Minnesota weekly times. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1854-1859, 1854-07-25

SHocKlNC.-It is remarkable what fear will do
in case of pestcncc. Men almost forsakc their
nearest and dearest friends. They are no sooner
dead than they hurry them off to the grave. This
is bad enough but when poor, fricndless creatures
dies, then is it that the most perverted feelings Of
our nature are made visible. Here is Il case from
the Chicago Free Press:
SHOCKING BRUTALITY OF DRAYMAN.-ApOlice-
man yesterday discovered rough box near a
house in the Southern part of the city, formerly
known as the Blue Island House, shaped like a
coffin. On examination it was found to contain
the body of a Young woman, and had been left
there bv dravman. The house was without oc-
cupants, although furnished and locked up. 1t
was afterwards ascertained that the body was
that Of a servant in the family who had moved in
to the house the day before. She had died with
the Cholera, and the family after providing a
rough coffin, had given drayman several dollars
to drive it to u Cemetery, had locked up the house
and gone, no one knew where or how. The dray-
man started with the body to the Cemetery at the
time the family left the house, but going only a
short distance, returned and dumped it down in
the street, and left it where it was found by the
police.
THEY SPEAK WELL OF Us.-The Chicago Free
Press, in answering correspondent, who is anx-
ious to learn something about st. Paul, says:
St. Paul is the capital of the Territory of Min
nesota and is favorably situated to become the
commercial centre of that soon to be important
State. The commerce Of the valley of the Mis-
sissippi above the falls and Of the valley Of the
Minnesota, will naturally centre there and will
always be sufficient to sustain a city of several
thousand inhabitants. The people of st. Anthony
will. however, divide the trade of the Upper Mis-
sissippi Valley with those of st. Paul. But what
ever influence this may have, the commercial po-
siton of ST. Paul is very favorable for sustaining
large and fOurishing town. Its population is
now, if we mistake not, some five or six thou
sand. St. Paul has direct steam communication
with Chicago by the Rock Island Railroad, and
steamers on the Mississippi river; and ere many
can assure our friends that st. Paul is thriving
place, and we would much sooner risk our for
tunes there than in California.
~ There is no doubt but in few years we
shall have direct and we hope agreeable inter-
course with Chicago. The merchants of that
place should avail themselves of this fact, and
advertise pretty largely.
CooL.-Robert Schuyler, writing to the Direc-
tors of the n. Y. and n. II. Railroad Co. very
cody says -
"Your attention to the Stock Ledger of your
company is eSSentlal, us you VIII unu tiere muci
that is wrong. The details can be furnished you
with precision, though cannot do So"
Schuyler, it is thought, is in Canada. The fol-
lowing incident in his life, is from the n. Y. Eve.
Post.
Mr.. Schuyler had been living as bachelor, and
was supposed to be a bachelor until a few months
since, it was discovered he had been privately
married many years previous, and had family
of children, one or two of whom had grown up
and got married. They had gone under the name a,
of Spicer. Mr.. Schuyler's explanation was, that
he saw a pretty girl with whom he fell in love !;
she was poor, and he knew his family would object
to the match so he married her privately, and
had never divulged the secret.
The man that will do this, and on the plea
which is assigned, is a villain, and deserves the
ceusure of every community.