The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1856-05-03
Rumered Tidinss Of the Pacific.
NEW York, April %.

| NEW 1oKk. Aprll ~.
A dispatch was received from Province
town, Cape Cod, to the following effect:
GA bottle drifted ashore here to-day con
] tanning a paper with the following word
upon it: sOf Grand Banks is steamer Pa
cific, mast gone-steamer out of order; sen,
! assistance Immediately.
ASA ELDREDcE'"
} THE agent of the Associated Press ven
lures the opinion that the above wants con
; firmation.l
PROMPT. - The Galena Advertiser say
that the London and Liverpool Insuranc,
Company have authorized their agent there
Mr.. j. Farmer, to draw on the Company a
sight for the amount of their losses by tn,
late fire-between SIS, coo and $4,000.
| K The President has sent a document
and Aspinwall have received So, $50, 900, ant
Hargous & Brothers the balance of the three
millions of dollars payable to Mexico under
the terms Of the Mesilla Valley treaty.
E The Cleveland Herald says: IA
deaf and dumb man, named Hammond, alias
Baker, and hailing from Buffalo, was arrest
ed in Louisville on the 7th inst, on charge Of
being engaged in counterfeiting. He was
found to have in his possession many imple.
ments of rascality.
The Buffalo Commercial understands
that company of Boston merchants, toge-
ther with the Syracuse and Binghampton
Railroad Company, are making arrangements
to put line of steamers on the route be-
tween Collingwood and Chicago.
New York HARBoR FoRrIF1cAT1oNs.-
The late talk about the war with England,
says the New York Tribune, has stirred up
the authorities at Washington, and the Sc
cretary of War some time since issued orders
directing those completed Notifications of
the country which were deficient in arma-
ment, to be supplied. Accordingly this
work has been going On among the defenccs
of New York harbor since the opening of
navigation, but will probably not be finished
before midsummer. 1t is expected that the
supply of ordnance at the Government sta
ton there will be insufficient for the purpose,
and in such case more will have to be Or
dered from other stations, or manufactured
in the United States founderies.
Fort Schuyler, at Throg's Neck, COM
manding the East River, is now destitute of
armament, though otherwise completed
will be mounted with 318 guns. Fort Co.
lumbus and Castle William are both armed,
and when South Battery has received it's
armament, the united force of the three will
be 1877 guns. Ellis and Dedloe Islands are
at present armed, having together 90 guns.
Fort Richmond, on the Staten Island side of
the Narrows, is in process of construction,
and work is going on there rapidly. Bat
teries Hudson and Morton, on the same
shore, are already armed. Fort Lafayette,
nearly opposite on Long Island, is completed
and will be supplied with 76 guns. Fort
Hamilton has now a full armament of 1l8
guns.
CUBAN AFFA1Rs.-Our Government re-
ceived dispatches by the Africa addressed
by the Spanish Minister of Foreign Affairs
to our Minister at Madrid, in reply to de-
mands made at different times for redress,
in the matter Of firing on and OBTAINING the
steamer Eldorado by the Spanish man-of-
war Fisolano. The Spanish Government
most decidedly but courteously refuses to
comply with the wishes of our Government,
and the Minister argues that, according to
the law of nations, the commander of the
Fisolino did nothing more than the peculiar
circumstances at that time in the neighbor-
hood of Havana justified.
e We are indebted to Thompson
Ritchie, Esq, who came up by the Golden
Era, for Chicago and Galena papers in ad-
vance of the mail
The defeat of Walkers
troops under Col. Schlessinger is confirmed
by the arrival of the Chas. Morgan at New
Orleans on the 23d. The cause is attributed
solely to the gross cowardice of the COM
manding officer.
Rock ISLAND RAILROAD BR1DcE.-The
Chicago papers inform us that the first pas
senger train over this bridge crossed on
Monday. They describe the bridge as an
immense structure, and of imposing appear
anoe. The length of the draw is l2O feet
* The Everett House, New York
charged the Mercantile Library Association
5000 for the board of Edward Everett for
eight days. Mr.. Everett would take nc
pay for his lecture, but the Association
never paid so much before, and it materially
diminishes their benefit fund.
~ The Sheriff of Franklin County
Ala, hung man lately after receiving res
pite from the Governor of the State. HI
pronounced the document forgery and dis
regarded it, but it was genuine, and the
Sheriff is to be tried for murder.
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ADJOURNMENT OF CoNcREss.-A resolu
ton was introduced into the House of Re
representatives. one day last week, providing
for the adiournment Of Congress on the 14tl