The Weekly Minnesotian. [volume], February 06, 1858, Image 5

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Piratical Democracy.
Another demonstration of the piratical
character of the so-called Democratic party,
is found iu the last President’s Message,
which, we fear, has been overlooked. It will
be remembered that he recommended the
payment of the claims of certuiu Spaniards
for the Amistad Slaves liberated by the Sir
preme Court of the United States ; and such
indorsement of those claims has been a stand
ing item of “democratic" messages for twen
ty years. 'The object is to keep the claim
alive till its infamy is forgotten, then rush it
through as an obligation to the slaveholding
democracy. Probably it would have been
passed long before this time but for the pres
ence in Congress of the veteran Joshua 11.
CJinmxus, whose minute acquaintance with
the whole transaction would enable him to
blast it before the country.
The facts were briefly these. A slave ship
had arrived iu Cuba with a cargo of Afri
i ans. which were re-shipped in the ‘‘Amistad”
for another port of the island. On this pas
sage the Africans, feeling the instinctive im
pulses of liberty in their hearts, planned and
achieved in a masterly manner the control of
the vessel, then attempted to steer for Africa.
Put the helmsman, not daring to run too
wide from the required course, found himself
otf the coast of Connecticut instead of Vir
ginia. and the claimants sought help of the
Federal Officers, who took possession of the
vessel. Without specifying now all the pro*
cess, the ease reached the Circuit Court of the
United States and was carried from that to
Supreme Court in Washington. There it
was argued with such unanswerable ability
by Jons Q. Adams as compelled the servile
bench to reject the claim of the Spaniards
and liberate the Africans. Could it have ap
peared that they were slaves in any legal
sense, they would quickly have been given
up : but it was made to appear beyond all
possible doubt that tl.ey were native Africans ,
recently imported in violation of both United
States and Spanish lan-. They were therefore
free and the claimants were pirates. They
could neither speak nor understand a word
of any language except an African dialect.
This interested the whole country,
and the Slaveholders employed every art to
defeat the ends of justice. A vessel was
even ordered to lie oil’ the coast to run off
with the Africans when they should be liber
ated by the court, and re-kidnapped. Indeed
this -democracy," thruiigh its administration,
spared near zeal nor shame nor guilt to aid
the slaveholding fraternity of both countries,
anil prevent the dreaded influence of the U.
States Government countenancing alledged
slaves in asserting and maintaining their
rights on the limb seas.
Instead of hanging the Spanish claimants
as pirates, or sending them home in chains !
for that purp'*s?. they were "Dons' 1 at once, i
and our paltroon -democracy’’ through its j
presidents has been strenuously insisting ev
er since on the payment of their claims for
damage as,,'«*■/ and rbtht! It is an insult to
the country and its disgrace the world over,
ye‘ repeated year after year, and will ere
long be granted. We know neither man nor
paper of that party that otters any objection
to this preposterous demand.
Payment to northern men of claims due
them lor fifty years, under the spoliation bill is
a train and again defeated, b lit this demand of
foreign pirates, and endorsed by the United
States, is pressed year after year, and proba
bly the people will be made to pay it. So
has this -demTracy” debauched the public
inir.d and made itself, as Mr. Adams said,
l; lhe mere catehpole of Spanish pirates.”—
Will not our abused people trample it iu the
dust, and preserve the justice and honor of
their country.
Hole-in-llio-Day in St. Paul.
There is tr >ul»ie brewing for the Pioneer.
ITole-in-the-i >ay arrived in St. Paul on Mon
day fregli from the world of t] nr its; and was
regarded with ore at curiosity by our citizens
fr m his having been so recently “shot right
through the heart."’ The Chippewa Chief
looks extremely well: and is cveu stouter
than usual, r-howing that they have good liv
ing, down below, lie wears this time a scar
let blanket instead of his common green one,
his change of color being intended, doubtless,
as a reminder of the bloody scene lie so re
cently passed through. Hole departed yes
terday for Washington City, where he proba
bly has gone to demand redress a la General
Walker, for the summary slaughter which he,
the potentate of an independent nation, re
ceived at the hands of the Pioneer editors.—
They may look out. for a terrible ret
ribution. This killing Indian Chiefj is a
dangerous amusement not to be tolerated iu
this community. Won’t the Pioneer get up
a lew more forger! letters ?
The :*liiiiieai>oliN Gazette.
'j his is the title of a new paper just issued
at the “Water City (from the Sioux word
rninne, water, and the Greek word ajKilis,
city). Its editor is Alex. B. Russell, the
former publisher of the Sliakopee Adoocate—
and lately candidate for Clerk of the Su
preme Court, on the Republican State ticket.
The printing establishment from which it is
issued is the same which formerly put forth
Mr. Hotchkiss' North-Western Democrat ;
and the material being new and well worked,
the result is a most handsome weekly paper.
Ta«te and judgment are evinced in the selec
tions, and.ability in the editorials. The pa
per is decidedly Republican; and wc trust is
free from any complication with Frank
Steele likely to constrain its policy or in
jure its usefulness. We cordially greet our
old friend Russell on his return to the edito
rial field, ami wish him better success than
ids former enterprise met with. &o good a
printer and clever a fellow ought to prosper.
The Editor of the lied Wing Republican
is determined to misrepresent us. He sneaks
about the ‘-taking back its
words’’ and ‘-placing right on lue record, the
man it had grossly wronged.” We deny
that wc have taken h ick any of our words in
the matter alluded to, or that we grossly
wronged the individual for whom the zeal of
long personal friendship on the part of the
RepnUunn editor, induces him to volunteer
so much ‘-right or wrong” partizanship. Wc
were jnst to him, first and last! He deserved
what wc said of him both times, or we should
not have said it. \\ c trust never to be found
hesitating to condemn faults, any more than
to credit aiitucs in public meu—and this, re
gardless whether personal or political friends
or political foes, are pleased or offended. Wc
recognize no persoual friendship that inter
fere with our duty to party or to the public.
—When may we expect the Rea Wing
Republican to do U 3 the justice to retract its
endorsement of the dirty fling of the St. Pe
ter Free Press at the integrity of our motives
in the matter in question ? Or has it not
manliness enernrh lor that ?
The .rican Tfnipcr»«ure of Olilcago
aud Ml. l'aul Compared.
It ma v' seem paradoxical, but it is neverthe
less a laid, that for nine months of the year
the average mean temperature or mean heat
of St. Paul, in latitude 44 deg. 53 uiiu., is
greater than at Chicago, in latitude 43 deg.
