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NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
EAGLIt RAKERY.
NOW 1 shall h.ive on hand, at all hour* ef day and
leave#, crumpets, cracLcn, cake# of air
aorta.—every lUinf in my line, done up according t*
the be»t of my skill. Tliitnkiiur our public fcr past
encourage ineiit, I shall continue to rnrn your custom.
Corner of St. Anthony and Fort street*.
April 15, 1“52. _ ('.2—tf) GEO. ifEXCI.
T A KKY «:p.
IV the T'onth of December, on niy premises, half way
from St. Paul to St. Anthony, a Nay pony, three
years o’d. The owner is reijmstea to prove property,
pav charges and take him aWav.
flit—it WM. FINN.
u:\V I,'VKRV STOCK.
P.ATVI«ON A MRNSON. h ive purchased, and et- |
pert ea/ly In May, as an addition t<> their Livery j
Stork, eev'ftr .1 new anJ eJcftnal carriages, Indies, ami j
baron .lies iiilso new Uurneuo* and loose furniaaii'gs, and •
ci|hips»e of the most clc."uit dcscri]iti«a.
ALSO—an additional stork of Htu bior>de l t | «•< !l bro
ken horses. Query If “aoirUod” bur-' s come in tinder 1
th« Liquoa Law, will they he iu danger of being knock- i
e.l in the head? I
Oir entire nf» its - k will cost over SIOOO,OO. No !
othnT stable In the \Ve«t, om of Sainl l oitis, will bs (
tan ltd us corn pletr ns oina.
Will ir fii 'tidsand the public please remember.that
si tht 1. verv t- tabb in tin rear of the Vtncrican House, j
«l the upoei end u' Soul lasi, they can at till hours, '
hsve su. l. eijpve; met by land, on wheels or on horse-i
back. a« thev mat desire? i
PAT I’ISON A: BENSON.
St. Paul, Aprl. 13, 1U32. 5 - -t^
jmi.v hoTXa.vi* a to.,
Ai crli’Mi ms imi G :a>.nvl Agcsts.
tl KNITMIi: War. i.u s.-. Bench st e.. Saint Paul, ;
Improve i 1 unit*. Tow .i iota, and holism for sale
i ... ■ rta m 11) -
nirtit on ale.- (100 * re*' r ice* given when re«juir»al.
fit. Flat A.-it IS IBSS. »-ty
KKAL ESTATE SOTICE.
IqiJß indersyned. h r. iu been appointee! Agents fcr
l!i.« i ti i of llenl Estate. ijiye notice that they have ,
ten lw,, in klltsuii's a lid,ton lo *St. Fail. and six lots in
\Vbit:i. '• A Saul !i*s. ASl.O—four lot* in the upper
town, wih-htlfi vill sell cheap oa tippliratloa being'
made to ;6 mat ilinr auction rooms
tXtI.UNH A H 1.1.,
Auctioneers :iud Htal l.stute Agents,
pi r.n il, April 10, St-If
TO THK Pl fWLltl
OROTIC t* lo lel.v given, that all debts contracted af-
Xvl ter ttiii list’, t>y any tier.ou or person- without t Ik
orilc: of lliH-- ;i sti veil*. In the name of mo St. I’uul
Sh.’igf. Ma tin', tu*i ig Company, or Irvine A- Co.'s,
Steam Ni* Mill a .Hoot be paid.
11l SSIM.L STEVE VS.
St. Paul, April 8, IF'Q. 52-lt
AI.RICI LTi riAL MKFTI.VU.
A T a primary meeting «f the friends oj an unproved
nusle of sgri, nil arc, h dd at the Beheli -t. School
House, oa the loth in*t . Gov Alex, llamsev w is called
lo preside, and V. I . Wiihs choi.cn Seeretarv.
tfii metion, the following named gentlemen wore ap
pointed by the Chair, to draft a constitution, for the
‘ Ramulv ContTi AG rici i ri rvt Sociktv,” and to
report the same at a eubseqm nt cicelies; ttv-wit T. \\ .
Wiison.il. A. Ituhtrlftin, J. M. Goodhue, G. W’. far
* fington and C. L. W’ille*.
Adjourned to tha l'. tli in*t , at whit 1 l.me, a general
attendance |s rt spectfull' re*|’c «inl.
ALEX RAMSEY, Chairman.
C. I. Wills*, Si-c’y.
April, 13. 1-<j2. 5 *-tf
iiissuiTT Tin v.
THE partnership heretohire exist ms between Tho*.
p. Brooke n.d Mbert Arthur .11 1: Itl.v \* >;th>ng
business, in the upper end nf St. l‘u'i-1 i. ttiis dux dis
sulv.dby 1110t11.1l consent.
All act o iiut* luel-. or nw.ng liy »«u! drill, will be r.t
tende !to by rii nuns i*. Brooki , vvhii will .. ry o.i the
busiuewsM the old jtimi. and will be always ready t j
wait on eu*t’> ter-.
St. Pawl, Ap d !‘>. 1 52. ti
KoflCß.
tl! WE t'rs dsv, a-'oeiated w.t'.i in - self, in the Book
selling and s ! itbuii rv bus. it*- In e! Ri hrer. Es'|.
The business will h • eondtirfed t the old stand, ttr.der
the name md »t v le of Lcill t Jv iiOIIUFH
V. . O. :.iDI,C.
Rt Paul, Apt ' 1 1 c 32.
NOTICE.
IS In Mi' given, that tlieo will be a meeting of the
stockholders of the Kutu Kiver Hoorn Company, at
UreoAcu ul North and Prescott, in st. Anthony Fail-,
ou Tucsdn \ the 2-Jth day of April, instant, ut iO o’clock,
in the fori noon, f r the purpose i f • Uoosiug a Hoard of
Director* of stud fovipattv
SIMON BEAN. h Stockholders
JOHN M. VARNEY, > of said
S'. MVI B W. F \ It'S II AM, J Company.
St. Anthony Falls, ri? 12, l*?t. 52-ff
THFJ EI»ISCOi»AIs MISSIOX St IIOOL,
FOR O\V SCHOOLVBS,
■KWril.t. open its third term, on the Prat Monday in
▼ ▼ May pext, the 3d prot., at 9 o’clock A M.
