The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1855-01-27

g9- Jas. W. Harlan has been elected q. S. |
Senator from Iowa, for six years from the 4th
of March next He goes in as the successor of
Hon. A. C. Dodge, who, Notwithstanding his
political sins, has been true and fast friend of
Minnesota since she was first organized as
Territory.
PROGRESS OF THE AGE.-A Grand Jury in
South Carolina has presented the laws against
the African slave trade as apublic grievance.
1t is a much greater grievance that such dom
keys are allowed to sit upon juries at all.
Nr S. NJ. Booth, editor of the Milwaukee
Free Democrat, has received the sum of 81, 500,
from one Henry Burchard, who took the liber-
ty of cowhiding Booth, some months since.
g- Those pestiferous providers, the gipsies,
have at length favored Hardy county, Va,
with visit. They were encamped in consid-
cradle numbers near Moorefeld.
ms- Charles Sigourney, Esq, husband Of
Mrs. L. H. Sigourney died of apoplexy in Hart
ford.
rs A female grog seller has been sent to
Jail, in Pittsburg, to await trial for giving Ii
quor to an habitual drunkard, after being for
hidden by his friends. The wife of the drunk
ard was the complainant.
rs Mr.. Cornelius Vanderbilt intends, it is
said, to have six or eight large steamships
built, to ply between New York and Liver
pool and Havre. Two are to be ready for sea
the coming spring.
~ Mr.. William L. Jones, of Minot, Me-,
has recently sailed from California, VIA Cape
Horn, under appointment as missionary.
.ga- The First Baptist Church in Hart
ford has been sold to an importing house for
$4,000.
u.s. NJ. Verney, one of the most distinguish
ed Protestant ministers of Paris, died recent
ly whilst deliveringa powerful discourse on
Christian doctrine in the session of the General
Consistory at Strasburg. He was a man OF
eminent learning and piety, and his loss will
be deeply felt by the Evangelical Protestants
of France.
rs The condition of the Methodist con-
gregations of Michigan is thus set forth: mem
bers, 1899 probationers, 2,24l local preach
ers, 231 churches 1873, valued at s246,OOO
parsonages 81, valued at s46,73O; collections
Ng The Liverpool Albion of recent date
says: Yesterday morning. Sunday the
Rev. W. H. Charming, of New York, (nephew
and biographer of the celebrated DR.. Claiming
who has been appointed to fill the pulpit tenn
porarily vacated by the Rev. ]. H. Thorn,
preached his first sermon since his arrival in
this country to crowded congregation. The
reverend gentleman bears a very strong re-
semblance to his distinguished relative.
EXPENSES OF THE WAR.-The Paris cores
pendent of the National Intelligencer says that
common loan of ], 000, 900, 900 francs $751;
,OOO,) is to be raised by the French and
English governments, for the purpose of the
war-of which loan the English government is
to guarantee three fourtbs, and the French
one-fourth. AS an offset to this inequality, it
is understood that France is to furnish about
the same proportion of men and blood, which
England furnishes oftreasure. Both Govern
ments appear to be bracing themselves up for
a severe struggle.
The military budget of Russia for 1854, cal
culated for the maintenance of an effective
force of from 500, 900 to 600, 900 men. amounted
to 100000 silver roubles for the army, and
IA, 100000 for the navy. NJ. Tegoborski points
cost of each soldier in the Russian army to be
100 roubles or 400 francs; whilst in France
the maintenance of each soldier is estimated at
$50 roubles or 1000 francs.
MD- Measures are in operation for the
speedy establishment of a Universalist theolog-
ical school in New York. The sum REQUIRED
for this purpose is $4,000, of which $4,000
has been subscribed in New York city alone.
u.s. The receipts of the American Baptist
Missionary Union, up to the present time, ex-
coed those of last year by $4,000.
E1> Mrs. NJ. S. White. widow of the late
Rev. Joseph White, of the Baltimore confer
ence Of the M. E. Church, recently deceased,
left a bequest OF 81, 600 to the Methodist Mis-
sionary and Preachers Society
MURDER AND RETRIBUTIoN-A wealthy and
highly respectable planter Of Alexandria, La,
named John A. Young, was lately murdered in
daylight, while riding on the public highway
The, Alexandria Democrat gives the following
facts -" A few days subsequent to the MUIR
der, a man named Witzel, who lives so11e ff.
teen miles below Trinity, came to town and
stated that he believed the murderer of Mr..
Young was staying at his house, and requested
a warrant for his arrest which, for some rea-
son, he failed to obtain. Witzel returned home
and on the next day ordered the supposed MUIR
derer to leave his house, which the latter refus-