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

| REDUcTIoN OF FARE.-We learn that the Di.
rectors of the Galena Railroad have determined
in a few days to reduce the fare about ten pei
cent. We regard this not only as matter Of
generosity to the public, but also as one that
will be greatly advantageous to the Company
If their rates were reduced twice as much, or
even more, we still believe it would be source
of actual profit to the company. We venture
also to repeat q suggestion we made some days
SINCE that reduction in the tariff of freights
would be rqually beneficial Every week we
are losing considerable business from the fact
that the Milwaukee road charges less, in some
cases one half less, than the Galena; and from
Rockton, Beloit, and other towns in the valley
ofROck River, produce is going to Milwaukee
instead of coming to this city. The trade of all
that region naturally belongs to Chicago, and
we hope it will not be driven away, by a differ.
ence in the rates of freight, to the injury of our
merchants and of the Galena road also. We
have the highest respect for the President and
Managers of the Galena company and are sat
isfed they will do all in their power to secure
to our city the rich trade of the Rock River val
ley. Is is worth an effort to secure such prize.
Chicago Press.
MAGNIFICENT ESTERPRIsE.-The hydraulic ca
nal at Niagara Falls is about to be commenced
and vigorously prosecuted to completion A
company, with capital of 100000 has been
formed, embracing men of wealth and enter
prise in New York and Boston. The canal will
be three-fourths of mile long, seventy feet
wide, and ten feet depth of water and is to be
cut with perpendicular sides through solid
limestone ledge. The water power is the most
magnificent in the world unlimited in supply.
and unaffected either by flood or drought-hav-
ing all the upper lakes for a retaining, and
Lake Erie, twenty-five miles above. for a dis
tributing reservoir. There is clear fall. in
GLIDING the rapids and the cataract, of full two
hundred feet-BaH american.
THE BIBLE IN New YoRK.-The new building
of the American Bible Society covers three
quarters Of an acre. 1t is six stories high, and
occupies the whole block between Third and
Fourth avenues, Astor Place and Ninth street,
1t has front of seven hundred feet, and a
depth of fifty, with court yard in the centre.
The paper is to be delivered at the door on
Ninth street, on the lower floor, and to be car
ried by degrees, passing through the different
stages of the work until it arrives in books at
the depository in the sixth story. Of all the
gigantic manufactures that have been erected
in New York during the last year this is the
only one that will have no rival and make no
money. Yet it's products will be exported all
over the world, and outlast those of all the
rest.
Down in the Little Pee Dee Swamp, South
Carolina, lives queer old man. He nevercul-
tivates the soil. yet accumulates money, which
he hides in hollow trees, and he will loan it if
the security suits him. He sells the honey of
innumerable bees, and knows where to angle
for the choicest fish, and those are the sources
of his prosperity. Snakes he kills with his
heels, which are so hard that rattlesnake's
fangs will not penetrate them. Seventy years
has he lived in the region, and never permitted
q doctor to get near him of course not, else
his life would have been shorter. But he has
comforter in Heavens last, best gift who is Just
Ike him only a little more SO. Happy, venera-
BILE couple Of the Little Pee Dee-Boston Post