The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1855-08-25

newspapers, anu notices stuck upon trees.
or with the willingness he gave ear to the idle
gossip of idle persons, he would have found Mr..
Marshall had, true to his trust, conveyed to
each individual settler, the lands he had i'm
proved. Nor did he charge the settlers one
farthing for the services rendered them"
FIGHT on THE PLAINs.-We learn from re-
liable source that great battle recently oc
CURED on the Plains north west of us, between
a party of Red River Hunters and war party
of Yancton Sioux. We have no particulars
but scvaral on both sides are said TO have
ben killed and wounded. ss.
The OLMsrED PLATFoRM.-The Pioneer, in
speaking of the German Convention, says:
"a manly letter was received from David
Olmsted. in which he declares himself opposed
to Know-NOthingism. the extension of Slavery,
and the Maine Liquor Law"
Let us have the letter, neighbor. These are
times that require the full record to be spread
before the people.
The GERMAN MovEMENr.-The Pioneer state.
the vote in the German meeting of Tuesday
upon the Delegate question, as between Rice
and Olmsted, to have been as follows:
Olmsted 20
Rlce..... .................... 20
The meeting then adjourned till Tuesday
evening next, to complete its business.
ANOTHER INJUNCTION time ago suit
was instituted in the Superior Court of New
York. by the 1llinoistOwn and Bellevilfe Rail-
road Company, against Page & Bacon, grow
ing out of the sale of bonds of that Company
amounting to $6O0,O00-the Company claim
ing that a large amount was still due to them.
The suit was commenced in the form of an in
junction +; and Oh Saturday dispatch was re-
ceived. stating, "that the injunction was sus-
tanned in full."--.No. Rep. 6.
New PRESIDENT OF LIBERIA--A letter from
President Roberts, dated June Is, and received
on the Sd inst. at the Office of the Massachu-
sets Colonization Society, brings the first
intelligence of the election of the Hon. Stephen
a. Benson, as President of the Republic of
Liberia, for two years, commencing on the first
Monday in January next. President Roberts
had declined reelection. The opposition can
didate was the Hon. Edward J. Roge, a very
active, enterprising and successful merchant,
who emigrated few years since from Indiana.
TO- The secular press Of Kentucky consists
of fifty newspapers published daily, tri-weekly
semi-weekly and weekly. OF this number,
thirty are in the interest Of Sam, being earnest
advocates of the principles of the American
party. Seventeen are favorable to the Sag
NIGHTS party, while three maintain a neutral
position in the political canvass.
WHAT NEXT THE Washington Union says
that recent Investigations in the City of New
York show that the removal of postage stamps
from letters, and then dropping the letters,
unpaid, into the office, is practiccd there to a
great extent, chiefly by the lads with whom
they are sent to be mailed. The stamps thus
fraudulcntly acquired are exchanged for fruits
or other refreshments, and then sold below
their legal value to such as are willing to buy.
One individual has thus bought from the pro-
prietor of a single fruit stand some sixty or
seventy of these stamps.
10 TIE receipts of the Illinois Central
Railroad are coming up. Ii the month of
July they were, in round numbers, $4,000
PRINCE JOHN--The Virginia papers are in a
stew. They have not, like the Wyoming peo-
pie, seen "snaix," but Prince John Van Buren,
has been seen about the Springs of Western
Virginia. All the old political wbalers are out
with harpoOns in hand to take him as if he were
sea serpent. But the less timid reason of the
matter. They think he came to put his thumb
on the Democracy of that region and see wheth-
er it be Hard or Soft.-.N: Y. Times.
rs The great "crib." as it is called, for the
draw of new bridge to rest on, in the river at
Rock Island, Illinois, is five hundred feet long,
and forty feet wide, and requires one million
feet of lumber to build it, and sixteen thousand
yards of rock to fill it. The estimated cost is
$4,000.
ANOTHER DEFALCArIoN.--It is stated by O
correspondent of the New York Post that a
Clerk in the S. Quartermaster's Office al
San Antonio, Texas, is de(aulter for SIS, 200
or $4,000. 1t is alleged that he purchased
property, farms, stock and negroes freely, and
kept table at cost of not less than 81, 06(
per annum, on a salary of $40 or $50 pc,
month He is under arrest.
A SMART OLD MAN.-Mr Peter Judkins oil
Palmyra, formerly of Brentwood, N. H., who il