The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1857-05-09
NEWS ITEMS.


1t is understood that the steamers Queen
City, Oshkosh, City, Pearl and Eureka will
run on Lake Winnebago the coming season.
The ice continues in the Lake, and will not !
probably move out within ten days.
The steamer W. A. Knapp is advertised
to run ON the Fox River between Oshkosh |
and Berlin.
A resolution was passed in City Council
on Saturday evening last, at Fond du Lac,
authorizing the Mayor to exchange the stock
of the Chicago, ST. Paul and Fond du Lac
Railroad now held by the City, for the
City Bonds in the hands of the Railroad
Company. The amount of stock is $780,
GOO.
The proposition came from the Railroad
Company. 1t appears that the Bonds of the
Railroad can be more readily negotiated than
those Of the City.
Porter's N. Y. Spirit of the Times thinks
that Mrs. Cunningham will establish the
fact of her marriage with DR.. Burdell. 1t
says:
"THE BURDELL DRAMA.-The struggle
for the dead mans estate in the above named
dreadful drama is still holly going on be-
tween the fearful widow and the eager rela-
tives Of the deceased, and the prospect at
the present as that the former bold player
will succeed. The Misses Cunningham, as
was to be expected, fully sustain the assump-
ton of the mother, and Miss Helen, though
not able to render testimony as direct as the
sister who was witness of the nuptials,
makes herself Of almost equal value to the
case, by an Identification Of the plain we'd
ding ring, which made solemn bondage on
her mothers finger on that interesting occa-
sion. We are of opinion, therefore, that
Mrs. Cunningham will be adjudged the wild
ow of Harvey Burdell, deceased; that her
RICH. Of dover and perhaps of administra
ton, will be conceded by the court, that the
presumption will fail to convict her at the
oyer and terminer of the crime of murder;
and finally, that she and her interesting
family will be reunited (perhaps in the pleas
ant mansion at 81 Bond street, from which
the Doctor failed to eject them) and live
abundantly, if not happily upon the means
which he could not take with him in his sud-
den, unprepared fight"
In the recent debate in the New York
Senate upon Trinity Church, it was stated
that the Roman Catholics of New York are
about building, and have made the necessa-
~ preparations for Cathedral, at the up
per par! of Fifth Avenue, for size exceeded
only By St. Peters and Paul's of the Old
World, and the two towers of which are to
rise one hundred feet above that Of Trinity.
A man named Barr was arrested in Gin
cinnati while passing counterfeit gold coin
of the denomination of quarter eagles
Upon searching his baggage. three hundred
counterfeit notes of the Canal Bank, New
York, were found, and seventy-one pretend
! ed gold dollars. The counterfeit coin bears
date 1853, and was remarkably well execu-
ted. The rcgue's name is Silver.
The iron interest of Pennsylvania, in 1856
is thus summed up: 35OlS6 tons of iron
made, Of which 27S,94l tons were anthra-
cite pig iron, 66,070 hot blast charcoal iron,
So, 225 cold blast charcoal iron, "a, $50 coal
| iron. Il, 800 raw. bituminous coal iron. CT
| finished iron there were manufactured 227 :
837 tons as follows: 12l $50 tons of nails
rods, and bars; 50, l07 tons rails; 81 sos
tons sheets and plate; 2,G75 tons hammered
bars.
In Louisville, on the Sd inst, man by
the name of Traver killed his wife, a beauti-
ful woman but twenty-four years of age
They had only been married eight months.
He afterwards attempted to kill himself
Traver was found in bed with his wife's
dead body.
1t is stated that Mrs. Julia Dean Hayne,
upon the completion of tour to Europe, OF
which she proposes to enter early j., tb,
spring, will return to San Franz SEQ wber,
she designs locating herself permanently.
The drawing Of panel of jurors for thu
next session of the Court of Oyer and Ter
mlrer, before which the Burdell murder cas-,
is to be tried, was commenced (says the N
Y. Tribune of the 2lst,) on Saturday last a
the office of the County Clerk, and termi
mated yesterday. A panel has been draw
of 500 men from 1000 names. The ordi
nary panel for this court are 40 men from
200 names. The object Of drawing so man,
in the present instance, is to meet the diff
Guilty of finding twelve men to sit upon tn
case who have not already formed an opin
ion as to the guilt Of the parties charged
with the alleged murder.
|: "A New YORK paper, in speaking of tn
! way'in which registered letters are lost
.says: I'VE GOT long ago referred to list o
:; Registered letters published in the New Yorl
Times, which were regularly mailed at tina
Office, but which never reached their desti
nation. This brought out statement from
Mr.. Holbrook, Post Office Agent, that tht
Post Office at New York had receipts for al
the letters which it was said never were re
ceived. The Times gays that the state
ment is correct-that the thefts were com
mitted by their own clerks, and adds
Merchants and business men generally are
far too careless in regard to the class of per.
sons who are sent to the Post Office fof
their letters''
| SAMUEL W. BRADY died in Winchester,
Virginia, last week. He was one of the sur
vivors of the Dade massacre in the Florida
war, and was soldier in the whole of the
Scott campaign in Mexico. At Chepulte-
pee he was foremost among those who scaled