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IHE MINNESOTIAN.
WEDNESDAY MORNING, MAY 23, 1855.
Ctsni of the Territory.
Aa act, approved by the Governor, Feb.
27th, 1855, provide* that the Sheriff* of the sev
eral Countiea shall, during the ensuing month,
prooeed to make an enumeration of the popu
lation of the Teflitory, with a view to an ap
portionment for representation in the next
Legislative Assembly.
The first section of the act requires the
Sheriff)* to enumerate all the inhabitants of
their several Counties, and the Counties at
tached thereto, with the exception of Indians
and persons belonging to the U. S. Army.
Section 2d provides for the appointment of
deputies by the Sheriffs, and prescribes the
manner of dividing their counties into census
districts.
Section 3d prescribes the form of oath to be
taken by the deputies.
Section 4th names the manner and time that
the deputies shall make their returns. The
time is “at least ten days before the period
fixed by this act, for said Sheriffs to transmit
their returns to the Secretary of the Terri
tory.”
Section sth prescribes the penalty to be in
curred on the part of Sheriffs or deputies,
who shall be found guilty of violating the act
in any particular. They “ shall forfeit and
pay the sam of two fifcndred dollars,” to be
recovered in the ordinary mode oi legal pro
cess.
Section 6th requires that the “ enumeration
shall be made by an actual inquiry of the head
of every family, in their respective counties or
districts, and shall commence by the first day
of June, 1855, and said enumeration shall be
completed and closed within thirty days there
after.”
Section 7th appears twbe, at least partly,
superfluous. If it meaos anything, it slightly
conflicts in one particular with eectiou 4th;
but it is in a matter of detail of no essential
consequence.
Section Bth we give entire :
“ The Sheriffs of the several organized coun
ties of the Territory shall, on or before the fif
teenth day of August. 1855, prepare duplicate
copies of the enumeration of the inhabitants of
their respeetictive counties, and the oounties
thereunto attached for judicial purposes taken
as provided by this act, one of which copies
shall be immediately forwarded by mail or
some other conveyance, directed to the Secre
cy of the Territory of Minnesota, at St.
Paul, in said Territory, and the other copy
shall be filed in the office of the Register of
Deeds of the proper county, to be recorded in
his office, and preserved on file, subject to the
inspection of all persons concerned.”
Section 9th names the compensation the
Sheriffs and their deputies shall receive for
taking the census.
Section 10th is as follows:
“The Secretary of the Territory is hereby
anthorized to cause to be prepared and trans
mitted to the Register of Deeds of each coun
ty, on or before the first day of April, 1855, for
the use of the several sheriffs of the organized
counties of this Territory, a sufficient number
of blank forms, for the use of 6aid sheriffs and
their assistants, in making the enumeration as
herein provided, which form shall be substan
tially as follows:”
[Here follows the form of tho blank.]
We have been iuduced to make out and pub
lish the above synopsis of this important law
of the Territory, owing to the fact that we are
daily applied to by Sheriffs of the several coun-.
ties for information concerning the provisions
of the same. We have invariably referred them
to the Secretary of the Territory, and they gen
erally make the return to us that “he cannot
be found.” 'As an instance, the Sheriff of Good
hue county was in the city yesterday, anxious
to procure bis censua blanks, which should have
been forwarded to the Register of Deeds ol bis
county “on or before tho first day of April”
last, but he was compelled to return home with
out them.
Still, ws bare hopes that the census act will
jet be executed, even at this late day. We
were positively assured by the Secretary yes
terday, that he intended to faithfully execute
the important trust reposed in him by the law
making power; and that the blanks would be
printed to-day and forwarded forthwith. If so,
they will reach their several destinations in
doe time.
One thing is certain: If there be any “scull
duggery” at work among the Administration
rulers of Minnesota to deprive the people of
their rightful representation in the next Legis*
tare, their schemes will recoil most certainly
upon their own heads. The People will see
that their Sheriffs make an enumeration of the
inhabitants, even without the due forms of law.
They have decided already, that an apportion'
ment, mnst and thall be made; and it will!
Hon. C. C. NVashbcrne. —We were pleased to
meet in oar city yesterday morning this staunch
Republican member elect to the next Congress
from the adjacent district in Wisconsin. Mr.
W. visited St. Paul and St. Anthony solely on
private business; but was pleased to bear home
with him the news that the Republicans ot Min
nesota bad commenced the good work, which
must shortly lead to the triumph of their prin
ciples in the Territory. He returned below by
the Lady Franklin.
Ben. H. Campbell, Col. C. H. Mix, of
the Chicago and Rock Island Railroad, and Mr.
Howard, the popular landlord of the Gear
House, Galena, were passengers down by the
Lady Franklin yesterday. The Lady F. this
trip was in command of Capt. Dick Morehouse,
whose character is best illustrated by a remark
of one of the “excursionists” last summer, that
“Capt. Morehouse had a heart as large as the
biggest turkey-gobbler that ever waddled.”
Foreign News.—To John Pym, Esq., the
gentleman who presides at the Clerk’s desk of
the War Eagle, we are indebted for a copy of
the Galena Advertiser of Monday, containing
the Important foreign ’news which we publish
this morning. The War Eagle mo6t certainly
has made unprecedented time this trip. She
goes below this morning.