04 min. And that for the six mouths of the
vear, beginning with the month of Aprih
which are so importaut, and all important to
the farmer, the average meau temperature
or average heat at St. Paul is decidedly great
er than at Chicago. The general opinion in
the Northern, Eastern and Middle States, is
that Minnesota is too cold a country for suc
cessful farmiug; that hut a limited variety ol
crops can he raised here; and therefore many
persons who otherwise would make their
home in this Territory, are tempted to sett e
in lowa, Nabraska and Kansas, when, in
truth, the same crops can be cultivated suc
cessfully in Minnesota than can be in Penn
sylvania.
As the climate of Chicago, w hich city is
better known in the East than any other
Western city or town, is pretty well under
stood by Eastern people, we have been led
to examine ISi.oocktt's Climatolegi/ and the
Arina Meteorological lltgister, to ascertain
from tlie careful observations there compiled,
what the exact difference is, in the tempera
ture of the two places.
The average winter temperature at St.
Paul we find to be ten degrees colder than at
Chicago—St. Paul averaging 16 deg. 1 min.
above zero, and Chicago 25 deg. 9 min.
above—which difference is compensated to
St. Paul in part, however, by a much less
amount of snow, rain and wind.
The average of the remaining nine months
is greater at St. Paul than at Chicago, by
about one degree, and the average of the six
mouths beginning with April and ending
with September, which season includes “both
seed time and harvest,” is about two and a
haif degrees greater at the former than at the
latter place.
Taking the thcrmometrical observations
made at both places, for the same period of
five years, we find them as follows:
A />/•. J May June July Auy. Se/it.
St. Paul, ■l!*-'.. .01 - i’ ....67-’ 5'....73_- 5'....0>J J 2'...55;2'
Chicago,46 1...50 » 02 7....70 H OS 5... .60 1
It will be perceived that the average mean
1 monthly temperature, or heat, of every month
I of the six, excepting September, is greater at
' St. Paul than at Chicago. The month of
September is an important month to the ag-
I riculturist; as in that month he gathers in a
i large proportion of his matured crops, which
‘ may be blighted and blasted by one heavy
i frost, and the labor of a year dissipated. To
j ascertain the liability of crops being injured
I in this region by frost, in September, we
have examined the observations made at
Fort Snelling, during eleven years, for the
month of September, and find that for ten
years out of eleven, the thermometer did not
indicate so low a degree of temperature as the
freezing point, and lbr the remaining year,
only one observation where the cold indicat
ed was under the freezing point, and then it
was only two degrees below, in the latter
part of the month possibly, and not suf
| ficicntly cold to injure any crops exposed to
I it.
It is a well known fact that Indian Corn
can bo successfully cultivated in any climate
where the average mean temperature of the
month of July exceeds (>8 c . It will be no
tice I that not only the average mean temper
ature at Saint Paul, and by that we mean :.t
Fort Snciiing (two miles south and three we.->t
of St. Paul,) where the observations have
been made, is </nattr than 08 ° for the month
of July, but also greater for the month of
August, and that the average of June only
falls one bail'a degree below 08 °. So there
could not be any doubt—without even our
successful experience on the subject for years
and judging from theory only, and the cli
mate during the growing months—that Corn
can be raised with great success iu this re
gion of country. We would also call the atten
tion of eastern people contemplating moving
westward to one very important fact, shown,
by contrasting tho temperature at Saint Paul
with that of Chicago, as above, aud that is
the great dilference iu temperature iu favor of
St. Paul, lor the months of April, May and
June, during which months vegetation so
much needs warmth. This dilference in tem
perature, between the two places very well
accounts for the statements sometimes made
that “the season in St. Paul is two weeks ear
lier than at Chicago. 1 ’
—ln making these remarks aud entering
upon tliis contrast with Chicago, to the dis
advantage in one sense of the latter, our ob
ject is not to depreciate Chicago, so much as
to avail ourselves of her conceded ability' to
raise in her vicinity corn aud all the cereals
successfully, in order the better to convince
those doubters in the east of their error who
still labor under the misapprehension that be
cause here at St. Paul we are nearly two de
grees farther north, our climate is necessari
ly proportionably colder throughout the year.
The figures show that in the growing months
it is warmer, and this with the warm nature
of our soil, accounts for our not only being
able to cultivate corn successfully, but for the
immense quantity of fine melons of every
variety that are so easily and plentifully pro
duced.
An Irinli LegiMlator.
A laughable incident occurred in the House
this morning, during the election of Chief
Clerk. The election is made by a viva vue
vote, the clerk pro tem. calliug the roll and
each member answering the name of|tbe
person of his choice as lie is called. When
the clerk reached Mr. Hanrehan, of Milwau
kee, a gentleman of Milesian extraction, that
Solon responded “Ilerc !’’
“Mr. Hanrehan, 5 ' repeated the clerk.
•‘Here,’’ again answered that gentleman.
1 .e clerk tueu completed calling the roll,
v.-hcn Col. Steever, of .Milwaukee, arose and
asked that the name of his colleague might
be called again. Col. S. Lad been in the
meantime illuminating the mind of his fellow
towsman and representative.
Clerk (in a loud voice)—“Mr. llanrehan.”
Mr. Hanrehun (looking \ ery red) “Here.”
threat laughter on the oor and in the gal
leries.
Speaker Lovell—“ The gentleman will des
ignate the person he wishes elected Chief
Clerk, as his name is called. M r . Clerk, call
Mr. Hanrchan again.”
Clerk—" Mr. llanrehan 1”
Mr. Hanrchan, (much embarrassed, but
smiling and redder than ever.)
The response was received with roars of
laughter.
Mr. Hanrchan is an uncompromising Dem
ocrat, and will make his mark in the Assem
bly.—Madison Journal.
—The Madison Journal , we arc afraid, is
disposed to sneer at the qualifications of the
son of the “green isle,” to frame laws for the
people. The Journal should reflect that the
Irish become miraculously qualified for office
by a special patent from the Democratic par
ty and their own modesty.
Thk will of Madame T)e Lux has been de
cided in New York, giving her largo estate to
John F. Ferric, a Cincinnati barber.
PKOSPKCTI'S FOR 1 85 8.
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SAINT PAUL
WEEKLY MINNESOTIAN.
