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The weekly Minnesotian., 1855-03-10
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Proper & Wilcox.

Practical Surveyors and General Land Aqents,
Office, with Hanson, AttorneyatL Second street
near the . Land Office, Minneapolis, Minnesota Ter
SURVEYING and Plating Of all descriptions done with
~ accuracy Particular attention given to surveying
and locating lands in the pineres and else
where In the territory Gold and land are in re-
quest, investment. made negotiated collections
made and taxes paid agencies solicited Strangers and
cltzens wishing to ocate sell purchase lands are in
vted TO call Claimants make advantageous arrange
ments with us for their purchase money Valuable prop
erty now and always hand in the embryo cities OF
Minneapolis st Anthony and st Paul; also, Improved
farms, rural and pine lands, all OF which we offer ON the
most liberal terms We respectfully solicit and hope to
ners Ia share cf public and private trust
Aug Is, 1854 d&w
st. Paul Iron aud BrasSesounsry.
FUNH1S establishment is furnished with a good as
sorment of Patterns, and is ready to ill orders for
castings OF all descriptions short and
Bile terms Having an experienced Pattern Maker, our
employ. we are prepared to get up patterns any
scrption that may be called for.
Also, Iron Turning and finishing.
Brass and Composition Casting made order. Babbt
metal, &c, constantly on hand.
Old cast iron, brass and "copper" taken in exchange for
work. F.&J B. CITWIN
st. Pau, l,Augs ~, 1854. dAw
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That the committee on printing be instructed
to cause the charter of the City of st. Paul, the
rules of the Common Council, the ordinances
of the city, and the proceedings OF the Common
Council for the current year, to be printed and
published in convenient form for the use OF
city.
On motion, the Council adjourned.
DAVID OLMSTED,
Mayor.
SHERWOOD HouaH, City Clerk.
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For the Minnesotian.
Music and Things.

For the Minnesotian.
Music and Things.
We were treated last evening to some very
fine music at the Baldwin Institute. The pieces
selected were executed with taste. and added
fresh laurels to those already gained by Tay
lor's Band. Less ambitious than Julien, the
leader did not enter into the warfare with the
combined forces of bombastic operas, but kept
with humble aspiration a lower fight and play
ed cxquisitely the pieces appropriate for the
OCCASION few simple tunes.
1t was a matter of regret to many present,
that the Philognomion Society, whose exercises
on former occasions have been varied and
pleasing, should lose for time their identity
The most Improbable moments were those oc-
cupicd by Mr.. Ncwson, who ''spoke piece
about being R,ngery, and was sorry that he
was away from the Old Folks at Home, no
doubt the greater part of the audience joined
in the regrets, feeling that such vegetables
flourish best in their native sOil-Who said
squash? The "germ" of great orator turks
within his system, although the microscopic
power is as yet undiscovered that would de-
velop it, He has become so elevated by the
times" it would have been we'll if he had had
a copy of it to stand upon, that the audience
might have seen the head wherein sueh know
ledge lies"
His concluding vision" was truly a "sleepy
dream" He spoke OF something flutteriug il
the breeze, of people running as if the Sherit
[still harping on Fridley] was after them,-o
a" Military Chieftain decamping with tears il
his eyes and 500 folowers,''- an unsaddlet
donkey rushing for his oats over rich potatoe
feltis,-of sangune hosts passing each othe
iu flight without any signs of recognition I" t.
speak of,;'-and of things generally broken ant
disordered. We have no doubt his old fami
liar spirits" raped out" these scenes of hor
r,r, blood and things:
sc He has spoke his last piece,
He has shook his last rattle,
, No chance can present such q New -sance again."
s The Rev. e. E. Teifts, the author of Hun
gary and Kossuth," must present his bill 70
capital used by the above.
OLD JONATHAN.
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MONDAY MORNING, MARCH s, 1855.


Owing to the lateness of the hour at which
the Legislature adjourned, sine die, we are
compelled to defer until tomorrow our reports
of the final proceedings and also editorial COM
ments upon certain measures OF the session.
The Governor did not sign the bill creating the
counties of Pine and st. Anthony, and SO the
counties of Ramsey, Benton and Chisago re-
main "as they were."
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saltwater Items.
'1om the st. Croix Union Feb.