Printer's Trials.— The time of the District
Ooart has been mostly occupied the past two
days by trials resulting from suits brought by
tka “ jour printers ” for their wages, who work
ed laet winter in the Democrat office upon the
Legislative work. We are very certain that
the policy—to say nothing of the duty—of all
employers,'and particularly of newspaper pub
lishers, la to pay tbsir employees promptly
what they earn according to the established
rules of the craft.
Ex-Governor Washburn, the successor
of Judge Lor In g os Law Lecturer at Harvard
College, entered open his duties at the Univer
sity on the 7th.
Prices or Provisions in New York and
Boston.— The retail prices of beef in New York
range from 15 to 21 cents per lb.; mutton (him
15 to 18c.; lamb from 16 to 25c.; veal from 10
to 14c.; fresh pork from 9 te 11c.; hams from
12 to 13c.; turkeys from 18 to 20c per Ib.;
chickens from $1 to $1,50 per pair.
sln Boston, beef is selling at from 18 to 20c
per lb.; mutton from 15 to 20c.; veal from 8 to
12c.; potatoes, from $1 to $1,75 per bushel;
butter, from 28 to 30e per lb.; Bermuda pota
toes, $1 per peck ; asparagus 18c per bunch.
/V* Atchison,, one of the main pillars of
Pierce’s Administration, who has been nomina
ted for President by bis associates in Missouri,
is appropriately termed the “Revolver and
Bowie Knife Candidate.”
Ballooning.—'The editor of the N. O. Cres
cent has been skylarking with Mons. Godard,
who recently made the trip from New Orleans to
Vicksburgh, about 400 miles. lie was above
the earth several hours, and his narrative of
the trip is readable and interesting, though ev
idently somewhat imaginative.
IPS' Archbishop Hughes is about to feci the
practical influence of the Brooks’ letters. In
the Board of Supervisors in New York, on
M ;nday last, Alderman Briggs proposed that,
as Archbishop Jlughes owned seventeen mil
lions of property, he should be taxed for the
entire amount, the same as any other indi
vidual. The resolution to that effect was adop
ted.
Imports and Exports. —The commerce of the
port of New York for the second week in May,
shows favorably, compared with that of last
year. The Imports were nearly a million dol
lars less, while the Exports of merchandize
and produce were near a half a million great
er.
£3?" A Savannah dispatch to the Richmond
Dispatch says that when the sloop of-war
Jamestown was at Key West, the division be
tween the guard room and the gun deck was
taken down, leaving tho whole decks ready for
action, which is not usually done, except in
time of war.
The American Press.— Sir Edward Lytton
Buiwer, in his speech in Parliament on the
6tamp duty, remarked, “ you have been led to
infer that the American press is left in the
hands of ignoraut adventurers, whereas the
remarkable peculiarity of the American press
is, that it absorbs nearly all the intellect of
that country. There is ecarcely a statesman
of eminence, an author of lame, who does not
contribute to the American periodical press.”
Bad News from thk Sadt. — The Detroit Ad
vertiser ol last Friday, says that the steamer
Northerner had arrived with bad news from the
Saut. The w ater was led into the canal a lew
days ago, when owing to the frost not yet be
ing out of the ground, or from some unknown
cause, the embankments gave way. making a
bad breach which will probably take four weeks
to repair, and it is donbtful whether boats will
be able to pass. in less than sis weeks. This
is a very unfortunate affair for the interest of
Lake Superior. The State Commissioners bad
made arrangements to leave here on Saturday
next to examine the w ork, and accept it if built
according to contract. We presume tbe com
missioners will proceed to make the examina
tion at the time appointed, but of course can
not accept the work in its present condition.
Archbiship Hughe3 has crossed and re
crossed the Atlantic, with very little trouble ;
yet, strange aa it may seem, there are Brooks
in America that be can’t get over.
We learn from New York, that great re
joicing attended the capture of Baker, and his
return to the city. We are favored with a mi
nute account of all the circumstances of his ar
rest, but they present no striking facts. The
arrest was made without much difficulty and
on beard the Isabella Jewett. He passed un
der the assumed name of Browno. The pris
er was taken on board a tow boat and quickly
conveyed to the tombs, thus escaping the6c:ne
of excitement that attended the arrival of the
Grape Shot at her dock.
From Washington.— George P. Scanburg.
principal professor in the William and Mary s
College, has been appointed Judge of the Coin
of Claims, vice Lumpkin, declined. The ap
pointee has always eschewed politics. A. Dud
ley Mann has resigned the assistant secretary
ship of Slate, and William Hunter, Chief Clerk,
will officiate in his place.
. Buel is openiuing his mammoth stock
of Boots and Shoes. We should think by the
large number of cases which we saw before bis
•tore, that there was enough to supply the
whole Territory. His gaiters and slips for la
dies are decidedly beautiful. As for gents gai
ters and other fancy articles, there is no use
talking; his 6tore is perfectly crowded.
Improvements at Dnnleith going on rap
idly. We notice from our windows that the
Argyle House is rapidly approaching coinple
tion. It will be a tine structure. The freight
warehouse of the HI. Central is nearly finished.
One good thing is the wharf constructed for the
landing of tbc ferry. —Dubuque Express.
In addition to the above, we learn that track
laying between Galena and Dunlcith is about
completed, and the cars will consequently be
through to the Mississippi at Dunlcith, in a few
days.
The Dunkirk barber, who robbed a cus
tomer of 51.400, by administering chloroform
to him while shaving, has been sentenced to
fifteen years’ imprisonment in the penitentiary.
