The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1852-11-06
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TIE PROPOSED NATIONAL SHIT RAce.-Tb.
challenge offered by the American Navigation
Tub to all England, is not yet accepted. The
conditions Of the contest were. that the two ships
should be modelled, commanded, and Differed
entirely by citizens Of the United States and
Great Britain respectively and that they should
sail. with cargo on board from q port 10 Eng
land TO port in China aud back to the English
port, the prize TO the winning vessel to be 9lO,.
600, and to be paid without regard to accidents,
or 10 any exceptions 1t was also stipulation
that the vessels were not to be under 800 tone
nor over l2OO tons. American Register The
Americans reserved the privilege of withdraw
ing the Challenge if it was not accepted within
'hirty days. That time is nearly up. but as q
SOFT OF Increment to British builders the presi-
dent OF the American Navigation Club Mr.. d. :
D. Bacon, is authorized should the present chsl-
ienge not be accepted within the thirty days, to
allow the British vessel start of fourteen days
before the departure Of the American craft. AMI
also to allow crew picked from seamen expc-
rlenced in voyaging between English and Chi.
ncse ports while their crew is to be composed Of
american seamcn and officers whose experience
IS limited to sailing between American and Eng
lish ports. The Americans. under the new con.
dltions, arc wiling TO augment the stake to
700, or to any higher sum than the fl0000
of the present conditions most agreeable 10 the
English, but the last named amount to be the
minimum.
The WRECK OF TIE ATIANTIc.-The wreck OF
the Atlantic, on Lake Erie has not vet been
raised. The Oswego Journal says that Mr.,
Green is now constructing in Buffalo, a new
submarine armor. which will enable him, il
necessary, to remain under water two hours. at
the depth of the wreck. 1904 feet, which will
avoid the repetition of frequent ascents The
same paper adds the following interesting facts:
"Mons. Maillefort has made some curious ex-
perlments to ascertain the pressure of the water
at the depth Of l60feet. An empty junk bottle,
corked and sealed air-tight, sunk beneath the
surface at the above depth for seven minutes,
takes IN. hy some phenomena unexplained, q
large quantity of water. a piece of iron, at
tached to scale by piece of wire, weighing
IL pounds: sunk the same depth loses pounds
and ounce. One may Judge from this. the
pressure sustained by human being at the
same depth. Mr.. G. is sanguine that lie can at
tach fastenings to the wreck by which it can he
raised. The diving Of 1909 feet below the sur
face is the greatest performance on record by Sc
feet"
The Norfolk (Va.) Herald gives the following
incident relative TO an old house recently pulled
Gown in that city: 4" In this house shocking
tragedy occurred in 1906 Two gamblers BROTH
ers, OF the name of Daving, rented the third
story for The purpose of keeping faro table
One night, an Italian, whose name We believe
was Colmini, {CoalmBer. as he was commonly
called,) visited the establishment, and meeting
with extraordinary luck, finally broke the hank.
The Davings. and another of their fraternity.
charged him ". .th cheating he protested his in
nOcence, hut it was to no purpose. They at
tempted to seize him, but he broke from them.
and fled down the narrow dark stairway, all
three in close pursuit. On the second landing,
he stepped aside unpcrceived and as each pass-
cd him on the right, in the dark he gave them
fatal stab with stilet0 on the left side and q
push down the next fight. The two Davings
were mortally wounded, and died within TWEEN
ty-fOur hours: their companion fingered sever
| al weeks, and died also. The Italian escaped"
! Polish HERoIsN--At the storming Of War
saw. tho principal battery only dafande3
by two battalions, but WITH such bravery as his
| tory can hardly parallel When it was evident
that it cOnld no longer hold out. several prvates
Ofthe artillery seatet themselves on powder bar
rels and blew themselves up. But the conduct
of Gen. Sowinski was truly heroic; having lost
one foot he was at his earnest request seated
on chair and placed on the alter of the desper-
ately defended church, where he continued 10
give orders until the last of his comrades were
cut down. when drawing forth two pistols he
with one shot a Russian who was rushing upon
him and with the exclamation" So dies PO-
lish General !" fired the other into his own heart.
Capt. William X. Latmcr, Of the L. S. Navy,
Maj William II. Chase. Brevet Major J. G. Bar
nard and Brevet Major =. 6. 7. Beauregard, Of
the Corps of Engineers, have been constituted
Board by the War Department to make an ex-
animation Of the mouth Of the Mississippi, with
a view to determine the most convenient pass
leading into the Gulf of Mexico. through which
a ship canal of sufficient capacity to accOmmo-
date the wants of commerce can be opened, and
to report upon other wants In relation thereto.
It is expected that five hundred laborcrs will
arrive here by the first proximo, to commence
grading the Hannibal and St. Joseph Railroad.
Tne surveying party have extended some dis
tance beyond Palmyra, and are pushing ahead.
fnely.-HannibaI Messenger.
A CoNTRIBUrION FROM THE TURKs.-His Impe-
rial Majesty, Sultan Abdal Mild, intmatee,
through the U. S. Legation at Constantinople,
q wish to contribute block of marble to the
Washington Monument, from Byzantium, the
most ancient of Republics, and from the city Of
Constantine, as an offering from the successor
of the Mahomedan caliphs and the Ottoman sui
tans. The offer Of the Sultan, it is said, will be
accepted.
A great scarcity of printing paper prevails in
California, and has lasted several months. The
papers are printed on all sorts of material, some
of it mere brown wrapping paper.
GREAT SPEED-The new Milwaukee built To-
comotive .Men0nonee was put tOits PAGES yester-
day morning on the track between here and wau-
kesha and ran fourteen miles in t,reioe minutes.
That will do!
Seventy miles an Hour is pretty good trav.
eling-.Mil,Daukee Seminal.
THE WASHINGTON MoNUMENT-The block OF
marble from Texas has been received. Califor-
MIA is about to send three blocks the one pre-
viously sent not being deemed of sufficient mag
nitude and beauty. The one from Texas COM
pletes the States Of the Union.
A BoSAPARrE IN I.uCK.-Prnce Lucien Bona
parte has just had the good fortune to break the
bank at the noted German gaming place: LON
berg. He won 100000 francs, OF sso,ooV-
rather q weak bank.
Gov. HINT has appointed Nov. 25th, (Evacu-
alton Day) as Thanksgiving Day for the Empire
| State.
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