The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1856-05-24

DAMAGES FROM THE TELEGRAPH.-The
Detroit Tribune states that commission
merchant of Hamilton recovered in court
last Friday, $1,000 of the Montreal Tele-
graph Company, for failure to deliver dis
patch, which he sent to his correspondent
n New York, within a reasonable time.
whereby be lost, in the decline of flour, the
amount of damages returned him. The dis.
patch was three days on the way.
A VERY SINGULAR AFrAIR.-A very Gu
rious instance of confusion has taken place
in Gamily in Albany. A mother and heI
daughter were both confined on the same
day, each having little son. In the hustle
of the moment both babies were placed in g
cradle together, and, to the confusion of the
mothers, when the youngsters were taker
from the cradle, they were unable to tel
which was the mothers and which The
daughters soll-a matter which, of course
must ever remain mystery. The family j;
in great distress over the affair.
The Montpelier (Vt.) Freeman says that
at social gathering in that vicinity recently
a gentleman had the task Of getting 6
wife" imposed upon him during the even
ng's amusement, and with young lady
went through a mock ceremony, as they boil
supposed, of being married; but after the
motions had been gone through with, it was
discovered that the person who married then
was real justice, and the matrimonial knot
could not be united The parties are salts.
lied with their bargain, but are considerably
nettled at the manner in which they wcrt
launched upon the sea of matrimony.
SENATE, May l5.-Mr Clayton said h.
had seen in the morning papers the PROPOSE
ton to take an extract from letter from
the British Minister at Washington, datet
March 3lst, 1856, in which Mr.. Crampto,
says:
I" 1t will be within your lordships' recol
lection that Mr.. Clay was informed by ST
Henry Bulwer, before the treaty of 1885,
vas signed, that Ruatan was de jure and d
fac'O il British possession, and MIR. Clayton
oas said on various occasions since in Con
rention, that he considered Ruatan Brit
i Ssh possession as much as jamaica or an,
other British West India island
Mr.. Clayton branded this attempt as ut
tcrly untrue in every respect. The British
Minister was laboring under delusion al
TRANCE as ever entered the brain of an,
nan, to make such declaration. Nothin,
ike it had ever escaped hin. in conversation
with MIR. Champion or anybody else. Ill
would now read it again to contradict Mr.
Champions statement, which was mad
lnown to him for the first time this morn
ng, and Of which he lad not tie most re
note conception. In this matter, Mr.. Cramp
ton said the dependencies Of British Hon
!uras, in my opinion, were distinctly emu
suerated in the tresty Of l7S6. lie hac
made this statement deliberately, and the ir
esistiblc conclusion was that Ruatan wa
not included III these dependencies.
Mr.. Clayton said, while lie was at Lii
lodgings confined by sickness, in Fcbruar,
asst: lie was called upon by Mr.. Cr.ttenden
md willie tLey were engaged in the conside
ration of this subject, Mr.. Champion cam
in to invite him, Clay tor, to dine with him
He, Clayton, was too sick to accept of tn
invitation. but took occasion to ask Nj
Champion if he knew anything regarding tn
:harge that he, Clayton, had admitted tina
Ruatan was exempt from tie provisions O
the treaty, and Mr. Champion, in the mos
| unqualified terms, acknow ledccd that Their
was no truth in the report that Clay ton hat
ever made any such ntmaton to him.
Mr.. Clayton said he bad made speech af
ter speech in the Senate, endeavoring t,
prove directly the reverse of what he wa
representing as admitting. He was willing
to put tie most charitable construction on it
but it was an utter mistake.
Mr. Cass thought it very certain Mr.
Clayton, unless in some fit of insanity, coulc
never have said to Mr.. Champion what wa:
attributed to him. ~