We see it stated, that Dr. Ray, formerly
of the Galena Jeffersonian, has become one
of the proprietors of the Chicago Tribune, a
leading Know-Nothing and Prohibitory Liquor
Law paper.
Verdict for the Plaintiff.—ln the case of
Creek against Emerson, which has been before
the District Court during the past two days,
the jury last evening returned a verdict in f»
vor ot the plaintiff for $340. with interest
The defendant previous to trial, offered to al
low the plaintiff to take judgment for $175.
This is tbc last jury trial to be had during the
term. The remaining business will be olosed
up at the Judge’s Chambers.
Vtßomu. Election. —This much-talked-of
event comes o ff te-day. It decides the politi
fate of Mr. Wise and any quantity of bets
thathrre been made upon the remit by elec
tion gamblers throughout ths United States.
FOREIGN, NEWS.
ARRIVAL OF THE BALTIC.
All the Ismlsb Outworks Token i
SANGUINARY SCENES.
- A' iJ,. OT - ■ ' c •*- -
Large number of Russian Mortars and many
Prisoners taken. Attempt to Assassinate
Louis JVapoleon. Rise in Breadstuff's.
New York, May 18.
The Baltic arrived at 5 o’clock.
The allies were gaining ground, and all the
Russian outworks taken. Sanguinary skirm
ishes frequent, and large numbers of Russian
mortars and many prisoners taken.
Latest news from Sebastopol to the 4th.
There is yet in the seige nothing to warrant
an assault, and the bombardment bad much
slackened. Anticipated result not produced.
Cotton active; flour advanced 1 and 2s; corn
2s; higher. Market active. Consols 88J.
SECOND DISPATCH.
Tho siege of Sebastopol progressing and the
allies apparently gaining ground.
Bombardment slackened if not entirely ceas
ed. in order not to exhaust ammunition.
Lord Raglan admits that looked-fur results
have not been produced.
The list of casualties to the allies was not
heavy.
Tbe general impression in England was that
the siege will be abandoned for the present, and
while Kameish and Balaklava are left to the de
fence of a lew corps, the entire main portion
of the allied troops would endeavor to pene
trate the interior to cut off supplies from Se
bastopol and thus completely Eurrouud the
town:
Numerous reinforcements were constantly ar
riving for the allies: ,
The French reserve of 80,000 near Constan
tinople now expects to be sent to Balaklava.
The position of the Allies is regarded qs crit
ical notwithstanding tbe advantages gained.
The bombardment slackened on the 28th.
The Russian forces were concentrating near
Sebastopol 100,000 strong.
Russel! had reached London, and Drouynde
I ’Hays had reached Paris from Vienna.
The British Budget had passed both Houses.
The King of Prussia was lying ill with a fe
ver.
The Russian official accounts are to April
24:b, and represent the damage done as of lit
tle account and being actively repaired duriug
tbe night.
While the skirmishes w ere generally success
ful, the loss from tbe lltb to 15th was"set down
at 8 subalterns and 436 men killed, and six su
perior. 36 subalterns and 1,811 men wounded.
The English captured the first Russian rifle
pit on the night of the 17tb, after a desperate
encounter, in which Col. Graham Edgerton,
the field officer commanding, was killed.
On the 20th, an attack was made on the sec
and rifle pit, and it was almost immediately de
serted,
According to the statement of two Polish
deserters, there are 100.000 troops in the vicin
ity of Sebastopol, of whom 60.000 have arrived
for Sebastopol.
The forts on the north side of the harbor had
taken part in the cannonade, carrying the
shot clear over the town into the lines of the
allies.
During the first week, the English alone fired
2.200 tons of shot, and 500 tons of powder, the
total consumption of the all cs for the week
amounting to about 6,000 tons shot and 1500
tons of powder.
The telegraph between London and the Cri
mea is perfect, except a small portion across
the Danube.
Dispatches reached the English Government
in a few hours, w ere not generally communi
cated to the public.
Although nightly questions were asked in
Parliament as to the news, ministers declared
that they should exercise due discretion in tbe
publication of it.
The Vienna negotiations are. of course at an
end. Lord John Russel has appeared in his
seat in Parliament.
The following are the latest despatches from
the seat of war :
Sharp engagement on the night of the Ist
May. Whole affair brilliant for the allies.
Paris, May 4th.—Reported to-day that on
May 2d, the besiegers took possession of some
important Russian works, alter a fierce engage
ment. On the 3d the Russians attempted to
retake tbe same.
Constantinople, May 2d.— Stratford dc Rad
cliffe has returned to Constatinople.
Canrobert speaks to his troops ot immediate
operations. Orders have been received to pr.«
pare transports.
Before Sebastotol, May 4.—On Wednesday
night the French, under Gen. Pellissier, attack
ed the advanced works of the quarantine bar
tion, and carried them at the point of the ba
yonet, taking 12 mortars, and establishing
themselves in the conquered position.
The following night the Russians made a sor
tie to recover their position, but were driven
back after a bloody encounter.
The British Baltic fleet had left Kiel, and
the French fleet were also to sail from Cher
bourg.
The insurrection in Ukraine Russia had ex
tended to other Governments, and twenty lan
ded proprietors with their families had been
destroyed.
At St. Petersburg!), every article of con
sumption w as at famine prices.
Great Britain.— The loan bill or £16,000,-
000 was read for the third time, and passed on
the night ot the Ist by tbe Commons, and on
the same uight was oidered committed to the
House of Lords.
