The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1852-10-23

WERE III stTcpt. us III WAS Ilicn
y stranger who gave his name as Smith, inquir-
ing for the residence of an acquaintance on
Pine street, two well dressed gentlemen under
took to conduct him thithcr but, instead of
stopping at the house. they went out Pine street,
between Seventh and Eighth when they turned
off in the direction Of the lumber yard The
victim seemed reluctant to 60 offering some
resistance, and keeping has hand upon his pock-
ct, as to protect his money. Finally. one Of
them went ahead. and the others followed him
among the piles of boards. There they attack
ed and beat him. and robbed him of his money!
amounting to about eli ht hundred dollars
When he recovered from the stunning effects Of
the blows inflicted upon him, the robbers had
made their escape. The facts were made
known at the police office, but up to late hour
no discovery had been made of the robbers
Mo. Rep.
Coy. Slade is in the city, on his return from
Western mission, locating teachers. The
twelfth class of teachers recently graduated,
making some 300 young ladies in all, who have
devoted themselves to instructng = the young
idea how to shoot in the West, under the
benevolent auspices of Gov. Slade and the Ma
tional Society Three teachers were sent to
California in the spring all worth their weight
in gold to the vigorous young State-Chre.
Herald.
| RAPID INCREASE-The enumeration of the in
habitants of Davenport Iowa, just completed
| by the county assessors, shows population OF
upwards of 3,4OO. At the United States CEN
slls of 1850, the same town only numbered LOO
inhabitants. Thus the population has doubled
in the short period of two years.
The completion of the subtcrrancan electric
telegraph between Naples and Gacta (abOut
forty miles, is a rare mark of progress i'm that
part of Italy. The wires are covered with
gutta percha, and it is the longest wire ever
constructed in this way. Steam and electricity
are probably the predestincd agent of a new
awakening among the dry bones of the old
world Switzerland has jaet agreed to bring
its tclegraphc lines into connection with those
of Sardinia. So that by the 10Th of October We
are to have at Genoa Geographic cOmmunica-
ton with Switzerland, Germany. France and
England The light is spreading, and its beams
must soon be difluscd over the whole conti-
nent
| ELI NICHoIS.-This gentleman, who is one of
the fathers of the Liberty and Frccsoil move
mcnt. has like Il sensible man. in letter to
| Hon. ID. II. Tldcn, of Cleveland. avOwed his in
| tcnton to give his vote for Scott and Graham.
He says, speaking of Gen. Scott: .:Taken by
himselt-take his life as it is publicly known. and
there is little to object to Gen. Scott. Mr.. Mich
OILS has 2cted like practical man. He knows
Hale has no chance of being elected and be-
tween Scott and Pierce he has no difficulty in
making his choice-he goes for Scott.-Spring-
feid Repub.
! ATTEMPT TO AsSAssINATE LOr!s NAPO!.EON.--
! On the 18th inst, an internal machine, designed
| to assassinate the President, had been seized at
Marseillcs. 1t was reported about that another
was yet concealed AcOaspiracy to murder the
| President was believed to have extended thrO'-
! ont the province of Var, and was set on foot by
the Piedmontcse and Socialists. One hundred
well known and violent Socialists had been ar
rested.
The machine composed of $50 gun barrels.
| loaded with 1900 bullets. besides blunderbus-
SEES similarly charged with grape shot. This
battery if fired during the passage of the pro-
cession, would have completely swept away the
President and his attendants. Many of the con
spirators were arrested. The plot concoctcd by
Il secret society, had long been watched by the
police.
A SrrMPER-Thc old IIunkcrs OF Hamilton
county are down hard on Tim Day and others for
boiling the regular nominated Locofoco ticket
in that county. Day comes out in defence. and
appeals to the course of Frank Pierce when
Atwood was Nominated for Governor. Pierce
refused to support Atwood, and had another con
venton called, and another ticket nominated
Day demands that a similar course be pursued
in Hamilton cOunty-that a new Convention
be called. and other nominations made. If the
leading LocOtocos assent to this proposition, they
condemn thcmselvcs-if they do not they con
denim the course of Pierce.
THROUGH IN FIVE DAYS We observe by the
st. Louis papers that passengers may now be ia
ken through from that city to New York i'm five
days-the winter arrangement being rs follows:
by steamboat to Alton by railroad TO Sring-
field: by stage and steamboat to Lasalle ; by
stage and railroad via Aurora to Chicago: thence
by Central Railroad, Lake steamers and n Y.
railroads.
GOODS FOR THE WEsT.-It il ASTONISHING to see
hn ln.
day on the Galena Railroad for Western mer-
chants. You will see boxes marked. not only for
towns from 20 to 80 miles on each side of the
road, but large numbers for Galcna, Dubnnue
st. Paul. and all the towns the Upper Miss
sisSippi. The Dubuque papers inform us that all
the goods for that city and towns adjacant. will
this fall he shipped by this road, and cartcd by
teams from Rockford to the Mississippi-[Chi
Democrat.
:, The Railroad Journal expresses the opinion
that the work of constructing tunnel under the
Hudson river at Albany, will soon I've commcnc-
ed. The proposition is, to eycavate a trench in
the bed of the river of sufficient depth to admit
OF the construction of an arch. of a capacity to
allow the passage of railroad trains. The wat
er is to he kept out Of the trench while the
work Is IN progress, by the use of Golfer dams
1t is believed that there are no serious ol,sta-
Giles to the execution of the proposed work.
and that it can be done at moderate expense
Several kegs marked Lard but found to
contain spirits, were lately seized i'm Proy-
dcnce. a communication from Mrs. Parting
ton, through medium" says: "This is
rendering unto ,eizcr the things that are sciz-
ers
At Iowa City there is Scott Club which has,
Ex-Governor Lucas for its President. and Mai
DE Forrest, who was Chairman of the Polk pl0-
rlf!catiOn meeting in 1914, for its Vice Presi-
dent.
Isaac Hill, one of the Irish prisoners rescued
by the iirmncss of Gen. Scott from British cru
city in 1872. is now stamping in Ohio for his
friend of forty years ago
Nor BAD JOKE.-Thc Natchez Courier saws
that recently, in that city, a democratic speak
er mistook Hon. W. r. King for the whie candi.