The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1855-11-03

pearance on the tWenueth DAY With their
fraudulent election returns, the Registers of
Washington and Chisago on Monday, by due
course of law, awarded certificates to Hon.
j. D. Ludden and Hon. N. CD. Taylor as
of the Council and House.
WINsJow IIoUsE.-This hotel is again
open. We are requested to state that it will
hereafter he kept open, and kept open right
ly; and that water will be introduced into its
apartments forthwith from the fountain
stream which runs by its door, - So a-4
e. Among the distinguished foreign-
ers who are expected to attend the next
meeting of the American Association for the
Advancement of Science, in Albany, the
Journal understands the celebrated German
chemist, Licbig, has been invited, and the
Hon. James S. Wadsworth has given $500
towards defraying expenses.
e The Home Journal, on the Lest
contradicts the rumor of the in
tended marriage of Mr.. Buchanan to the
widow OF President Polk. es
E% The Cincinnati Enquirer says that
Mr.. and Mrs. Nichols, the reputcd author of
this Free Love movement, have taken up
their residence in that city.
E&s The Albany Argus says that the
members of Continental Company "B" hav-
ing made Usual Knapp, of Newburgg-the
only survivor of Washington's Life Guard
an honorary member of their corps, COM
mittcc on Saturday visited the veteran an
nounccd to him the honor mutually conferr-
ed. Mr.. Knapp, as above stated, is the only
person living of the favored few" who
formed the body guard of the immortal
WASHINGTON. He is now in the I" serc and
yellow leaf" being one hundred years of
age. He retains his sense of hearing, mem
DRY and sight to wonderful degree. sa
EE The jewelers. of London have adopt
ed novel precauticn to guard against burg
lars. They cut panel out of the shutters
and insert glass, secured by iron bars. The
safe is then placed in sight of this window,
and the room lighted by gas. The police
can see what is going on, and if the gas is
out or the window darkened, they know
something is wrong.
* Robert looms, of Georgia, has ac-
cepted the invitation of the Boston Com
mittee to deliver an address at fremont
Temple, upon Slavery. The subject chosen
by Mr.. T. is the consistency of African
Slavery with the Constitution of the United
States and Republican institutions, and the
effect of the American Revolution upon the
African race.
e A paper maker in the south of
France makes pulp of five common plants
in certain proportions, with 90 per cent. of
rags, and produces a paper not distinguish
able from pure linen, and which is of excel
lent quality, and can be afforded at half
price, 1t is stated that a large company has
been formed in Paris for its manufacture.
e information has been received by
the Commissioner of the General Land
Office, that the Surveyor General of Utah
Territory has made contracts for the survey
Of ninety miles of meridian, base, and STAN
lard parallel lines, and six hundred and
eighty miles of township and section lines,
lying between Salt Lake and the Wasatch
mountains. The initial point has been es-
tablished in Salt Lake City, at the south
east corner of Temple Block.
& AT the commencement of the sport
ing season in 1853, the following important
nfortant information was exhibited at Lord
Camden's seat, the Hermitage, near Seven
oaks: "This is to give notice that Lord Cam
len does not mean to shoot himself, or any
Of his tenants, till the 18th of September"
e. The editor of the New Orleans
Medical and Surgical Journal says that after
the most searching investigation, there APP
pears to be an entire unanimity of opinion,
both among the contagionists and the nom
that the yellow fever of 1855
originated in New Orleans, and that all the
earlier as well as the later cases occurred
among persons who had not been in any man
ner exposed to the fever in foreign ports or
to imported contagion.
DIXON AIR LINE RAILRoAD.-This capital
road is now completed to within seven miles
IF the Great River, and four weeks hence,
the trains will thunder into Fulton City.
A LARGE TRAIN.-One hundred and one
cars passed through the New York Central
Railroad Depot, at Syracuse, on Saturday
hight last, fol. Albany. Fifty-three of them
we're filled with Eve stock, and the remain
der with produce for the eastern market.
Il Among the distinguished visitors to
the Fair of the Pennsylvania State Agricul-
tural Society were two German noblemen-