Saint Paul weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1858-1859, 1859-10-22

There are no buffalo robes now in first
hands in the country. The last lot of 45,
900 were sold in New York, few days since,
ranging from % cents up to Sc Is each
Bates 4 Co., and Kendrick & Co., of Boston,
are now the largest holders.
A few days since, two men, one a cham
pion of Bourbon whisky, and the other a pat
ron of brandy, were discussing the respec-
tive merits of those at the Burnet House, IN
Cincinnati. Finally, as clincter, the BOur-
bon man cited well known Lexington "Co
onel," who had drank pure i>ourbon freely
since he was fifteen years old, and who is now
sixty, and hale and hearty at that. What
do | care for that 7" responded the brandy
advocate triunphantly if he'd drank bran
dy he'd been eighty by this time"
The Norwalk Gazette learns from good au
tho ity that a qudrter Of q million bushels oT
oysters had been taken from the newly di>
covered oyster places up to Saturday night.
A gentleman competent to judge, who has
been upon the ground, gives it as his opinion
that the entire bed cannot be exhausted in
five years, and it is said to be low estimate
to put the average earning- of every man
who has worked upon the grounds at $40 per
day.
A man has shrewd suspicion that age
has overtaken him, when he keeps assuring
you that he feels as young as ever, and he
doesn't know but-younger.! Poor fellow !
he cannot recall youth as he calls his pointer,
with a whistle!
Practical experience has demonstrated that
that the largest piece of ordinance which can
4 a..
tar thirteen inches in diameter. This would
be aoout five tons. At the siege of Antwe, o,
the French used morter with bore twenty
inches in diameter, but it burst on the ninth
time of firing.
One fact in the history of arostation is
plain, that from the time of the first ballono
ascent, 1882, down to this day, not an ad-
vance step has been made in the science of
| mid-air navigation.
In a prayer meeting not long since, in
New Hampshire, worthy layman, speaking
of some eminent missionary, said that he was
poor boy, taken out of the streets and put
into the Sabbath school by a good lady, his
father being drunkard and his mother a
widow.
Some of the mild Cinnamon who sell ci-
gars in the streets of New York are said to
have been Interested lately in reading Chinese
| translations of the Bible, and are occasionally
to be seen at the MONDAY prayer meeting in
the Fulton street Church.
| The extent of the importation of Chinese
laborers into Cuba, and Of the mortality among
them, is greater than is usually supposed
From ls47 to 1859, 5O,123 were embarked
in China, only AZ, sol of whom were landed
loss of 1922, or 1920 per cent.
S. N. Hollingsworth was elected Mayor Of
Nashville, Tenn, on Saturday, the Oath ult.
beating his opponent, John Hugh Smith, q
votes. The contest was vary exciting one
two thousand three hundred votes being cast
the largest vote, we believe, ever given in thai
city.
P.M'D Collins, United States Commercial
Agent at the Amoor River, who was the
first foreigner ever permitted to enter tha
part Of Russian dominions, and whose name
is now associated with the project Of connec-
ting the United States with Europe by tele-
graph, via the Northwest Coast, Bhering'
Straits and Eastern Siberia, left for st. Pc
tersburg, in the steamship Persia, to prose
cute this vast undertaking.