The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1855-11-24
SAINT PAUL. MINNESOTA, SATURDAY NOVEMBER "a 1856

The ARcrIc.-Capt. Sam Whiting, of th
steamer Arctic, furnishes the Buffalo Ex
press with an account of the search after DR.
Kane and party, from which we make tn,
, following extract:
ARCTIC SCENERY.
despair of giving you an adequ te idle.
OF the beauty, sublimity, and grandeur o
the scene while running along the coast O
Greenland. On our starboard beam, the
bleak and snow-crowned mountains rose
5000 feet in height, with not sign of tree
or verdure to relieve the widespread desola.
ton. Turning the eye seaward, there, sleep
ing on tranquil Ocean, mrror-like in aspect
and power of reflection, floated the towering
bergs, of endlsss varieties of shapes and sizes
Picture to yourself some hundred huge spe.
cimens of architecture, from the remotest
ages of antiquity down to the present grand
castles with their turret walls and DEMON
keeps, and holy ministers with their sky
ward pointing spires, all of the purest Parian
marble, and glttering beneath the dazzling
brightness of the perpetual sunlight, and you
may possibly form some idea of the scene.
Of the Pack ice, you have a fine annual spe-
cimen on old Erie's bosom, by magnifying it
thousand fold, but the bergs are almost in
conceivably beautiful and grand. One morn
ing scene 1 shall not soon forget. It had
been misty through the earlier part of the
night, but cleared up bright and cold towards
morning. As the sun burst through the
haze, oar little craft looked like an Ocean
Queen in coronation robes, unparalleled by
any of earth's proudest Sovereigns. Our
top-gallant sail and rigging formed tisra
respondent with pearls and diamonds of
purest water, while the braces, with their
pendant frost work, glittered in Aurora's
beams like the cestus of Venus fresh from
her Ocean toilet.
E The City of Troy, N. Y, has SUBJ
scribed $4,000 to endow College for the
People, to be built in that city, and $4,000
additional has been subscribed in other parts
of the State. 1t is necessary to raise the
sum of two hundred thousand dollars before
regarding the enterprise as complete, as it is
intended to make the Institution second to
none n the Union. This enterprise origin
ated with the Methodists, but gentlemen of
all denominations of Christians share in it's
benefits, and contribute to it's funds.
A READY-WITrED MADMAN.-A gentle
man by the name of Man, residing near
mad-house, met one of its poor inmates, who
had broken from his keeper The maniac
suddenly stopped, and resting upon large
stick, exclaimed III.
"Who are you 2"
Tho oont1oY,,o, %boy o1o I,,k
thinking to divert his attention by pun, he
replied:
81 am double man. am Man ty name,
ard a ,iian by nature."
care you, so ?'' rejoined the other; II am
man, beside myself so ws two will fight you
two"
GRAvITATIoN.-T The President of the
British Association for the advancement of
science, in his opening address at the yearly
scientific gathering lately held at Glasgow,
stated as one of the results of Rosse's teles-
cope, that for the first time since the days
of Newton, suspicion has arisen in the
minds Of astronomers that laws other than
that of gravitation, may bear rule in space
and that the nebula phenomena revealed to
us by that telescope, must be governed by
forces different from those of which w-e have
any knowledge.
E& The Vermont Senate has passed
resolution authorizing the Governor to ap-
point an agent to go to Michigan to obtain
the sword, pistol, and military garments
once belonging to Ethan Allen.
e. The United States have just recov-
cred Judgment of between of $l4, 900 and
Sl5 900 against Mr. Hyde, the Collector of
the port of Detroit, Mich, under the late
Administration. The suit has been pending
some time.
| MINERAL POINT The con-
tracts for the completion of this railroad have
been let to responsible parties, who guaran-
tee it's completion at an early day. JohnM.
Keep, ESQ.,, of Beloit, has contracted for the
grading, the masonry and the bridging, and
the remainder of the ties not already on the
ground, all of which will be completed by
the lst of April next. Mr.. A. Wilkins, of
Pittsburgh, has ontracted to finish the iron,
lay the track, uild depots, &C., and furnish
the rolling stock of the road, which he will
deliver in running order to the Company, on
the lst of December, 1856. 1t is anticipated
that the contractor will have it finished early
in August next, and will make fine spccu-
lation from the use of the road, before he
delivers it to the Company.--Galeno AdU.
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Mr.. FILLMORE IN AUSTRALIA recent
Vienna letter says -" Mr.. Millard Fillmore,
late President of the United States, visited
this capital during the present eek. 1t is
to be regretted that the illness of a member
of his family curtailed his visit, and prevent
ed its exceeding the very moderate limit of
three or four days. Mr.. Fillmore was re-
ceived with marked attention by the Impe-
rial Ministers, and others at present in this
capital. Parties were at once improvised to
mark his presence here and it was matter
of regret to a very high parsonage that sthe
Emperor himself was not in Vienna to mark
by his personal attention, the satisfaction he
felt at the visit of one who, though elected
by universal suffrage to the presidency Of
twenty-four millions of republicans, had yet
during the eventful years of l848-9-50-51
carefully eschewed all foreign Intervention
and in every way avoided complicating the
4 troubled affairs of continental Europe"
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