The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1855-03-24

| The Mexican Boundary Commissioners have
fixed upon 30 deg. and Al seconds as the CEN
trail points.
New ORLEANS, Feb. 27.
The tow boat, Thomas Mcdaniel exploded all
OF her SIX boilers little below this city yester-
day, killing SIX persons and wounding several
others. The boat is complete wreck. The
vessels she was towing are also somewhat dam
aged.
large fire occurred at Vicksburgh last MI ht
entallng loss of thirty thousand dollars
NO business houses were destroyed.
INFLUENCE OF THE Moon ON THE Production
OF EARTHQUAKEs.-The Commission appointed
by the Paris Academy of Sciences, LAME and
Ellie dc Beaumont, to consider the researches
relative to earthquakes of NJ Alexis Perry, has
established the fact that the unequal attractions
OF the moon on the earth, at its greatest and
least distance from the earth, have a sensible
influence on the production earthquakes. In
order to this he has brought together the re-
suits OF 1000 observations. extending over the
first half of the present century, and from the
catalogue he has formed, how by three ways,
independent of one another, the influence of
the course of the moon on the production of
earthquakes:
l. That the frequency augments in syzgies.
2. That the frequency augments in the vicin-
ity of the moons perigee, and diminshes to-
wards the apogee.
). That the shocks of earthquakes are more
numerous when the moon is near the meridian,
than when 80 deg. from it.
The cause of the interest connected with
these relations is easily understood. If, as is
now generally supposed. the interior of the
earth is in liquid or pasty state, through heat,
and If the globe has for its solid part only a
crust comparatively very thin, the interior IL
quid mass must tend to yield, like the surface
waters, TO the attractive forces exerted bv the
sun and moon, and there must be q tendency
! to expansion in the direction of the radius vec-
tors OF these two bodies; but the tendency en-
counters resistance in the rigidity of the crust.
which is the occasion of fractures and shocks.
The intensity OF the cause varies like that Of
the tides OF the ocean, With the relative pos
! ton OF the sun and moon and 'conseouently
with the age of the moon, and it also should be
noted, that as the oceans tides rise. and fall
twice in lunar day, at periods dependent
on the moons passing the meridian, so in the
internal fluid Of the globes there should be two
changes in day, the time varying with the
same cause.
PREsENTMENT OF ATLANTA AND OTHER CR.Nrs
by A GEORGIA GRAND JURY.-The grand iurv of
Floyd county, Georgia, have made the follow
ing presentment against the 'Wild Catu hanEs
of that State. We feel it our duty to cali tho
| attention OF the citizens of the county to the
great financial fraud attempted to be nlaced
upon them by Aclrcuiation amongst them of GER
tain bank bllSkcOmmonly known as "Vild Co+,,
or one horse banks Of the State, such as the Nor
chants Bank of Macon, Atlanta Bank. Planters,
and Mechanics Bank of Dalton, Bank of Mil.
cdgeville, and bank in Columbus. sTheso met.
tutions are controlled and stock owned. bv a fav
spectators in the North and West. where tbov
have managed to give them a circulation al
most incredible. These bills are refused bv all
the banks ia good standing in the State. Yet
we know that they are gradually obtaining cir
culation III our midst, which will ultimately
Gfnot dscontinued) result in loss not onjv to
the holders, but to the community at large.
An attorney, about to furnish bill of costs
was requested by his client, a baker, .:to make
it as light as he could" "Ah !" said the attor
ney, that's what you may say to your foreman
but it's not the way make my bread"
Mr. John &. Cough, the apostle of temper
ance, has been interdicted from delivering an
Grafton in Stirling, Scotland
A HEART RESDINC CAsE-We find the follow
ing in the local columns of the New Orleans
Crescent Of the 18th ult:
Sampson Richardson a creole negro. COM
mitted suicide in his room at No. So St. Peter
street. in the First District. early on Saturday
morning, by cutting his throat with razor
The Coroners verdict in the case was that he
committed the act while in state of tempOra- |
ry insanity. 1t appears that he was slave be-
longing to the succession of the late Alex Nc |
Reever and was advertised to be sold at auc- |
ton on the goth inst. Being a smart money |
making negro, he had earned and entrusted to
some mans keeping the sum of $1,000, with |
which his freedom was to be purchased when
the sale shonld take place. His agent proved
recreant to his trust, and upon discovering il
he became crazy He conld read and write
and papers we've found in his room containing
written rawlings about the loss of his money!
Before killing himself he took his best suit of
clothes from his armor and wrote request on
q slate that be should he buried in them.
BEAUrIFUL.-One pound of gold may be drawn
into a wire that would extend round the globe.
So one good deed may be felt through ali time.
and even extend its consequences into eternity.
Though done in the first flush of youth, it NAV
glide the last hours of a long life, and form the
only bright spot in it.
A New RAILROAD NCANADA.-A large and
enthusiastic meeting was held at Chatham
Canada, last week, to concert measures for the {
construction of Railway from Maiden to Buff.
alo. 1t is proposed to tunnel the river at NAL
den to Gibraltar. From Gibraiter, the road {
will be built through Adrian. S1,OOOO0O was {
subscribed at Chatham. The whole cost of the I
road from Gibralter, concluding the tunnel as '