The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1856-04-05

day. The ice is fast losing it's hold, and the
prospect of a speedy opening is becoming
more sure every hour. Geese and ducks are
about, and mud is SO plentiful in the streets
that there is no further demand. Tic river
is rising gradually.
REMAINS OF DIR. RIpLEY.--The Shakopee
Independent states that the party that start
ed out to find the remans of this unfortu-
nate man, who was frozen to death near
Glencoe, have returned, and report that they
found tie head and bones of the deceased,
and his shawl The wolves had devoured
him.
THE KANSAS CoMMIrTEE-Thc full Com
mittee, apo nted by Speaker Banks to in
vestigate Kansas election matters, consists
of Messrs. Sherman, of Ohio, and Howard,
of Michigan, Republicans, and Oliver, OF
Missouri, renegade Wing, and present chief
organist in the House of tie Border Ruff
fans.
CRY FINANcEs.-We happened into the
City Comptrollers office yesterday, and
while there learned of facts in come, on
with the City finances, which will make
neighbor Smith and his growing correspon-
dent, St. Paul." wished they hadn't said
anything. We do not wish, however, to
anticipate the annual report, which will
speak for itself in due time.
CRY IMPRovEMENTs.-The work of grad
Ing Chestnut street from the River to Fort
street is rapidly progressing. The grade is
only one foot in the hundred, and when
completed will render to the people of the
upper part of the City a thoroughfare to
their landing easier than at any other point
within the City limits.
SPIRITUAL MUTroN.-Old Father Richard,
says Detroit paper most excellent and
benevolent Catholic priest, who came there
about the year 1905, and died in 1884,
though an excellent scholar and fine lin
guist, had hard time in acquiring English
familiarity. He preached one day from the
text, II am your shepherd eyes, my dear
hearers" said he, "what was true of the
Saviour while upon earth, is true of every
faithful pastor. Now, am your shepherd,
and you are my mutton" This announce
ment created sensation.
E Daniel Webster once said that "the
sin of America was the sin of suretyship."
There is written in mournful letters in the
history of every man, the record of suffer-
ing by endorsements. 1t would make the
most extraordinary chapter in human expe-
rience if the incidents of this feature of bus
mess were written.
E The Edinburgh Review, after ex-
aiming all the projects for canal across the
Isthmus of Suez, and acknowledging that it
it is the doorway of England to her East
crn possessions, and that Great Britain and
the East India Company alone could afford
to undertake it for the benefit of the world,
pronounces it impracticable.
E. The Cincinnati brokers have been
making run upon the banks of Indiana
The Sentinel of the 18th says, that during
the previous fifteen days notes had been re-
turned for redemption to- the amount of
$4,000. The Sentinel is severe in its de-
nunciation of "swindling brokers'"
IL Old King Lear in the play, when
he was out in the storm, said in his apostro-
phe to the ram, wind, thunder and light
ming
sYou subscription"
A Kentucky editor says he wished he
could say the same of large number of his
- Can man be shaved in his absence2