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THE MINNESOTIAN.
SATURDAY MORNING, JANUARY 20, 1855
Railroad Rally!
Tbi> Grand Demonstration of the friends of
the Minnesota and North-Western Railroad
-.omes off at the Court House this evening.—
Several speakers will address the meeting, ex
planatory of the present position of our Rail
road affairs. We expect to see St. St. Paul on
land, en masse !
The Right of Petition.
This is a sacred right, guaranteed by the
constitution to the most humble citizens of
this Republic,and even to the poorest subjectof
eny of the monarchies of the old world. When
Ireland was in a state of agitation, under the
• lead of Daniel O’Connell, and her people were
daily sending up petitions by scores and hun
dreds to the Parliament of Great Britain, pray
ing for the repeal of the Union between Eng
land and Ireland, these petitions were allow
ed to be presented in Parliament, and were re
spectfully treated, although the iron arm of
the majority interposed to prevent the prayer
feeing granted.
it appears, is not the rule in tbe ‘-Dem
ocratic” House of Representatives of Democrat-
ic Minnesota. Seven hundred of the free citi
xsns of St. Paul—a number of men equivalent
to the number of votes cast in St. Paul at the
last October election —have signed petitions to
our Legislature respectfully asking of that bo
dy an endorsement of the charter of the Minne
sota and North-Western Railroad Compony,with
certain amendments to the charte,which are set
forth in the body of the petitions. Yet,notwith
standing this decided demonstration.wc are cre
dibly informed, that four out of the five of the
St. Paul Delegation in the House absolutely're
fused to present this almost unanimous petition
of their entire constituency! And yesterday
morning, when Mr. Lemay—who appears to be
the only one of our House delegation at all dis
posed to treat the petitioners with respect —
arose to ask the consent otthc House to present
the petitions, objections were made to his re
quest by two or three of his colleagues ! The
time for presenting petitions under the rule, it
is true, had passed before Mr. Lemay offered to
present them ; but the courtesy he asked is one
we have never before seen refused in any legis
lative body.
We merely state the facts of this unprece
dented act, and leave the people of St. Paul to
decide upon the question of right and wrong in
the premises.
The Webster Celebration. —The anniversa
ry celebration of the birth of Daniel Webster
came off, as per announcement, at the Winslow
House on Thursday evening. We were not
there, and had no reporter present, but all ac
couuts agree in tbe fact that the entertainment
was gotten up in the usual sumptuous style of
the hosts of the Winslow—Messrs. Clement &
Parker—and that if the spirit of “ Old Dan”
hovered over the assembly, it must have been
greatly surprised at the multitude of new
friends (?) who on this occasion paid honors to
the dead Whig statesman. The number seated
at the festive board was over one hundred.
jEtna Insurance Co. —lncrease of Cash Ca
rrriL. —The policy holders in the Insur
ance Company will be pleased to sec the an
nouncement, copied below from a letter to the
Agent in this city:
Cincinnati, Dec. 29, 1854.
H. A. Swift, Esq. :
Dear Sir, —The demands of the business of
Insurance, from its increase and importance
throughout the Union, (especially in the sec
tion reporting to this branch,) with the neces
sity of its successful prosecution, respectability
and improved confidence, has caused the .(Etna
Insurance Company to increase its cash capital,
and on the 20th instant, Books of Subscription
were opened for the additional stock, of two
hundred thousand dollars, which was all taken
and paid on that day. The avidity with which
the stock was increased shows the reputation
and confidence the office maintains at home—
the determination of the Directors to make one
Hartford Company, that will be sufficient to
counteract all the unnecessary distrust, grow
ing out of the Protection Company’s failure,—
make policy holders more secure, and place the
office on that solid basis, no event will shake its
continued prosperity. It has been the custom
of many offices to increase the capital stock
largely, when considerable claims for losses re
quired payment—paying in to pay out—so that
it may not be improper to state, the present in
crease is not of that character, but of the re
verse order; being a cash investment unim
paired, to strengthen to the full benefit it pro
poses. Now, the cash capital of the uEtna In
surance Company is half a million of dollars.
Discountenancing Importations. —The Trans
cript alludes to the heavy importations by the
steamships America and Washington, and
Bays:—“ Will there be any permanent ease in
the money market, so long as this system of
excessive importations is continued? Wc
think net. This matter is attracting much at.
tention in New York at the present time, and
measures are in progress to form an American
League to discountenance excessive importa
tion, and patronize home products. Within a
week we learn that sixty ladies in the city of
New York have signed an obligation, by which
they agree not to purchase any article of fo
reign manufacture for wear for a year to come.
In the present state of our finances, is not this
subject worthy the consideration of the ladies
of Boston ?”
“ Squatter Sovereignty 7 ’ in a Horn.—lt
will be seen, by referring to the Legislative
proceedings that Mr. Brown has introduced a
bill apportioning the legislative districts of the
Territory. A clause is inserted by which the
Governor is empowered to apportion the num
b»r of Representatives / We see no necessitv
• Legislature if they transfer
their labor to the shoulders of the Governor
St. Croix Union.
