The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1857-12-19
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NEWS ITEMS.

Ir is stated tina t Mr.. jenkins, the membe
of the Mecompton Convention who recent
died of delirium trsmens, was the regula
Kansas correspondent OF the Charleston, :
q. Mero,ry.
THE St. Louis Democ, at is informed by
gentle man just from Neb. -aska, that some LII
dams are now held in slave W by citizen
that place The holder of hem is recent
from Utah, where he purchas ed them iron
the Nlormons where Indian 81. avery is one
the adjnncts of the plurality wife system
and he now continues to hold them, do. Dtless
III conformity with the bred Scott q, Hcis
ion.n
The Rochester american, has been bought
out by the Rochester Democrat, and ceased
to exist.
| BRIGHAM YOUNG has issued proclamation
declaring the Independence of Utah, and ur-
ges the MOrmons to yield no allegiance or
obedience to any laws but their own enact
ments.
! 1T is rumored that an edict has been, or is
about to be issued by the Emperor of Russia
forbidding foreign whalers to exercise their
calling in the Ochkotsk Sea and other waters
on the Russian coasts. If such an attempt
| is made by Russia it will, perhaps, be resist
ed by our Government. The whaling inter-
est amounts to over $4,000, 900 and has thus
far cruised in these seas without question.
A DEALER in Buffalo has consignment of
four or five barrels of syrup ma de from the
Chinese sugar cane, by Mr.. Schenck, Of
W arren County, Ohio, who raised five acres
IL
per acre.
The new Canadian Ministry consists of
eleven lawyers, and an auctioneer The Tor
onto Globe says that the auctioneer was no
doubt intended to knock down the whole lot
to the highest bidder, when they cannot be
disposed otto better advantage.
AN Irish girl employed in a family at
Greenfield, Mass, got yawning over her
wash-tub last Monday week, and dislocated
both OF her jaws; a surgeon got the bones
back into their places, however, and the girl
will be more careful how she yawns hereaf-
ter.
JOSHUA BATON, Jr, a boy, IA years Of age,
has been sentenced to the New Hampshire
State Prison for six years, to be kept at hard
labor, for shooting Geo. Elisha Sweat, aged
10, IN Sandwich, N. H., last July. Young
Eaton was indicted for murder by the grand
jury, but was allowed to plead guilty of man
slaughter.
The Baton Rouge (La.) Advocate says
that the planters of West Baton Rouge give
gloomy account of their prospects. They
state that their cane crop has been injured
% per cent. by the summer like weather
which had succeeded to cold nights and
| heavy frosts.
In one of the midland counties in Eng
land, not long since, clergyman, after pray
ers, took out a newspaper and read before a
congregation, assembled in the open air, a
summary of the Indian news, making the
subject text for his OBSCURE.
A RESOLUTION is before the Georgia Legist
lature inStructing the Senators aud Reprcsen.
tatives of that State in Congress to urge the
passage of a law granting pensions to the
soldiers of the war of 1912, and of the In
dian wars between 1890 and 1915, and to
their widows and minor children.
Dick MARINE, a colored man, arrested in
Baltimore on charge of being a fugitive from
justice, has been taken back and committed
to Jail. 1t is stated by the Baltimore San
that he escaped seven or eight years ago from
that institution" where he was confined for
abducting his wife, the slave of James b.
Lake, Esq, of Cambridge, Maryland.
Mr.. FARNswoRTH of Chicago, Representa-.
tive elect of the XXXVth Congress, will be
unable, in consequence of illness, to take his
seat in the House until after the holidays.
THE National Era in noticing that part of
Governor Wise's late letter in which he de-
clares that if a Republican President had
been elected in 1856, he would have been for
dissolution of the Union, says, "Our only
regret is that his valor was not subjected to
the test. God helping US, we will give him
an opportunity of playing the rebel in 1862
GEORGE McWHoRTER has recovered $1O,-
600 damages against the city of Milwaukee,
for injuries sustained by falling at night from
high bank, left by the graders without any
guard or light. We used to be afraid some
thing of the kind would happen here in St.
Paul, but no one is foolish enough to try it,
since he would only get pile of Scrip.
IT is understood, says the Boston Bee of
| Nov. 3d. that Mr.. and Mrs. Dalton have been
living together in retirement some four or
five months, and that the former has become
satisfied of the injustice of his charges against
his wife.
THE St. Louis Democrat saa: ssThe free
soil element in the South is mostly quiet and
silent. 1t is latent heat pervadng the from
tier States and the commercial cities, and
awaiting but the favorable moment to break
fyrth in light and glory
WIN. H. WErMoRE, wel-known mer-
chant of New York, committed suicide on
Saturday morning by opening vein in his
arm, and cutting his throat. The deceased
had been confined to his room for three or
four days by an attack of erysipelas, and it is
supposed he did the deed while under fit of
temporary insanity, as no letters assigning a
cause for the commission of the rash act
could be discovered.
Gov. STEWARD has appointed Thursday,
the 3lst inst. for Thanksgiving Day. Con-
sequently Missouri will have three holidays
within the space of one week---Ohristmas
Thanksgiving and New Year
| COMMODORE VANDERBILT will omen the
next season with decided improvement in
the passenger business of the Ocean Steam
Navigation Company. He intends to sub.
stitute the system of supplying food to the
passengers on the European hotel plan, re-
quiring each to order and pay for whatever
he requires, and nothing more The mere
abatement of nausea, which this charge will
secure to sea-sick passengers, will strongly
recommend it.
DAVID WnMor of Bradford, had been ap-
pointed by Gov. Pollock of Pennsylvania,
President Judge of the Thirteenth judicial
District of that State. Mr.. Wilmot occupied
this position when nominated for Governo-
last summer, and resigned it when he pro-