Tue Ulergv of the Mission t-turt the ettizeus of the
ueigltb .rhood that the thorough and prticti *1 ,n*truc
tmn, in all the usual Engli*h branches, will be guaran
tied to the pupil* of the Mi-sieri Schouit theservices of
auahlo and expetinced Teacher having been, of late se
cured. St. Paul, April 12, l>is2 —52-3 t
A Lady’s View' of Kossuth.
dries dreetnvood, out* of the cleverest female
writers e r tills country, gives Iter views of Kos
suth, ic ihe N *w Era, thus:
Kossuth's best eloquence is uol ferxiJ der.la
inatioii, hut a serious and subdued utterance of
earnest conviction. His assertions arc not start
ling, but raim and solemn. There is sometiiing
sublime in his unconsciousness; in a manner sim
ple as nature itself, he will give voice to a senti
ment which comes ujvm you like an apocalypse
o! truth. What are revelations to us, •eetn but
old truisms to him—every day and aW time be
liefs.
W hen h‘ sets rolling in our moral heavens his
great and sphered thought*, we almost believe
them new creations, with so much primal beauty
he invests them, so frostily are they baptised with
morning light. Hut a- in the deepest foundations
of onr earth, we find traces of a foregone exis
tence of measureless duration, so those great mor
al truths, under all their newness of loom, hear
the stamp of God’s eternity, and are ‘from ever
lasting to everlasting.’
In these days of incnlru! tide progress anti e'eo-
Uic thought, we may well thank Heaven for the
corresponding agencies, the st;am power and the
telegraph.
A quarter of a century ago, the words even of
- Kossuth, would have reached the mass of the
people cotfiparnlively lifeless—til! the fire of the
occasion burned out. Hut now ,ho speaks, and
scarce a day passes ere his words, warm with the
gin v and tliroblitng with the vitality of his won
drous eloquence, have reached thousands of thou
sands of hearts. Thus who shall stay ihc course,
or S) l bounds to the flame of freedom his bunting
soul has lit in our land! Nor, thanks to the
leagued elements of « irth and the subjugated fire
of heaven, shall the bold words he has spoken,
and the brave response of our people, be for us
alone—fur one comment alone. The steamship
dashes onward through far seas freighted with
them; the car rushes with them into the very
heart of Old-World despotism, and the lightning
flashes them into the fsce of the despot.
Mark of 111-Breeding.— There is no
Better test of ill-breeding linn ihe practice
of interrupting another in conversation l»v
apeak in<r, or commencing n remark l»efore
another has fully closej. No well bred per
son ever do«*s it, nor continues conversation
long with the one who does. The latter of
ten find an iiitersling conversation abruptly
waived,closed or declined by the former,
with tnt Miipecring the cause. A web-bred
person will note\pn interrupt one who is
in all respects greatly inferior. If you wish
t.» judge the good-breeding of a person with
whom you are but little acquainted, ob
serve him or her, in this respect, and you
will not be deceived. However intelligent,
fluent, or easy she may appear, this prac
tice proves the absence of true politeness.
It is often amusing to see persons priding
themselves on the gentility of their man
ners, and putting forth till their efforts to
appear to advantage in many other re
spects, so readily betray alt in this respect.
Kossuth — Freemasonry . —On Thuradav
night Gov. Kossuth, and four of his suit,
Paul Hnnjmk, Col. Count Beham, P. A.*
Nary, M. Strasser, were initiated members
of the Cincinnati Lodge of Free Masons,
and taken through the First Degree. The !
others, up to Master Mason, will be confer- '
red on each succeeding evening. It was an
imposing ceremony, forming a memorable
epoch in the annals of the brotherhood of j
the Quaen City of the West and of Ohio
fCin. Atlas. *
A true man will never run out. As long j
as he can thrive and breathe, he will du j
something for himself, bis neighbors, or his
posterity.
A.Yankee, according to the poet Saxe is
n driving tnan: He sees aqueducts in hub
ling springs, buildings in stone, cash in ev
ery tbipg.
TdE MINNESOTA PIONEER
St. Paul, iUinncsota,
Thursday Morning April 15, ’52.
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advrrtixinj
j jSt. Emil. Mitrrh 2tt'i, 1352.
JAMES M. GOODHUE—Pioneer.
D X. ROBERTSON -Democrat.
OWENS A MOORE—Miiineaotian.
I The Pioneer.—Eiid of Volume 3.
W lieu the traveler in iiis progress over an un
exp'ored region, reaches the pummit of a dividing
ridge, beyond which, in misty expanse, lies the
untracked future, he sits down upon a rock and
takes h ret-ospect of his journey; n 'dnguerroo- 1
type of the pist. 8o now do we, having ns a
journalist passed through three full year*, the en
, tire period i f the Territorial existence of Minne
sota Territory, to the second grand epoch in its
|
history, when the Sioux treaties are about to he !
( ratified, and our progress as a Territory is to he
onward when, ns Napoleon said to the Army of
Italy, “Soldiers we tire precipitated beyond the 1
Alps'” So we may say, that we are precipitated
bc\ord the .Mississippi and our career is now
westward across the plains and the foresls, ta the
hank* of tlie White Earth and the Missouri;
we, here pausing, before we enter our fourth vol
ume, glance back at the past of Minnesota, be
fore entering upon the future.
The IFih day of April, 1849, was a raw, cloudy
day. The steamboat Senator, Cnpt. Smith, land
ed it Randull’s warehouse. Lower Landing, the
only building then there, except Roberts’ old
store. Of tho people on shore, we recognized
bu! one person ns an acquaintance, Ifenry Jack
son. Took our press, types, printing apparatus
[ all adioro. Went wuh our men, to the house of
Mr. Bass, corner of Third and Jackson streets.
Me krpt ihe only public house in St. Paul; and
it was crowded full, from cellar (o garret. Mr.
, Hass was very obliging and did everything possi
b'e for our encouragement. The next thing, was
a printing office; and that it scented impossible
to obtain. Matle the acquaintance of C. P. V.
