Saint Paul weekly Minnesotian., 1859-11-26
NEWS ITEMS.

-!Or nDel, under the melancholy CONVICTION
that such proceeding would only give the
poem wider circulation than ever, and be
thereby, the means of putting money in the
empty pockets of its author. A publishing
house, as it is, is getting out the squib in
splendid.style, Illustrated with original por-
traits, and accompanied by a reprint of the
comments of all the leading New York and
Philadelphia journals, the whole making a vol
uine of 25O pages.
~ The Bombay Guurlaan reports the
symptoms ofa religious revival in India; four
daily prayer meetings are held in Bombay
one among the soldiers of the 2Sth one of
native christians, in Marathi one at the Gen.
eral Assembly's Institution, and one at St.
Andrews Church. The Bishop of Bombay,
DIR. Harding, favors the movement, and has
issued circular mainly composed of texts of
Scripture.
HIt is reported in the fashionable circles
of Rome, that the Prince of Wales, during
his recent visit at the Palace Cafarelli. the
King of Prussia's residence, opened a frta-
ton with the king S niece, the Princess Alex
andrine of Russia, which is likely to result in
a matrimonial alliance
| - NJ. Julien has been released from his
pecuniary embarrassments it Paris. He at
tributes his ruin to the scorpions; of the legal
profession in London, and to music specula-
tors who have fattened on his former success
During the twenty years that Julien reigned
monarch of the famed popular concerts, he
acknowledges to have received the enormous
sum of e20O,0 in England and America
He has lately refused offers to return to Lon
don to preside over entertainments of a SINH
lar character, and is now busily engaged in
writing His Life and Times Among the Eng
lsh.'
E< The daily and weekly La Crosse
Democrat has ceased to exist, the proprietors
having sold out to the Union, which hence
forth becomes the regular party organ 1t is
edited by our old acquaintance, Swineford,
| formerly of the Albert Lea Star, and more
recently of the La Crescent Banner.
~ Denmark has decided on sending a
political, commercial and scientific expedition
| to the China Sea. The vessels are being fit-
ted out at Copenhagen, and will sail before
the ice sets in.
W Lady Franklin has resolved to sell the
steam yacht Fox which so successfully con-
| veyed Capt McClintock and his brother he
roes to the fulfillment of their mission. The
sale is to take place at Lloyd's sometime this
month.
IL North Elba, n Y, the home of old
John Browns family, gave last year AZ votes
for Gerrit Smith for Governor, 1S for Parker,
and only teo for Gov. Morgan.
~ A young lady named Sarah John
son is under arrest in Detroit, for stealing five
dollars from one lover to pay the minister's
charge for marrying her to another.
~ DR.. Hayes, who accompanied the la
mented Kane to the Arctic region in 1853,
proposes to undertake another expedition in
the same direction, through Baffin's Bay and
Smiths Sound, for the purpose Of navigating,
if possible, the open Polar sea which Dr..
Kane discovered lying north Of the highest
latitude reached by him in 1856.
e- In Brookield township, Clinton Co.,
four years, was accidentally shot and instantly
killed, by her brother aged about IA, on Sun
day week. The boy was playing with rifle
in an npper room of the house, during the alb
sence of the parents.
.g The disappointment concerning the
Great Eastern's visit has been great injury
to Portland. Much has been expended in
various ways i'll anticipation of her presence
and the crowd it would draw, which will he a
partial or total loss. 1t has also had the ef.
feet to delay and embarrass business transac-
| tions.
Wo The British Museum has received an
addition to it's nunismatic treasures, consist
ing of fourteen cabinets, containing altogether
how tho off nf ~ no
Sails, who has collected them at an expense
of f5OOO
The Italians held meeting in New
York city on Tuesday week, to take meas
ures to aid Garibaldi in his efforts to obtain a
million of muskets.
~ "Occasional' of the Philadelphia Press
urges the South to take Douglas as its candi-
date as the only man that can bring peace to
the Union and moreover, as the only one the
South can hope to elect. "Occasionar' is sup
posed to be FOrney himself, and although it
is not at all probable the South will heed his
appeal, yet the fact that he makes it, is sig
nifcant that he does not conceive that Doug
las does or is likely to occupy a position of
such hostility to the South, as rules him out
of the ring.
- The Fayette Patriot states that sew
eral car loads of railroad iron have been taken
to Mount Braddock in the last few weeks
that the deep cut at that point is nearly COM
pleted, and that the road will be in operation
to Uniontown in about month.
e Among the scions of the house of
Bonaparte is a son of old Lucien, the Prince
de CaninO. This young man is a priest of
Romsh church, and being personal pro-
tege, and favorite relative of his Imperial
cousin at Paris, has seen himself speedily
raised from one clerical dignity to another,
till at last the influential post of Private Sec
retary and Almoner to Pic Mono himself had
to be accorded to him. Nothing else stands
between him and the purple of the Cardinal
but the fact that he is not yet thirty. 1t is
thought, however, that the law may be varied
from to suit the case, and that on the decease
of Plus IA, he may be made Pope through
the influence of Napoleon III.
- The Trinity Church office was robbed
some two weeks ago of about $500 in gold,
and plate, fagons, cups, pitchers, &C., to the
amount of $500. The plate comprised the en-
tire communion service of ST. Pauls Church,
and had been in use in that congregation
many years.
The n Y Tribune remarks -" Some Vir-
ginian fools have lately threatened to dissolve
, the Union in case the elections in this quarter
should 60 against their friends. They seem
to have forgotten that only the other day sew
enteen white men and five negroes were able
to conquer the whole of that great State, and
frghten its people so that they have not yet
recovered their Senses"
- Some idea of the extent of the gamb-
ling operations in Memphis, at the present
time, may be based upon the knowledge that
a gentleman from Arkansas lost the sum of
$4,000 one day last week at cards. The
game at which this money was ventured and
lost, is known to modern card-players as
'seven-up," and will be remembered by the
ancients as 'old sledge."
- The Scientific american states that
there are in the city of New York about