Gen. Sir John Bnrgoyne has appeared be
fote the Kobuck Committee, and gave impor
tant evidences as to the conduct of the war in
the Crimea. -
Throughout the country a strong fuelling is
being manifested against the Ministry. Indig
nation meetings regarding the war has been
held in Derby. Sheffield and other places and a
meeting of the inhabitants of London will be
held, at which an administrative conference
will be organized.
France.— The Emperor had a narrow eseape
from assassination on the evening of the 28th
ult.. while on bis way to the Champs De Elvs
ses; he was accompanied by two officers of his
household, and when near the Barrier De Eto
ile he was approached by a well dressed man
with an action indicating a desire to'prcscnt a
petition; he had advanced to within 5 or 6 pa
cos of the Emperor who had not observed him,
when he was discovered by a policeman. who)
thinking it was his intention to present some
document, advanced quietly to inform him that
such an act was prohibited in Iba street. As
he was nearing the roan a cab was rapidly driv
en between them, and in the interval the indi
vidul had drawn a revolving pistol and dis
charged it twice at the Emperor without ef
fect.
He was seized by the police, but drew anoth
er pistol and made a second desperate attempt
to shoot tbe Emperor. It is said that one ball
grazed bis hat.
The would be assassin is an Italian named
Panoza, and was a volunteer in Gonzalvo’s
army. He was in London while the Emperor
was there, and was only prevented by tbe
concourse *f people from making the attempt
there.
The Emperor proceeded with his ride, and
visited the opera in the evening. Ho bar deci
ded not to receive any formal addresses, tho’
an exception has keen made in relation to tbc
British residents in Paris.
The would-be assassin will be tried at the
Assizes about the middle of May.
Tbe Fusionists and Orleans papers publish
the official account of the attempted assassi
nation from tbe Mouitcur without a word of
comment.
Tbe greatest breadth of the Crimea is
124 miles, the length from Eaet to West, 170.
The Tartar population le about 60,000. A few
miles from Simferopol the ground becomes so
level that there ia not even the slightest undu
lation. This uniformity continues tbe whole
way to Perekopt.
THURSDAY MORNING, MAY 24, 1855
Dokst* Csssty-Progress •( laywastsl—
Haallafa aad its Cavlrmss.
W« stole some thirty hours from
duties the early part of the present week, to
recreate through tbe bsart of Dakota County os
far as the prosperous village and neighborhood
of Hastings. Taking the road from Mendota
down, we have seen no portion of the “ West
Side” that has been more rapidly settled and
improved since the extinguishment of tbe Sioux
title, little less than three years ago. We find,
from the point of reaching the summit of “ Pi
lot Knob ” all tbe way along the road to the
Falls of the Vermillion, a succession of farm
improvements that would grace the landscape
of much earlier settled portions of the Territo
ry. We were never ont of sight of large fields
substantially fenced, plowed and planted, or
being prepared for planting; fiue 'crops of
growing grain already concealing with its
spring verdure the soil’s surface; substantial
farm houses erected on almost every quarter
section, and surrounded apparently with all the
essential comforts calculated to make agreca
j ble and contented the inmates of that most in
dependent abode on earth—tbe home of the
American farmer.
Down upon the extensive table lands of Da
kota County, after leaving the Cannon river
road on the way to Hastings, there
several new farinß opened—the first breaking
of which was done only last year—that would
do credit to any portion of the West much
older in agricultural years. The drought does
not appear to have materially affected the
wheat on those praiiies. It is growing luxuri
antly, and promises a most abundant harvest.
And we were pleased to find so large a quanti
ty of this essential element of the “ staff ol
life’ coming prosperously forward. In tbe
distauce of twenty miles, we must have passed
a! least 2,000 acres of wheat in sight of the
road. These prairies are mostly level; the soil
deep and strong, with clay sqbsoil; and it
would seem that with all the dry weather of
the season, the moisture is not yet nearly suf
ficiently abs-orbed to retard the growth of the
first crop planted upon the upturned roots ol
the native sward. The grass itself upon the
unbroken prairie does not appear to stand the
drought nearly as well as the wheat and oals.
The farming region immediately surrounding
Hastings is one of the Edens of Minnesota.—
Viewing it three years ago—when there was
scarcely an improvement upon it—and now,
cieates all the differenee to the rye that is ap
parent in the transition from a dreary waste
to a highly cultivated garden. The farmers who
have there settled are not content with mud
daubed cabins and brush fences. They have
already their mansions, neatly finished, aud
painted, and beautifully shaded lawns in front;
their substantial barns and out-houses, and
their fields protected by enclosures that w ill
stand tho test of wear and weather for the nexl
ten years. All this is in a region where the ti
tie to the soil is but now passing from the Gov
ernment to the people.
Hastings is improving rapidly. There is no
other village on the Sioux Purchase that is go
ing ahead with more certainty of decided sue
cess in the future. We counted some dozen
new buildings in progress, and thrice that num
fh?r would be under way but for that universal
obslacle to building in all parts of the Territo
ry this season—the want of lumber. At no
point along the river has a larger number ol
immigrants debarked from the boats this sea
son than at Ha dings.
Mr. Graham’s grist mill at Vermillion Falls,
immediately in the neighborhood of Hastings
is now in successful opcration«-gr'ndi ig when
ever there is any grain to grind.
Returning, we came into St. Paul! y “Do Id’s
road.” Tho “broken country” between St.
