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

SpUNKT AND DEcIsrvE.-Someboly in AL
ALBANIA wrote to Horace Greeley to know j
he had ever Joined the Know-Nothings. MI
Greeley wrote back:-Sir;- never was con
ciously within mile of Know-Nothin,
lodge, and never could have been induced t,
JOIN one ON any account. By placing You
foot against the author of the silly repor
noticed in your letter, you will be certain t.
kick great liar" ..-....--.. .-
GRAND Trunk RA1LwAY.-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.
81 A matter-of-fact friend of ours, some
five years father, speaking of the return a
child should make a parent, said thathe didn't
think, as children behaved nowadays, that
they paid three cents on dollar Of what
they owed Of affection and gratitude.
g. 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 SEBAsTopoL.-
kossuth, in letter to the New York Times,
says: "Thc 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 inaugurate a real protracted war.
That will be the inveritable beginning of the
war, but not the beginning of the end"
GRAET PEDESTRIAN FEAT-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 d as a
man of dignifed and prepossessing appear
ance, of cultivated and winning manners, and
intelligence Of high order; to which are uni
ted physique Of great muscular power, agile,
1.-THE, symmetrical, aud possessed of all the
tokens of wonderful endurance.
A SwINDLE.-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
POP
1t looks like another of the great humbugs
of the day, got up to fleece fools.
20 the Buffalo Advertiser of the 1st
inst. says: During eighteen hours of Satur
night and yesterday, 552, 100 bushels of grain
and 10,O87 barrels of -four arrived at this
port. During last week, 62,O00 barrels of
-four were received. Surely starvation is
coming in wholesale.
After much persuasion, M'll Rachel
has consented to sing the Marseillaise in
New York.
CONVENTION 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 80 days after their adjournment:
THE PEOPLES CALL FOR A 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, NJ, for The purpose of nomina-
ting six Delegates to 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.
EE 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 a railroad agent at Cleve-
land, who has had the lingering of a consid-
erable sum of money belonging to divers rail-
road companies, has for some time past been
giving vent to his "sporting" proclivities,
and been "done out " of several thousands
of dollars within short time. A few nights
since the faro" table asorbed about So, ,OOO
belonging to railroad company in this sec
ton, by well known blackleg of Cleveland
The attempts made to arrest the individual
who "won the money" were unsuccessful
! for the winner had fed.
! APPOINTMENT - The President has ap-