The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1854-08-05

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from st. Louis. Mr.. Bryant. as usual. brings
us full files of river papers lie informs US that
st. Louis and the river towns are now healthy.
but that business is dull.
MD- The Galena will leave for below this
morning at ten O'Clock.
~ The only thing we see in the four or
five columns of mad-dog froth and fury in the
Times Of yesterday, in the least worthy atten-
ton. is the assertion that the Minnesotian stat
ed few days since, that the Reserve was not to
be sold; and this. really, might as we'll be pass
ed over with the other insane rawlings Of the
editor. Our readers, of course. know that the
main point at issue was our continued asser
ton that the Reserve would not and could not
be taken for Railroad purposes. We never in
timated, even, that these lands would be with
held, and no man can torture such an intima-
ton out Of any thing we said.
TO- The Times editor has an easy time edit
ing his paper this hot weather. lie has gotten
hold of an old file of the Democrat, some two
or three years back, and he regales his readers
by cutting out the old articles therein, relating
to "John p. OVENS aud adopts them as his
own" Watab Reveille,' and all that sort of
thing. Wonder if little grceny thinks all the
people who then read the Democrat are dead :?
BUFFALO. July rs.
Miss Fillmore, the only daughter Of EXPIRES
ident Fillmore, died this morning at Aurora
some twenty miles from this city, of cholera.
A Coon WITNEsS.--The editor of the Pioneer
says he kno,cs there was fraud committed, as
alleged, by making alterations in the Railroad
bill, after it passed Congress. Well, then, he is
the very man they want at Washington, to tes-
tify If fraud really exists, Col. Forney and his
assistants, are in bad box, for they alone are
responsible for the correct enrolment of the
bill; and as the Pioneer man is so wise about
the matter, and is so hard pushed for eight dol
lars day and fine time at Washington, we
recommend to those members of Congress who
are after the Clerk of the House with sharp
stick to send on for the Pioneer man imme
diately.
IMPORTANT FROM RrssIA.-The \. Y. Tribune
has letter from its Paris correspondent saying
that the Emperor of Russia has offered to ccdc
the Russian Provinces on the northwest coast
ofNorth America to the government of the
United States, for money consideration. This
action of Russia is intended to gall and rritate
England, and is brought forward for that pur-
Tho Tr;1 apthori{v that a
Russian diplOmatist is now on his way to
Washington to conclude the sale.
PAssIoN.-Nothing doth SO fool a man as cX-
treme passion. This doth make them fools
which otherwise are not, and show them to be
fools which are SO.
~ 1t is stated in a London Journal that
the Empress Of the French is positively
encienfe.
10 At meeting of an agricultural society
in Jones county, Iowa, resolution was unani-
mously passed that the inability of wife to
make good bread should be considered good
ground for divorce. Sensible society that
G1- A Catholic priest, named Michael Mar
tin, is now being tried in York. Pa, for cruelty
beating little GIRL whose parents allowed it
to reside in Protestant family.
sED- OF disuniOn, the celebrated Fisher
Ames once said -" l wish it was part OF the
catechism to teach youth that it cannot be
An Englishman thinks that he can beat two
Frenchmen. ] wish to have every American
think the Union so indissoluble and integral,
that the corn would not grow, nor the pot boil,
if it should be broken"
s- The editor of the Columbus Enquirer
speaks of a great natural curiosity in Decatur
county, Georgia. We are told that it consists
of what is called the Blowing Cave, at the
mouth of which suspended handkerchief will
be blown straight outwards during portions of
the day, and as forcibly inward during the re-
naming portion of the "a hours. These alter
mating breezes are supposed by some to be con-
nected with the tides of the ocean, on account
of their blowing one way or the other as the tide
GIBBS and flows.
NUMBER OF SLAVES IN THE WoRLp.-Thc Afri.
can Institute at Partisan association for the
diffusion of civilization and Christianity in
Africa-has recently issued circular in which
the number Of blacks held in different countries
is placed at 100000. of which 4,095, 900 are in
the United States, 100000 in Brazil, 9OO,OO
in the Spanish Colonies. $4,000 in the Holland
Colonies, $4,000 in the Republics of Central
America, and $4,000 in European establish
ments in Africa.
RAPE AND MrRDER-The Eagle, published at
Guntersville, Marshall county, Ala, states that
two young girls ravished near that place,
recently, by pedlar and negro, and were af
forwards murdered by the inhuman monsters,
who. as yet have not been arrested.
TASTES DTFER.-In a lecture on what he ha6