Temperance in China.— Accounts from Chi
na state that the eastern prince, Yang, who
styles himself the Holy Spirit, has issued a
proclamation, forbidding the nse of wine to all
officers great and small and to all the breth
ren and sisters throughout the court and camp.
It declares that the great God very much ab
hors drunkenness, and has sent down his sac
red commands forbidding men to drink wine
that it has been forbidden by the celestial pow
ers, that he has also himself issued proclama
tion forbidding the practice, Ac. He gires no
tice that if hereafter any of them be found guil
ty of drinking wine, they shall be immediate
ly beheaded without mercy.
The Rev. Bishop Andrew, of the Meth
odist Episcopal Church, South, was married to
lira. Childers, at Summerfield, Ala., on the 22d
nit It waa Bishop A.’a first wife holding
■laves that caused the division in the Metho
dist Church.
For the Mlnnesotlan.
Emigration Agent.
Messrs. Editors:— The Governor, in his
message, recommends to the Legislature the
appointment of an “Emigration Agent to re
side chiefly in the city of N. Y., whose duty it
shall be to give to the people correct informa
tion of our Territory, Ac.” That the appoint
ment of such agent or agents would tend great
ly to advance the interests of Minnesota, and
to increase her population, there can be no
doubt. I wish through your paper
to call the attention of the members of the
Legislature to a few thoughts upon the sugges
tion that such agent should reside in the city
ot New York. The city of New York is the
very last place we should think of going to
find that class of emigrants best calculated to
perform the labors and endure the hardships of
Tioncer life. What Minnesota most needs is
not merchants and professional men, but in
dustrious, intelligent and enterprising farmers
and mechanics. That a few such might be ob
tained by our agent in the city of New York,
we admit, but all know’ that the result, if not
the object of locating an agent in that city
would be an immense increase of foreign popu
lation. Our agent would meet the cargoes of
Germans, Irish and other foreigners, many of
whom he would induce to come to Minnesota.
Without wishing to detract anything from the
virtues of our foreign populatiou, I would ask
whether with all their ignorance of our insti
tutions, their own national peculiarities and
prejudices, and in some cases their opposition
to our free schools and other liberal institu
tions, they would constitute as desirable an ac
cession to the population of Minnesota, as
would the same number ot industrious, intelli
gent and enterprising American citizens?
Now by assigning to the proposed agent or
agents a different field of labor, we can as
well have our emigrants from the latter class
as from the former. Turn a portion of the tide
ot emigration that is ever flowing westward
from all the Eastern, Western and Middle
States, into Minnesota, and you will soon see
this Territory filling up with a class of people
who understand and love our American insti
tutions, and who have the knowledge and the
energy necessary to a rapid development of
the resources of this Territory.
In place, therefore, of an agent residing in
New York, let him travel extensively through
the States. Let him visit every important ci
ty, county, town, and every considerable vil
lage, and present to the people, in public lec
tures, all such information as would be calcu
lated to incline those who think of moving
westward, to Minnesota. Let him.go
farming districts, and call the people together,
and tell them of the beauty, health, productive
ness, and other attractions of this portion of the
West, and he will spread the Minnesota fever
wherever he goes, and that fever will burn un
til it carries off those who have it, and brings
them to Minnesota. Much might be said upon
this subject, but these few words may, we hope,
prove suggestive to the members of our legisla
ture, and should they act upon them, they will
do more for this Territory than it is possible for
them to do in any other way, or by any other
measure which they may adopt while they are
together. J. G. R.
Recipe for Washing. —Put two table-spoon
fuls of spirits of turpentine to nine of soft soap,
and use the same as common soap. It will re
duce the labor one-third, and the soap will go
further. It has been tested here to the satis
faction of those whobave tried it. —Rural New
Yorker.
Ixfidelitt. —A few lines appeared in yester
day's paper, (says the State of Maine) alluding
to the death of an infidel young man of 19
years of age, who, it was said by the Investi
gator, a paper which we do not allow upon our
table, died in a calm and peaceful manner, with
the self-possession of a philosopher. In the
haste of going to press, the comments upon the
incident were omitted, and we have only to
add now, that if this man did die in such a
state of mind, entertaining such views, he must
have been nearly allied to the brute.
Homesteads.— The Homestead Bill offered by
Hon. Mr. Dawson, of Pa., as a substitute for
Senator Hunter’s bill, proposes “ that any free
person, who is the head of a family, shall be
entitled to enter one hundred and sixty acres
of the unappropriated public domain, at the
rate of fourteen and a half cents an acre, to be
paid within five years after entry. That no
patent shall be issued therefor until the expira
tion of five years from the date of entry, and
upon proof by two witnesses that the person
making such entry, or his heirs, have resided
upon and cultivated said land, and have alien
ated no part thereof. That in case of the death
of both fhther and mother, leaving an infant
child or children, the right and fee shall inure
to their benefit; and the executor, administra
tor, or guardian may, within two years after
the death of the surviving parent, sell the said
lands for the beneGt of said infants, and no
other purpose. The purchaser acquires abso
lute title, and is entitled to the patent.”