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up WEEKLY from the reading matter ofthe Daily Mis-
kksotian, ami Is furnished to Clubs and others at the
following extremely low rates, which must be PAID IN
VARIABLE IN ADVANCE:
For Oue Copy, $2,00
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It needs no elaborate advertisement to proclaim the
PRINCIPLES* which guide, POLITICALLY, the JHunt
totian. It is a paper that is REPUBLICAN in all its
phases, and it claims to possess in opposition to Slave*
ry everywhere, and in favor of Freedom every where,
the stillest and most erect of spinal columns. There is
not the least particle of dough about its face; nor plia
bility iu the back-bone of its principles. Its conductors
have “sworn eternal hostility to every form of tyranny
over the bodies and minds of menand they hesitate
uot to give their sentiments voice through their press on
all fit occasions,
—But we want it distinctly understood, however, that
the Minnesotian is a party paper. It stands by the Re
publican organization at all times, because we believe
that organization, steadily adhered to and presevered
in, is the only hope of the country to ensure the triumph
of Right against the disciplined cohorts of Despotism
aud Democracy. We are in favor of strict discipline in
our ranks. We want our people, like the Highlanders,
to stand shoulder to shoulder, invincible in their one-
ness of action, as in the sacred truth of their cause. —
We don’t want bush-fighting, nor any man homing
about amongst the trees, thinking with his little shot
gun he can win the battle of freedom on his own hook.
We have hail enough of this folly; and it is quite t line
every Republican had learned in this respect, wisdom
from the past. The militia of 1776 obtained an occa-
sional success, and at the commencement of the revo
lution our fathers were all militia ; but they soon found
that in a long fight, and with regulars on the other side,
they must be regular soldiers too; and everybody has
read how it was the disciplined forces of the patrols un
der Washington who fought this country successfully
through an eight years war into independence and rec-
ognized nationality. Our forces must be disciplined too,
if we intend to win. This battle for freedom, like the
contest for liberty they engaged in, is also a long fight.
The Slave-power has exclusively ruled this country for
more than a quarter of a century. It will not yield
possession of any post of vantage it now holds from
its citadel in the Supreme Court of the United States
down to the smallest postmastership, without a protrac
ted and severe struggle. Every man of the Republican
party, therefore, who desires its principles to succeed,
must enlist for the w ar and be zealous for thorough or
ganization and complete discipline. Every man who
likes this position, may rely upon the Minnmotian im
plicitly, that it will never for light or trilling causes of
dissatisfaction upon minor points, or even side issues
which are not minor but are not yet practicable, ilinch
from sustaining with all its might those who rally un-
der, or who bear forward the regular standards of the
Party, nor will it encourage by even quiet toleration,
others in disturbing the compact firmness and efficiency
of our Anti-Slavery array. In a; word, we belivu in
standing by the platforms adopted by Republican State
and National Conventions, and in supporting only and
all the time the regular nominations made fairly upon
their platforms. We believe in a sacrifice for the time
being, pending a battle at the polls, of individual no-
tions and individual preferences and individual claims,
upon the common altar of the recognized principles of
ltcpublicanism, to ensure victory over the veteran par-
ty who possess the government, and who have surren-
dcred every free principle underlying its foundation to
sfuthern -iii'iatiou for the spoils of oOice anil the piun-
<ler of the treasury. We believe if the soldiers of free-
dom ;ire tolerated in breaking their ranks, to go maun-
tiering after speculative theories of their own, however
absolutely correct their theories may be—each following
his own nose off upon impracticable tangents, neglect-
>ng the chances meanwhile of effecting great substantial
ami acknowledged good in the search after a present
unattainable perfection—thecontest of freedom will be
Indeed bequeathed to our children, for it will never be
'von ia that way by us to the end of our pilgrimage on
tills earth. Union—discipline—organization—action—
these, are the watchwords of success in political parties
us in armies ; anil our paper, the J/inne-mtian, will la-
hor to have them adopted in practice as the watch-
words of every Republican In Minnesota.
Besides being a political paper, the next principal fea
ture of the Weekly Min.nesotian will be its NEWS—
including original reports of the debates in the State
Legislature; and in the publication of the latest intelli-
gence of every kind, it will be our especial pride to be
first and foremost.
The DEVELOPMENT of the MATERIAL WEALTH
Of MINNESOTA, the EXPOSITION of its RESOURCES,
and the DESCRIPTION of its GEOGRAPHY and TO-
POGKAPHY, will be another main feature of the J tin-
nemtian'H columns. In accordance with its distinctive
name,it is our earnest desire to make it truly A VIN-
NKBOTA PAPER, devoted especially to the welfare
and prosperity of our State.
—Nor will LITEKATUKK and General MISCELLANY
he neglected ; and FAKMKItS may rely on receiving in
formation through our columns from time to time, cal
culated to assist them in developing properly the AG Kl-
CULTURAL CAPACITY of Minnesota
These are some of the points upon which we ask pub
lic patronage for the Weekly Minnesotian. If you like
our principles anil bill of fare, please step up to the
Captain’s Oflice and settle, in person or by letter, ad
dressed to FOSTER & MOORE,
Editors and Publishers, St. Poul, Minnesota.
NEWS ITEMS.
The Boston Ice-dealers propose to send
out steam tugs to the banks for the purpose
ofjtowing in a few ice-bergs to lill their hous
es. This is equal to the plan offered some
time since of “milking the whales” in Boston
Bay, to supply the city with pure milk. Mer
maids were to serve in the dairy.
A movement is in progress to secure the
rebuilding of the Cayuga Bridge. For many
years this bridge was the principal crossing
place of travelers and emigrants from New
England to the West.
Ox New Years morning; the employers in
Nolte & McClure’s pork packing house, of
BeardstowD, Illinois, slaughtered 602 hogs
iu four hours ; and later in the day they
slaughtered 1,134 hogs in seven hours and
thirty minutes.
Flight of thrPigeotjs. —Millions of wild
Pigeons, says the Louisville Courier, passed
over the city Friday evening on their flight
North. The flock seemed more than a mile
long, and they flew much higher thau usual.
Their flight North is indicative of mild weath
er for the balance of the winter. We hope
the pigeons will not be disappointed.
The Philadelplr.ans are rejoicing over the
completion and the successful operation o
their first, city Railroad. The cars now run
North end South through the entire length
of the City. Three omnibus lines running
on the route of the roivl, were bought out by
the Company.
An individuainl Buffalo, supposed to be a
discharged schoolmaster run mad, has been
kidnapping yo ung boy s in the streets, taking
them into a garret basement with him, and
asking their, to recite portions of the multi
plication table ; and if they fail, ho lathers
them with a leather strap which he carries
for that purpose.
INTENTIONAL DUPLICATE EXPOSURE
The Admission of Minnesota Retarded
by IVedary and Rice.
