Saint Paul weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1858-1859, 1859-04-23
NEWS ITEMS.

w The New Orleans True Delta, discuss
ing the cruel legislation of some of the South
ern States, and the disposition in Louisiana to
initiate it, in regard to free negroes, says:
There is large native resident population,
correct in their general department, honorable
in their intercourse with society, and free
from reproach so far as the laws are concern
ed, not surpassed in the inofensiveness Of
their lives by any equal number of persons in
an any place, North or South"
10y The libel case of Edwin Forrest, the.
tragedian cs. N. p Willis, of the Home Jour-
nal, in which the plaintiff claims $4,000
damages, and which was tried some five years
ago, when the jury failed to agree, is now in
progress before Judge Hilton, of the Court Of
Common Pleas in New York. In the course
of the proceedings on Friday, many Of the
Incidents of the Forrest divorce case were re-
vived. Mr.. Forrest was examined as a wit
neess in his own behalf.
~ From the returns of the Railroad
Companies in Maine to the Secretary of State,
it appears that the State has twelve railroads.
with $40 miles of rail- The Atlantic and st.
Lawrence, being leased to the Grand Trunk
Company, pays dividend of SIC, 800; the
Portland and Portsmouth, 100000; and the
Machiasport road, used exclusively for the
transportation of lumber, dividend of three
per cent. No other roads in Maine pay divi-
dendS.
az A correspondent of the Hartford
Times, writing from San Ricardo, Cuba, says:
"a gentleman named Buchanan was in Car
denas few days since, and the Spaniards,
on learning his name, crowded around, staring
at him as if he were some wild animal, and
asked him if he had really come to buy the
Island. - --
| W The Albany Evening Journal says
Under its new prospectus, the name of the
Washington Union is to be changed to the
Constitution This is after the fashion of
Pirates, who hoist the flag of the nation they
mean to plumber. Under its former title, the
payer has done its best to distract and divide
the Union, and under the latter, we suppose,
it will pervert and assail the Constitution"
R- The Commissioners of Police of Gin
cinnati, appointed under an act passed
month ago, have resigned their offices on the
ground that to retain them would lead to
contest on the constitutionalty of the law,
and collision with the authority of the
Mayor.
Ley B. Gratz Brown, the amiable and Wig
orous editor of the St. Louis Democrat, and
the leader of the Free Soil party of Missouri,
has resigned his position as editor of that ex-
cellent paper. a.... ..
W DIR. Zusuzoni, of Wurtzburg, who at
tended the Empress of Russia at the birth of
her last child, has received for his services
$4,000.
az The Republicans of Michigan were
v,ol hat ID okol I
they would run the risk of losing the State.
They did adopt it, and their majority was
never greater than at the recent judicial cleo
ton.
w The Dubuque Sun says that three
Pixies Peak teams from Grant county, Wis,
crossed over the river to Dunleith on Thurs
day last. on their way home, having encoun-
tered the elephant on the prairies of Iowa.
~ The Ohio canals are to be leased at
public auction on the steps of the State House,
on the 18th of August next, to the highest
bidder, for term of five years.
~ The moral of the last poisoning TRACE
dy in New York is that people should paw
their board bills. The Irish cook poisoned
the family because she could not get her wa
ges, and the landlady, the cold victim to the
poison, could not pay her because the board
ers did not pay up.
~ A bill has been introduced into the
House of Assembly of Canada "for the pro-
lection of spendthrifts, and the custody and
disposal of their real estate and personal pro-
perry"
sw The Executive Committee of the ILL
nois Central Railroad has passed resolution
adding $500 to the premium offered by the
Illinois Agricultural Society for the best steam
plough.
~ The Milwaukee Ne,cs charges the re-
cent defeat of the Democracy in Wisconsin
up Mr.. Douglas, and puts him in the cate
CORY of those who have stabbed it with a
SMILE"
~ 1t is stated by the Washington cor
respondent of the Cincinnati Gazette that the
President has commenced the restoration
the small army of special mail agents and
others who were dismissed by the new Post
| master General as useless
| w A New Hampshire correspondent of
the Boston Journal says, that few if any of
the people of that region are intending to
leave for the West the present season, and
none for the gold regions. They will wait
and see how the deserters from Minnesota,
| Wisconsin, Iowa, Kansas, &C., succeed at
Pixies Peak, before they leave.