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Democrat.
Whig.
Councillors, 2d dist. 1 Wm. P. Murray . . . 421
( Isaac Van Etten . . . 481
B. W. Brunson . . 376
J. K. Humphrey . 237
Councillors, 4th dist . . Wm. Freeborn . ... · 462
Levi Sloan 404
Wm. Noot .390
B. Rogers .378
Wm. Davis 413
Louis Bartlett 425
Sheriff
Leonard 506
Register of Deeds .. . Louis M. Olivier . 548
Wm. H. Tinker 523
Fudge.of Probate .. . F. M. Stone 667
County Attorney D. C. Cooley. 600
County Treasurer. . A. L. Larpenteur . . 476
Surveyor . f. D. Case. .578
Jno. T. Halsted 570
F. E. Fullerton. .581
W. H. Stillman .560
Assessors
John O' Gorman ... .. 564
Caleb D. Dorr ... 570
Robert Cummings . . 590
Jas. R. Clewett . . ... 520
Those in italics elected.
Fustices of the Peace elected .- First Precinct, Joseph Lemay, D .; Second Precinct, N. Gibbs, D.
The total vote for Delegate in Saint Paul, was, H. M. RICE, 883 ; ALEX. WILKIN, 292. The vote in the Territory stood- RICE, 2,149 ; WILKIN, 696.
BRUTAL MURDER OF TWO MEN.
On December 26th, two young men, named JOHN CLARK and PHILIP HULL, were brutally murdered, on the corner of Robert and Fifth streets. They were respectable and intel- ligent mechanics, and had been, during the evening, sitting in a saloon near by, where, in conversation, they unintention- ally made some severe criticisms on political or religious sub- jects, which must have given great offense to some persons in their hearing. When they rose to go home, they were fol- lowed by parties unknown, and both attacked in the dark with slung-shots, or other weapons, and their skulls so severely fractured that they died in a few hours. The slightest clue to the assassins was never gained, notwithstanding the efforts of the officers, and a reward of $500 offered by Sheriff FRIDLEY ; and the affair remains a mystery to this day. Old settlers
D. B. Loomis . . 338
Dr. f. H. Day. .388
Representatives. ..
M. S. Wilkinson . 383 J. M. Marshall. 387 Find. McCormick . . 375 Alden Bryant. 383 A. M. Fridley. .650
Nat. E. Tyson . 497
Coroner Carey . .525
Benj. Gervais. 544
Allen Pierse. .486
D. A. Secombe. 537
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used to assert very positively, however, who committed the act, but no proof could ever be procured.
BALDWIN SCHOOL DEDICATED.
" Baldwin School" was an educational institute, organized by Rev. E. D. NEILL and others, and a commodious building was erected during the summer of 1853 for its use. This building was dedicated on December 29, by a banquet, at which addresses were made by Rev. E. D. NEILL, CHARLES J. HENNIS, WM. HOLLINSHEAD, W. A. GORMAN, JOHN P. OWENS, T. M. NEWSON, M. S. WILKINSON, Rev. T. R. CRESSEY, GEO. L. BECKER, W. G. LEDUC, and others. The name Baldwin School was given to it, as a compliment to Hon. MATTHEW W. BALDWIN, of Philadelphia, the principal donor to the building fund. It had, in January following, 71 pupils, and was in successful operation until the public schools of Saint Paul got well organized in 1857. During that year the building was rented for the Saint Paul post-office, and used as such until 1862. In 1864, it was leased by the Board of Education, and, in 1869, purchased by them, being still known as " Baldwin School." After being used as a school for three or four years, the completion of the Madison School rendered its further occupancy unnecessary, and it was leased to the city for public offices.
As a historical note on the growth of traveling, and the vivid contrast between " then" and " now," the Minnesotian, of December, 1853, has just heard of "sleeping cars, in which one may rest as comfortably as anywhere !" Then there was not a yard of railroad within 200 miles of Minne- sota. The papers that very month report the Chicago and Rock Island Railroad finished to within 50 miles of the Mis- sissippi River, where it rested for the winter, and was com- pleted the following spring. But of this anon.
