The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1852-10-09

BURIED ALIvE.-The Wheeling Times of Sat-
urday, gives the following melancholy account
of burial:
An Irishman. who had suddenly died on the
railroad, about Is miles below this city, was
brought here for interment in the new Catholic
burial ground on Tuesday last Upon taking
the coffin out of the wagon, Mr.. Fitzimmons.
who happened TO be present, complmented the
cabinet maker for his skill in the manufacture
of receptacles for the dead, and then proceeded.
without any ceremony to lower the body into
the grave. After this was done they walked
away, leaving the filling up to subordinate.
who, after throwing in a few shovcls of earth.
was alarmed by singular noise, as of kicking
and struggling in the coffin, so that he ran away
Coming up with Mr.. F. he told what he had
heard, and both Immediately returned, raised
and opened the coffin, and found the man turn
ed on his face, and his person warm. The pro-
liability is, that had the coffin been opened when
the commOtion was first heard, the man might
have been saved. and that he died from sutgoca-
tion. This is an absolute fact. and can be estab-
lished by the testimony of ofeyewitnesses.
A letter from Lake Superior says that
wooden skiff was lately found twenty feet below
the surface, upon which was resting mass of
copper weighing more than five tons. Two
copper tools and several hammers of stone to-
gether with coal and ashes from wood were w.
ing around it, as fresh to all appearance as
though they had been made last year. and vet
there was six feet vegetable soil above them,
which on being taken out proved to be at least
five hundred years old.
The CONTEST IN MiCHiGAN.-The friends of
Scott and Graham are working with will and
with strong expectations of redeeming the State.
Scott leads the column" of the masses, and
in all portions of the State the people are rally
ing to his standard. Mr. Chandler. the Whig
nominee for Governor, is stumping the State
with fine effect and George Dawson, Esq, of
the Albany Evening Journal has been rousing
the Wolverines on his old stamping ground
The Locos are alarmed, and have brought out
Cass, Douglas and Weller to arrest, if possible,
the popular current setting for the Peoples
candidate. The trio made speeches in Detroit
on Wednesday, and Chandler, Dawson and How
ard were to answer them last evening The
Whig meetings in all sections of Michigan are
numerously attended, and the ground swell
which swept over the peninsula in 1910 is evil
IDENTIFY again rising-Cleueiand Herald.
PITTSBURGH Mass CONvENrIoN.-The Frontier
Convention for Western Pennsylvania, held at
Pittsburgh, on the 23d, was an enthusiastic
gathering of the friends of Scott and Graham.
The Hon. Thomas NJ. Howe, presided. among
the Vice Presidents, was the venerable General
joseph Markle. ne aSSeIuDuSe was ScI ioi &c
and speeches were made by Messrs Howe, Gen.
Combs, Judge Conrad, Gov. Johnston, and Nc
Knight. One thousand delegates were present
from Westmoreland county. In the evening,
another large and enthusiastic meeting was
held, which was addressed by Prof Fitzgerald,
of Cleveland, and others. The Gazette says
aAn the speeches were good, excellent. The
speech of Prof Fitsgerald was one continued
burst of glowing Irish eloquence, clothed in
beautiful language, ornamented with fine i'm
agery, and breathing the most fervent patriot
ism and love of liberty. His words fairly burnt
into the hearts of his audience, and when he
closed they gave him three cheers with hearty
good will"
Miss Catharinc Hays has entered into an en-
gagement with Barnum to give sixty concerts
in California, Mexico, Cuba and British North
America, under his engagement. He gives her
the round sum of $4,000, and one half the
profits derivable from the cngagement-he bear
ing all the expenses Of the engagement. they
sail for Cuba in November.