9, p. 26; _Post Returns_, July, 1827, in the archives of
the War Department, Washington, D. C.

[254] _Minnesota Historical Collections_, Vol. VI, p. 340.

[255] _Minnesota Historical Collections_, Vol. VIII, p. 432.

[256] _Minnesota Historical Collections_, Vol. II, p. 115.

[257] Joseph M. Street to Postmaster General Barry, April 27,
1831.--_Street Papers_, No. 15, Historical Department, Des Moines, Iowa.

[258] Williams's _A History of the City of Saint Paul_, p. 44.

[259] _Proceedings of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin_, 1913,
pp. 116, 117.

[260] _Taliaferro's Diary_, April 2, 5, 10, February 27, 1831.

[261] Street to Clark, March 10, 1831.--_William Clark Papers,
Correspondence, 1830-1832_, p. 132; _Post Returns_, March, 1830. See
also _Post Returns_, December, 1829, December, 1830, in the archives of
the War Department, Washington, D. C.

[262] _Minnesota Historical Collections_, Vol. VI, p. 342.

[263] _Reports of Committees_, 1st Session, 35th Congress, Vol. II,
Report No. 351, p. 131.

[264] _Minnesota Historical Collections_, Vol. VI, p. 342.

[265] _Minnesota Historical Collections_, Vol. II, p. 130. "Monsieur
Tonson" was a very popular farce written by W. T. Moncrief in 1821. The
French barber, Morbleu, is greatly troubled by a steady stream of
visitors who come to make inquiries regarding a certain fictitious Mr.
Thompson, hoping thereby to gain information regarding Adolphine de
Courcy who has been traced to his door.--Walsh's _Heroes and Heroines of
Fiction_, p. 360.

[266] _Taliaferro's Diary_, January 20, February 22, 1831.

[267] Snelling to Taliaferro, October 19, July 25, 1824.--_Taliaferro
Letters_, Vol. I, Nos. 50, 56.

[268] _The Minnesota Pioneer_, November 28, 1849.

[269] _Taliaferro's Diary_, February 10, 11, 24, 1831.

[270] George F. Turner to H. H. Sibley, February 11, 1842.--_Sibley
Papers, 1840-1850_.

[271] Taliaferro to Street, March 30, 1831.--_Street Papers_, No. 12.

[272] _Minnesota Historical Collections_, Vol. VI, p. 100.

[273] _Minnesota Historical Collections_, Vol. II, p. 112.

[274] Neill's _The History of Minnesota_ (Fourth Edition), p. 920.
General Edmund P. Gaines inspected the post shortly afterwards and
reported: "From a conversation with the colonel, I can have no doubt
that he has erred in the course pursued by him in reference to some of
those controversies, inasmuch as he has intimated to his officers his
willingness to sancti