The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1856-08-09

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r. There are in the state Of nlinoi
twenty-five daily and one hundred and tel
weekly newspapers, besides TWENTY-FIVE.
weeklies issued from the daily offices. Th'
above is the number of political journals
There are in addition thirty-three neutra
and religious papers, making total Of ON
hundred and eighty-seven in the state.
| * George B. Butler has disposed 0
his interest in the New York Journal o
Commerce. The New York Post says tina
the price paid was $55, 900 for one quarter
making the value of the whole $3.50, 900
The Post says that Mr.. Butler has sold from
an apprehension that the election of Ere
mont-which he considers very certain-wil
tend to depress that kind of property.
e On Saturday afternoon, 26th ult.
the schooner Dean Richmond left the Mil
waukee river, bound for Liverpool, England
Her cargo was IA, 800 bushels of wheat
Fair winds and a successful voyage to the
noble craft. We see no reason why direct
prosperous and extensive trade may not be
carried on between our Lake ports and those
Of the European continent.
1t Accounts from the sugar region o
Louisiana are of most unfavorable charac-
ter. 1t is not expected that the crop fol-
this year will exceed one hundred and twen-
ty thousand hogsheads. Some we'll in
formed dealers assert, with an early frost
that the crop cannot be over one hundred
thousand hogsheads.
e The Washington correspondent Of
the New York Herald says GA letter was
read to me to-day, from Judge Mclean, in
which he says that the "united German res
idents" of the Western section of Pennsylva
MIA, will vote almost unanimously for FIRE.
mont. He predicts the State for Fremont by
over 10000.
e. H. A. Tenney, ESD, for many
years Democratic editor of the Madison
wis., Argus, and one of the ablest politi-
cal writers ever connected with the opposi-
ton press in this state, is out for Fremont
and Dayton. He supports the ticket as the
only genuine Democratic ticket before the
people.
Il There are, by the census, 355 pub
fishers in the United States, 1000 book.
sellers, $4,000 printers and $500 bookbind-
ers. The number of new books issued in
1853 is said to have exceeded 1000. Only
one book out of every 200 gets to second
edition.
Il. The Newark Advertiser says that
the Camden and Amboy Railroad Company
haze compromised with Mr.. Fullerton,
whose daughter was killed at the Burlington
accident last year, and who had brought an
action against them in the Pennsylvania
courts. The company pay him $500 and all
e. The London Times, which was re-
Gently urging a European coalition against
the United States, is out strongly in favor Of
Buchanan's election. The Times owes
this Republic particular spite, and is de-
termined to have it broken up one way or
another.
ES VIM Howes, journeyman printer
in Montgomery county, Alabama, recently
came into the possession, by inheritance, of
fortune of $4,000.
E James Sheridan Knowles has
written pamphlet with the object of prov
ing that the Gospel attributed to Mathew,
was composed by all the Apostles together,
who employed Mathew as penman.
* The Directors of the mint proposes
that the new cent be lightweight parts cop
per and twelve parts nickel. This will make
coin Of dark reddish color. tits to weigh
a grain less than half the present cent, which
is 16S grains.
@ A monster tooth, weighing six
pounds, and in a perfect state Of preserva-
ton, was found recently in the bed of the
North Skunk river, Mahaska county, near
DRILLS Mill.
EE Mayor Wood, of New York, has Of
fered reward of $1,000 for the apprehen-
sion of the murderer of Burke, the porter in
Mr.. Joice's store on Broadway.
IL Elijah Fillmore, Esq, an uncle of
the ex-President, died at his residence in
Bennington, Vt, few days since.
e F.F. V. now stands for Freedom,
Fremont and Victory, and not for the First
Families in Virginia.
* A Fremont clock has been invented
in Connecticut, which is warranted to run,
without winding, until that gentleman is
elected President, or no pay.
e Kamehameha, the King Of the
Sandwich Islands, has formally anpounced
his intention of marriage with Emma, daugh-
ter of DR.. T. G. B. Rookie.
e It is said there are 364 Mormons al
Abel, Dallas county, Iowa, in very distress
ed circumstances.
EE The town of Clinton, in Clinton
! county, Iowa, not yet one year old, contains
population of 53l.
/ EE asonny DEAR said fond mother
Iayon have a dirty face" ~ can't help it
ma. NV fathers Blacb Republican"