AT HoxE.-J. E. McKusick, Esq. has returned
from Madison, Wis.,, in good health and looks.
We learn that he subscribed Ior our citizens an
amount exceeding seventy thors@id dollars,
and that the road is bound to succeed. We
also learn that our friend has been bonored by
the company and been elected Director. He
is deserving ofthe post. and will do much in
effecting the completion of the road.
AccIDENT.-We learn from Joseph r. Master.
man, who has came down from the pineries,
that his partner, Mr.. Laughlin, met with an
accident Yesterday. While attempting to load
his team with tree, it slipped and fell upon
his leg, breaking it in two places.
The weekly Minnesotian., 1855-03-10

~ Sir Humphrey Davy said the greatest
discovery he ever made was the discovery of
the poor Irish boy, Michael Farraday, now the
world-renowned Professor of London.
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FuarTTvE SLAVES AND STATEs .JAns.-The
Michigan Legislature has passed an "act to
prohibit the use of common jails and the other
buildings in the several counties of the State,
for the detention of person claimed as fugitive
slaves. The vote upon this bill in the House
was yeas ST. nays 18.
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Our Greatest Man.

How hidden is mans destiny at the mo
ment of his birth! Then we can predict as little
of his career as of that of the child who is to be
born in the next century. 1t we could know,
when it is said a man child is born" that
child is born" that he would, in after years be-
come the personiieation of greatness and good
ness what an interest would attach to the lit
tie stranger! If, one hundred and twenty
| three years ago to day. when, in quiet neigh
borhoOd of Virginia, the smiling message went
from mouth to mouth and house to house
Mrs. Washington has a little boy ut could
have been known that the little human BIOS
som would one day flower into the grandest anc
most beautiful proportions of manhood that the
world ever saw, what multitudess of admirinw
pilgrims would have surrounded bis cradle.
with what reverence would the weak uncOn-
scious infant have been regarded We would
not, were it possible, push aside the impene-
trable curtain that hides the future of all men.
But since the greatest and best of earth were
once what George Washington was at that
hour, should not the joy with which we gaze
upon the youngling in his cot, or the little
prattler at our kneee, be mingled with awe at
his possible destiny?
AS times went ON, the little Virginia child
grew to mans estate; and. in the deyelopmen.
of his countrys history, he has become an OBJ
ct of universal love and reverence" First in
war; first in peace, and first in the hearts OF his
COuntfyMcn. Inc NOfIO mas stamped him a
great and good man for all time A great
mans chiefest value is not so much in what he
does as in what he is. If it were possible to
f estimate his value without the avonchment of
great achievements, he would still be inestim.
able. In contemplating tie character of Wash
ingtOn, We are not so much struck by his bray
cry and skill in the battlefield, or his admins
, trative wisdom in council, as by the inherent
nobleness of his manhood as it rayed out of
him on all occasions, aud clothed him as with
garment" There was a magnetic influence
in his presence which impressed all who ap-
preached him with his great qualities His
form. his MEN, and his movement were in the
highest degree imposing ; while his clear mas
sive brow, his grand features, and his eye, calm
as the watch of Providence, were luminous
with grave but perpetual benignty. Such, in
great degree, is his influence upon his coun-
+ trymen, so long time after he has passed
away. In spiritual presence he is still near to
us all. His great example inspires the heart OF
our youth. The essence of his surprising man
hood is iuterfused throughout the collective
men Of the nation, lifting us up by his strong
attractions and rendering us better and loblcr
than we should otherwise have been. Would
: that, as nation, we walked more nearly in
: his footsteps Would that our individual lives
~ confOrmed more nearly to the sublime model
which he has bequeathed to MS! Shall not the
: future make amends for the delinquencies of the
:, past ?-ChicGgo Dem. Press.
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CHIPPEWA TREATY.--We learn from private
sources that the Chippewa treaty had been
consummated at Washington, and would no
i, oubt be ratified by the Senate.
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- The Whig Almanac, for 1855, contains
much valuable and reliable matter. 1t is pub
lished by Greeley & McElrath, New York, and
may be had at our bookstores.
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1 The ladies who mobbed groggery and
destroyed 5000 worth of liquor at Mount Plea.
soat, Ohio, have all been discharged, 1t is said
the ladies were most of them young, and all
pretty! No wonder they were discharged
The weekly Minnesotian., 1855-03-10