Paul and the point where this road intersects
the main road from Mendota to the settlements
south, is going ahead just, about as fast as tbc
more inviting prairies beyond. The hazel, su
mac and choke-cherry brush and the stunted
oak ‘ grubs” are rapidly disappearing, and
broad, uudulating, cultivated fields are taking
their place. The soil turns up bounteously
rich; and for wheat and some other grains roust
certainly bo preferable to the smooth prairies,
although it requires considerably more labor to
open a farm. This land is going ofl' to actual
settlers as fast as they can “prove up” at tin
land office. The proximity of this portion of
Dakota county to St. Paul, and the facilities o!
easily reaching this market, render claims along
the Dodd road desirable and valuable.
We returned homo fully impressed with the
fact, that Dakota county is entirely prepared
to take her chances with any other agricultu
ral region in the Territory.
Hirer Items.
The Prairie State, Capt. Hcv.it, arrived
Tuesday evening from St. Louis with a heavy
freight of merchandize for St. Paul dealers,
and some eighty or a huudred passengers. She
was delayed by getting aground at Beef Slough
bar below Lake Pepin, which this year is the
worst place on the upper Mississippi. This bar
has entirely superseded Pigs Eye.
The Hamburg arrived yesterday morning,
having also experienced some little difficulty
at the same point.
Winxebaooes ox tue Move. —Our new citi
zens and sojourners from abroad who arc not
used to seeiiig Indians, were interested yester
day by the presence in town of two or three
hundred IVinnebagocs, who have made a bricl
call on their way from Long Prairie to their
new home on the Blue Earth. The “bravis”
went up to tbe Capitol to see the Governor on
some important business as wc learn, an#for
the amusement of the crowd which followed
them, held a war dance on the public grounds.
The Wiunebagoes appear to depart for their
new home contentedly.
Tbc correspondence of the British army
In the East amounts to 45,250 letters received,
and 43,125 sent monthly. A postmaster, three
assistant postmasters, and seven letter carriers
have been stationed in the Crimea ; and eigh
teen horses and mule 3 are specially employed
for the conveyance of mails there.
Lake Shore Road. —The whistle of tho en
gine is heard every few hours in our city from
the engine on this road, and. but a tew miles
now remains to be laid to finish tbe track be
tween Milwaukee and Chicago.
For the benefit of our eastern friends, who
think that all great works commence at the
great cities of the east and end in some un
known part of the west, it is worth noting that
the first locomotive that came whiuing thro’
our city was from tbe noi th, and tbe Beoond
will soon be heard starting from the place that
was a wilderness long after the east was in the
ilrsUever of railroadism, and that is bat a fow
years sines. —Saeine Domeer§t.
CMMII PrwNdlip.
Tuesday, May 22.
Present—Th® Mayor, and Aid. Becker, Cave
Fuller, Knox, Irvine, Lirpentenr, Nobles and
Schurmeir.
Petitions. Ac.
Of Francla Aymond for liquor license and
ten pin alleys. Ordered that licenses be issued
te said applicant upon bis furnishing the neces
sary receipts and bonds.
Of F. Emert and others, for repeal of Ordi
nance establishing fire limits. -Referred to com
mittee on Fire Department.
Reforts, Ac.
The City Surveyor presented the following
report.
To the Hon. the Mayor and Common Council
of the City of St. Paul:
Gentlemen ;
Since the last meeting of your honorable
body I have completed and submitted to the
Street Commissioners in the proper Wards the
following estimates, viz: Two estimates for
Fort street upon different plans. One for Chest
nut street from Fort street to the Mississippi
River; one for the grading of Franklin street
with sewer through the center of street, of suffi
cient capacity to thoroughly drain the adjacent
marshy grounds; one fur filling the low grounds
on St! Anthony street, between the Times
Building and a point a short distance below the
drug store of Messrs. Bond A Kellogg, together
with the cost of extending Eagle street a suffi
cient distance to complete the Levee. Also,
an estimate for g’ ading Sibley street from Third
street to Mississippi River with sewer under
the same.
Fort and Oak streets have been well ditched
from St. Anthony street to College Avenue; al
so, Exchange street from St. Anthony street to
Vine street. These streets, however, will be
of but little ’more service practically than be
fore, until they are thoroughly graveled, for
which I have furnished estimates.
It will be difficult to procure gravel at a rea
sonable cost, unless it is obtained from some of
the streets nearby. The necessary material may
be procured at the least possible cost, by low
ering the grade of St. Anthony street, near the
residence of Mr. Selby, or by opening Selby
Avenue. Should this plan be adopted by the
Council, I would recommend the propriety of
establishing the grades, so that a still larger
amount of ma'erial may be obtained than is
immediately necessary for gaveling the streets
above mentioned, for the grading of other
streets if it shall be found practicable to do so.
I have been directed by the Council to make
a survey to ascertain the practicability of in
troducing water into tbe city, and to furnish
estimate of cost for the same. This has not yet
been done but will be attended to forthwith.
There are some matters to which my atten
tions has been directed by the the Commission
ers of the Second and Third Wards, not yet
fully completed. These will receive my early
attention.
The special committee appointed to examine
the marks of the last survey, have as yet done
nothing. I am ready to accompany them and
would recommend that the matter be attended
to at once. #
I am happy to Lave it in my power to state
that since the last communication received from
me, I have secured the services of an Engineer
from the East of experience and ability who
will relieve me from many engagements to
which 1 have been obliged to give my personal
attention, thus leaving me at liberty to give my
individual attention to those matters commit
ted to my care by the Common Council.