Lull and his partner, Gilbert. They furnished us
gratuitously, the lower story of their building, for
an office—the only vacant room in town; being
the building on Third street, since finished ofT .ind
now occupied as a saloon, by Mr. Colder. I’he
weather was cold and stormy; and vurofficew ts
as open ns a corn-rick; however, we picked our
types up and n :*de ready for the issue of the first
paper ever printed iu Minnesota or within many
hundreds of miles of it; but upon search, wc
found our new# chase was left behind. Win. No
bles, blacksmith, made us a verv food one, after
a delay of two or three days. Tho paper was to
be named “The Epistle of Saint Paul,” av an
’ nounced in our prospectus, published in the Feb.
preceding; but we found so many little Saints in
the Territory, jealous of Saint Paul, that we de
termined to rail onr paper, “The Minnesota Pio
oeer.” One hindrance after another, delayed
jour first issue to the 28th of April, ten days.
Meantime, Rev. Mr. Neill, arrived. It was en
j cournging to find a young tnan of education, cour
: ago and capital, ready to eniist all that ho had or
, hoped on earth, in the fortunes of our town Still
■x* atcr and St. Paul, were thet running neck and
neck, us rival towns. Not a foot of pine lumber
could be had nearer than Stillwater; but about
I ‘hi* time, one of the mills at St. Anthony was put
in operation; hut there were only thru a few
buildings at '.bo Falls nf St. Anthony. We look
ed about St. Pul!, to buy a lot Mr. Larpenteur’s
house was built, also French’s house and shop,
(now a tin shop,) and the little shop, then the
Drug Store of Dewey St Cavih er, now Major
Noah’s office, next door west of Calder’s (then
our printing office) also the office of Judge Piorse
(then the fur store of Olmstend & llhoades.) Mr.
j Lnnibf rl’s house wits partly finished. As you go
tip Third streets, and Bench, the next buildings
were two old tainurac log houses, a little east of
. where Mr. Neill’s church is; then passing the
school house, there were two more of the same
sort, in the street, in front of the houses now oc
cupied bv Mr. Benson and Mr. ilollinshead, near
the junction of St. Anthony, Bench and Hill sts.
Beyond, was tho house John K. Irvine lives in,
and nothing else but the symptoms of two or threo
baboon frames. The fuller* were at work put—
: ting up a small store, with their own bands. RC
luroing, on the right, was tho old underground
dead fall, in the ground, opposite John R. Irvine’#
house, then nt the junction of Third and Bench
streets, was Vetal Guerin’s log iiouso. (now Le
Due’s,) then the building in which Mr. Curran
lives, lit that time unfinished,then the o!d bakery
next door east, then Mr. Hopkins’ at the corner;
; turning the corner to the head of Randall’s stairs
(not then built) was the old building still there, j
(now belonging to F. Steele,) which Henry
Jackson used to own, where he kept grocery,
: post-office, and a tavern, free for all the World j
( and the World’s wife—up along the bank of the !
j river, stood and yet stands, Ihe building occupied j
| as a store by IVm. 11. Forbes, the St. Paul Outfit, j
next was a little log building, the nucleus of “the I
Central House,” next the old leg Catholic
where the Rev. Mr. Ravoux faithfully lubored, j
and sometimes saw miraculous visions (lurin ' the >
l. ° I
: time of Lent, then the log house belonging to
; Mr. Laroux, which is now being metamorphosed !
I into a neat building. This brings up back to Ve- j
j lal’s, the junction of Third aod Bench streets. !
j Half u dozen other buildings along Roberts street,
; and Mr. Iloyt’s neighborhood, in addition to th«
I above, constituted St. Paul. But let it bo remem
bered. that the fashionable drinking place then,
•van that little log house next east of Goodrich’#
brick store. Mr. Bass was busy in hurrying up
I a new saloon; the building, now occupied as the
•Clerk’s office by Mr. Wilkinson, on the spot
, where the Minnesota Outfit stands. The ground
west of Roberts and north of Third streets, was
I covered with any quantity of hewed timber slrip-
J ped from the forest opposite town. We looked
about for a lot; and saw that the two ends of the
! town moat soon unite in the middle. Along the
lower end of Third street, owners.of lots had the
coolness to ask from one hundred to two hundred
dullars a lot. Between Lambert's and where the
Sligo Iron Store is, on Third street, Ihe price wee
#75 Off, end soon after. #9O 00. We bought a
fractional lot with I)r. Dewey; and oa our half of
it built the middle section of the ;building where
the Pioneer office is, for a dwelling house, and
lived in it through the next year, without having
it lathed or plastered.
Bet to return n little. We were at length pre
pared to issue our first number. We had no sob- ;
scribers; for then there were but a handful of;
people in the whole Territory; and the majority 1
of those, were Canadians and Half-breed*. Not ;
a Territorial officer had yet arrived. Wc re
member present, at the date of our first issue, J
Mr. Lull, Mr. Cavileer, Mr. Neill, and perhaps I
Mnj. Murphy. The people wanted no politics ]
and we gave them none; they wanted informs- j
tion of all sorts about Minnesota; and that is ,
what we furnished them with. W’e advocated
Minnesota, morality and religion, from the begin- j
ning. Win. B. Brown, built a shell of a build- j
ing, (being the south end of tha Bligo Iron Store 1
now,) which Mr. Neill occupied for a meeting
house. It was half filled with heurers on Sun
days; for Sunduy was like any other day; or per
haps rather more so. The first officer who arriv
ed, was Chief Justice Goodrich; who, through
chivalry and kindness, in defending a woman, in
volved himself in difficulties and ('roubles, greater
and more undeserved, than have over been suffer
ed by any other man in Minnesota. The Gov
ernor came— n good man, who has been n true
friend to Minnesota—Secretary Smith came, a
man whom wo first detected and exposed as an
infamous old viliian, and the whole Territory has
since agreed lo tho verdict. Judge Mocker and
Judge Cooper come, who have been tolerated.
Mitchell, the marshal, came; a tvenk, vain, un
| principled man, who was wicked chiefly through
| weakness and by being made a too! of. Moss.
' the IT. S. District Attorney, was then a resident
; of Minnesota ; but as we nevtr have noticed him,
: so it is probable we never shall, unless he should
; do something.
