The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1857-08-22
NEWS ITEMS.

THE public are no longer discussing the
question, who killed DR.. Burdell I Nor is
the guilt or innocence Of Mrs. Cunningham
any longer dcbatable point The all-ab-
sorbing topic now, is whether DR.. Uhl and
the District Attorney acted properly in as
sisting Mrs. Cunningham in concentrating
her foul crime merely for the sake of expos
ing the wretched woman to public execra-
ton, and revealing all the filthy details of her
revolving schemes to defraud the heirs of the
murdered man. The whole plot resting on
the decision of the Surrogate, as to her mar
rage to DIR. Burdell, may yet find Mrs. Gun
ningham free from punishment. That decis-
ion has yet to be rendered.
The Texan gives an account of hellish
outrage on the Cibolo Two negroes, hav-
ing ascertained that the male members of a
German family were absent, entered the
house in the dead of night, seized the mother
and her little son and bound them fast; they
then made for the room of the daughter, an
accomplished and lovely girl of eighteen,
who, hearing the tumult, escaped from the
window, and ran to the house of a neighbor.
The negroes finding her gone rushed out in
pursuit, overlook and ravished her. They
were afterwards caught, and having confessed
the. awful crime, were hung upon the spot
The young lady is in condition approaching
The young lady is in wretched condition
approaching insanity. The Ledger, publish
ed two days later, says she has become in
sane.
The Tax Levy Of New York city for 1857
foots up $S,l66,566. being an increase over
last year by million of dollars. The levy
for 1854, the year before Mayor Wood came
into Office. was $4,741,255. During his first
year it went up million; the next year a
million and quarter more, and this year an
other million. The rate of taxation in 1854
was $1.o5; in 1857 it is $l,53.
The Commissioner of Patents has received
letter, dated Evansville, Ind, in which the
writer states that the crops of Southern In
diana and Southern Illinois are beyond all
precedent. The Coolest inhabltant" saws
that nothing has been known like it. They
are now harvesting, and the rust has done no
damage Corn is late. The crops of wheat,
rye, grass and potatoes will exceed, from
present appearances, all former products.
The great monument which it is proposed
to erect at Plymouth, Mass, in CONNIE mora
ton of the Puritan fathers, will be one of
the most magnificent specimens of sculptu-
raj art in this country. 1t is to consist of a
colossal figure of Faith pointing to the skies
and holding bible under the left arm. The
figure will be of granite, seventy feet high
and supported by a pedestal eighty feet high,
making in all noble and unsurpassed monu-
mental structure of $50 feet.
The gross revenue of the Post-office De-
partment for the quarter ending March 81,
was 81, 800, 900 1e-net revenue $1,O26, 696
O3. The Post Master General will soon es.
tablish in New York and Boston the London
and Paris system of branch post-ofices.-
Should the plan be satisfactory after years.
trial, it will be applied to all the large cities
of the Union. The Department thinks the
overland route to California will be in opera
ton within twelve months.
THE crops in Ohio are estimated this sea-
son as follows: Oats, twenty millions of
bushels; Rye, one million; Barley, five hun
dred thousand; potatoes, six million five hun
dred thousand--making an aggregate of twen-
ty-eight million bushels, and being an aver
age of 40 per cent, increase on the crop of
1850. The hay crop, it is estimated, is three
times that of 1850.
The Augusta Geo., Dispatch says that
"new superfine flour is selling at Sparta,
Hancock county, at S. per barrel, and the
market is dull at that" "There's a good
time coming"
The Louisville (Ky.) Courier states that
a contract has been made to deliver 1000
barrels of flour in that city next March for
81 so per barrel.
There are 10000 Swiss in this country
most of whom inhabit the States of the
Northwest. In Tennessee there are 1000,
the largest part of whom live in Morgan
county, in that State.
AN English paper gives an account of tea
party of sixty old women, who were the
mothers of eight hundred and sixty-nine chill.
lren! They must have had something to
talk about at that tea party, we should think.
Maj. Fitz John Porter has been withdrawn
frem his position at the West Point Military
on the charge of ill-conduct.
General Henningsen has left the city of
New York, and proceeded South. 1t is gen.
orally believed that he is on his way to join
General Walker, preparatory to his next at
tempt upon Nicaragua. 1t is supposed that
his movement will be consummated during
The ensuing fall.
EIGHT slavers were captured off the coast
Of Africa during the month of June. There
were two captured off the coast of Cuba.
The Postmaster General has decided that
postage stamps are not redeemable by Post
masters. If persons receive them as remit
ances, they must rely on the sale of them for
Gen. Concha, of Cuba, has issued another
PROCLAMATION against the slave trade, about
Is honest probably as the proclamation of
Presidents against fillbustering. tits decreed
hat persons conniving at any intended land
NC of slaves shall be banished from the Is
and.
IT is estimated, says the Washington cor
espondent of the Philadelphia Press, that
be new Dome for the Capitol will weigh |
500 tons, and that its erection will take ten |
ears. The new House of Congress will be
eady for occupancy by year from next De-
ember, and not in the coming season, as it
7as at first expected.
A murderess named Charlotte Jones is
ow in Prison in Pittsburgh, Pa, awaiting
ublc execution. A few days ago her sister |
expressed a wish that Charlotte would send
er some money to purchase a new dyess,