I shall take great pleasure in the perform
ance of the duties with which I have been en
trusted by your honorable body, and from my
own experience, together with my intimate as
sociation with Engineers of ability, feel assured
that I shall be able to discharge them to your
entire satisfaction.
In conclusion I would respectfully request
your honorable body tbe rate of compen
sation for my services at some definite sum by
the mouth or year. JAMES A. CASE,
City Surveyor.
Accepted and ordered printed.
The Board of Health reported as follows;
Boahb op Health rooms, »
St. Paul, May 17, ’55. 5
To the Honorable Mayor and Common Coun
cil of the City of St. Paul:
At a meeting of the Board it was
Tlesolved, That wc recommend to the Council
that an ordinance be passed*prohibiting the
bringing of any person allected with a contagi
ous disease, from tbe county into tbe city.
And also, that proper measures be taken to
prevent dead horses, cattle, swine or dogs from
being thrown into the river opposite the city,
and to require the burial of the same outside
the city limits.
By order of the Board.
ISAAC MARKLEY,
Secretary.
Referred to Committee on Health, with in
structions to report by ordinance or otherwise.
A bill in favor of J. D. Williams for sll 40
J
accompanying said report, was referred to
Comptroller.
The Committee ou Claims and Accounts, re
turned the following bills as correct, viz:
T. C. Patch, burial services, two bills. $52.
J. C. Burbank & Co., Seal for City. $26 00
Ilefi rred to Comptroller.
Said committee returned Ames A Van Eltcu’s
bill against Joseph Powers, and asked for in
formation relative to its correctness. Bill re
turned to Powers for that purpose.
BILLS PRESENTED.
T. C. Patch, services in burying dead, $22.
William R. Miller against First Ward, team
work and repairs on bridges, $8 22.
Same against tbe city, for removing nuisan
ces and repairing pound, Ac., sl6 70.
The following communication was presented,
viz :
To the Hon. the Common Council of the City
of St. Paul:
The undersigned would respectfully ask that
a judgment recovered against the city for fifty
dollars, be paid in a city order.
St. rani, May 21. 1855.
Ordered paid upon his executing to the city
a release of said judgment.
Aid. Becker gave notice that at the next
meeting he would introduce ‘ an ordinance pre
scribing the duties and compensation of the
City Surveyor.” Also, ,; an ordinance prescri
bing the duties and compensation of City
Clerk.”
* An ordinance for licensing,” and relating
to livery stables, wagons, carts, drays, and por
ters or runners,” was read a second time and
after several amendments thereto, was passed
unanimously.
On motion it was ordered that the committee
on Printing be authorized to furnish the Asses
sors with necessary blanks.
On motion the Council adjourned.
ALEX. RAMSEY, Mayor.
Sherwood Hough, Clerk.
Bass Wood Paper. —We notice that the man
ufacture of paper from bass wood is continued
at Troy, and the parties engaged iu the labor
say that they will make known this progress in
due time. They are sanguine of producing
important results.
pß' The New York Hard Shell State Com
mittee are to meet on the 6th of June, to pre
pare for the fall campaign.
Makoxht House. —Mr, Willis, late ef Harris
burg, Pa.—one of the best landlords that ever
migrated West—is now “ at home” at the Ma
nomin Hoase. See his card.
Illinois Central lUilbocd. —We published
some statistics the other day in regard to the
affairs of this road, which were slightly errone
ous to the disadvantage of the Company. The
following from the Chieago Tribane represents
the true state of the case:
The sales of land by the Illinois Central Rail
road for the month ending May I, were 18,660
acres, amounting to $250,847 96. Of these
there were sold of
Construction Bond Land 15,517.35 acres,
averaging per acre. sl2 10
Interest Fund, 40 acres, averaging 20 00
Free Lands, 3,102.8 acres, averaging per
acre. 14 03
The whole amount of land sales to May 1.
apart from pre-emption lauds, has beeu 92,280
acres, for $1,015,517 23, averaging sll per
acre.
This is very satisfactory, and is a much larg
er average than is required to pay off all the
Bonds before the lands are exhausted. It is,
however, very certain that when one half the
lands have been sold and settled, the remaining
half will be largely appreciated in value, and
probably be worth nearly as much as the whole
was before the sales commenced.
This Company’s enemies—one of the chief of
which is tbe combined railroad interest of Wis
consin—are doing themselves no credit or ben
efit by publishing to the world such gross mis
statements as appeared in one of the Wisconsin
railroad organs of St. Paul ou Tuesday morn
ing.
Effects of Fear. —Boucher, a French author
of the 16th century, states that the physicians
at Montpelier, which was then a great school
of medicine, had every year two criminals, the
one living and the other dead, delivered to them
for dissection. He relates that on one occasion
they tried what effect the mere expectation of
death would produce upon a subject in perfect
health, and in order to do this experiment, they
told the gentleman (for such was his rank) who
was placed at their discretion, that as the easi
est mode of taking away life, they should em
ploy the means which Scncca had chosen for
himself, and would therefore open his veins in
warm water. Accordingly they covered his
face, pinched his feet without lancing them,
and set them in a foot bath, and spoke to each
other as if they saw the blood flowing freely,
and life departing with it. Tbe man remained
motionless; and when, after a while, they un
covered his face they found him dead.
The call for the Territorial Republican
Convention creates quite a rattling among the
old political dry bones of St. Paul.