This town grew rapidly. Tho boats came up
i loaded with immigrants; hut tljen, as now, a
great many feebie, wenk-hearthd folks, were
’ frozen out and went buck down the river,not bc-
I ing made of iho right sort of stuff. Mr. Owens
| came up, with the “Register” press, from Citt
! cinnati, one No. of that journal, having been
[printed in that city. Col. Jo me# Hughes also
i came, from Ohio, with the Chronicle, which was
' issued soon after, from tho building where the
I the “Minnesotian” i.» now published. Soon after,
i the. “Register” byM’Lcan& Ow ens, was issued
i from the building that is now- the 1 tw office of Si
| mons &. Masterson, St. Anthony street. After a
few months, the Chronicle & Register, were unit
ed, in the old Chronicle office, under the firm,
i name und style of Owens & M'Leau i*. Hughes
Ik Quay. Mr. Quay soon left the office; and soon
after Col. Hughes sold out nr.d NTr. M’Lean be
] came sole proprietor of both offices, tatd Owens
editor, Mnj. M’Lean being appointed Sioux agent
1 at Fort Snelling.
Being cursed with a bid batch of Federal offi
cers, and hard pushed to make a lit mg in compo
■ titinn with two other presses, we 'thought favora
j bly of a proposition to get up a Democratic or
ganization; for with the exception of #ISOO 00,
which we had already expended in defraying the
expenses of the Pioneer, and what patronage Ga
lena had liberally extended to tins journal, we
had nothing or next to nothing to keep it alive.
At the solicitation of the Democracy, more fullv
1 organized than it hn9 ever been since, we stood
! ou and defended a Democratic, platform. Neither
j wing of the party is free from the charge of aban
doning us and our cause. We fought through one
campaign and were defeated. Through the jeal
, ou«y of a part of Mr. Sibley’* Democratic friends,
i we were defeated. We were determined to rally
* and make another fighj. On the eve of the very
i first party election, Mr. Rice, with all the frierds
i he could carry with him, went fiver to A. M
Mitchell, the Whig Delegate, anil pledged them-
I selves to his election for Delegate, in 1850, (nt
i tho next election.) Mr. Rice was fine of our Cen
tral Democratic Committee, to c;.|i Conventions.
Mr. Rice after a long absence, returned from
Washington. The rupture in the Fur Company,
in the meantime had taken place| and riveu the
two factions, splitting the party wider apart
t than ever. \\ e remonstrated, expintulated, urged
j harmony and concession; but at? in vain. As
! well might a man attempt to hold together, by
I straddling, two masses of ice, suddenly cracked
j asunder, in passing through a gorge.
The election approached. In spite of all our
exertion*, the old friction*, Rice ajnd Sibley, em
bracing Whigs and Democrats, began to solidify
J into parties, for the election of Delegates. W’e
i would gladly then have united witty any ten Dem
j ocrats, who would stand up independent of both
j fictions, and nominate and support, as a party
1 Democrat, nny good man. Olmsted offered him
; self; but not us a party man. He was brought
[ forward by tho ClironiHc & Register, which he
; had bought and which was then edited by L. A.
i Babcock, his neice, as the ‘People’s Candidate.’
We would not support him; both because we
him unfit, and his election impossible;
! and also because we would not, if we could avoid
; it, be dragged into the support.of u ticket nomi
; nated as a people’s ticket. We cquld nol do it,
; consistently with our party obligations. We pre
! ferred and finally determined, to nominate and
j support Mr. Sibley, a known, trieij Democrat, a
faithful friend to Minnesota; and who, we are
I now satisfied, was justified in trusting himself very
j cautiously upon a platform which; was designed
Itobo a deadfall. To defeat Mitchell, we were
j thus compelled to abandon high pa<ty ground and
' fight one mixed faction against thfi other. We
j took tho only possible plan, to dejfeat Mitchell.
! We did right; and that’wo know full well; and
j for the Whigs, by whose alliance we aceomplish
, off it, we will say, that they have generally acted
in good faith with us, deserving the confidence
I we have hail to repose in them; while, we, ns
: Democrats, have also treated them with candor
and fairness. And further, we say* that the most
obnoxious and unscrupulous of the Whigs, from
that time having joined the Rico faction, we. have
since hud but little necessity to organize as Dem
ocrats; since Whigs have been ready to aid us in
ihe reforms needed; and especially m the remov
lal of some very obnoxious Whig officers. View
ing the matter every way, ic appear* to us that >
our union against the Rice faction, was never
firmer than it is now. At the same time, nur •
Whig friends know perfectly well, that the time
mast come, when xve as Democrat.*, shall oppose
them, upon high party grounds; and we hope sue- ‘
eessfully. Being thus arrayod against Rice & !
Mitchell, we became, of course, obnoxious to Mr.
Rice; and that is tha reason why the Democrat i
was brought up here. Mr. Olmsted having cov- !
ertly sold oat the Chronicle k Register to Mitch- j
ell k Rice, with whatever Whig influence it car- I
ried along with it, that journal was taken along
side of the Democrat and ased aa a tender.
These two crafts, under one Commander, were
then ordered to make nil sail ahd bear down epon
and coplnre the Pioneer.
Their flag ship, the Democrat, ran up n Deme
j erntic pennant. The Pioneer mot them both, star
; board and larboard, sunk the old Chronicle, cut
1 away tha rigging of the “Democrat” with chain
: shot, raked her fore and aft, until she can no
' longer respond to her helm or manage her guns;
1 and at the Liquor election, last week Monday,
I her political owner jumped übonrd of her, pushed
J tho Captain aside, seized the helm, and in a fit
j of desperation, ordered the crew to break into the
j spirit room.
The bold, wicked attempt made, in the Liquor
election, last week, to enlist the “Organization”
against the Liquor Law, to lay that down us the
main plank in their party platform, on which to
array the party, we regard not only ns a gross in
sult to the good mun'who had been ensnared into
their party, by false pretences of Democracy,
which they have perpetually falsified; but it is
absolutely futal to the remotest possible hope or
fear of their political supremacy, now or hereaf
ter. And here, as Democrats now and forever,
we solemnly protest, in the name of true Dem
ocracy, against the declaration thus made to the
world, that Democrats in Minnesota, consent that
tho whiskey interest, shall he a part of any Dem
ocratic platform here.