Navigation closed this fall on November 22d, unusually late for those times. There were 235 arrivals this year.
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CHAPTER XXIV.
EVENTS OF THE YEAR 1854.
INCORPORATION OF THE CITY-THE FIRST CITY ELECTION-E. S. GOODRICH PUR- CHASES THE "PIONEER"-THE GREAT RAILROAD EXCURSION-BALL AND FES- TIVITIES AT THE CAPITOL-BURNING OF THE SINTOMINE HOTEL-EXTRAOR- DINARY BUFFALO HUNT-EXECUTION OF YU-HA-ZEE FOR MURDER.
T THE fifth session of the Minnesota Legislature assembled in the new Capitol for the first time. The year 1854 witnessed entirely new coalitions. Ramsey county was rep- resented this year by WM. P. MURRAY* and ISAAC VAN ET- TEN, t in the Council ; and WM. NOOT, WM. A. DAVIS, LOUIS BARTLETT, JOHN H. DAY, and LEVI SLOAN, in the House.
LEGISLATION AFFECTING SAINT PAUL.
Not much private legislation affecting Saint Paul was made during this session. Among the acts we notice the following : To incorporate the German Reading Society. Approved, February 23.
* Hon. WM. P. MURRAY was born in Hamilton, Ohio, June 21, 1827. He attended the law school of Indiana University, and graduated in 1849, having also previously studied for tliat profession. He came to Saint Paul in December, 1849, and is now one of the oldest lawyers in Minnesota. He has also filled a number of official positions. He was a member of the Territorial House of 1852 and 1853, Council in 1854 and 1855, (the latter year President) of the House of 1857, and Constitutional Convention the same year, member of the House in 1863, Senate in 1866 and 1867, House in 1868, and Senate again in 1875 and 1876-eleven sessions in all. He has also been a County Commis- sioner, and member of the City Council continuously since 1859, except about 18 months, while he was absent in South America. No man in our county has been so honored with positions of this kind as Mr. MURRAY, and, it may be said, no man has been niore faithful, attentive and hard-working as a legislator or alderman, than he, and fully deserves his remarkable popularity. In 1857, the now flourishing county of Murray was named for him.
t ISAAC VAN ETTEN was a native of Orange county, New York, and studied law with Judge WILKIN, father of Hon. W. WILKIN. He was admitted to the bar in 1851, and at once came to Minnesota. He was Adjutant General of the Territory front I852 to 1858-a member of the Territorial Council 1853 and 1854, and State Senate. 1857-8. He was a law partner for some time of Col. ALEX. WILKIN, and afterwards of MICHAEL E. AMES, and Capt. HARVEY OFFICER, until 1865, and subsequently of Judge L. EM- METT in 1872. He died December 29, 1873, aged 45 years.
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To incorporate a Chapter of Royal Arch Masons in Saint Paul. Approved, March 3.
To incorporate the Saint Paul Bridge Company. Approved, March 4.
But the most important law concerning our city was the
ACT OF INCORPORATION
of the "City of Saint Paul," approved March 4, 1854. The territory embraced in the corporate limits was but a small fraction of that ample territory to which it is now grown, be- ing not over 2,400 acres in all. Three wards were created. and much the same officers and general regulations that our present city charter provides for.
THE FIRST CITY ELECTION
under the new charter was held on April 4 .. The following was the result :
Democrat.
Whig.
For Mayor David Olmsted 269 W. R. Marshall 238 City Marshal W. R. Miller .262 A. H. Cavender ,24I Treasurer . D. L. Fuller. 224 D. Rohrer 271
Police Justice ... James Starkey 227 O. Simons. 248
Those in italics elected.
Aldermen elected .- First Ward, R. C. Knox, 2 years ; A. T. Chamb- lin and R. Marvin, I year. Second Ward, A. L. Larpenteur, 2 years ; T. Fanning and C. S. Cave, I year. Third Ward, Geo. L. Becker, 2 years; Jno. R. Irvine and J. M. Stone, I year.
