The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1856-11-08
NEWS ITEMS.


that the people might tie prepared.
EXTENSIVE arrangements for instruction
among the negroes, were lately discovered
in Colorado county, Texas. More than 200
were implicated, but only three of the ring
leaders were executed. Every Mexican in
the county was implicated and ordered to
leave the county.
The woods were on fire and burning brisk
| " between indianapolis and Cumberland,
Indiana, on Sunday and Monday of last
week. The fire had spread over large ex-
tent of county, and done considerable dam
age. 1t commenced near Greenwood and
spread with the wind in the direction Of
Cumberland. .'.A'e'- q -i'"
The steamboat Chancellor, bound from
st. Louis to New Orleans, sunk to the hurri-
cane deck near Goose Island, point above
Cairo, recently. She was owned in New AL
bany, Indiana, and was insured to about half
her value. Her cargo, consisting of -four
and grain, was partly insured.
The Marlborough IN. H. Pioneer, says
that on Thursday night, Mrs. Fulton, who
is said to be deranged, drowned her little
girl, about one year old, in small stream,
putting rock upon the body to keep it I'M
der. She then went to neighbours house,
told the family what she had done, and re-
quested them to go and take the body out,
lest the face might be disfgured by lying in
the water 5
&. A grand niece of Franklin, Mrs.
Jane Kinsman, resides in Philadelphia Born
in Boston, 'and now in her Goth year, she is
one of the ftw of those surviving who re-
member the famous C Tea Party" ~ro
@ Near Greensboro Is. CO. an en-
tire railroad train ran over drunken man,
few nights ago. lie had fallen on the
track, and the cow-catcher being sufficient
ly elevated not to carry him with it, he lay
there in safety to the amazement Of the con-
ducter and engineer, who, of course, thought
he was cut to pieces. ..-.
e There has been trememendous
food in Essex CO., New York. The streams
are larger than ever known since $780, An
immense amount of property was destroyed,
and many lives lost
e. A wedding came off at the Court
House, Havana (Ill.) one day last week, in
which the bride was IA and the bri legroom
70 odd years Of age. They were both chill
dren, the one in her first, and the other in
his second childhood. There was present at
the nuptial ceremony daughter Of the " old
gentleman as old as the brides mother.
Gs- There is rumor that Thomas Car
lyle has abandoned his half written " Life
and Times of Frederick the Great" and is
about producing a biography of General
Westinghouse much greater man.
E Rev. Thos. Rowland Malcolm has
been dismissed from the pastoral church in
Wheeling, Va, for unsoundness on the slav-
cry question. T., III ..r ,~.I
e. The Wesleyan Conference has re.
newed its prohibition of dancing and card
playing in the families of members of the
body, on the ground flat these practices
are not in harmony with religion"
@s- The Toronto Colonist says the sales
Of the land at St. Joseph's Island, Lake HUI
ron, closed on Monday. About 10000 acres
were sold at an average Of from six shllings
and three-pence to seven shilings and six
pence per re. The competition was gene
rally brisk. o......a '...T
e The Savannah Republican says the
much talkedof convention Of Southern gov
errors at Raleigh, to deliberate upon the
proper course for the South in the event Of
Fremont's election. was attended by Gov
Wise of Virginia, and Gov. Adams of South
Carolina, all told 81. sasuga. to ye.-;
~ The Governors of Missouri, Wiscon-
sin, Maryland, Maine, Connecticut and New
Hampshire have all recommended Thursday,
the Goth of November, as day of general
thanksgiving in their respective states. t-'
70 A German paper asserts that prus-
sic acid only causes suspension of life at first
and one who takes it cin be restored to ami
nation by the pouring of acetate potash ar
salt dissolved in watero on the head and spine.
Rabbits have been thus recovered. sta 4gtl
@- 1t is stated that the number of Eng
glish and Scotch settled in Ireland is now
more than double what it was only ten years
ago. A Galway paper says =" The West OF
LELAND seems to be destined to be silently
revolutionized by the Scot and Saxon.'
The Cairo Delta of the 22d, says: "The
Ohio is at stand, with only fourteen inches
to Louisville, and nothing at all to Cincin-
natl, where the people are performing aquat-
ic feats by walking across to the Kentucky
shore on two inches of water"
EE A large and enthusiastic Fillmore
demonstration, with torchlight procession
decorations, &C., took place recently in Bos-
ton. .o.--ID#.s O Gu q .a1iGs 9dE
Ns- The Roston correspondent of the N
Y. Tribune says that the whole cost of the
statue of Franklin was not equal to the ex-
pense of catching one slave 1 yitI slsi-
IL Frederick Haynes, who murdered
the girl Emma Price, in Detroit, in June
last, has been sentenced to the Penitentiary
for life. co.'s.-'-';i9 eds 40 aaD!od
e Mr.. Alfred Victor Du Pont, the