The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1856-08-02

r NEWS rTEhGs.
| An ASTONISHING SrArEMrxr.--The Boa
ton Chronicle is informed BY gentleman 0
high respectability and intelligence, who ha
resided for several years in Missouri, tina
when Thompson delivered To the Border Ruf
fans 800 muskets and two brass cannon
from the United States Arsenal at Liberty
our informant asked him if be was not afrait
he would get into difficulty with the Gov
eminent at Washington. He replied, "No
@Aad se.sgrupsd to Pierce, and It soas all right.
The LATEST SrYLE.-The Abingdon Stan
dard says "The most fashionable appare
at present is a white shirt, pair of pants and
nothing else"
* The recent discovery Of iron ore in
the uncultivated wilds Of Exmoor, Devon
shire, will, it is expected, produce COM
plete revolution in the English Iron trade
The amount of ore, it is expected the dis
tricts will raise, is estimated at 100000 to
100000 tons annually.
d John P. Graves, of Boston, young
musician who vent to Europe last year, is
pronounced the best viohnist in the Brus-
sells Conservatory, and has been presented
with silver cup for performance in a
Beethoven quartetto.
E Col. Lane in his speech at Lafay-
cite, Indiana, stated that there were more
saw mills in Kansas, than in the whole state
of Missouri. Most of these were erected
through the exertions of the Massachusetts,
Aid Society. This is the way Northern
men have interfsred with Kansas affairs.
T A New York paper says the
search for the treasure on board the Brit
ish frigate Huzzar, sunk at Hellgaie during
the revolutionary war, is going on actively
but with little success. The ships arma-
ment and furniture are all that have been re-
covered thus far"
IL The Toledo Blade says that the
steamer Lady Elgin, on Lake Superior, took
fire last week, and was considerably burned.
The fire caught from the stove in the cabin.
She was full Of passengers, aud the destruc-
ton would have been painful, had not the
fire been extiuguished.
The brig Anna, of Baltimore, from Aspin-
wall, while off Pietro Bank, was struck June
Goth, by water-spout, and capsised. The
captain, mate, and two seamen escaped in
the long-boat, landed near Carthagena, after
rowing four days, arrived in New York in
the schooner E. H. Miller.
EE 1t appears by the assessment Of
property just made in st. Louis, that taxa
ton is pretty steep in thst city, being two
dollars and sixty cents on one hundred dol
lars
* j. D. Rexford, Esq, of GAINESVILLE,
Wisconsin, formerly Of Norwich, N. York,
was passenger on the Northern Indiana,
burnt on Lake Erie. He was saved by a
small boat some distance from the vessel,
having been over an hour in the water.
e In Cleveland, on Saturday, some
scoundrel entered the dwelling of Mr.. Fit
tenbofer, and stole some $500 worth of jew
;elry. He administered chloroform to Mr..
Fjttenhofer, his wife and six children, and
then administered upon their effects.
E The head of the Bureau of Indian
Affairs has offered reward of $500 for the
apprehension of the murderers of Gay, the
late Shawnee and Wyandotte Agent.
EE The Library Of the Law Institute
of New York city, contains 5000 volumes.
1t contains the English Reports from 1915,
The membership fee is $50, and $40 annu-
ally thereafter.
* A man has been arrested for for
gerry in Cincinnati, and in his trunk were
found letters from numerous ladies, in differ
ent places, to whom he was under promise
of marriage.
E Wm. Arrison was convicted Of
manslaughter on his third trial at Cincinna-
ii, on the 22d, for causing the death of Mr..
Allison by an internal machine some two
years since.
Great dissatisfaction is expressed at the
verdict. The sentence will be deferred, and
he will be put on trial fog the murder of Mrs
Allison.
IL There are sixty-eight bank appli
cations for charter and increase of capital
advertised to be brought before the next
Pennsylvania Legislature, showing an az
gregate increase Of capital asked for Of $24,-
0O0,000.-
Tx Senior Herez who went up in bal
loon some time since at Havana, had not
been heard from as late as the 18th inst
1t was supposed he had crossed over to Yu-
catan.
* Three lager beer distilleries were
destroyed by fire in New York city on the
22d, belonging to Messrs. Rupert, Miller and
James. Loss 100000.
* The whole number of marriages in
England in the year 1854, were l59,727. OF
this number 47,S43 men, 68,165 women
signed the marriage register with marks
being unable to write their own names.
e At meeting to organize Buchan.
an Club in Milwaukee, there were thirty-siz
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