The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1855-10-06

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their hearts content. After the election has
passed, we will quietly sit down with them
and count up 'profit and loss"
HENNEPIN.-The Henncpin Republicans
had two fine meetings at Minneapolis Oh
Tuesday afternoon and evening. Mr.. Will
kinson and Mr.. Marshall addressed the as
sembled crowds, and made good impressions.
Hennepin is Republican, certain and sure.
NEW PAPER.-It is rumored about town
that new Democratic daily paper will make
its appearance this morning.
RED WING.-The Red Wing Land Officers
end VIM. Freeborn are evidently in trouble
at the sure prospect of general cleaning
out'' next Tuesday. We are inclined to
think that Rice and the Land Officers didn't
make much by their speeches on Wednesday
last.
C. Mr.. Champion, the British Minister
at Washington, (says the NewYork Tribune)
whose diplomatic career has hitherto been
so smooth and formal, appears i'll i,ew light
being charged with having broken the
laws of this country in the matter of enlist
ments for the Crimea. Charles Herr and
Edward Fl. Perkins being on their trial III
Philadelphia charged with enlisting soldiers
for that purpose, Max Strobel swore to the
handwriting of Mr.. Howe, General Agent
for the British Government in the United
States, and to that of Mr. Champion, in notes
to the aforementioned Charles Herz-one of
which says :-"With reference to our late
conversation, am now enabled to give some
definite information on the subject to which
it alluded" Another letter was produced
being from Mr.Wilkins, Provincial Secretary
at Nova Scotia, to Her, which mentions
moneys due, claimed by the latter for servi-
ces rendered. Additional kindred testimony
was otfered-the most important being that
of Mr.. Bucknell who carried sealed parcels
from Mr.. Howe to Mr. Herr and Mr.. Cramp-
ton.
The Cabinet has sat upon this business,
and the Washington Star has an article said
to be semi-ofiicial, lkening the affair to that
Of Citizen Genet, which resulted in the Citi-
zen's being deprived Of his office by his Gov
eminent at the requirement of this country.
1t does not seem to us, however, that case
is made out which can justify any action
against Mr.. CHAMPION.
e. Alpheus A. Hanscom has been ar-
pointed Collector for the District of Saco,
Maine, vice Nathaniel NJ. Towle, resigned.
James McFetridge for the District of Min
nesota (Pembina,) Minnesota Territory, vice
Phillip Beauprie, resigned II. G. S. Keye,
of. Maryland, has been appointed Navy
Agent at Baltimore, vice DIR. Briscoe, de-
ceased.
E3 A Western paper says =" In look
ing over the regular published report of the
Kansas Legislature, we find the following
piece of "official business :"-"fwo gentle
men asked leave of absence till Monday
One of them gave as his reason, that he
wanted to go and see Ntaob.
card is signed by several of the most promi-
ncnt merchants of Philadelphia, many of
whom do not sympathize at all with Mr..
Williamson on the Slavery question:
AS Judge Kane, in imprisonng our fellow
citizen, Passmore Williamson, for an alleged
contempt assumes that he has not made a
full and correct return to the writ issued by
the Court: We, the undersigned, who know
Passmore Williamson well, desire to testify
to his entire truthfulness, and to his upright
character, and to express our firm belief that
he is entirely incapable Of evasion or equiv
ocation, under any circumstances. We be-
lieve that if he had a fair trial, such as it
had been supposed. prior to the action of
Judge Kane, that every American citizen is
entitled to, before condemnation on so grave
a charge, that it will clearly appear to every
unprecedented mind, that his return was "the
TRUTH" and entirely correct in all particulars,
without evasion or omission.
e new fashion has been introduced
at Saratoga Married bellies firt now with
their husbands, instead of other people, and
it is considered highly tonish' to do so.-
The unmarried bellies rather like the arrange
ment Who says the world does not move
THE MISSING $5O,OOO-The American
Express Company have received informa-
ton from their agents at Buffalo, Chicago.
Detroit and Dubuque, that the packages re-
ceived here on Friday passed safely through
their hands. The Deputy Z. S. Treasurer,
Mr. Cisco, says the bogus boxes received by
him are precisely similar to the genuine ones,
which he has heretofore received from Du-
buque, and must have been made by the
same maker This affair is. so far mystery,
but probably through the carpenter that
made the boxes, or the merchant who sold
the bullets and lead, some clue will be OBJ
tanned to the parties to this fraud.-M Y
Tribune.
e The st. Joseph Gazette says that
several cases of Cholera, in its most aggra-
waited form, had occurred opposite that city,
in Kansas. Messrs. John Fee, Newton Car
ter and two other gentleman had died within
twenty-fovr hours from the time the first