The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1857-08-15
NEWS ITEMS.

character of Meg Merrilles, made so famous
by Charlotte Cushman, and will soon add
the role to her already extended and varied
repertoire. Mrs. Ann S. Stephens is drama
tizing her Fashion and Famine" it is said,
and well known literateur in New York is
writing new play for the gifted artistic.
The officers of the Mint at Philadelphia,
are charged by the Times of that city, with
making the new cents Of deficient weight.
The standard is seventy-two grains, Troy
Some of them fall short as much as four
grains, which on one hundred dollars would
amount to about five dollars and half The
same paper suggests that similar process in
the gold and silver coinage is within the range
of possibility. We can hardly suppose any
regular plan of this kind to exist, for aside
from the character of the officers of that in
stitution, the fraud is too readily discover
able.
A girl named Regnate Lawson, was muir
dered in Chicago last week, by abOrtionists.
Her seducer's name is Temple, and he is
resident of Chilicothe, ILL., The unfortunate
girl lived in his family as an adopted daugh-
ter He carried the latter to Chicago, ac-
companied by DR.. Swanzey, to accomplish
the purpose that caused her DEATH Temple
has been arrested, and is, we are pleased to
observe, in a fair way to serve the State in
the Penitentiary.
DICKENS is now in his forty fifth year, and
Time is beginning to tell upon his exuberant
locks, but his eye has all its old keenness and
sparkle. Little Dorritt,". though acknowl-
edged on all sides to be a great falling of
from his previous stories, has had more ex-
tensve sale than anything he has written
which proves the truth of a saying of old
Sam. Rodgers-that there is only one thing
for man to do than to write himself down,
and that is to write himselfup.
~ We find in Lynchburg (Va) paper,
an amusing account Of a Fourth OF July cele-
bration, by the "Hyena Club" at Hog
Island, near that city. Among the toasts
drank on the occasion, is the following, pur-
porting to have been given by a "Hyena,"
who rejoices in the euphonic title of "Mr.
Buggins Wafficks p
"Hoops and the Equator-Crno-line and
the Equipoctial line-God bless 'em The
one encircles the earth, the other the heav-
ens!"
A CORRESPONDENT writing from Florence,
says Powers has completed the large bronze
figure of the immortal Webster, ordered by
the citizens of Boston. 1t will soon be sent
to the city of its destination. The same ar
fist is also engaged upon a statue of Wash
ngton, in the dress of Freemason, and with
the insignia of the order. Its destination is
Richmond, Virginia.
THE wife of U. S. Senator Fessenden, of
Maine, vas struck dead by his side in bed,
last week. About 3 o'clock Mr.. F. was a
Weakened by remark of his wife that she felt
very fatigued. Soon after he spoke to her,
but not obtaining any answer he felt of her
pulse, and found she was dead.
THE pony which Victoria gave to Tom
Thumb, the smallest pony in the world, died
at New Bedford, Mass, on Tuesday, but the
skin is to be stuffed as memento mort.
EACH generation gathers together the
children Of the past, and increases them by
new sons Of light, alike radiant with immor-
tality.
Ass-roNIsHING.-Th editor of the Hopkins
vile Mercury winds up spasmodic edlto-
rial with the cut of jackass. 1t is usual for
editors to put their names at the head Of
their paper, but signing an editorial with ones
likeness will DO
A French woman recently appeared before
tribunal to complain of the i'll usage she
received from her husband "What pretext
had he for beating you? ?" inquired the pres
ident. "Please, sir, he didn't have no pre-
text-it was thick STICK
THE question has been asked why it is con-
sidered lmpolite for gentlemen to go into the
presence of ladies in their sleeves, while it ia
thought in every way correct themselves to
appear before gentlemen without any sleeves
at all.
GorrscHALK, the pianist, is in Caracas,
South America, giving concerts with unboun-
ded success. The story circulated short
time since, that he was dying ofc0nsumption
we are happy to learn, is without foundation.
Col. TITUS, the noted Kansas Border Ruff
fan who joined the fillibusters in Nicaragua
and has been branded as coward by Walk
err, is now at Lambertville, New Jersey,
! where his father resides.
The Hudson River Railroad is burning
coke instead of wood in one or two of their
locomotives, at clear advantage of from
twenty-five per cent. II is Cumberland coal,
cooked at the mines.
johnson, of the Council Bluffs Bugle, says
that eight years ago he purchased, "with
fear and trembling" lot In Council Bluffs,
on Broadway, for 500, and made the seller
take out part of it in goods at his store. A
few days since proper ~ in that vicinity sold
for $3.50 front foot.
WEDNESDAY week was the one hundred
and seventy-frst anniversary ofincorporation
of Albany as city in America, ninety years
before the Declaration of Independence and
and the war of the Revolution.
A wealthy gentleman from Philadelphia,
is erecting a residence on lofty eminence in
North Andover, Mass, from which no less
than twenty five cities and towns can be
seen.
SOMETIMES, in musing upon genius in its
simpler manifestations, it seems as if the
great art of human culture consisted chiefly
in preserving the glow and freshness of the
heart.
England and India.
Referring to the determination of the Bri-
fish government to send steam squadron to
India, with troops and munitions adequate
to meet the crisis now pending there, the