The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1857-01-10

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running as candidate for the United States
Senate, in place of Mr.. Hale, in 1858.
* The increased winter tariff of freghts
on the Baltimore and Ohio railroad went in
to operation on the 18th of December, stimuli
taneously with the Pennsylvania railroad
and under the system which has been per-
fected throughout the whole line and its con
nections, with view of securing rapid and
generally uninterrupted transmission of
goods, a very large traffic we learn is now
being done.
e Three women met at fashionable |
dress-maker's shop in New York, to order
wedding dresses for themselves, and upon
consultation, found they were all engaged to
the same man, and formed his acquaintance
through his advertisement for wife. The
elegant fellow has gone to Australia leaving
a list of maids, widows, ETC., whom he
courted and borrowed money and jewels of,
nearly as long as list of letters.
u A wedding occurred at Richmond,
Indiana, day or two ago, and in the even
ing party of friends proceeded to the resi-
dence of the bride for the purpose of sere
nading the happy couple. The bridegroom
mistook their design, and having his imagi
nation filled with visions of burglars, armed
himself with gun, loaded with buck shot,
and fired into the midst of the party. One
Of them, named George Combs, was Sc
vcrely wounded in the leg, and the others
received trifing wounds.
e The Missouri river is very low and
full Of ice. More snags are visible than for
years past. Illinois river is very high, and
heavy rains along its course is reported
The canal at Louisvill is frozen over, with
five anda half feet water in it. The river
at Portland has fallen so fast that nearly all
the boats in port got aground Steam was
raised on the Rainbow, and she pulled them
all off: Cumberland river is at fine stage
for boating
e. The Springfield Journal says it
learns from Governor Moore, who is now
preparing his Treasury Report, that the total
revenue collected upon last years assess
mcnts amounts to $6l4,l3S 43. This is
for revenue purposes alone, and does not in
clude the two-mill tax, nor what has been
received from the Central Railroad Com
pany. The total receipts in the Treasury
will more than double this amount.
~ Tobacco has become one of the
staple. productions of the Chcmung Valley,
New York, and it is said to be more profita-
bic than any other. 1t is only about three
years since it was first introduced, and this
year, we learn, two or three hundred tons
have been raised in that county alone.
e. The Lansing Qowa) Mirror, peril
nently inquiries if the Postmaster at Du-
buque will please inform them why it is that
some of the Dubuque papers for that place
are received by the mail which comes from
st Paul? .~-
- The Grand Jury in Boston have
presented the court room of the United
States District Court in that city as nui-
sance and as entirely unbecoming the dig
nifty of the United States in the exercise of
the judicial powers conferred by Congress.
~ A Washington dispatch of the Goth
says: "Letters were received yesterday sta
ting that Mr.. Sumner, who was expected to
return with Mr.. Wilson, will not resume his
seat till the middle of January" hi
e. Major Lewis Gally died at New Or
Jeans On the I'd ult. He was one of Napo-
Icons soldiers, had commanded the celebra-
ted Orleans Battalion of Artillery for IS
years, and was with General Taylor at Cor
pus Christi in the beginning of the Mexican
War in l845 $3.50.
as~ There are at present sixty-three fac-
tories situated in different psrts of Califor-
MIA, in which quartz grinding and extracting
the gold by machinery are carried on. Thir-
ty of these are driven by steam engines, and
the others by water wheels @4.
~ A servant of Mr.. Robert Hammer
while blowing on the farm of that gentleman
in Albemarle county, Virginia, recently turn
ed up gold ring, on which was engraved
the name of the owner, Rebacca Harper. and
the date 174G-one hundred and ten wears
tago.
e. DIR. j. T. Warner, Of Lee, Massa-
) chusetts, recently shot a wildcat that weigh
cd 60 pounds, and measured four feet from
: tip to tip.
s~'- The family of Col John C. Fremont.
) now in New York, are suffering from an at
tack of the scarlet fever, now quite preva-
lent there.
81 DIV. Apologize, the newly elected
Sheriff of Brown county, Ohio, committed
suicide on the Sth ult., by cutting his throat
with razor.
o. Considerable excitement has been
occasioned in Detroit, by the discovery that
a German in that city has been using horse
meat in the manufacture of sausages.
Two trains came in collision on the 25th
ult., on the Virginia Central Railroad, near
Gordonsvile. The trains were both much
smashed, and four or five persons were in