Fustices of Peace elected .- First Ward, W. H. Tinker; Second Ward, Joseph Lemay ; Third Ward, J. M. Winslow.
Assessors elected .- First Ward, W. H. Tinker; Second Ward, W. H. Stillman ; Third Ward, H. Stillwell.
On Tuesday, April II, the City Council organized. They elected officers as follows: President, GEO. L. BECKER ; Clerk, SHERWOOD HOUGH ; Comptroller, FINDLEY McCOR- MICK ; Surveyor, S. P. FOLSOM ; Attorney, D. C. COOLEY.
THE SEASON OF 1854
was one of unprecedented prosperity for the young city, as well as for the entire Territory. Navigation opened on April 6 this year, and a heavy immigration poured in. The popu-
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lation and business of the city increased rapidly, and the county outside also received large accessions of population. Roads were opened; farms smiled in the wilderness ; the " squatter's cabin" was to be seen on every lake. Other por- tions of Minnesota were prospered as highly. Towns sprang up on every hand ; mills clattered by the waterfall ; the emi- grant wagon whitened every road, and hardly had the yell of the retreating red man died away, ere the settler's axe echoed in its stead.
E. S. GOODRICH PURCHASES THE " PIONEER."
Journalism in Saint Paul took a high bound forward this year. In March, EARLE S. GOODRICH* purchased of JOSEPH R. BROWN, the Minnesota Pioneer, and became its editor and publisher.
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Mr. GOODRICH had been engaged in journalism in Wiscon- sin, and, being in New York city in the latter part of February, 1854, fell in at the same hotel with Capt. ESTES, one of the pioneer steamboatmen of the Upper Mississippi. In the course of conversation, Capt. ESTES said he had just been up to Saint Paul, and had seen Jo. BROWN, who remarked he was anxious to sell out the Pioneer office, to go into some other business, and was then trying to find a suitable person to purchase, one who would edit an able paper, and build up the party in Min- nesota. " There, GOODRICH," said Capt. E., " there is a good field for you. The Pioneer is doing well, and Saint Paul is
*EARLE S. GOODRICH was born in Genesee county, New York, July 27, 1827. In early life he resolved to enter the editorial profession, and preliminary to that learned the printing business, and also studied law, being admitted to practice. He afterwards removed to Sheboygan, Wisconsin, where, in 1848, he established a campaign paper, which ran for some months. He was also elected Clerk of the Court, but resigned and removed to Green Bay. He was County Clerk of Brown county from 1850 to 1854, and one year District Attorney. In March, 1854, he settled in Saint Paul, and published the Pioneer with great success for over 10 years, winning the reputation of being the most graceful, elegant, and caustic editorial writer we have ever had in Minnesota. In 1862, while in Washington, he was tendered a commission as Captain and Aid to General MCCLELLAN, which he accepted, but was, by a blunder of STANTON'S, sent, instead, to the Shenandoah Valley, where he served some time, and was then ordered to Saint Paul. A disagreement with Gen. POPE, then in command here, led him to resign his commis- sion. In 1865, he purchased the Saint Paul Gas Company, which he controlled for two years. He soon after engaged in railroad construction, in which he has been interested most of the time since.
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a prosperous place, bound to grow, as also the Territory. You ought to go up there and buy the concern." Capt. E. urged the matter so strongly that (although Mr. GOODRICH
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had hardly spent a moment's thought on Saint Paul before that interview) he was quite in the notion of going. Hon. BEN. C. EASTMAN, a Member of Congress from Wisconsin, hap- pened to arrive at the hotel the same time, and he, too, urged
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Mr. GOODRICH to come, glowingly describing the prospects of success, and offering to give him letters of introduction to prominent men. The result was, that Mr. GOODRICH was en route for Saint Paul within 24 hours.
On arriving here, (March 4,) he at once called on JOSEPH R. BROWN, and found a letter, written by Mr. EASTMAN in advance. had already reached Major BROWN, and that the lat- ter had his mind made up to sell the Pioneer to Mr. GOOD- RICH. The bargain was quickly closed. and Mr. G. left for New York next day, to secure material for a daily paper, to be issued on May I.
