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The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1854-09-23
Pistols and Knives,
JAMES DOTY.

Reader, look at that shop window in Broad
way.
WELL answers our reader Il do look at it.
and see nothing particular about it different
from most OF the other shop windows in Broad
way. 1t has immense pancS of plate glass, and
behind them, the shopkcepcr like all other
shopkecpcrs has displayed his wares to the
best adv vantage
Bat, soJd reader, allhough;you see nothing
particular about the window, don't you see
something particular about the wares display
cd so effectively:
No. again answers our reader. Il see
nothing but pyramids of pistols. and stacks of
guns, intcrSl ersed with glttering knives and
daggers. and there are il hundred of shop win
dows i'll other parts OF New York filed with
just such articles-there's nothing particular
about it,"
We beg your pardon. good reader, there is q
great deal very particular about it. What are
all those weapons of destruction for in all those
hundred shop windows:
What are they for! Why the guns are to
so hunting with, and the pistols, and the
knives, and the daggcrs, and the sword canes,
are for. are tor-,tor-
There stop, reader. you don't know exactly
what they are for at least you cannot exactly
explain the great demand for pistols, knives.
daggers &c, which renders this immense sup
ply neccssary-there is no war in the country,
and it is presumed that VIC do not live among
savagcs, and herein consists the popularity of
mat window-what are all these daggcrs and
pistols and knives for!
"ewill tell what they are for, and it is a
fart OF much Significance Some of these bis
tois, knives and daggers. 20 to California with
miners VINO really need them, but an immense
number go into the pockets of people in this
country who do not need them. who sbopld
not wear them, and whom the law Commands
not to wear them. Every rowdy who can
raise money enough to buy a knife or pistol
does so and if he cannot get it any other way
he steals it. And the rowdy puts the knife or
pistol in his pocket and the least sign of mus,
and where there is no muss, he pulls it out to
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Telesraphic.
WEATHER AT CONCORD, y. II.

CONCORD n. H., Sept. s.
At sunrise to-day the thermometer stood nj
10 degrees; at noon % degrees. This evening
we are visited by heavy thunder and lightning
with prospects of refreshing descent of rain.
NEW YORK, Sept. G.
The steamship America sailed at noon. to-
gay ior Liverpool. with ninety passengers and
Sl,OSG,5GJ in specie.
LOUISVILLE, Sept. 5.
A boiler exploded at McQuiston's brewery
building '"e
The boiler is said to have assembled one tbo,,.
SAND feet, and falling went through the roof of
shop 2oO feet distant. No person was iniur
lives. W." 'n'''
CINCINNATI, Sept. o.
a young man named Short. a clerk in a drv
goods store in this city, and q young LAWYER.
named Peacock, from Chicago, fought duel in
kentucky yesterday. Short was fatally wounC
ca IN the left breast at the second fire. Tk.y
fought about young lady, to whom Short was
engaged to be married
ST. LOUIS, Sept. Q.
OfLicut. Gratten's Sixth Infantry. one scr-
geaht. one corporal, and twenty privates were
Killed by the Sioux Indians, near Fort laramie
on the 18th ult. When the express left the
orr II was surrounded by Indians, Garrison
numbered about fifty men
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.ArriN nj of the Africa.