Three fugitives on their way to Cana
da, passed through Buffalo, a short time since,
on the Under Ground Railroad. It is said the
South losses near $60,000 worth of slaves ev
ery week, by the U. G. R. R.
Melancholy Accident —The Pioneer says:
Day before yesterday, a man whose name we
were unable to learn, whilst engaged in cut
ting wood, on the island opposite this place,
met with an accident that terminated bis life
early yesterday morning. It seems that in
felling a tree, a limb become detached from the
main trunk as it was falling, and struck him
on the head with so much violence as to frac
ture the skull. We understand that he ' leaves
a wife and family of children in indigent cir
cumstances.”
v *teran Lord Brougham has un
dertaken to collect and edit his works—inclu
ding his speeches and orations.
The Albany (N. Y.) Knickerbocker
states that no fewer than twenty new coun
terfeits on different banks have appeared in
that city. . :
An underground apartment that is
supposed to have been formerly occupied by
robbers, was recently discovered near Kingston.
Fifty-three slaves freed by the will of
Char,e * Ever6tt > just left Pe
rsburgh fbr Pennsylvania, where they are to
ocated with an outfit valued at $1,500 for
each.
Choate on the Priceless ral ae of the Lore of
Rending.
I come to add the final reason why the work
ing man —by whom I mean the whole brother
hood, of industry —should Bet on mental culture
and that knowledge which is wisdom a value
so high—only not supreme—subordinate alone
to the exercise and hopes of religion, itself.
And that is, that therein he shall go surely
find rest from labor’; succor under its burdens;
forgetfulness of careß; composure in its annoy
ances. It is not always that tho busy day is
followed by the peaceful night. It is not al
ways that fatigue wins sleep. Often some vex
ation outside of the toil that has exhausted the
frame; some loss in a bargain ; some loss by
an insolvency ; some unforseen rise or fall in
prices ; some triumph of a mean or fraudulent
competitor ; “the law's delay, the proud man’s
contumly, the insolence of officer, or some one
of the spurns that patient merit from the un
worthy takes”—some self-reproach, perhaps
follow you within the door ; chill the fireside;
sow the pillow with thorns, and the dark care
is lost in the last waking thought, and haunts
the vivid dream. Happy, then, is he who has
laid up in his youth, and held fast in fortune, a
genuine and passionate love of reading. True
balm of hurt minds ; of surer and more health
ful charm than “popy or mandragora, or all
the drowsy syrups of the world”—by that sin
gle taste, by that single capacity, he may
bound in a moment into the still region of de
lightful studies, and be at rest. He recalls the
annoyance that pursues him ; reflects that he
has done all that might become a man to avoid
or bear it; he indulges in one good long, hu
man sigh, picks up the volume where the mark
kept his place, and in about the same time that
it takes the Mahammedan in the Spectator to
put his head in the bucket of water and raise it
out, he finds himself exploring the arrow
marked ruins of Nineveh with Layard ; or
worshipping at the springhead of the stu
pendous Missouri with Clark and Lewis ;
or watching with Columbus for the sublime
moment of the rising of the curtain from
before the great mystery of the sea; or looking
reverentially on while Socrates—the discourse
ofimmortality ended—refusing the offer of es
cape, takes in bis hand the poison, to die in
obedience to the unrighteous sentence of the
law ; or perhaps, it is in contemplation of some
vast spectacle or phenomenon of nature that
he has found his quick peace—the renewed ex
ploration of one of her great laws—or some
glimpse opened by the pencil of St. Pierre or
Humboldt, or Chateaubriand, or Wilson, or the
blesseducss and glory of her own deep, calm
and mighty existence.”
Let the case of a busy lawyer testify to the
priceless value of the love of reading. He
comes home, his temples throbbing, his nerves
shattered, from atrial of a week ; surprised and
alarmed by the charge of the judge, and pale
with anxiety about the verdict of the next
morning, not at all satisfied with what he has
done himself, though he does not 6ee how be
could have improved it; recalling with dread
and self-disparagement, if not with envy, the
brilliant effort of his antagonist, and torment
ing himself with the vain wish that he could
have replied to it—and altogether a very mis
erable subject, and in as unfavorable a condi
tion to accept comfort from wife and children
as poor Christian in the first three panes of the
Pilgrim’s Progress. With a superhuman effort
he opens his book, and in the twinkling of an
eye he is looking into the full “ orb of Homeric
or Miltonic song,” or he stands in the crowd
breathless, yet swayed as forests or the sea by
winds—hearing and to judge the Pleadings for
the Crowd ; ac the philosophy which soothed
Cicero or Boethius in their afflictions, in exile,
in prison, and the contemplation of death,
breathes over his petty cares like the sweet
south ; or Pope or Horace laugh him into good
humor, or he walks with ./Eneas and the Sybil
in the mild light of the world of the laureled
dead—and the court house is as completely
forgotten as the dream of a preadamite life.
Well may he prize that endeared charm, so ef
fectual and safe, without which the brain had
long ago been chilled by paralysis, or set on
fire by insanity!
The Maine Law.
The rise and progress of Laws, in various
States prohibiting the sale ,of intoxicating
drinks, says the Albany Evening Journal, is
briefly the following abstract :
1851— Passed by - the Legislature of Maine.