The great feature in the year ISSO, was the
exploration by steamboats, of the Minnesota (?t.
Peters) river. These various excursions, ending
w ith the trip of the steamboat Yankee, Capt.
i Keeler Harris, rost us much time and a great
deal of money. We went into this work, not as
some did. for the pleasure of it, hot as a nec* s
;sary, almost, an indispensable preliminary to
' obtaining an appropriation from Congress, for the
negotiation of the Sioux treaties. Oor account*
of the exploration of these fairy region*, were
very extensively, almost universally, read; and
the public, mind was fired with a general wish for
acquisition of the Sioux territory. The great
event of 1851, was the negotiation of these trea
ties and the treaties cfPcinbina. Especial pains
was taken, during the regotiation and ever since,
by the press of Minnesota, not to suffer the inter
est and excitement 'about the Sioux country, to
subside. Our worst obstacle in keeping alive the
public interest abroad, in Minnesota, has been
the want of frequent, regular mails; a wnnt that
must he pr< tnplly supplied before the next win
ter, by having a mail route opened direct from
I St. Paul to Dubuque, cost what it may.
Tha great event of this venr, 1852, will be the
ratification of the treaties, and an accession of
sober, industrious immigration, far greater than
we have now in the Territory. In one year from
now, we confidently expect to he lost sight of, in
the multitude of men and of enterprises that will
surround us. Abundance of capital, and fresh,
vigorous young men will come in with talent and
activity to pusn on the column of civilization.
We hid them welcome. If we have aided in
quarrying out the material here, for a noble politi
cal structure, that was the task xve found for our
hand to do, nod we have done it “with all our
, might.” if, in the absence of established public
sentiment and vigorous law, to punish offenders
again-t public justice, and public decency, wc
have sometimes attacked the profligate und the
shameless in high places, xvilh vigor or even vio
lence, let it bo remembered that tiie time then
was in Minnesota, when the press was the only
engine, that could overawe and restrain the w ick
ed—when mob* and violunce and drunkenress,
dreaded nothing but the fearless publication of the
truth.
To the Public.
We ask tiie friends of Minnesota, who desire a
journal devoted to the best interests of this Terri
tory, and conducted with ns much industry as it
is possible for one mau to bestow upon a newspa
per, to subscribe for the Pioneer. Next week, we
shall commence Volume Four. These who sub
scribe for ibe next volume, will receive this num
ber gratis. We have in readiness, and arc about
jto publish in the Pioneer, historical sketches of
Minnesota, prepared with great research, by a
gentleman of erudition. It is useless to make
promises. The public have assurance in our fir
mer exertions as a journalist, that we shall hold a
faithful mirror up to Minnesota, to reflect its true
impress and image upon the world. To those
who arc indebted to us, \vc can say with tho ut
most truth, that our labors have not been largely
rewarded; and that there was never a time, when
prompt payment of all that is due at thisoflice.
! was more indispensable to relieve us from ernbar
rassment, than now.
Fresh tenderlines. —The work oxen now
being driven down from the pineries, the butcher
i shops of St. Paul are again supplied with beeves.
Their yokes, sawed up, are obout as tender stakes
'ns any part of the animal. Slices of sled tongues
for soup, would probably be cheaper; and ox
chain links, rather more substantial food; and
l quite as juicy and palatable. The choicest | leces
of the animal, between horns and hocks, sell ct
ten cents.
Contraband or not? —Will it be adinis
( stble, alter the Ist of May, when our liquor law
I takes effect, for the mails to bring into this Tcrrj
: tory, “The Spirit of The Times” ?
i
j A * a in : Is John Orth’s 8l Anthony beer an
“intoxicating liquor?”
The Mails. —No mails for a long time—not
I a scrap of news; except that the l)r. Franklin
■ No. 2, came up to Lake Pepin last week and re
turned; but sent no mail up to us. YVe are now
hourly expecting boats.
Supreme Court or the U. S. —Amongst
' the admissions at Washington, arc Charles Sex
, ton of Willow River, Wis., and (.leo. L. Bec-.er,
and R. R. Nelson, of St. Paul, This is the same
i bar at which Daniel Webster and Reverdy Jolin
| son practice.
Looking for Boats —YY 7 e are all nnxious
' ly looking out for boats; but those who will con
sider the terrible cold that has all winter been
| congealing Lake Pepin, especially as there was
little or no snow on the ice, to prevent it from !
! freezing, are not surprised that navigation opens
so late. Many bets are pending on the time of
the arrival of the first boat. On Friday, we had ;
a string wind blowing from the south, which is '
: always most effectual in breaking up the ice of!
i Lake Pepin, ns the w ind forces it up stream, and i
i leaves the Iswer end wf it open for the action of;
waves; when if the billows once begin lo swell, |
the whole mass is soon broken up and floats away, j
Irvine’s Mill. —We regret to lenrn that the j
main shaft of Irvine’s steam saw-mill at the Up- >
per Landing, was broken last Wednesday. A ;
new ou of wrought iron, will be supplied io its I
place.
MINNESOTA AFFAIRS. ,
• . |'
Election* m St. Paul.—Perhaps tnefa »
no othei town, where more inteiue excitement
and iatereat prevail* in election*, ihun in St. Paul. ,
At the liquer election last week, voting and elec- j (
tiooeering was the exclusive business of the town, •
from warning until evening. There was even ej,
more general interest fell in this election, than in j (
anjr that have preceded it} for it involved a ques- '
tion of paramount and immediate importance, to i
all the women and children, as well ns the men, j
of onr Territory. Thu women, were united in j
support of the law; and unquestionably, at this,,
moment, of all the constituency who constitute j
the basis of representation and who have equal j
i rights to demand of the Legislature, the passage j
i of laws for the benefit of the whole population, j
; more than four-fifths are in favor of the Liquor
• Law. This law, ha* passed through Loth Houses,
1 has been signed by the Governor, and approved
by an immense msjority of voters, beside receiv-
I ing tho approbation of the masses who arc not
voters in the Territory. A law that can pa**
' through nil those ordeals, certainly must be sus- |
; tained by an overwhelming foice of public senli- !
i meat; and will be cheerfully obeyed, by every
' good citizen who has any regard to sound princi- 1
pies of government, the rights of majorities and
the duty of obedience to the mandates of law and
and the majesty of the sovereign pimple.
