Minnesota weekly times. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1854-1859, 1854-06-06

TRIP TO THE FALLS OF ST. ANTHoNY.-The
most generous and attractive railroad excursion
party that ever was got up in this country, is in
progress of arrangement for next month. The
Chicago and Rock Island Railroad, connecting Mt
Chicago, and hence the Atlantic shores, by rail,
with the upper Mississippi river. was recently
C m?leted and opened to public travel and by
way of celebrating so important an event, and
Introducing to public information the route and
country thus opened to travel and improvement,
the Directors propose to make party of about
400 invited guests, ladies and gentlemen, over the
road from Chicago to the river, and there embar-
king them on board two elegant steamboats, ex-
prcssly chartered for the occasion to convey the
whole party up the Mississippi to st. Paul in
Minnesota, or near the Falls of st. Anthony, and
thence to the point of starting. The journey on
the river is expected to occupy to ten days,
and will form the principal, and certainly most
delightful, feature of the excursion. The party
is to start from Chicago, June 9Th, and guests
from the Eastern States arc furnished with free
tickets to and from Chicago over either of the
railroad routes between New-York city and that
point. Many distinguished citizens of the coun-
try are expected to be of the party-editors, sa-
vans aud politicians and the annals of railroad
excursions will secure from its history their
brightest pages. From three to four weeks will
probably be exhausted in the trip by those who
join in it from this region.-Springield Repub-
icdf.
CO Since the above was written, new, and
more extensive arrangements have been made and
announced in the city prints.
The WARD CAsE.-The Appletons of New York
have published the testimony and speeches in the
trial of Matt. Ward, for the murder of Butler
The n. Y. Times publishes a communication from
an eminent criminal lawyer in which the writer
gives the conclusions that he arrived at upon a
careful perusal of the book. He saws:
have just finished close perusal Of the APP
pleton pamphlet upon the Ward trial. l had
previously abstained from reading the telegraph
ic and newspaper reports, because | understood
in advance from professional friend in Louis
vile, that stenographic report would be pub
hshed II have known the accused for some years,
and was rather prepossessed in his favor. 1t must
be conceded then, that came to the perusal of
the evidence with fair frame of mind. You,
who have my name, know very we'll that am not
wholly without experience at the criminal bar.
and that my conclusions have some possibility Of
correctness. MY conclusions are these:
First-That the homicide was unqualified MUIR
der.
Second-That the bearing of the Judge evinced
peculiar bias in favor of the prisoner.
ThIrd-That the course of the counsel for the
defence betrayed q determination to acouit at
all hazards of evidence, law and gentlemanly
feeling.
Fourth-That the jury, under the tone of the
Judge, and the extraordinary admission of the CO.
defendants testimony, and the unwonted license
gwen to the advocates for the defence, are not
to be blamed for their verdict.
These conclusions the writer undertakes to SUBJ
stantlate by reference to the state of facts dis
closed by the book, and by the citation of legal
authority.