The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1852-11-13
NEWS SUMMARY.

The N. Y. Tribune says that the line hereto
fore known as the O'Reilly and the Morse West
ern have united under the management OF j. d.
Reid ESQ.,. and through his untirng energy and
well directed efforts, and those OF his attentive
assistants, the Press, and the public are now
served with promptness and regularity.
A female horse thief was arrested in N. York,
a day or two since. While she had the team
a doctors horse and gig-she contrived to get
: run over by q train of cars, and came near los
ing her life.
The Court of Appeals of New York has decid-
ed that the Art Union is a lottery, and there
fore illegal. Its funds. amounting to about one
hundred thousand dollars. are declared to be-
: long to its subscribers. The decision does not
affect the right of property drawn pictures.
The owner Of the yacht America has chal-
lenged the yachts of all nations except America
to sail for $500 or $1,000.
The Dublin Freeman publishes the following
extract of a letter from w. S. O'Bren. in which
he says. Il am in good health, but my existence
here is weary fiat. stale and Improbable, bar
rem in regard of present enjoyment; still more
barren in regard of hope for the future. Never
theless. / endure with unrepining patience, con
tent to wat for such changes in my destiny .as
the progress of events and the will Of God may
evolve"
The Tallahassee Flordan in speaking of the
late gale in Florida. says The accounts from
the country are awful and appall ng; we have
not heard from a solitary plantat' on which has
not suffered to the amount of thousands. Some
planters have lost Their entire crop of COTTON
We suppose that in this county alone half nil
lion La been lost in cotton to say nothing of
the negro houses blown down. the fences pros
tratcd and the t:ml er destroyed. On TIL tur
pentine plantat ons the number of trees blown
down is greater than was ever caused by any
storm which has heretofore visited this sect on
of country
The force nnder the command of Commodore
Perry, for Japan. will. including Commodore
Ringgold's surveying squadron, exceed 5000
men and $50 guns. and it is believed that every
ship that can be fitted out under the appropr.a
tons for 1928 will be adoat
The failure Of the vintage resulting from the
recent Light upon the grape. has produced the
I greatest distress among the inhabitants of Ma
de'ri. and threatens with absolute starvation
large masses of the laboring classes. Ribe 70,
the civil governor of the island has issued ac r
cular, acknowledging the impotence of the Por
tnguese government to meet the emergency
with anything like adequate relief. and appeal
ing to the Christian sympathies of foreign ma
tons for aid to avert the impending calamity.
The arrivals of gold in England from Austral-
ia are large One ship. the Midway. carried in
Sl350, 900. and several smaller sums are r, port
ed by othcr vessels. in all. $4,000 600 in SIM
gle week. During the same week. 81 .355.0G0
arrived from the West Indies, and $4,000
from New York.
4 boy was recently killed in Cleveland by
eating too many chesnuts. Another case has
occurred in Cincinnati The Commercial says
these two instances should serve as a warning
To bn fl,,1r in hn in nfc bnc
nuts. than which. in raw state. as usually sold
in our markets. nothing can be more injur. Gus
and attended with greater danger when taken
into the stomach in large quantities"
A ROYAL CIArM-AIl the papers for a ella m
of land have lately been fled with tle Land
{ Commissioner in California. covering four hun
bred square leagues of land, $1,000 square
, miles) to be located on the west bank of Sacra-
mento river. extending from Puta Creek to a
point above Shasta city. and reaching back to
; Clear Lake and the Coast Range. The tract
specified includes nearly all of Shasta, Colusi
, and Yolo counties. The claimants are the heirs
of Augustin de Iturbidc. the first Emperor OF
Mexico. who was once Ianishcd. returned with
military expedition and was taken and shot
Park Benjamin. literary celebrity, is lectur-
ing in Ca cagO on matters and things in general
and Matrimony in particular.
The work on The New York Crystal Palace is
going steadily forward. The mason work is
more than halt DONE the iron contracts princi-
pally made. and the chief part of the castings
will be delivered by the 18th of November.
BY the census taken. Ohio City numbers =
: AGA souls. an increase of 5000 over the census
: of 1850. The increase in h,cacO is still great
CT, and will show population o. but little less
l than $4,000.
Sewing machines threaten to effect com
! III, nt,,f:n
. tons About five hundred are now in opera
on in this country. and they are ordered from
the manufacture rs faster than they can he sup
piled. They are now adapted to sewing boots
and shoes.
S5.7.O4S in silver have been coined at the
+ Phi ladelph:a Mint between January and Sep
TENDER.
About six hundred thousand dollars have
/ been subscribed to the Pittsburgh and Ere
r Railroad.
5 Gov. Wood of Ohio. has appointed the annu-
al Thanksgiving for Thur, day, November 18Th
The tine is fixed hy arrangement with the Gov
errors Of other States and it is to be a general
thing over the Union.
D y Virginia paper mentions that the Van
Clure gold mines. at Frc'lcr cksburg. have been
sold for S3OO.OOO. They will be worked by an
English company.
4 A Mr.. Turner and Miss Webster. of Wavcrly.
a few days since. were MARI ed on the sand lar
opposite Alton. That sand bar is b, com NJ Il
:, famous place for distressed lovers.
The Hon Horace Mann las been chosen
President of Ant och College. Ohio. The Com
l monwt aith says he will prob ably accept of it
r but his services will not be required until 1854
he will not decline being the Free Sol candi-
date for Governor.
The products of Calforn.a mines in 1851 was
, $50, C3S,.32
United States Circuit Court now in session at
Columbus, is largely attended ly gentlemen OF
, the green lag. witnesses and jurors The dock
. ct is understood to be very heavy. The trail
of Capt. 4. McEwen for aiding in the late Gu
ban expedition has been postponed.
An old copper mine of extraordinary richness
has IT Gently been discovered on what is called