Saint Paul weekly Minnesotian., 1859-05-07
NEWS ITEMS.

Bayard Taylor has lectured los times
since December 1st.
cY" The yellow fever is said to have ap-
peared unusually early, and with great viru-
lence, in Cuba.
FWe A new bank has been organized in
ST. Louis, with capital of $780, 900, called
the Union Bank of Missouri.
w Washington Irving has just completed
his fifth volume of the life of Washington
Well done!
w We have heard of a great many trials
of reapers and mowers, but we never before
heard of anything like the trial of Sckles that
is now going on.
SOCIAL ScIENcE.-"Aint it wicked to rob
this henroost, Jim?" "Ah, Bob, that's
great social question. Hand down tother pull
let"
rY@ They have a rose grated on peach
tree at Pcndleton, S. c., and the tree being in
full bloom, presents an extremely beautiful
appearance.
w- Gen. Foote lex Governor of Mississip-
pi) is a candidate for Congress in the WITH
Mississippi District. His opponents the Hon.
o. r. Singleton.
~ An unusual quantity of maple sugar
has been made in Vermont this season, and
in some instances from 1000 to 1000 pounds
have been made in single "sugar orchard"
w- j. R. S. Bond, editor and proprietor
of the Mendoza Qll.) Press, has been elected
Overseer of the Poor. He says his long ex-
perience in the printing business gives him the
most admirable qualification for that Office.
ew The editor of an Illinois paper, writing
private letter to friend, says: 1--WE are
Republicans-of course. Everybody who
fears the Lord, and can write legible hand,
aoithout running his tongue out, is Republi-
can"
- 1t is alleged by the St. Louis Repu6-
lican, that secret movement is now on foot
among the emigrants at Pixies Peak, for the
organization of an expedition against the Mex
ican States of Sonora and Chihuahua. Prom
inent parties in New York are stated to be
cognizant of the movement.
w Several colored persons are in custody
in Canada, on suspicion of having murdered
the mail carrier whose route lay between Paris
and Brantford. The body of the man was
found April 14th, near Brantford, and in a
house in that town, occupied by colored peo-
pie, were found mutilated bank bills and 9TH
er suspicious indications.
~ The English champion, Tom Savers,
has accepted the challenge Of the Benicia Boy
to fight for the championship The wages
is f2OO side, and in addition, Sayers offers
a set Of $500 or Ell 900 that he will win.-
The time for the fight may be fixed for any
period after the settlement of three affairs that
the English champion has now on hand.
w- The Victoria Gazette estimates the
mining population of British Columbia at 4OOG
souls, most OF whom were at last accounts
awaiting favorable weather for mining Four
or five hundred men worked on Fraser River
during the winter, making from $12 to $14
per handsome much more Provisions were
extremely high
rWThe British steam frigate Curacao left
Annapolis Roads on Tuesday, night, 19th
having on board Lord Napier, family and suit
Lady Napier was conveyed to the ship-in a
yacht from the United States Naval Acade-
my, escorted by Captain Blake, the Superin-
tendent, and Captain Craven, the Command
ant of the Academy, together with Lieutenant
Marcy and other American officers
.w The Governor of Louisiana recently
sent to Missouri to reclaim fugitive from JUS
tlce, who had murdered female slave in New
Orleans and fed to St. Louis, where he had
been taken into custody to await reqiusition
When the messenger waited upon Governor
Stewart of Missouri, the requsition was re-
fused, and the messenger told to say to the
Governor of Louisiana that he was d-n
fool, that if he (Stewart,) had not more
brains than Wickliffe, he would resign r'-
The prisoner, Of course, was discharged.
W- The New York Journal of Commerce.
which is always slow to believe in any wrong
done at the South, says it has reliable infor-
nation that cargo Of 600 slaves from Africa
were landed at the mouth of the Mississippi
about fifteen months ago. The United States
Consul at Inagora, Turks Island, ascertained
the facts from one of the seamen on board the
SLAYER, which was new York vessel. Other
accounts of the landing of slaves near the
mouth of the Mississippi have been doubted
but evidently without reason.
az A young girl, nineteen years old, was
arrested at Detroit on Saturday, dressed in
male attire, who had run away from her home
in Canada, with the intention of making her
way to Pixies Peak. She had taken money
from her fathers desk for this purpose She
was entirely ignorant of the route, and sup
posed Pixies Peak was short distance from
Chicago. She was returned to her parents in