The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1854-05-13

ns- By one of the boats from below this
week, the many friends of Maj. Alexander
Lieut.. Nelson and Lieut.. Magrudcr-all form.
erly of Fort Snelling-had the pleasure of wei.
coming them back to Minnesota. Lieut. Magru-
der leaves to-day to join his Company (Which
went down by the Minnesota Belle) at Fort
Leavenworth, preparatory to taking up the
line of march for New Mexico, where it will
hereafter be stationed. lie leaves Minnesota
with the regrets of a host of friends who de-
plore his separation from them, and accompany
him with their best wishes for happy and
brilliant career wherever his duty may call
him.
TO- The Post Office fraud said to have been
practsed by two members of Congress. turns
out quite differently from the telegraphic ac-
counts The following will set the matter
right:
| A singular abuse of the tracking privilege
and fraud upon the Post Office has come to
! light. a packer for two members of Congress.
and authorized to use their names for ranking
documents. has been detected selling frankcd
envelopes at fifty cents per hundred. A claim
agent purchased lot, and enclosed eleven
hundred circulars. to pass through the city
| post office. when an invcstig CATION led to the
detection of the fraud. The matter has been
compromised.
CINCINNATI, May 4.
Hon J. J. Crittenden is severely condemned
by the community in consequence of his vol
untecring in defending Ward.
y public nicotine WAS held Mt Harrison Ind
resolution was offered requesting the agricul-
/ tural association to withdraw their request
that Mr.. Crittenden should deliver the annual
address.
The Kentucky papers are full of particulars
! OF meetings to denOunce the Wards and are
calling on Crittenden to resign. The Ward
family have left Louisville and the whereabouts
OF the murderer is not kaown.
|, n LETTER FROM TIE TURKISH CAMP-PRICE OF
I'PROvlsloSs At THE SEAT OF MARA corrcspon-
dent Of of the Philadelphia Bulletin writing
from the Turkish camp at Widdin, gives the
price of provisions at the scat of war; Cheap
enough:
WIDDIN. March 10 1854.
We are obliged to keep house for ourselves,
being CHARTERED on the Bulgarians at the seat
| of war. This gives me good opportunity to
know the prices and their changes. Of course
this is a matter Of great interest and mror-
lance, where the Sultan has nearly couple of
hundred thousand men to feed between us and
Stamboul and the English and French will soon
have alt as many more.
Everything here is sold by weight NV SER
want bought to-day excellent red wine giving
two cents for q lbs. 1.-TWO and three quarters
pounds) write words lest you should sup
pose mistake in the figures. This of course is
not far FROM but less than two cents q quart,
and the wine is excellent. For six cents the
Okla, (Which is "a Eiennese. and nearly q lbs.
EnSlIsh,) you get what the Bulgarialls call
fine, strong, two years old white wine of supe-
ror quality. All the Europeans here drink
the other common wine daily, as the dearer sort
is great luxury, and no one complains of its
quality The two cents a quart wine is not as
good as the Monte Pulciano which | drank is.
Rome in 1880, and falls below Laceryme Chris
tt; but it is infinitely better than any table wine
which saw in Italy, even once, during five
months in 1852.
Bread enough for two lahorer's dinners, OR
q lbs, is now purchased for two cents. Cap
ital beef costs five cents for q lbs. Eggs are
still very dear, being halfa cent each l saw
priest to-day paying high price for a large
fat duck, which he bought alive. as usual, of
peasant woman. under my window, for 16 cents.
\ fine fat chicken. now difficult to procure and
therefore dear, costs from six 10 eight cents on
must try aud believe what follows The peo-
pie ar complaining of the enormous rise in the
price of provisions. and the papers abroad-for
there is not one in Bugaria--are filed with ac-
counts Of the famine prices at Widden, and so
it is. For II lbs. or over quart of good wine
was sold eighteen months ago, for less than one
cent.
AS to beef, and the best, (for it is as good as
You find out of England, in any part of Eupope.}
it was sold in great pieces, without stopping to
weigh it. a goose if we'll fatted, would have
commanded II cents. and in one of my letters
recently mentioned that our Serbian coachcc
would not suffer me to be cheated by giving 25
cents for as fine and fat turkey Though small
six and seven lbs.,) as l ever saw in England CT
America.
A MODEL SrEECH.-Gcorge W. Snow having
been unanimously reelected City Clerk of
Bangor. made the following admirable speech ::
'Gcntlemen: Iou have given me all your
votes and give you all my thanks. | accept
the office and wish you to accept tie thanic.'
1t is said that Miss Cumming the authorcss of
the Lamplighter, only get 10 cents on each copy
sold. which is certainly very pitifull allow
ance; but even at that close mark she has al
ready realized over $1,000.
The neatest style Of fashionable pantaoons
in New Y ork is described as light grey ground
with the castle of IIcidelburg in dark blue. on
one leg. and Mount Nesuvius vomiting crth
fire on the other
MARRIED,
In Lockport, NJ y. the Doth ult., By Rev. o. F.
Starkey, WARREN BRISTOL, ESD, st. Paul, for
merly OF L., Ito Miss LOUISA CAROLINE ARMSTRONG,