THAwrSG OUr.-The prospect of the final &C.
mise Of Old Winter commenced yesterday. The
weather was warm and spring-lke, and during
the day the previous good winter roads in the
streets Of St. Paul left us with nothing to tread
upon but very disagreeable mud basis. The
usua! annual "bets" in regard to the opening
Of navigation will now be in order.
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EMrcRAmoN.-The number Of foreign emf
grants reported as having arrived at New York
during the past month is Z, 1862 which ccmpar-
ed with the arrivals in January last year,
15,6to, shows a fall Of 7,592-very nearly one
half
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WILMINGTON, Del, Feb. 81.
Inc frohlbitory Liquor bill has passed the
delaware House by a vote of ii to 10.
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N- The Buffalo Republic, of the 5tb. say

u.s. The Buffalo Republic, of the 5tb, says
"Another train of wheat cars arrived to-day
from Concord, N. H., for a supply at our mar
ket. They will take some 5000 bushels OF
wheat. The time consumed in the trip round
is about Is days, which is not much faster than
the same could be performed on the canal in
summer"
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SATURDAY, March 3.
Mr.. Brown introduced
A resolution to reconsider the action of the
Council on Thursday, in relation to the loca-
tion of the county seat of LIE Sueur county land
directing the Clerk to ask the withdrawal OF
bill locating the same, from the House.
Mr.. Brown moved to suspend the rules re
quiring resolutions to lay over one day. Re.
jected.
Council resolved itself into committee of the
whole upon the House file of bills.
Council again went into committee of the
whole upon the bill to prevent the running at
large of stations, bulls and boars, and reported
the same back without ameHdmnt
On motion of Mr.. Stearns, the bill was laid
on the table.
Mr.. Van Etten, from the Committee on En-
rolled Bills, reported as being correctly en-.
rolled sundry bills, and that they had been
presented to the Governor for signature.
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HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

The Chair announced as the Conference Com
mittee on the bill for the Improvements of the
UpperMississippi River, Messrs. Sibley' willln
and Fridley.
M. Siblev nrestented petition praying 10
Tia. .ass.se Of the Mill repeating the act passe'
last session, for the exercise ot eqal.E;;sdic
Reports wsrs fs:eiesda s9d S5 onsg Gommtee
On Enrolled and Engrossed Bills and on Incor
porations.
The House considered in Committee of the
Whole, bill for TIE organization of the county
of Brown, and for other purposes, and a bill rel
ative to the terms of Courts, and for other pur.
poses. Both bills were ordered to be engros-
sed
a Council bill to amend Revised Statutes
was rejected.
Other Council bills were taken up, and read
twice.
Council bill amending the Revised Statutes
relative to assessors, and other purposes, wa:
Indefinitely postponed.
Council bill granting Carmi p Garlick fer
ry charter, was passed finally.
Council bill granting Felix Reglery ferry
char ter, was rejected.
Council bill granting o. ". Streeter ferry
charter, was passed finally.
A number of House bills were then taken up
and the Council amendments concurrcd in.
A message from the Governor was received
in regard to the railroad bill. in which he stat
ed that he had not signed the bill. and it had
therefore become a law withaut his signature
His Excellency then gave at considerable
length his reasons for his course-and conclud.
ed by stating, that as the bill could do no harm
and great good, if the Company complied with
its provisions he had allowed it to become
a law in the manner specified.
The House refused to concur in Council
amendments to the bill providing for the cleo.
tOn of County Auditors.
Council bill prescribing rules and regula
tions for the execution of the trust arising un-
der the act of Congress- for the relief of citizens
OF towns. upon lands of the United States, un-
der certain circumstances, was referred to O
select committee. consisting of Messrs. Sibley,
Haus and Stanchfeld.
The amendments of Council to the bill
amending the charter of St. Paul, were concur
red in.
Council amendments to the bill providing
for the appointment of a Commissioner of Emil
grafton, were concurred in. -lF
The report of the Committee Of Conference
on the disagreeing vote of the two branches on
the bill to incorporate the Transit Railroad
Company, was concurred in.
On motion, the House adjourned until three
o'clock.
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COUNCIL.
AFTERNOON SESSION.
FRIDAY, March 2.