Floating Dooms. —Between St. Paul and
: Fort Snelling, there lias just been built, an expen- J
' *Ne boom, to collect and herd the pine logs, that l
are to be driven down over the Falls nt Anthony,
to be sawed at St Paul and below. The pier*, j
square pens made of logs, and tilled with rocks, j
were built ujxm the ice; and lc.fi there to sink. ;
when the ice dissolved. There were also several
smaller piers built, to form a passage out of the (
boom, and aid in rafting the logs from the boom. ;
Of these smaller piers, one came Heating down
tho river on Thursday, on n cake of ice, and sunk
iu the channel, at the Lower Landing, about op
posite Spencer’s new warehouse. On Friday,)
another great field of ice, perhaps two cr three
acres, was seen corning down, loaded with three j
more small piers. This mass of ice, struck the
island opposite the Upper Landing, and swung
down into the narrow gorge, between Raspberry .
; island and the bluff, with teriible force, covering ,
the whole width of the channel, plowing up the :
sand, and tumbling up a great wmrow of broken !
ice, that rolled up, like the surf in a tempest;
with a crushing noise, like a great water fall. In
| this gorge, the masses of ice were broken usun- !
1 der, and sent careering down stream, with the
, cribs of stone still riding. Where these piers :
may he deposited, it may he of some interest for
steanihoatinen to know. It is very likely they
fetched up ct the bend of the river, below Trout *
brook. The spectacle attracted the attention of
;
many of our people, looking down from Dench
i street; which is a very convenient theatre for ob- '
servalions upon the river.
I
\\ ater-Fowl. — Duck* and geese, do not •
t seem yet to he brought into our market in such
I abundance as is usual at this season of tlie year- j
The fowl are said to have been turned southward j
i again, oy the sudden cold weather we have lately
experienced; and of the few killed, the Sioux,
who are very hungry, are supposed to be making
feasts of their own. On Wednesday, we saw an
Indian, one legged Jim, the Sioux Temporauce
lecturer, paddling down the river with a large
wounded swan in his canoe, a present to Mr
! F orbes.
j
Nor “Out ok Tin.”—Hard as tho times
'are, the ladies of St. Paul will go a shopping.
On Wednesday last, was rather a pleasant day;
and the handsome women of our town alwavs
improve such days. When the boats arc run
tiing, and after “the payments,” there will be
lively times in tho retail way.
The Kittson House. —Mr. I’rcntice is hur
rying up the lads; and this new hotel will now
soon be up and enclosed.
The Hotel at the Upper Landing.—
This hotel U now approaching its completion.
With all the contiguities, extensions and out
i buildings, it will be one of the largest public
house* on the river. We learn that it is to hs
complet' d in May.
Pile-Driving. —A piledriver is in operation
now, to construct a road from the main bank, at
, the Upper Landing, out to the river.
Ladies’High School. —We learn that this
institution is to he in tho rear of Kittson's Addi
! tion, near Trout brook. Our people intend that
| provision shall be made to enlighten the future
mothers of St. Paul.
I I
Liquor election in Cass and Renton.
Sauk Rapids, April 6th, 1852.
Ed. Pioneer, Dear Sir:—At a special elec
tion, held yesterday, in the Ist or Sank Rapids
Precinct for two Justices of the Peace, the follow
ing persons were elected by a unanimous voto
of 35, viz : Philip Beaupry and Nathan Lamb.
For the adoption or rejection of the Liquor Law’,
the vote stooJ yeas 13. noes 22. Several friends
ofthe law were unavoidably absent or we should
have polled about a tie vote.
I One voter from Watab out of 20, (N. Myrick)
voted for the law.
Yours hastily. YORICK.
Wednesday, A. M. The vote nt Elk River
! resulted in a majority of ono for the Law, out of
I near 40.
j At Swan River the vote stood for the law 10,
against it 17, majority 7. Leaving a majority of
, 15 against the law in these 3 Precincts.
Nokasippi and Crow Wing will about balance
| that, so that even in Old Benton there will be
, about u tie vote on the question.
From Fort Ripley, we have the following news:
Ft. Ripley, April Bth, 1852.
There was no election held at No.nsippi oppo
site to this place, consequently the friends of the
Law there did not vote. At Crow Wing, there
was a majority of 7 for the Law; thus leaving 8
votes against the measure in the countv. There
were 3 votes cast at Swan River for “No Whis
key,” which the Judge* counted against the Law,
■ because the word “No” appeared on them, el
‘ though the intention was of course to vote die
; other way. This makes the vote there, ayes 13,
noes 14 —and reduces the majority iu the county
to two.
Had Judge Meeker, G. W. Sweet, Cathcart
Richardson, Mclntyre and others down at Big
Meadows, been at the polls in your precinot, the
I vote would have resulted in a majority the other
; way, even in Itenton County, where some people
supposed a unanimous vote would be cast a
-1 gainst it.
W. W. Warren says that the enemies of the
Law all voted, while many of its iriends were
|uko warm and remained away.
Cass Connty gives a majority of 19 for the Taiw
which makes a majority of 17 for it in this Coun
cil Bring out your big gun; the thing is
as sure as Capt. Scott was of the coon. Let us
mako the welkin ring with a universal shout of
death and destruction to King Alcohol, i
Construction or thib Ln#** Law*—
We have always supposed that a Statute sho«M *
be bo construed as to give effect, if poesible, to alt
it« provisions; but iuom of our smart lawyer*in
Saint Paul, advise d.tfcrently. The/ would like *
lo nullify the final, (21st/section of the Act. *
The time fixed, for the main features of the law, 11
to go into operation, is the first of May; after the I'
return of the vote taken on the question by the ;
people; bnt to construe tha 21st section of this a
law, not to be absolute and entirely independent ! *
in its operation, preceding the Ist of May, would *
be making nonsense of it. This section, was ‘
clearlv mendntery upon the Commissioners, nnd
expressly binding upon them, from and alter its v
passage and approval hy the Governor, however ( F
the people might vote upon the main queation. It | *
might with just tho same reason be construed that 1
the election itself, provided for iu the Act, to be (
held on tho Ist Monday in April, was not a man
datorv, absolute provision of tho Act, independent , *
of the popular vote, for or against the main fea
tures of tho law. j
These Mansfields of tho St. Psul bar, woold !
construe the law thus:
Ist. All intoxicating liquers shall be prohibited '
from importation or sale io this Territory, after '
the Ist day of May next. I
2d. There shall be an election held on the fifsl
Monday of April, at which the qualified electors i
shall vote yes or no, on the questiou of adopting
this law-; and if a majority vole yes, the law shall '
t»ke effect and operate from and after the Ist day (
of May.
