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St. Paul weekly Minnesotian. (St. Paul) 1860-1861, 1860-11-09
From the Denver CITY News, Oct. 20

From the Denver CITY News, Oct. 20
Cattle Dying on the Western Plains.
From the plains We hear of terrible de-
struction of cattle, belonging to the freight
trains EN- route for this city. Their death
is certain, and the best cattle in the herds
are usually the first victims. The disease
of which they die has been variously pro-
nounced murrain, distemper and alkali.
From what We learn, the latter is doubt
less the cause The season is now very
dry, the Platte river low, and the water,
in consequence, along the course through
the alkali plains, more than usually i'm.
pregnated with the poison but it is doubt
less more attributable to the dust than
anything else. The roads are exceedingly
dusty, and moving train is constantly en-.
veloped in its clouds. Cattle inhale it
at every breath, and eat it with every
,nouthful of grass they take. The grass is
said to he thickly covered with it for three
miles from the road BY this m cans,
enough alkali is at length introduced into
the system to produce death, and the fin
est, largest and latest oxen are the first to
fall victims, while the scrub will stand it
for an indefinite length of time. Some
trains have been obliged to purchase cattle
to fill up their teams, and been seriously
delayed by their losses. One day recently
a gentleman who came up from St. Vrain,
forty two miles below. counted near the
road over fifty carcasses OF oxen that had
died within few hours Some train mas.
tiers have tried lard as ar antidole to the
di sease with good success 1t should be
given freely, and as soon as possible after
The animal is found to be sick. A good
rain would doubtless put a stop to the
present bovine mortality; but as long as
the weather continues SO dry, it will doubt.
less increase.
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RED RIVER ITEMS.
From the NorIwester of Oct. 18th.


A WHITE CAPTIVE AMoNG THE SAvAGEs.
Many Of our readers may remember the
massacre, last Fall, by the Sioux Indians,
of party Of euigrants .ourneying from
Iowa to Oregon. The expedition, We be
lieye, numbered seventeen wagons, and the
travellers were said to have been all killed
with the exception of two men, who fought
their way through, and two women, one OF
whom was left for dead at the foot Of a
precipice, but WAS afterwards recovered
and restored to her friends, and the other
taken into camp and compelled TO adopt
the savage life Of the Sioux. This sum
mer, when the half breeds from Pembina
were at the Yankton camp on the plains,
some Of them, as they allege, saw this poor
hapless woman in the wigwam Of her cap
tors. They say that they conversed with
her, and that she was anxious to get away
but was unable TO effect her escape
Whether there is any truth in the half
d. breeds story we cannot say, but it is
worthy Of being enquired into, and if found
to be correct means ought 10 be taken by
the American government for Iescuing a
woman oil their country from a position Of
misery and degradation which she must
feel to be worse than the cruelest death.
GEoRGETowN LOOKING UP.-Twelve
months ago the place now SO well and wide
ly known as Georgetown, was little better
than combination of wild forest and prai
RE without house or habitation. But no
sooner was il made the head of navigation
on the Red River, than the Hudson's Bay
Company established post there, and ii
has gone on progressing ever since. II
now boast Of several buildings, beside the
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Marine Disasters.

DETROIT, Nov. 3.-The Tribune learns
from Lake Superior that the steamer IL
linois struck rock on her upward trip,
when going into Eagle Harbor. She was
run alongside Of the dock, where she now
lies, with her nose on the shore, with three
feet of water in her hold. Her goods were
mostly being unlOaded. If she can he got
clear before uny unfavorable change in the
weather, she can be saved.
The same paper learns that the Sea Bird
broke her cylinder head, off Whiteiish
Point, and was towed back to the Saul by
the Planet. She will be lowed back for
repairs to Detroit, where she will be laid
up for the season. A portion Of her freight
has gone forward by the Clevelander, and
the remainder will be forwarded as soon as
practicable.
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xmmense CounterfeIting Operations.


INDIANAPOLIS, Nov. 3.-James Mclean,
cashier of the Boone County Bank, at Le-
banon, Ind, j. B. Hussey, Albert IL.
Hagcr, Miles A. BridIey, and j. d. Chap
man, all connected with the same institu-
ton, were arrested here to-day, charged
with forgery and circulating money fraudu-
lently issued on the Boone County Bank.
They all waived examination and were
committed to Jail in default of $4,000 bail
each.
1t is supposed these parties have circu-
lated from $500, 600 to $500, 900 of counter
felt bills on the above bank in Indiana, Il
linois, Iowa and Missouri. $4,000 of
genuine notes were issued by the Auditor
Of State The spurious and genuine notes
are FROM the same plate, Auditor and Reg
ister's names counterfeited on the former.
A. Spooner, President Of the Bank, made
his escape from this city at one o'clock
this morning. About 100000 of the
counterfeit money has already been re
ceived by our bankers from their CORES
pOndents in the West. Several hundred
dollars of the spurious bills were redeemed
at the bank yesterday.
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Personal BREVlTIES.

