The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1854-10-14
The PrOhibitOry Liquor Law.

/ IRE are fOI JUTcceT
The Prohibitory Liquor Law.
! NEwHAvEN. Sept. q.
a town meeting was held in this city for the
purpose Of deciding by ballot whether an APP
preparation should be made from the town
treasury for the purpose of furnishing an agent
the necessary funds to sell liquor according to
provisions of the prOhibitory liquor law. 1t
was test question between the friends and
opponents of the law, and much excitement
prevailed. There were 3.O53 votes polled; L.
$40 OF which were tor an agency. and l.IO7
against it; leaving majority of 239 in favor
of the appropriation. The friends of the law
rejoice and its opponents feel disheartencd.
Wreck of Steamship City of Philadelphia.
HALIFAX, Sept. %.
The New steamship City of Philadelphia,
Capt. Lcitch. which left Liverpool on the 3Oth
August. on her first trip for Philadelphia, was
stranded Off Cape Race, on the 9Th inst.
| The passengers and crew were all saved, and
$40 of them arrived here this morning, the rest
remaining at St. John. n. f., awaiting CON
| vcyancc.
The cargo was being landed in q damaged
condition.
The vessel, it was thought, would prove a to-
tai loss.
| At The time Of the disaster they were eight
days and few hours from Liverpool.
! The vessel is valued at S2O0,OOO, and is fully
insured in England.
| The City ofPhiladclphia was running at the
rate of ten knots an hour, when, at Ii o'clock
Z. NJ, the weather being dark and rainy, she
she struck on Cape Race. She was backed Off
and run aground in Chance Cove, miles north
! of Cape Race, where she lies in three fathOms
water, with about eight feet of her stern turn
ed. and a hole in her bottom. The influx of
water cXtinguished her fires before she ran
aground. Her cargo is valued at eco, 900. All
in the lower hold was damaged. The Tele-
graph COmpanys steamer brought her pasScn-
ger, to st. John \. f.. and left again to render
every assistance possible.
PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 2
/ Jonathan Russell. a broker of Chautaque
c )unty, n y, was swinded out of Sl.lOO last
evening, by two sharpers practising the ball
game and inducing him to loan his money, Civ
him worthless check of 5 500 for his sccuri-
| ty.
/ BALTIMORE, Oct. 2.
! New Orleans papers of Wednesday are re-
ccivc'l. Total deaths for the week, sol, of
which 3Il were from fever.
Letters contained in late New Orleans pa
| pcrs, give us late news of the commcncc ment
Of the Revolution. Every confidence was en-
tcrtained at IasOhed of the entire success of the
opponents Of Santa Anna.
Rulnors have reached MOnicleva that the
governors ofZacatccas, San Louis Po,os and
New Nciun. were against Santa Anna. Prep
arations were being made at Zongro foY an
outbreak.
NEW York, Oct.2.
The screw steamer Petrol. from Glasgow Of
the 18th. arrived this morning.
DR.. RObt. Graham, indicted for murder has
been arraigncd.
The correspondent of the Tribune asserts
that large loan to Austria has lately been ne
gotatcd in the name and through the .imcri
can Minister at the Hague, MY. Belmont for the
Rothschids.
The London correspondent of the Times says
that Mr.. Buchanan will resign his Office of Min
lister to England in July next.
Providence, Sept. -.
Rev. Dr. Thomas. of Hartford. was this morn
ing elected a Bishop of the Episcopal Church
orders. Afcr which the Convention adjourn
ed sine die.
BosToN, Sept 30.
Letters received by the America, dated CSr-
ton. July "a. report that the insurgents were
still besieging the city in great force. and that
trade, in consequence, was almost suspended.
The friends of Mr. King. formerly Collector
OF San Francisco. who is charged with delalca-
ton. have come forward and given ample sccu-
rity for the same.
BOsToN, Sept. 90.
Thomas Casey was executed in the Jail yard
at East Cambridge. shortly after ten O'Clock
this morning, for the murder of Ar. and Mrs.
Taylor. at Natick. some eighteen months ago.
He made 10 speech. and died very hard, show
ing signs of life forty minutes after the drop
fell. Ills age was about % years.
CoLuMEuS, SC, Sept. 90.
At Augusta. on Wednesday. there were 5
deaths from yellow fever and eleven new cases
reported.
At Charleston, On Monday, there were only /
three deaths from the fever, and at Savannah, |
ON the same day, seven.
BALTIMORE. Sept 90.
BY the New Orleans papers OF Saturday last,
we have Tampico dates to the 9TH inst.
Ell Commerce. asserts that party of iibus-
ters were preparing TO sail from New Orleans
to seize Tampco. The New Orleans papers
laugh at the affair.
Another Of the men who were shot in the riots
It New Orleans has died, making the sixth life
lost.
ANNAPOLIS, Sept. so.
The L. S. ship Of war Preblc has arrived
here. Officers and crew in good health.
SAVANNAH, Sept. 30.
There is no abatement in the ravaces # tie
fever, nor is the weather ola nature to promise
an early decline of the d seasc Assistance is
daily arriving from other places and the sick
are receiving the best possible care.
INDEPENDENCE, Sept. %
Mr.. VIM Ellis returned last evening from
SCOTS Bluffs. and reports thirty-two men kill
ed, instead of twenty four, in the fight of Lieut..
Hrattan with the Indians. When Mr.. Ellis left,
the Indians were quiet although the traders
anticipated the purpose of going through in
body. Grass was abundant on the plains, with
plenty ofrain. The mail was met forty miles
beyond Fort kcarney
The health of the place is good, and business
IS improving.
A fire in the suburbs last night consumed
lew houses. Loss light.