The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1856-02-23

and thereby leave US Win no prOOaDle cnance
Of having railroad, perhaps for the next
twenty years. The entire aspect Of affairs
in regard to the Company has been changed
since this bill passed the House. The ques-
ton Of title has been argued before the Su-
preme Court of the United States, and the
Judgment of the Courts below which gives to
the Company the lands originally granted by
Congress, has not been disturbed. After
another hearing in Minnesota, which has
been agreed upon by the Attorney General
and the Secretary of the Interior, the whole
controversy will speedily be ended; and no
candid mind, we should think, can now
doubt favorable result of the issue. The
company, at least, are SO well satisfied Of
this fact, that they are already actively pre-
pairing to complete the survey and location
during the next spring and summer.
The Extension Bill is now before the Gov
ernor. We hear rumors that he intends to
veto it, but scarcely credit them. Nothing
could be more suicidal at this stage of affa RS
than the defeat of this bill. We scarcely
think, however, that even the Governors We
to will defeat it.
In this connection, it may not be improp'
er to note that piece of town scandal las
been put in circulation by the cid "rule OF
ruin" enemies of the Company, to the effect
that the article which we copy from the
Times does not reflect the present sentiments
of the editor of that paper. 1t is true Mr.
Newson is now absent, but we happen tc
know that the course of his paper would not
have been different had he been at home
At least, so he gave us to understand in a
conversation we had with him before he left
From the Rockford Republican.
Death of John HI. NANNY.
A shade of gloom was cast over this com
munity on Friday morning by the announce
ment of the death of another of our most
distinguished citizens, Mr.. John H. Nanny
who expired at his residence in this city
about O'Clock on Thursday evening, of con-
sumption. Mr.. Nanny had for long time
been severe sufferer from this insiduous and
unrelenting disease, but not until within
some three or four weeks, did it assume a
dangerous type, and so flattering and decep-
tive were the last symptoms of this fearful
malady that hopes were entertained of his
recovery even up to within few hours Of
his death. These hopes were destined to
prove delusive, and thus, in the very prime
of life, in the fulncss Of an honorable fame
and in the possession of an ample and we'll
earned fortune, he has been summoned from
among us, as another traveller who has gone
before us to the silent land-to "that unds-
covered country from whose bourne no tray
eler returns"
In all the sacred relations of private life
both as son, husband and friend, his charac-
ter was without spot or blemish. As citi-
zen, he was at once high-minded, honorable
and public-spirited. While as an inventor,
it is not too much to say that his name will
rank among the first of his countrymen, both
at home and abroad. Endowed with an in
ventive mind of the highest order, he pos
sessed also that energy, perseverance and de-
cision of character which is ever necessary
to bring to perfection the rare Developments
of inventive genius. Like the originators Of
the steam engine, the cotton-gin, and almost
all other great and really valuable inventions
stacles, difficulties and embarassments-but
with remarkable fixedness Of purpose and an
indomitable resolution, he has signally over
come them; and as a reward for his arduous
labors, he has been enabled to leave to his
countrymen and the world an invention oil
superior excellence, which as an auxiliary to
human strength, in that most important de-
partment of human labor, the reaping and
garnering Of the products of tie grain field
will long be estimated as valuable beyond
all price.
Although but 80 years of age at his death
Mr.. Nanny, with the assistance Of his enter
prising partners, had already laid the found
alton of an immense and permanent business
in this city-a business which it is anticipa-
ted will reach the amount of half million
dollars the present year-and which, in the
hands of the present efficient and energetic
proprietors, we have no doubt, will make a
steady advance from year to year. The bus
mess of the Company, we are happy to be
authorized to say, will undergo no change in
consequence of the death of Mr.. Nanny, but
will be continued, as heretofore, by the sur
viving partners.