3d. No licenses shall bo issued by the County
Commissioners or by town Corporations, for a
period of time rxteuding beyond the Ist of May
next.
4th. None of the provisions of the preceding |
sections, shall take effect, (that is, there shall be !
no exclusion of liquor, no election of tbe people j
held on the question, and no restraint upon the
issuing of licenses for a year to come,) until after
this law is approved in the way provided in the
foregoing 2d section, b) the popular vote.
Now we ask, is that sort of lawyers and that
kind of little pettifogging, not beneath con
tempt ?
For the Pioneer. ,
Ilornce.—A<l Piteruia.
BOOK 1 , ODE 38.
“Persicos Odi .”
Mr. Editor:
Your classical correspondent Sigma, has fa
vored your readers with a translation of the Ode
of the celebrated Lyricist, on the popular vice of
: bibbing. Permit me to add a hasty version ol
inv own; and while I indulge no vain thought of
rivaling so close a reaper as Sigma appears to
: be, (ilmugti I remind him that near the end ol hi*
work his tool has lost its edge,) I hope that the 1
few modest flowers which the sacred Nine have j
, transplanted to my garden, may be tho.ight lo
have had their birth, on the banks of the “rippling
Amo,” or, by our poet’s “Sabine borne.” — '
1 abhor all Persian pomp.
The grandelr of their bowers;
Thoir chaplet* and tbe linden's rind,
Their garlands and their flowers:
Seek not, boy, the arbute wreath,
The loitering autumn rose;
1 hate their festive iaurel crown
When racy Massic flows.—
I
Naught but the glossy evergreen
Shall coronet my head,
The myrtle’s simple comeliness
With fragrance mildly shod:
And so beneath the ivy’s shade
The mantling, shrouding vine,
(Scorning the sumptivc Asian feast)
I quaff the mellow wine.
The Ode was written, by the courtier poet,
, iu condemnation of the sumptuous extravagance,
and absurd imitation of foreign luxury, ‘which
characterized the jovial entertainments of the
day, iu «uch marked contrast to the primitive se
venty of Roman maimer*. The tide of Asiatic
luxuriousness which iuundalcU Romo was a cou
-1 sequence of increased intercourse with a foreign
I and voluptuous people, and may convey a lesson
, to us.
'I lie bard here forewarns his attendant against
; such indulgence, ordering tho simplest prepara
tions for his gratification.
How to reconcile this frugal effusion with hi*
proverbial conviviality, we scarcely know, unless
by referring it to one of his occasional mood* of
anxious mi-giving; or, to the more sober habi
tude of his iriaturer years, when long satiety had
in a measure tempered hi* bibbling propensities,
, and the frosts of fifty winters had blanched lire
i ardor of his Venusian blood.
The “chaplets’* alluded to as “flowery,”
1 were either of laurel, ivy, myrtle, parsley, ver
vain nr arbute, (strawberry) bound together by
• the inner-rind of the linden; and gracefully deco
rated with roses and violets.—
“Sweet violets. Love's paradise’*
with which the guests among the “upper teu”
> were crowned in their carousals.
The design in using these chaplets was, by
diffusing a grateful odor, nnd by operating
through the sense of beauty and upon the olfac
tory nerves, to inflame the passions, and, in part,
to counteract the noxious effects of their racy
I Massic, Falernian and other wines—to prevent
, intoxication and yet give zest to the feast
The poet while condemning all these artifices,
desires no other chaplet than the myrtle, which
by its cooling and astringent qualities was suppos
ed to evert a composing influence on the mind;
j thus, with his daily beverage hi* happiness is
complete “under his own vine and fig-tree.”
The Ode may therefore be taken as an iridica
ition of tbe leaning of tbe bard towards anything
but inebriety, the light wines drank then, as now,
under the sunny skies of Italy, being compara
tively harmless. It may be a serious question
1 whether if the famous Law of tho Dim go State
had had existence then, the Poet would have at
tuned his Lyre to its praise—or, to its re
quiem. J»uch a qncre wo shall submit to such
pundits as our friend Mr. Sigaia.
JUNIUS.
A young artist hy the name of Kinney
I has just completed an “heroic stntue of
Rthini Allen,” which is now on exhibition
at Burlington. Vt. It is highly spoken of.
The artist says egotistically enough, in the
Sentinel:—“This is the first statue ever
sculptured in Vermont, ami I believe the
I rgest one ever sculptured iu America; r,ml
I am certain there has never been n work of
art of equal magnitude produced in this, or
, any other country, under more unfavorable
circumstance*. But I had resolved to do
i justice to the memory of the first hero of
the American Revolution, to the full extent
of my abilities; which determination can
be better expressed in the spirit of the words
1 of this great father of the Green Mountain
jstnte, addressed to Congress, demanding its
j admission into the Union with the other
| states. He said—“l am so much deter
miner! upon the independence of Vermont,
; that rather than fail, I will retire with my
little hand of hardy Green Mountain hoys
to the desolate, caverns of the mountains,and
icage war against human nature at large. ”
“What in a name?”—On it being re
porter! in a party of ladies that a Captain
I Silk had arrived in town, they exclaimed,
! with one exception, “What a name for a
|soldier!” “The fittest name in the' world ”
■rejoined a witty female; “for silk can never
1 be worsted.”
