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THE MINNESOTUN.
SATCTtDAY MORNING, SEPTEMB’ R 16,1854
North Pacific Railroad.
We find in the Washington Union of a late
date a letter copied from the Milwaukee Wis
consin, (a paper we do not receive) the greater
portion of which we publish to-day. As will be
•ecn. it is from Mr. Doty, of Wisconsin, a gen
tleman connected with Gov. Stevens’ explora
tions of the Northern Pacific Railroad Route,
and dated some months subsequent to a com
munication from the same source which was
given in our columns, w'c think, in May last.
During the interval, Mr. D. has performed the
duties entrusted to him—we may presume from
what he now writes—in a manner highly satis
factory to the numerous friends of the Great
Northern Route.
The more time given to allow capitalists and
practical men to investigate the merits of this
line of communication between the two great
oceans, the greater appears the number of
friends that is gathering around it, not only in
the United States and Canada, but among the
commercial circles of the old w orld. We may
look for a decided movement at the meeting of
Congress, next December, by the friends of the
several routes ; and it is now scarcely probable
—if we of the North-West are true to ourselves
—that our contemplated line of road will not
stand on as good a basis as any of them.
ludian Murders Continued
On Wednesday of the present week, a war
party of Sioux Indians from the north, passed
through the villages and settlements of Ramsey
county, between Rum river and St. Anthony,
and within twelve or fifteen miles of St. Paul,
with several reeking Chippewa scalps in their
possession. Such gross scenes of savage bar
barity are now almost daily occurrences in the
most thickly settled parts of Minnesota, and
yet not an official hand is raised to check the
hellish deeds of these blood thirsty barbarians.
In Ramsey's time, when the country all around
us had scarcely a white inhabitant in it, such a
war party of either Sioux or Chippewas, had
they dared to venture thus close to the seat of
civil power, would have found themselves un
der lock aud key at Fort Snelling in four hours
afterwards. Rut times ci atige aud Governors
arc changed with them The boastful Superin
tendent who fifteen months ago would have us
believe he would “ hang w ith his own hands’’
all these cut-throats and murderers of women
and children, now looks calmly on, and for
aught we know, has adopted the policy recom
mended by one of his organs a few weeks since,
to “ let the Sioux and Chippewas fight it out.”
Wc are prepared, any day, to hear that the
people of St. Paul arc invited by his Excellen
cy to witness a scalp dance in front of the Capi
tol, as they were last year to behold an ox tor
tured to death by a band of Sioux heathens
from the western plains.
Destruction or Ste.vmro.vts.— A report has
recently been made to the Secretary of the
Treasury at Washington, showing the number
of Steamboats destroyed in the United States,
and the causes of their destruction within the
first hall of the present year. The report
says:
‘•lt is .-ecn that from January 1, to June 17,
1851, there were sixty-four steamboat disas
ters, involving a loss of $2,374'.142, aud five
hundred aud forty-eight lives. Of this num
li. r. ten have been from collisions, with a loss
of SIOI,OOO, aud twenty lives; eight of these
were fitted up according to the law 0f1852, and
two of them not under the law. These cases
are all supposed to have been from negligence
and inattention. Eighteen boats have been
destroyed by fire, with a loss of $1,180,500, and
one hundred and forty one lives; these are all
supposed to have been accidental except two—
the Georgia and Mary Agnes. This last boat
was built since January, 1853, and was suppos
ed to have been set on fire ; all the others were
built before the passage of the law of 1852, and
all were believed to have been inspected and
fitted out according to that law. Much the
larger number of accidents were produced by
snags, there having been twenty-three boats
thus lost, with a destruction of property to the
amount of 8270,000. The Sau Francisco was
foundered at sea, with a loss of two hundred
lives, aud property to the amount of about
$300,000. Of explosions, there have been eight.
Two of the boats had been inspected according
to the law of 1852 : the loss of property was
$67,500, and in lives one hundred and twelve.
The writer of the veport expresses the opin
ion that no additional legislation is required
of Congress to the act of 1852, providing for
the better security of the lives of passengers
on board steamboats. The law he thinks, how
ever. ought to be extended so as to include
steam ferry-boats aud tow-boats. Upon this
branch of the subject the writer says :
There seems to be a general concurrence of
them all in the opinion that the existing steam
trnat law has done, and is calculated to do,
much good in the way of preventing those ac
cidents that it was designed to provie against.
It appears to lie the desire of many to extend
ihe provisions of this law to ferry-boats and
tow-boats: and did the United States havejur
isdiction over this class of boats, (which in
morl instances, navigate entirely within the
limits of one State,) it would appear, from the
arguments advanced, to he of the utmost im
portance that they should lie brought under
the inspection of the law of 1852. In the case
of ferry boats the strong argument is, that as
the law was specially designed to protect life,
its provisions should extend to ferry-boats
which are pre-eminently passenger boats. The
reason for requiring it iu the case of tow-boats
is, that these boats arc too often made the re
ceptacle of worn-out boilers that foolhardy
men are willing to risk the use of. While it is j
issued by many to extend the provision of the !
law,no material change or addition is demand
ed.
The Canal.— This great work progresses—
the upper lock is in a tolerable state of for
wardness and the lower and most important one
is fairly under way. Lock Stone are coming
forward from Drummond's Island anil Marble
Head al»out as fast as they can be used.
The banks or sides of ihe canal are about one
fourth walled up and a very large number of
men are on this branch of the business and on
the work of excavation. We noticed yesterday
six horse drills iu operation and the blasting
is carried on with energy. But the stone, near
the Head of the Portage or Canal is hard and
the excavating, in that vicinity, cannot be
pushed so fast as it has iu other places, and be
sides, the water begins already to trouble them
and wc noticed a two-horse pump at work, at
the upper extremity, where the water from the
upper extremity, where the water from the
Lake has to force itself through a wide, uubro
ken wall of saad stone. Outside of this aatur
al breakwater the upper Coffer-dam is being
built. —Lake Superior Journal.
