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CARR, HANWAY & CO.,

who have entered into articles Of cO-partncrship
for term of years. And in placing before you
the principles Of our future action, we will say
that we expect to be no candidates Of party or
sect, nor to adopt new platform Of business
We will, however, sell Goods as CHEAP as ever,
and shall endeavor by strict conformity to fair
and honorable dealing, to merit continuation
of that patronage so literally extended hereto
fore to our predecessors. OF this, however, we
lenya you to iulpe
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N d 'EHCE!

uAN ELECTION for Trustees
Of the Borough Of Morgant0wE will be held
on MONDAY the Goth day Of March next.
By order,
Feb. 81. GEO. S. RAY, Src'ry.
>o-o-~-o-~~~-~.o-~-~.o
VIRGINIA, ss.-At Rules held in the
Clerk. Office Of the county court Of Pres
ton. on The frs, Monday III February,
1851: re- .t.t. H.'.
Jacob spangler PIN Assumpsit, to Lecoy,
VS.. ; er the sum OF So dol.
Thomas Purinton lars and 81 cents.
Whereas, ii appears by affidavit that the
defendant is not u resien, Of this State,-
whereupon, on motion Of the plaintiff by his
Attorney, it is ordered that the said defend.
ant do appear here within one month aftet
due publication of this order, and do whit
is necessary TO protect his Interests.
A copy; Tes,p,
G. Cresap, Atty for PIG.
Feb. 25,-5,,l .,
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The stock no,U on, hand,

we arc offering a, prices lower than it could be
bouslit in the east, owing to tho late advance in
all sorts Of goods, but we arc determined to
haze no old goods on hand if,he people will buy
them at all. We desire to sci. 10 all as near at
the same price as possible, and therefore will not
offer our goods at public auction, but we can as.
sure our old friends and the public generally,
that We will sell as general thing, cheaper than
any can buy at auction. We expect to start east
in short time, TO make our large and well US.
sorted purchase Of DRY GOODS, and we are eI'
pectiag ina few days, per steamer Monongahela
Belle. the largest stock of
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Sous OF TEMpERAScE.-The Janua.
ny session Of the Grund Division was
held in Romney, commencing on the
a5th ut., and continuing two days.
Thirty.one Divisions were represented,
and there was grand procession and
q number Of speeches, before the body
adjourned.
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Consl,,nntion cnraDle!

Rober. Santerson, Ju,ticc oftae Peace III Russ
Creek township, Fairfield county, Ohio, aud bro
,her Of Major General SandersOh,,y an ciFset
in the war OF 1912, cured of Consumption By III
use of :Wisiar's Balsam Of ITild ghe:iy!' .-
Rush Greek township, Fairfield Co.
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Seth n. seafcy, whose certificate is above, ,,
man of US much vrracity US any Ia the COUNTY
and man OF cool judgment; aud We place ea;iie
Confidence in his statement
HalcouRr, HOWARD & Go.
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Thomas 7. Browns heirs.
This cahls is rc-committed to Commissioner
Bunker, with instructions TO report any further
hires of Negroes received by William Brown, and
ascertain the true amount with which he should
be chargeablc, together with anything thought
pertinent by himselfor specially required by Ell
Their of the Parties.
The parties TO the above suit, and all others
Interest," ed will take notice that on rhtfsday, the
10Th day of January, 1854; shall proceed, in my
Office at Kingwood, Virginia, TO comply With
the terms Of the above decree. Given under my
hand the Goth day of December, 1858.
EDWARD C. BUNKER, COmmiss'r.
Deeeh!bcr 81, 1858. ssS
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AT Circuit Court continued and held
in and for the County Of Preston, on Saturday
the a7thday OF August, 1858: u.
William B. Zinn, jacob Miller,
and Elisha NJ. lIasans, In cHANcERY
The daily Minnesota pioneer. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1854-1855, 1854-12-06
Ancient Inhabitants of Nebraska.