Oar readers remember, that a fssr week* since,
We copied from the St. Anthony Express, a letter
Written in easy, elegant Verse, descriptive ©f * in
nesota. The composition net only sp.>rk ! ou with
wit, but it exhibited far more of the ’ ar* < «i :
artem,” than belongs to unpractised [act*: gen
ius. It seemed to ss, that Pnerpont < r iloln . *
himself, could have written nothing be <r I.nu-r
--ing tlie name of the author, n gentler: n • r.e
at Saint Anthony, we placed his nans - on cur
wriplion list; preferrrrg to furnish sr-A t rcruv.v
with the Pioneer, without charge,to r-ce vc • Y
for n half a dozen copies of the paper, ■n:t t *
fool or a bloekhend who despises liter • L
wlto take* onr paper grudgingly and im-c . m
pntron,” and never reads it. Oo tb<; c jh
the first number of the Pioneer, the anti,
, the following easy, charming letter, . ivi. v.e
I cannot refrain from publishing; tdth- v
! say with unfeigned truth, we would rt. i rit t a
tained not a word of compliment to u
To the Editor of the Minnesota Pica ,• , ■
; Paul.
! The compliment you pa id my hum
' Demands a tribute from your grateful .
in friendly token for my random cap
I own the mission of your sterling ps
For want of more substantial means <■. i, ,
' With many thanks I heartily receipt i
i For all this kindness shown, to me in .
i Success to Goodhue and the Pionec h
Our common cause is universal rig .
iTo build up truth and ncatler nienta . ■*
My sphere is compassed by a narrow
But when you speak, it rolls the tar
You hold an engine of unbounded pt
To mould and guide this wayward e
And who could know how best his c<
Without the guidance of a Pion ee
i Let no one fail, in Sun mer, Fall
To (nice the papers and to pay the J
The money given for tho sheet you i
Will often render Lack a hundred f
The press has power to elevate tht
To make the nation happy, an
i To add a double value to our farm
And gild our path-way with
The tens of thou-’andi yearly landin. 1
i V) ill seek tho office of the Pionj.v
For news, for knowledge, and for r n-
And facts to guide them to the l.es - j
And some of these, Dear G. * ill t " '..
Iti politics and morals, much from .
Then is it very strange or queer.
That \\isdom ought to guide the P >• . >
The wits of Araby, in times of old
i Combined their powers to tarn all t
The sage of Syracuse, mechanics .
i To raise the world, had he a place
( Tlie lesser calibers of modern day
Hare held their tapers to the sun’s . • . -
, But in the type, tlie press, the prin
Wealth, poircr and light a glorious .
The Editorial chair, say \»hat yo< *
Needs mora of patient industry and •
More varied parts, more wit, mors
knowledge,
Than any chair that ever graced a ' -j
Far more than half the world Las cv
j Or any half-baked fool has over dr?
I That you ran do the clever th;ng, t- < -
And that you u-ill, vide ;he Pione
Then lionor to the man who
With virtue, wisdom and determine : . .
•And Blanks to him, for intellectual e u .
Who sends his friends the Wees ly
Women or St. Paul.—Not
' nor room, last week, for an adequ
the exertions of our noble to.vos-w
day of the Liquor election, we cot
' ittg appropriate tribute from the > •• i
It would be a thoroughly usef v .
t did we even wield the pen of an lr*
( ens, to undertake to do justice to
torts of the ladies of Saint Paul *>
I I adoption of the Temperance Law
substantial* and luxuries of the *
quet, eel by them nt Temneranc*’ ,
, day of voting, although every thii _• ■
. expected, was nothing in compare
I* and devotion with which they tlsr .• r; -
hearts and souls into the good cau .'
I ceasing physical labor for three if ■
this might have been undergone f >c
’ the thing merely. Large andhoui - r
, tions for the table—these might li: , . .
in order that the donors should m
as illiberal and penurious. But .
selfish feelings actuated them,
how we know this. Know it—w . *
by their looks, their action*—l
movement —by the honest sinceri
ed from every countenance, and i. i
’ every graceful motion—by the rig • ’
will with which they went about . ere
r what they had undertaken, and < ■■■■ > r
5 it, to the utmost delight of the *!cr
■ eternal honor and credit of ther
~ Paul may well be proud of her w
r . lieve she always has been; but n*
t another very tall feather in herca
all the rest—for in accomplishing ’••
, ' did on Monday lust, her fair dang '
i laurels more lasting than those j r
brow of the conquerer upon a . T *i b ■
; fields.
Partt Politics.— To mn ; ;t f\ r> i ;•
. questions anil assign to them ; ’
, «t‘ great principles, is not mil ;n: , *
-to the investigation of truth, t ■
\ otis to the mind itself, itiducii.
r '.ration of thought and entol
- on insanity; inasmuch ns it
- the mind for an impartial es •• ■
nature nnd importance of re:.. t
There are some persons wht
cln«ses of subjects,and ail eon
, tions by one standard. The •/
r correct,but’.the measure is not
(' various objects. No appltct <
t questions to gtuernl financial and
; subjects can fail to result in dirajip* • t
i and inortiqcation.
r Any party upon a single princi* * ... >r
? ! anti* masonry , nr free soil, or •.; * *
I j can, or slavery, can have oid;-
f success. Exclusive devotio
r ject in the conduct of the uf: . . i>• .
i eminent must necessarily intro
> I nnd disorder. The necessities
f nro neglected, the fundament •• -• t>‘
t • of Government are violated, an : -
i i iunts of prudence are disregni •*i t
» | sake of some single idea, or te : - t• r.
i sue, which, however impotent
s cannot properly be elevated to tf .li .
r of a national principle. Every ; >'<i • »
- question shouldreceive due o'.!*•*•
, j nnd be assigned its position i>- !;• j( i> *
I r |of principles, in view of its imj ;.r: . c
i condition and its consequence-. An r. !
I ; istration that would be permanent!', »>.•*
* ceasful should give prominent r - ro th c> • -
I principles that have hearing t:; t: ho ; r
. i perity of the whole nation, Any s * f
j j founded upon local qne*t|on t r tcirp -r
, issues nnu«t be purlin I and {• tbh to
[ tion nnd defeat. The great object of •o» ••
> | cnl exertion is the the nuhlir. . and 'h-x
r j can be promoted only by tb .-* fr <»nu ;
i°f prominent principle* of Gov . c 'i r.i