“Frosi the Cradle to the Grave." We saw
“ day or two since oil Main street, a fair haired
interesting looking boy of some six or seven
years, helplessly drunk, in ‘.he act of being lift
ed into a wagon, by bis father, and rolled un
der the feet of a drunken companion. The
lookers-on drew back involuntarily, at the de
basing spectacle, and humanity blushed at its
own degradation. It might well do 60. The
future of that boy,—is it not, in prospect, a
dreary and sorrowful one '—Sprinefit/d Re
publican.
Our mails appear now to be coming
along upon the principle of the old darkey’e
Sunday school—“ Twice a week on Monday af
ternoon, and den adjourned till nex Sunday.”
The mail is now carried daily be'ween
St. Paul and the city of Stillwater. Our friends
in that direction will find it for their interest
we think, to subscribe now more generally than
they yet have done for the Daily Minuesotiau.
No pains will be spared to render it a welcome
if not indispensable daily visitor in the family,
and the counting room during the fall aud'Win
ter. Price, by mail, 60 cts. per mouth.
y&'Vh'e noliec that Mr. Woodward is remov
ing his Extensive Clothing and Tailoring Es
tablishment form the Wiuslow House to a stole
opposite Farrington A Culver's, St. Anthony
Street.
j:S~ Larpcntcur's new goods are arriving—
a well selected and extensive stock just pur
chased at the East.
The case of Ilezlep against Selby,which
had been occupying the District Court for two
or three days was yesterday decided by the ju
ry bringing in a verdict for the defendant.
Emmett A Moss for Ilezlep, Rice. Hollinshcad
A Becker aud Masterson for defendant.
yir- The Land Sales in the Willow River
District, (Wis.,) are now going off. Several of
our citizeus arc absent attending the Sales.
The Alhambra, the new Galena and
Minnesota packet—a neat and elegant low wa
ter boat, Capt. P. Lodwick in command —ar-
rived last evening at five o'clock. She leaves
this morning at nine.
JTS~ The Luclla was at Stillwater yesterday
afternoon, aud will leave St. Paul to-day.
Frost. —We had a "slight springlo” of white
frost on Thursday night, but not sufficient to
leave scarcely a perceptible mark upon the
most tender of the growing plants.
y-S~ The City was disgraced on Thursday
night by the presence of several drunken In
dians—a fit subject of attention by the Grand
Jury, w hick is now in session.
Dangerous. —At a point along the plank
side-walk on St. Anthony street, just below the
I junction of Hill street, the walk crosses a la-
I vine running down the bluiF. The side next
I the river is provided with a railing, while the
■ opposite side lias not yet been ‘Tenecd in."—
Thursday evening, after dark, a man stepped
overboard, and sliding under the walk, was
precipitated over nearly a perpendicular bluff
some thirty feet. The railing should be put up
immediately.
Wuerk the Specie Goes. The New-York
Journal of Commerce gives the following state
ment of the exports of specie from New-York
for 1851 to August 18th :
| For week ending Aug. 19 $619,336
Previously n*i>ortiNl In Aug 2,482,257
Reported ill Jan., 1,8
I *« Feb., 579,7^4
« March 1,4G6,127
“ April 3.471.521
May 3,ft51,026
« June s,l«Sis:j
July 2,922,451
Total :4nce January l>t $2 3 281,589
The exports of specie from the l. S. tor this
year bid fair to reach 810,000,000.
lowa Erection'.— -In the first Congressional
district of lowa, llall the Democratic candi
date is elected by 177 majority. Other returns
stand officially as heretofore published.
TST A young man at l’aoli, lud., ran away
with a Miss Williams for the purpose of getting
married. The father of the girl pursued them
and shut the young man. the ball passing thro'
the fleshy part of the thigh. The wound was
not considered dangerous. Williams was ar
rested, anil gave bail lor his appearance.
Mrs. Partington advises all young people af
flicted with preparation of the heart, to apply
the cataract ol mustard, to draw out the iidor
niation, and she says she has never known a
failure where this device was followed.
“1 know every rock on the coa-t." cried the
Irish pilot, w hen the sli p then bumped, • and
that's one of them."
y£~ The following i.- found in the report of
the proceedings of tlie Connecticut Legislature :
“Bill to tax geese and bachelors, taken up.
Mr. Harrison was opposed to the provision tax
ing bachelors. There was a tax laid already
upon a goose, aud any man who had lived
twenty-five years w ithout being married, could
be taxed under that section. The bill was in
definitely postponed."
T; D~ In Greenbrier county, Virginia, about
fourteen miles from Lewisburg, was living a
family named Graham—Joseph Graham, his
wife, four sons, and a daughter about forty
years of age, named Jane. Jane had an ille
gitimate daughter, (her father left her $3,000.)
who married a Mr. Miller, of Nicholas, to whom
one of the young Grahams wrote that her mo
ther was as black as hell and rotten as carrion,
and his wife no better. The consequence was
a separation. Jaue, full of vengeance, set fire
l as is supposed, to the barn of her father, uml
disappeared. It being suspected that she met
w ith foul play, search was made, and her body
found in the bushes within a short distance ol
j where the barn stood. No doubt the Grahams
i had murdered her after she had fired the barn,
and carried her body to the place where found :
yet the coroner's jury brought in a verdict,
! “ came to her death by some unknown means
The reason given by the jury for such a verdict
] was, that it would tie endangering their lives
to say anything against the Grahams.
A countryman was passing along one of the
streets ofßaltimorc wiih It is wagon a few days
since, when one of his w h"els came off, and he
discovered that a linch pin was gone. After
searching for it some time he offered the boys
who congregated a shilling to find it They
then joined iu tlie search, and iu a few minutes
one ot them brought him what he supposed to
be the pin. Having adjusted the wheel, in
paid the shilling and started off. but had m t
gone more than half a block lie lore a wheel on
the other side caine off. when he discovered
that the young rascal had stolen the pin from
one of the other w heels to obtain the reward.