The Democrat and the Minnesotian at once determined to follow suit, the former appearing on May 1, the same day as the Daily Pioneer, and the latter on May 12. On May 15, the Daily Times made its appearance, edited and published by THOMAS M. NEWSON, who had for a year or more been en- gaged as a writer on the Pioneer. With him was associated J. B. H. MITCHELL and M. J. CLUM. Mr. NEWSON subse- quently secured the interest of both these gentlemen, and con- tinued the Times, with much success. until 1861, when it was purchased by Hon. W. R. MARSHALL. as more fully men- tioned under that date.
THE GREAT RAILROAD EXCURSION.
Perhaps the most notable event of 1854, was . the Great Railroad Excursion." as it was generally termed. to celebrate the completion of the " Chicago and Rock Island Railroad." the first road to reach the Mississippi River in the Northwest. Messrs. SHEFFIELD & FARNHAM, the contractors who built the road. to commemorate the opening of that line, prepared a monster excursion. Nearly one thousand guests were in- vited, mostly from the east. They rendezvoused at Chicago. about June 3d, and excursed westward over the new road to Rock Island. where five large steamers conveyed them to Saint Paul, arriving here on the 8th. The company proceeded to Saint Anthony, Minnehaha, &c., in such conveyances as they could find. and in the evening a grand reception was given at the Capitol.
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The hall of the House of Representatives was used as a supper-room. while the Supreme Court chamber was appro- priated for a ball-room. In the Senate chamber, a large crowd assembled to listen to speeches from ex-President FILL- MORE, GEO. BANCROFT, the historian, Governor GORMAN, and a number of others. The music, dancing, feasting and speaking continued until midnight, the hour set for the depart- ure of the steamers. and the great excursion terminated.
The opening of this great line of travel largely increased the steamboat trade on the Upper Mississippi. The packet company put on three new and first-class packets this year.
BRIEF ITEMS.
September 6. CHARLES L. EMERSON succeeded DAVID OLMSTED, as publisher of the Democrat.
On June 26, W. W. HICKcox, a druggist, who was engaged in business in the well-known old brick drug store, so long occupied by DAY & JENKS, corner of Third and Cedar streets, had an altercation with a drayman, named PELTIER, in which the latter struck him with a dray-pin, fracturing his skull. HICKCOX died on July 3. PELTIER was arrested and tried for homicide, but ultimately got clear on the ground of self- defense.
The Sintomine Hotel, a large and fine frame structure, built · by N. W. KITTSON, near the corner of Sixth and John streets, was burned on October 3, just as it was completed, and ready to occupy. E. C. RICH and HOWARD WARD had just leased it. This was quite a loss to the town, which needed more hotel room.
The Winslow House had recently been got into running order by Capt. I. C. GEORGE, (who died in 1872,) and the In- ternational Hotel was about being put under contract. It was commenced this fall, (contract price, $75,000,) but not com- pleted for some two years.
THE COUNTY ELECTION
this fall occurred on October 10.
The following is a synopsis :
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Democrat.
Whig.
Reuben Haus. ... 463 J. E. Fullerton. .... 376
D. F. Brawley. . 461
Wm. Hollinshead. . 343
Representatives ....
C. S. Cave . . . . . . 459 Joseph Lemay . . . 430
Wm. H. Randall . 349
J. M. Marshall . . . 371
Wm. Davis ... .. 453
Findley McCormick 359 Abraham Bennett . . 1056 Richard Fewer .... 604
Co. Commissioner .. .. Joseph Le Bonn. 80
Fudge of Probate .. . W. H. Stillman . . 285 S. M. Tracy . . . . . 173
County Treasurer . . Louis Robert .... 564
Allen Pierse . . 576 Coroner Wm. H. Farvis . 342
Those in italics elected.
At this period, Saint Anthony, Rum River and Manomin, were the precincts outside of what is the present bounds of Ramsey county.
BRIEF MENTION.
The Democrat, of October 22, notes the rush of immigra- tion as follows: "Six steamboats arrived yesterday and landed about 600 passengers."