We regret to learn 0. the death of Sher-
idan Knowles, of England Mr.. Knowles
is we'll known az the writer of several
popular plays, of which the 'Hunchback"
is one. OF late years he had renounced
tho stage, reg,etting, il was said, his pre-
viOHs connection with it, and he had be-
come a very respectable preacher in con
nection with the Baptist denomination
As an elocutionist he was unrivalled, and
wherever he preached the church was al
ways crowded. He was drowned while
on voyage from Hull 10 Bronstadt His
age was &c.
AT Council Bluffs, Iowa, the alarming
discovery has just been made that Frank
Bates, a young, dashing, popular, lady
fascinating, dry goods clerk, is a-girl!
AT Tuftonboro, n. H., 18th ult., Dana
B. Fox, a promising lad of Is years, hung
himself while laboring under fit of de
spondency caused by dream which he
had last spring that he should die in the
fall
oliver l.. Taylor, Esq. editor and
proprietor Of the I0r0 State Gazette, died a
lew days since.
On Tuesday night of last week, b. J.
Orten, heretofore considered one OF the
most respectable married citizens of Num-
son, Henry Co., ILL.,, took the wife of Mr..
Morton, of the same place, and fed to parts
unknown. He had previously obtained
the cash for his farm and stock, and had
evidently been making preparations to
thn lob u 1,
had from $4,000 to $4,000 with him No
track of the guilty pair has yet been dis
covered.
The London Post, the organ of the
English Government, in an editorial upon
the visit of the Prince of Wales to this
country, says:
He may visit Canada and the States
again before he is King Of England. and be
as well received he may see India, and
other portions of his mothers vast domin-
ions, and wherever he goes he will be
honored with the loyalty and love of his
mothers subjects but nothing, one would
think, will ever equal in depth, clearness
and freshness, the impressions of this first
transatlantic trip"
Mrs. DR.. Lydia Sayer Hasbrouck, of
Orange county, n. Y, who insists that a
woman should not be taxed unless she is
allowed 10 vote, has thought to shame the
collector out Of his demand by offering to
work out her road tax. The doctress,
having somewhat passed the bloom OF
youth, made no impression upon the Of
fical, and therefore, instead of paying I'M
der protest, as some Of her sisters do, she
went upon the road and drove cart.
Mr.. Alex. Randall, an old citizen Of
Louisville, Ky, and hitherto bearing a
good character, was arrested in Nashville
for bigamy. He recently married Miss
Cheatham, of New Albany, and it appears
that he has a wife and family in that city
Dependant upon him for support.
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Whittier is reading the last proofs OF his
new volume Of poems, entitled Home Bal.
lads" perhaps the best OF his productions.
Holmes is busy with his admirable story
now running through the Atlantic Monthly.
lie is also preparing another volume of po-
ems, to be called "Sopgs in Many Keys"
A great deal of hitherto unpublished mat
ter will be included in it, the principal po-
EN- being Il sort Of an old time story in verse.
Some of the comic portions Of the book are
said to be in his most pungent vein..-
Currents and Counter Currents" the
sharp stick with which the brilliant Doctor
came down so boldly and ably a few months
ago upon the medical profession, is to be
elongated and put into the volume, with
other good things in the same way.
Emerson has completed his "Conduct
of LIFE at last, and it will soon see day.
light. The papers it contains are eloquent
EmerSonian chapters, and some of the
subjects treated of are as follows: Fate,
Power, Wealth, Culture, Beauty, Bella
vior, Worship, Illusions, &c, &c
Motley is still in London, experimenting
the printing of his new volumes, now rap
idly going through Murray's press. His
name and fame attract wide attention in
England.
Winthrop Sargen's Life and Career
Of Major Andre" will be issued in a few
days Mr.. Sargent has spent much time
over his ample materials, and the result
will no doubt be one of the most interest
ing biographies from the American press
Hawthorne is among his acres in Con-
cord once more, engaged, it is said, on a
romance Of English life.
Lowell is reported to have several litera
ny ventures on the tapiS among them a
volume of prose called Preside Travels"
A book from him on any subject will al
ways find u welcome.
LOngfellow is never idle, although there
is no rumor of book imminent from him
He has returned to Cambridge from his
| summer retreat at Nahant.
| All Theodore Parker's writings have been
transferred to Ticknor d Fields, who viii
publish the work he left in manuscripts On
| Historic Americans. The memoir of Mr.
Parkerwil be included in the same volumes,
and is now occupying the pen Of Rev. Mr.
| Weiss.
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How THE NBws WAS RECEIVED YEsrER-
pAY.-About o'clock the interest and cul
riosity had reached its intensest pitch. A
large crowd of Republicans assembled in
and around the MINNHsoTIAN OFTIcE, con-
versing over our local victory, and guess
ing at the result in other States. Just at
this time a telegram was brought in, and
handed to Mr.. BAKkR, Secretary of State.
Hastily tearing it open, its glorious contents
was mirrored in the irrepressible" smile
of victory that wreathed his countenance.
Rising on chair, amidst an eager silence,
he read IS follows:
CHICAGO. Nov. IA, PIX
J. II. BAKER-Dear sir /: All Free
States for Lincoln, except New Jersey.
Good enough. j. L. SCRIPTS,
Of the Chicago Tribune
The shout that went up was deafening
Another, and another made the roof trem-
Bile, when some one proposed "to 90 out
adoors and have it out" So out every
body tumb1ed, and made the welkin ring
with nine shouts that were heard all over
town almost This drew still greater
crowd, of course, which mo mentarily in
creased. AS every squad of new corners
heard the glorious news from the trembling
lips of the others, new and still louder
shout would arise and new enthusiasm
bubble out.
The scene was indescribabIe. Every
ody felt good all over" and shook hands
with everybody else,--and laughed and
shouted until he was hoarse. This scene
was kept up for more than an hour, and
the exultation and joy spread wider and
wider every moment
A fine flag 6oated from mast erected
! by our employees in front Of this Office
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The Cattle Uiss,ase.