Horatio Seymour wus nominated by tlie
Democratic Softs, for re-election, at their Con
vention in Syracuse, on the fith inst. An ef
fort was made to harmonize the two sections of
the party, but it was a failure.
death of a distinguished max,
Philadelphia, Sept. 5.
Dr. Robert M. Patterson, late Director of the
L. S. Mint, died in this city to-day. He was
President of the American Philosophical Socie
ty. and has held Profeseorships in the Universi
ties of 1 ennsylvania and Virginia,
From the Mtlwaukle Daily Wisconsin.
Northern Railroad Route to the Pacific.
Letter from James Doty to J. D. Doty, dated
Fort Benton, May 2, 1854.
Your letter of October 3. 1853, has at length
reached me, via Olympia, Wallah Wallah, and
Cantonment Stevens, in the St. Mary’s Val-;
ley.
Since I last wrote, several important iliscov-;
erics have been made, and questions determin
ed to the N. I’. R. 11. route, all tending to es
tablish the facts that it is eminently practicable
for a railroad, and is a good, if not the best, em
igrant road from the Mississippi or Missouri to
Oregon aud Washington Territories. By the
survey of Lieut. Grover, the Missouri has been
found navigable to this point for steamboats.
Capt. McLcllaud has found two practicable
railroad passes through the Cascade range ;
and parties are now engaged in opening a road
from the Sound to Wallah Wallah, thence to St.
Mary's valley, to which point a good wagon
road trom the head of navigation on the Mis
souri has been found by Lieut. Mullen, who
left here on the 18th March, with an ordinary
emigrant wagon drawn by four mules, anil.
; crossing the Rocky Mountains, reached Cantnn
: ment Stevens on the 30th, having traveled 200
miles, by the odometer, ill 12 days.
The winter has been very mild, and but little
; snow in the mountains on the route. Lieut.
: Grover, who left here the 15th January, with a
dng-train. for l’uget Sound, found no snow to
the entrance of the pass of the Rocky Mountains
and through the mountains to St. Mary’s the
I snow averaged lint one foot in depth. Thence
to Puget's Sound he was compelled to take
] horses, and passed through in good time and
1 without obstruction from snow. Two men,
1 whom I sent with Lieut. G.. returned in Febru
ary. having walked from St. Mary's in fourteen
; davs. My meteorological records show that the
whole amount of snow that fell at this place
since November was 301 inches, and the great
est depth of snow at any one time tens Ij
! inches.
Tills is an excellent grazing country. There
were a large number of broken-down horses
and mules, and several yokes of oxen, which
had come through trom Sauk Rapids, 1.100
miles to this point, left in my charge during
the months of October and November. These
were pastured on the river bottoms near heie ;
not an animal died during the winter ; aud on
the 15th March the horses and mules were in
efficient working condition, and at the present I
time tlie eat'.le are fat, tine beef. The Fur Com
pany’s horses and oxen are w orked all winter
upon such food ns they can pickup; in fact,
stock in this country needs neither shelter nor
food from the hand of man.
The soil in the St. Mary's valley is known to j
be fertile : and any examinations in this region
show that on all the mountain streams their
valleys, w ithin sixty miles of the mountains, af
ford soil of a good quality, and an abundance
of wood. As to a profusion of excellent water,
any one who glances at the numerous and ne
ver-failing spring brooks and streams in the
country will lie convinced that neither man nor
beast need ever perish from thirst. Of nutri
tious grass there is everywhere ail abundance :
in the river bottoms where its growth is rank,
and upon the plains, hills, and mountain slopes
which are covered with a luxuriant growth of
buffalo grasp.
Timber—white pine, pitch pine, and fir, is
abundant and easily procurable. Stone—gran
ite. limestone, and sandstone—is found in the
river bluffs anil mountains : and what more is
needed to render this country *• eminently lit”
for a railroad or emigrant route, or to tie set
tled by fanners. I beg to inquire of those- who
harp upon - sterile deserts” and •• railroad
routes through New Caledonia?”
If. as is assumed in a communication to the
National Intelligencer of September 5. 1853,
the occupancy of a country liy the buffalo is a
guarantee of its fertility, then does the- North
ern Railroad route bear the palm from all oilier
routes. From the Shayenne to the Assinihoino
Camp, near Fort Union, from the month ofMilk
river, to near this point, v.e were always " in
buffalo.” Indian tradition says they were al
ways here. It is here they remain summer and
winter : and their old and deeply-worn trail-,
twelve or fifteen of which may often lie seen
side by side, travi rse this country in all direc
tions through mountain and valley.
The various detached parties of the expetli
t'o i, anil those stationed in the country, have
crossed and l-eerossed the mountains, from
November to May, w ith trains of pack-mules,
and then with wagons, and w ithout hindrance
from the snow : and Lieut. Grover, who started
with a dog-train and snow-shoes, and had to
abandon them for want of snow, says the ac
counts of this country heretofore given are “ a
complete humbug.” it being in no respect what
it was represented, and by almost every one
believed to be.
The meteorological register shows that iu
mildness of winter this country corresponds
with tlm climate ol Oregon, or ol Europe iu the
same latitude, rather than with not them Cana
da or Nina Scotia. At tlie present time the
new grass on the plains affords good feed ; in
the bottoms the teed was excellent the Isth
April, aud is now luxariant.
The siniiig. like the fall and winter, has been
dry and w arm. The first shower of rain since
September2o. 1853, i ll on the 21st of April,
since which we have had several showers—a
thunder storm is now passing.
On Monday next. I start for our northern
| boundary and the head w aters of the Saskatch- ,
awuu : aud shall examine the passes of the ,
I mountains—with little expt ctation, however, of
finding a better route than our wagon-road to
St. Mary’s. This latter pass is not on the ex
treme sources of the Missouri, but is some dis
tance below the - Three Forks,” and is precise
ly at the point where this mighty river rushes
through the “Gate of the Mountains,” and
starts on its long journey to the ocean. Could
Lewis and Clark, iu ascending, have left the
Missouri at the point where the mountains first
toueli the river, they would have found an ex
cellent pass to the st. Mary's river, and thence
to the Columbia.