The Pioneer is evidently on the anxious
seat. The blunder of Gov. Mbdakv and
Mr. Hick in presenting at Washington a copy
of our Constitution signed only by a minori
ty of the Constitutional Convention, thereby
delaying our Admission into the Union , is a re
sponsibility before tho People which it is ap
parently very anxious to divide with the lie
publicans. To do this, it resorts to its old
dodge of fictitious letters received by itself
or forged by others. It is like “Toots” in
Dombcy and Son, whose correspondence with
himself was always very extensive. It now
emarks as follows :
“By a private letter received yesterday,
we are assured that prominent Republicans
of this vicinity Lave been writing letters to
free soil members of Congress, urging upon
them to take a stand against the Admission
of Minnesota at this time.”
It is needless to say that this is all “Bosh:"
the statement of fact, certainly, the recep
tion of such a letter, probably. With any
other paper than the Piouter we might per
haps concede the reception, but its habit of
fictitious letter writing is so notorious that
doubt is always cast on its assertions of this
kind.
—But pray, why should the Republicans
here or at Washington tear their trousers
about our speedy admission into the Union ?
The Democratic Party is in the majority
there as well as here. Here they obtained
their majority, as all know, by a series of out
rages, frauds and forgeries having only their
parallel in Kansas. First the Constitutional
Convention was split, because the Democrats
were in a minority in that body. The Re
publicans have been meanly compelled by
the Democratic Territorial Government to
pay their own expenses, although duly elec
ted and commissioned in the public service.—
At the recent State election, the Democratic
party, fairly beaten by the votes of the peo
ple, have obtained a Governor, tw r o United
States Senators, and three Representatives to
Congress by voting Breech-clout Indians, aud
by forgeries at wholesale, after the election, of
impossible majorities from regions where no
people whatever reside. Is it surprising that
under these circumstances the Republicans
should feel insulted and outraged, or that
smarting under snch wrongs, they should
look with a feeling akin to indifference on the
consummation of the rascalities, by the ad
mission into Congress of some of the men for
whose benefit they were perpetrated ?
And when a climax is added to the whole
category of outrage, by this said gross in
sult of Medary and Rick, in attempting in
violation of the compromises of the Conven
tions, to ignore the existence of the Repub
lican members and their seventy-five or eighty
thousand constituents, it is not too much for
the Republican party in Minnesota to de
mand :
First, That a copy cf the Constitution
signed by the officers and members of the
Republican wing of the Convention shall be
duly certified to Congress, or
Second, That a copy of the Constitution
certified as the document voted for by 39,000
people of Minnesota, without regard to Con
ventional differences or signatures, shall be
alone the basis upon which we are admitted
into the Union.
Self respect demands that we should take
these positions and we hope that the Repub
licans members of Congress, will insist that
one or the other should be conceded by our
Democratic insulters, before they agree to
the admission of our Senators or Representa
tives to scats on the lloor of either branch of
our National Legislature.
Our .Senators are bogus, elected under a
bogus law, signed by the Territorial Govern
or. Two of our three Representatives have
certainly no right to their seats under the
census; and as for the third one, it is hard to
tell who he should be, as Becker who re
ceived the highest number of votes at the
election was cheated by the State Canvass
ers into being lowest on the return, ju3t as
they robbed Ramsey of enough votC3 to
give Sibley, along with his forged returns—a
majority as Governor of the State.
—And after all, we don’t think that the
people would think it such a terrible catas
trophe if Congress should order a new deal,
and give Uncle Sam the opportunity of pay
ing up the heavy bill of expenses already in
curred in State-making, and which the peo
pls are illy able to afford footing these hard
times.
Mail Carrier Drowned and team lost!
—A rumor was prevalent on Saturday, that
the mail sleigh which was to have arrived on
Friday, had sunk in the river (what river?)
on its way up, and was lost. We could trace
it to no reliable source, and concluded that
it was a ho ax.
P. S. Since the above was in type, we
learn from the driver of the stage which ar
rived last night, that the rumor is really
true. The driver of the stage which preceded
him, was drowned, together with two horses,
while attempting to cross the White Water
or Minueiska River, this side of Winona, —
no mail was lost, however.
That stream was swollen, and the ice
weakened by freshets. The driver of last
night’s stage was compelled to wade over
waist deep, and the mail, was carried over by
two persons in a skift, at a cost of $3O. Two
tons of paper mail remained behind.
The Coldest Day of the Season. —Jack
Frost was about on Tuesday night. The
thermometer commenced sinking early in the
afternoon, and at dark it was “bitter cold.”—
Almost no one was on the streets after that
Lour, and all seemed to find superior attrac
tions around a warm stove, or in a comfort
able parlor. The sidewalks cracked every
moment like pistols, and all night long, as
the mercury settled slowly down in the tube,
repeated expressions from steps, doors, porch
es, &c., were heard in every house, caused by
the contracting power of the frost after such
a damp warm spell. Yesterday morning
the mercury marked 17 ° below zero.
During yesterday, however, it was quite
pleasant, and the sun shone brightly.
Free Fight—Pat Riot-ism. —Two par
ties of Micks got into a swate bit of a mus 3
on the corner of Minnesota and Seventh sts.
yesterday afternoon, which is described as
being rich, only it was not effective enough
on either side, to afford any gratification to
the few white men looking on. They finally
separated, after pummeling each other awhile,
aud no arrests were made.
The Artesian well in Columbus, Ohio, lias
been sunk 316 feet, and is now passing
through solid lime rock. It is the opinion of
an eminent geologist, that at least 500 feet of
this rock must be penetrated ; for water, if
found at all, must be found in sand rock.—
The work on the well is being carried on with
renewed activity, under the inspiration of an
appropriation of 5*2,500.
Terrible Catastrophe at Hastings.
We loam by a gentleman from Hastings
that ou Tuesday, the 2d inst. a terrible acci
dent occurred there, involving the loss of
four lives. The rope ferry at that place had
been in operation nearly all winter, but was
interrupted for a week or two recently by
the increased severity of the weather. The
thaw and rain, however, of the few days
back, induced the ferrymen to cut out the
ice in the way of the passage of their boat
across the river. This made a uarrow chan
nel with ice on either hand. Betweeu three
and four o’clock in the afternoon of the day
mentioned, the ferryman proceeded to take
over three passengers in a skiff; these were
Mr. McDonald ami his wife, who had a house
and farm on the opposite bluir, and a gentle
man from Prescott, name unknown. When
midway in the river, the wind forced the
skiff down against the edge of t he ice on the
lower side, when it is supposed, the suction
ol the current suddenly capsized the boat,
aud before any of them could j ump upon the
ice to save themselves, the passengers, fer
ryman, boat and all, were drawn down, and
disappeared under the ice—to appear no
more. The ferryman’s wife stood on the
bank and saw the sad accident which hurried
her husband from before her eyes to eternity.
