Minnesota weekly times. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1854-1859, 1854-11-07

real and personal property in st. Paul at sir mil
lions Of dollars. This is great increase over last
year.
DEATH OF THE Gov. NEBRAsKA.-Gov. Burr,
of Nebraska, and formerly of South Carolina
died on the 18th Of October. lie had but recent
ly arrived in the territory.
Cs5 The Luela arrived yesterday. Remem-
ber, that this boat is owned by the citizens of st.
Paul, and should be we'll patronzcd.
G1Y7Thc Convention held by the Spiritualists
the other day in Boston, was exceedingly we'll at
tended, and the proceedings marked with
great propriety and earnestness throughout.
Gy= The Union Fire Co. No. 3 of st. Louis,
propose to give their funds into the hands of the
city government, for the purpose of procuring a
steam fire eng inc for that city. Steam Fire En-
gncs arc bound to lead-thc old ones must go
out of date.
G5@ Potatoes are selling at four for a dime in
New Orleans. The Picayune says the man who
would bring few thousand barrels there, just
now would make Il fortunc.- ~ Y. Sun.
We know of one man who has taken 500 bush
els to the New Orleans market. He bought them
for so cents per bushel AMI intends to sell them
for $4,OO. If he succeeds, as we think he will,
he will clear $l,75O.
CyT Flour, says the St. Anthony Express, has
been higher in this market the present fall, than
ever before known, having been sold at eight to
nine dollars per barrel.
That's nothing. At the east it has been as high
as $1,000. Floar, before spring, will be down to
Sc and 81.
EsT The number of bushels of grain consumed
in the dstieries of the United States, in year,
counts up to seventeen millions. See here one
cause of the dearncss of bread. How much bet
ter it would be if the grain could be iven to the
poor, instead of used to create misery, and pov-
ertv, and degradation, and tears, agony and woe!
How much better. We leave it for those who
use Intoxicating liquors to answer.
THAT New HorEL.-We learn that there is now
a fair prospect that new hotel will be erected
in the lower part of the city, to cost not less than
from $4,000 to $4,000. The site has been
chosen, and other preliminary arrangements have
been made. We are glad that this enterprise is
going ahead. St. Paul needs more hotels and
lower town particulars needs one.
CyF The Royal Arch, arrived last evening, with
a mail and a goodly number Of passengers.
csy The Louisville Journal, of the Sd inst,
has the following ''Among the curiosties on
Main street, yesterday, were eighteen negro men
handcufed in pairs. in charge of two white men.
A procession Of women and children followed in
their wake"
This is a land of Liberty where ''aH men are
free and equal"
REAL EsrArE.-Therc has been steady advance
in the price of Real Estate in st. Anthony and
vicinity, since the opening of the season, without
the slightest tendency to specializing prices, or an
unhealthy tone in the market. The average rise
in value of Real Estate the past six months we
estimate at from quarter to One-third. Judge
Gamble, Chief Justice of Missouri, has recently
purchased two lots on Second-st, ,on the bluff, back
of Col. Spooner's for building site, we under
stand, price $l200.-Erpress.
Cy7 Disappointment should teach us to expect
little from the uncertain and unknown, and to sus-
pend far practicable, anticipating what time
and opportunity alone can reveal
CY@ man of virtue is an honor to his country,
a glory to humanity, satisfaction to himself, |
and bcncfactor to the world. He is rich with
out oppression or dishonesty, charitable without
ostentat:on, courteous without deceit, and brave
without vice.
THE CHoLERA.-This scourge is making ter
riblc havoc in Sicily. A letter from Messina
says:
There were not vehicles enough to carry the
dead to the cemeteries, and the police were Obli-
ged to seek OK wagons in the country. In few
davs $4,000 persons have d:el. The sick were
left without food, medical ad, or the sOlace of
clerical attendance in their dying moments. The
physcips, as we'll as the druggists and priests,
all shimcfully took to fight Large numbers of
90 ,l,,,, 70 Ro.I
capital crimes, were pardoned on condition of
burying the dead. Such spectacle has not been
seen in any Italian city since the plaques of the
''Middc Ages" la-
APPALLING SICKNESS IN CoNNECTICrT.-Since the
Maine Law took effect in Connecticut, VIC have Il
reliable C) criterion of the public health in the
quantity of liquor used for medicinal purposes
The Rum Agent for the town of Norwich, reports
that during the months of August and September
he sold medicine, II gallons of Brandy, liz
gallons of n. f. Rum, % gallons of Gin, 81 of
5. Croix Rum, besides a large quantity of Wine.
Here is an official statement, which shows that tUO
hundred and fifty ydghi gallons of liquor were sold
for 'me licinal pu poscs,' in the short period of
two .:ths, in the little town of Norwich.
CyT When tn, British army in the Eas. left
Varni, Il few weeks ago, for the Russian province
of the Crmea, no horses, excepting those of the
field officers, were taken on board the transports.
All the Other horses to the number of 1900,
were cast loose to seek Their fortunes best they
could. Horses which three months before cost
80 and 60 pounds, and which in Englrnd would
be worth 81 900 could not find purchasers at 81.
Enormous quantities Of baggage, the private pro-
perty of English officers, are said to have been at
the same time abandoned. To what war destroys
add what it wastes, and then inquire what good
it does, to counterbalance the frghtful sum
total. ...,t
GALLANT AFFAIR FOR THE FAIR AT THE FAR
At the Tolland County Conn.) Fair last week,
five ladies entered the list as competitors for the
premium offered by the society for the most
graceful exhibition of female e1uestrianism.
Gen. Pratt, Representative from the first con-
gressional district, acted as umpire, and a very
puzzled gentleman he was, the fair competitors
acquitt:ng themselves so handsomely that he could
TO more make a distinction between them than
between as many pearls all of size set in gold.
Unable to make the award, he very galautly ex-
tricated himself from his dilemma BY taking out
his pocket-book and paying each the amount of
the highest premium offered!
CO Thirty thousand militia are to be enrolled
and trained in Ireland next year.
CO The difference between a wise man and a
fool doth not consist in this, that the wise man
kv1ns 81 Al e no.