Removal of Judge Loring.—Gov. Gardner,
of Massachusetts, in his message declining to
comply with the lcgisla’ive address asking
the removal of Judge Loring. gives the follow
ing reason for his action :—First that the ad
dress was not accompanied by the reasons as
signed for the request, and that the State Con
stitution, properly construed, does not confer
on the Executive, the power of removal at the
mere wish of the Legislature; second, that
there is no justifying precedent, the two former
instances o', depositions of Judges by Govern
ors of Massachusetts not being at all applica
ble to the case of Judge Loring; third, that no
crime bad been alleged against Judge Loring,
and nothing that disqualified him for his office
of Judge of Probate; fourth, that such disposi
tion of Judge Loring, if made in this question
able, manner, on account of his not serving tbe
popular sentiment of the day, would inaugur
ate a policy which might react injuriously, both
upon its authors and upon the character of the
judiciary.
Jissr a very large supply of Colt's revolving
pistols has been provided in England for the
use of the Baltic Fleet.
Gomorrah. —A French traveller, Monsieur
DeSauley, professes to have discovered the ru
ins of this ancient city, now bearing the name
of Charbct Goumran or Oumran, on tbe bor
ders of the Dead Sea. They extend over aspaee
of more than six thousand yards, and (heir
very name, given by the Arabs, indicates their
identity with the ancient city destroyed by fire
from heaven. Neither scacred nor profane his
tory gives any hint of the existence of any
other city on this site; and the ruins are very
abundant, mounds covered with rubbish, ave
nues of upright stones, in good preservation-
Ac., covering a space of about four English
miles, and located at the Northern part of the
Dead Sea, they seem to tbe tiavcler to be be
yond question the remains of that exceedingly
wicked city. Further explorations may be ne
cessary to the establishment of the fact in minds
less sanguine.
The Editor of the Skowbegan Clarion
does not appear to have a very high opinion of
the churches in his neighborhood. He says :
A new religious sect has sprung up in Os
wego They hold that honesty is the only
requisition necessary to entitle a person to
membership. If the churches in this region
would adopt the same test, we think they would
be very likely to improve the character of their
associations very materially.
A Russian Incident.— A leter in the Consti
tutionnel, ’rom St. Petersburgh, mentions a
circumstance w hich has just caused some sen
sation there. A person of large property, M
G w. having said at a private party, “I
would willingly give 10,000 roubles (the rouble
is somewhat over 4fr.) for the war, if 1 knew
when we are to have peace, was summoned tbe
next day before the military governor, who re
ceived him in the presence of several persons
of distinction, and said, “ Sir, if you pledge
me your word to pay this day the sum ot 10,000
roubles, I am authorized to gratify your curi
osity on the point to which you alluded last
exening.” “I promise to pay that sum,” re.
plied the other. “ Well tbeu,” said the gover
nor, “ I have to inform you that we are to have
peace w hen )Ou come back from the Caucasus,
where you are to proceed this afternoon, after
having paid the sum agreed on. God be with
you.”
C. L. EMERSON
The Maine Law Rejected ix Canada.— The
prohibitory liquor bill was thrown out in the
Canadian Legislative Assembly on the 30tb
ult. on a question of proceedure. Objection
was taken that the bill affected the revenue,
and should therefore, according to the forty
filth rule of the House, have originated iu
committee of the whole; and that in conse
queuce of the omission the whole proceding
upon it was void. The Speaker upon being
appealed to, declared the objection valid. The
advocates of the bill appealed from hisde!
cisiou to the House, and were defeated on a di
vision, numbering only 46 votes against 59.
Detroit Free Prett.
Foot Race. —A great foot race took place on
the 15th inst., on the Cambridge, Mass., trot
ting course. The distance run was ten miles,
for SSOO, between John Grindell, of New York,
and John M. Stetson. The first mile was run
in 5 min. 13 sec., and the last in 6 minutes.
Grindell got through in season to make a
speech before Stetson’s arrival.
mesnae**
TELEGRAPHIC ITEMS.
New York, May 17. ,4
A fine Hospital recently erected by the
of thia city, as a testimonial to the late Judah.
Tour® uras consecrated tfrday with much cere
mony.
A call is oat for a State Committee of the
hard shells in this city on the 6th of next month
with a view, it is presumed, of concerting ac
tion for the fall campaign.
Sandy Hook. May 17—10 P. M.
We have no tidings of the Baltic, now in her
14th day from Liverpool. ' It is barely possible
that she did not sail on her regular day, as- un
der ordinary circumstances she is 36 hours
overdue.
A lage fife took place at Evansville this A.
M., destroying 16 valuable buildings. Total
loss estimated at SIOO,OO0 —the greater part
covered by insurance.
Boston, May 17.
The case of Joseph Hiss, arrested yesterday
for debt, was brought before the Court this
morning, and, on motion of the plaintiff’s
counsel, tbe habeas corpus was dismissed.
This proceeding is said to have originated on
the ground that Judge Shaw would require a
sworn affidavit, that tbe whole case was genu
ine and not trumped up for any purpose other
than the collection of a debt.
This is probably the last appearance of Jo
seph Hiss ou any stage.
Later TntellisenceTrom Havana.
New Yoke, May 16.
The U. S. mail steamer Cahwba arrived hero
this eveninr. She brings New Orleans dates
to the 9th, and Havana to tbe 12tb, two days
later than those brought by the Granada.
We Lave nothing of much importance from
Ilarana.
The steamers Princeton and Jamestown were
cruising off the coast.
Commodore McAuley was at Key West.
