The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1857-10-10
NEWS ITEMS.

ed to levy upon the property of the city Oh
New York for 100000, which he claimed
the city owed him Tor the purchase Of amar-
ket site, and which, the city refusing to pay
and he had recovered judgement upon, has
been set aside by Judge Roosevelt, on the
ground that Lowber, had no title to the pro-
perty which he sought to convey to the cl-
ty. Thus the taxpayers are eased OF TINS
monstrous gouge, which was cooked up by
locofoco Congressman Sickles.
The trial of Townsend alias, McHenry at
Cayuga Canada, terminated on last Sat
urday night. The Jury disagreed, but Town
send was Immediately re-arrcsted for muir
der committed in Welland Township about
the same time as the one for which he had
just been tried.
THE U. S. Attorney, Green, has rendered
an opinion to the effect that the practice
heretofore prevailing in the pension Office OF
allowing the children of revolutionary SOL
diers to receive the pensions which their de-
ceased parents might have received, has no
legal foundation, and that neither children
nor grand children have any such rights I'M
der the acts of Congress.
The Concord N. H. Democrat announ-
ces the death of Peter Aye, at the Shaker
village, Canterbury, on the l4th of Septem-
Der. He was 81 years and two days old
He was one of the founders of the Society OF
Shakers, having been a member Of that fra
ternity upwards of seventy years. He was
a most powerful, athletic man, and one of
the few survivors who took part in the Amer
lean Revolution.
A MAN named Carlan has been arrested
and is now in custody at Prairie du Chen,
on suspicion of having muredred his wife,
whose dead and mutilated body was found
few days since, in corn field near their
home. The excitement in the neighborhood
was intense, and he was at one time in immi-
nent danger of being lynched, so much so
that it was found necessary to appoint
guard of twenty men aimed with rifles, to
protect him and maintain the sanctity of the
law.
In Baltimore, bull-terrier dog belonging
to colored man, (carter) seized his masters
valuable horse by the throat and held his
grasp so firmly that he had to be killed by
being struck on the head with an axe, all eff.
forts to release him otherwise proving una
vailing. The jugular vein Of the horse was
completely severed, and he died Immediately.
WHEN the reinforcements now on the way
to India reach there, the British army in
that country will number 81 900 men. In
England, orders have been issued, offering
commissions in the army to any qualified
person who may raise one hundred men.
JUDGE Moncon of California, one of the
rescued passengers of the Central America,
says that the statement of Chief Engineer
Ashby, that he endeavored to persuade
boats crew to return with him to the sink
ing ship. and offered money to men to go, is
true.
The Supreme Court at Boston on Mon
dsy last, in the case of Mrs. Sarah E. Shaw
agt. the Boston and Worcester Railroad
Company, which has been on trial for some
time awarded the plaintiff $4,000. The
suit was for damages, the plaintiffs husband
having been killed by an accident on the
road.
The Locofoco organs of Wisconsin, while
raving about negro equality, have been quite
taken aback by the exposure of the fact that
Cross, their candidate for Governor, headed
a petition to the fast Legislature of that State
for Free Suffrage Act.
A RUNAWAY match was consnmmated at
the Spencer House, Cincinnati, last week,
between a lad and lassie from Kentucky, the
parents of the latter being in the mean WHILE
in full pursuit Oh, womankind
A GENTLEMAN named John Pdgeon COM
mitted suicide at the Henrie House, Cincin-
natl, on Tuesday night, of last week, by swal-
lowing laudanum. Cause, dependency from
inability to get empi oyment.
THE Typographical Society of the District
of Columbia have appointed committee to
inquire into the feasibility of procuring.
through the contributions of the Printers of
the country, statute of Franklin, the Prin-
ter" to be placed in one of the public reser-
vations in Washington.
AT the dinner of the annual cattle show
OF the MiddleSex Agricultural Society at
Lowell, last week, Governor Gardiner and
ex-Speaker Banks, the rival candidates for
the Govership of Massachusetts, unexpected :
ly found themselves face to face.
WIN. B. BARRIERS, teller in the South West
ern Railroad Bank, Columbia, S. c., has alb
seconded with 100000.
MAJOR JOHN G. BATES, senior editor and
proprietor of the .4labama Journal, is dead.
The New York city inspectors returns for
the week ending Stpt. 25, show a further de-
crease Of forty-nine deaths, as compared with
the report of the previous week.
The Woodstock Sentinel of the Both ult.,
oIdtcS IHdC i've HCIle girls were lately DlLten
by dog supposed to be mad, fat Huntley's
Station, on the St. Paul, Chicago and Fond
du Lac r. r.
THE Prairie du Chen Leader says that
Peat has been found near that village, and
that there are thousands of cords of it in the
valley of Wisconsin.
A destructive confagration visited Howell,
Livingston county, Michigan, on Monday
morning, by which the Eagle Hotel, and a
row ofwooden buildings adjoining, were con-
sumed.
TIE Central IUinoisan (Cass county, says,
burglaries, larcencies and attempted murders
are becoming alarmiugly frequent in that Sec
ton.
THE State Fair of Pennsylvania opened on
Tuesday, at Philadelphia. 1t is said the ex-
hibition is the finest ever before held in the
State.
JAMES CARROLL murdered Robt. Brown
in Scottsville, Va, on the goth instant, by
choking him to death, and all about one dol
lar lost at oaminu