The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1856-01-26

IL Will SuCCeSS. COT luc use VI ldIullleS
and individuals the inventsion seems to be
admirable. We are told that seamstress,
with the aid of one of these machines, will
be able to do in one day the ordinary hand
labor of an entire week. The Messrs Je-
rome are at present engaged in constructing
machinery for the manufacture of this i'm
provement on large scale, and in January
next will be able to fill orders. Retail price
of the machine $1,000. The best sewing
machines of the other makers cost from 500
to $40.
E&The commercial editor of the New
York Times states that, from the best infor-
nation he can obtain, there is in this coun-
try two hundred and forty-one millions of
dollars of gold in circulation.
THE Collins SrEAMERs.--The sailing
days of the steamers of this line from New
York, have been changed from Wednesdays
to Saturdays; and on Saturday, January 5th,
the Pacific left for Liverpool. Thenceforth
they will leave New York for Liverpool eve
ry other Saturday. Returning they will
leave Liverpool on Wednesdays instead of
Saturdays on the 23d of JAM
uary.
* Bears are very plenty in some por-
tions of Northern Pennsylvania this season.
Two big fat fellows were killed in Potter
county week or two since.
MATRIMoN1AL.-A "young lady" who is
good looking, advertises in the New York
papers for a husband. She lives, she says,
in Chicago, has SIT 600 in cash, besides re-
al estate in that city. That must he splen-
did opening for some enterprising young man.
Gentlemen, "pitch in.'
E%T The New England Society of Charles
ton, South Carolina, celebrated the landing
of the Pilgrims by dinner at the Mills
House. The following toast was given -
Massachusetts as she was in '7e, when her
sons knew no ism but patriotism"
Il John w. Brooks, Esq, of Detroit,
has been elected President of the Michigan
Central Railroad Company, in place of j. NJ.
Forbes, resigned
E< The Cairo Delta came out as tri-
weekly on the 1st of January. 1t is said to
be spirited Sheet and will probably soon
grow into daily.
CROSSING AT DErRo1r.--At the last ac-
counts the ice was not considered safe eros
sing except for footmen, but two channels
are kept open without any difficulty for the
ferry boats, so that passengers and freight
are transported without any delay.
e Mr.. Elliott, the Eronaut, with Mr..
A. L. Carrier and Miss Virginia Hodgson,
who is only twelve years of age, made bal
loon ascention at Richmond, Virginia, last
week, and landed safely the same evening,
about eighteen miles from the starting po.nt.
e A Methodist minister writes of Bue-
nos Ayres: II verify believe there is not,
on all the African continent, tribe or ma
ton in more abject state of heathenism
than are the mixed race of men inhabiting
these old grounds of the Spanish conquer
ors."
% The Lyons (France) Journals speak
of spectacle at once touching and singular.
Eight one-handed Zouaves from the Crimea
have been seen walking in the streets by
twos, keeping together by the only arm which
is left them.
* To meet the demand of 25,-
600 clamorous purchasers of Macaulay's
new work, Messrs. Westly & Co., of Lon
don, have undertaken to supply 5000 bound
copies per day until the order is completed.
WE learn from the Point Pleasant Re-
publican that they have reached most ex-
cellent stream of salt water at Hartford City,
on the Ohio, in Mason county, Va, at the
depth of 600 feet.
A PENosscor fur gatherer having reached
Bangor, on Sunday last, with seventy-five
cats in a box, was compelled to rest in the
suburbs of the town, in order that church
goers might rot be disturbed by their pro-
fame music.