The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1855-10-20
SAINT PAUL MINNESOTA, SATURDAY OCTOBER 90 1855 -

-SpUNKr AND Enthusiastically in AL
ALBANIA wrote to Horace Greeley to know
he had ever joined the Know-N othings. Mr.
Greeley wrote back:-Sir 81 never was con
ciously within a mile of q Know-Nothing
lodge, and never could have been induced tt
join one on any account. By placing youl
foot against the author of the silly report
noticed in your letter, you will be certain te
AieA "a = great Har. er's 1see tses,ala za.i Il
/ GRAND TRUNK RAILwAY.-It is expected
that the entire line of the Grand Trunk Rail
way, from Montreal to Toronto, will be ready
for the cars as early as the first of next Jan
uary. The link between Montreal and Que
bee is already completed. That between To-
ronto and Hamilton soon will be; SO that
next season there will be one continuous road
frow Quebec to the Detroit river. Is
g A matter-of- fact friend of ours, some
five years father, speaking of the return a
childshould make parent, said thathe didn't
think, as children behaved nowadays, that
they paid three cents on a dollar of what
they owed Of affection and gratitude.
E Henry Dolde, an old and respect
able citizen of st. Louis, baker by trade,
was stabbed on Wednesday evening by a
man named Schaal, and it was feared, NOR
tally wounded. Schaal has been arrested.
KossUTH ON THE FALL OF SEBAsroYoL.--
Kossuth, in letter to the New York Times,
says: 4" The taking at Sebastopol decides
nothing, solves no custom, and brings moth
ing to an end. Quite the reverse. Success
at Sebastopol will make peace impossible
will rather marguerite real protracted war.
That will be the inveritable beginning of the
war, but not the beginning of the end"
GRAEr PEDESTRIAN FEAr.-A man named
c. L. Curtis has undertaken, at St. Louis, the
great feat of walking 1856 miles in as many
consecutive hours. He has already perform
six days Of his journey and it is thought may
h I'D out to the end. He is describe as
man Of digni6ed and prepossessing appear
ance, of cultivated and winning manners, and
intelligence Of a high order to which are uni
ted a physique Of great muscular power, agile,
1.-THE, symmetrical, aud possessed of all the
tokens of wonderful endurance.
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A Sw1NDLE-The Chicago Press warns
its readers against the operations of persons
who call themselves general Northwestern
Mutual Land Agents." and whose circulars,
scattered through the country, are signed
" Leland Barnes & Co, box $50, Chicago
P. o." ~
1t looks like another of the great humbuss
of the day, got up to fleece fools.
e. the Buffalo Advertiser of the LIST
inst. says: During eighteen hours of Satur-
night and yesterday, 552, 100 bushels of grain
and 1O087 barrels of -four arrived at this
port. During last week, 62,Oo0 barrels of
-four were received. Surely starvation is
coming in wholesale. sdr sees .afi
e After much persuasion, MIL Rachel
has consented to sing the Marseillaise in
New York. 7s
CONTENTION IN kANsAs.-The st. Louis
Democrat, of Friday last, publishes the sub
joined call and adds that the proposed Con-
vention is to meet on the 4th Tuesday of Oc-
tober, will Immediately frame Constitution
and will submit the same to the people with
in 30 days after their adjournment:
THE PEOPLES CALL FOR CONVENTION
The citizens of the Leavenworth election dis
trict are requested to meet at the City of
Leavenworth /; on Thursday, Sept. q, 1855,
at IL o'clock, M, for The purpose of nomina-
ting six Delegates to a Convention to form a
State Constitution. All persons who are in
favor of forming Constitution preparatory
to making application to Congress, for admis
sion into the Union as State, are earnestly
solicited to attend. By order of the Execu-
tive Committee. s-T
e The work of tearing down the
/" town house" of Gen Washington, on Cam
eron ST., Alexandria, Va, is now in progress.
In the erection of this building, it is said,
Washington was his own architect, and much
of the work was performed by his family SER
wants. The house, for nearly twenty years,
has been occupied by the Misses Jordan,
whose grandparents were neighbors of Wash
ington. Numbers of persons have been per-
mitted by Mr.. Benjamin Waters, the owner,
to secure portions of the frame work as rel
les.
e The Buffalo Commercial Advertiser
understands that railroad agent at Cleve-
land, who has had the lingering of consid-
cradle sum of money belonging to divers rail-
road companies, has for some time past been
giving vent to his sporting" proclivities,
and been done outn of several thousands
of dollars within short time. "A few nights
since the +" faro " table asorbed about So, 600
belonging to a railroad company in this Sec
ton, by well known blackleg of Cleveland.
The attempts made to arrest the individual
who awon the money" were unsuccessful,
for the winner had fed. 'ss saet
AppoInTMENT-The President has APP
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