The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1857-05-02

which provides that all property held for re-
ligious purposes shall be deemed the proper
ty of the congregation. Where the proper
ty is now held by individuals, it is to remain
in their name till death or removal, and then
to 60 to the corporation organized by the
congregation; or if no corporation shall be
SO organized, the property is to be held by
the State, in trust for the congregation.
BANK NorE CIRcuLArIoN.-TheN N. Y.
Times says the bank-note circulation of the
United States. at the present time is estima-
ted 20 represent about $l90,00O,OO0 In
this estimate are included only genuine bank
notes, which daily pass from hand to hand
in the exchanges of trade. In addition to
these, there is in circulation vast number
of counterfeit bank notes, whose representa-
tive value cannot be computed, and which
perform all the functions of money, the hold
ers of each being, for various reasons, unable
to distinguish the one from the other The
Times argues the necessity Of some more ef-
fectual means of detecting and suppressing
counterfeit notes.
A STRANGE affair, resulting in the proba-
BILE death Of threo persons, took place about
two miles from Eddyyille, Iowa, on the 10th
inst. As one of the Western Stage Co.'S,
coaches reached that point, passenger by
the name of Jos. Patterson, Jr., from Joliet
III ~ ,rbo,o ,rar;o,,S opDooronco nothing
singular ha been observed, exclaimed,
"Why did y1u kill my consin?" With a
pistol and dirk knife he then commenced a
most terrible onslaught upon the passengers
MORALLY wounding Dir. Timmons, of Knox
vile, Marion county, Ohio, and gentleman
of Montgomery county, Chic, and severely
injuring AIr. Hylawder, of Jasper county,
Iowa. Ho was an entire stranger to all the
parties injured, and insanity can only be as
signed for the commission Of the acr:
TOWNSEND, the notorious outlaw, who
committed series of robberies and murders
in Canada, and WHO was arrested in Cleve-
land few days since, passed through Buffa-
10 on Saturday, on his way to Canada, in
charge of officers from Cleveland and Cana
da, The Cleveland papers say there is little
doubt about lis Identify. Several Canadians
have stifed to knowing him as "Billy
Townsend"
THE New York State Lunantic Asylum at
Utica, has made its l4th annual report. The
institution is over-cro~ded, as the number
of persons is increasing in a greater ratio
than the p pulation. The whole number
who have been under treatment during the
past year, is G97; one hundred have been
discharged recovered, e discharged Gin
proved So nnimprovcd," and 80 ''not in
sane," and thirty have ''died," leaving 46l
patients in tie asylum at the close of the
year.
THE English papers report the death c!
John M. Kemble, eldest son of the late
Charles Kemble, and brother of Mrs. Fanny
Kemble. The deceased was an eminent An
glo-sazon scholar and archeologist, and was
also well versed in classical and Spanish
learning. For many years Mr.. Kemble was
editor of the British and Foreign Quarterly
Review. At the time Of his decease he held
the office of Examiner of Plays under the
Lord Chancellor.
EDWIN BooTH, tie youngest son of the
great tragedan, has, according to the South
ern papers, taken position among the fore
most actors of the day. lie has lately con-
cluded a brill ant engagement in New Or
leans, and will commence next Mon lay night
one at the Boston Theatre. 1t is said that
he possesses some Of the qualities that dis
tinguished his father while on the stage.
Mrs. Bloomcr, of Turkish costume cele-
blity, is now living at Council Bluffs, Iowa
We notice that she is still advocating the
rights of woman to do and undo-dress and
undress-as she p!eases or displeases. She
is cut with puff for Mrs. Patten, the female
sea captain.
AT the next Commencement at Dartmouth
College, George W. Curtis of New York
will deliver the grafton, and John G. Sake
the poem.
/ IT is said that NJ. Mcnjaud's letters from
Rome announce voyage of the Pope tt
France in June. Everything has been ar.
ranged by NJ. Morlot, the new Archbishop
Of Paris, during his stay in Rome.
/ THE most suceinct description which VIC
have yet seen Of the person of the renowned
Rev. Mr.. Sturgeon, Of London, is the follow
ing from letter by an English correspond
ent of one Of our exchanges. The writer
calls him "A short, fat, fresh; round faced
good-natured looking youth"
JACKSON DUNCAN, Esq, for many years
the general Superintendent of the National
Telegraph lines between Pittsburgh and
Louisville, has rendered his resignation, to
take effect on May 1st.
The City of indianapolis having been an
eyewitness to tie outrages practiced in the
State Legislature by the Democratic party,
has just elected the entire Republican city
ticket by over 200 majority. Last Fall the
city went for Buchanan. The township cleo
tions in the same State are almost uniform
ly, thus far, anti-Democratic.
TIE freight depot, at Caledonia, ON the
Buffalo and Lake Huron Railway, was burn
ed on Monday. Several thousand dollars
worth Of merchandise and -four was destroy
ed.
A BOY was poisoned, SO that he died, on
Easter Sunday, in New York, by eating eggs
boiled in water that had been tinged with
Prussian blue for the purpose of coloring
them. ...
The old Brick Church in New York, op-
posite the park, is going the way of all
earthly tabernacles. The tower fell on Sat-
urday.
THE population of several departments of
France has been very much reduced by emf
grafton to America. In some cases whole
villages have been depopulated. This is par
ticularly the case in the departments of the