The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1855-11-24

one of them who will furnish an accurate
description of a machine invented by the
father of said Eastman, who died without
leaving any such description. The spirits
must furnish an account which will suffie for
the construction of a working model, where-
upon the cash will be handed over to the
medium. If they fail to do this Mr.. E. de-
clares that he will proclaim them before the
world to be no spirits at all, but mere human
deluders and imbeciles.
@ A colored man, waiter on board the
steamer Emma Harmon, which lately piled
on the Kansas River, having been seized and
thrust into Jail on the pretended suspicion
that he was slave, and nobody calling for
him, he has been advertised to be sold by
the Sheriff for his Jail fees.
IL According to the statement of the
New York Times, the number of candidates
for Office in that city was little over eight
thousand-being equal in number to the
entire army with which Gen. Scott made his
descent into the valley of Mexico.
E3 At late meeting of the British
Association, DR.. Peason, in the chemical Sec
tion, asserted that there were only two ar
ticles for food which were not adulterated-
common salt and refined lump sugar. He
challenged any gentleman present to add an
other to the list.
E@ The friends of George NJ. Dallas for
President, held meeting in Philadelphia on
the evening of the I'd inst. Resolution in his
favor were passed, and a committee of cor
respondence appointed. a.t.a
q Parodi sang the Marseillaise Hymn
at her concert at Philadelphia, and was en-
Enthusiastically encored by her immense audi
EE Some gentlemen while going from
Mount Pleasant to Burlington, Iowa, about
80 miles, met 24O teams besides stage coach
es. This shows what they are doing in
Iowa.
E Oakley Lewis, of LIE Roy, Bradford
County, Pa, counted the grains upon one
stalk of buckwheat, two thousand and sixty
a large increase from one in single season
The gross amount of receipts of the
New York Post Office, on account of the
Government for the last two fiscal years,
was So, sol ,221, 20: a H-
There were twenty-five fires in the
United States last month, with an aggregate
loss of $4,000. Fifteen manufacturing es
tablishments were consumed.
* The Pacha Of Egypt has prohibited
the export of grain after the 9th of January
iiext owing to the short coming in the rise
of the Nile. ....
E The British Admiralty is out with
tenders for 100000 lbs. of beef and pork
for de livery before the 1st of January, '56.
e The Grand Jury at Pittsburgh has
presented female equestrianism at Agricul-
tural Fairs as a nuisance. '-f -'.i9'
PACIFIC RoAD.-The New York Herald
has long and able letter from Hon. Thomas
Butler King, in favor of the Texas Railroad
line to the Pacific Texas has donated six
teen sections of land to each mile of the road
that is made through the Territory. The
line is beginning to attract much attention,
and this letter will serve still farther to call
the public eye to the subject.
e The exact amount of back pay
awarded to Gen. Scott is $40, ,4O5, being
81, 800 per year, in addition to his pay as
Major General. ,.st s,.sf .,.e
e The President has issued an order, for
bidding all persons employed in any branch
of the Executive Department of the Govern
ment from practising in the Court of Claims.
ILLINOIS CENTRAL.-The earnings of the
Illinois Central Railroad for the month of
October are stated to be $2O0,6OO, and the
land sales for the same month, $5OO,OOO.
L@ Stephen Holman, Of Holyoke, Mas,
agent of the Lyman Mills, returned home
from Europe on Wednesday, bringing with
him about sixty Scotch factory girls engaged
to work in the factories at IIolyoke. They
were mostly young, neatly dressed, and some
of them quite good looking, that is, if the
editor of the Springfield Republican is a
Judge Of beauty. ,re.,F a.. fs.--g a..-. .,r...e
HURRY1NG Up-The boats are now hur-
rying up and putting through their business
at the most apid rate. Many of them have
made their last trip for the season. Satur-
day last was the most lively day on the
Levee we have seen for some time. During
the course of the day there were ten boats
there-seven at the same time.
e Recent letters from Burmah state
. that within eighteen months, one thousand
four hundred and fifty converts have been
baptised at the Baptist Mission station at
Toungoo, abont $50 miles south of Ava.