Saint Paul weekly Minnesotian., 1859-11-12
NO. 8

1t is reported that at the last interview M.
kossuth had with Louis Napoleon before the
battle OF Solferino, the Emperor said, emphat-
ically: Remember, L cannot bid you tell
your countrymen rise in revolt until get to
venice, for do not know whether may not
have to conclude the war before am half
way thither." 1t is stated that the French
were to send 10000 men into Hungary when
they had obtained possession of that city.
While the Courts in Charestown, Virginia,
are preparing to hang Brown for attempting
to run slaves out of Virginia, the q. S. Court
at Charleston, 5. c., is releasing the recently
captured slave ship which brought cargo
OF slaves into South Carolina! Brown is in
sane, and will be hung. The South Carolina
slave traders are respectable spectators and
therefore, are to be set free Albany Eus-
ming Jour. D.. -. :.
The propriety of planting potatoes in the
Fall Is subject of discussion among agricul-
turallsts. 1t has been demonstrated by sew
eral farmers that this process may be success
iuily adopted, by planting as in the Spring,
out covering the hills with a course manure
or straw. One particular advantage claimed
IS IN producing potatoes much earlier than
from the spring planting.
Charley Weeks, the converted actor who
dropped his theology and returned to the
stage, because the religious people would not
FORK over as literally IS he wished. has lately
benin Boston, speaking and praying at re-
lglous meetings, under the name of Charles
T. st. Clare. His services ale evidently not
to be desired in any good cause.
James Buchanan, who has been appointed
Private Secretary to the President, is the son
OF the only surviving brother of the Presi.
dent, the Rev. Edward Y. Buchanan, an Epis.
copal clergyman. He has lately been admit.
ted to the bar, and is an exemplary young
man.
10 shield Secretary Floyd, who knew that
an insurrection was Matching at Harper's Fer.
ry' the Albany Attas and Argus charges the
knowledge to Gov. Seward, who was s. 600
miles away! This is a Dodge" but not an
Artful'' one --Aldang Ere. Jour.
Mr.. Arch L. Cook, one of the oldest Morse
telegraph operators in the United States. died
of consumption at Baltimore on Thursday
last having been absent from his post of du-
ty out single day, and that Immediately pre-
ceeding his DEATH
eg The Washington States chronicles a
stampede from Alexandria of thirty slaves
about the time of the Harper's Ferry emeute'
ana the kochester Express of the 25th saws
tnat same living freight, valued at some $l5,.
ooO' passed over the Suspension Bridge into
Canada, and by so doing was immediatelv
transferred from chattels into men womeD
and children.
H' The people of Holderness N. H.. an.
nounce levee, the proceeds of which are to
o.e oe appropriated to the purchase of hearse
Inc printed circular announcing the enter
talnment, and inviting attendance, pronoun-
ces the enterprise one in which every citizen
should take an interest
W Judge Whitman, of Perry county.
Ohio, has just given decision that has ere.
ated great CONSERVATION among the holders of
railway mortgages. His decision denies to all
railway corporations the right to mortgage or
thority.
eW Schamyl and his son we're presented
to the Emperor Alexander, at Schoueonieo on
the 27th OF September. The Emir was much
moved by the kin tness of the Emperor. AT.
ter assisting at great military review, he re-
turned to kharoo, on the 2sth, to be present
at ball given to his honor.
az Six of the Irish laborers engaged in
the recent Bergen tunnel riots, in which the
United States mails were stopped, have been
convicted and sentenced to two years impris-
onment each in the State Prison.
eW At Rutland, Vermont, on Friday. the
18th OF October, the slcighing was very good.
At Lockhaven, Clinton county, Pa, snow fell
to the depth OF six inches on Thursday. Oct
9th. The Sleghs were out, and everything
seemed like winter.
sY Two men were suffocated in wheat
bin at the warehouse OF Sturgis, Buckingham
& Co., at Chicago, on Wednesday the 26th.
They went down into the bin to clear the
Spouts, when the grain cavcd in on them and
| they were suffocated before their condition
was known.
az r S. Stone of Owosso, Michigan, has
invented and patented a machine for rnking
and loading hay from the field to the wagon.
The raker is placed in front of the wagon and
made to rake in advance, carrying up the hay
to the load in the same manner that straw is
carried up from threshing machine,
~ A few days since, the daughter of a
wealthy Albany merchant, was found beast
ly drunk on the street, vita party of boys
piling leaves over her. The girl was richly
dressed. She has become addicted to drink,
and her parents are obliged to maintain con-
tinual watch over her.
O- Madame Lola Montez recently arriv.
ed in New York from Europe, and is vrg
very quietly in lodgings up town, under the
name of Mrs. Held Madame la Comtesse
has joined the "New Connection Methodists."
understood to be the straighteSt of the dissen-
| ters.
~. A woman was recently inflicted at
Abbeyville, S. g., as common scold,'
which under the old English law, is punisha-
ble by "ducking." The court however.
quashed the indictment, on the ground that
the law is obsolete in South Carolina.
W The Massachusetts, House, by vote
Of ninety-nine to 10, reccded from its FORM
er action on the bill relative to the statue of
Horace Mann, and thereby concurred with
the Senate, thus allowing the statue to be
placed on the State House grounds without
the approval of another Legislature.
Y- John Bigler, u S. Minister to Chill,
it is announced, will shortly visit the United
States.
w Corwin will not distract the Opposi-
ton by running for Speaker of the House of
Representatives, but will support Sherman.
~ Gov. Medary, of Kansas, has issued
a proclamation declaring the Wyandotte Con-
stitution adopted, and appointing Nov. Oath
as day of general thanksgiving
w We learn from Washington that Mrs.
Senator Douglas is still seriously i'll, and fears
are entertained by her friends that she will
not recover.
@r Joseph Jackson, the postmaster gen.
} eral of the Sandwich Islands, who died at
Honolulu, August 14th, was the only son of
Mrs. Lyman Beecher by her former hus-
band.
w Hon. D. Cady, ,one of the ablest jurists
in the State of New York, and at one time
Judge Of the State Supreme Court, a member
of the 18th Congress, and President of the