JAMES DOTY.
Pistols end Knives.
Reader, look at that shop w indow in Broad
way.
| “Well,” answers our reader. "I do look at it.
: and 1 see nothing particular about it different
j from most of tlie other shop window s in Broad
way. It has immcD-c panes of plate glass, and
■ behind them, the shopkeeper, like all other |
shopkeepers, lias displayed his wares to the
best advantage.”
But, good reader, allhouglijyou see nothing
particular about tlie window, don't you see i
something particular about the wares display
ed so effectively 7
“No," again answers our reader. -I see 1
nothing but pyramids of pi.-lols. and stacks of
| guns, iuterq ersed with glittering knives and
daggers, aud there are a hundred of shnpwin
i dows in other parts of New York tilled with
| just such articles—there's nothing particular
about it.”
We beg your pardon, good reader, there is a |
great deal very particular about it. What are
all those weapons of destruction for, in all those 1
hundred .-hop windows?
"What are they for ? Why the guns arc to
jgo hunting w ith, and the pis-tols, and the
( knives, and the (luggers, and tlie sword canes,
i are for—. are tor—,tor —
There stop, reader, you don't know exactly
" hat they are for : at least you cannot exactly
I explain the great demand for pistols, knives,
daggers, Ac., which renders this immense sup
: ply necessary—there is no war in the couutry,
j aud it is presumed that wc do not live among
. savages, and herein consists the peculiarity of
that window—what are all these daggers and
pistols and knives for 7
We will tell what they are for, and it is a
faet ol much significance. Some of these iiis
tols, knives and daggers, go to California with
miners who really need them, but an immense ,
number go into the pockets of people in this
country? w-ho do not need them, who should
j not wear them, auil whom the law commands
I not to wear them. Every rowdy who can
| raise money enough to buy a knife or pistol
i does so. and if be cannot get it any other way!
jhe steals it. And the rowdy puts the knife or
I pistol in his pocket and the least sign of a muss,
and where there is no muss, he pulls it out to 1
wound and kill. And the gentleman rowdy
has bis pistol, dagger, or sword cane, and when
in his cups he uses it for an argument to en
force bis opinions, or avenge bis insulted and
drunken honor. And crowds go armed with
pistols, knives and daggers, say they are-peacc
able, but if they arc looke I crossways at, theu
out come the weapons, and then hurrah for
blood. And all this in a country of peace, and
because it is so, that country of peace is turn
ed into a land of murder anil riot. And to pro
tect themselves in this land of murder and riot,
respectable and peaceable men have also to
carry pistols, knives and daggers.
And herein lies the gl-eat secret why there i
are So many murders and riots among us.— j
There is a law, a stringent law, against the
wearing of weapons ofdeath. but the law lias
long been a dead letter, and we are reaping
the sad effects or it. If this law were strictly
enforced, the black record of murder would
not be half as long as it is—the evils of rum
insanity would have been confined to the fist,
and less damage done—the knife would not
have been at hand, and after a few blows of the
’ first, instead of murder committ.d on the in
stant when the knife was handy, there would,
in nine cases out often, have beet: a loving
drunken ling and vows of eternal friendship, as
loug as the drunk lasted. Aud so with riots,
j If every procession was disarmed, aud their op
ponents from whom they expect attack also
disarmed, as both should be if law was enforc
ed. it is plain to see that riots would not be of
as fatal character as they have been—the very
faet of having no pistols, Ac., takes away the
inclination to fight, even from rowdies. On
the other hand the very wearing these weap
-1 ons and handling them breeds a disposition
among violent men to use them.
Let the law against wearing weapons ol
death be strictly enforced, and then rowdy
murderers and rioters will become less in num
ber. and decent people- need not wear weapons
in sell-defense and contrary to law, because
the law will not protect them.— jY. Y. Police
Gazette.
F.»r tlie Mianesotian.
Land Office Statistics.
Land Office, Stillwater, V. T.
Gentlemen: In accordance with your re
quest ol ibis morning. I carefully furnish you
the following statement of the business of this
office.
The total number of acres of land sold at
this office up to the first of May. 1853. is 151,-
071 28-100, of which 33.755 88-100 were sold
for cash, amounting to S 12,321 24, and the re
mainder 117,315 20-100 were located with Mil
itary Bounty land warrants.
The following table will exhibit the business
of the office, during my term at Rcg'stcr there
in.
iSi£ I *»“'• i
isi» -May IJ>74 16, 693 96, 2,05.-, It 567 j 6
Julie. : 2.1179 OS 545 71j 3.824 79 14)57 14
July, 2,St>2 77 1,521 24 4,392 1)1 1.911 65
August, ; 3.393 414 1 1,766 4-| 5,119 62 2.195 60
Se|ilviuli’rj 2,157 66j 7,279 22, 9,436 78 9.099 02
October, j 8.514 61 10,454 40l 18,-167 01 13,068 00
Xuvemli’rl 241-0 0c! 7,143 Ivi 9,223 12 8,928 90
Deci-lubcrl 410 00 1 3,790 041 4,230 04 4,737 55
1854 Jan.. 2,420 (Ml 14.138 20| 16.958 201 18.017 76
February, j 1.913 391 6,082 721 7,996 11 7,603 40
-March, 1,1:18 091 5,090 10l 6.888 10 7.112 63
April, i 1,320 04! 5,833 45| 7,143 4&| 7,291 81
-May, 1,676 011 16,148 74 17,824 83 20,186 93
June, 1,480 0u 29.490 34 : 31,470 31 36,987 92
July, 1,111 SOI 32.271 98 33.383 48 ! 40,339 08
August, | 360 091 2.883 40! 3.24:1 III! 3,604 25
Total up In 35,880 19 146,431 Iff 183,311 29 6183,038 96
Scpt.l.-jj;
That part of l he original .Military Reserv
ation at Fort Sir lling, on the left bank of the
Mississippi River, was sold yesterday at $1.25
per acre, being Acres -1,503-$!) 51,25=55,-
021) 88. The time occupied in the sale'was 55
minutes, and by one o'clock i\ M., the receipts
were all issued, aud purchasers gone home.