FRIDAY, March 2.
The Council went into Executive Session, af.
ter which
The bill to secure property in logs, spars
&c. was passed through committee Of the whole
and laid on the table by the Council.
The bill to legalize the town of Winona
with an addition TO the limits thereof, passed
through the committee Of the whole, reported
back. rules suspended and bill passed.
Mr.. Ya. Esseu, irsm the Committee on En-.
Lied Bills, reported back sundry bills as hav-
ing been presented to the Governor for sigma
ture. ........
Council adjourned.
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streets OF ST. Paul left us with nothing to tread
upon but very disagreeable mud basis. The
usua! annual "bets" in regard to the opening
of navigation will now be in order.
10 Congress adjourns to-day and so does
the Minnesota Legislature. Newson 'lectured'
last night in st. Paul upon Hungary. Great
concatenation of important events!
EMIGRATION TO KANsAs.-The Boston Courier
says there are now nearly two thousand per
sons preparing to remove to Kansas in the
spring. under the guidance of the Emigrani
Aid Society, the greater portion of whom be.
long to bands or companies or neighbors or to
townsmen.
~ Excellent for these hard times is the
name Of st. Louis firm Grim g. Barrett.
~ Gen. Houston addressed a Missionary
Society OF Baltimore, says all Exchange, at its
annual meeting, and enforced the duty of all
Christians to aid in spreading the Gospel
among the heather of all climes. He had been
apersonal witness of the excellent Christian
missions among the Indians. He emembered
the first missionary. who blew the trumpet of
the Gospel beyond the Sabine river in 1884,
NOW, hnadreds OF preachers and churches are
found beyond that point, even where the
preaching the Gospel was once treated as
criminal offence. Among our obligations to
give 'ne Gospel to the savage tribes, may be
reckoned that which arises of the fact that re
have driven them out before us, usurped their
homes, and rendering them ever ipcapab,e of
returning to the precincts of civilization W.
should now labor for the salvation Of tho;r
souls.
@ The ladies of Corpus Christi, Texas
have pissed the following resolution :-"Re
solsed, That we will in no way countenapce
or associate with any young man, or permit
eur friends or daughters to do so, if in our
power to prevent it. who il in the habit of pst.
1onisins Mexican fsndangoa.
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- Congress adjourns to-day and SO does
the Minnesota Legislature. Newson "lectured''
last night in st. Paul upon Hungary. Great
eoneatenation of important vents!
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AFTERNOON SESSION.


The House met at three o'clock, and was
called to order by the Speaker
Acall of the House was made, and Mr.. Davis
was reported absent.
Various motions were made to adjourn, calls
of the House, &C., but were all decided in the
negative.
Mr. Dixon moved further proceedings under
the call be dispensed with. Adopted.
Mr.. Rolette moved that Council BILL supple
mentary to the bill apportioning members of
the Legislature, be now taken up.
Mr.. Sibley moved a call of the House.
Mr.. Davis absent
Mr.. Davis. on motion Of Mr.. Rolette, was ex-
cused from further attendance during the day.
Mr. Rolette moved the bill be indefinite
~ postponed. The Speaker declared the mot.
Ion WAS out Of order. before the bill was read.
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OLD FOLKS At CHURCI-On Sunday last says
the Barre (Alass.) Patriot, Mrs. Mary Farrer of
Petersham celebrated her one hundred birth
dag, by attending meeting at the Unitarian
Church. She appeDsed in good health-arose
and stood unsupported during the singing and
after the congregation was dismissed remained
oJoin in the communion service In the same
slip was her brother, Capt. Joel Brooks. who is
IN his ninety-seventh year. In another part of
the house was Mrs. Berbia Covel who is in her
ninety-first year. The thermometer stood, in
the morning, only two degrees above zero, and
a strong wind blew from the northwest through
the day. Several were present who had seen
nearly eighty winters, and several others, far
ther advanced in life, would have Joined the
congregation had it not been for the extreme
severity of the cold.
LADIES AND LIQUoR.-This has become for
mldabie alliteration to the liquorsellers down
10 Indiana. AT Centreville, recently, 3l3 la
dies convened and unanimously came to the
conclusion to shut up the liquor-shops there.
Will or mill on the part of the owners. But
they were just, as well as patriotic, and raised
sI4o 10 pay for what the dealers might have
o '"' Oo IeiloW was OBSTINATE, but 1t was
OF no use. See how they managed him:
"Mr. Lahee did not seem very willing TO let
MS liquors 90 without receiving an exorbitant
price. when the time arrived for the dcmoli-
tlon OF the liquors. about fifty ladies proceed
ed with wagon to Lahee's establishment. and
got his liquors put into the wagon, and took it
and HIM to the street in front of the Court
House, built fire, stove in the whisky barrel
with hatchets.aEd tried to burn it but it scould
mt burn! 1t, with the other liquors. was
poured out upon the ground. The ladies after
wSrd paid Lahec for his liquor.-D Democrat
(Chi) Press.
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st. Paul, March l, 1854.

