Saint Paul weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1858-1859, 1859-10-22
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and Hill (of the Sd and 9TH districts.) The
delegation therefore, stands, in party sense,
just as in the last Congress,-but the great
question Of the day is unanimously pro
slavery.
W-Prof Coe, who made a thrilling de-
scent in his exploded balloon at Rome, N. Y,
last week Thursday, landing on the tops Of
some tall forest trees and climbing down in
safety, undertook, on Saturday, to dislodge
the fragments of the balloon, when he lost
his hold and fell distance of some fifty feet
his injuries are so severe that his life is des-
paired of. 10.
w~ 1t has. been proposed to Col Hiram
Fuller, of the New York AIror, now in Eu-
rope, to establish printing Office on board
the Great Eastern steamship on her return to
England. He has the subject under con-
sheraton, with strong inclination to carry
it out. ..sr.4 -.
W The first registration of voters has
just been closed at Detroit. The election
about to be held is only for city officers, yet
the number of votes registered is greater
than was cast for city officers last spring.
viz now registered, 1877 !; cast last spring,
1855. I'll. .-. ..,s. n.
~. President Buchanan, when on his
journey to his home at Wheatland, Lancaster
county, Pa, left the cars at Wrightville, to
walk to the bridge at Columbia, as is his GUS
tom. On the way he met several acquain-
tances, and while in the act of saluting them,
his foot met some obstruction, and he fell
He was considerably stunned by the fall, but
finally recovered sufficiently to continue his
walk. Some persons are weak enough to
talk about this being ominous of the result of
the Pennsylvania elections which Immediately
followed.
~ On the 18th ult., another fatal duel
was fought with rifles at forty PAGES, near
San Andreas, California. The parties were
DR.. Peterson and Col. William A. Gatewood.
/ The former fell MORALLY wounded, and died
in two hours.
~ Senator Douglas has received valua-
BILE present lately. The Washington States
says: "Miss Ellen Douglas received to-day
a most hearty welcome from those who had
the extreme pleasure of making her acquan-
tlnce. We congratulate the House of Doug
las on the introduction of this new heir y
eW The Philadelphia Press says that the
Anti-Lecompton Democracy of New Jersey
apper to be fully satisfied with the platform
of the late Democratic State Convention, and
will support Gen. Wright, the Democratic
nominee for Governor. So the fight in New
Jersey will be between RepubGcanism, pure
and simple, and an united Democracy.
W. zone Truth, in the New York 7ri.
, bune, denies the intimation in the Chicago
Press, that Madame LeVert is "the beautiful
and accomplished Southern literary lady who
is about to try her fortune on the stage"
W The Tuscan Government has, by a
decree of the 10Th of September, raised Ma.
jor-General Garibaldi to the rank of Lienten-
: ant General
W LaMountain, the Ballonist, writes to
the Troy IN. w. Times deprecating the
+ inference, that his unexpected Voyage to the
Neutrality-suspicious. disproves the existence Of an
Easterly current at a high altitude. On the
contrary, he says, they found the Easterly
current and travelled some distance with it,
but that having descended below it, they
were carried, first in Southwesterly, and
subsequently in Northerly direction, by To-
cal currents lower down.
W- Isaac Adams of Boston, the inventor
of the Adams Press, life long Democrat,
has issued manifesto declining to support
. the Democratic nominees of Massachusetts,.
az Gilbert, the first member of Congress
from California, was killed in a duel Her.
bert, another member Of Congress from that
State, murdered hotel waiter at Washing
ton. Key, the District Attorney, who con-
nived at his acquittal, was shot by Sickles-
: and now Senator Broderick is killed by o
Judge of the Supreme Court. A bloody
!, record.
tw- The N. Y. Euening Post closes q
notice of the recent discovery of the remains
of Sir John Franklin thus: "More deeply
touching than any effort of the poets pen
is the story Of that heroic, wife, spending
fourteen years of her life in efforts for her
husbands relief, and at last to be only as
sured that years ago he died amid all the
terrors of an Arctic winter. Thousands,
all over the world, as they hear of this sad
disclosure Of the Arctic mystery, will breathe
a prayer for the brave hearted wife and be-
reaved widow, Lady Franklin"
W~ The Democratic Convention of the
Third Congressional District Of Aassachp-
sets, tabled resolution by large majority
endorsing Douglas and his popular sovereign
ty dogma.
w Chief Justice Swan, of the Supreme
Court of Ohio, whose term would have expired
in few months, and who failed of renomi-
nation in the Republican Convention, in con-
sequence of his decision in the Oberlin-rescue
case, has resigned. 1t is supposed that Gov.
Chase will Gil the vacancy by the appoint
ment of Hon. VIM. Gholson, the Judge who
has just been elected to the same office by the
Republicans.
- Advices from Nebraska of a recent
date, inform US that terrible malady, is pre-
vailing among the Omaha Indians carrying off
young and old by scores. The Indians call
the disease the Texas fever, or murrain, the
same contagion that has destroyed the deer
and cattle in portions Of Missouri, and COM
mitted such ravages among the buffaloes on