Very respectfully
your ob't servant.
T. M. FULLERTON,
Sept. 11, 185 1. Register.
I’aupcr Emigration.
The New York Tribune publishes the follow
ing. which it says is a correct translation of an
official paper, w idely circulated in Belgium :
CIRCULAR.
No. 1,888,1 Liege, (Belgium).
March 14,1854.
Emigration fir the l'. S. Transportation.
Gentlemen The transports for emigrants
for the United States will take their departure
from Antwerp. A large number of vessels are
prepared already to leave at various periods ot
this mouth. A certain number of liberated
prisoners from Yilverde.and from several poor
houses (depot de mendicite) are on the point ot
departing.
The price of tlie passage, all expenses includ
ed, is 180 francs, w hich sum should lie paid iu
advance, at the bureau of the Governor of the
l’roviuee.
i beg of you to let me know as soon as pos
sible if your district has any passengers to be
forwarded.
Each individual should be sent to the jail.
(maison </’ arret) of Antwerp : and have iu his
possession simply a certificate on the follow ing
model :
"The Burgomaster of the district of ,
IYovincc of Liege, Belgium, certifies that
(gives the age, place of birth, parentage,) is un
married.”
The departure will fake place during the
year, -very fortnight.
The Cominis-ary of the Aromlissement.
Til. Flechet.
To the Burgomaster and Council of .
'i Ins is a matter in which the adopted citi
zens of this country are more intimately con
cerned than those ol native birth ; aud they
will be glad to see some action on the part ol
our government to put a stop to forced emigra
tion of this unwholesome character.
Decidedly Good.— The free negro, Fred.
Douglas, recently delivered an oration (?) lie
fore the Literary Societies of the Western Re
serve, Ohio College, at the invitation of the
managers. The faeetious New York Tribune,
iu noticing the alfuir. which it does at consider
able length, perpetrates the follow ing phunnv
paragraph :
-Our object is rather that politicians and
inembers ot Congress, aud especially gentlemen
trom the South, may have an opportunity of
learning to respect .Mr. Douglass’s abilities as 1
they deserve, before being railed to m et him. 1
as possibly they soon may be. upon the Door of
the House of Representatives. It is perhaps!
only proper to add, that they w ill find his Con
gressional speeches, in manner as well ns mat
ter, more than worthy of that eminent division j
of the First Families of Virginia, from w hich he
is descended."
Tlie Montgomery Advertiser, not appreciat
ing the sable joke of the saint like Horace,
sticks its quills out as follows :
“ This makes one's blood boil a little, and al
most causes us to wish that “gentlemen Iroin
tlie .Soulh" may soon have an opportunity of
meeting the negro in Congress. All Abolition
dom would not be aide to keep him in his seat
long in sueli an event.”
Really, Mr. Advertiser : now don’t you think
that this is just what Horace w as after when he
wrote that paragraph? lie wanted his friend
Frederick mentioned in some way, and tliou"bt
lie was most sure of accomplishing his object by
arousing Southern ire.—.V. O. Delta.
The Times, the Chicago organ of Rouglas
t i.-m, is very savage on the German Press in
that city. It says that Abolitionism is the rul
ing influence and that little can be expected of
the Germans while they continue to follow
such leaders. Pity isn't it I—Ga/enn Jeffrrsu
ian.
Fires.— The Orthodox Church in Eaathauip-!
ton, Mass., which was not quite finished, was
consumed by an incendiary fire on the 31st ult.
The lesson both is about $17,500, only SISOO
of which was insured
MONDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 18, 1854.
Corn, Again.—One of our editorial neighbors
recently remarked, with force, that the day
had gone by when it was a matter of discussion
as to whether we could raise corn in Minneso
ta. This is true ; but we must be permitted to
notice premium specimens of our Minnesota
fields as they are presented to us. The follow
ing note from Dr. Maun explains itself, as well
as the samples he has left with it, which will
j remain in our office and cau be seen at any
time. One of us was born and raised amid the
luxuriant corn-fields of the -Miami bottoms,”
Obio ; and we presume our old Iriends in that
region, will scarcely credit our assertion, that
liner samples than the grain now before us
would be hard for them to present in their
most favored seasons. In Minnesota, we have
I seen nothing equal to this corn, unless it be
| some specimens from this year's crop of Mr.
i Meri field, on the Reserve near St. Paul, which
! were selected for exhibition at the State Agri'
i cultural Fair of Indiana, aud forwarded there-
I to a few days since :
Cottage Grove, M. T.
Gentlemen. —l send you herewith a spec -
men of different varieties of this year's grow th
of corn from the district of Cottage Grove.—
a liner growth, say so ; but if not do us justice,
and let us have the premium.
The selecting of these specimens was not the
result of loug and careful searching, but pro
cured in this manner : I asked Mr. Yunslyke
i for a few ears, who crossed over to tiff field aud
I in a few moments returned with what I send
; you. 1 then drove over to his neighbor Mr.
Ferguson, who challenged the Yanslyke“white
Hint big ear” and after a few moments in his
field handed me the long yellow ear. They
| stand thus :
Ferguson ear, yellow dcut 14 inches long;
18 rows; 5(1 grains to the row ; DUO grains to
the ear.
Yanslyke car, 13 inches long; 8 rows; 1!)
grains to the row ; 382 grains to the ear. The
Ferguson corn ahead on the count, but 1 should
injustice to the white Hint say that one kernel
of white is fully equal to two of the yellow
dent.
