of the State and Electoral tickets.—
The Boston Atlas says, he withdraws at
a time when both his nomination and elec
tion were considered certain.
Antidote for Strychnine.—A wri
ter in the Texas Ranger gives an account
of the successful treatment of some ne
groes, who had been poisoned with strych
nine prepared for wolf’s bait. Melted
hog’s lard was administered to them freely
after they had suffered great agony for
several hours, and immediate relief was
the consequence.
Going for Scott.— We do not know
how it may be in other parts of the
country, except from common report, but
here, not a day passes that we do not hear
of prominent democrats in this vicinity
who declare their determination to vote
for Scott. There are a large number of
persons who will not vote for a man for
President of whom they had never heard
previous to his nomination. —Galena
Adv.
Catastrophe at Albany.— -Eleven
Lives Lost. —On the 22d inst., a skiff
ferry boat undertook to cross the Hud
son, opposite Albany, overloaded with 18
persons. When about half way over, one
of the passengers had his hat blown off
into the river. In attempting to recover
it, the skiff capsized and eleven persons
were drowned.
The Native Americans of Philadelphia
have completed their cily and county
ticket, and have adopted a resolution not
to amalgamate with any party.
EDITORS AND PUBLISHERS.
Rising in the World. —We should
bear in mind that nine-tenths of us are,
from the very nature and necessities of
the world, born to gain our livelihood by
the sweat of the brow. What reason
have we, then, to presume that our child
ren will not do the same ? If they be,
as now and then one will be, endowed
with extraordinary powers of mind, those
extraordinary powers of mind may have
. an opportunity of developing themselves ;
and, if they never have that opportunity,
j the harm is not very great to us or them.
Nor does it hence follow that the descend
ers of laborers are always to be labor
ers. The path upward is' steep and long,
to be sure. Industry, care, skill, excel
lence, in the present parent, lay the foun
dation of a rise, under more favorable cir
cumstances, for the children. The child
ren of these take another rise; and, by
and by, the descenders of the present
laborer attain distinction. This is the
natural progress. It is by attempting to
reach the top at a single leap that so much
misery is produced in the world. Socie
ty may aid in making the laborers virtu
ous and happy, by bringing children up
to labor with steadiness, with care, and
with skill ; to show them how to do as
many useful things as possible; to do
them all in the best manner; to set them
an example in industry, sobriety, cleanli
ness, and neatness ; to make all these ha
bitual to them, so that they shall never be
liable to fall into the contrary; to let them
always see a good living proceeding from
labor, and thus to remove from them the
temptation to get at the goods of others
by violent and fraudulent means, and to
keep from their minds all the induce
ments to hypocrisy and deceit.— Cobbelt.
Baltimore, Aug. 15.
The 14th of September next, being the
anniversary of the entrance of Gen.
Scott and the army under his command
into the city of Mexico, will be celebra
ted by a grand mass meeting in Louis
ville, Kentucky. The 10th of Septem
ber being the anniversary of Perry’s vie
tory on Lake Erie, will be celebrated by
a mass Convention of the friends of Gen.
Scott in Pittsburgh.
Death or Levi Buckingham. —Levi
Buckingham, sen., died at his residence
in Symmcs township on Thursday, the
28th of July, 1852, aged 87 years. Mr.
Buckingham was one of our pioneers.
He purchased the farm on which lie lived
and died, of Judge Symmes, in 1807, at
33 1-3 cents an acre, and it is now worth
$l5O per acre. He was a volunteer
with St. Clair at his defeat, arid was left
without any supplies lo nnit lus way
home.— Cn. Gazelle.
Treasure in New Jersey. —The
Mount Holly Mirror, N. J., tells an al
most incredible story, that some of Capt.
Kidd’s treasure has been found among the
Pines, and that the occupants of that re
gion are in a state of intense excitement.
A man dreamed for several nights suc
cessively that lie should find this trea
sure, the place to be indicated by four
iron bars projecting from the earth. He
went and found his dream realized. Two
hundred and forty thousand dollars are
said to have been discovered up to Mon
day night, buried in iron chests, nnd the
people have turned out with their pick
axes in farther search for the treasure.
Betting on Elections. —We are op
posed to this practice on principle. Mon
ey got in this way docs the receiver no
f'ood, and the loss is not pleasant to the
oser. We think Gen. Scott will be
elected. Such men always have been
successful, when run, whatever may have
been the hopes of their opponents before
the election. There is always an under
current running in their favor that is al
ways unaccountable to old politicians.—
Unless we are deceived, this current is
setting as strong now as it was for Jack
son, Taylor or Harrison. But we say to
all parties do not bet.— Galena Adv.
Change or a Name. —The London
Punch says : “It may be proper to state
that the distinguished individual known
among the ancients as Cupid, has recent
ly changed his name to Cupidity, and will
hereafter devote his attention to matters
of money as well as matrimony.”
Magnificent New Boats. —Quite a
fleet of splendid new boats are in course
of construction in the West, and our
packets this fall arc expected to equal, if
not eclipse, the Eastern boats. At pres
ent wc can enumerate the Henry Clay,
Falls City, David While, Robert J. Ward-
A. L. H/iolwrll, Natchez, Alvin Adams,
Baltimore, Tom Swan, and three others
that have not yet been named, and will
be superior in size, speed and finish to
any boats yet built, with the exception of
the Eclipse. —Louisville Cour., Aug.
I(M k.
Marriages Extraordinary I . —On the
27th ult., by Rev. M. Sellers, Mr. James
Snow, (aged fourteen years!) to Mrs.
Maria Edgman, (aged thirty-five years!)
all of Roane county, Tenn.
On Saturday evening, the 12th ult., by
Rev. R. M. Whaley, (at the corner of
John Randle's field,) Mr. George Smith,
(aged sixteen years!) to Miss Rebecca
Headley, (aged forty years!) all of Knox
county, Tenn.
Ms. Incersoll Confirmed. —The
nomination of Mr. Ingersoll, as Minister
to England, was confirmed by the Senate
on the 21st.
Mortality among U. S. Troops. —It
is stated that upwards of 80 of the troops
destined for California, recently sent out,
died on the steamers Isthmus and Golden
Gate, of diseases contracted on the Isth
mus.
NUMBER 51.