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

IL Is unuefSUOOu InaL 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 tie hands of the Railroad
Company. The amount of stock is $780,
OOO
The proposition came from the Railroad
Company. 1t appears that the Bonds of the
Railroad can be more readily negotiated than
those CT 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 hotly going on be-
tween the fearful widow and the eager rela-
tiveS Of the deceased, and the prospect at
the presents that the former bold player
will succeed. The Misses Cunningham, as
was to be expected, fully sustain the assump-
tion of the mother, and Miss Helen, though
not able to render testimony as direct as the
sister who was a witness of the nuptals,
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
righ: Of dover and perhaps of administra
| tion, 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
abundant!y, if not happily upon the means
which he could not take with him in his sud-
den, unprepared flight
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-
ry preparations for Cathedral, at the up
per par. Of Fifth Avenue, for size exceeded
only By St. Peters and Paul's of the Old
N,plI .,.,I ft,of f<yr e oh
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
York, were found, and seventy-onc pretend
ed gold dollars. Tho counterfeit coin bears
date 1853, and was remarkably we'll execu-
ted. Tic rcgue's name is Silver
The iron interest of Pennsylvania, in 1855
is thus summed up: 350,lS6 tons of iron
made, Of which 27S,94l tons were anthra-
cite pig iron, G6,070 hot blast charcoal iron,
52,225 cold blast charcoal iron, "a $50 coal
| iron, 12, 500 raw. bituminous coal iron. CT
finished iron there were manufactured 227,-
837 tonS, as follows: l2l $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, a man by
the name of Traver killed his wife, beaut-
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 a tour to Europe, on
which she proposes to enter early j- tho
spring, will return 10 San Franc sco ,rboro
she designs locating herself noruoront,v
HE drawing OF panel of Jurors for the
next sesslo" of the Court of Over and Ter
mir.er, before which the Burdell murder case
is to be tried: was commenced (says the n.
Y. Tribune of the 2lst,) on Saturday last at
the office of the County Clerk, and termi-
mated yesterday. A panel has been drawn
of 500 men from 1000 names. The ordi-
nary panel for this court are 40 men from
200 names. The object of drawing so many
in the present instance, is to meet the diff
Guilty Of finding twelve men to sit upon the
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 the
in which registered letters are lost,
says: We not long ago referred to a list of
Registered letters published in the New York
Times, which were regularly mailed at that
office, but which never reached their desti-
nation. This brought out statement from
Mr.. Holbrook, Post Office Agent, that the
Post Office at New York had receipts for all
the letters which it was SAID never were re-
ceived. The Times says 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 for
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