Cincinnati glassworks using Minnesota sand

Interesting from Minesota [sic] Minnesota.

The St. Paul Chronicle and Register of the 16th ult., informs us the Governor Ramsey reached his home in that city on the 13th, after an absence of three months at the East; and that paper adds:

He has labored faithfully for the interests of the territory during his absence, and will receive the merited thanks of her people of all parties. He reports Minesota [sic] Minnesota stock high among the Eastern people, and the prospects are flattering that we will have a large immigration next season.

The Chronicle and Register tells us that a matrimonial fever has seized upon all bachelors in that region, and that wives are scarce and in demand, being the dearest article in the Minesota [sic] Minnesota markets.

The St. Paul papers are filled with letters asking information from persons intending to emigrate, which would seem to corroborate the statement of Governor Ramsey, quoted above.

The steamer Senator, which was engaged in the Minesota [sic] Minnesota trade, having been sold by her owner, Captain Orin Smith, he had proceeded to Cincinnati to have a new boat built to supply her place.

Governor Ramsey held a talk with the Caposia (Little Crow) band of Sioux, on the 15th, at St. Paul, in which the Indians entered strong complaints against persons cutting wood upon their lands without their consent. The Commissioner of Indian Affairs has given instructions to the proper authorities at St. Paul to stop all persons from cutting and making use of this wood, thus deciding that a contract with the Indians for timber upon their lands is contrary to law, and of no force.

Gov. Dewey, of Wisconsin, has written to Governor Ramsey requesting that a small body of troops may be sent below, to prevent the Wnnebagoes from committing depredations upon the settlers. The Chronicle and Register supposes that the request will not be granted, for the following reasons: — The few troops that could be spared could do little or nothing in controlling the Indians in their scattered state; and besides, the accounts that have reached Gov. Dewey, concerning them are doubtless highly exaggerated.

The same paper from which we make these extracts, notices an article which has been going the rounds of the papers, to the following effect:

"The Surveying Company who left Fond du Lac last November, to survey a tract of land north of St. Paul, Minesota [sic] Minnesota, have returned. They do not give very flattering accounts of the Minesota [sic] Minnesota country, considering it hardly worth surveying."

This very land, says the Chronicle and Register, produces about five hundred dollars' worth of cranberries to the acre, and the streams and lakes swarm with the finest trout, bass, pike, pickerel, & c.

White sand of excellent quality being very abundant out in the vicinity of St. Paul, some of it was taken to the Cincinnati glass works by way of experiment and with it most excellent glass was made. The experiment was so successful that a company is forming in Cincinnati to go into the manufacture of glass at St. Paul this season. Sand of the proper quality for the successful manufacture of glass is rarely found in quantities sufficient to make it an object. The sand from Minesota [sic] Minnesota, from the crystal clearness, soundness and strength of its glass, is unsurpassed; and must form a great article of export as well as give rise to numerous factories within the limits of this now and thriving Territory.

The following is from the Chronicle of the 16th: Charles M. Berg, who "sloped" from here some three or four weeks since, with a hired horse and cutter, and owing nearly every man something, was last seen in Galena, and stated he was on his way to Philadelphia. We doubt his going to that city, as the police there are too well acquainted with him. He sold the horse and cutter to Mr. Thomas, of Prairie du Chien.