Minnesota weekly times. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1854-1859, 1855-06-19

IRON PAvxnxr.--The New York Tribune has
long article describing sscobble," ssRuss'' and
swoodblock" pavements, and favoring iron for
paving. Iron pavement has been thoroughly test
ed in Boston, and is about to be introduced into
London and Paris by Fox, Henderson & Co.. the
great engineering firm Of England, who built the
first Crystal Palace. The invention of the iron
pavement is the work Of an American. About
six months ago small part of Nassau st., oppo-
site the Post Office, was laid with the new iron
pavement, and though the cobbles on each side
of it have been twice repaired since, yet it looks
as firm, as smooth, and as solid as the day on
which it was laid. The Tribune says:
some Of the great advantages of the iron pave
ment is, that at the end of ten years. use, the
terial of which it is composed will be more yalu-
able than when it was laid down, SO that the cost
of paving the street, will only be so much money
invested, which may at any time be realized by
selling the rough material. But the saving to the
city in n thousand other respects which would re-
suit from the iron pavement, would be incalcula-
BILE, and the greater comfort of our streets, the
increased healthiness of our atmosphere, would
moro than a thousand times repay the cost of the
iron pavement, if it were thousand times great
or than the cobble-stone instead Of being less"
MINNESOTA Acknowledgement is we'll known
in almost all parts of this country and in some
portions of Europe. We can scarcely take up an
exchange paper, no matter where printed, without
some allusion being made in it to our Territory.
We have before us paper printed in Oregon,
'away off across the mountains ho!'' in which the
editor INDUCES in the following strain:
''The progress of Minnesota Territory is truly
wonderful. 1t was organized only six years ago;
thirty counties have Since been laid off, and near
y all organized; the population has increased from
FIVE thousand to thirty thousand or more; the tax
able property of the Territory is estimated for
1855 at 81 100000, wire suspension bridge has
been thrown over the Mississippi river above the
falls of st. Anthony; agricultural societies have
been organized, aad one county has reioiced in
very creditable fair; Territorial University is in
operation, well endowed by Congress, and sys-
tenn of common schools, with efficient superinten-
dents has been established, which guarantees the
future intelligence of the people.''
HORRIBLE AccIDENT-DEATH OF SIX MEN-The
Whitley Qnd.) Pioneer of the Goth ult., has the
following:
informs that one of the most horrible accidents
of the day occurred near that place on Friday
evening, the 18th ult. MIR. Weston and an asso-
ciate had just completed steam saw-mll, and
were in the act of saving their first log, having
run the saw through twice, and had just started
it the third time, when the boiler exploded, kill
ing six men who were in the mill, instantly, and
seriously, if not fatally, wounding the seventh
One of the proprictors who had become alarmed
and had just left the mill when the explosion oc-
Cured, carrying some of the timbers beyond the
distance which he had reached. The engineer
had been cautioned that steam was getting too
high, but, swearing that he knew his own business,
needed not the caution. lie, by some means es-
capped injury by screening himself behind large
beam of timber, near the mill. He is now under
arrest as an impostor, and will have hearing at
next term of the Court in Noble county.