Great apprehensions were felt in Massa
chusetts, when the cattle disease suddenly
disappeared in the early part of the sum
mer, that it would break out again, and
perhaps more violently, at the period Of
the autumn rains and frosts. But this
fear has been agreeably disappoint-
ed. We are now near November, and
no signs of the justly dreaded epidemic ART
visible. The empirical but efficient
measures of the commissioners probably
checked and limited its course. Yet there
Is no certainty against its recurrence, and
every means should be taken, not only tc
guard against it, but TO determine its dag.
nosis-- which latter has not been done.
Pleuro-pneumenia is only name, and this
designation of the disease has done nothing
to tx knowledge Of it's causes or cure.
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SPECIAL NOTICES,


Lei not disease, with its faDgs prey upon you, I'M
I'll the cold hand Of death hurts you 10 an sntmely
grave. shake OF the feeling Of despair and hope.
iessness, 20 liable TO come upon the invalid The.
plant born Of the Sun We place within the reach Of
all 'e care not What may be the specific form Of
the disease. The cause the fountain of the disease
Itself, Is impure blood, and through the diferen
channels Of the lungs, the stomach, and tie vita
organs, JUDsON's MOUNTAIN HERB PILLS will
pass, min Cling with the BLOOD search out and grasp
and then expe, oil hursfal poison that there is In
1t. Thus cleanse the blood by few doses Of these
Pills, and disease In any form, viii dssipsts and
vanish. As the Sun, with It's glorious beams first
causes the morning dew 10 rise mist, then grow
Ing stron ger, casts his burning rays upon it-and
behold It's gone-so cleanse the blood, and disease
Ike morning dew, retreats and vanishes. There Is
Is no blood puriHer equal 70 JUDSOH'S NOUN.
TAIN HERB PILLS.
Sold by al dealers Ia medicine.
DAY 4 jerks, Wholesale Agents, 81. Paul.
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OFFICIAL CANVASS OF RAMS Ely County.
The Auditor, in connection with Justices
Paist and Winters, as a canvassing Board,
yesterday afternoon proceeded to open the
returns from the several Wards and Town
ships of Ramsey County. The canvass is
not yet cOncluded-the Board before they
got through having adjourned until to-
day.
We are only enabled TO state this MORN
ing, that Mr.. Sanborn's official majority for
Senator in the 2lst District is 70, and Mr..
Banning's for Representative is 165. Mr..
Smith for Senator in the First District, and
MIR. Acker for Representative, are elected
by about the majorities already published.
Mr.. Nessel is also elected by three ma
jority, although a clerical error in the re-
turns from New Canada, would elect Kid
der by two majority. This error will, no
doubt, be rectified by the Board to-day, as
abundant evidence will be furnished that
the return is wrong
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LETTER FROM STEARNS COUNTY,
EsIthusiastic meetiag at Sc. Cloud
Speeches by Br. RaMsey aud State
TreAsursr Scheiicr--.Great Speech by
D0nMelty.

