The emigrant aid journal of Minnesota. [volume] (Nininger City, Minn. Terr. [i.e. Minn.]) 1856-1858, 1858-01-20
minnesota leg1sl0 e.

Minnesota i.esisla luse.
SENATE, Friday, Jan s--A bill authorizing the in.
habitants Of Faribault County to change their county
seat, was introduced. Also to crea.e a homestead for
settlers.
An interesting debate sprung up relative to the Sun
Rise Indian Expedition, which shows how the terrible
battles with Indians are manufactured. A few drunken
vagabond Indians, not over fv. in number. were lua6ng
around a settlement called Washington. A story was
started in St. Paul that the people there were in immi.
ent dagger from an expected attack by a large party of
INDIANS. A company Of volunteers was got up and
started of to the scene Of danger The settlers at Sun.
rise were surprised one mornng, o ace the coupauv
marching over their fields, pretty we'll intoxicated, and
more so, to see them set upon the Indians, one Of whom
they killed, and the rest they made prisoners, but not
before losing ore Of their own number After return.
ing, their exploit was duly heraided a. q daring achieve.
ment against the blood. thirsty savages. For this ouix.
otto affair bill of 2,6C0 is presented 70 deiay the
expenses. It was merely u spree INDUCED in for . few
days by a score or two Of young men from St. Paul.
The Senate is not disposed 70 encourage asuch texpedi.
tons by paying such fabulous exp nses.
= Members made complaint in regard TO tlenon delivery
of mail matter sent by them to their friends. IL wsya
common practice of the contractor to throw OF news.
paper bags along The route, sometimes in such a manner
that they were entirely lost. This was done to tighten
their loads.
The bill for issuing two hundred thousand dollsrs in
State bonds, was discussed. Some members advocated
the : issue at an interest Of only 6 per cent. per snuum,
and at that they would be eagerly sought after for
banking purposes, if "a good banking system should be
established for this State. Others thought IL Der cent.
would be the least they could be sold for; but the op;n.
ion appeared to be between these figures by the general.
ity of the members.
The House bill authorizing the Commissioner Of
Wabashaw Co. to issue bonds to construct public build.
ings, was passed.
Also a bill to locate a State Road from Brownsville
to Shell Rock. - ~
TIE Governor sent a message to the Senate, statirR
that he could not have the, election returns copied, and
he would not allow the originals to go out of his Office.
He would allow them the privilege Of copying them,
however. pr
HOUSE, Jan. ga bill passed authorizing the city of
st. Paul to issue 500, 900 in bonds to completed sewer.
A bill passed locating the Cannon Falls and St. Paul
road.
Geo ID. Kingsley's petition for the seat held by Mr..
Durham was accepted, and a resolution adopted grant
ing him the seat.
Summary Of News.
The authorities in New York City are making strenu-
Gus efforts to break up the ~swindling ticket Offices where
." many %emigrants have been robbed for years past.
Officers are detailed to inform emigrants, as they land,
wnere to go to purchase proper tickets. The runners
will be checked in their viilainons practices, we hope.
The election to gil the vacancy occasionel by the re-
of Mr.. Banks, in the SEVENTH Congressional
District of Massachusetts, has resulted in the choice of
Daniel W. Gooch, Republican.
Donnelly, who murdered a fellow clerk at Staten TEL
last summer, with whom he had gambled and lost
considerable ST ms, was executed on the 9Th inst He
protesting his innocence.
When the message of Gov. Hgon, of MARYLAND no.
in the Legislature of that State. it was 70.
jected by a decisive vote. The reason was because Tho
reflected severely on the American party. sew.
Il OF whose members were elected by fraud and vic.
lence.
District Attorney McKeon has been removed from, Lie
Office by the President, for taking part in the eIec,;no
of Mayor of New York, to defeat Wood. Mr. Sedr
wick was confirmed by the Senate, to take bis place. by
a close vote. ''
DR.. Arson Jones, Ex-President of Texas. committed
suicide at Houston on the 9Th inst, BY blowing ont hi.
brains.
The treaty with Japan, negotiated BY Commodore
Perry a few years ago, seems likely to become of good
account, especially when steam communication is estah.
lished between St. Francisco and China.
Notwithstand the hard times, the sale of news .t Row
Henry Ward Beecher's church realized double the
amount Of premiums received last year this wear tbev
to 1880.
An engine boiler exploded on the 9th inst. on the
Erie Railroad, at Piermont, which killed two men. It
lust been placed on the rad, and cost ten thous-
and dollars.
1t has been decided in Indiana. tina. q MARRIAGE ~ h.
Oe~- No3 ""y 'NHAitCS tuS utu consent OF
Tho parties to the contract, without license or other for.
1t is required that the agreement be record.
ed, but a ne5lect to do SO only subjects them to a fine.
Thomas Mckenna, formerly of Utica, N. Y. and
lately of Lawrence Kansas, has a wife and Child at III.
latter place who are anxious to hear from him. He j.
to be somewhere on the Mississippi or Missouri;
rivers ~chopping wood. r
The Washington Era says the hard times will cut its
list of subscribers down at least one-third.
t. .s. 4. New ORLEANS, Jan. IL, 1853.
Gen. Parodi has issued a proclamation against the
action OF Comont"rt. and was making large levies of
troops. The Department of Vera Cruz has recalled its
of the plan Of Tacubaya. A civil war seemed
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Notice Of Petition. e.
Notice is hereby given that a petition will be presented
10 the Commissioners at their next meeting latter thirty
from this date for a Public load, beginning at
Spring Lake Mill, thence up through the bluff. where
The road has been partially built by 'Foote l. Bassett,
thence NE to the n. f. angle of the s. +, quarter of