The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1855-10-20

ished in few days. The cylinders weigh
ing $4,000 lbs, and condensers, weighing
69, 600 lbs, are nearly all completed; the
pistons, piston rods, pillow block, caps and
cupolas, weigh about $4,000 lbs. The com
position stern pieces, couplings and sheaye
blocks are all under way. The propeller.
weighn about 26,0 900 lbs, will be cast in a
few weeks. The valves are all finished.
IF the ship is LAUGHED by the 1st of Octo-
Der, her boilers will be at once put in her.
and they will commence to put her machine
ry in. Messrs. P. e. M. caltulate to have her
in working order, ready for steam, in about
tour months after she reaches the water-N
Y Herald
El A water-spout occurred at Massling,
Germany, Sept S. Bridges mills and houses
were destroyed by it-and some eighty per-
sons killed. Forty were drowned.
* The Wing Committee of Brooklyn,
N. Y. go to 81, refused to unite with the
Republicans. The n Y Tribune says 23out
Of the 90 were Hindoos-l7 out and out u
man men. 1t adds:
We shall hear of more of these virtuous
and inflexible Wings who "can't go Fusion''
before November. In every instance the
hearer may be assured that those who so de-
clare were either Silver Grays in l85O-52,
or Know Nothings last fall-generally both.
The earlier and bitterer their hostility to the
Whig party, the more proflse will. be their
crocodile tears over it's grave. But how can
they deceive anybody2
considered, with the environs, as 100000.
Of these an average of 10000 receive aid
and food from the administration of Assis-
taace PuNique. Besides this average, must
be counted the following special cases $500
octogenarians, 1900 septuagenarians, 1,4OO
blind persons, and GOO paralytics. In the
hospitals are 63,237 beds, of which 46,53s
are for civil occupants, and 16,699 for sol
ders. From 1904 to 1922 the annual num-
Der Of admissions was about 10000; in 1889
it was $4,000, and in 1860 81, 300, and the
hospitals refused about so applicants day.,
e. Montpelier, the home of Madison,
in Virginia, which twice since his death has
changed hands at SIG per acre, recently
brought $35 per acre. Montpelier is a large
estate containing HOO acres.
IL Mrs. Fitzpatrick, who was tried last
week in Cincinnati, for shooting Wm. Lang
tree, was acquitted by the Jury.
& The receipts of the Ohio State
Fair, which closed on Friday week, reached
$4,000, and this, with the S., 900 contributed
by the citizens of Columbus, will make the
total of near $4,000. This is between one
and two thousand dollars better than last
year.
E Peter B. Manchester, who figured
as Banker in Cincinnati, failed there, and
fed, has been arrested in San Francisco, on
charge of forgery, while in business in the
former city, under requisition from the
Governor of Ohio.
ES There are now in Georgia between
fifty and sixty cotton factories, conducted in
the most skillful and successful manner, with
all the appliance in the way Of machinery,
that can be found in the same kind of estab-
lishments in New England.
II Mr.. Soule, in reply to an invitation
to lecture in Boston, writes:
+" Allow me to say that nothing would gra-
tify me more than to have it in my power to
comply with your wish, and with the kind
request of your friends. A Boston audience
is, of all others, that which would be most
proud to address on any subject, and espe-
cially ON that of S2aveay. But having returned
to my profession with the firm resolve to de-
vote myself to its labors exclusively, would
not think of leaving here in the very heart
of the business season, and of thus diverting
myself from pursuits which cannot but claim
the whole time, and command my undivided
attention"
e The total number of students in
Yale College, according to the Banner, is
617 of instructors, Al.
~ London Punch is the funniest fell
low a-going. His definition of Matter and
Mind is unique:
"What is matter? Never mind. What
is mind? Nomatter."
Go it, Punch.
ES Benjamin Bird, aged seventy years,
was married at the Roman Catholic Church,
Cincinnati, to Miss Julia Chaff, a buxom
widow of thirty. So the old Bird was
caught at last by Chat:
- -Four thousand dollars have been
raised in St. Louis for the relief of the Nor
ES E. P. McGinty editor of the Nash
vile, Tenn, True Whig, died of brain fever
on the 2lst.
~ Anybody who supposes that locking
a girl in back room viii prevent her from
knowing what love means, might as well un-
5lertake to keep Strawberries from blushnS
IN June by whispering in their ears ABOUT
the snow we hrd last winter.
Ea- Mr.. Wilkeson, late OF the Buffalo
Republic. has entered upon his duties as ed