The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1856-04-26

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Simpson had written the articles alluded t
was there any thing improper in them? an
was your article of this morning quite gel
tlemanly? if so we have mistaken the NEAR
ing OF the term.-Ffee Press Of Wednesda6..
| EE Our neighbor makes very conyen
ent dodge in saying that we are mistaken i
''the author of the communications in tn
Free Press, on the subject of drainage of tn
city" We have no complaint to max
against your drainage correspondent, VIII
only wrote as he did because he suppose,
the city had power to borrow money at an,
time, for any purpose, and to any amount
He is now better informed.
We are not alarmed about "Capt. Simp
sons rubbers;" nor at anything the Captain
himself may say or do, for that matter. W,
only wished to unmask the bogus est. Paul,
and that being clear, all that may be writer
upon that question is quite harmless. We
expect. however, that the same thing will
again turn up under a different cognomen ir
the Free Press.
AS to the last paragraph of our neighbor
concerning the ''gentlemanly tone of our ar
ticle of Wednesday, all we have to say is
that when We go out in search of public OF
private assassins, we generally arm for the
purpose, and don't stop to enquire whether it
is "gentlemanly" to shoot them with a double
barrled shot gun or six FOUNDER, loaded
with grape.
The Free Press dare not nnequivocally de-
ny that we hit the mark when we fired at bo-
gus "St. Paul"
MAIL LosT.-Thc St. Peter states mail
has been lost between that place and St.
Paul. The Courier says:
"The loss occurred on Thursday of list
week, in lie Sueur Creek. 1t appears the
driver was on his way to Henderson, and
not making fast the bags, without examining
the stream, without making inquiries as to
it's depth, drove in and the bed becoming dis
engaged from the carriage, upset. loosing the
entire mail from the Winnebago Agency, FRI m
Mankato, from Kasota, from St. Peter, from
Traverse DIES Sioux, and from lie Sueur-
Being disguised at the abominable manner
in which the mail has been carried, of late
we were fortunate in having availed ourseli
of the Kindness of the Clerk of the steamer
Ii. S. Allen, Mr.. Hendrick, and sent our pa
pers of last week, for that portion of the
Territory below Shakopec, and the east to
st. Paul, by him; consequently our loss con-
sists in the packets destined to Henderson,
Bell Plaine and Shakopec. In the letter bag
were many letters of value from Merchants,
and others, for the East, and the letter mail
was unusually large. It's loss has caused a
feeling of bitterness throughout the commu-
nity,a it is averred the whole thing was the
result of sheer carelessness. After losing
the mail, the driver left his team and wagon
at LIE Sueur, jumped on board the steamer
Globe, and proceeded to Bell Plaine, for tic
mail coming this way"
THE services of the " House of Hope
with the exception Of the Sunday School,
will be suspended until the return of Rev
Mr.. Neill, in May.
In the village of Middletown, Orange CO..
New York, a young man, acting as bar-keer-
er in one of the hotels of the place, was kill
ed by swallowing pint of whisky and cider
mixed. He died in two hours after reaching
home.
LAST Monday afternoon fight took place
at Russell's Exchange in st. Louis, between
d. T..
Niblo, in which the latter was badly woun
ded in the face, head and breast by a knifi
in the hands of the former.
MANUMISsIoN.-Ten slaves, the property
of Hamilton Elliott, of Adams county, Miss.
were manumitted before Judge Storcr, il
Cincinnati, on the 18th. They included three
families, and after getting their free papers
declared their intention to go back to Ms
sissippi.
The militia in the several States and Ter
ritories amounts to 2,474,735 men. No re
turns from Oregon and some of the Terri
tories.
THE Toledo, Lake Erie and Wabash Rail
road was completed from Toledo to Logans
port on Saturday last.
THE Council Bluff Chronotype says al
the stories about people being eaten up b.
wolves in that country are false.
AMBROSE FOSTER, of Lake Mills, in Wis
consin, who invented the lime and sand
pressed brick, has already realized 500, 90
from his patent.
| E Rev. Thomas L. Harris, the cele
brated spiritualist, was married on the lit
inst, to Miss Waters of New Orleans.
IL The Sultan of Turkey is said to b
one of the most munifcent of Europea
monarchs, as well as one the best-hearted.
The total loss by the burning of the c.
vent Garden Theater is estimated at ST 600
600.
FoREsT, the tragedian, is playing an Ell
gagement at Washington.
TX A new College to be called the S
Lawrence University, has been chartered
: the Legislature, to be located at Canton,
S Lawrence county, N. Y. 1t is under the pc