Altogether I pronounce this the most elegant
! growth of corn I have ever seen, and 1 have
; seen farming in the richest rallies of Pennsyl
i vania. T. T. MANN*
i Sept. IC, 1851.
f. £V A gentleman of extensive physicial
proportions—one of the most substantial citi
zens of St. Paul iu more respects than one—
made a land trip to Lake Superior during the
hot weather four weeks ago. He arrived home
Friday evening by way of "the Soo” and Chi
cago, satisfied with that tramp, at least when
the thermometer is at 85, for the rest of his
life, lie saw the elephant without facing a
mirror.
JJ3“ The Hamburg arrived from Prescott,
where she was laid up during the low water,
on Friday night. She is now iu command of
i Capt. Estes.
Big Melon. —!.. M.I-'ord, ofGrovelund, hand
ed into the Minncsotian otlice on Saturday, a
water-melon, weighing thirty-one and a half
pounds.
High School at Point Prescott. —Dr. J. M.
McKee, w ill commence a high school at Point
Prescott, on Monday, the Bth of October next.
We are pleased to see these public schools in
creasing iu this region.
"Headof Navigation.” —We had five steam
boats in port oil Saturday, which gave the le
vee a decidedly animated appearance.
i '
Jj. J~ Rain appears to have fallen recently in
almost all portions of the country, as far w est
as Cincinnati, and as far south as Virginia.—
Newspapers in almost all the large tow ns in
! eluded within these bounds, speak of it as of
I incalculable benefit, and in terms of grateful
I acknowledgement.
Col. Benton for the Presidency.— ihe St.
Louis Democrat announces Col. Benton as a
' candidate for the Presidency.
The Catholic Poitlation in New York.—
The New York Freeman’s Journal affirms that
the number ot Catholics liy birth or baptism
iu New York is nearly if not quite one-lialf the
population of the city. The Tribune estimates
the number at one fourth the population.
A daily Stage is now running between
La Crosse and Black River Falls.
JsSF' The value of the hotel property and
their furniture, in the city of New York, is cs
, timated at $12,75(1,000.
What is the difference between a Northerner
i and a Southerner?
Aiis. — i)ne blacks bis own boots, and the
other boots his own blacks.
The Milwaukee Sentinel hits a careful
statement of the loss liy the recent fire in that
eily ; the amount oi which is $581.800.
Amount ofinsurance. $233,050.
! C. C. Washburne. Esq., of Mineral
Point, Wisconsin, is spoken of as the Anti-Nc- 1
braska candidate for Congress in the district ;
: now represented liy Mr. Eastman. Mr. W. is
i a lrather of Hon. Isi'ael Washburne Jr., of!
i Maine, and of Hon. E. B. Washburne ol the Ga- i
lena district, Illinois.
TiT- A process is said to have been iliscov j
ered, liy which ink can lie removed from news- j
papers, so as to render them available fur the
printer a second time.
A mile or so from tow n a gentleman met a
boy on horseback, crying with cold. ‘ Wbv !
don't you get down and lead the horse?” saiil
! our friend, “that's the way to get warm.” -It’s '
r| a b-b-lmrrowcd horse, and I'll ride him if 1 1
• freeze.”
! ;
! A Good Man.— Mr. Win. Waruack, of Green-j
field. Ohio, lias taken the Chillicothe Gazette !
: consecutively for 50 years, and has always paid |
! for it in advance.
More Sheer— Northern Wisconsin, Ac. A i
Hock of about 2000 sheep passed north last
week. The poor animals seemed to sutler much
from dust and heat. At least 30,000 sheep
must have passed through this county the pres
; ent season, to enrich the northern portion of;
: tlie state. The northern counties, particularly
those bordering on Fox river, are favorable for
wool growing, and as that stream affords water
i power for the most extensive manufacturing j '
j operations, what cities Menosha.Appleton and ; i
other towns along the Fox will be by-and-by, j
"hen they give employment to spinning jen-1
nies and factory girls ? Sheep, wool, Jennies | j
and factory girls—think of that you men of I
the Crescent and Advocate, — Galena Jrfftrsc- 1 (
nittn. I j
The Galena arrived yesterday at one
o’clock. Among the large number of passen
gers were our fellow-citizens, Gen. Van Etten,
David Olmsted, Esq., Elder Brooks, Mr. Hugu
nin, Mr. Kern, of the firm of Markley A Kern,
and several others; also, Hon. Robt. Smith, of
Illinois, Ira Bid well, Esq., of Michigan, and Mr.
\Y. B. Brisbois, of Prairie du Chicn.
Land Sales at Hudson. —Wc learn that most
of the lands advertised iu the Willow River
district, were taken by pre-emption and pur
chasers previous to the closing of the office on
Saturday evening. A sale of one tract of Min
eral land on Lake Superior was made at $2,00
per acre. The rest all went off at $1,25.
Military.— We understand that the several
companies of the Sixth Infantry now stationed
at Forts Ripley aud Ridglcy, and Maj. Sher
man's command of Third Artillery, at Fort
Snelling, have been ordered to California. The
forts of Minnesota arc to be garrisoned by six
companies of the Second Infantry.
y3S~ Capt. J. B. S. Todd, of Fort Ripley, is |
upon a visit to St. Paul. The numerous Min-!
ucsota friends of the Captain, among whom he j
has resided for seven years, will greatly regret!
the vicissitudes of his profession, which are |
about to carry him to California.
yiT- James Beatty, of Itasca, has been nom
inated as the Democratic candidate to represent
Benton County in the next House of Represent
atives.
Mr. Rice. —The editor of the Democrat, iu
defining his position upon local questions, for
the benefit of Ibe Pioneer editor aud others who
may be in doubt as to where the Democrat
stands, speaks thus of .Mr. Rice and the charges
whieli have been brought against him by per
sonal enemies in the Territory :
Some time before we entered upon the duties
of an editor, a number of the friends of Mr. Rice
(ourself among the number) wishing to know
tile truth respecting certain charges that had
been made against him, addressed a letter to
each of several members of Congress, asking of
them their candid opinion iu regard to the
course of lion. 11. M. Rice on the repeal of the
Railroad bill. Replies to all these letters have
not yet been received, but enough is shown to
prove beyond a doubt to the intelligent people
oi this Territory that our Delegate had nothing
whatever tu do with the alteration of the bill,
and that he exerted himself to the utmost to
prevent its repeal, where his influence would
be of most effect, personally among the mem
bers. And still further, that he has been an
active, ardent, and industrious member of the
House, always having iu view, and exerting
himself for the true interests of Minnesota.