On the Upper Missouri there exists trac
of country known by the name of Mauvaisc
Terres, or bad lands; at one time, probably
the bottom of an immense lake, in which per
ished thousands of animals having now no rep
resentatives on earth. 1t appears that the wa
tiers of this immense pond were removed by
some CONFUSION of nature or other, and the
sediment at the bottom became indurated
The portion of the valley thus excavatet1
forms surface of 30 miles in length, and 30
in breadth. The remains of animals which
have lived and breathed long before the advent
of man on earth, are here found in such abun-
dance as to form of this tract an immense GEM
etery of vertebata. The bones are said to be
completely petrifed, and their cavities filled
with silicious matter. They are preserved in
various degrees of integrity, some most beau
tifully perfect, and others broken.
Two remarkable species of rhinoceros, the
first ever found in America, were discovered
here, and also q sort of panther, smaller than
the present variety, and likewise a number of
strange animals with long names, unlike any,
thing which man ever saw alive.
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PRIM PEoPLE.-Thcre is set of people,
says Dr. Chalmers, whom cannot bear-the
pinks of fashionable propriety = whose every
word is precise, and whose every movement is
unexccptionable but who, though well yersed
in all the categOries of polite behavior, have
not particle Of soul or of cordiality about
them. We allow that their manners may be
abundantly correct. There may be elegance
in every gesture, and gracefulness in every po-
sition not q smile out of place, and not
step that would not bear the measurement Of
the severest scrutiny. This is all very fine, but
what l want is the heart and the gaiety of So
cial intercourse - the frankness that spreads
ease and aninlatiOn-thc eye that speaks ami
mation-the eye that speaks afability to all,
that chases timidity from every bosom, and
tells every man in the company to be confident
and happy. This is what conceive to be the
virtue of the text, and the sickening formality
of those who walk by rnle. and would reduce
the whole of human life to wire-bound sys-
tenn of misery and constraint.
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Adventures Of an Ocean Letter.

The postmaster of Filcy, near Scarborough,
(Mr. William Story,) has received letter
which has come to hand after an extraordinary
career. Mr.. Story has son who is a sailor
on board her Majesty's transport the Earl of
SALISBURY, Capt. Pickering. y which was dcs-
patched in March last, from England to Con-
stantinople,with troops and horses destined for
the scat of war. When in the Straits of Glib
ralter, on tn II tn of April, young Story wrote
Il letter to his father; but the sea was so bois-
ferrous that the ships dispatches could not be
conveyed Oh shore. The young sailor deposited
his home letter in bottle, corkcd it up, and
committed it to the keeping of the boistcrous
waves. The bottle breasted the pillows BRAY e.
ly, and dritted to the coast of Africa, where it
was caught in fishing net, and taken on shore.
The native fisherman were eager, doubtless to
ascertain the contents of the bottle; but hav-
ing broken it, and extracted the letter, their Gu
rioSity was kept within due bounds. The letter
was forwarded unopened, to the French consul
at the port of Gran, Algeria. Thence it was
sent under cover to the consulate general of
France in London, who politely posted it with
an autograph note, to the postmaster of Filey,
to whom the enclosure was addressed. it
reached its final destination few days arc, with
no farther damage than sea water stain on one
corner, and two or three gashes cut through it
for ventilation lest it might bring with it the
virus of some pestiential disease Sheffield
Times,
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No Duty ON CANADIAN WHEAr.-A circu
lar has been issued from the Treasury Depart
ment at Washington, authorizing Collectors Of
Customs to admit wheat from Canada to the
United States, 'rithout payment of duty, under
the provision that importers shall give bond
for the payment of duties if the Reciprocity
Treaty shall not be fully confirmed.
: This arrangement will doubtless occasion n
large importation of wheat in bond immediate.
~, and a consequent improved demand among
our our provincial neighbors. Some of the
millers in Buffalo, Rochester, Oswego, and
other northern towns, have already purchased
large stocks in anticipation of the Treasury
order.
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PARIS GossIP.-The Paris correspondent of
the Boston Atlas, says: ,a"5s Fl.
No events gave rise to great number of
Mon Deus, and shrugs Of the shoulders, than
the now indisputable marriage of the Marquis
de G., a charming young men of tire
and twenty, with one of the noblest name of
the Faubourg Saint Germain and fortune of
not less than $4,000 year to notorious ac-
tress of the Theatre DIES Varieties If things
go on in this way some time longer, French
title of nobility will be eareat, which will
shut the door Of good society to all of its high
er ranks: A young "lady' had just returned
from California with large fortune and she
too is Oh the lookout for coronct to hide her
sullied name. will venture on her success !:
although her name was for years household
word ut Mobile, Valentine and the Prado
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A Sw1NDLING BRoKER.-The Cincinnati
Gazette says the excitement against p. b.
Manchester, the banker, who lately failed in
that city is so intense that it would not be safe
for him to be seen in the streets. He had alb
seconded. Up to the moment of his failure, he
was considered one of the wealthicst men in
the city. He had created this opinion by his
style of living. Many poor people, who had
deposited their earnings with him, lose their
all; and bill has been attached to his build
ings, bearing the words-"This building was
erected by the widows tears and orphans
cries."
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Ulscxpected Elevatiosa.

