Saint Paul weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1858-1859, 1859-03-26
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,VmpatnlZe Win MN III inc Original cause OF
Inference between the two houses, yet all will
not justify the deed he has done.
Ew The Rev. Theodore Parker Of Boston
mas bequeathed his EARNS not spiritual
but military-to the State of Massachusetts,.
They consist of two guns-one q fowhng
piece, with which his grandfather, Capt. John
Parker, shot British soldier at the battle of
Lexington; the other, " Kings arm" which
the Captain took from the Britisher" after
he shot him. The guns are now in the Sec
rotary of States Office in Boston for safe
keeping during the absence Of the owner.
10y Curious evidence has lately been
poleon the Great in early life offered his SER
vices to the commander of the English navy
in the Mediterranean His services were de- |
youth, and soon after he entered the French |
army and began his great career.
10y Mr.. Giddings, writing to the Ashta- |
bula Sentinel on the day of the adjournment,
expresses the opinion that the XXXVth is
the last Democratic Congress to assemble in
the United States. He thinks, moreover, that
the Democracy have nearly given up the idea
of brow-beating Northern Representatives,
such scenes having been removed from the
House into the Senate.
H Shawneetown was entirely submerged
in the late rise in the Ohio river. The ILL.,
n0isan says the water was four feet on Main
street, and the only dry land to be seen was
a few rods at the upper end of the place,
called the Mounds-alii the inhabitants were
driven for safety to the second stories Of their
n Nto Cfpo l,, al
most any part for steamboats,. Business gen.
orally was suspended on account of the high
water, there being little or no communication
miles in extent, met the view of the eye in
every direction.
w- A gang of counterfeiters has recently
been broken up in Essex county, New
York. Upon the person of one of the pris-
oners was found the rules and regulations of
the "Mystic Circle of Alchemy" but princi-
pally devoted to an explanation of the process
Of galvanism and electrotyping. It is sup
posed that the book has been very widely
circulated, and many of the most respectable
farmers of Essex and the adjoining counties,
are suspected of having abandoned their
honest labor for the manufacture of bogus
coin.
RW Senator Brown, of Mississippi, made
speech at the Cuba-stealing meeting in Tam
many Hall on Monday night last Among
other things, he said HE believed that
Slavery was of divine origin Applause j that
God decreed it from the foundation of the
world [great applause j that the African was
destined, from his creation, to become the
servant of the white man continued applause;]
and his opinion was, that every one before
him would be better off if he had niger to
wait upon him." Loud and continued ap-
plause.
10y Mrs. Cora V. Hatch is before the Su-
preme Court in New York again, asking for
an injunction to compel DR.. Hatch to keep
hands off while the divorce suit is pending.
She says he follows her about and is plotting
to get possession of her by violence.
H. Mr. Smith O'Brien was received on
Friday, the 18th, at Richmond, Va, with
much enthusiasm. That pure patriot and
lover of his kind, Mr.. John Mitchell, who,
probably for our sins, was permitted to escape
from British Penal Colony to these hospita-
BILE shores, accompanied Mi. 0'Brlen.
w- The Mayor of Columbia, S. c., at a
meeting of the City Council of that city, not
long since, said that he had received a commu-
nication from the Mayor of Charleston, in re-
ply to one from himself, in which he says that
"he is satisfied that the societies for aiding
underground railroads are quite rife in that
city, but so cunning they cannot be caught in
the act"
~ A committee in New Haven appointed
to enquire into the subject of the injury done
to shade trees by leakage from gas pipes, re-
port that forty Films have been killed in that
city from this cause during the last three or
four years, twenty -one of them last summer
owing to fash of lightning which followed
the pipes under ground and caused leaks.
~ The "Benecia Boy" bruiser, not salts
fed with the loggng given him by Morrisey,
has challenged Tom Sayers, the present cham
pion of England, to fight for 9200 and the
Champions Belt, and is willing to increase
the bet f60O or 4sOO more. Savers has
some fights now on hand, and, should be fail
in any of the matches, Heenan wishes to
fight whoever may be the champion in Say
ers' place.
tw All the governments of Europe, are
wanting to borrow money. Austria wants
$4,000, 900; England $35 600, 900; Sardin-
ia 100000. France wants a large sum,
and Russia, it is expected will also be trying
its credit to q great extent. About $780,
100000 is the aggregate wanted by these diff
ferent governments, to put themselves in
position to prevent one being eaten up by the
other.
az The Albanians are delighted with the
acceptance by Professor Mitchell, of the
charge of the Dudley Observatory, in place of
DR.. Gould. Mrs. Rlandina Dudley, however,
is little sulky over it yet, and does not &C.
cept it as an entire settlement Of the Observa-
tory difficulties.
81 The Rev. DR.. Tying, of New York,
whose recent illness inspired some alarm among
his friends, has quite recovered. He ofici-
ated at St. Georges on Sunday, the 18th inst,
as usual
~ In Mr.. Belly's suite of thirty three
persons, engineers, secretaries, &C., which re-
GENTLY left Paris for Nicaragua, appears the
name of the Prince Camille de Polignac, who
goes out with the title of Chief of the Military
Forces.
~ Col. R. D. Gholson, the new Governor
of Washington Territory, is native of Bal
lard county, Kentucky.
E The Boston atlas says that the Re.
publican majority for Governor in New Hamp-
shire is equal to 1000 in Massachusetts,
81 900 in Ohio, and $4,000 in New York.
az Dion Bourcicault appears as dra-
matte critic in the New York Tribune. His
article is model of judgment and express
sion.
W The Hutchinson family of singers,
says the New York Post, have recognized,
and are now giving concerts in the eastern
part of the State Two Of them are children,
aged eleven and eighteen years respectively.
~ The leading London journals all con-