Saint Paul weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1858-1859, 1858-05-08
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with his wife in Cincinnati for years past, on
Saturday found her in house of i'll rcpute,
but persuaded her to return home She then
commenced on him with bitter personal
abuse, when, in moment Of passion, he drew
pistol and discharged its contents into her
right breast, woundlng her seriously. He is
hard working man, and she dressy, ex-
travagant and probably indiscrcet woman.
The Gait &C. W. Reporter has the follow
ing: Ills Lordship Justice Hagarty, de-
clined receiving accounts in Court, in Berlin,
rendered in dollars and cents. He said that
there was no statute compelling Judges to
accept this currency, and until this was the
case, he should hold fast to the British cur
rency. The only lew passed on that point
was that of enforcing the rendering of &C
counts to the government in dollars and
cents. This decision of his Lordship took
the bar by surprise"
AMONG other facetia contemplated by the
admirers of Orsini, in New York, it is said
that there will be an effigy Of Louis Napoleon
which will be dragged along with the torch
light procession, and when it reaches GER
tain point, (the Opera House, in Fourteenth
street. q number of mock internal machines
will be let off, killing the Emperor outright,
amid the heurtiest vociferations of g Vive la
Republique."
The Legislature of Illinois, to be elected
next fall, has the duty devolying on it of
electing successor to Douglas Without
some change the Republicans will not sup
port that gentleman for reele ction and he
cannot be chosen. Abram Lincoln is spoken
of as his probable successor.
The editor of the Pioneer, German paper
IN New Yo'k, offers to undertake the assassi-
nation of Louis Napoleon provided his ex-
penses are paid, and to do the deed within
two months of his arrival in Paris. Another
paper which sympathizes with the movement
says $500 are already subscribed, and calls
for fresh contributions.
EVERY interest, social, commercial and DO
litical, must be made to feel the pressure of
Lecompton. Thee is not State in the
Union whose business interests are not-so
far as Federal power can do so-under the
the foo. of the tyranny which would force
slavery constitution on Kansas.
A WEEK ago, stray " chattel' arrived at
Patterson, n. j., and was stuffed with bread
and cheese, aud geographical ideas about the
direction of the north pole. He said that
his masters daughter aided him in planning
his escape, and tuld him to run lard for three
weeks.
TIE House Committee Of Congress which
had the matter Of the Rock Island bridge in
charge have reported that the structure is
serious obstacle to navigation, but deem 1t
incXpedient to legislate in the matter as they
consider i: question for the courts
Ir is stated that the Administration will
opp Sc the new (Leavenworth) Constitution
of Kansas, On The ground that the act of the
Territorial Legislature creating it, was null
and void, It is claimed that Gov. Denver
did not return the bill with his approval, land
that the LIE .i>lature adjourned during the in
terval within which it was competent for him
to keep it under consideration.
THE latest news from the Mormons is that
the celebrated DR.. for Bill.) Hckpau,a Nor
mon, was murdered near the camp that
Russell and Waddlc, the Government con-
tractors, were conveying powder to the
Saints; and Brigham Young says he will send
his 'destroyng angels" on mission of in
cendaris m, to burn St. Louis, Keokuk, Chi
cago, New York, and even the capital of the
| United States. These Cities and many 9TH
ers, are to be fred simultaneously.
N. +. STANTON, ESQ.,, formerly q teacher
of buffalo, and latterly member of the
New York Assembly, and subsequently De-
putty New York Secretary of State under
Mr. Headly, was on Monday, elected Presi.
| dent Of the Milwaukee & Lacrosse Railroad,
inplsce of S. Clark, resigned.
Mr.. THOMAS T. Kettle, editor of the Uni
ted States Economist, is about to assume the
Editorshipof Hunts Merchants Magazine.
in place of the late Freeman Hunt.
j.. N. NJ. BREwEa, for thirty years a ship
builder upon the st. Crox river, died sud-
denly at Robbinston, Me-, on the 4th inst
He had during his life built upwards of 100
vessels.
THE Chirago Union declares that the day
of forgiveness for Douglas is past forever; that
he will be made to pay dearly for the false
issue he has imposed upon the Democracy
that he has overreached himself
THE Missouri Republican is in agony 1t
admits that the question of emancipation is
10 be forced upon the state in the election in
August next, by union of the Americans
and black-republicans, and that the Lecomp-
ton democracy are in great danger of being
defeated
A letter from Rome in the Boston Pilot
sSys that six Cardinals have died within a |
few months and eight or nine were to be
created on the 18th of Marcl-,mong them
Bcdin
The Pope has appointed young Lucien b.
naparte, already Private Chamberlain, as
one Of the Pontifcal Prelates.
THREE policemen, and two coroners ran a
mile, on the LIST Of Aprln Philadelphia, to
see the body of men who was reported TO
have blown out his brains with from
bone.
president Zuloaga, of Mexico, has written
a cringing letter to the Pope, in which he
says, the people of Mexico are sacredly at
tached to the Holy See, and that they are