The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1857-10-03
NEWS ITEMS.

THE New Haven Register corrects tho err
roneous impression that has obtained cred
it, that the whole forty-three signers Of the
notable memorial to President Buchanan
are clergymen. Only five of them are cler-
gymen, and the remainder lawy ers, doctors,
and other folks.
PoLIr1cAL on DT.-A Washington cor
respondent of the New York News is salts
fled that the President has determined to ap-
point Mr.. Toucy to the vacant judgeship on
the Supreme Bench, and to place Mr.. Cliff
ford of Maine, in the Cabinet as Secretary
Of the Navy.
LETTERS from Syria report the total de-
struction in the desert of a caravan. The
caravan, consisting of five hundred persons,
and one thousand comels laden with merchan-
disc. started from Damascus on the Doth OF
june and by some mSmanagement lost its
way. The entire caravan persisted, with the
exception of some twenty persons.
LETTERS from Lady Franklin's Arctic
steamer Fox, at Pauls River, in Greenland,
report the progress of the expedition, and
say that it has exceeded expectations, and
goes on admirably. The weather had been
very severe, which would have the effect of
breaking the ice up and rendering the head
of Baifin's Bay clear.
THE number Of foreign immigrants who
had arrived at New York this year up to
the 22d inst, was 139,955, being 1918
more than arrived in the same length Of time
last year. 1t is probable that the mmigra-
ton this year will excee d that of last by
10000.
THE Toronto Co!oni@ of the 23d instant,
learns that Kivas Tully, Esq, left that city
the day previous with party of eight as
sistants, to complete the survey Of the pre-
posed route for the Georgian Bay Ship Ca
nal
DIR. DUMAS, of Columbina, Alabama, re-.
Gently committed suicide by taking lauda-
mum. He was one of those who believed
that the comet would destroy the earth last
June and has been laboring under great
melancholy and depression of spirits ever
since.
At the election in New Jersey, this fall,
one third of the Senate and the whole of the
Assembly (GO members) are to be chosen,
and this legislature will elect U. S. Sena-
tor to succeed William Wright, Dem.
"EYEs RIGHT."-A "congress of oculists'
was to be held at Brussels from the 18th to
the 10th Of this month Almost all the re-
nowned practitioners Of Germany and France
have announced their intentions to be pre-
sent
THE New Orleans papers of September
l3, say that that city continues perfectly
healthy, ''as has been, we are grateful to ac-
knowledge, throughout the season.
DISCONTINUED. - The Mormon, weekly
newspaper which has been published in New
York city for some three years, has been d S.
continued
| FIFTY more men left Bangor on Monday,
FOR Missouri, to work on the Hannibal and
ST. Joseph Railroad, now opening across that
State.
Mr.. Ericsson is still working away with
honorable perseverance upon his caloric en-
gnes. He viii not give up the correctness Of
his theory.
HoN. TIMOTHY DAVIS, of Gloucester has
published a letter announcing that he shall
support Mr.. Banks for Governor. Every
member Of the Massachusetts Congressional
delegation is now enlisted in favor of Mr.
Banks.
Hon. GEO. A. SIMMONS, Ex-Nlember OF
! Congress from Northern New York, who
was Frustrated by paralysis, in July, is re-
! ported to be better
THE gross receipts of the State Fair at
Columbus, Ohio, last week, were between
twenty-five and twcnty-threc thousand dol
lars.
The tunnel of the Central Virginia Rail
road, through the Blue Ridge, has been com
pleted and the track laid
AN ingenious Baltimorean has invented a
new mode Of laying the Atlantic telegraph
cable, and patent for it is taken out.
THE managers of the Wisconsin State
Fair have devised badge for editors who
may be present on that occasion, in order
that they may be distinguished by the pub
lie and recognized by each other.
This arrangement is entirely characteristic
inasmuch as Wisconsin is and always has
been the great badger State.
Mr.. john GRAHAM of Saccarappa, Me-
has pumpkin vine eighty feet long, and for
every four feet there is a pumpkin-some O
them of an enormous size. The spot where
the seed was planted was enriched by the
carcass of hog buried there last fail.
We noticed that the Grand Jury in the U
S. District Court at Chicago has found true
bill of indictment against James O. Braymar
for Post Office robbery. He gave bail ir
$4,000.
CAPT. Duncan's company of Flying Artil.
lery, which passed so credtably through
Louisville on Monday en- route from Fort
Henry to Fort Leavenworth.
JAS. L. HILDRErH, ESQ.,, the senior edito,
of the Iowa State Democrat, died at his resi-
dence in Burlington, last Friday evening al
8 o'clock aged AZ.
A man named Isaac S. Wood was arrested
at Raulton on the Illinois Central Railroad
on the Sd inst, by the Sheriff of Livingston
county, n. Y, charged with poisoning hi
wife. and his brother, and his wife, and hi:
two Children, In 1855, the object being to &c
his brothers property, wo.th about $40 900
A PERTINENT QUEsrIoN.-The Christian
Register asks, IF military school like Nor
witch, VT. University, can confer the title o
ID. D. upon Rev. f. J.. Hawley of Sarta Cruz
why cannot Cambridge or Andover make
Gen. Scott Field Marshal
AN intoxicated woman, walking on The
track of the Camden and Amboy Railroad
ABOUT live miles from South Amboy, at S P
NJ on Friday, was struck by train, and in
stantly killed.