1852 “ “ Minnesota.
“ “ Rhode Island.
“ Massachusetts.
“ Ratified by the people of Minnesota.
“ Passed by Legislature of Vermont.
1853 “ “ Michigan.
“ Ratified by the people of Vermont.
“ “ “ Michigan.
" Its submission to the people pronounced
unconstitutional by Supreme Court in
Minnesota.
“ Pronounced unconstitutional by United
States Circuit Court in Rhode Island.
“ State Supreme Court equally divided in
Michigan.
1854 Pronounced unconstitutional in Massa
chusetts.
“ Passed by Legislature of N. Y.
“ Vetoed by Governor “
“ Passed by one branch of Legislature of
New Hampshire.
“ Passed by one branch of Legislature of
Maryland.
“ Passed by Legislature, but two branches
failed to agree, in Pennsylvania.
“ Passed by Legislature of Ohio.
“ Voted for by people of Wisconsin.
“ Pronounced unconstitutional in Ohio.
“ Passed in modified form by Legislature of
Rhode Island.
“ Passed by Legislature of Connecticut.
It will be observed that it had passed the
Legislatures of seven States and a Territory.—
It has fallen, through Legislative disagree
ment, in four. It has been submitted to the
people, and ratified by them, in four. It has
nowhere been repealed by the Legislature,
though it has been four times set aside by the
Judiciary. and in one re-enacted in a modified
form.
It will probably be the subject of discussion
in the Legislatures of all the Northern States
this winter, and in those of Maryland, Virgin
ia, Delaware, South Carolina, Georgia, Ken
tucky, Tennessee and Texas.— Chicago Tri
bune.
Hudson.— The citizens of Hudson subscribed
$47,000 stock to the Lake Superior and St.
Croix Railroad.— St. Croix Union.
The editor of the New Hampshire Pa
triot says that he expects to grow fat as long
as he lives. Ah, yes; bnt when he dies, will
not thefat he in the fire? —Louisville Journal.
PS* A man fell off the Express Train, near
Otville, recently, and was instantly killed.
The Kentucky Democratic State Con
vention will be held at Frankfort on March
15th.
By the reports which were read at the
late meeting of the Vermont Bible Society, it
appeared that in Essex connty the number of
families destitute of the Bible was found to be
10 per cent, of the whole; in Caledonia about 8
per cent., and in Franklin about 16 per cent.,
the latter having a large French population,
chiefly Roman Catholic.
Ephriam Littlefield, says the Boston
Traveller, somewhat notorious as the chiefwit
uessiu the trial for the murder of Dr. Parkman,
has, iu consequence of a painful disease of the
ear, become insane.
p&~ The “ Angel Gabriel” is now amusing
himself riding up and down Broadway on the
tops of the omnibuses, warning sinners to fiefe
from tbo wrath to come, with a brass horn. He
don’t look as thongh he had much information
to sparo on any subject.— Jour. Com.
DEFECT!!
MONDAY MORNING, JANUARY 22, 1855
Great meeting of the Citizen* of St. I»aul to aus
tain the Minnesota and North-western Rail
road Company. *
On very short notice, and upon an intensely
cold night, one of the largest and most enthu
siastic meetings we have even seen gatheied
together in St. Paul, assembled at the Court
House on Saturday evening, to remonstrate
against any action being taken by Congress, or
by our Legislature, to annul, or impair the
charter of the M. & N. W. R. R. Co., or in any
way to embarrass the Company in its future
operations. The meeting was comprised of
nearly all of our principal real estate owners,
our merchants and onr mehcanics. Several
gentlemen addressed the meeting, and the re
solutions were of a most decided and firm char
acter, and were unanimously adopted. Backed
as these resolutions are by not only this meet
ing, but by seven hundred petitioners to the Le
gislature out of eight hundred voters, mem
bers of Congress, and others outside the Terri
tory who wish to know what the state of pub
lic sentiment is in St. Paul on this question*
may rest assured that these resolutions are a
sure and certain reflection of that sentiment.
The lateness of the hour at which the meet
ing adjourned, precludes the possibility of our
giving the full proceedings this morning. Sam
uel W. Walker presided, with Louis Roberts,
John R.f Irvine, Maj. N. M'Lean, H. K. Tin-ell,
James M. Winslow, and Wm. H. Randall as Vice
Presidents,'and 11. F. Masterson and H. A,
Swift, Secretaries.
Extra Mail Servce. — A letter from Mr. Rice,
published in the Democrat, announces that the
three mails per week between St. Paul and Du
buque has been allowed by the Department.
Maine.— The Legislature of Maine' met on
Wednesday, Jan. 3, and was immediately or
ganized by the choice of T. O. Cowen, of the
Saco Union, Clerk, and Franklin Muzzy, of
Bangor, President: In the House by electing
Sidney Perham. of Oxford Co., Speaker, and
H. H. Baker, of Kennebec, Clerk. There was
no choice of Governor by the people, and on
Friday, Messrs. Anson P. Morrill, and Isaac
Reed were selected by the House as the two
constitutional candidates to be presented to
the Senate. Their names were sent up the
same day and the Senate voted unanimously
for Anson P. Morrill, who was officially declar
ed to be Governor for the present year. The
vote was as follows:
Whole number of votes, 30
Necessary to a choice 16
Anson P. Morrill had 30
The Inaguration took place on Saturday.
