The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1858-04-17
NEWS ITEMS.

NE VS. xTEMSe
Or the seven absentees, in the United
States Senate, two are dangerously ill; one
has not been in Washington since his cleo
ton, and another has been three months alb
sent, from sickness. Mr.. Henderson. of Tex
as, is far gone in consumption. Mr.. Davis, of
Mississippi, is in danger of losing his eye
sight. Mr.. Bates, of Delaware, has not been
heard of this winter. Mr.. Reed, of North
Carolina, left for home about the first of JAN
uary and was unable to, get further than
Richmond. Mr.. Sumner has never fully re-
covered from theinjuries received in the as
sault upon him.
MRS. MARY H. BRECKENRIDGE, consort of
the late Hon. John Breckenridge, died at the
residence of her son, Rev. VIM. L. Brecken-
ridge, in Louisville, recently, in the Goth
year of her age. She was the widow of that
John Breckenridge who introduced into
the Kentucky Legislature the famous
resolutions of '98. She was the mother of
of Robert J. Breckenridge, of Danville, KY,
and Rev. VIM. L. Breckenridge, of Louis
vile, both eminent ministers, and was the
grandmother of the present Vice President.
The people Of Blairsville, Pa, recently set
upon slave catcher, and his official and un-
official help, rescued fugitive they had cap
tured and drove the whole posse with much
indignity out of the place. Good for Penn
sylvania; but what is to become of the
Union
IT is denied that the President has accept
ed regiments from New York and Pennsyl-
vania. The matter is yet open, and officers
ambitious of pay and honor, from different
States are urging ON the President the &C.
ceptance of their regiments. Kentucky is
said to have a promise.
The bill pending in the New York lcgisla-
ture authorizing the State to take and use
any deposits on Banks unclaimed for twenty
years, it is said will put about 100000 in
the hands of the State. 1t is to be used to
complete the canals and to be repaid if any
bona fide claimant shall ever appear.
The English, now that with the help of the
French they have got possession of Canton,
are beginning to find out that, after all it
was hardly worth taking. The correspondent
! of the London Times, who, since the occupa.
ton, has been exploring the city, writes that
the commercial Importance of it has been
| very much overestimated-that it is large and
populous but in other respects is to be set
down as very ordinary Chinese city.
A queer genius has just died in the Ohio
Penitentiary. after being confined three years
for killing man in drunken frolic. Ar
ound the body of the corpse was found
thick leathern belt which contained Sl60,45
in silver change. The poor fellow had carried
his load about him constantly for years, for
fear Of being robbed. The money had been
earned by him by 'over-work" while in pris.
| on.
OwISG to the opposition that las sprung
up between the railroads and tie propellef
lines, cattle are transported from Albany to
New York at the rate of twenty-five cents
head, and sheep and hogs in proportion. The
winter fare was ten shillings head
IT is said that the cost of printing Enory's
Report Of the Mexican Boundary Survey
work which no one has read, and few have
even seen-was S277,3OOI Nothing could
more clearly demonstrate the infamy of our
public printing system.
A RAILROAD from St. Louis to the Iron
Mountain and Pilot Knob, is completed. and
the iron horse has at last snorted on the sum-
NIT of the Ozark Mountains
Mr.. ALL1BoNE, late President of the Bank
of Pennsylvania, and Thomas A. Newhall,
late Director of the same institution, have
been indicted by the Grand Jury in Phila-
delphia for conspiracy.
A CITIZEN of Boston has invented dove
failing machine, by which hundred drawers
can be dovetailed in an hour, cutting the
mortice with pressure that insures pe,fec-
ton in every joint.
THE wife of Henry Peck died in Provi-
dence on Tuesday, having been made insane
by religious excitement about ten days be-
fore, and Mr.. Peck himself is in the insane
hospital from the same cause, without signs
of recovery.
The maple sugar season has been unfaver-
able in Iowa and other North Western States
while in Western Massachusetts the farmers
have had to keep their camp fire going night
and day to boil down the usual exuberance
of sap.
The new Council of Chicago has selected
the Chicago Democratic city printer, and de-
s'gnated the bank of Geo. Smith & Co., as
the place of deposit for the public funds.
The Canal Board of New York has resolv.
ed to reduce the tolls from four to two mills
on merchandise, three to two mills on -four
on one thousand pounds per mile.
DR.. RUSSELL, of Kankakee, Illinois, in at
tempting to step on railroad car, missed his
footing, fell on the track, when the train
passed over him, and killed him instantly.
The average cost of all the railroads in the
country, in bonds and stocks, has been about
forty thousand dollars per mile, making the
aggregate cost amount to the enormous total
of 81, 100000.
AT their late municipal elections, Cincinna-
ii polled 1904 votes st. Louis 1926
Chicago 1924 Milwaukee 1920.
PAUL MoRPHY played six games of chess
blindfolded, simultaneously, recently and
beat all of his opponents.
REPUBLICAN Supervisors have been elected