Mr. and Mrs McDonald were old settlers
and leave a large family ol helpless children
behind them.
The bill recently passed by our Legisla
ture authorizing a uew road to Superior by
way of Lake Como, is an important one for
the interests of St. Paul. By curving’ a lit
tle to the westward the route secures a level
dividing ridge, and avoids a succession of
short hills immediately north of us. 'rbis
road commences at Wabashaw street, whi ch
with this extension at one end and the bridg’e
at the other, will become a central and im
portant transverse aveuue through our city.
J. P. Owens, Gi*o. Scotten and A. A. Par- j
ker, Esqs., are ihu Commissioners appointed, i
The 5,000,000 Bill.
Messrs. Editors :—Knowing your willing
ness to publish anything tending to throw
light, as well as to exhibiting public opinion,
on so important a measure as the Bill now
before the State Senate proposing to amend
the Constitution so as to allow the State to
loan her credit to Railroad companies, I send
you the following article, which I cut from
the Chatfield Republican , one of the ablest
papers in the State. It appears to me to ex
press fully the scntimeuts of a large majority
of the people of
SOUTHERN MINNESOTA.
STATE CREDIT TO RAILROAD COMPANIES.
We are indebted to the politeness of Hon.
E. Hodges, of the Senate, for a copy—by last
evening’s mail—of the infamous bill intro
duced into the Senate, by Mr. Streeter, of
Brownsville, proposing amendments to tLo
Constitution of the State of Minnesota.—
Our time and space in our columns will not
permit an extended notice ol this audacious
scheme of Treasury plundering, in our pres
ent issue, but we canuot refrain from giving a
brief notice of this infamous attempt io in
volve our State in a debt of five millions of
dollars, for the benefit of an interesting batch
of Railroad Companies.
The impudence and audacity of the Cor
poration beggars, wbo ask this bonus of the
State, is iu beautiful harmony with that of
the illustrious Senator from Brownsville, who
introduced the bill to the Senate.
This really interesting bill is prefaced by a
long Whereas preamble, the substance of
which is, the very existence of Minnesota de
pends now upon the immediate commence
ment and early completion of the contempla
ted Railroads, to which the lands granted by
Congress were awarded at the extra session
of the Legislature, in May last, and that on
account of the loss of public “confidence” in
projects for substantial progress, Minnesota
must furnish the means for thsee works.
The bill therefore modestly asks the peo
ple of Minnesota to so amend their Consti
tution, that the little debt of five millions (!)
may now be contracted, and the proceeds
placed in the hands of a set of irresponsible
Railroad companies to be by them expended
in the construction of these roads ; but this
is not the end—“the bitter end.” It provides
further that additional Slate debts may be
contracted in the same manner ; and if this
can be carried through, the system of State
Treasury plundering is fairly inaugurated,
and the people of Minnesota may at once
make up their minds that before a quarter of
a century has passed over their heads, they
will be as heavily burdened with State debts
as the State of Pennsylvania.
The bill provides that twelve hundred and
fifty thousand dollars shall be furnished to
each of the Companies selected as the recipi
ents of the public plunder to be thus taken
from the people, and to secure the payment of
which to the State, with the interest annually
accruing on the said bonds, the said compa
nies are to appropriate the nett profits of the
said roads, and the first mortgage bonds up
on the respective roads. Not one of these
companies have a singh- mile of road con
structed, —not even graded. They have’nt
probably the right of way, on a single mile,
some if not all are indebted to the Engineers
and Surveyors who spent the entire summer
in running preliminary and located lines for
these modest beggars, those companies who
had such immense stock subscriptions only
last May, and to whom the munificent grant
of lands granted the Territory by Congress
were awarded; and who are not now satisfi
ed with that, but modestly ask that they may
he permitted to put their hands into the
Treasury to the tune of five millions, and give
security for it on what 1 the wind ! or some
thing that exists only in imagination.
There is another provision of the bill wc
wish to just notice in this place. It is a pro
vision which beautifuly illustrates the ex
treme modesty and tender regard of the dis
tinguished Senator from Brownsville—that
very interesting little town under the wild
cat bluff (swamp,) near the banks of the Mis
sissippi—for the general welfare of the peo
ple. It is the proviso that two-fifths of the
amount appropriated to the Southern Min
nesota Railroad Ccmpuny, or half a million
of dollars, shall be expended in constructing
eight miles of road between the important
town of Brownsville and some equal important
point li near v Hokah. But wo have no room
for further notice this week, bnt shall not
lose sight of this vitally important question
to the future well being of Minnesota.
An Unparalleled Honor.
A mark of respect was shown yesterday i
to the memory of General Havelock, which '
was worth more than a peerage. The flags
of the shipping in our harbor, and our pub
lic buildings, were displayed at half-mast du
ring the day, as a token of grief for his loss.
It was a purely voluntary tribute paid to his
memory by a people to whom he was a stran
ger. who were in no way interested in his ca
reer, and to whom even his name was un
known six months since. It was a tribute
of respect which even the Duke of Welling
ton did not command, and which we believe
was never before paid to a foreigner. But
“one touch of nature makes the whole world
kind,’’ and the bravery and manliness of this
true hero have touched the hearts of the peo
ple of this country, who have watched his
career with eager solicitude since the stirring
events of the East Indian revolt have render
ed his name as familiar here as it is in his
own country, and the intelligence of his
death has produced as deep a feeling of re
gret as though he had been a countryman of
our own.—JV. Y. Times.
Ot.,e Bell, the violinist, has just been
mulcted to the tune of $1,108.05, in the
New York courts, in a suit against him by a
stable keeper, for the care of his horses.
European Correspondence of the Min*
nettotian.— No. 6.
LONDON
Messrs. Editors. —ln addition to those
places I have mentioned there aie many oth
ers of note in London. In my discriptiou of
a few of these I shall be very brief.
The new Houses of Parliament are situated
on the banks of the River Thames, opposite
Westminster Abbey, and are built nearly af
ter the same style of architecture. It is a
very large building, and the most costly of
any in England. 1 never saw a building that
appears to have so much work on it as this,
both on the outside and within, and yet I do
not like the appearance of it as well as I do
many of the public buildings in the United
States. The Lamps on the outside in the
shape of a globe are very pretty. I received
cards from the gentlemanly Secretary of our
Minister to visit the interior, but as the Hous
es were not in session I did not have the pleas
ure of seeing and hearing many of the public
men of England.
St. Paul’s Cathedral is a place very much
celebrated, and was built by the Masonic Fra
ternity. It was thirty-five years being built,
and cost seven and a half million dollars, and
this, too, at a time when labor was very cheap.
