Minnesota weekly times. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1854-1859, 1856-03-08

After the com. rose the House took a recess till
2l-2P. Nj.
COUNCIL.
FRIDAY, Feb. 90.
Council met at 10 O'Clock and was called to
order by the President.
PRAYER by the Rev. Mr.. Penman.
Bill extending further timo to the NJ & N. w.
II. r. Co., was received from the House and read
the first time.
On motion of Mr.. Lullen the bill was laid on
the table till this afternoon.
Mr.. Rolette from the select committee to whom
was referred House bill establishing the county
of Anoka, reported the bill back and recommend
ed its indefinite pos'ponement.
Mr. Flandrau, from the minority Of the commit
tee, introduced new bill to establish the county
of Anoka.
Both reports were lost on motion to accept.
The following bills were passed.
To incorporate the Henderson and Glencoe
Plank Road Company.
Relative to Free Schools in the City OF st.
Paul.
To authorize School District No. l, in Hennc.
| rim CO. to raise money.
! To amend the Revised Statutes.
| To locate road from Cannon Falls to st.
Paul.
| To amend the act to incorporate the St. Paul
and St. Anthony II. Il. Co.
| A bill to extend the jurisdiction Of Probate
judges, was indefinitely postponed.
Mr. Luiden moved to take up the Anokla CO.
| bill. Carried.
Mr.. Brisbine (Mr. Balcombc in the chair) moved
that the bill be indefinitely postponed. Carried
ayes ., noes ).
Mr.. Brisbine moved that the Council now re-
solve itself into Of the whole, to take up
the bill introduced this morning, to divide Dako-
ia county into two representative districts. Car
ried-ayes s, nays q.
The com. reporte the bill back.
Mr.. Frecb,rn III wed tn, rules be suspended
and bill be rcld a third tim, nov. Lost, ayes !,
naysS s.
Mr.. Elan lrau move that the bill grant;n, an
extension of time to the NJ. Il n. W. II. r. Co.,
be now taken up under suspension of the rules.
Carried, ayes 10, nays 5.
The bill was PASSED by the following vote:
Ayes--McssrS. Dooicy. Frceborn, Flandrau,
Lowry. Rolettc, Stone, Tillottson, Thompson and
President. Q.
Nocs-,Messrs. Balcombe, Ballv, Hanson,
Ludden, Rollins an Setter. 6.
On motion the Council adjourned.
HOUSE.
SATURDAY, March l.
The following bills were passed:
An act to authorize the Common Council of
St. Paul to issue bonds in certain
Concerning the Register of Deeds.
70 incorporate the Lake Superior and Cen
trail Minnesota Il. Z. Co.
Territorial road from Red Wing to Farrbault.
To incorporate the town of Little Falls.
To amend IN act to inc ,rporatc the St. Paul
Bridge Go.
For a Territorial road from Saltwater to Snake
River.
To provide for tn, free passage of logs down
Cannon River.
For a Territorial road from st. Cloud to Fort
Ridgley.
To incorporate the West 3 ZACH dam Co.
TO provide for laying GU. certain Territorial
roads.
Granting to John HENDERSON the RICH. to main
tain ferry across the Mnncsosl river.
To constitute the county of lI2nncp;n part of
the ID judicial District.
To authorize the commissioners of II,nncpin
county to borrow money for the erection of coun-
ty buildings.
To provide for the survey Of lumb n in tn, "a,
Sd and 4th Districts.
\ bill to incorporate the North SHIRE Mining
Company.
10 incorporate the B.llvicw ,min,ry of learn.
ing.
Granting to l.. Dc Croix the right to establish
a ferry across the Minnesota river.
Granting to Richard Murphy the right to cstab-
fish ferry across tn. MINES OLA river.
Memorial to Congress Praying for the reduction
of the TT. Ripley Reserve
Granting to alvin +. Potter tn. right to cs-
tablish ferry across Lake pcpin.
Providing for the location of Territorial road
from Red Wing to Mantorvllc.
TO incorporate the Minnesota Female Semi
nary.
To aathor.hc Stephen II I'll to construct ferry
across the Narrows in Lake Mnnctonka
| To amcnl the Revised Statutes.
| TO organize the county of Mower.
| To incorporate tn, Northern Pacific r. 4. Co.
| For Il Territorial road from ST. ClouI to Fort
Ripley.
| DISCoNCERTiNG AN ORATOR.--it is an astonishing
| thing how little matter will sometimes discon-
| cc't II man who is ccus;Gmcd To speak i'm p;b..c
| and to have his thoughts about him, and ready at
| command on almost ali occasions.
was once opening speech from the stump
said distinguished W. political orator to
! Us recently, and was just beginning to warm with
my subject, when remarkably clear and DELHI
crate voice spoke out behind me, saving:
Guess he wouldn't talk quite so hifautin
if he knew that his trowers was bust clean out
behindr
'From that moment couldn't get on. The
people IN front began to laugh, and there WITS Il
loud roar in my rear, and dared not reverse nv
position from fear of having new audience of
my condition. made, or rather invented an ex-
cuse for delay, and sat down. The malicious
scoundrel! continued the orator, s. it was only a
mean trick, after all. There was nothing under
heaven the matter with my unmentionables !''-
lIarper's Magazine.
CANADIAN TRApE.--The aggregate value of the
imports from and the exports to Canada for 1855
being the first year under the operation Of recip-
rocal free trade under the late treaty., were SD
0lO663. being an increase of $9,l40,S46 over
1854. so
| A JAPANESE Gulf SrREAM.-Last week Lieut.
Bent, of the navy, read paper before the Geo
graphical and lIistoral Society, New York, in
which he showed, from the records kept by the
Japan Expedition, that there is also in the Pacific
n River Of the Ocean, flowing to the northward