The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1853-06-11

SAVANNAH, May ~.
We learn from the officers of the British mail
steamer Conway, from Jamaica, that all but
two OF the passengers on board the ship Will
liam and Mary, wrecked off the Great Isaacs,
have been saved. They were rescued bv q
wrecking schooner while the ship was drifting,
just before she sunk.
DEATH OF One OF LEWIS Il CLARKs MEN n
OaEGON.-The Oregon Statesman gives the fol-
lowing notice of the decease Of old residents Of
that Territory:
On the 2sth of September, 1882 at his house
on his claim, in Marion county, Oregon Terri
tory. Francois Revet, at the age of SO years.
He was born in the parish of Saint Sulpice,
Lower Canada. He was one of the fist white
men who came to this Territory with Lewis a.
Clark, and left them on their return to the east
side, on the Rocky Mountains, where he fol-
lowed his former occupation as a bearer.
On the 18th ult., at his house on his claim, in
the vicinity of Champoeg, Marion county, Or
egon Territory, Ettenne Luciere about sixty
five years of age, born in the parish of Acadia,
Lower Canada. He came to this Territory in
1872, as one of the late J. J. Astor's engaged
servants, with Messrs. Hunt and Mckenzie, the
leaders of the party, and remained in the coun-
try ever since, till 1929, as trapper that year
he took a claim opposite Portland in 1880 he
abandoned it, In 1S41 he took the claim on
which he ended his days He is the first white
ry.
Coal NEAR La CRossE.-Dr. Heath of this
place handed us last evening a specimen of stone
Coal which he discovered in Minnesota about
Is miles west of this village. This coal has a
peculiar appearance, unlike either the anthra-
cite or bituminous coal that we have been ac-
customed to see in Pennsylvania. We have
tried small piece of it; and it burns freely,
emitting gas with a strong OdOr resembling
\ fhafr riS no hur in of thp orI.
nary anthracite coal. 1t has been generally
believed that no coal existed anywhere in this
region of country nearer than Blue Earth Riv-
er about 80 miles west of La Crosse where it is
by old hunters in that vicinity said to be in
large quantities. If it a fact that large guam
titles of coal lie in the region about Blue Earth
River, the vein or lead may extend easterly to
the Mississippi river. And this view of the
matter is quite probable as the divide of the
waters running north from those running south
extends from the Mississippi river nearly oppo-
site this place, to Blue Earth River. We think
this matter worthy of inv cstigation.-La Crosse
Dem.
The man whose COW was killed at Millport on
the Elmira and Canandaigua Road, has sued
the Company three times for neglecting to whis-
tie at the prescribed place. The Company, of
course, has been fined twenty dollars for each
offence, and the informant has thus got thirty
dollars for his COW. This is a novel method Of
collecting damages sustained 10y Railroads.
The entire Railroad from Mobile to the Ken
lucky line in the direction of Cairo, is under
contract, distance of 45S miles-eXcept a few
miles of light work in Tennessee and Mississippi
p, and can be constructed in six months. Nine
tenthS of the contracts have been taken by
planters on the road, who, in all cases have
given bonds for the performance of the work
before November Ist, 1854.
CONTRAsTs.-The identical cylinder belonging
to the Savannah, which sailed to England in
1919, and was the first steamship that ever
crossed the Atlantic ocean, will be exhibited at
the Crystal Palace in New York. by the side
OF one of the most approved construction of the
present time.
LYING UP.-We counted yesterday at the up
per end of the Levee, Ii steamboats,. all living
| up for want of business to sustain them. They
consist entirely of boats belonging to the New
Orleans, Illinois and Missouri river trades with
but one exception. Boats in the Upper Missis-
sippi and Ohio river trades appear to be doing
as well as is usual at this season of the year.
The Pittsburgh and Cincinnati boats ALWAYS ar
rive full freighted and crowded with passengers
and return with fair trips of freight, and very
often have their cabins and deck-rOoms filed
with travellers. The Galcna and Dubuque
boats are also doing well for the season. Up
ward frelghts are not plenty as they might
be, but there are large numbers of passengers
leaving on every boat that starts for the Upper
Mississippi. and there has not been n boat ar
rived from that stream this season, but what
had on board all the freight that she was capa-
BILE of carrying.-.aio. Republican.
New York PooR.-The Tribune says that in
New York no poor man hires a house. The rent
would equal nearly the whole of his annual in
come. He hires not house. but a room, rare
ly two rooms and very frequently only part of
room. BY the poor it means men and women
who have no capital in advunce, and who earn
their livelihood by manual labor.
DIR. Kane, of the Arctic Expedition. has re-
Gently received a gratifying evidence of the
general interest taken in his daring undertake
ing. in an autograph letter from the King of
Denmark. This letter directs the authorities of
the colonies in Greenland to afford all possible
assistance to the expedition. This is the more
gratifying because it was entirely unasked for
and unexpected.
An "important if true" statement is made
in the Stanford Mercury. The editor saws that
- novel mode of Matching chickens has been
put into operation in Lincoln, on the premises
OF fellmonger. The eggs are placed in water,
which is Kept to the requisite warmth by means
OF a solar lamp and many fine chickens thus
Matched are running about the premises
MINERAL POINT Northumberland was bro
Ken In the construction of this road, at Mineral
Point, on the 30th inst. In connection with
the same, the Board of Supervisors of Iowa
county have ordered a special election to be
holden on the 10th of June, to vote on the prop
osltlon Tor the county to loan the company their
bonds to the amount of S15O, 900. said stock to
DE secured by a mortgage on the road and its
equipments. The election is to be held on tho
10th instant.
IIE ATLANTA BANK.-Thc Chronicle and Sem
tinel, Georgia, cautions the people of that State
against receiving the bills of this Bank. We
have not seen any of the bills in this vicinity.
and know nothing of their value except what
may be gathered from the advertisement of
George Smith, of Chicago, which informs the
public that he redeems them at small dis
cOunt. III IS unnecessary to saw. that they