The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1854-09-09

CHoIERA-Is is estimated that since the ap-
pearance of the cholera at Jessore, in British
India, in 1917, not less than eighteen millions
OF the human family have fallen victims to it :
about fifteen to sixteen millions of whom have
died in India and other parts of Asia, and the
remainder in Europe and America.
BosroN.-The Transcript says that the travel
to Boston from other cities and States is unu-
sually light this summer, and the hotels are the
sufferers. Some of the large houses which were
crowded last year are now not more than half
full.
OFFICIAL CoURTEsIEs.-JudgeP Pepper, of the
18th Judicial District of Tennessee, who was a
blacksmith by trade, lately presented to Gov.
johnson of that State, fire-shovel, made by
the Judges own hands. The Governor accept
ed the present, and being tailor by trade, re-
turned the compliment by cutting and making
with his own hands a coat, which he presented
to the Judge.
tyseven stores with nearly all their contents,
two banks, and about seventy families have
been rendered houseess.
Col. WARREN, OF IOwA.-The Fond du Lac
Herald, abiding to the rumor that Fitz Henry
Warren, of Iowa. may be the next U. S. Sena-
tor from that State. we'll says:
The whole West owes him debt of graft
tude for his efficient and energetic efforts, as
Assistant p. NJ General under Z. NJ. Goldman,
in securing an increase of our mail-service-
Had we such man in that post now, we should
not have the cause for complaint which is SO
throughout the entire West at the
present time.
DEATH FROM DUTY.-An Alderman of New
ark, n. j., having lately died of cholera con-
tracted while attending his duties among the
sick and suffering of the lower classes there.
the City Council has appropriated $500 to his
family and the citizens are raising a subscrip-
ton for them also.
COMFORT FOR Misunderstanding Russians
cannot take our cottons in general, but they
are at least receiving a great many checks
Punch.
G.1- A gentleman from Michigan, known to
have some money, was found dead on the morn
ing of the 2lst ult., on the dock at Cleveland,
with his pockets rifed. 1t is thought he was
murdered.
TERRIBLE FATALITY.-It is now ascertained,
says the Cincinnati Inquirer, that the cholera,
since it first attacked the three hundred Ia
borers ON a section of an Illinois Rail
road, not far from Alton, has carried off over
one-haIf of the whole.
TT The Boston Commonwealth says:-A
person named Mann, in Mercer, Me-, rushed out
of his house as a number of young people, talk
ing and laughing among themselves were pass
ing and discharged gun loaded with shot, in
to their midst, severely though not dangerous
ly, wounding young man named Ruel Green
leaf Mann was, it is said, somewhat intoXicat-
ed at the time. He is Spaniard by birth, anu
cultivated his murderous propcnsities in the
Mexican war. He has been arrested and COM
mitted for trial.
party of gentlemen is to leave this city in
a few days for Minnesota, to explore the lands,
rivers, and lakes, in the region about st. Paul.
Those who have visited that part of the north
west give most glowing descriptions of it. but
still the axiom of. look before you leap is a
safe one, and the gentlemen we speak OF intend
to follow the Observation-Disclosures d., DAILY
Banner.
10 President Hitchcock has resigned the
Presidency of Amherst College. from ill-hcaltb,
He has held the post since lS45.
During the past six months, the material out
of which Wing editorials have been manufac-
tured has been the weakness of the Administra-
Times.
Yes, and there is material enough of the same
sort for the next six months supply. The
strong point of the Administration is its areak-
ness.-Ciereiand Herald.
as- DR.. Olds ofthc Columbus district, Ohio,
has been nominated for reelection. Mr.. o. we
believe, is the only member of Congress who
voted for the Nebraska Bill, that has yet been
able to secure a denomination and Judging
from the spirit of the people of his district,w
are naturally incensed at his vote on that bill,
an overwhelming defeat awaits him in Octo-
Der.
\ DEEP WELL.-The st. Louis Democrat has
the following in regard to the Artesian we'll,
at Belcher's sugar refinery in that city:
"The boring is still in progress, and the au-
CUR has at length reached the great depth of
220O feet. said to be the deepest of any similar
well in the world" The Democrat says:
AT the depth of 600 feet vein of salt wa
ter was struck, and at 1900 feet an immense
vein of sulphur water burst forth, which has
been running ever since its discovery in a large
stream from the mouth Of the we'll. The water
is the same as that of Blue Lick Springs, in
Kentucky, and possesses purity and freshness
of taste quite superior to that which reaches us
in barrels and casks. 1t is carried off by large
sewer leading to the river. 1t seems too waste
full that such profuse quantities of this celebra-
ted water should be permitted to flow away,