New York, Sept.
The Africa with three days later news, arriy-
ed at IA o clock this morning.
Cotton closed in favor of the buyers. Sales
of the week SO 200 bales fair Orleans at
Lie.
In -four and wheat no new features.
Corn wanted at some Improvement in the
price.
MclIenry quotes western -four at 2Sa31s
Philadelphia and Baltimore at 3Ia32s. Red
wheat IS 6da9s: mixed do 9sa9s Adj. White
corn 3la3G. Bacon dull. Beef and pork quiet.
Lard unsettled.
1t was reported at Paris That the expedition
to Crimea positively left Varna on the 10th.
At the battle of kars. in Asia. the Russians
took $4,000 Turks prisoners, and left , 900 dead
on the field.
The cholera was on the d. cline at Varna, but
was still raging at Adrianpolc and other places
with great violence.
There had been great fire in Narna, by
which one third of the tow was destroyed
The produce magazine was saved. The fire
is supposed to have been the work of Greek in
ccndiaries.
Immediately after the surrender of Bomar-
sund, Gen. Raragnary d;Hillicrs accompanied
by Mr.. Gray. Secretary of the English Lega-
tiOn, left for Stockholm, with the view it WAS
supposed, of urging Sweden to declare for the
Western powers.
The Monitcur contains the following an
nOunccmcnt
VIENNA, Aug. %.
The Austrians entered Walachia on the 10th.
The whole corps of occupation will have pass
cd the frontier by the sd
Two Brigades had marched from HcrmOn-
stadt and anotherfrOm Cronstadt
bucharest, krajova and Lesser Wallachia
will be occupied.
The advanced guard reached Bucharest Sep
TENDER 9TH.
The brigades of the army of Count Baronini
are prepared for similar movement in NAL
davia.
Count Caronni is commander in chief of the
army of occupation.
There is no truth in the report. that the Rus
slams refused to retire from the Personalities.
and that the Prince GOrtschakoff had commu-
nlcatcd that determination to the Austrian
cabinet. The French Minister of War has ap-
Piled to the sisterhood of ST. Vincet dc Paul to
act as nurse in the hospitals of the armies in
Turkey. Fifty Ofthe ladies have undertaken
the duty, and fifty others will he provided.
Austria has three war ports in the Adriatic.
VIZ POla. Lissia and Cataro.
Gov. klap will return to Switzerland. as the
turkish Government refuses to give him a
command
One thousand of the prisoners captured at
Bormarsnnd have been embarked for Brcst.-
The other thousand were disposed of by Admi.
raj Napier
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For the Minnesotian.
Land Office statistics.
LAND OFFICE. SrIIL.W

LAND OFFICE, SALTWATER, ". I.
GENTLEMEN In accordance with your re-
quest OF this morninS. carefully furnish you
the following statement ofthe business of this
office.
The total number Of acres of land sold at
this Office up to the first of May. 1853, is l5l,-
OIL 2S-lOO. ofwhich $500 99-I0O were sold
for cash, amounting to SI2,32l "a, and the re-
mainder III ,3lJ 29-lO0 were located with Mil
itary Bounty land warrants.
The following table will exhibit the business
Of the Office. during my term at Reg stcr there
in.
The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1854-09-23

DESTRUCTION OF STEAMBoATs.-A report has
recently been made to the Secretary of the
Treasury at Washington, showing the number
of Steamboats, destroyed in the United States,
and the causes of their destruction within the
first Lalf Of the present year. The report
says:
1T is seen that from January l, to June II,
1854, there were siXty-four steamboat diSas-
tiers, involving a loss of S2,314442, and five
hundred and forty-eisht lives. OF this num-
Der. ten have been from collisions, with loss
of Sl0l 1000, and twenty lives; eight of these
were fitted up according to the law OflS52, and
two of them not under the law. These cases
are all supposed to have been from negligence
and inattention. Eighteen boats have been
destroyed 10y fire, with loss of 81, 4S0 500, and
one hundred and forty one lives; these are all
supposed to have been accidental except two
the Georgia and Mary Agnes. This last boat
was built since January, 1853, and was suppoS-
ed to have been set on fire; all the others were
built before the passage of the law of 1852, and
all were believed to have been inspected and
fitted out according to that law. Much the
larger number of accidents were produced by
snagS. there having been twenty-three boats
thus lost, with a destruction of property to the
amount Of 100000. The San Francisco was
fOundered at sea, with loss of two hundred
100000. Of explosions, there have been eight
Two OF the boats had been inspected according
to the law of 1852: the loss of property was
Sc. 800, and In lives one hundred and twelve.
The writer of the report expresses the opin-
ion that no additional legislation is required
of Congress to the act of 1852, providing for
the better security of the lives of passengers
on board steamboats,. The law he thinks, how
ever, ought to be extended so as to include
steam ferry and tow-boats Upon this
branch Of the subject the writer says:
There seems to be general concurrence of
them all in the opinion that the existing steam
boat law has done, and is calculated to do,
much good in the way of preventing those &C
cidents that it was designed to provie against.
1t appears to be the desire of many to extend
the provisions of this law to ferry-boats and
tow-boats; and did the United States have iur-
isdiction over this class of boats (Which in
most instances, navigate entirely within the
limits ofo State,) it would appear, from the
arguments advanced, to be of the utmost i'm
portance that they should be brought under
the inspection of the law of 1852. In the case
of ferry boats the strong argument is, that as
the law was specially designed to protect life
It's provisions should extend to ferry-boats
which are pre-eminently passenger boats The
reason for requiring it in the case of tow boats
is, that these boats are too often made the re-
ceptacle of WORKOUT boilers that foolhardy
men are willing to risk the use of. While it is
issued by many to extend the provision of the
iaw,no material change or addition is demand
ed.
The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1854-09-23