‘'This Illustrious Dead.”— The Pioneer pub
lishes the toasts given at the festival “in honor
of the Illustrious Dead” at the Winslow House
on Thursday evening. Among the ‘'lllustrious
Dead” toasted on the occasion, were Daniel
Webster, Andrew Jackson, Henry Clay, John
C. Calhoun, John Quincy Adams, Silas Wright,
Wm. Henry Harrison, James Fennimore Coo
per, Franklin Pierce and Willis A. Gorman.
Well, there is no telling, during men’s life
times, what high position Fame has in store
for them after death! The two latter individ
uals perhaps never dreamed while living, that
after they had “shuffled off this mortal coil”
they would find themselves in such good corn
puny at a grand ovation in “honor of the Illus
trious Dead.”
First Train Througii'from Cairo. —The firsl
train of cars from Cairo,' via. Illinois Central
and Chicago and Aurora Railroad arrived al
5, 30 A. M. yesterday, having left Cairo at 8 A
M. Monday. Capt. C. Caldwell, Conducto.—
Chicago Trib. Jan. 10.
New \ork.— The election for United States
Senator, to succeed Wm. H. Seward, will take
place at Albany, on tne first Tuesday of Febru
ary.
Six thousand six hundred and four for
eigners were naturalized in the city of New
York during the last year. The number now
taking the initiatory steps towards naturaliz
ation in the Superior Court of that city alone
reaches 150 per day.
Banking of the U. S.—From the report of
the Secretary of the Treasury we learn the
Banking movement of the United States for
the last three years. In 1850-’l, the number
of Banks was 879. In 1853-’4, the number is
stated at 1,208. This increase covers the
movements in Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin and
other Western States, which have within the
last fe w years apparently changed their views
in relation to Banking, and gone largely and
,'osely into the business. They are now reap
ing the consequences. The aggregate condi
tion of the Banks is thus given:
1850-’l 1853-*4.
Capital $227,807,000 $301,756,000
Tpccie 48,671,000 59,401,000
Circulation 155,165,000 204,689,000
Deposits 128,957,000 188,188,000
In 1837, the number ofßauks in the U. S. in
cluding branches, according to Mr. Secretary
Woodbury’s report, was 823—the capital $378-
421,168, which contrasts, considering the con
dition and wealth of the country, sadly with
the present returns, showing the ruinous in
fluence of Government patronage upon the
State institutions at the earlier period.
Plea of Insanity Practically Interposed.—
The N. Y. Journal of Commerce says that in
the County Court sitting at New Haven, Ct.,
Jes3e W. Rose, being on trial for assault with
intent to marder, was defended on the ground
of insanity ; and while Judge Blackman, the
counsel for the prisoner, was examining a wit
ness to prove the defence, Rose suddenly rais
ed his arm, and with a back-handed blow
knocked his own lawyer down. Such a prac
tical demonstration of mental imbecility was
eonclnßive upon the Court and the State’s At
torney, who immediately withdrew the case,
and Rose was remanded to jail, to be taken
eare of as an insane person.
Nebraska Torritory is large enough to
make seven States, each the size of New York.
Bruce’s Balls.— Jim Bruce, of the
Mendota House, continues bis dancing assem
blages. The next one will .come off this even
ing. Those who enjoy the pleasnre of a plea
sant cotillion party will be agreeably enter
tained by the 'popular host of the Mendota
House, and the company there assembled.
pir A report is current about the streets
that Page & Bacon, of St. Louis, have suspend
ed. We are led to believe that the suspension
can only be temporary.
Jas. W. Harlan has been elected U. S.
Senator from lowa, for six years from the 4th
ofMarch next. He goes in as the successor of
Hon. A. C. Dodge, who, notwithstanding his
political sins, has been a true and fast friend of
Minnesota since she was first organized as a
Territory.
Progress of the Age. —A Grand Jury in
South Carolina has presented the laws against
the African slave trade as a public grievance.
It is a much greater grievance that such don
keys are allowed to sit upon juries at all.
S. M. Booth, editor of the Milwaukee
Free Democrat, has received the sum of $2,500,
from one Henry Burchard, who took the liber
ty of cowhiding Booth, some months since.
Those pestiferous prowlers, the gipsies,
have at length favored Hardy county, Va. t
with a visit. They were encamped in consid
erable numbers near Moorefield.
J&S" Charles Sigourney, Esq., husband of
Mrs. L. H. Sigourney died of apoplexy in Hart
ford.
A female grog seller has been sent to
jail, in Pittsburg, to await a trial for giving li
quor to an habitual drunkard, after being for
bidden by his friends. The wife of the drunk
ard was the complainant.
Mr. Cornelias Vanderbilt intends, it is
said, to have six or eight large steamships
built, to ply between New York and Liver
pool and Havre. Two are to be ready for sea
the coming spring.
