The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1856-07-19

icy .. Bingham, John A. Willis, y. f.
Cleveland, Cyrus Aldrich, COMMITTEE =;
New PApER.-sThe Wabashaw Journal'
is the name Of new paper just established
at Wabashaw, foot of Lake Pep;n. 1t is pub
lished by Fl. J. Sanderson; democratic" in
politics, but mainl; devoted to the local de-
velopment of the prominent point where it
is published. The Journa!! makes spright-
ly and handsome appearance.
PRoMPTITUDE OF a MEMBER OF Con-
GREss.-We quote from the Washington
correspondence of the New York Post, the
annexed account of the good time made by
a Congressman-anda member from Ohio
at that-in order that lie might be on hand
in crisis 1t is a circumstance worth noting
nowadays to see a member of Congress
bearing personal ills that they may perform
their public duty:
Orchard Mott, venerable Ohio repre-
sentative, was lying i'll Of typhus fever with
some friends on Long Island, twenty-five
miles from New York. Giddinss, not aware
of his illness, telegraphs to him at New
York city, ON Tuesday night to come on and
vote. The message fell into the hands of
gentleman, who, till now, has been an old
line Democrat, but he carried out the COM
mand to the letter, chartering steamboat
at an expense Of one hundred dollars, pro-
eeeding that very night down Long Island
Sound, and bringing Mott to the city in time
to start for Washington the very next morn
ing. And so the staunch veteran, i'll as he
was, was duly in his seat all day yesterday,
voting on every motion tilt the cause Of free
Kansas had triumphed.
The semi-annual dividend of the
New York Tribune establishment amounts
to about l25 per cent per annum on the
capital stock, or over sixty thousand dollars
for the past six months. The proprietors
have just purchased the Tribune buildings
from Mr. Thompson Price, the well-known
contractor, and the father-in-law of Mr.. Nc
Elrath, for $4,000, paying down 25 per
cent of the purchase money out of their
semi-annual earnings. They also donated
81 900 to the Kansas Aid Committee, and
ST 900 to the Fremont Vigilance Committee,
leaving about 40 per cent Of the earnings to
be divided among the stockholders.
GRA1N.-The friends, fol-
lowers, and believers in James Buchanan,
says the New York Picayune, and the easy
offices and fat salaries which they hope to
obtain through his instrumentality, have
sheaf of wheat on the badges which they
wear, because Buchanan calls his farm
| Wheatland. This looks ominous in several
ways:-in the FIRST place only drowning men
catch at straws-and in the second place, a
sheaf of wheat is strikingly suggestive of a
thrashing!
q The Washington correspondent of
the New York Times relates that South
ern lady, who is the owner of slaves, re-
marking the fact that the state of South Ca
rolina presented sword to Col. Fremont
for his services in the conquest of California,
said /: " South Carolina presents her heroes
with swords, and her towards with canes p
The race Of heroines is not yet dead in the
South.
IL A large portion of the submarine
cable, lost last August from the ship Stephen
Adger, off Cape Breton, has been recovered.
The line of cable lost was shout seventy
five miles in length it was insured in Lon
don for $4,000, and it became the property
of the underwriters by paying $780,
| e. The New York Courier and Enquir-
err, Evening Post, Tribune, Times, and He
raid, the five leading journals Of New York
city, the most influential and of the largest
circulation Of any five newspapers in the
country, all sustain the nomination Of Ere
mont.
j tx They had about half mile of Ere
mont ratification in Rochester, N. Y, las
Monday evening. About 10, 900 peoplewer