The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1852-11-20


ing. A well-dressed, intelligent looking man
sent dispatch to Cleveland by the O'Reilly
Line, and about half an hour afterwards called
at the office for an answer, when the following
cOllOquy ensued:
Stranger-Have you an answer vet to nv
dispatch?
Green-No sir.
Stranger-Well, I'm stopping at the TOWN.
send House, and am going out in the Arrow.
tonight; SO If an answer comes, before I 90.
you may open and read 1t, and then send it
up to me!
Green didn't tell us the rest of the story.
INTERVIEW BETWEEN THE SECRETARY OF THE
NAVY AND CAPT. PORTER.-Washington Oct. 23.
- Lieutenant Porter had an interview with the
Secretary of the Navy yesterday. He was trea-
ted with great kindness. The views of the Gov
eminent were laid down, and he will be expect
ed to govern himself accordingly. He will not
return to the Crescent City, but will resume the
command of the Georgia. The Navy Depart
ment has no control over the former vessel,
while the Georgia to which Capt. Porter is at
tachcd, and from which he was merely tempo
rally absent, is under the orders of the Depart
ment. 1t is considered proper that officers of the
Navy should only be attached to such ships as
are at the disposal ofthe Secretary ofthe Navy
nearly all the mail steamers being in that
category.
VERDICT AGAINST THE BALTIMORE AND OHIO
RAILROAD COMPANY.-We learn from the Mar
tlnsburgtVa) Gazette that on Saturday evening
the Jury in the Circuit Court at that place. in a
case in which man named Piper was plaintiff
and the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company
defendants. rendered virdict of $4,000 DANA
ges for the former. 1t was an action for injuries
sustained by the plaintiff some four or five years
ago, from the breaking of train near Hedges
vile depot. A large number of witnesses we're
o1 hot ciI ,rl 4Io &,.ol
three days. The virdict however. at the ms
lance &C the defendants, was set aside, and
new trial granted.
The preparations for the departure of the fleet
for Japan are going on rapidly. and the line-of.
battle ship Vermont, sloop-Ofwar, and the ra-
zee Macedonian, have been added to the num-
Der of vessels already fitted out. The place of
rendezvous for the expedition is Annapolis
.Ntac York Post
Ice FOR CAIIFoRNIA.-A ship which cleared at
Boston on Tuesday, for California, had on board
a cargo of upwards of nine hundred tons of ice
the largest cargo ever shipped around Cane
Horn or Cape of Good Hope. At San Francis
co, on the 18th September there was no ice
and for its substitute, snow brought down from
the Sierra Nevada mountains, the saloon-keep-
ers were paying eight dollars per hundred
pounds.
THE LAST OF BRADY's IERoEs.-On the goth
ult., died in Mansfield Ohio, the last of the GAL
liant band known as "Brady's Spies'' JAMES
COULTER in the nth year of his age.-C1eve.
Herald.
The $50 Bank bills on the Bank of Tennessee,
are MANY of them counterfeit. The shading of
the letter in the words Bank of Tennessee"
in large letters across the face of the bill, is
much lighter than in the genuine bills.
Some improvements in the locomotive by Mr.
VIM. d. Arnett, Of Iowa--adapting it to common
Or plank roads, in such way not to injure
the roads, are spoken favorably Of by the Ma
tional Intelligencer. Mr.. A. also afXes a steer
ing apparatus to the engine, which moves by
the turning of windlass.
SELLING R0AD.--All the interest of the Ma
tional Road, owned by the State of Indiana,
some twenty-sevcn miles. was sold by the State
Auditor last week, for $3.50. The State has
thus disposed Of her last interest in any public
Improvement.
a long, lank, bony specimen of humanity.
who looks as if he had fought hears and wild
cats all his natural life. but withal right down
wbolesouled clever fellow. well acquainted
with varniiIts AID rcil.is their maneuNers like
book, says we are to have high water this win
ter. The muskrats down his way told him so:
and we believe it. These far-seeing individuals
are constructing their winter quarters high up
At the Congregational Convention which as
sembled at Albany on the 9Th ult., a resolution
was adopted for taking up collection on the
first Sunday of January. in all the Congreca-
tional Churches in the United States. the pro-
ceeds ofwhch were voted to be devoted to the
building of Churches in the West.
UNPARALLELED IMMGRArIoH-For weeks past
hundreds upon hundreds of immigrant wagons
have crossed the Mississippi at this place. each
one containing, besides the heads Of families
the usual number of little white heads from
Hoosierdom and the Sucker State-and all of
whom arc bound for a new home on the fertile
plains of Iowa. The numbers, thus far. are not
known to u.s. but from observation. and from
information obtained from Others we are salts
fed that the newcomers greatly exceed those of
any preceding season. Let them come-tberc
Is room yet Tor more upon the rich broad acres
OF nclc Sam which lie scattered and unteuant-
ed within our wide bounds, and which offer tho
hnest homes IN ChrstcndOm to such as possess
energy. enterprise and good habits No other
capital is needed to lay the foundation for n
competency and ultimate wealth among us
burlington Telegraph.
The following was the vote in the Court of
Bishops. on dsmissing the presentmcnt of Bish-
op Doane:
Yeas.-Bishops Chase, On. HD: Wbittnoton
(Md) Delaney, West n ": Upford. Gndl Y:
Ruticdgc. (Fia.) Kcmpcr, (N. W. DIOCESE: Nc
Coskey, CMich.l and Green. (Missi-S
.Nays.--Bishops Eastburn. (NIass.) HOPKINS.
Vt): Potter (PaD Lee, (Dcl.) Johns, VA:
and Smith, (Ky.)--G. '
The three prosecuting Bishops may be consid
cred as concurring with the minority, but they
were not entitled to vote
a LUMP OF GoLD.-A Texan miner. lately re-
turned from the neighborhood of San Francisco
has deposited in New York house. solid
rough lump of California gold weighing TWENTY
six and half pounds avordupois, dug by him
from NINE sixty or seventy feet deep. The
yield at this mine averaged about three nor
cent. of quartz. 1t is said that the lucky .:dip.
GER was offered ten thousand dollars for the
lump previous to his departure from San Fran
cisco.
The DARIEN SHIP CANAL.--It is said the pro-
posed ship canal across the Isthmns of narien