Mr. William L. Jones, of Minot, Me.,
has recently sailed from California, via. Cape
Horn, under appointment as a missionary.
JUST' The First Baptist Church in Hart
ford has been sold to an importing house for
$28,000.
M. Verncy, one of the most distinguish
ed Protestant ministers of Paris, died recent
ly whilst delivering a powerful discourse on
Christian doctrine in the session of the General
Consistory at Strasburg. He was a man of
eminent learning and piety, and his loss will
be deeply felt by the Evangelical Protestants
of France.
The condition of the Methodist con
gregations of Michigan is thus set forth: mem
bers, 15,959 ; probationers, 2,241; local preach
ers, 231; churches 133, valued at $246,000;
parsonages 81, valued at $46,730 ; collections
for various purposes the past year, $4,967,75.
The Liverpool Albion of a recent date
says: “Yesterday morning, (Sunday,) the
Rev. W. H. Channing, of New York, (nephew
and biographer of the celebrated Dr. Channing)
who has been appointed to fill the pulpit tem
porarily vacated by the Rev. J. H. Thorn,
preached his first sermon since his arrival in
this country to a crowded congregation. The
reverend gentleman bears a very strong re
semblance to his distinguished relative.
Expenses of the War.— The Paris corres
pondent of the National Intelligencer says that
a common loan of 1,000,000,000 francs ($187,-
000,000,) is to be raised by the French and
English governments, for the purpose of the
war—of which loan the English government is
to guarantee three-fourths, and the French
one-fourth. As an offset to this inequality.it
is understood that Fiance is to furnish about
the same proportion of men and blood, which
England furnishes of treasure. Both Govern
ments appear to be bracing themselves up for
a severe struggle.
The military budget of Russia for 1854, cal
culated for the maintenance of an effective
force of from 800,000 to 900,000 men, amounted
to 84,200,000 silver roubles for the army, and
14,400,000 for the navy. M. Tegoborski points
out in a note of these figures show the annual
cost of each soldier in the Russian army to be
100 roubles or 400 francs; whilst in France
the maintenance of each soldier is estimated at
250 roubles or 1000 francs.
JJST' Measures are in operation for the
speedy establishment of a Universalist theolog
ical school in New York. The sum required
for this purpose is $30,000, of which $20,000
has been subscribed in New York city alone.
The receipts of the American Baptist
Missionary Union, up to the present time, ex
ceed those of last year by $13,000.
Mrs. M. S. White, widow of the late
Rev. Joseph White, of the Baltimore confer
ence of the M. E. Church, recently deceased,
left a bequest of $4,000 to the Methodist Mis
sionary and Preacher’s Society.
Murder and Retribution. —A wealthy and
highly respectable planter of Alexandria, La.,
named John A. Young, was lately murdered in
daylight, while riding on the public highway.
The Alexandria Democrat gives the following
facts:—“A few days subsequent to the mur
der, a man named Witzel, who lives some fif
teen miles below Trinity, came to town and
stated that he believed the murderer of Mr.
Young was staying at his house, and requested
a warrant for his arrest, which, for some rea
son, he failed to obtain. Witzel returned home
and on the next day ordered the supposed mur
derer to leave his house, which the latter refus
ed to do, saying that no man could make him
leave. An altercation ensued, pending which,
as Witzel states, his unbidden guest avowed
himself as the murderer of Mr. Young—that he
had killed him for his money, and offered to di
vide with Witzel, on condition that the latter
would not attempt to arrest him or drive him
from his house until the rigor of the pursuit
slackened. On this proposition being refused,
he snatched up his gun and fired two shots at
Witzel, who then rushed upon him, and snatch,
ed a knife from his own belt, with which he
stabbed him twice and killed him. On his
body was found eight SIOO bills on the Louisi
ana State Bank—a description of money in
which Mr. Young was known to have received
$1,500 a few days before leaving Alexandria—
besides some smaller bills and gold. The body
was subsequently identified by Mr. C. A. Hoop
er and others, as that of Joshua Hawthorne, a
young man who had been raised in that section
of country, and who had, up to that time, borne
an irreproachable character. Notwithstanding
tall this, Witzel was arrested for murder.”
/a* The receipts of the American Board of
Missions, for the month of September, were
$13,026; for August, $22,789.
LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY
COUNCIL.
Friday Morning, Jan. 19.
The Council met at 10 o'clock.
Roll called by the Clerk.
Prayer by the Chaplain.
Mr. Freeborn gave notice of a bill to estab
lish a ferry at Red Wing.
Mr. Brown introduced a resolution in regard
to furnishing postage stamps to members. —
Which was adopted.
Mr. Brown offered a resolution, authorizing
the printing of 1000 copies of the Governor’s
message in English ; 500 copies in German :
and 500 copies in French.
Mr. Mower moved to amend by striking out
the German and French copies.
On motion of Mr. Murray, the resolution and
amendment, were laid on the table.
Mr. Stearns submitted the report of the Re
gents of the Minnesota University.
On motion of Mr. Brown, the bill to incor
porate the town of Henderson, w as taken from
the table, the rules suspended and the bill read
a third time and passed.
