The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1857-11-21
NEWS ITEMS.

dstiuguis' G himself in India BY mailing live
children in wooden boxes and throwing them
into the flames, accnr ling to a writer, cannot
read tender passage in Byrm or Shak.
speare without being moved to tears lie
speaks FRENCH Italian and English. is &C
qnanted with their several lteralures, talks
The latter as tluenry and surely as any "gcn-
tleman de HIDE Parck," and translated
'ilamlet" into i!ind,o, to the g.eat admra-
:.'n of competent critics.
Mr.IsrtRS are rnlubiedv tie hardest
working set of men in our country. Here is
one item-i. e. receiving calls : In a speech
before the Episcopal Convention DR.. V. said
he had promised his servant girl present OF
a pair of shoes when she had gone to the
front door two hundred times. The prom
Use was made on Monday morning, and the
shoes were earned by 10 o'clock Wednesday
morning.
SIXTY freight cars passed over the Boston
and Maine Rail Road, two mornings in sue
cession, two weeks ago, loaded with cotton
from the Great Falls Manufacturing estab-
l;shments, which is sent to Boston to be ship
ped to England Ii 900 bales have been thus
disposed of. In few months it will return
in the shape of English calicoes, which John
Bull will have made at large profit, while
our own manufactures are standing idle.
THE N. Y. Herald understands that the
Michigan Central Railroad Company have ne
gotiated a portion Of the new loan required
to adjust its floating debt. The agent sent
to London has raised 100000 for that pur-
pose. Also that an arrangement had been
perfected between the Michigan Central and
Michigan Southern Railroad Companies inre-
gard to charges, running. etc., that is likely
to be beneficial to both roads.
The total number of emigrants from Ire
lard from the lst of May, 1851, to the lst of
September, 1857 was 400, GAO males, and
550,326 females-togcther, 9l0,966. In the
first eight months of the present year the
number Of emigrants from Ireland was 49,
1876. 1t is estimated that the population of
the Island is now 6,O15, 778 against 1862, 3e3
in 1851.
THE New York Times of the 9th says -
There are now thirty vessels loading grain
and flour at this port, about one half bound
for Liverpool, and the remainder for Glas-
gov. They will average about 10000 bush
els for each ship.
THE bank paper circulation of the United
States at the present time is estimated as fol
lows: "Blls of a less denomination than five
dollars, seven millions of five dollars, forty
millions ten dollars, thirteen millions $
| twenty dollars, thirty millions and one hun
dred dollars and upwards, forty-five millions
The Cincinnati Gazette of the 9th says
There has been a large decline in sugar and
molasses in New Orleans. The latter on
Monday receded or rather fell, twenty cents
per gallon, closing at Is cents for new, on
pound.
THE drouth having cut off the corn crop
on the Texan frontier, the squirrels are emil
grating to Arkansas, swimming the Red Riv.
err by thousands. 1t is stated that one wo-
man killed five hundred with her washing
implements, in one day on the bank of the
river.
WHILE the State Bank of Missouri has
been obliged to suspend, we are gratified to
learn by the Cincinnati Gazette, "from anthem
tic sources" that the State Bank of Ohio
and branches, is now stronger that it was
some weeks since. There is no general run
upon it for coin, and the notes seem to be
more acceptable than any other.
On Monday night, the 9th, Col. Fremont,
who has been in California, arrived at New
York in the Quaker City from Havana. On
Tuesday morning, his wife, who has been on
the other side of the world, in Europe, arriv-
ed in the Arago.
THE Alton Courier of Nov. 9th, says -
"Judge Trumbull left this city for Washing
ton on Tuesday afternoo-. His family have
been spending the summer in Connecti-
cut"
The National .4mericnn, Know Nothing
paper published at Richmond, Va, has been
discontinued.
The Springfield Republican says that Gov
ernor Gardner, and Mr.. Beach have sudden
ly become the followers of Mr. Banks. He
lead them both.
Last year 'only one person in 16, 15S, 449
who travelled by English railway was killed.
from ':causes under his control.''
The Montreal papers state that Ottawa
has been made the Legislative metropolis OF
Canada.
GEN. Pillow did not get vote in the Ten
nessee Legislature for United States Sena-
tor.
Popularity of the Editor of the Ex-
press.
At the late election, says the the Meas,
tickets were printed at the Office of the St.
Anthony Express, protesting to be Republi-
can tickets, but with the name of Isaac At
water democratic candidate for Assistant
judge substituted for that of one of the
Republican nominees, and without the n me
of any candidate for Attorney General
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