Minnesota weekly times. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1854-1859, 1857-02-14

| Oh the university VI uiuucsOtts Suo" su"s wv
has been received into the Treasury, since TN
last report of the Secretary up to the 10th da.
of January, (for stumpage) $6,035. Of thi
amount $5,37l 80 have been expended for vari
GUS matters connected with the Institution. II
accordance with The Act of Congress, Judg'
Meeker located Is, $50 acres of land for the ben
eft of the University, and 9,15S acres Of pine
| land in the Saltwater District. A contract ha'
! been entered into with Messrs. Winslow, Hull 4
| Allen to construct the main portion of the Uni
versity, to cost $40, 900, to be done in eighteen
months from the date of contract.
| A FIsTIc FARcE.-The announcement of lit
tie et-to between couple OF Johnny Chapeaux
having somehow leaked out on Monday, all the
sporting characters were on the qui vive, anC
about noon, host of the curious might have
been SEEM making their way towards the oppo.
site bank of the Mississippi, to ensure to them
selves the delectable sight of two foolish French
men pummeling each other. But the police
having IN eye to social propriety, intercepted the
movement of the belgerents and the principals
| were shot up" Poor fellows-what pity
they could MT have q chance to disfgure each
other
The New BRIDGE.-The new bridge in course OF
erection near our Office, is to be 1900 feet in
length, and sufficiently high to allow boats to pass
under it without difficulty. 1t is to rest on nine
piers, which are to be seventy feet above high wa
ter mark. The greatest span is to be two hun
dred and twenty feet. Cost of Bridge $l2O 900
GE.Forty deg. below zero here are not as tedi-
Gus as % deg. below would be in Albany. We
state this in all sincerity, knowing it to be a
fact--M Minnesota Democrat.
That is true. We spent week in Albany in
March last, and although the Thermometer was
much above zero, yet the weather was cold, chilly
and in every respect, disagreeable. We oaugh,
severe cold, and IN old affection Of the throat
came upon US, which continued to annoy US unit
warm weather set in. Give Us Minnesota wealth.
er with the thermometer at 40 degrees below &C.
70, in preference to Albany weather with the
Thermometer at zero. ..-
MINNEsoTA.-Th whole amount Of taxable pro.
perty in this territory, is between $780, 0O0 900 and
$35 900. OF this St. Paul can boast of SO
New York Herald about year ago, when the
amount estimated by that paper for the whole
territory, was $7,OOO,000!
PENALTY OF HOSPITALITY TO Mr.. SUMNER
The following item from the Blair county pa
Wing is more interesting than at first sight ap.
pears
sPosroFrIcE APPOINTMENT John Troxel has
been appointed Postmaster a. Cresson, Pa, ii
place of DIR. r. NJ. S. Jackson"
DR.. jackson, who is thus displaced, is the ply
stefan with whom Mr.. Sumner stayed during the
month of August on the Allegheny mountains
Thus early he is called to pay the penalty of hi
hospitality.
&c Our CASTLES STRENGTH WILL LAUGH SIEGE
TO scoKS.''-The New York Evening Post get,
off the following On hooped skirts. Let no man
dare to speak lightly or sneerMgly of them now
1t says:
ssThough the new fashion has not triumphed
universally, it is irresistibly contagious. Where.
ever it is seen it is admired and adopted. Per.
haps it is not extravaganza to conjecture the day
may yet come when, secure in these moving tow
ers Of bone and steel. our invincibls wives anG
daughters will laugh at the exploded theories Of
female frailty, and wten suerg wOmdn's petticOa
| toiH beher castle"
TThe Minnesota Democrat copies an article
from US on the state of morals in this city, and
| then comments as follows:
The Times adheres to morals and opposes the
| intolerable vices that stalk abroad in st. Paul
for which the Pioneer, the Rice organ in the Ter.
ritory, assails him from day to day, and from
| week to week, with slanderous falsehoods Of the
most reckless character. Being himself debauch.
ed in vice and immortality, the Editor of the Pio-
neer seeks to drag the Editor of the Times int
| the ditch with him, for which purpose several di.
| rect charges arc made to the effect that our es.
teemed nsighbor of the Times went to his room
drunk on certain dates. 1t happens that on these
occasions, however, that he was in company with
men of veracity and rsSpectability, such as Hon.
| CRADLES st. A. ID. Balcombs, W. j. Howell, G. G.
| Wyko6, and others, who directly and unequivo-
| cally affirm, over their own proper signatures in
the public prints, that the statements Of the Pho.
neer are entirely false.
As We have stated, the Pioneer assails Mr.
Newson, Of the Times, because of his opposition
to vce-his resoute efforts to arouse the citizens
| of St. P aul against gambling and murder. Let
| the public wisely and honestly award to the
Times the confidence and praise it deserves, and
| to the Pioneer proper rebnke for its venality
| 1t will be remembered that this game Pioneer, q
destitute of truth,as are the murderers and black
legs it sustains, of virtue and morality.
CTThe Newburyport Herald gives an account
of an old gentleman in that city, now in GOOD
health, who has lately purchased coffin, after
getting into it to ascertain its fitness, and beating
down the vender fifty gents in the price.
CTIn the course of reesat article on &c Gods
Pity" Rev. Henry Ward Beecher utters the fol-
lowing exquisitely beautiful sentiment:
"God's stiffness is full of brooding. Not on,
tear shall be shed by you that does not hans
heavier at his heart than any world upon hi
| handv'
CyThe Charleston Mercury enters upon cru
SADIE against the Magnetic Telegraph, as "inju
furious to the interests of the South" Anythin;
that di6uses information is Locked upon with sus
picion in that quarter. Post Office ascrches ant
seizures, Newspaper exclusion, Free School sup
preston, and now an anti-Tclegraph tilt! w,
shall look next Tor declaration of war agains
the dictionary!
ADMINISTRATION gentlemen lust in, VI
learn that on Friday night, the 2sd inst, per
| feet hurricane came down from the north vast oil
the Kandiyohi country. 1t demolished trees ant
presented all the appearance of q mid-winte
arctic night, only the cold WAS not 50 severe.
appeared that all the snow was up in the air 20
| ing through certain gymnastics. Our iufermsn
says that he believes that for while there wa
but little snow on the ground, or nearer its sur
face than fifty feet. Tho roar of the wind wa
louder than the report Of o hundred cannon-per