The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1854-10-07

Es- The executors Of Samuel Applleun
Appleton Academy.
BUTrER.-The Boston Courier states that
during the week ending on Friday last, there
arrived in Boston from the country by the
railroads alone no less than three hundred and
fifty sir tons ofbutter.
TO The farmers of Delaware are cutting
corn, and find the yield much larger than was
expected.
gs- Three thousand eight hundred and for
ty acres Of land in the town of Eaton, Manito-
wac Co., Michigan have recently been sold to
company OF 500 Germans. The price was
$50 per acre.
THE MAINE LAW IN CASADA--Fiss~Aoutre
Pilot says that W. Lyon Mackenzie will soon
move in the Canadian Parliament for leave to
bring in bill analogous to the Maine Law, for
the suppression of intcmperaucc.
~ In some of the towns in Ma ssachusctts,
it is said that milk has gone up from five to
of water.
The Bishop of Dubuque, in Iowa, has pub
lished u letter addressed to the Roman Catho-
lies of New England, advising them to move to
the West, where they can live at peace,-Er-
change.
AMERICAN DIAMoNDs.- value of the dia-
mond which has been found lately in Manches-
ter, Virginia, is said to be three or four thou
sand dollars
TO Judge Pollock the Whig candidate for
Governor in Pennsylvania. lately invited
party of politicians in o back room, to give
them a treat. Arriving at the side board, they
found nothing but cake and water.
Ess- The fugitive slave, whom the slave
catchers attempted to seize without a warrant,
has successfully dccamped from Chicago, while
his pursuers are in Jail for attempting his life.
lc- The Washington City Council have re-
fused to enforce the prohibitory liquor law
which received the sanction of the people at
the recent municipal election ofthat city. The
people ought to rule.
SIIIPwRECK AND GREAT Loss OF LIFE.-By late
arrivals from India, news has been received of
the probable loss of the brig Hygean, with sos
passengers and crew, Chinese, bound to San
Francisco; the ship Topaz, with over 200 pas
scnSers, and the ship Lady Nugent, with Ma
dras troops, the whole making loss of eight
hundred hues!
Quo LIQUOR LAw.-The District Court, now
in session at Athens, in Athens county, Ohio,
Judges Whitman, Nash and Peck on the Bench,
have fully sustained the constitutionality of the
Liquor Law passed by the late Legislature.
overruling the decision of Chief Justice Corwin
of the Supreme Court. The opinion was de-
livered by Judge Whitman.
WHO WOULDN'T De A FATHER ?-Thc Utica
Telegraph ofa late date, contains the following
brief but ominors paragraph:
Ha ! ha J! ha y! "It's girl
COUNTY OFrICErs.-Thc only Democrats who
appear to be elected to county offices in Maine
are BENZ. Waterhouse. County Commissioner for
Androscoggin, and Daniel ". Ames, Treasurer
of Somerset. All the rest arc Whigs Morrill,
ties, or Free Solers.
gcS~ Both sections Of the Democratic party
in New York condemn the Administration.
One dislikcs its men, the other its policy.
TIE THIRD DEGREE.-Sevcral professed expo
stions of the First and Second Degrees OF
Know Nothingism, with the oaths, &C., have
appeared. The following processes to be the
oath and accompanying ceremonies Of the
Third Degree:
THE OArH.-"I, Solomon Swipes. (or Snooks.
as the case may bc.) hereby solemnly swear
(told up your right handy this my oath, to en-
dure forever and day after (raise your right
leg) that if l catch a Roman Catholic (shut
your right cye) alone in the woods (bat your
Left or some out of the-way place, (open your
mouth) that will pound him into jelly, or
chop him into sausages. (swallow meat-axe)
will cat him without pepper or SALT (music
king of the Cannibal Isands,") and in this
way endeavor to annhilate the whole tribe of
worthless rapscalions-so help me teapot!
After taking the oath, the obligated person
turns three somerscts. backwards and forwards
which he must do without grunting. under
penalty of summary cjcctment from the lodge
room.
LATER FROM THE PLAINS-A gentleman has
arrived at st. Louis, from a trip across the
Plains. In coming from Salt Lake City, as late
as the Sd of June he encountered snow in the
mountains ten feet in depth. Rains had been
abundant, and less necessity for irrigation than
usual. On the plains there was a scarcity OF