The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1855-01-06
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MONDAY MORNING, JANUARY /, 1855


MONDAY MORNING, JANUARY l, 1866
| The New Year. 81
The Christian World to-day counts another
mile post upon the. Great Railroad Of Life, and
the fifty y-fourth year Of our century is number.
with the past! sl4 siH e5sas3
We leave 1t with those..wh sphere it is to
moralize upon the occasion, and rest content
with expressing the hope that the New Year
may open with the brightest imaginable pros
poets to every one within the sound Of the Min
nesotian's voice, and to all the ssrest of man
kind" 8ssl neblifg .-a
No paper will appear from this Office to-mor-
row. a5F >tg at
IowA.-The Legislature of Iowa, in joint con-
vention had three ballots for U. S. Senator on
the 21st, without effecting choice. Gen.
Dodge's name was Withdrawn previous to the
last ballot, and the Democrats generally voted
on that ballot for Cook, Silver Grey Whig The
[ConveniioA adjourned to Jan.6tt.
GD- Col. Steptoe has been confirmed as Gov
ernor of Utah, upon the assurance that he would
resign his commission in the army.
rs We have two or three communications
upon the "Indian Hanging" the publication
Of which we respectfully decline. The sooner
the scenes connected with that transaction are
forgotten the better for the reputation of 81.
Paul and all Minnesota.
The TURKEY TRADE.-A gentleman from
Rock Island drove into town on Friday even
ing, with some three hundred turkeys-made
up of the wild and tame varities of this favor
ite fowl. They went off rapidly at the rate of
$500 and $3.50 apiece
So1REE.-The fourth of Prof. De Gray Ben
MES series of Social Soirees comes off at Ma
zourka Hall tomorrow evening.
~ The Washington correspondent of the
New York Herald, under late date, writes as
follows =" There has been some talk here to-
day upon what is considered to be new and
important step in newspaper publishing. The
Congressional Globe has to-day been issued,
purporting to be printed from the stereotype
plates, composed of gum shellac, silex, and
other articles, patented by Mr.. Warren, of In
diana,-BIair & RivesI having purchased a Ii
censc for this district.
SENATORS TO ELEcr.-At the approaching
session of the respective Legislatures, there
will be Senators of the United States to elect in
Illinois, Iowa, Wisconsin, Arkansas, Missouri
Louisiana, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, New
York, Maine, and California. New Hampshire
will elect two in May.
LIVERPOOL STATIsTCs.-The Portland Ad-
vertiser says ''that nearly twenty thousand
vessels are now annually admitted into the
docks of Liverpool. It's receipts from customs
are four and a half million pounds sterlng-
The Liverpool docks are the finest and most
extensive in the world, and occupy an area of
one hundred acres, large proportion of which
space is devoted to American vessels. This
leading English commercial city owes it's enor-
mons growth and business prosperity almost
entirely to American trade.
~ The Nova Scotia House of Assembly
has unanimously voted e2, 900 to aid the wives
and children of the soldiers engaged in the
war.
Ne- The Halifax North American learns
that the friends of the Maine Liquor Law are
in the field. and intend to deluge the House of
Assembly with petitions for its passage during
the present session.
Ge- John Ward of Whitby Grove, Manches-
ter (England,) undertook, recently to make
1000 quill pens with knife, in ten hours, for
a wager. At the end of five hours he had sue
ceeded in making 1l29, and at the end ofnine
hours and half he had made 2O3O, being 30
over his task, with half an hour to spare. The
conditions of the match were that they should
be fit for commercial use.
APANIcM IN FRANcE.-The Paris correspon-
dent of the Journal of Commerce SAYS that
alarm pervades all the provinces in respect to
the incessant levies of troops which are being
made. The peasants think of the sufferings of
their fathers in the time of the first. Napoleon
and the existing wretche1nf :.ocessioned by
dearth of food and high:priccs,' and are troi-
bled with apprehansioas of. the ..fatufe. Re-
ports had b:ei spread: :throagi the. rural: dis
tricts that government was about to levy an
army of five hundred thousand men, and were
40 generally believed that the Moniteur was