The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1853-01-22

New YORK ALDERMEN RAMPANr.-The Board
of Aldermen of the City Of New York. have We
tocd the Mayors veto of the Broadway Railroad
resolution. and passed resolutions of war
against the Judge who allowed the injunction
against proceeding with work. The vote stood
Is to ).
IRoN.-The Boston Post states that nearly
three hundred thousand tons of railroad iron
were imported into this country during the last
year. whilst during the same period only eigh-
teen thousand tons were manufactured in Penn
sylvania. Were it not for undoubted facts by
which this statement is sustained. it would APP
pear incredible. And what language can prop
crly characterize the faulty and utter folly Of
4 system Of public policy that encourages the
importation of an article which in its raw state
lies its immense quantities beneath our own
soil. and for the manufacture of which We are
possessed of every capability?
Seven car loads of dressed hogs are daily
sent from Columbus. Ohio. to New York where
they are cut up and packed. 1t Is Il great and
rapidly growing business.
LARGE ARRIVAL OF HoGs.-On Christmas day
the Eric Railroad brought down 3237 hogs for
the New York market The daily receipts, we
are told averaged only about $500. They are
principally dressed hogs.
~ Hill lllStdllCC vi ulSIcSpCCb W tnc
pcror Napoleon, recently occurred at the Italian
Opera house in Paris. His visit was nnan-
nounccd. unforeseen, and the audience which
had assembled to hear the music refused to ac-
knowledge by the simple act of courtesy that
the occasion demanded the presence of him who
is the chief of the State. aud Emperor of the
French. Not a halfa dozen persons in the house
rose from their seats. Ills arrival and depart
urc created no more sensation than that of a
private individual. This demonstration has
been variOusly commented upon. There GER
tainly is Il vast difference between his reception
at the representation given at the States ex-
pcnsc, when his friends fill the house. and that
offered by an audience assembled solely to lis
ten to the compositions of Verdi or ROssin
REMAINS OF Mas GEN. TAYLoE.-Thc remains
of Mrs. Taylor, wife of the late President Tay-
lor who died at Baton Rouge. La were expcc-
ted at Louisville on Wednesday morning on the
steamer Mary HINT. She is to be buried in the
family buricl ground in Jefferson county
CLINGMAN DEFEATED-Wc rejoice to record the
defeat of that Wing traitor and disunionst T.
l.. Clingman of North Carolina. He has plot
ted treason to the Union and the Wing party
for two years past and was recently taken up
by the LocofocOs of the North Carorina Legisla-
ture for L. S. Senator There were enough in
dependent men, who dcspise the traitor, to de-
feat his election. This ends his carecr.-Roc.
Democrat.
pETIoIr.-Just at this time the Ancient CITY
OF the Straits is most decidedly on a side track.
Chicago, which 200 miles further off. is four
hours nearer Buffalo than Detroit The mer-
chants of the latter now receive their goods
from New York by Express, via Chicago. They
take the Southern Railroad to Chicago, and
then are brought back to Detroit by the Cen
trail. The Advertiser says, ''thc Express Com
panies can contract with the Southern Rail-
road to carry goods to Chicago for thrty-fivc
cents per cwt.. and with the Central Railroad
to bring them back for thirty five cents to De-
trOit, while it would cost them a dollar per
hundred to surmOunt the almost impossible
barrier of mud and corduroy which the enter
prise of Detroit suffers to lie between itself and
the line of the Southern Railroad
PILE OF GOID.-Thc shipments of gold from
San Francisco to New York by the two steam
crs of the LIST of December, amounted to three
milliOns, f,rO hundred and t,cenfy-tuo thou
sand, tour hundred and Hiry-fpe dollars
The production is steadily increasing, and we
see that the \. Y. Express estimates the aggre-
gate yield of the Californian and Australian
gold mines for 1852 at fre hundred millions!
APPROACHING MARRIAGE.--A Washington date
says: ''the fashionable world of this metrOpO-
lis is in a high state of excitement 1t is SAID
that the Attorney General is about to lead TO
the hymcnial alter beautiful and fascinating
widow, long known as the queen of the ton in
Wa shinUtnu