Weekly Minnesotian and times., 1859-12-31
NEWS AND MISCELLANY.

HE difficulty between Senator Johnston OF
Arkansas, andRepresentativeW indman, which
it was supposed few days ago would lead to
a hostile meeting, has been amicably settled.
ONE farmer in Illinois sold $500 head of
cattle this Fall, yielding him $4,000. They
were all Eattened on his 3 1000 acre farm in La
Sale County.
As an evidence of the mild winter in Flori-
da the editor of The Tallahassee FLoridian has
been presented with ripe pears, plums, grapes
and pomogranates, the three former of the
second growth of this season.
JUDGE w. F. Army of Kansas arrived at
Washington last Tuesday with certificat co,
py of the Wyandotte Constitution, for the
purpose of delivering it to theFresident for his
presentation to Congress, with the request
that Congress will admit Kansas as State.
A Mr.. ADAMS has recently returned to
Fort Des MOines, Iowa, from Pixies Peak
He says the miners are doing well, and were
taking out the precious metal at fair rate
Many of them are making fortunes. Times
were brisk-everybody on the move
A novel contest came off in Montgomery,
Alabama, few days agO-a blowing match
at a Fair between one ofMrs. Watson's camels
and team of mules. The Montgomery Ad-
vertiser thinks the camel bore off the palm
The New York papers chronicle the death
Ofa young man who lost his life by skating
till he was tired, and then lying down on the
ice to rest. The cold struck to his vitals, and
he contracted disease which speedily term
mated his existence.
The brother of the colored man, Copeland,
telegraphed to Gov. Wise, asking if he might
have his body. The reply was that he might
have it if he would send white man for it.
Wise could not spare to insult a negro, even
upon such an occasion.
LOUIS L. Wigfall, a native of South Caro-
lima, has been elected to the U. S. Senate
from Texas. Col. Wigfall's term will extend to
March 4. 1868. He has the seat formerly
held by Gen. Rusk, Judge Henderson, and
the H0orable Matthew Ward.
THE Governors message of Texas has been
ordered to be printed in four different Ian
guages. English, German, Spanish, and Nor.
wegian, which is good illustrations on the
varied origin of the inhabitants who compose
the State.
Mr.. Brown, who was been elected to Con-
gress from Kentucky, and who has not attain
ed the age of twenty five years, and therefore
cannot take his seat, seems to be well named
John Young Brown.
PARsoN BRowNLow, of Knoxville, Tenn,
assigns as reason why he did not visit Was
hington, on his late trip East, that he had in
his pocket 800 in money, a through ticket to
Lynchburg, six good shirts in carpet sack,
and a new OvercOat worth $40, and this was
more than he was willing to risk in that den
OF Mieoes.
The Warrenton (Va.) Flag having been
informed that over 20 copies of the New York
Tribune are taken at the Post Office of Prince
William County, suggests that those receiv-
ing them should not only be presented before
the Grand Jury and heavily fined, but dealt
with even more severely.
The Grand Jury of Wilson County, North
Carolina, being moved thereto by charge
from Judge r. NJ. Saunders, has presented
Edwin d. Morgan and others of New York,
for signing recommendation of Helpers
Book. and they invoke the Governor of North
Carolina to demand the said Edwin Morgan
and his associates residing in New York, of
the Governor of that State, that he and they
may be brought to trial.
A recent letter from a correspondent at
Vienna says:
cit is stated positively that an autograph
letter of the Emperor will be published in a
few DAYS, which will annul all the restrictions
imposed since 1851 on the Jews in Austria,
and enable them again to be the possessors of
landed property"
1t is said to be the intention in England
to abolish the distinction between traders and
non traders, and to limit Imprisonment for
debt to cases of fraud, concealment of prop
erty, mutilation of books, absconding, and
other offenses which belong to the category of
penal offences.
Iowa is infested with men banded to-
gether for the preparation of crime. Old and
wealthy men have engaged in cattle stealing
young and promising men have been convict
ed of horse stealing; men of influence have
been condemned to long Imprisonment for
passing counterfeit coin; while others have
forged and counterfeited bank bills in all Sec
tons of the country.
The materials with which the Eternal
writes his name may vary, but the style OF
the handwriting is evermore the same. And
| whether in illumined character he paints it on
the field, or. in starry alphabet bids it fame
from the face of the Observation-Disclosures he
works in the curious mosaic of SHE'LL or in
Hebrew letters inscribes it on tables of stone
devotion recognizes its heavenly Fathers
hand and admires with reverence the match
less autograph.
W-" My son, hold up your head and tel
me who was the strongest man ?"
"JOnah,"
"Why so?''
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