The currency which was chiefly in circulation those days, was mostly composed of " Indiana wild-cat," or free-bank issues. This fall it depreciated about as badly as the " Glen- coe" and " Owatonna" did in 1859, causing much trouble and loss to tradesmen. Several meetings of merchants were called to devise means to remedy the evil, which resulted in organ- izing a protective union under the name, " Board of Trade." W. R. MARSHALL, was President, THOS. FOSTER, Vice Pres- ident, SAM. W. WALKER, Secretary, and A. H. CATHCART,* Treasurer. It does not seem to have done much except take measures to remedy the currency fraud.
Navigation closed this fall on November 25th, the season having been unusually long, and a very prosperous one for
* ALEX. H. CATHCART is a native of Toronto, Canada, where he was educated and learned the dry goods business. He afterwards lived in Montreal and New York, and emigrated to Saint Paul in IS51. Soon after, with his brother, JOHN WILSON CATH- CART, he established here a dry goods store, now the oldest in Minnesota. For 24 years continuously, Mr. CATHCART has carried on that trade in our city, part of the time being the largest wholesale house in the State. J. W. CATHCART leased a plantation near Vicksburg during the war, and was killed by guerillas on April 11, 1864. He was a highly estimable and noble man.
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steamboatmen. The number of arrivals were 256, a large increase over former years.
THE FIRST EXECUTION IN RAMSEY COUNTY
took place on December 29. Yu-ha-zee, the Sioux Indian, mentioned on page 331, was, after much delays of law, hung in public, on a gallows erected on Saint Anthony hill. The execution was witnessed by a large crowd, who, according to the journals of the day, looked on it more as a joke than as a . solemn act of justice.
NECROLOGY OF THE YEAR.
Died, January 8, JOHN G. COOLEY, a merchant of the city ; July 10, Col. DANIEL H. DUSTIN, United States District At- torney ; July 27, C. D. FILLMORE, brother of the ex-President ; ·November 22, Hon. LEVI SLOAN, merchant and member of Legislature of 1854.
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CHAPTER XXV.
EVENTS OF THE YEAR 1855.
THE THIRD HOUSE, OR "SOVEREIGNS"-MAILS-STAGE AND EXPRESS ITEMS-BIRTH OF OUR FIRE DEPARTMENT-THE PIONEER HOOK AND LADDER COMPANY- IMMIGRATION-THE REAL ESTATE MANIA-POLITICAL MATTERS, &C., &C.
T HE Legislature of 1855 assembled on January 3. Ram- sey county, this year, was represented by WILLIAM P. MURRAY and ISAAC VAN ETTEN, in the Council, and WM. A. DAVIS, D. F. BRAWLEY, CHAS. S. CAVE, REUBEN HAUS and JOSEPH LEMAY, in the House. No unusual or noticeable events characterized the session. Some local legislation affect- ing Saint Paul. amending its charter, &c., was passed, but scarcely worthy of notice here.
It was, during this year. if we remember right, that some of the boys organized the "Third House" or Sovereigns, as a burlesque on the Legislatures of that day. They were con- tinued several years. and produced great amusement.' D. C. COOLEY, was Governor, and his " messages" were admirable specimens of sarcasm.
This winter there was only a tri-weekly mail between Saint Paul and Dubuque, by M. O. WALKER's line of stages. Those who remember the M. O. WALKER era of staging, have no very pleasant reminiscences concerning it. The stages were anything but commodious, and, with spavined stock and surly drivers, intensified the horrors of a winter trip to Galena, the nearest point where the eastern-bound traveler could strike a railroad. The trip was advertised for four days, but fre- quently took six. Storms and drifts on the prairies often snowed up the stages at some frontiersman's cabin for two or three days, and not unseldom was real suffering and privation the consequence.
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BIRTH OF OUR FIRE DEPARTMENT.
On March 1, 1855, our Fire Department was organized, by the formation of the Pioneer Hook and Ladder Company, with 28 members. A subscription was raised to purchase a hook and ladder wagon. One which had been used by a company in Philadelphia was purchased, and brought out. It was used by the hook and ladder company up to within a year or two, and did good service. A small fire engine was also purchased by several citizens, and was for several years the only engine in use.