st. Paul, March i, 1854.
Whereupon it was Resolred, That the per-
sons whose names are appended to the forego-
ing petition, be, and they are hereby formed
into Hook and Ladder Company of st. Paul.
and that sum not exceeding s2OO0o be ap-
propriated from the City Treasury to aid them
in procuring necessary apparatus. 9 ID
On motion of Aid Irvine, 1t was Resolved
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~ Excellent for these hard times is the
name OF st. Louis firm: Grim & Barrett!
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40 The publishers of the Pennsylvania,
gave the proceeds oftheir issue of the 14th for
the benefit of the poor of Philadelphia. The
articles in the paper were mostly devoted to
the subject of charity.
The Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, Ohio) 1853-1861, 1855-01-06
Capture of Venetian Brides.

According to ancient custom, the nuptials
of the mobiles and principal citizens of Venice
were always celebrated on the same day OF
the year. The eve Of the Publication was
consecrated to this public festival, and the
State annually increased the general JOY of
the occason by endowing twelve maidens
with marriage portions. In the morning
gondoas elegantly ornamented assembled
from all parts Of the city at the Episcopal
church of Olivolo. The affianced pairs dis
embarked amidst the sound Of music; their
relations and friends, in their most splendid
habliments, swelled their retinue the rich
presents made to the brides, their jewels and
.ornameuts were proudly borne for display !;
and the body of the people, unarmed. and
thoughtless of danger, followed the glad pro-
cession The Istrian pirates, acquainted
with the existence of this annual festival,
had the boldness to prepare an ambush for
the nuptial train in the city itself. They
secretly arrived over night at an uninhabited
islet, near the church of Olivolo, and lay
hidden behind it with their barks until the
procession entered the church, when, dart
ing from their concealment, they rushed into
the slcred edifice through all its doors, tore
the shrieking brides from the arms OF their
defenceless lovers, possessed themselves OF
the Jewels which had been displayed IN the
festal pomp, and Immediately put TO sea
with their fair captives and booty. But a
deadly revenge overlook them.
The Doge, Pietro Caniando III, had been
present at the ceremony; he shared in the
fury and indignation of the Alliance youths;
they flew to arms, and throwing them
selves under his conduct into their yes
sells. came up with the spoilers in the la
gunes of Cairo. A frightful massacre en-
sued 3; not life among the pirates was
spared and the victors returned i'll triumph
with their brides to the church Of Oivolo.
procession Of the maidens Of Venice re-
vived for many centuries the recollection OF
this deliverance on the eve of Publication.
But the Doge was not satisfied with .he pun
ishment which he had inflicted on the lstri-
OTIS. He entered vigorously upon the reso-
luton of clearing the Adristic OF ell the
pirates who infested it; he conquered part of
Dalmatia; and he transmitted to his sue.
cessors, with the ducal crown, the duty OF
consummating his design.
The Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, Ohio) 1853-1861, 1855-01-06
PERRYsBURG, WOOD COUNTY, OHIO SATURDAY, JANUARY
The primitive style of living of the An

The primitive style Of living of the An
dorrians has, until within few years, shut
out from their midst the vices and corrup-
tions of cities. But Of late, it is said, as
the inhabitants have been brought more into
contact with the civilized world, they have
become dissatisfied with the scantv sehsis-
tence which their iron mines and farms have
hitherto afforded them, and many of them
have engaged in the illegal pursuit of SNUG.
gling-a profession which they ere well
qualified, by their physical training among
the mountains, to pursue with success.
1t is this illegal traffic, we believe, togeth-
er with sundry serious affrays which have
occurred between the smuggers and the
French and Spanish officers of the customs,
which has caused those two nations to en-
terrain the idea of suppressing the republic,
and dividing the territory between them
If this is done San Marino will be without
a rival.