The yicissitudes of human life are very
strange ID 1889, President TAYLOR, then
a Colonel in the army. wrote o letter to
Gen. McN1E1, who had just been appoint
ed Surveyor of Boston, of which the follow
ing is an extract
II am fully aware that it is almost i'm
possible for us to pursue any profession
particularly that of arms - for fifteen or
twenty years, without forming strong at
tachments to it in various ways, and, of
course, must abandon them with cOnsidera-
BILE reluctance but there are circumstances
which should reconcile us in doing so, and
to justify us, not only in our own eyes, but
that OF the community. Could l get a
civil appointment as respectable, with half
the emolument attached to it as there is to
the one you have received, and where
could be located SO as to superintend the ed
ucatiOn of my children, would resign forth
with: for after serving twenty-five years
and upwards in the army, all of which time
on duty, with the exception of few months.
without being stationed two years at any
one post, during that time, / begin to think
that need repose; but as | do not possess
influence enough to procure a civil appoint
ment Of any grade, l consider my doom
fixed" - ~. -... <== =. j. = *
Here is a plain, modest officer Of the U.
S. army, who, in 1880, expressed sincere
wish that he could retire from his labors
upon some Office with half the emolument
that General MCNEIL received, and de-
clared that he did not possess influence
enough to p ocure civil appointment and
yet this same man became world,renowned
General, and President of the United States
in less than twenty years from that time
The daily Minnesota pioneer. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1854-1855, 1854-12-06

From the Mining Ners Of Nov. I'd, we
learn that, the propeller Manhattan, Capt.
Spaulding, made q trip from the Saut to On
tonagon in fifty hours, including four and a
half hours delay at Copper Harbor, and
time consumed in discharging 600 bbls. of
freight at Eagle Harbor and Eagle River.
At the Ohio Trap mine there are now from
HOO to l400 tons of stamp work on the sur
face. The Company's farm under the able
superintendent Of Mr.. Jonathan Couklin, has
yielded large crops. They have now in store
of their own raising, II tons of hay, 20 tons
of oats in the sheaf, 5000 bushels potatoes,
1000 bushels turnips. besides, vegetables,
raised for summer consumption. The farm
which is being enlarged now consists of about
so acres. ..~# .gt
A meeting at Eagle River, on the 9th Sept
resolved that it had become absolutely neces-
sary to have public highway from Copper
Harbor along the mineral range in the vicinity
of the mines to Portage Lake and Ontonagon
River. ~ :.-.- ."...
The Journal Of the 4th, says that the out
side Coffer-dam, at the head of the canal broke
and carried away some scventy-fve yards OF
earth in less time than we have been in men,
tioning the fact. Had it not been for another
little below, acting as q kind of guari-lock,
the water would have done great destruction
on the work. AS it was, the small basin was
filled up in two minutes, and so soon that some
OF the workmen were overtaken by the rushing
flood. The whole force of teams were instant
ly put on to the repairing of the breach and is
now all right again.
On the LIST, there was something of strike
among the Canal laborers, and the Journal
says that owing to this and the very bad
weather very little has been done for three
days past on the canal and unless more con-
ciliatory measures are adopted with their men,
just as the winter like weather is setting in the
work will not progress so fast as has been cx-
pected.
There was sleighing at the Saul on the I'd,
but the sun soon finished it.
The Fort Brady barn full of hay and grain,
was burned last weck-a severe loss at this
season of the year.
Copper shipments from the Saut, Oct cc3d,
were, by propeller Globe, from the Minnesota
Mine, 70 masses weighing q tons 1889 lbs.,
and 62 bbls, weighing 20 tons 472 lbs. Ne
braska Mine, "a masses weighing 5 tons 664
lbs., and l3 bbls., weighing 3 tons 1900 lbs
North American, Nine q masses weighing As
tons 1852 lbs. Cliff Mine, 81 masses weighing
o5 tons 635 lbs.
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CROSSING ON THE Ice. - Yesterday quite
a number of our citizens crossed the river
on the ice. Considering the river only clo-
sed on Sunday-this looked to us little
hazardous. However, most of those who
crossed took the precaution to take long
board with them, in case of accident. Should
the present weather continue few days,
teams will be able to cross with perfect
safety. Then for reduction in the price
of wood.
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THANKSGIVING! GOVERNORS PRO
CIAMATION.

