The weekly Minnesotian., 1855-03-10

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"
FuGrIvE SLAVES AND SrATEa .JALs.-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 81, nays ls.
GRATIFYING TO CLA1MANTs.-We understand
that our officers for the Winona Land District.
are very liberal to pre-emption claimants, and
are not confining them so much to the exact
shape in which Uncle Sam" formerly obliged
them to pre-empt. Settlers can now pre-empt
in the shape of a aud l.. or four fort es in four
different sections. or two eighties mile long,
either by north aud south or east and west
line. provided the same is q compact body
This will be gratifying intelligence to the har-
dy settlers in this District who have labOred
under great deal of difficulty before, on ac-
made SO by going on to unsurveyed lands, and
the nature of some parts of the country. but
we advise our settlers to file the declaratOry
statement i'm due time. We shall be duly ad
vised by our worthy Register of all additional
plats as they are received at the Land Office
Winona .argus.
no The publishers of the Pennsylvania
gave the proceeds of their issue of the 14th fol
the benefit of the poor Of Philadelphia. Thu
articles in the paper we're mostly devoted t.
the subject of charity.
Na- The rumor comes through Paris let
ter that Louis Napoleon contemplates divorc
| ing the empress and marrying some princes
for the sake ofan heir, as his uncle toolishl,
did.
HAMS FOR CALIFoRNIA.-Mr. Billings. {
Beardstown, Illinois, is now putting up fiv
thousand barrels of his celebrated patent GOV
cred hams, which are to be shipped in Sprn
to California.
@- A lady at Morristown, N. j., gave brit
a few days since to three ehildren-two boy
and girl-all of whom were alive and doin
we'll. The mother Is unmarried.
rs The St. Louis Republican contradict
the story about passengers on the Centr'
Railroad being compelled to eat dogs, Will
stuck in snow bank.
NE Mr.. Marion, editor of the Concord q
H. Reporter, dropped down dead on the III
from disease ofthe heart. He had just concl'
ded speech at political meeting, and was
the act of takin his seat when he fell and e.
pired.
10 The real estate of the late Daniel We
ster, in Marshfeld, is to be sold at auction
the 14th inst
CvSyO-,.-sYo, or PLANErs.-Tiae astronomer
at Cambridge Observatory (Massachusett:
had last week the rare satisfaction of seein
three planets at the same time in the same fiel
of view of the finder telescope, viz Mercur.
Vensus and Mars. They were seen soon afte
sunset, in the direction of W. S. w., at an ell
walton ften degrees. On the evening whe
they were nearest to each other and about
eclipsed by Mercury, a phenomenon visible
the Sandwich Islands, but not in any part
the United States.
Ea- Louis Napoleon, Emperor of France i
answer to q memorial of the Protestants in ths
country, praying for permission to exercise tt
rights of conscience in matters of religion, II
piled through his Minister of Worship, that 81
!, recognises the rights of liberty of conscience
his Subjects but not liberty of worship" Mo-
liberal monarch!
The New York Herald of the 5th ult. says =
"Washis9ton Irving will give u.s. through h
publisher, this week. new and charming mi
cellany, under the title of"Wolfert's Roost.
Its character, perhaps, may be best describe
by saying that it is second "Sketch Book
1t will be recollected that, nearly fifteen year
ago-before Mr.. Irving's appointment as Mir
lister to Spain-he was understood to be ndu
triously engaged upon life Of Washington
We are happy to state that this work is no.
nearly finished, and that it will be given to th
press"
"NATIoNAL" CLERGYMEN.-Speaking of th
election of Mr.. Seward to the United State
Senate, the Albany Evening Journal remark
that only two or three of the pulpits of tha
city were used yesterday to 'crush out a
American statesman, who, when four hundre
clergymen were insulted and maligned, in th
United States Senate, boldly and eloquentl
vindicated the rights of Christian ministers t.
speak in favor Of human freedom"
ExPoRrs.-The exports from this country ar
very heavy For the week ending Februar,
Sd, those from the port of New York alon
amounted to near one million of dollars NOR
than for the corresponding month of last year
A SERGEANT A CENTURY OLD.-There is a
present living in Exeter, England, sergeant
named Thomas Seabright, who, in October 0
the present year, will be ore hundred years
old. He served in the seth Foot, 26th Foot
and End Garrison Battalion for period of for
ty years and two month, and has actually beer
a pensioner since the 18th of December, 1902
more than 81 years. He served in the army
under Lord CORVALLIS in the American Wa,
of Independence in the year 1882, when the
troops capitulated to the united armies o.
France and America, under General Washing.
ton. At that time he had been upwards o
twenty vears in the service so that bo NOV ho