The weekly Minnesotian., 1856-05-10
HENRY MORRIS, President.
G. S. PACKARD, Secretary.

CHEATING AROUND TIE BED.-The Bos
ton Post has 4 Paris correspondent who
writes that there are those SO given to unbe
lief in the implicit honesty of Louis Napo-
leon, as to creditthc rumors that the q sound
live boy" who is palmed off upon the en-
pire, is nothing but an usurpcr, and that lie
takes the place of certain girl baby who
was the real heir The rumCr is to the
effect that for some time previous to
the Emprcss's accouchment, it was
well understood that whatever the event
might be, fine healthy boy would be
ready to be presented as the legitimate child
of the empire. This being so, at once ac-
counts for the fact of the King of Algers
being at his birth as big as his nurses baby
at two months old.
THE PREsIDENcY.-A gentleman from
Washington, strong Nebraska man, and a
friend of Douglas for the Presidency, repre-
sents the camp of his party to be in no little
commotion. He thinks Pierce has no chance
whatever for the nomination at Cincinnati,
and that it will lie between Douglas and
Buchanan, and that the chances of the
latter are being seriously injured by the in
discretion of his friends. The Cincinnati
Convention meets the Sth of june. Unless
the two-thirds rule is abandoned, we doubt
if either of the gentlemen named can re-
ceive the nominatiOn.-GaleaaA Adrertiser.
BUFFALO HARBoR OpEN.-A dispatch was
posted on the fremont House bulletin board
last evening, stating that the propeller Ports
mouth left Buffalo Thursday noon for Dun
kirk, and got through without difficulty
The propeller Oliver Cromwell, from
Kingston direct, arrived at Toledo Thurs
day. Navigation is now fully open on the
Lakes, and business of all kinds will at
once feel the resulting impetus. Two sail
vessels arrived here yesterday from Detroit,
and the downward bound feet fror:. our har-
Dor were getting ont and under way yester-
day as fast as possible Chicago Press.
1t is said that the Illinois Central Railroad
Company cannot give valid titles to its lands
until the whole bonded indebtedness of the
company has been discharged, and release
from all mortgages has been obtained.
CALIFORNIA GoLD.-For two or three
weeks past (says the Washington Star,) the
gold received from California has been more
than usually loaded with the small crystals
of the natural alloy called i7idosmium, (the
hard and intractable substance used for the
tips Of the gold pcns.) This body is infusa-
BILE unalloyed with other metals, and insolu-
bic acids. Until lately, the quantity of it
has been only half an ounce in one million
of dollars. Last week, however, one depo-
site of only one hundred and sixty ounces
contained seven OUNCES or more of irrodos.
mium. From intracnbility and extreme
hardness, it is a great annoyance to the
workers of gold who use metal containing
it, and it sometimes causes them heavy
losses. 1t is believed that most of the cold
now received from California contains larpe
quantities of this substance.
UTAH-As the Mormons expect some diff
hcuity in working their way into the Union
On account of their doctrine of polygamy.
they mean to be right on the slavery oues-
lion. Some of the principal men there.
Judge Drummond, Judge Kinney, and some
others, have lately made sn ostentat.sss
display of the sale and purchase of negroes.