These letters are from men of unimpeachable
character, standing high in the councils of I he
nation, and who would not allow published
what they believed to be in the least untrue.
The editor of the Democrat further states that
the following is bis [the editor’s] platform, to
be presented for adopt ion by the people of Min
nesota on the tenth day of October next—the
day ol election :
Whereas it is supposed that Certain evil
minded persons, instigated by the devil, and
their ow n corrupt and wicked hearts, have com
bined together to counteract, retard, and pre
vent the development of our Territory, its fu
ture prospects, wealth aud importance by wick
ed acts, selfish and sectional iu their nature ;
and w hereas it is the duly of every good citizen
to throw aside all feeling, other than tiie pub
lic good and prosperity of our Territory, and to
stand up manfully for his rights, privileges and
immunities. —therefore Resolved, that we, the
• Know-Somethings.’ iu solemn conclave assem
bled, do pledge ourselves each to the other, to
work heart and soul for the general good of the
Territory, w ithout regard to sectional feeling,
private and Hellish quarrels, rival interests or
distinctions ol religion, birth or parentage.”
Galena ami Chicago Union Railroad —The
regular freight and pas-enger trains commenc
ed running to Scales' Mound yesterday, w ithin
10.) miles of Galena. Passengers leaving Ga
lena at 7. A.M.. arrive at Chicago at 0.30. P.M.;
and passengers leaving Galena at 5. P.M.. ar
rive at Chicago at 4.30, A.M. Fare through in
lirsl-elass ears, $5 : second class, sl. Gate a
.hie.
New-York. Sept. 13.
Several failures among stock brokers are an
nounced this morning in consequence of a great
rise in Erie.
Further despatches from Maine. Morrill's elec
tion (or Governor certain. Not a single Demo
cratic Senator has been elected.
Dates from Mexico to the 3d received. Sev
eral victories by the government troops, over
the insurgents.
Queen Victoria has ratified the Fishery trea
ty, and orders have been sent to Canada for the
immediate admission ol the fishermen.
The President approves of the sentence of
the court martial, cashiering of Capt. Downing.
Failure of the Protection Insurance Co.—
The Hartford Courant of the Bth inst, says:
“We regret to lie obliged to announce the fail
ure of the Protection Insurance Co., of this city.
The late numerous and devastating fires, and the
great losses which they have sustained, have
compelled them to make an assignment. The
Directors have employed all the means that lay
in their power to avert the calamity, but their
ellorts have been unavailing. Persons holding
policies iu this Company will see the necessity
of an immediate re insurance iu some other of
fice.
i A Conscientious President. —President
i Pierce would not sign the River and Harbor
bill. Oh no ! he had conscientious scruples
about the consitutionality of some of its points.
! even though it contained nothing which had
! not been approved by a former Administration
iof the highest Democratic authority. He is too
! careful oi the people's money to suffer a dollar
of it to lie appropriated to any object of doubt
ful constitutionality.
Happy would il be for our country, if he
would apply his constitutional scruples and j
his frugality to some other parts of Ids udminis-!
t ration. To make war on a de fenceless city, \
bombard aud burn too, without any authority \
from Congress, and thus subject tlie Treasury !
to an expense ot two or three millions to in
demnify the innocent sufferers from that fero- j
zious act—all tiiis, we must conclude Constttu- j
tionut aud entirely consistant w ith a scrupu-!
lous national frugality !! The whole amount
of upprapriatious asked iu the River and Har
bor bill, would have cost the nation less than!
this single act of Executive ferocity. —Free
West.
T(r- The Norfolk Herald announces the
death of Mr. Win. Rogers, who entered the Na
vy about the beginning of the present century,
served under Commodore Preble in the war
with Tripola, and was one of the gallant crew
headed by Decatur, who boarded and burned
the frigate Philadelphia in the harbor of Tri
poli.
VERMONT ELECTION.
Montpelier, Sept. 6.
The majority fur the Whig candidate for Go
vernor will exceed 5,000. The Legislature
will be \\ big and Anti-Nebraska, which secures
a U. S. Senator to fill the vacancy.
yiT Au ingenious New Hampshire yaukec
has recently obtained a patent for bolding
cows’ tails still during the ojieration of milk
ing.
It lot la Newark, If. J — Catholics AgalaM Pr»-
taalaati—Catholic Charch Sacked.
The First Annual Parade of the American
Protestant Asiociation Lodges in the State of
New Jersey, mostly composed oflrishmen, ttJfc
place in Sewark yesterday, and was in honor
of the first session of the American Congress.
Lodges from New York and Brooklyn united i n
the demonstration. The procession was loa g
and imposing, having numerous bands, ban -
ners and flags interspersed.
Tlie badges of the members are a red scarf,
with silver stars, emblematical of our Union,
eagles, roosters, Ac. The banners were large
and handsome and were decorated with patri
otic insignia, and the devices of the Associa
tion.
The procession was composed probably of
2000 persons, four abreast. After finishing the
line of inarch, they proceeded to Military Hall
for a collation.
Previous to three o’clock in the afternoon,
the Association had dinner at Military Hall iu
Market street, after which they again formed iu
a line to finish their parade. This route lay
through the western portion of the city. While
passing through William street, near High
street, iu the vicinity of the Roman Catholic
Church, a neighborhood thickly populated with
Irish, a collision occurred between the residents
there and those iu the procession, which led to
serious consequences.
We ascertained from several sources that as
the last part of the procession was passing the
church, shots were discharged, and stones were
thrown from the w indows. One of the shots
passed through the banner of Henry Clay Lodge
No. 10, of New York, and one of the stones
struck a man iu the procession. Some of the
Protestants, feeling enraged at the outrage
committed upon them, left the ranks of the pro
cession and made an onslaught upon the church.