There are many Monuments on the inside,
and among them is that of its Architect, Sir
Christopher Wren, Howard, the Philanthro
pist, Lord Nelson, and other Heroes.
I attended divine service in this place. It
is Episcopal, or Church of England as it is
| sometimes termed, and I noticed there were
j twelve men and eight boys in clerical robes,
| and from the number of seats for the Clergy
| I should judge this was only about one half
|of the full number. There are also seats ex
i pressly for the Lord Bishop, Mayor, and Al
| derinen of the City of London. On the top
i of this building is to be obtained the best
j view of this City.
The British Museum contains the largest
| collection in the world, consisting of stuffed
| beasts, animals, birds, reptiles, fishes, fossils,
' insects, minerals, skeletons of beasts and an
j imals, ancient sculpturing, and ancient relics
!of every discription. This building is the
j property of the Government, and admission
is free to all. To any one that takes an in
terest in natural history and antiquities a few
days could be spent here with profit. Nearly
all the products of Dr. Layard’s excavations
' on the site of ancient Ninevah, and other
vlaces in Assyria are deposited here. Some
of the specimens to be seen are the oldest
ki 10 wn, or nearly 4000 years old.
The National Gallery contains a large and
fine- collection of Paintings, and is also free to
all.
Havi.ng heard much of Madame Tussaud
& Sons’ Waxworks, I paid it a visit. It is in
Baker Street—a very aristocratic part of the
eitv—and contains about three hundred and
fifty Wax models of the most prominent in
dividuals of the present and past ayes, and
arc considered to be the most correct likeness
es in existauce. In walking through a place
of this kind, it is sometimes very difficult to
tell visitors, when they are seated or stand
ing, from the Models, as some of the latter
move and apparently breathe. Many of tin*
figures I could call by name those who they
were intended to represent, although I had
never seen them in person, but owing to hav
ing seen their portraits very often. Among the
Figures here is tha t of George Washington,
dressed as first Presit lent of the United fetates.
T think this is the woi *st likeness on exhibi
tion, as it don’t look liL* Washington at all to
me,—the features and mAUth being too small.
What gives an additional interest to the fig
uresis, that many of thein.ve clothed in the
same dresses as worn by thos '© they represent.
T 1 o figure of Emperor Nape 'I ,D > the first,
is laying or the same camp bed. stead, matrass
and pillow, that was used by him seven years
during his exilement at St. Hole t)a, and his
body covered by the same cloak lhn't bo wore
at Marengo, and which served a- hi A funeral
pall. There are also many other relic.* °t bis
personal property, including his carriage* to
ken at Waterloo, —most of which th.’ugs
Madame Tussaud procured from the Gove.'u
ment. One of the -rooms is called “ThC
Chamber of Horrors,’’ and contains a larp *
collection of the figures of most notr ri
ous criminals of the last century I will give
you a sketch of one person in this room, and
that is of Count Do Lorgc, and who is repre
sented in a prison in the Bastile, with a lonl
of bread and a pitcher of water on a table
before him, and on the loaf is the figures of
two .Mice, fixed by machinery so that they
run around and nibble just as natural as life.
This man whom Madame Tussaud says she
saw in exile, was confined in the Bastilc thir
ty years for offending a minister ; and when
liberated lie found all his relations and friends
dead and almost forgotten. Liberty had no
joys for him. He often begged to be re
stored to the prison he inhabited so long.—
He died shoitiy after his release.
In this room is exhibited tiie same guillo
tine that was used in France during the
Reign of Terror, and decapitated Louis XVI.,
Duke of Orleans, Robespierre and others.
The Thames Tunnel is another institution.
This tunnel is under the Thames River, in
the eastern part of London. The charge to
go through is two cents. I paid that sum at
a door, and passed inside. The first thing
that greeted my ear was music from below.
T descended a flight of steps for sixty feet, to
the entrance of the tunnel. There are two
roads through it, each about sixteen feet
wide. One of them is closed u p for some
reason. On going through it .1 found it
lighted with gas, and various stoi cs for the
sale of fancy articles, refreshment rooms, &c.,
and miniature panoranomas and otLer exhib
itions all the way through. At one of the
latter -places I saw a neat and small steam
engine performing the duty of organ ist on a
large hand organ. After going through and
thinking of the wonderful skill of man in con
structing this tunnel, I thought and asked
myself for what it was built ? for I cannot
see that it is of the least use whatever. No
one that is going across the river would be
likely to go through it, for they can cross in
a boat in half the time, and not have to as
cend and descend sixty feet; and therefore the
only traffic through it is hv visitors.
In company with a few friends I visited
the Crystal Palace. It is the same Palace
that was built in Hyde Park for the great
exhibition. It is now removed to Syden
ham, nine miles from London. A railroad
runs from the latter place right, into the gar
den of the palace This place is the prettiest
1 ever saw ; the Crystal Palace at New York
is uot by any means so extensive. I was
told there was thirty-four miles of walk in
the building. The inside is laid ofF with
plauts and flowers from various parts of the
globe, together with sculpture, paintings,
birds, machinery, and goods of various de
scriptions. Among the machinery in motion
is the loom for the manufacture of cotton
from the raw material to its finish ready for
use ; also the manufacture of needles, shew
ing the process it goes through before lit to
use. There is also a newspaper printed
here, by steam. I believe it is weekly, al
though copies are struck oft every day to sell
to visitors. There is also silk velvet weav
in 0 by a hand loom. All tfc goods manu
factured here are for sale, and are mostly
sold to visitors ; as are also most of the
goods on exhibition.
Among the busts here I noticed several
Americans—among them John Quincy Ad
ams, Daniel Webster and Benjamin Franklin.
There is a very large organ inside that is
used at concerts, <Vc., for which a part is fit
ted up expressly. It was during the playing
of this organ that I saw a negro sitting in
company and chatting with three fine loot
ing white ladies, he having his arm round
one of them very lovingly, and she apparent
ly as prouu or his company as if he was
white. _ *
Outside of the building the grounds are
laid out beautifully, and are used for cricket
and other sports. There are several foun
tains the largest of which throws water 200
feet high. It is surprising what a number of
people visit here. The day before I was
here there was 35,000 visitors ; and quite of
ten there are as many as 10,000 in one day.