On motion of Mr. Brown, the Council resolv
ed itself into a Committee of the Whole, for the
consideration of a memorial, asking an appro
priation for a Territorial road, and a memorial
praying for an appropriation to complete Fort
Ridgley.
The memorials were subsequently reported
back to the Council, with amendments, the
amendments agreed to, and the memorials or
dered to be engrossed.
The President, (Mr. Olmstead) gave notice
of a bill to establish a ferry across the Missis
sippi near the mouth of Crow River.
On motion of Mr. Murray,
The Council adjourned till Monday next at
half-past ten o'clock.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
The House was called to order at ten o’clock
by the Speaker.
Prayer by the. Chaplain.
The roll was called by the Clerk.
On motion of Mr. Dixon, the reading of the
journal was dispensed with.
Mr. Thompson introduced,
A bill for the increase of the number ofCoun
cil districts in the territory; the enumeration of
the inhabitants of the Territory ; and for the
apportionment of the members of the Council
and of tne House of Representatives by the
Judges of the Supreme Court of the Territory.
The bill was read twice and laid upon the ta
ble.
Mr. Hanson gave notice that he would on
some future day introduce,
A bill providing for the laying out of cer
tain territorial roads ; also
A bill granting to Lewis Stone and others,the
right to establish and maintain a ferry across
the Mssissippi river ; and also
A bill to amend an act approved March 4,
1854, incorporating the Minnesota and_North-
Western R. R. Co.
Mr. Lemay asked leave to iutroduce a memo
rial, signed by seven hundred citizens of St.
Paul, asking an extension of time, to aid the
M. & N. W. R. R. Company, to construct their
road. Mr. Lemay .read a short speech onthe
subject.
Mr. Cave and Mr. Davis, both of St. Paul, ob
jected to the reception of the petition, and it
was not received.
Mr. Haus introduced a resolution, providing
for the translation and printing of the Gover
nor’s message in French and German—soo co
pies in each language. The resolution was
adopted.
Mr. Hanson asked and obtained leave to pre
sent a memorial.
Mr. Rolette moved the House adjourn un
Monday. Lost.
Mr. Hanson called for the reading of the me
morial.
The Clerk proceeded to read,
A remonstrance of Rice,Hollinshead & Beck
er, Irwin & Jones, and Masterson <fc Simons,
Attorneys for certain creditors of the late firm
of Curran & Lawler, against the enactment of
a law repealing existing statutes, authorizing
the arrest of fraudulent debtors.
Pending the reading of the memorial by the
Clerk, 3
Mr. Cave objected to its further reading, and
moved its indefinite postponement, on the
ground that it reflected on Mr. Davis, of the
House, and Mr. Van Ettcn, of the Council.
Mr. Sibley also opposed the reading of the
remonstrance.
Mr. Hanson advocated its reading-
Mr. Cave withdrew his motion to postpone
indefinitely, and
On motion of Mr. Hanson, the remonstrance
was referred to the Judiciary Committee, by a
vote of 11 to G. To this Committee the bill in
troduced by Mr. Davis, and against the passage
of which the memorial remonstrates, was refer
red, when presented.
The Secretary of the Council announced that
the Council had passed a bill for the incorpo
ration of the town of Henderson ; and had also
received the report of the Regents of the Uni
versity, and ordered 500 copies to be printed.
Mr. Willim gave notice that he would intro
duce
A bill for the election ofa Superinteadent of
Common Schools in each organized county of
the Territory ; and also
A bill to establish a ferry across Lake St
Croix, opposite the city of Stillwater.
On motion of Mr. Rolette, the. House adjourn
ed until Monday.
COUNCIL.
Monday Morxixg, Jan. 22.
Prayer by the Chaplain, and reading of the
Journal.
Mr. Murray presented a petition from citi
zens of Southern Minnesota, praying for a road
from St. Paul to Elliota. Laid on the table.
Mr. Murray introduced a bill providing for
the laying out and establishment of said road.
Read twice and laid on the table.
Mr. Brown gave notice of a memorial to Con
gress, praying for a division of Minnesota Ter
ritory, and for the establishment of a new Ter
ritory east of the Missouri river.
The same gentleman, from the select com
mittee to whom was referred the Apportion
ment Bill, reported a bill providing for taking
the census of the Territory. Read twice, and
laid on the table.
Mr. Olmstead (Mr. Kittson in the chair) in
troduced a memorial to Congress, asking an
appropriation from Congress for a military
road from Fort Ripley to the Pembina river.
Read twice and laid on the table.
Mr. Brown gave notice that on some fa tare
day he would move to amend the rale reqair
ing bills, Ac., to be read at length the first
time.
Mr Stearns, from the committee on Engross
ed Bills, reported as correctly eng ossed the
memorials fora military road, and for the com
pletion of Fort Ridgley. Both read a third
time and passed.
Mr. Brown moved that a committee of two be
appointed, to act with a committee of the
House, to prepare joint rules for the two
Houses. Carried, and Messrs. Brown aud Stim
son appointed.
Mr. Van Etten rose to a question of' «<»/lege
and spoke at length in answer tsi£. Tomon
strance from the law firms of Rice, Hollins
head & Becker, Masterson & Simons, and Irwin
& Jones, presented in the House of Representa
tives, in which his (Mr. Van Etten’s) name was
freely mentioned.