ST. CLoUD, Oct. 81, 1860.
DR. FOSTER 1t is gratifying to the few
Old iime Republicans in tllis region who
have yeathercd the storm in tribulation
and yeXation, TO say that an unmistalable
revolution is going on throughout the Ten
tonic clement Of the county, that bids fair
90 be permanent.
and when once the firm principles Of
oar party are fully diffused, we think no
county IN the State will be more reliable
ior the Republican majorities.
4 year or Two ago we scarcely hoped
for the better age to dawn in our midst SO
soon, that Republican speakers would a
tract so large share OF public attention
Our meeting here on Monday evening
was quite large, and most enthusiastic |
was addressed by Gov Ramsey and Lieut..
Gov Donnely and Charles Schetier
The Governor WAS warmly greeted, and
spoke some thirly-iiVe minutes IN bis genial
style, explaining the leading National and
StstepoIicics Of onrparty, and cloSi with
SEINE wholesome advice TO the settlers on
pre-einption claims.
lie promised that after tire fourth of
March next there should he no mere land
sales That 10 President Of our lnakiug
would ever be guilty OF ordering Snch sales
That the Homestead Measure m our Plat
form was o. be observed 70 the lelter, aud
IL he were a Democrat he would vote for
Lincoln now, if he never would vote iol Il
Republican again in his lie, merely to Sc
cure the passage Of his measure, which is
OF 50 great importance to the future settle
ment Of our State. The Hon. Chas Schef-
fer was then introduced end made some
very pleasant remarks in English, after
which he spoke in Gcrnah, and from the
frequent plaudits, the Germans present
We're highly entertained.
Lieut.. Gov. Donnelly then treated us to
feast Of reason" that exceeded all ex-
pectation.
1t was a great speech--rcpete with
classical research, poeiical fire and politi-
cal sarcasm, it WAS truly the finest per
torrance, literary or political, that has ey
er been delivered in Northern Minnesota.
Hoping to see it published entire in the
MIENEsorIAN, / shall not even attempt
herein an analysis.
The remains Of the Democracy are
quite docie at present. They are begin
ming TO dream strange dreams about voya-
ges up Salt River, Of ciciiized voters in
Pembina, election returns from pennsyi-
vania and Indiana, and all such hobgob-
lin visions that chill the blood and maketh
the heart sad. To them there is no fu-
ture, no light, no hope, in November,
Pro
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From our Travelling Correspondents.
RED Wing, Oct. %, 1860.

RED WING, Oct %, 1860.
To the Editor Of the Minnesotlsn.
IL the characteristic feature Of Hastings
is grain, the feature which more than any
ether characteristics Red Wing is grain
The startling, and fatter myself, novcl
figure OF a cataract of grain in which | III
dulgcd in my last has peculiar appro-
priateneSS to the mode of handling grain
nj Red Wing. The warehouses am
speaking particularly Of the warehouses OF
Messcroie L McI.aren, are built At the foot
OF an abrupt slope, the HOor Of the third
story being on level with the street above.
Tie grain, discharged in the upper stories,
is.poured through narrow Sluices into bags
Oh the lower floor, making leap Of some
twenty feet in lis descent, and quite real
iZing the picturesque image in which |
sought to convey my Impressions OF the
rush and tumble Of the grain trade M Has.
ungs. The ieyce here is budding cat al!
over with new warehouSeS--grain ware
houses. built to accommodate the lncrcas-
,u- demands NJ the trade.
Two Of these are of peculiar construc-
ton, beng built entirely Of plank laid fiat
wise aud firmly bolted together, and
strengthened By iron bars. The walls thus
laid up from ten distinct compartments or
bins. each Of which Is designed 10 hold 1--WE
ylousand bushels Of grain or fifty thousand
IN ali in each building. This structure
rests upon numerous strong pillars IN tie
basement The grain Is let out from M
II J., tt,,fr
are constructed upon the mode. Of Sevcra
IN Milwaukee, aud they are said to be pre-
fer4ble 20 stone warehouses. EapaSs4ht
NAV observe, hat several grain ware
houses OF this sort, to hold O0,uOV bushels
each, are 10 be built at BaGil'io, and that
something oi the kind might serve very
good purpose. by and bye, at St Paul.
irem,moer hearing Dr. slorac, Bushnell
esv last summer that Red Wing was by
far the most beautiful and picturesque and
hea .tilu .ownsjte in Minnesota, and that
all the others were lsme in comparison. |
give the name with the opinion which it in
dorseS, 50 as 20 give Il al the force 1t can
derive from tina. high P.esby terrain author
ty, and because. IN tn, evidence Of good
taste, am happy 20 say he eloquent doc
tor agrees precisely alyh your humble ser
want
The towns helow this do not indeed want
az Impressive back ground, il the massive
hills which wall them on the routc. But
they sadly want the deep shadow in which
Red Wing is STEPPED and wcttled as the
san rises behind Montague LaGIanEe, or
sets heb;rd the heights which close up then
ranks around II on the East and North.
and what we ell ieel the need Of in this
new, blank, ..onte: life, is the shadow Of
some grand ,hing Ike the mountains we
wire used 10 when we were among the
wild sran3curs Of our eastern BONES, to
mellow The insiria glare Of the prairie.
Some COSY nook to nestle in out OF the sun
and wind, where private life is physically
sci Of from the common world, aud home
is a fortress built up round about with i'm
preensDic battlemJnts, as if nature had
sworn 20 The sscredness Of our sanctmn.
J. 4. w.
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DAY,
PROCLAMATION.
BY ALEX. RAMSEY, GOVERNOR OF THE STATE

