The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1858-04-24


ON Monday, which is the visiting day at
the Rochester House of Refuge. Mrs. Ange,
whose son, boy Of fourteen years, was con-
fined there for being engaged in q series of
burglaries, brought him new suit of clothes
disguised in which he made his escape with
his mother, walking by the keepers without
being suspected, who were not very familiar
with his face. The boy is now in Canada
The mother is in custody, and says she does
not care what is done with her, now the boy
is safe. The offense is punishable by fine
of $500, or Imprisonment for year.
SENATOR JOHNSON, of Tennessee, says in
his last speech that he has not got many
slaves !; that he has got few; and that he
has made them by his own industry. Some
thing like the boys fiddle, which his admir-
ing mamma stated he made out of his head,
and had wood enough for another.
LORD PALMERsroN, in reply to the address
OF his Tiverton constituents, says that he
cares MT on which side of the House he sits,
if the present Ministry adept the measures
and carry out the intentions of their imme-
date predecessors" He intimates his inten-
ton not to give the Derby Government un-
necessary trouble.
TIRE is little boy in Ayersville, De fiance
county, Ohio, by the name of Empire Stiles,
who is said to be a musical wonder of the
first order. He is only eight years old, and
performs the most difficult pieces on the VIC.
lin with the greatest ease. Those who have
heard him, pronounce his natural talent for
this instrument to be of an extraordinary
character.
A MAN named Roderigue, deputy Post
master at Lecompton, Kansas, was killed in
that place on the Sd inst, by q young man
named William Thompson, of Ohio. 1t
seems that the young men of the place had
been in the habit of making game of Thomp-
son, on account of some transaction in which
be played an unfortunate part and on Satur-
day, the Sd inst, Roderigue with thee others
having met him commenced to ridicule him,
when Thompson drawing his bowie knife,
made an attack on the party and stabbed
Rederigue to the heart. Thompson fed and
has not been arrested. Roderigue was from
Pennsylvania.
AMONG the latest telegraphic accounts from
the Continent brought by the last English
mail is one from Madrid, of March %, to the
effect that " the Government has presented
project of law for the abolition of Slavery in
the Spanish colonies" The colonies referred
to in this dispatch can be no other than those
Of Cuba and Porto Rico, all that remains to
Spain, with the exception of the Philippines,
of the vast colonial empire which she once
possessed, and the only part of the Spanish
possessions in which Slavery exists.
CRINoL1NE has got into court in Detroit.
A suit is now pending before a magistrates
court in that city, by the husband of lady
who was refused admission to a public lee
ture, the price CT which was twenty-five cents,
which being duly rendered by her, was refus-
ed, and fifty cents demanded, upon the ground
that she would occupy two seats.
THE American Association for the Advance
ment of the Science, will convene at Balti-
more on the 28th of the present month, and
continue in session about a week. The man.
ayers of the Maryland Institute have rendered
the use of their building for its meetings, and
the Historical Society will entertain them.
The membership of the Association is about
900, and comprises most of the Swans of this
country, as we'll as many European celebri-
ties.
The Huntsville (Ala.) .advocase states that
an old silver mine has been discovered in
Hancock county. 1t was walled up with
solid masonry, which had to be removed by
blasting before the mines could be re-opened.
Large trees are growing over and around it,
showing that it cannot have been opened for
centuries. The ore is said to be very rich.
Mr.. HENDERSON, Of the once celebrated
firm of Fox, Henderson & Co., the builders
of tho exhibition. of 1851, in Hyde Park,
and of the Crystal Palace at Sydenbam, died
the other day, so pennyless that his bereaved
wife had not the means to bury him or save
herself from starvation. A committee has
been formed in London to collect subscrip.
ton.
THE delegation of Pawnee Indians, lately
at Washington, have coded to the govern
ment 100000 acres of land, reserving to
themselves $4,000. They are to receive an
annuity of $4,000. The land is in Ne
Rtaska.
AN extensive steam Touring mill, near
Evansville, Ind, owned by parties in Ken
lucky, was struck by lightning on Thursday
of last week, and burned to the ground
Loss about 10000, ard no insurance.
Mr.. SAMUEL WRIGHT, farmer who re-
sides in Washington County, Pennsylvania,
has eighteen children, Ill grand children,
and la great grand children. HIS better
half too. is still living.
ONE Of the Washington papers accuses
Senator Douglas of recently selling all the
slaves which he held in the South-or which
he held as trustee for his fret wife's children.
CHEvREAu, IN his history of the world, in
forms US that it was created on the sixth day
of September, on a Friday, little after
o'clock in the afternoon.
AN attempt is on foot in the Pennsylvania
Legislature to legislate Dav i'd Wilmot out of
his judicial Office. This is to be done by
swapping his district, and attaching to other
districts the counties of which it is COM
posed.
ABOUT as curious case in politics, as was
ever presented, is that of the Washington