After he had taken his seat,
On motion of Mr Brown, the Council pro
ceeded to meet the House in joint convention,
pursuant to adjournment on Wednesday last.
On returning to their Chamber, the Council
adjourned until Wednesday, at 2, P.M.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
[Our House Report of yesterday’s proceed
ings, though not through any fault of the Re
porter, was not received in time for publica
tion this morning. The principal items of in
terest, however, are that Mr. Lemay, Represen
tative from the Little Canada and St. Paul Dis
trict, presented the Petition of 899 citizens
thereof, “praying for an extension of time to
the M. aud N. W. R. R. Co.,’’which was referred
to the committee on internal improvements.—
The vote polled at the election of members
of the Legislature in this district last October,
was only 839.
The two Houses met in joint convention, for
the election of sundry Territorial officer.', the
result of which we have not learned, beyond
the election of Mr. Hoisington as Public Bin
der. Mr. H. received all the votes excepting
eight, which were given for A. J. Morgan.—
The two Houses adjourned till Wednesday at
two o'clock.—Ens. Minnesotian.]
Correspondence of the Minnesotian
Washington, Jan. 10, 1855.
Messrs. Editors :—There arc quite a num
ber of gentlemen at this time from your city,
as well as from other parts of the Territory;
and it will, no doubt, be agreeable to you to
know, that they are unanimously in favor of
the R. R. Company, chartered by your Legisla
ture last winter, getting the land granted by
Congress to aid in the construction of a Rail
road from Lake Superior, via St. Paul to Du
buque.
They are satisfied, that, if this Company
should fail in its attempt to secure those lands,
they will be forever lost to the Territory. Upon
the legal question, amon|» lawyers, or those
claiming to be, there is no difference of opin
ion. All join in the opinion that, the repealing
act, though void against the Company, is per
fectly effective so far as any claim of the Ter
ritory is concerned. No fee was intended to
be vested in the Territory by the Act making
the grant. It simply constituted it the agent
of the National Government, for the purpose
of carrying out the provisions of the grant. It
thus held to the Company, perhaps, the rela
tion of Trustee, and in this capacity alone
could it claim the laud. Then, in that capaci
ty only being able to claim the land, had their
been no Company organized, before the pas
sage of the repealing act, no right could have
vested,and. the land would have been irretrievc
ably lost. Thus, you have the Company,
against which some of your people have been
waging exterminating war, alone to thank lor
the grant, and for hopes of a Railroad.
This being the case, and as it is understood
some legislation is desired by the Company,
your Legislature ought not, one would think,
out of pure gratitude, to withhold any reason
able action.
Some days ago, there was an evident desire
in the House of Representatives, upon the part
of those, who originally voted against the grant
to the Territory, to attack the Company, by
an attempt to get a bill reported disapproving
of its charter. This w ill not succeed ; and if
your Legislature will do some act speedily, by
which to evince its approval of the acts of the
Co., it will have an excellent influence here
and materially aid both the Company and the
Territory : for their interests are now mutual.
Any act, it matters little what its nature is, so
it gives evidence of the good will of the Legis
lature towards the Company will serve the
end suggested. One, not upon the ground,
and not conversant with the varied interests of
the members of your Council and House,would
suppose there would be quite a rivaly among
the politicians, at least, to see which could be
first, in making an attempt to get some act of
this kind passed ; as it would certainly be a
feather in his cap, who did it.
The survivors of the War of 1812 have been
holding a convention here, and commemorat
ing the anniversary of the Battle of New Or
leans. Many of them are still here. The great
object of meeting, was to effect the passage of
Mr. Broadhead’s bill, for the benefit of the he
roes’ of that war. One of your quasi citizens,
Col. C. S. Todd, took quite an active partin
the convention.
In the Senate the Judiciary Relorm Bill of
Mr. Butler, has been under discussion for a
number of days—Mr. Douglas proposing a sub
stitute. The substitute, will pass the Senate ;
but probably meet its death in the House. ~ln
the House the land graduation bill has been
the question of interest for some days, while
Know JVothingism comes in for its full share.
Mr. Stephens, of Ga., speaks on that subject to
morrow, it is understood, and Mr. Chandler, of
Pa., the day following on Catholicism—both
able men. The city is quite gay.
Gen. Scott is here, and I regret to say is
looking quite feeble. Yours,
Gipsies. —The Winchester Virginian com
plains, that that part of the State is infested
with Gipsies. They are adroit thieves, and
corrupt the negroes by working on their super
stitions.
TpST' It appears from an Odessa letter, that
General Dannenberg'a corps, numbering 36,000
men, were transported from Odessa to Sebasto
pol in the very short time of 17 days. For this
purpose 12,000 wagons, each drawn by four
oxen, were collected in the government of
Cherson, in a fortnight, and an equal number
of vehicles could be again collected, if occasion
required it.
A Dutch galliot, from Newcastle, on
Tyne, England, with 200 tons of coal, has ar
rived at Wilmington, N. C.
MOHAWK,