A party of about thirty first broke into the
church, anil it is asserted that they found a
t Catholic priest and about twenty Irishmen iu
the building. The priest and some of his party
got out of the church immediately by a back
way, and ran off. The Protestants proceeded
I to sack the church. They destroyed the organ,
; demolished the altar and seats of the church,
; broke out the w indows, anil otherwise injured
the building, to the amount of SSOO to SBOO.
A crowd entered a few minutes afterward,
aud when they hail finished the work of de
struction, the building was completely riddled
and presents a most desolate appearance. A
large number of pistol shots were fired in the
church against the walls and ceiling by the Pro
testants.
One Catholic Irishman, named Thomas Mc-
Carthy. was shot outside the church immediate
ly alter the commencement of the uffrav. He
received two balls in the lower part of his ab
domen, out of about twenty shots that were
fired at him. lie died at. In o'clock last night.
Another Catholic, who had knocked down
one of the Protestants that entered the church,
was iu turn knocked down anil jumped upon,
and some person drew a kuile. the blade of
w hich was eight inches iu length and struck
him us il he intended to - pin him" to the floor.
The knife cut the prostrate man badly in the
neck.
Others were seriously wounded, but how ma
ny were injured, or how many were hurt, could
not be learned.
The police soon after arrived on the spot,
and order was restored. The procession moved
to the railroad depot, and as they were about
taking the cars, a large party of Catholics made
a descent upon the Protestunts, and threw
about one huudred stones and brick-bats into
the crowd, hitting several but hurting none se
verely.—.V. V. Tribune, Gth.
Arrital ol the Africa.
. i New York, Sept. 7.
The Africa with three days later news, arriv
i ed at 7 1-4 o'clock this morning.
Cotton closed in favor of I lie buyers. Sales
’ of the week 33.001) bales fair Orleans at t>
‘ 1-Ic.
, In flour anil wheat no new features.
I Corn wanted at some improvement in the
. price.
McHenry quotes western flour at 28a31s ;
( Philadelphia ami Baltimore at 31u325. Red
, wheat 8s fidnOs; mixed do tlsatls 4il. White
! corn 34a3<S. Bacon dull. Beef aud pork quiet.
! Lard unsettled.
It was reported at Paris that tlie expedition
to Crimea posfivelv left Varna on the 10th.
At the battle ol Kars, in Asia, the Russians
took 23.000 Turks prisoners, and left 3.000 dead
’ oil the Held.
1 The cholera was on the di dine at Varna,but
■ was still raging at Adrianpolc and other places
: with great violence.
There had been a great fire in Varna, by
1 which one third ot the town was destroyed.—
1 The produce magazine was saved. The tire
j is supposed tu have been the work ofGreek in
' cemliaries.
Immediately after the surrender of Bomar
' solid, Gen. Raragnary d’llillicrs. accompanied
; by Mr. Gray. Secretary ot tlie English Lega-
I tion, left for Stockholm, with the view it was
• supposed, of urging Sweden to declare for the
Western powers.
The Austrian loan has all been taken.
The Mnnitcur contains the following an
nouncement :
Vienna, Aug. 22.
Tlie Austrians entered Wallachiaon the 20th.
Tlie whole corps of occupation will have pass
i cd the frontier by the 23d.
I Two Brigades had umrehed from Hcrinon
stadt and another from Croustadt.
Bucharest, Krajova and Lesser Wailachia
will be occupied.
1 lie advanced guard reached Bucharest Sep
tember sth.
I Ihe brigades of the army of Count Barooini
are prepared for a similar movement in Mal
! davia.
i Count Curonini is commander in chief of the
i army of occupation.
; . There is no truth in the report, that the Itus
siuns refused to retire from the Principalities,
■ “i" 1 *>•«* H*c Prince Gortschakoff had commu
nicated that determination to tlie Austrian
cabinet. The I* reneh Minister of War lias ap
plied to the sisterhood of St. Yincet de Paul to
act as nurse in the hospitals of the armies in
j Turkey. I iffy of the ladies have undertaken
tlie duty, aud liftv others w ill be provided,
Austria has three war ports in the Adriatic,
; viz : l’ola. Li ssia and Cutaro.
i (Jov - KIu P "ill return to Switzerland, as the
| Turkish Government refuses to give him a
comma ml.
One thousand of the jirisonors captured at
j Burmarsund have lieeu embarked for Brest.—
I The other thousand were disposed of by Admi
i rnl Napier.
Telegraphic.
WEATHER AT CONCORD, X. 11.
Concord, N. n.. Sept. fi.
! —'V ! ’ unr )’‘ e to-day the thermometer stood at
Ifi degrees ;«( noon 88 degrees. This evening
; we lire visited by I,envy thunder and lightning,
j| with prospects of a refreshing descent of rain.
I New York, Sept. «.
Tlie steamship America sailed at noon, to
-1 ,‘ r -\erpouL with ninety passengers and
• oljUoOj.iO.i in specie.
Louisville, Sept. 5.
A boiler exploded at McQuiston’s brewery
building 0 " lmI " lh ' S cvcnill °> destroying the
The boiler is said tu have ascended one thou
sand feet, uml falling went through the roof of
a shop .'.)() feet distant. No person wag injur
ed, but several narrowly escaped with their
lives.
Cincinnati, Sept. li.
A young man named Short, a clerk in a dry
goods store in this city, and a young lawyer
named Peacock, from Chicago, fought a duel in
Kentucky yesterday. Short was fatally wound
ed in the left breast at the second fire. Thar
fought about a young lady, to whom Short was
engaged to be married.
St. Louis, Sept. 9.
Of Lieut. Gratten's Sixth Infantry, one scr
‘"'cn‘y were
on th d « i y mK s ‘ oux Ind'a'ii. near Fort Laramie
18th Ult ' Whcn lh,! express left the
fort it was surrounded by Indiana. Garrison
numbered about fifty men.
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