A rumor prevailed at Havana that Gen.Con
cha would pardon M. Felix,
The organizing, arming and drilling of the
colored people of Cuba still continues.
The Yucatan Indians continue to be introdu
ced into Cuba under the consent of the author
ities of Mexica. Nearly 200 of them were lan
ded at Havana on the 11th from a Spanish ves
sel, and sold under contract made previous to
their arrival.
Havana continues healthy and business ac
tive.
A report was circulated at Havana on tbe
11th that tbe prisoners who were confined on
board the prison-ship, had escaped.
From the Chicago Tribune.
The Invasion of Kanzas—The Interference ef
Government Demanded.
We have letters from a gentleman of Missou
ri, well known in the political contests of that
State, that are calculated to excite the alarm
and apprehension of every lover of free insti
| tutions in this country. It appears by his rep
resentations—and we believe them to be entire
ly reliable—that the reports which have floated
about iu tbe columns of tbe newspaper press,
of the organization in Missouri of a secret as
! sociation, having for its object the introduction
| and firm establishment of slavery in Kansas,
by the use of any means whatever, are literally
I true; and the organization embraces in its scope
the representatives of mueh of fhe capital and
all the dominant political influence of two or
! more of the Southern States. The members
; are bound by self-imposed oaths to relax no ef
fort, spare no pains, leave noibing undone that
can be accomplished by fair means or foul, by
bloodshed and perjury! to plant that cursed in
! stitution in that land of our fathers once de
clared to be forever free. At tbe head or this
band of desperadoes and cut-throats, is David
R. Atchinson, late United States Senator; and
at his command, says our informant, five thou
sand men can in one week’s time, be poured in
upon Kansas, armed at all points and ready for
the commission of any deed of violence and
blood that may stand in the way of the accom
plishment of their devilish purpose. Our cor
respondent says that the programme of prc»
j ceedings at the late election was but half car
ried out. Their leader gave them an example
jof perjury at the polls, by swearing to his act
i ual residence in the Territory—a lie so mon
j strous that it is a wonder it did not choke him;
1 and his example was so closely and unscrupu
. lously imitated that tbe peaceful settlers, taken
unawares, were overcome by majorities that
j they had no power to resist. Had not they
yielded—had a single ballot-box been*closed
! against these illegal votes, the perjured scoun
drels were ready with bowie-knife and pistol,
! to enforce the demand that they set up, to be
, allowed, under the workings of the popular
sovereignty dodge, the exercise of tbe right of
suflage. iu a place where they did not belong.
He further says that the propagandists elected
b 7 such violations of all law and precedent,
will proceed to the enactment of laws for the
establishment of slavery; that they have sworn
that tbe Governor, whoever he may be. shall
1 approve their acts, or if approval cannot be
! wrung from him by entreaty or force, that such
laws shalljbe maintained, though the use of
j bayonets is required to ensure their observance,
j Our Triend predicts a multitude of evils yet to
come. He says that we have seen but tbe be
| ginning of tbe end; and, that unless the Gov
i eminent interfere with a strong arm, to prevent
| tbe occurrence of scenes of violence under mob
j rule, we may any day be prepared to bear that
the industrious New Englanders who have gone
Ito Kansas to make it their home—to redeem a
: State from the wildness of nature—to found
j and maintain free institutions—have been driv
! «n. with their wives and children, from the land
l of which they are legally and rightfully pos
sessed—driven away by a force that it would
|be self destruction to resist! Tbe mob leaders
have sworn to triumph; and with an army at
| their heels that needs no provocatives to com
-1 rnit deeds of blood—succeed they will t
| With facts like these that we have above re
| cited, known to the President at Washington—
j what will he do? For freedom—nothing! Upon
! him the responsibility rests. He must be fully
informed of what has been done and wbat is
contemplated; Governor Reeder has been with
him, and officially he has learned of the out
rages that the Governor and his people have
endured. But 60 steeped is that man Pierce in
the iniquity to which his Administration is com
mitted—the abomination of slavery propagand
i^m—that he will sutler these things to go on
unchecked. He will not raise a linger to pro
mote tbe cause of freedom; though he has pros
tituted himself, his party and the country to
the demands of slavery. Slavery having won
tbe first field, now demands inaction; and no
sloth could exceed the masterly inactivity of its
humblest and smallest of servants. Whether
the next Congress will not find in bis treacher
ous disregard of a duty that seems to be as plain
as the sun at noon day, cause for impeacument,
remains yet to be seen. Tbe temper of that
body will not be favorable to a repetition of tfaa
scenes that he winks at, if not secretly encour
ages; and he may be sure tbat. even iu his Pres
idency, be may not permit freedom to be struck
down, always with impunity. The representa
tives of the people, aroused to the enormity of
tbe outrages that have been committed, may
demand tbe punishment of tbe guilty. Upon
no head could the blow fall more deservedly
than upon bis.
The Shipping of the World. The Maritime
Population. —The London News of the 12th of
April has an elaborate article on the shipping
of the world which shows that the floating ton
nage of the civi'.izcd world, excluding only
China and the East, consists of 136,000 vessels,
of 15,500,000 tons. The number of seamen it
sets down at 800 : 000, and including the eastern
and other States of the martime population of
which we have no accounts, there must be at
least a million of persons engaged at sea, an 4
generally on the ocean.
U. S. Land Commissioners have con
firmed the Weber claim to eleven square leagues
of lahd, on part of whioh tjie pity of Stockton
Is located,
I
Louisville. May 16.