Minnesota weekly times. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1854-1859, 1856-04-12
TUESDAY, APRIL 8, 1866.

D6 Business at the Lower Levce has been
quite brisk for several days past. The five
boats now laying there are being painted and
refitted up for the coming season. The Time
and Tide is expected to leave for the head Of
the Lake to-day.
t@- The Time and Tide and Equator got
up steam yesterday afternoon. The footing Of
their whistles indicated that navigation had al
ready begun, and attracted hundreds of joyous
spectators to the spot.
r8 The ice in the river at the upper land.
ing moved down considerable yesterday. The
strong south wind for day or two has had
the effect to weaken it amazingly, and to-day
sometime We expect to see it take its final de-
parture.
g. Those of our citizens in want of hats can
procure them of all styles and qualities, and at
prices as reasonable a the same article con be
bought this side of Galena, by calling on Shaw 4
Harrel. They have manufactory in successful
operation, which turns out hats equal, in style,
quality and finish, to any Eastern manufactory.-
Give them call, and they will furnish you any
article suitable for a gentleman's wardrobe, from
a fine hat to silk stockings.
For MANKAro.-The steamer Reveille, Captain
Spencer, leaves for the Minnesota River on Thurs.
day next. The Keveille is fine boat, and her
Accommodations are unsurpassed by any boat on
the upper rivers. May success attend her.
CO One of the jurors who convicted Hugh
Corrigan for the murder Of his wife, in West
chester County, Pa, saved Corrigan from drown
ing twenty-seven years ago. ~
G. Hon. Epaphrodtus Ransom, of Kalama-
zoo, has been appointed by the Secretary of War,
a member of the Board Of Visitors to the Military
Academy at West Point for the present year.
CO The Mercantile Library Association of St.
Louis have made arrangements with Mr.. Thack-
cry to deliver a course of lectures in that city.
He is expected to be there soon.
e. Iron ore and camel coal have been dscov-
cred on the farm of Mr.. Abraham IIartzell, about
one mile southeast of Moline. So says the Work.
man.
CT A private cash sale of Erie and Reading
stocks was made, short time ago, to John Little.
ESQ.,, amounting to about 81, 100000. This is
said to be the largest sale Of stocks, to single
individual, ever made in this country.
Ga The Worcester, (Mass.) Spy says, in a linn
tied examination of the Towering buds of the
peach trees, we find about one half Of the buds
destroyed. This will leave sufficient number
for a full crop, with favorable season.
thousand settlers now in Kansas, and that the
other forty thousand required by Mr.. Douglas
will be there before August next.
GT The official paper of Dominica, (the Ga.
ceta,) is published weekly at four dollars per
month. Another miscellaneous Journal is sold at
$l.25 per number.
ca In Barnum's examination, he wished it to
be understood {" that the standard of morality for
showmen is a peg or two higher than that found
in the atmosphere of Wall street," Shouldn't
wonder. M
T The Edinburgh Review, after examining
all the projects for canal across the Isthmus Of
Susz, pronounces the undertaking impsacscable.
CO A colored man of Philadelphia, named
Jos. b. Hite: procured . boat at the time of the
late calamity, and succeeded 10 rescuing fourteen
persons.
CO A man is walking for wager in New Or
leans. He is to s.lk s3S miles in 338 half hours:
on bet of $l,5OO. s.'"
a. The School Fund of Wisconsin amounts
to 81 ,S97 ,269-an increase since December, 1854,
of 1927 200.
G. At school near Milgrove, Ohio, a few
weeks since, the teacher, Harrison Kelly, being
about to punish pupil named James Wul!am,
aged II, was struck a stunning blow By the latter
with club, and the next instant was stabbed with
dirk knife. Most of the muscles of the left loin
were severed, and for some tine fatal result was
apprebended; but the teacher is now recovering,
though he will probably oe a cripple for life.
CO The Mormons are taking measures to as
certain the possibility Of extending steamboat
navigation westward. Brigham Young think.
some Of the Nebraska and Kansas rivers are
navigable to within 400 miles Of Salt Lake city.
Freight across the plains from MISSOURI coasts
II cents per ponnd. 6r .' a<H
c. DR.. Griswold il placed in most en-.
barrassing dilemma BY bic success in resisting
the suit Of his South Carolina wife to have her
divorce set aside. She failed for the reason that
the records Of the court did not show tbst di.
vorce had over been granted, and these records
are Supposed to have been taken BY Griswold's
eomnivance! lie 10 therefore left exposed to the
charge Of bigamy, and also to the reclamation
Of several thousand dollars by the New York 4
New Haven Rail Road Company, paid to him
as damages TO bis present wife for injuries re-
csived at the Norwslk calamity.
Mono MIxsTRELsY ILLEGAL.-A novel dec;s on
was rendered in the New Y ,rk Supreme Court re.
Gently. The Court affirmed the decision Of the
County Court, which, in its turn had affirmed the
decision Of the Justice of the Peace inaictiny a
fine Of $25 upon one Sharp who, with bis Troupe
had given a performance Of what is general,
termed negro minstrclsy' in the Court House a,
Delhi. In the language Of the Court ..they sp.
peared Disguised, and dressed az negroes, and one
of them ~ wesch dressed in Blooner costume.