- -
By ALEX. RAMSEY, GOVERNOR OF THE STATE
OF MINNESOTA.
rISHB falling leaves Of Autumn dnd our gerners
l. full OF wheat. Warehouses are crowded and
steamers grOan with the varied products Of the har.
vest
In every section Of the State during, the past
summer, the sentiment of the Psalinist was appli.
cable, "The pastures were clothed with focks the
valleys also stood so thick with grain that they
shouted for joy, and sang" In the gathering
crops there has been unwonted health.
Bright skies and pure air greeted the reaper from
day TO day, and the farmer now that his labor IL
over inds his family free from the diseases so COM
mon In lower latitudesand ready TO enjoy the abun
dance with which they have been blessed.
Hope IL seen in svery;iace and the day seems not
or of when there shah be complete recovery
frsm embellishments caused by ths late financial
revuision.
Not only are our people fed with the ."nnsst OF
wheat" but peace prevails within our borders.
While foreign lands convnlsee by revolutios,
and exposed to the horrors OF civil wsr, our ctizens
from every nation under Heaven, are tolerant and
10 the midst OF the excitement incident TO Presi-
dental election, maintain the courteses OF life,
nloltnB tnc power 81 eeil-Hovetnueot 70 nlEn De.
gree.
In view of our manifold blessings and increasing
prosperity, II seems highly appropriate to give
thanks unto the Father Of Nsrcies.
In accordance with custom now prevalent In
the States Of the Union, respectfully recommend
70 the people of Minnesota to observe In therow
way, the last THURSDAY, THE TWEEN
TY-NINTH OF NOVEMBER next, ~ q
day Of praise and thanksgiving.
In witness whereof have horeunto signed my
name, and caused the Seal Of the state TO be
fLB.l affixed, at the city OF 81. Paul, this Esd
day Of October, In the year Of our Lord,
One Thousand Eight Hundred and Sixty.
ALEX. RAMSEY.
BY the Governor,
J. H.RAnIR, Ese'y Of State.
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6r1fei1. -. -.

LEAvESwoRrn, Nov s.-The Fort Scott
Democrat OF October 37th, confirms the
report of the burning of "a dwellings, on
the Cherokee neutral lands, by order
Of the Indian Agent, Cowan, Much in
dignation was felt in Southern Kansas at
the severity Of the measures taken by the
authorities.
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Printer Stabbed,

New HAVEN, Nov. Am ARRAY took
place.at Temple Lunch last night, during
which printer named George N. Stafford
was fatally stabbed with knife in the
hands of student named Belden. Three
students who were engaged in the ARRAY
were arrested.
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The steamer Hill.

LOUISVILLE, Nov. 3.-The New Orleans
agent re-aflirIns his account of the loss of
Iie by the explosion of the steamer HILL
He says the clerks account is not correct.
New ORLEANS, Nov. 3d.-The total
number killed by the explosion Of the Hill
is 80, and the wounded Is or 20.
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short, technically speaking, brick, and is
bound to win.
Have you been to WhynonGy!" asked
a little old man in spectacles, with strong
Boston information and general pressure
OF the circumfiex accent on the last word,
as we gathered round the stove of the
steamboat cabin. "Why no nay" !
replied, echoingIy resting my veracity on
the rule OF Lindley Murray, two ne atives
make an affirmation. az have been to
Weenonah." Oh an said the old man.
j. A. w.