No stranger to London should fail to visit
the Crystal Palace. It is as prettr and in
teresting a place as a person would* wish to
I lt will take a full day to walk over it
While in London I visited most of the
I theatres. They are all built similar to those
in the States, but the regulations are difier
-1 cut. No lady is allowed to sit in the dress
circle with her lmt or bonmrt on; and re
spectable ladies frequent the pit and upper
boxes which you are aware is not the custom
with us. I am not much of a critic, but I
think the actors dress more natural than with
us. There is one very detestable practice in
England, and that is remancr&tiug waiters
and paying extra charges after you enter
places of amusement. The iirst theatre I
was in a man came up with a lot of bills of
the play, and said “Will y< u have a bill of
the play, sir ?” I said yes, and he handed me
one and demanded sixpence for it! I have
been into a hotel and taken cue dinner, when
the waiter would touch his hat and say, ‘‘Re
member the waiter, sir.” If Igoto a public
garden and call for any refreshments, it is the
same, and this is the custom universally—
Many of these waiters get no other remuner
ation for their service than what they re
ceive from visitors. In fad many give bo
nus s for these places. If I go to any of
the places of amusement T almost surely find
some extras; for instaucc, the admittance to
the Cremorne Gardens is twenty-live cents ;
and yet to see all there is there to sec, the
charge is $3.25 to $3.75.
A day or two ago I came across the fol
lowing correspondence that passed between
the manager of Drury' Lane and Covent Gar
den Theatres; I don’t think it has ever ap
peared in a paper yet:
‘‘Drury Laue, Nov. 9th.—My Dear Hop
kins—For God sake lend me a couple of con
j spirators for to-night. Recollect you have
borrowed one of ours for u singing Druid,
| and another of our best is Doge of Y'euice
i to-night. Entirely and devotedly yours—
Wild.”
“Covent Garden, Nov. 9th.—My Dear
Wild—l have ordered them to look you out
two of the most genteel assassins, and I’ll
take care they shall go shaved and sober.—
Pray tell Farren he must play our Archbish
op to-morrow, we’ll cut the part that he may
dress time enougU afterwards for your gen
eral in the camp. Yours respectfully—Hop
kins.
P. S.— lf you have a full moon to spare I
wish you’d lend it us for Thursday. I send
you some lightning that I can venture to rec
ommend.’’
“Covent Garden, Nov. 12th.—My Dear
Fellow—There’s the devil to pay about our
Tuesday’s Pantomime, the blacksm'th can’t
repair our great serpent till Friday, and the
old camel that we thought quite sound has
brokeu down at rehearsal, so pray send us
your elephant by the bearer, and a small ti
ger with the longest tail you can pick out.—
I must trouble you too, for a dozen of your
best dancing shepherds for that night, for
though I see you’d want them for highway
men in the Beggers Opera, they’ll be quite
in time tor us afterwards. Forever com
pletely yours—Uopkins.”
“Dear Hopkins—l just write you a line
while the beasts are packing up. I beg you’ll
not be out of spirits, as you may
the shepherds, and any other animal you may
have occasion lor. 1 have it in orders to ac
quaint you too, that we don't use Henderson
lor Falstaff on Friday, you may have him for
Richard, with a dozen and a half of our sol
diers for Bosworth Field, only begging you’ll
return them to us iu time for Boxheatb.—
Totally yours—Wild.
P. S.—Send me a Cupid, mine has got the
measles.”
“Covent Garden, Nov. 12th.—Dear Wild
—Thank you for your Ileuderson and the sol
dier.-; do let them bring their helmets for ours
is tinning. The bearer is our Cupid, at a
shilling a night, finding his own wings. Gen
uine yours—Hopkins.”
The Police of Loudon is a very fine body
of men and very civil; in fact they are a
Model Police. My next letter will be a trip
to Paris. Yours truly, E. C.
Arrival of the C'nuada—Three Day* La
ter from Europe.
Halifax, Jan. 23.
The R. M. 9toamship Canada, from Liver
pool on the lGth, has arrived.
The steamship Ariel had put back to Cork
on the I.oth iust.. with her main shalt broken.
The Leviathan had been pushed nearly to
th e end of the launching ways. Little else
wo. dd be done till the high tides of January
lloat her.
T'"* London money Market was easier.—
Messrs. 0. T. Gray & Sons, of London, in
tl:- Canadian trade, have suspended.
i'ho American barque Adriatic, which was
confiscated by the Court of Aix, for coming
in collision with the steamship Lyounaise,
had escaped from Marseilles.
A new Spanish Ministry had been organ
ized.
JSiews from India, one week later had bee’’
received, but there was nothing further from
Cawnpore.
The Bank of England had reduced the rate
of discount to 5 per cent.
France.—An attempt upon the Emperor’s
life was made on the evening of the 14th on
their Majesties’ arrival at the Opera House.
Three explosions, coming from hollow projec
tiles, were heard. Sixty pelBms were wound
ed and three killed. The Emperor's hat was
pierced, and his aid-de-camp slightly wound
ed. Two footmen were also wounded, and
one of the horses attached to the carriage
was also killed.
Tiie couspirators were Italians, and many
arrests were made. After the Opera the Em
peror was enthusiastically hailed by the pop
ulace.
India— Bombay dates were to December
24th. The garrison at Fattebp >re were press
ed by the insurgents, aud have abandoned
part of their intrenchments to take np a more
secure position. A body of insurgents bad
been defeated at Genownce, and 150 killed.
Three British ollicers were killed. The in
surgents in the neighborhood of Jubbclpore
were attacked on the 20th, nor without de
cisive result. Reinforcements were marching
there. Several executions of native Chiefs
had taken place. The Puugaub, Scinde and
Bombay were quiet.
Spa n.— The Queen’s speech announces
that she has accepted the mediation of France
and England in the quarrel with Mexico, but
that under all circumstances the honor of
Spain shall bo preserved intact. Istowitz is
the head of the new ministry.
Italy. —Mazzini has published an address
to the people of Italy, telling them to con
spire, is not a right but a duty.
Latkst — Paris, Friday.— Four Italians, in
cluding Counts Orizini and l’ierra, have been
arrested, and many other arrests havejbeen
made. Five persons are dead.
Paris, Saturday.—lt appears that the po
lice of Paris were notified by the Belgian
police of an intended attempt at assassina
tion-
London, Saturday.—The Times' city arti
cle says that the attempted assassination of
the Emperor caused a flatness in the funds to
day. The stock exchange rates for advances
remains at 3 per cent.
Pennsylvania Lcsisiature.
Harrisburg, Jan. 28.
The Senate has passed the joint resolution
authorizing the Governor to open a corres
pond“ntx with the Governors of other States,
for the purpose of calling a convention for the
adoption of measures to prohibit notes of a
less denomination thou 30’s, slo’s or s2oa.
Resolutions have been offered to the Legis
lature instructing Senators to resist the ad
mission of Kansas into the Union unlil its
constitution has received the unqualified sanc
tion of a majority of the bona fide residents.