II has become a custom with the American people to
have day in the year set apart for giving Thanks to
Almighty GoD for His blessings upon them a nation
therefore,
Willis A. German, Governor Of the Territory of Min
nesota, do request all persons to keep and observe
THURSDAY, THE 21sr DAY OF DECEMBER NEXT
for such purpose and all persons requested to alb
stain from their usual that day. and mani
fest in ct way their obligations the Great Ruler
Of the Universe for His goodness people, indvid
ually and collectively.
". A. GORMAN.
Executive Dept, Mimi. Teri, 18th Nov, 1854.
By the Governor, J. TRAVIS RosEn,
-.-. Sec'y Of Minn TER.
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NEW ORLEANS, Nov. 81.

The Varieties Theatre caught fire at three
o'clock this morning in the scenery near the
stage and was entirely destroyed. The entire
wardrobe, it is believed, is lost. The Ravel
family had just commenced an engagement
and have lost heavily. MIR. Placide was sleep
ing at the time, and narrowly escaped with his
life from tn. Sd story window. Loss is about
$4,000.
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INFORMATION WANrED.-Of the wherca-
bouts of RICHARD Scorr, who left West
Ausgood, CIV, in June last for Minnesota.
Any information respecting him will lie
thankfully received by his brother, MICHAEL.
ScoTr, who resides in Hudson, st. Croix
comfy, Wisconsin.
The daily Minnesota pioneer. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1854-1855, 1854-12-06

Thar BAII--The opening Ball at the
Merchants last night was all that could
have been wished. A large number of the
beauty and fashion of the city were in
attendance, and all passed off as "mery as
a marriage bell I"
The daily Minnesota pioneer. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1854-1855, 1854-12-06

bD- ALEXANDER REY informs the public
through our columns this morning, that he
has everything usually kept by wholesale
grocer, for sale cheap at his establishment
lower levee. His articles having been
carefully selected by himself, are all they
are recommended to he.
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QUEBEC, Nov. q.

QUEBEC, Nov. q.
This morning John Gleason was brought to
the bar of the House of Parliament for send
ing challenge to MIR. Cassault, a member of
the House. The cause of the offence are some
questions put by Mr.. Cassault to MIR. Gleason
before an election committee.
MIR. Gleason, on acknowledgment was dis
charged.
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WINTER AMUsEMENrs.-Quite number
of our citizens assembled at the Winslow
House last evening, for the purpose of ma
king arrangements for pleasantly spending
the long winter evenings. Hope they may
succeed.
The daily Minnesota pioneer. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1854-1855, 1854-12-06

mus we have as basis to check the force
OF the pressure of1S54, an annual supply from
q State which, when the proposition to acquire
it was first proposed by democratic admins
tration, was declared by whiggery as desert
waste, mot worth dollar"
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Tho Minnesota Agricultural society.

This Society will hold its annual meeting in Saint Paul.
At the CAPITOL the 6rst Wednesday Of January next at
o'clock to which the county agricultural societies
entitled to send ten delegates eac In counties where
such societies are formed the citizens in public meeting
assembled may commission delegates to said Society," and
it hoped that the general agricultural interest su
GENTLY aroused to warrant the belief that the occasion
will manifest positive determination to sustain this
youthful Territorial Institution. A. E. AMES,
November "a. 1854. Secretary N. s.
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New York, Nov. 81.