The CANAL-This great work progresses
the upper lock Is in a tolerable state of for
wardness and the lower and most important one
is fairly under way Lock Stone are coming
forward from Drummond's Island and Marble
Head about as fast as they can be used
The banks or sides of the canal are about one
fourth walled up and very large number of
men are on this branch of the business and on
the work of excavation. We noticed yesterday
six horse drills in operation and the blasting
Is carried on with energy. But the stone, near
the Head Of the Portage or Canal is hard and
the excavating, in that vicinity, cannot be
pushed so fast as it has in other places, and be-
SIDES, the water begins already to trouble them
and we noticed two-horse pump at work. at
the upper extremity, where the water from the
upper extremity, where the water from the
Lake has to force itself through a wide. unbro.
Ken wall OF sand stone. Outside of this natur-
al breakwater the upper Coffer-dam is being
built.-Lake Superior Journal.
"FROM THE CRADLE TO THE GRAyr',-We COT,
day or two since on Main street. fair haired
interesting looking boy of some six or seven
years. helplessly drunk, in The act of being lft.
ed into wagon, by his father, and rolled I'm
der the feet Of a drunken companion, The
lookers-on drew back involuntarily. at the de-
basing spectacle, and humanity blushed at its
own degradation. 1t might we'll do So The
future OF that bOy,--is it not, in prospect, a
dreary and sorrowful one Spring field Re
publican.
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Es- A young man at Paoli. Ind, ran away
with Miss Williams for the purpose of getting
married. The father of the girl pursued them
and shot the young man. the ball passing thro
the fleshy part of the thigh. The wound was
not considered dangerous. Williams was ar
rested, and gave bail for his appearance.
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Scpt.l,'5i
That part of the original Military Rcserv-
alton at Fort Smelling, or the left bank of the
Mississippi River. was sold yesterday at 81. %
per acre, being Acres 4,5O3- 80 - 81, 25=S5,-
629 IS. The time occupied in the sae'was 50
minutes, and by one o'clock Z. NJ, the receipts
were all issued, and purchasers gone home.
Very respectfully
your ob't servant.
Y. VI. FULLERTON,
Sept. II, 1854. REGISTER
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DEATH OF 4 DISTINGUISHED MAN.

PHILADELPHIA, Sept. S.
Dr. Robert N. Patterson late Direct tor of the
=. S: Mint, died in this city to-day. He was
PRESIDENT of the American Philosophical Socie-
~. and has held Professorships in the Uuiyersi-
ties OF Pennsylvania and Virginia
The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1854-09-23

Iowa ELEcTIoN.-In the first Congressional
district of Iowa, Hall the Democratic candi-
date is elected by III majority. Other returns
stand officially as heretofore published.
The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1854-09-23

Mrs. Partington advises all young people at
ficted with preparation Of the heart, to apply
the cataract of mustard, to draw out the ntor
nation and she says she has never known a
failure where this device was followed.
The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1854-09-23
VERMONT ELECTION.

