Saint Paul weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1858-1859, 1858-09-18
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parties, are located. Those two associations
are very busy in sending off millions Of polit
ical documents, franked by members of Con
greSs. The associations alluded to advertise
on every speech they send that they will fur
nish specified speeches, reports, &C., at Ger
tain prices, enveloped and free of postage Sc
that active political partizans throughout the
country, by sending sums OF money for any
of the electioneering documents which these
associations publish, can have them enpeloped
at the capitol at public expense, tfanhed by
persons authorized to use the names OF mem
bers of Congress, transported at the public
expense to persons ordering such documents
This is the way that the Post Office Depart.
ment is made so great an expense upon the
Treasury every year.
The Utah correspondent of Missouri Re-
publican says that in the best grain growing
districts of that Territory but little wheat has
been grown this season. and no potatoes or
corn of any amount, on account of the far
mers entire attention and energy having peen
directed to moving south i'll the midst of the
farming season. The consequence is that
there will be scarcity of provisions in the
Territory before next harvest. The little wheat
that has been grown is said to have turned
out nearly all smut. 1t represented further,
that thousands of the cattle taken into Utah
this season must perish before next spring
tor want of provender. 1t is said there is not
hay enough in the Territory to winter one
thousand head.
THE various Lodges of the United Order
of Odd Fellows (colored) had parade and
celebration in Cleveland on the Sd inst, with
speeches and other exercises at Chapin's Hall
at night. The colored Odd-Fellows through
cut the United States work under charters
derived from the Sheffield Unity, Eng: and
have no connection with the Independent "
| Order, (which declared itself such in 1914,
and which admits no person having colored
blood, either Indian or African; although it
is probable, at the next session of the Nation
al Grand Lodge, permission will be granted
Lodges in foreign countries to initiate civil
lied natives not wholly white.
IT is stated that the arrival of over one
million of dollars in specie in New Orleans
from Northern Mexico, has excited lively
interest in commercial circles. The papers
say that future shipments of equal Importance
is expected. 1t is we'll known that for sever
al years past, rapid improvement in the
condition of Northern Mexico has been going
on American traders are daily traversing
the country. American machinery for work
ing the silver mines has been introduced to a
considerable extent, and American engine ers
and American capital are going along with
American machines, to develoLe the min
eral wealth of Mexico.
THE Queen of Spain is said to have de-
clared her intention of founding nine great
asyiums for the poor-one for each archbi sh-
oprc- as means of suppressng that pla que
of the country, menicity. Nine million of
reals are to be employed towards paying the
expenses of these asylums, which are to go
into operation on the first Of October next.
The ninetieth commencement Of Brown
University was celebrated at Providence on
Friday last 1t was founded in 1764, and is
the seventh in age among the seats of learn
ing in our country. Harvard dates from 1896,
William and Mary from 1892, Yale from 100,
New Jersey from LAG, Pennsylvania from
l749, and Columbia from 1854
THERE has been a great banquet at Paris,
in honor of Prof. Morse, at which the VIII ole
company, eighty three in number, were Amer
cans. Prof. Morse, Rev. Mr.. Seeley, Minister
Mason, Sidney E. Morse, Of the New Y ork
Observer, Winthrop Atwill of the New York
Evangelist, and others, made speeches.
THE Atlantic Telegraph jubilee at Albany,
n. Y, was asplendid affair. In the evening
at least fifteen hundred firemen were in the
line, and over hundred tar barrels blazed in
their path, and six thousand Roman candles,
each containing six balls, making in all storm
of thrty-six thousand balls, were discharged
in State street.
The Buffalo Courier states that Mr.. M. V.
B. Buel, managing operator of the telegraph
office in that city, has invented new tele-
graphic instrument which is believed to be
superior TO any now in use. By ar ingeni ous
arrangement of the machine, dispatches can
be sent over the same wire in opposite drec-
tions simultaneously. The instrument will
send forty eight thousand words an hour.
A WRITER in the Burlington Qowa) Hc,,ck-
eye of the 9th inst, says that Senator Jones
has addressed letter to Gov. Lowe, inform
ing him that the President of the United
States had promised to send him (Gen. j. to
Madrid, as Minister to Spain, in place of Hon.
A. G. Dodge, and that he, Mr.. Jones, will
now resign his seat in the Senate if Mr.. Lowe
will appoint as his successor a person whom
Mr.. Jones will name.
AT fillibuster meeting held lately in At
lanta Georgia, for the purpose of hearing a
speech from the redoubtable Walker himself,
and expressing sympathy for the cause in
which he is engaged, Senator Toombs was
present, and endorsed Walkers position and
designs in the most unequivocal and unrnis-
taxable manner.
A MAN named George Devln, was shot by
a woman named Fanny French, whom he
had been keeping as mistress, in the streets
of Cincinnati, on Wednesday night last. The
wound will probably prove fatal. They quar-
reled-he presented her the pistol, requesting
her to shoot him, which she did. The cause
of the quarrel was his engagement to marry
another woman.
CAROLINE VAN DUsER, woman who for