The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1856-03-15

SOMEBODY DIsApPoINTED.-Isaac Attwater
of the st. Anthony Express, who came very
near being robbed in Cuba last winter-the
robber only dessting when he found he had
met his equal in every respect-gives the
following opinion of the late Legislature:
"Thc Legislature this session has COM
prised an average amount of talent, streaked
here and there with the most consummate
scoundrels that ever disgraced the halls OF
Legislation"
In this streaking operation, our neighbor
Isaac certainly forgot that his friend Grid
was not member this year.
THE WEATHER.-Yesterday indicated the
approach of spring. The sun was high and
warm, and the air balmy and genial. The
snow is fast disappearing, &c.-Pioneer.
We are exceedingly gratiied to learn this
and the people of the Territory are certainly
ender great obligation to the close observer
and brilliant genius who made this important
discovery.
- DR.. John H. Whitaker, distin-
gdished anatomist, died at New York on the
25th uit.
E Speaking Of the proposed Mosquito
Cramptom war with England, the Boston
Chronicle says: Suppose that the English
should burn New York-that is no more
than the New Yorkers do themselves once il
every five years; and when they should have
destroyed that village they should have the
satisfaction of knowing that they had burned
SlO0,0O0,OOO worth of property belonging
to their owR countrymen."
& Some of the members of the Ala
bar1a House of Representatives were anxious
to attend the races week or two since, but
the House refused to adjourn. A member
then proposed a resolution for the appoint
merit CT committee to inquire into the con-
dition of the ceiling of the Hall, which, as
he had been informed by mechanic, was in
SO daIiEerous state that it was unsafe to
stay there. The House Immediately adj
iourned-some to the horse races, and the
committee found the ceiling all right.
- A negro boy convicted at Shreves
burgh, Louisiana of burning his masters gir
house and forty bales of cotton, was hung
for the offence, on the 9th ult.
e The population of Vicksburgh, as
certained by census completed on the It'll
of February, was 4,643.
E< In Yazoo county, Mississippi, si1
men were sentenced to be hanged on thu
10th inst. Three were negroes who hat
murdered their master.
ALMA BASR.-All proceedings agains
the Atlanta Bank have been laid on the ia.
BILE of the Georgia House of Representatives
by a vote of IS to 90.
= It was recently mentioned that two
men had been arrested at Charleston, s; {.
charged with being concerned in getting W
bogus lOtIery e0HoIho' ooAAN AN'I ~
letters addressed tie them through the Char
lesion post-office were opened at the Dead
Letter Office in Washington, few days ago
and found to contain 5000 from their dupes
e. A gentleman from Lexington toif
MS Yesterday that there was some talk
starting an anti-slavery paper there, on &C
count of the Brady Ne~po't Ne'e
Those that commence thepaper had bette
get all the hair taken off their heads, SO I'M
Lexington people will only have the trouble
Of taking off their skin.-Lou'sclHe It7"es'
To which the plain-spoken News replies a
follows:
"You're pretty Democrat, amt you =
Where's your blush of shame, when yo'
talk about free men, free speech and free press
Damn the Democracy, say we, that sanction
not only tearing the 'hair' off of people,
heads. but the skim also, for daring to speal
for or against any institution or laws of tn
country? None but towards, that have n
argument to defend themselves, would sane
ton such damnable outrages. You Demo
crat2 Then is the most heartless man tina
ever wrote, a Democrat"