Saint Paul weekly Minnesotian., 1858-06-12
NEWS ITEMS.

WINS 10 q '4uSOI OoVcTuuIcut oS auulnlS-
tered by James Buchanan. Take the Uta b
Delegates in Congress as an Illustration
The President declares the people of Utah
Territory in a state of rebellion and not only
hastens off the entire land force of the United
States to whip Brigham Young and his wives
into subjection, but asks of Congress addi-
tional regiments for the Mormon war, while
Or. Bernhisel, the Mormon delegate in the
House from Utah, continues to retain his seat
and wears blander smile than ever, for the
Administration Committee on Elections has
reported in favor of his right to it on the
ground of insufficient evidence to convict his
constituents of rebellion Odd, is it not?
WE see it stated that orders have been
issued for the march of about two hundred
troops from Memphis to California, via. the
Southern route. They take with them some
four hundred horses, intended for cavalry SER
vice in California. A large number of wag-
ons were shipped on board one of the Mem
phis boats at S. Louis day or two since, in
tended for this command, but before the ves-
sci got under way, the order was counter
manded, and they have not been sent. Col.
Fauntleroy goes in command, and Captain
Smith, of St. Louis is also ordered on this
duty.
lr is easy to understand why a red-hot
AbolitlOnist should be in favor of war with
England, but what could possibly work a
Southern slaveholding Senator up to that
point we can't conceive. We fear that when
Mr.. Toombs, Mr. Hayne, Mr.. Mallory, Mr..
Mason, and the rest of those brave gentle
men shouted SO loud for instant hostilites,
they are either making fools Of themselves
or trying to make fools of the rest of man.
kind.
ON Monday last, says the Selma, Ala Sen
tinel, General Walker Ohe fillibuster) ad-
dressed large concourse of the citizens of
Dallas county, Alabama, in the Court
House at Cahawba, upon Nicaraguan affairs.
His arguments proved effectual too, for quite
number of our most substantial and largest
planters came forward and made proper ap-
probation of their earnestness, by putting
down large sums of money.
AN elderly lady died in Philadelphia few
days ago, at the house of one of her daugh-
tiers. Another daughter, with whom she had
formerly resided claimed the corpse for buri-
al, and dispute arose over the maternal re-
mains, which was finally settled by the inter-
ference of the police.
The hundred acres of the Mount Vernon
estate, purchased by the Ladies' Mount ver-
non Association, have been laid off by Mr.
S. r. johnson, and the bounds and survey
examined and approved, on Saturday last, by
the officers of the association, during their
visit from Richmond.
PROF. MORSE has received from the French
Government the sum of 100000 for the use
made in France of his telegraphic invention ;
and Mr.. Rarey, the Horse tanner has received
the subscription of $4,000, condition for
the relevation of his secret to a commission
of the French Government
The Illinois river, like every stream in
the Senate, is over its banks on both sides.-
AT Naples, directly west of that place, the
water is over the front street and covers the
bottoms from bluff to bluff, making a river
some eight miles wide.
MAY, 1858, is entitled to the record of the
rainy month. A table kept at Chicago shows
that it rained on twenty-five days of the thirty
and the one of which the month is composed.
The New Orleans Delta of the 2lst an
nounces the approaching nuptials of distin-
guished New Yorker, late of the Nicarauguan
army, and Miss Elizabeth Bowlegs, royal
Princess, and daughter of his Majesty
William Bowlegs, King of all the Flori-
das.
ST.. JOINS Day at Dubuque The oath of
June, being the anniversary of the Patron of
the Masonic Fraternity, the brethren at Du-
buque are preparing to celebrate it with the
most imposing ceremonies.
THE Rcd Republicans of New York
City have formed what they call an "Interna-
tional Association" similar to that in Lon
don. The object of the Association is the
agitation of universal revolution through
out Europe.