The expedition from this port, consisting of
the steamer Ben Franklin, the barque Catha-
rine and schooner, about which so much in
tercst was excited, was at st. Thomas on the
9Th
The daily Minnesota pioneer. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1854-1855, 1854-12-06

SIcK.-We are panied to hear of the
serious indisposition of Major r. G. MUIR
PLY, the very worthy Sioux Indian Agent.
His disease is typhoid fever.
The daily Minnesota pioneer. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1854-1855, 1854-12-06

NEW GOODS By EXPRESS.
HAVE just received by Express q fine assortment.
LADIES DRESS GOODS,
Consisting in part of ...-......
ALL WOOL MERRINOS,
ALL WOOL DE LANES
DRESS SILKS,
VI. J. I.*- BONNET 4 DRESS sATlNs.
LADIES CLOAK CLOTHS
SUP. BLACK GRENDINEs
SILK + WOOL PLAIDS
Also splendid assortment OF
GUlPURE, CROCHET WORKED.
..@ AND NEEDLE WORKED,
SWISS CAMBRIA COLLARS.
NEEDLE WORK CHEMIsErrs
AND SLEEVES,
T. f.. LADIES DRESS TRIMMINGS.
BROCHE LONG sHAWLs,
ALL WOOL sHAWLS,
LACEs,
&C., &c.
beA'des many other Goods which shall be happy To
show to both old and new customers ..
NoV: 0o' lsa4-dlw CHARLES d. ELPELT
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HE "DEsERr WAsrE."-The Ohio States
man reminds the country that the annual pro-
ducts ofthe California mines, for l84s to 1853
inclusive, have been as follows:
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OLD PORT WINE.

VERY OLD PORT WINE.
VITARRANTED pure juice, rich and oily, free from
w ogwood and all drugs By the bottle OF gallon At
BOND l. KELLOGG's City Drug Store.
The daily Minnesota pioneer. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1854-1855, 1854-12-06

" JEFFERSON FARMER, Esq is AZ authorized Agent
Tor THs PIONEER at Galena to procure subscribers and ad
Vertisemont' His receipts win be regarded yments
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81 See third page, under Commercial head, for rate
OF Money and Exchange, ST. Paul and Galena Markets.
and miscellaneous items.
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lure ny Cne TreSluenC; or In case OF veto,
their repassage through the two Houses by
a two-thirds vote. BY neither of these
constitutional processes was the act of the
goth Of June last ever made law.
The majority Of the Committee appoint
by the House Of Representatives, to inves-
tigate, and report upon, the fraud commit
ted on the Minnesota Land Bill, state, af-
ter reviewing the testimony given before
the Committee:
Your Committee therefore report, that
inc text OF the bill was changed, after 1t passed
me House, in one particular, to wit: by sub
shutting the word and for the word or
between the words constituted and organ
lied, in the third section"
The minority of the Committee reported:
"That an alteration was made in the bill
mentioned in the resolution subsequent to- ITS
engrossment and passage by the House, and that
the alteration was not merely clerical, but
material, completely changing one of its most
important features that the bill which passed
the Senate, and was approved by the President
and is now claimed to be q law--has neuer
been acted on by the House Of Representatives"
And the statements of both branches of
the committee are verified by the oaths of
Senators, Representatives, and Clerks en-
ployed in both Houses of Congress. The
fact, then, is beyond controversy, that the
act of the 29th June, 1854, granting lands
to our Territory for railroad purposes, and
under which the Company justi6es, lacks
the essential requisite of passage through
the House Of Representatives, and without
which the act is utterly nugatory, except in
the mere matter of form.
Yet, in the face of this truth, known |
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1854-10-21

AIM HIGu..-Our farmers should aim
higher. When we see the prices which
first quality goods sell for tits really won.
derful, that any person should ever think
OF raising inferior fabrics. At the late fair,
we saw pair Of small Suffolk pigs four
months old, sell for $3.50. This is as
much as score of ordinary hogs would
come 10, and yet the expense of feeding a
Suffolk hog, is no greater than is required
to give development TO the "racer breed OF
Ohio" AT the same fair, we saw calves
sell for 500, and chickens for Sl2 pair.
These are the prices which birds and an.
imas of unquestionable excellence bring
Every farmer can have birds and animals
ofthis class. Why do they not have Them
That's just the question we were about
asking, who'll answer itl-N Y. Dutc'n