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THE CITY ELECTION
took place on April 3d, resulting as follows :
Mayor. . . . Alexander Ramsey. .552 James Starkey 256
Treasurer .. . Daniel Rohrer · 494 Louis Demeules. 312
Marshal .. . W. R: Miller 564 John Trower .237 Those in italics elected.
Aldermen elected .- First Ward, Wm. H. Nobles, C. H. Schurmeier ; Second Ward, C. S. Cave, A. L. Larpenteur; Third Ward, J. R. Ir- vine, A. G. Fuller.
The total number of votes cast at the election was 809, from which the newspapers claimed 5,000 population for Saint Paul, but. in point of fact, it was much less than that.
IMMIGRATION, IMPROVEMENTS, ETC.
Navigation opened on April 17, the old favorite " War Eagle" leading the van, with 814 passengers. The papers chronicle the immigration that spring as unprecedented. Sev- en boats arrived in one day, each having brought to Minnesota 200 to 600 passengers. Most of these came through to Saint Paul, and diverged hence to other parts of the Territory. It was estimated by the packet company that they brought 30,000 immigrants into Minnesota that season. Certainly, 1855, 1856 and 1857 were the three great years of immigration in our Territorial days. Nothing like it has been seen since.
With such a human flood pouring into and through it, Saint Paul was a busy place. The hotels and boarding houses were crowded, the stage lines worked night and day, people even
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camping on the streets, stores doing a perfect rush of business. livery stables coining money, saloons reaping brisk profits, real estate dealers fairly ecstatic, and mechanics not half able to keep up with the work pressing upon them. Perhaps not a city on the continent, the size of Saint Paul, was such a bustling bee-hive as it was that season. The fever of real estate speculation, which before was but feebly developed, this season seemed to attack all classes, and began to grow into the mania which a few months later almost rendered Saint Paul a by-word.
THE REAL ESTATE MANIA.
In some sense the real estate mania this year was excusable and natural, in view of the enormous and rapid profits made by shrewd and daring operators. For instance, the papers chronicle one movement made by HENRY MCKENTY, the king of real estate dealers, and who was on the flood-tide of prosper- ity during 1855, 1856 and 1857. In 1854, he entered several thousand acres of prairie farming land in Washington county. by land warrants, at $1.25 per acre. In the spring of 1855, he sold the same land to a colony from Pennsylvania, at $5 per acre, clearing 300 per cent. His total net profits on this trans- action was $23,000, which he at once invested in more land. on which he in turn made almost as great profits.
Right here the author will be pardoned for giving an inci- dent of those days which well illustrates the profits of real estate dealers. PENNOCK PUSEY, Esq., our plain and sober- going friend, came to Saint Paul from Philadelphia in 1855, and got acquainted with McKENTY, who startled him one day by offering him three and one-half per cent. a month, or 42 per per cent. annum, for the use of some money Mr. PUSEY had. This seemed such an enormous premium to the latter gentle- man. who had come from a region where six and seven per cent. is the established rate, that he declined the offer on the ground that MCKENTY could not afford to pay it, and that it would be wrong to accept such an usurious rate. McKENTY soon demonstrated, however, that he would make large profits if he could get the money, and hence could pay the rate men-
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tioned without trouble. The loan was made. McKENTY entered some large tracts of land in Cottage Grove, at $1.25 an acre, and within a year Mr. PUSEY himself bought a part of the lands, and gave McKENTY $2.50 an acre for it ! Thus. while Mr. PUSEY made 42 per cent. on his money, McKENTY cleared 58 per cent. over and above that amount off' of the lender ! Mr. PUSEY afterwards sold the land to O. DALRYM- PLE at $15 per acre, as part of his famous wheat farms.
ITEMS.
The census of 1855 was announced in the papers, as fol- lows : Population of the Territory, 53,600 ; of Ramsey coun- ty, 9,475 ; of Saint Paul, 4,716.
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