The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1856-11-15

E@ Charles Callahan, tho nicaragua
correspondent Of thes New Orleans (La.
Picayune, was recently killed at the battle
Of San Jacinto, Nicaragua.
E& The Boston (Sfass.) Ledger states
that M. Fleming, Esq, late manager Of
the National Theatre q that city,. is study
ing divinity in New Yo.k, and intends
henceforth to devote his talents to the pul.
pit.
EE The New Orleans Delta is of the
opinion that not much of the McDonough
estate will be left in ten years-t that this
once great estate wiz BE absorbed by com.
missioners' charges lawyers, cost of court,
&C., &c.
tx Since the publication of the new
liberation law in Turkey, LOG Christian
churches have been repaired or constructed.
The Sultan alone contributed $5, 900 to one
building. In fact everything is done by him
in his government to conciliate his subjects
in this respect.
IL The Bishops of the Province of
Savoy have addressed protest to the Pre-
sident of the Council of Ministers against
the recent circulars of the Minister of the
Interior, i'll which the Minister affirmed that
the Sandman clergy was split into two par
ties, and that one of those parties was hos
tile to all those laws which were necessary
to carry out the statutes.
~ The Buffalo Express gives the follow
ing chapter on domestic difficulties Mrs
King, near Kingston, was recently taken
sick, and her husband seized the opportuni-
ty to elope with handsome servant girl
named Martin. On their arrival in ALBANY,
Miss Martin eloped with young man named
Cornelious, taking Mr.. Kings money. King,
peinitent, returned home and found that his
wife had eloped with drygoods clerk named
Jeffers, with all the movable articles in the
house. King Immediately started off in
pursuit, considering himself deeply injured
man."
@ A young man named William
Haughton, clerk in Wright's d'y goods
store, on the corner of Broadway and Low
er Market street, Cincinnati, but who re-
sided with widowed mother at New
port, was bitten on Thursday by malig-
nant spider which was secrctcd in his clothes
and from the effect of which he expired in
dreadful agony befo. night.
E There is said to be a machine at
the Cayuga Works in that city, which makes
a ton of ice per day. The ice is made in
cakes of six by twelve inches thick, weigh
ing thirty-two pounds each. 1t is also ssat-
ed that the expense for manufacturing is but
SIS per con.
@ Trinity Church spire, in New York,
is 264 feet high St. Paul's, 235 /; the Pres
bytcrian church in Cincinnati, Ohio, 272 !;
St. Peters, Philadelphia, 233 St. Peters,
Philadelphia, 233; St. Peters Rome, $50
feet.
The cocoa tree furnishes the Indians
with bread, water, wine, vinegar, milk, hon
branches, and the shells and hnsks of the
fruit, they obtain thread, clothes, vases, cups,
baskets, paper, boat sails and ropes. M
Es- The New Orleans Delta advocates the
excmption-with certain qualifications and
conditions-of slaves from sale for debt,
making them species of homestead proper
ty. 1t learns that proposition to this eff
feet will be introduced at the next session of
the Mississippi Legislature.
E@ The Fort Wayne Qndiana) Jour
nal says no candid man even among the Dem
ocrats, pretends to deny that enormous frauds
were committed in that city. Irishmen i'm
ported for the purpose, were scattered all
through the county.
| THE Hoosic Tunnel Company expect to
get one thousand feet into the mountain by
the first of next April, and to have seven
miles of the road completed by that time.
AN earthquake at Shemaka, in the Cauca-
sus, on the 18th July, although lasting only
80 seconds, destroyed 300 houses and 100
shops. Only one person was killed and five
wounded.
Gs- A curious phenomenon has recently
been observed in Greece. The lake Copias
has completely dried up, and an immense
tract Of fertile land is thus rendered availa-
ble for the purposes Of agriculture. elf
EEBy the Alta Californian fSan Fran
| ciscoJ we learn that Mrs. Julia Dean Hayne
was delivered of a fine boy in that CITY on
the 31st of September. Mother and child
are doing welL asa D.
~ The Russian Government intends to
make Sebastopol a magnificent city. A let
ter from Constantinople says the attempt
made to get up the fragments Of the vessels
sunk at the mouth of the harEor appear like
ly to prove successful. alsz5
EE Mr. Mcconnell, of Sangamon
county, ILL.,, has the largest flock Of sheep in
the United States. 1t numbers twenty-one
| Thousand, and all of the choicest merinoes.
es- Hon. John Berry, 4 member Of the
Arkansas Senate, died a few days ago from
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