Minnesota weekly times., 1857-04-25

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a. In eighteen counties in Wisconsin, Judge
Whitsn, the Republican candidate, had 5000 ma
jority. W i
~David Bruce, the we'll known type and
stereotype founder of New York, died in that
city few days since, in the ssth year of his age.
0TSince the Dred Scott decision, it is getting
to be the opinion that sthe freedom of the Ameri-
can people" which we hear so much about, means
the freedom to hold slaves!
GTThe National Hotel at Washington wal
closed on Saturday last. It has been entirely
deserted by the travelling public and resident
guests.
"a The empress Eugene of France, rides be-
hind horse that, a few months ago, drew daily
loads OF red and black republicans in an omni
bus between Boston and Charlestown.
ca The New York Mirror says that some Of
the stage proprietors of that city have adopted
the classic motto from Caesar, ssJam forte in ON.
nibus.'' Ea
"a The following oath is said to have beer
administered in the Iowa Legislature:
You do solemnly swear to support the Consti
tuition of the United States and of this state ant
to fold papers to the best of your ability.
Within the last six months, there have beer
fearful forebodings of such a state of things a,
would render it the duty of the Southern people
to dissolve their connection with the North. But
the crisis has passed. the danger has been divert.
ed, and we trust forever.
~Ex-Presdent Pierce will settle down on q
farm in the interior of his native State, New
Hampshire, where, for the rest of his life, he will
devote himself to the raising of horses and stock
cattle. Three of his horses left Baltimore last
week, in the Boston steamer on their way to New
Hampshire.
O. volcano in the United States is some.
thing new, yet we have reliable intelligence Of
such phenomena. An aperture has been form
ed in the emountains, within three miles of Circle
vile, Virginia, from which black smoke is rising,
and large stones have been thrown to great
height.
0TThe people of Warren, Mass, at a meet
ing held on the I'd instant, passed resolution
in favor of state convention at Worcester at
an early day, "to devise means to secure prompt,
Efficient, organized, united and continued action
in the crisis resulting from the Dred Scott case
and the state of affairs in Kansas"
To MAKE A BLACK REpuBLIcAN.-Get an hon.
est Democrat appoint him Governor of Kansas
and garnish with Border Rufianism. He will be
done to turn in few months, and according to
Douglas be traitor fit the halter of the ssBlue
Lodge"
O. Gen. jackson, it is stated, bequeathed a
gold snuff box to &c the most valiant patriot Of
the State of New York" The most valiant pa
triot has not yet received and for two reasons:-
First, the New Yorkers cannot find out who he is
and secondly, they cannot find the snuf-box.
The N. Y. ExPREss.-A libel suit, in which the
damages are laid at 10000, has been brought
against the New York Express. If verdicts were
recovered on all the libels of which the Express
has been guilty within a year, the concern would
not pay FIVE cents on the dollar.
Washington Irving, who is now in his sew.
enty-ffth year, recently received an invitation to
be present at the Grafton delivered by Edward
Everett in Albany. He returned an answer re.
GREETING his inability to attend on account of his
being so busily occupied in getting the last vol.
ume of his work on Washington through the press
and his being necessarily subject to the printers
ro11 A 1oeeOn for
WArAB.-David Gilman gives notice in the
Sauk Rapids Frontierman, that proceedings have
been made for the recovery of the title to the
property in thatvillage, which was fraudulentlv
obtained by Parker II. French (the nicaragua
flibuster) and r. L. Metcalfe, and warns all per.
sons not to purchase of them or through them
st. Anthony Republican.
ca In selecting Mr.. Toucey for the Depart.
ment of the Navy, MIR. Buchanan has shown his
Judgment and discrimination of charactsr.-Neu
Hampshire Patriot.
0V Especially in consideration of the fac
that Mr.. Toucey doesn't know larboard from sta,
6oord..-BostOn atlas.
WWe are apt to think Yankee drollery sufi.
cienty extravagant, and western humor still more
hyperbolical. But an old Greek epigrammatis
beats the Americans all hollow. He describes .
man whose nose was so long, that he was unable
to hear himself sneeze
Toledo, April7.
At the charter election yesterday, the entire
Peoples ticket was elected by about four hun
dred majority.
A FAIR HIr.--The Buffalo Commercial has tn,
following in regard to the late marriage of Mis-
Boxer, to her fathers coachman:
Mr.. John Dean, coachman in New York, ha,
driven his team over the family of Mr.. Boxer
wine merchant who resides in the Fifth Avenue
All the members of the family were injured, ex
cept q daughter of Mr.. Boxer, who was saved b,
the presence of mind of Mr.. Dean. No blame i
attached to the driver!
O. At Sandusky, Ohio, recently, the Repub
licans elected their Mayor and majority of 9th
or city officers.
ca Ex-Secretary McClelland designs fxin,
his permanent residence at Detroit, where he i
now sojourning.
ca Some children in Ellicottsville, N. Y. re-
Gently found under an old bridge. a shot bag con
tanning $500 in gold pieces. The ownership o.
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