Saint Paul weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1858-1859, 1858-10-09
NEWS ITEMS.

| Pierce no State was caicuiaicd "h Ihore cet
ta,nly than Maine to show complete Demo
cratic triumph. Now she is still more thor
.ncl /, and completely Republican,. AgainN
| he utmost energies Of an administration
! called Democlatic-she has maintained an
-c,urali an unhroken front. What is The r"
-'nral Inference? That the people of Main
d..,c ceased to be Democrats, or that tL'
Professions Of Buchanan, and that party d.
Democrats, are all sham2
WE Sec it stated in the New y ork city pa
pers that the ARA. gements CT the new Nicai
aqua Transit Company are being completed
The three lake aud river steamers having
been dispatched, the frs, steamship On 'ne
Atlantic sic vii leave New York on the
10th of October to connect with che Herman,
now on her way round Cape Horn. About
the same time second Pacific steamer will
he dispatched by the separate company hav-
mo that sid,. of the arrangement in charge.
The two concerns will probably make joint
bid for the California mail contract, at the
next letting in 1859, when the contract with
the Pacific Mail Company expires.
IT is stated that Mr.. Robert Morris, a
colored lawyer of Boston, recently bargained
for residence in Caryville, Chelsea, for which
he was to pay $4,000, but the fact coming
to the ears of some of the select white inhab-
,tants of that locality, they sent to the owner
Of the estate remOnstrance against Mr.. Nor
ris settling there. The owner of the hous
lelt the force of the remonstrance, and the
result is that Mr.. Morris can't have the estate.
The Erening Gazette says that "the opposer>
of Mr.. Morris are those who have been most
in sympathy with Kansas, and most forward
i'll movements symp" thizing with the Cypress
ed, and opposition from such comes with
bad grace"
Tue Democracy of Claiborne county Miss:
assembled IN solemn conclave on the 18th
nit, TO appoint delegates to Il District Con-
veniion, to Nominate u successor to General
Quitman. Resolutions we've offered by MIR.
G. S. Morris, author of the sermon " He
played on harp of thousand strings, sper
rits of just men made perfeck". These reso-
luions not being acceptable to the assembly,
a split ensued and fourteen of the sixty dele
gates, styling themselves National Demo-
rats" bolted. The other forty-six, who as
sumed the name of Southern State Rights
Democrats" stood to their resolutions.
Mr.. RICHARD S. GRANT, son-in-law of
the late Professor Mitchell, has been barbar
ou,lv murdered not far from his own p!anta
tion in the mel hborhood of Swartout, on the
Trinity RIVER, in Texas. 1t seems that Mr.
G. ami several OF his neighbors had given no
tice to a troublesome despe RADIO named Drake,
that he must quit the country, and it is sup
posed that Drake shot him on the 18th ult.
o.. .he high road when entirely unsuspiciou
of danger. Mr. Grant was graduate of the
University Of North Carolina, and is ighiy
s.. Ken Of rs "a "Chrstiln gentlen II, Of quiet,
mi,Jt. usyc banners"
TrE Rev. >ir Read Of the NJ f Church.
L..,ava'tc, Ia J.. preached an excellent ~,ihou
C. iafge c,a..:ieeaiion, on sunday 9t.i, t'e
26ia al. About TIE nj idle oi Ills discourse
T.. observed L at two or three prominent
members ,f ;le church Neic takin"; COM
Portable nap and, paus'ng with an unfinished
sentence up n his lips, he commenced singing
III clear voice,
"My drowsy Lowers, why sleep ye SEP
He sang two verses of this good old Method
list hymn, and qur tly resumed the thread OF
his discourse. The effect upon the drOwsy
"pllars" was electrical. A shock from tie
batteries 4 III, itlai tic Gable could not have
been more etfectual.
The DEBORAH Uowa) Gazette Of the 18th
states that an tx stage driver named Duark
stabbed one If Walkers drivers named David
Jelbert, on Thursday previous. He wanted
n ride without paying fare, which the driver
NM I'd not consent to. He then picked q
n,,,, VI with T. and used his knife. He wal
examiu, "a before Squire, and committed
He has sine, through Intervention o
friends bro Ike Jail, and given leg bail.
In the veal 1867 the Paris tribuna,'s pro-
nounced l242 sentences of matrimonial sep.
aration; and there were 1880 cases decided
where neither party should interfere with the
others property.
THE Chicago Journal says they run trains
over the Chi cago, St. Paul and Fond du Lac
Road at ra tie of over fifty miles an hour
IT is stated that actual statistics show that
during the Inst fifty years, the actual num-
bers of the evangelical churches in the Uni
ted States, has increased from four hundred
to three mill ms and half, being
an increase of eight fold; while our popula-
ton has incre ased fOur-fOld."
DEATH mas at last divided the Oldest pair
in the United States. Mrs. Ludwck Snyder
died few days since in Burnside township,
Clear field county, Penn, at the age of los
years. Her husband, who is liz years old,
survives her.
\ WRITER in the True Soutlron, published
at Vicksburg, Miss, proposes that the G m
mercial Convention to assemble at Vicksburg,
in May next, raise fund TO be distributed
in premiums for the best Sermons in favor
of the re-opening of the African Slave
Trade.
The anti-Lecompton Democrats of the 4th
New Jersey district have nominated Peter
Z. Riggs for Congress.
On. HrcA:T NJ. WALKER, one of the physi
clans who attended the late Rev. Eleazer
Williams, alias the Dauphin, during his last
5 ckness, denies that he suffered for want OF
attention and other necessaries," as in,imat-
ed.
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