MONTPELIER, Sept. G..
The majority for the Wing candidate for Co.
vernon viii exceed 5000. The Legislature
VIII bc wing and Anti-Ncbraska which secures
. U. 5. Senator to fill the vacancy.
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Total since January s., PSI 1888
The exports Of specie from the |. S. for this
year bid fair to reach ;i0,000000.
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Gs- The City WAS disgraccd Oh Thursday
night by the presence Of several drunken In
dians-a fit subject ofattcntion by the Grand
Jury, which is now in session.
The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1854-09-23

70 An ingenious New Hampshire yankee
has recently obtained patent for holding
cows tails still during the operation of milk
ing.
The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1854-09-23

DANGERors.-At point along the plank
sidewalk on st. Anthony street, just below the
junction of Hill street. the walk crosses a IA
vine running down the bluff The side next
the river is provided with a railing, while the
opposite side has not yet been ''fcnced in
Thursday evening, after dark, Il man stepped
overheard, and sliding under the walk. was
precipitatcd over ncarlya perpendicular bluff
some thirty feet. The railing should be put up
Immediately.
The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1854-09-23

FRosr-We had Il slight springlc' of white
frost on Thursday night, but not sufficient to
leave scarcely 4 perceptible mark upon the
most tender of the growing plants.
The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1854-09-23

