The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1854-05-27

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terday at one o'clock, bringing the first mail
we have had since Monday. A heavy way
freight and the storms. delayed the boat much
beyond her time. She left Galena on Tuesday
with some four hundred tons Of freight, and five
hundred passengers-about two hundred of
which, in the cabin mostly, came through TO st.
Paul Our fellow citizens Messrs. +. Steele, NJ.
S. Wilkinson and Il. Marvin, with several 9TH
ers, came up by this arrival.
RAILROAD PROSPECTS, COOP Gentle m IN di
rect from Washington, who arrived by the Ga
lena yesterday, are of opinion that the Mime
sofa Land Bill for Railroad purposes is now on
the right track, and bound to go through the
very first opportunity that offers for Territorial
business after Nebraska is disposed of.
MURDER ArIaoCK IsTAND.--On Sunday night last.
as we are Informed by passengers on the Galcna,
Rufus Williams, wellknown river pilot, re-
Gently employed on the Greek Slave, attended
German ball at Rock Island While there.
some disturbance occurred between him and
parties who were the more legitimate part;ci-
pants ofthe amusement, which ended in Will
liams leaving the house. \ peaceable man.
who had taken no part in the quarrel, left soon
after for home, with his wife, in order to avoid
any further disturbance which might occur.
AT the door he was met. with his wife on his
arm, by Williams, armed with knife, who
stabbed him TO the heart. The wounded man
dropped dead on the spot. Williams then jump
cd aboard a train of cars, just leaving for the
East, and had not been apprehended at the last
accounts received by our informants.
49, The river has risen, in all. about three
and halffect at this point, and is still on the
rise. The rain continues between intervals,
about two hours in length.
Jcs- Hon. r. NJ Richardson, down from Sank
about two feet at that point when he left The
Gov. Ramsey has commenced her regular trips
between st. Anthony and Sank Rapids.
5ES~ The Golden Era, in at Galcna on Mon
day, reports the Admiration her way up--fast
on the Upper Rapids. The rise, however, will
take her off,
| ~ Gov. Stevens, of Washington Territory,
has arrived at Washington City, and entered
upon his great work of urging forward the
North Pacific Railroad.
;rS>The captain and clerk Of the Galcna
have agian furnished us with late papers in
duly thankful.
| NEBRAsKA.-We are inclined to think the Ne
braska bill is going to pass the IIouse-or rath-
er has passed ere this-nearly in the shape it
came from the Senate. Its opponents appear
determined to 'set up with it late, but VIC ap-
prehcnd no considerable portion of them have
been disposed to heed the revolutionary adj
vice of the New York Tribune, and attempt to
break up the quorum of the House by "bolt-
ing" upon the final passage. The latest adj
vices concerning the Nebraska matt rs We copy
elswhere.
! 10" By recent act of the Wisconsin Lcgis-
lature, where no special agreement is made to
the contrary, fifty-six pounds Of fax-sccd forty
six pounds of timothy secd and sixty pounds
of potatoes shall be called a busllel
| sGE~ \ friend at Cincinnati writes us for in
formation concerning the following statement
which appeared in our columns some weeks
since. All we know about it, is that it was
originally, We are quite certain an extract from
a correspondents letter to the n. Y. Evening
Post, written from somewhere "out west last
winter. 1t appears the matter is attracting
attention among stove manufacturers:
i "The consumption of wood on the open prai-
res. in cold weather, in the locomotives is very
much greater than among the settlements or in
the tmbcred country and the amount of steam
produced much less. A train will leave Detroit
with from twenty-five to thrty-five freight cars,
and from eighty to one hundred pounds of
steam. AS it nears Chicago. on the open pra-
RE, the steam will fall gradually to thirty-five
or forty pounds, and the engine leaving half its
train, runs with the remainder to Chicago. So,
put an iron box stove on the top of one of the
cars on the prairie, let the fire burn intensely,
and the surface of the stove will not burn the
hand laid upon it. It's problem, the solution
of which would make the fortune of an inventor.
how this very rapid loss of heat can lie pre-
vented. p rhaps some of your readers can find
a remedy"
,
the Episcopal Church, officiated at the ccrcmo-
ny of laying the corner stone of y new church
ediice at ShAkopcc, on Wednesday last. The
church is called St. Peters, and when finished
will be quite handsome addition to the nu-
mcrous improvements now going forward in
that thriving village.
IE~Thus far in the trial of Major Wyse, for
refusing to embark his command on board the
1 steamer Falcon, the evidence has been tending
to excuse his conduct, inasmuch as all who have
; examined her testify that she is unscaworthy
The books of nearly all the insurance compa-
MES in the city have her classcd as y ). OF
scratched entirely from their lists.
s. BUTTER FOR Newly oRK.--On Saturday. l5C
v packages of old butter were shipped on board
the Steamer Wisconsin for Lasalic. destined fol