of the Treasury in reply to the subject. The Secretary ne length, and after quoting the law under which the was made, closed in the following pointed paragraph: e antecedent, and the object of this appropriation, the Department ablic building in question, can only be erected at the permanent seat of prescribed. Of course the reply to your inquiry must be, that nothing from this appropriation until after the location shall be duly made." session of the Legislature the Minnesota Historical Society thony Library Association were incorporated. The incore former was principally due to the industry and influence 1, Territorial Secretary. The act of incorporation was the ed by the Legislature, and results have proved that it was ent. In the month of December the St. Anthony Assoenced a series of lectures, the introductory one being Rev. E. Duteilt. The first public exercises of the Histooccurred at the M. E. Church at St. Paul, on the 1st of "The day was pleasant," said the "Chronicle and Reg5th of that month," and the attendance large. The opendress was delivered by Mr. Neill. Subject- The Early onaries and Voyageurs to Minnesota.' th Monday in November an election for county officers e counties which had been organized at the beginning of e Assembly. The Legislature passed an act providing r elections should be held on the first of September. er, 1849, the question of establishing common schools nsidered. The first meeting relating to this vital interest small school house on St. Anthony street, near the site resbyterian Church, in St. Paul. Before this the English O white settlements, had been taught by teachers that had by the National Society of Popular Education. Among I were the Misses Bishop and Scofield, who had taught at Miss A. Hosford, who had taught at Stillwater; and Miss ad taught at St. Anthony. These were the pioneer white hool teachers in Minnesota Territory. 850, the "Pioneer" issued a Carrier Boy's Address, from owing lines are quoted: The cities on this river must be three, Garners the stores that on the plains are grown; The third will be where rivers confluent flow From the wide-spreading north through plains of snow; And the St. Croix a hundred mills shall drive, A very funny name, is't not? Pig's Eye's the spot to plant my city on, To be remembered by, when I am gone. Pig's Eye, converted thou shall be, like Saul: The first roadway along the bank of the Mississippi River between Prairie du Chien and Hudson, Wisconsin, was marked out in December, 1849, and the hauling of supplies by land was commenced. Previous to that time the only roadway in winter to the settlements of Wisconsin and Iowa was the ice of the Mississippi. Mails were scarce, and as late as 1850 there was only one mail a week between St. Paul and Prairie du Chien. The proposals inviting bids for its transportation specified that it should leave St. Paul at 6 o'clock A. M. every Monday, and arrive at Prairie du Chien, 270 miles, by 6 o'clock P. M. the next Sunday. The first murder, after white settlements commenced, occurred at St. Paul on the afternoon of September 12, 1849, when one boy named Isaiah McMillan shot and killed another boy named Snow, aged about twelve years. The case came on for trial before Judge Cooper at the February term (1850) of the Court at Stillwater. Messrs. Bishop and Wilkinson prosecuted, and Messrs. Ames and Moss defended. Notwithstanding there seemed to be an absence of malice prepense on the part of McMillan, he was found guilty of manslaughter, and in accordance with the recommendation of the jury that the court would inflict the lightest possible penalty consistent with the law of the sold EMMIlan a Ed seeing Sn YeMillan e A be had i at eye an ist proclam Posey in 1 which w ober, 1850, ir trade. , with beauti around his eyes. de men, generally the parting of the proud step, be perhaps a long staff s his wife, be forth a little round was sent up to Fort Snelling, and was subsisted at the the soldiers. The circumstances of the murder were as Millan and a number of other boys were playing on the eing Snow coming toward them with a press-board before Millan exclaimed that he would shoot him, and taking aim e had in his hands at the moment, fired. The shot entered eye and left cheek, from the effect of which he died in a , 1850, Miss Frederika Bremer, the Swedish novelist, visited nd St. Paul, where she was the guest of Governor Ramsey and this is her description of the capital of Minnesota and ngs at that time: d we touched the shore, when the governor of Minnesota, and his pretty ne on board and invited me to take up my quarters at their house. And happy with these kind people, and with them I make excursions into the The town is one of the youngest infants of the Great West, scarcely s old; and yet it has in a short time increased to a population of two ns, and in a very few years it will certainly be possessed of twenty-two Es situation is as remarkable for its beauty and healthiness, as it is advanle. vever, the town is but in its infancy, and people manage with such ey can get. The drawing-room at Governor Ramsey's house is also his ans and work people, and ladies and gentlemen, are all alike admitted. e, Mr. Ramsey is building a handsome spacious house upon a hill, a little with beautiful trees around it, and commanding a grand view of the e to live on the Mississippi, I would live here. It is a hilly region, and end beautiful and varying landscapes. thronged with Indians. The men, for the most part, go about grandly h naked hatchets, the shafts of which serve them as pipes. They paint tterly without any taste, that it is incredible. Here comes an Indian ed a great red spot in the middle of his nose; here another who has ole of his forehead in lines of black and yellow; there a third with coalund his eyes. * * The women are less painted, with better nen, generally with merely one deep red little spot on the middle of the e parting of the hair on the forehead is dyed purple. There goes an proud step, bearing aloft. He carries only his pipe, and when he is on aps a long staff in his hand. After him, with bowed head and stooping |