81 know every rock Oh the coast" cried the
Irish pilot, when the ship then bumped, land
that's one of thcm.'
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THE CATHOLIC POPULATION IN New YoRK.-
The New York Freeman S Journal aifirms that
the number of Catholics by birth or baptism
in New York is nearly ifnot quite onehalf the
population of the city. The Tribune estimates
the number at one fourth the population.
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mat one Oi tNcnl.
1,E- The following is found in the report OF
the proceedings Of the Connecticut Legislature
Bill to tax geese and bachelors, taken up.
Mr.. Harrison was opposed to the provision tax
ing bachelors. There was tax laid already
upon goose, and any man who had lived
twenty-five years without being married, could
be taxed under that section. The bill was in
definitely postponed
Jns- In Greenbrcr county, Virginia, about
fourteen miles from Lcwisburg, was living q
family named Graham-Joscph Graham, his
wife, four sons, and daughter about forty
years of age, named Jane. Jane had an lille
gitimate daughter, Cher father left her $4,000. }
who married Mr.. Miller of Nicholas, to whom
one of the young Grahams wrote that her mo-
Their was as black as hell and rotten as carron.
and his wife no better. The consequence was
separation. Jane, full of vengeance, set fire
disappeared. 1t being suspected that she met
with foul play, search was made, and her body
found in the bushes within short distance Of
where the barn stood. No doubt the Grahams
had murdered her after she had fred the barn,
and carried her body to the place where found ::
yet the coroner's jury brought in verdict,
" came to her Death by some unj:nouM means ~
The reason given Ivy the jury for such verdict
was, that it would be endungcring their lives
to say any thing against the Grahams.
countryman was passing along one of the
streets ofBaltimore with his wagon a few days
since, when one of his wheels came off, and he
discovered that a Inch pin was gone. After
searching for it some time he offered the bows
who congregatcd shilling to find it, They
then Joined i'll the search and in u few minutes
one OF them brought him what he supposed to
be the pin. Having adjusted the wheel. he
paid the shilling and started oil. but had not
gone more than half block before a wheel ON
the other side came off. when he discovered
that the young rascal had stolen the pin from
one of the other wheels to obtain the reward.
r Horatio Seymour was nominated by the
Democratic Softs, for reelection. at their Con-
vention in Syracuse on the 9th inst. An eff
fort was made to haruonze the two sections of
the party, but ii was failure.
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.rIs- The value of the hotel property and
their furniture, in the city of New York, is cs-
tmatcd at Sl2, $4,000.
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.Ea- A daily Stage is now running between
La Crosse and Black River Falls.
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WHERE THE SPECIE GOES. - The Newly ork
Journal of Commerce gives the following state
mcnt of the exports of specie from New York
for 1854 to August 18th:
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Eay- The Luclla was at Saltwater ycstcrda.
afternoon, and will leave st. Paul to-day.
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Col. BENTON FOR THE PREsIDENCY.-Ihe St
candidate for the Presidency.
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EH- The Alhambra, the new Galena and
Minnesota packet neat and elegant low wa
ter boat, Capt. p. Lodwick in command-ar-
rived last evening at five o'clock. She leaves
this morning at nine.
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What is the difference between Northcrncr
and Il Southcrncr?
Ans.--Onc blacks Ills own boots and the
other boots his own blacks
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nS- The Land Sales in the Willow River
District, (Wis.,) are now going of. Several Of
our citizens are absent attending the Sales.
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gr Horatio Seymour was nominated by the
Democratic Softs, for reelection. at their Con-
vention in Syracuse. on the 9th inst An eff
fort was made to harmonize the two sections Of
the party, but il was Il failure.
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TO The Milwaukee Sentinel has careful
statement of the loss by the recent fire in that
city ; the amount OF which is 1881 ,9O0---
Amount reinsurance. S233,O5O
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!" The case Of Hezlep against Selby, which
had been occupying the District Court for two
or three days was yesterday decided by the jul
~ bringing in a verdict for the defendant -
Emmett L. Moss for Hczlep, Rice, Hollinshead
& Becker and Masterson for defendant.
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~ Rain appears to have fallen recently in
almost all portions of the country. as far west
Newspapers in almost all the large towns in
cudcd within these bounds, speak of it as of
incalculablc benefit, and in terms of grateful
acknowlcd cement.
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Ei'- c. c. Washburne. Esq, OF Mineral
Point Wisconsin, is spoken of as the Anti-Nc-
braska candidate for Congress in the district
now represented by Mr.. Eastman Mr.. W. is
a lrothcr of Hon. Israel WasLburne Jr., of
Maine, and of Hon. Z. L. Washburnc of the Ga
lena district, Illinois.
rH- A process is said to have been discov
cred, by which ink can be removed from news
printer a second time.
\ mile or SO from town a gentleman met
boy on horseback, crying with cold. "Why
don't you get down and lead the horse?' said
our friend. "that's the way to get warm "Its
a b-b-borrowcd horse. and I'll ride him if |
freeze"
A COOP MAN-Mr. VIM Warnack, of Green
field, Ohio has taken the Chillicothe Gazette
cOnsccutively for so years, and has always paid
for it in advance.
MORE SHEEP--NORTHERN WISCONSIN, &c.-A
flock of about 2O00 sheep passed north last
week. The poor animals seemed to suffer much
from dust and heat. At least 10000 sheen
must have passed through this county the pres
ent season, to enrich the northern portion of
the state. The northern counties, particularly
those bordering on Fox river, are favorable for
wool growing, and as that stream affords water
power for the most extensive manufacturing
operations, what cities Menosha, Appleton and
other towns along the Fox will he by-and-by,
when they give employment to spinning jen-
lies and factory girls! Sheep, wool, Jennies
md factory girls--think of that you men of
he Crescent and Advocate Galena Je6ersc-
,ign, |
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MHLrARY.-Wc understand that the several
companies of the Sixth Infantry now stationed
at Forts Ripley and Ridgley, and Maj. Sher-
mans command of Third Artillery, at Fort
Smelling, have been ordered to California. The
forts of Minnesota are to be garrisOned by six
companies of the Second Infantry.
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LAND SALES AT HUDsoN.-Wc learn that most
of the lands advertised in the Willow River
district, were taken by presumption and pur-
chasers previous to the closing of the office on
Saturday evening. A sale of one tract of Min
eral land on Lake Superior was made at $500
per acre. The rest all went off at 81 ,25.
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GS-We notice that Mr.. Woodward is remov-
ing his Extensive Clothing and Tailoring Es-
Establishment form the Winslow House to a store
opposite harrington x Culvcr's, St. Anthony
Street.
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w- Larpentcur's new goods arc arriving
we'll selected and extensive stock just pur-
chased at the East.
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GAIENA AND Chicago UNION RNIROAD--The
regular freight and passenger trains commcnc-
ed running to Scales Mound yesterday. within
l0l miles Of Galcna. Passengers leaving Ga
lena at !, AN. arrive at Chicago at 6.3O. PM;
and passengers leaving Galena at 5. PM. ar
rive at Chicago at 40, AN. Fare through in
lirst-class cars, 50 : second class, SI.-Gaie a
.Idc.