Thev were referred to a special committee
amid much confusion.
TcrrK>l« Steamboat Disaster.
Cincinnati, Jan. 28.
TliJ steamer Fanny Fern, from St. Louis,
for I'ttsburgh, with 400 tons produce, fifteen
cabin and twenty deck passengers, exploded
her boiler this P. M., eighteen miles below
this city.
Fifteen lives are reported lost, including
Capt. Woodward, several deck hands and fite
men, and three ladies.
The boat took fire, burned to the waters’
edge and sunk.
Clerks Rogers and Dunn were scalded.—
The former badly and the latter slightly.
The O. & M. train brought up thirty of
the sufferers—fifteen of whom were wound
ed. The pilot, engineers and mate were
saved.
Washington, Jan. 28. •
Senate. —Mr. Foot introduced a proposi
tion as an amendment to Davis’ Pacific Rail
road bill, in case that the majority of the se
lect committee shall fail. The amendment
adds a claim for the nertbem route.
Mr. Slidell, from the Select Committee ap
pointed to consider the banking system of
the District of Columbia, reported a bill pro
hibiting the issue of bank notes of any denom
ination less than $5O, within the District, by
corporations located beyond its limits. The
bill was made the special order for the second
Tuesday in February.
lue bill for increasing the Army was taken
up, and Mr. Toombs made an earnest and able
speech against it.
The special order being the subject of a
medal to Commodore Paulding was taken
up.
Mr. Pearce made a speech justifying Com.
Paulding, who had his hearty thanks, and no
doubt those of the mass of the country ; but
he would not vote for a medal, for his ser
vice was not of a class which had ought to be
made historical
Mr. Slidel earnestly disapproved of Com
modore P&ulding'g act, ana concluded by of
fering an amendment to the bill reported by
the Committee on Foreign Relations author
ising the President to suspend the neutrality
laws at his discretion, not exceeding twelve
months, and in case the President should do
so to communicate his reasons therefor to
Congress.
The subject was postponed to the 9th of
February.
The consideration of the army bill was re
sumed.
Mr. Stewart supported it.
Mr. Fessenden made a speech to show that
the freemen of Kansas were not guilty of
treason, and that Senators might approve the
army bill without desiring civil war there.
Without taking the question, the Senate
adjourned till Monday.
House —The House went into Committee
on the printing deficiency.
Mr. Shaw, of 111., commenced a speech on
the Kansas question, when Mr. Burnett rose
te a point of order, saying that the rule re
quires members to confine themselves to the
subject under consideration. The Chairman
remarked that if this question was now pre
sented for the first time he could decide the
point when taken, but a different usage has
prevailed.
After debate Burnett withdrew his objec
tion, and Shaw proceeded.
Mr. Hickman made a long speech in op
position to the position of the Adminis
tration and the Lecompton Constitution,
without any decision the committee rose and
the House adjourned.
Washington, Jan. 29.
House.— Mr. Howard called attention to
the fact that the bill providing for the defi
ciency in the appropriation for the printing,
now before the Committee of the Whole on
the state of the Union, had not been discus
sed, but the debate was devoted to general
subjects. He offered resolutions for extend
ing debate on the bill till to-morrow, and
confining speeches strictly to the subject.
Mr. John Cochrane objected, for the sim
ple reason that it was now too late to insist
on such a course, the Committee of the
Whole on the state of the Union having dis
tinctly refused to enforce the rule:
Further proceedings on this subject were
terminated, by the House going into Com
mittee of the Whole on the Printing Defi
ciency bill.
Mr. Burnett said that the public printing
had been charged as a source of corruption,
through which the Treasury had been robbed.
Alsu, that gentlemen who hold the office of
Public Printer, had realized princely for
tu .es ; and extensive combinations are form
er' through which the printing is controlled.
1 ’<■ did not make these charges, nor did he
know how far they were true. It had been
advanced in favor of their election that they
had given thousands of dollars, and freely
opened their purses during the Presidential
election. The printing had grown enormous
ly for a few years past. P **••' ♦''iwn.ow.
ond Congress it was t
Amongst othdr citations o
eaid that $45,548 was sp.<
woodcock, squirrels, mice
to be worthlessly put into
report. He was for stopj
the treasury, by paying ft is
ted and dispersing with tin
ed. lie moved to amend
ing the proposed appro ■;
to $420,000.
Mr. Letcher shower tb.
the bill was to pay for iial
the last two Congresst. , . •.. , 0
fact of the publication of tl -iport u' illi,
Astronomical Expedition costing $115,000,
and that of the Pacific Survey nearly $833,-
000 and Emery’s Report $347,000. He
hoped that in some way a stop would soon be
put to this system of printing. The publica
tion of these and other reports amounted to
nothing more than that the government was
to be the publisher. Some of these books
were utterly worthless. He appealed to the
committee to take some means to put an end
to such shameful extravagance in the future.
Their constituents should not be taxed for
such unjust and wasteful purposes.
Mr. Phelps explained that the bill is to
provide for the payment of the amount due
under contract made by the House. Those
contracts should be met, and Congress
should not undertake to repudiate them, and
the present Congress should be held respon
sible for its expenditures for printing, and
should govern its future course by its expen
ditures of the past.
Mr. Crawford was willing to pay for work
already done to the amount of $375,000,
and no more.
Mr. Nichols thought that it was proper
that the House should manifest its sense as
to what should be done relative to printing,
but he was opposed to the suggestion of the
gentleman from Georgia.
After further debate the committee rose,
without coming to a conclusion upon the
subject, and the House then adjourned till
Monday.
St. Paul markets.
Miskssotus Omcs, l
Feb. 0,1558. f
Another week of unpleasant weather, and bad roads
have exerted an unfavorable change on the Markets.,—
The roads, being broken up by the continued thaw, and
the unusual and unseasonable rains of the past week,
have pal an embargo on traveling or teaming almost en
tirely, and our streets during this time have been unusu
ally dull, and devoid of the bustle incident to the excel
lent weather nnd easy sleighing of the preceding week.
As an evidence of the dullness of trade, we were told
that several teams from below, loaded u i h provisions
and produce of various kinds, arrived during the week.
The persons in charge, however, finding the market well
supplied, or owing to the difficulty of Selling any quan
tity for cash, realised hut little on their cargoes. St.
l’aul is weil supplied with most of the staple asticles of
provision, and the prices range low. The demaßd for
shipments from below are continually growing less.—
Still, the prices which have ruled, still attract hither ma
ny lots of produce which, produced nearer here, are al
ready offered at lower rates.
We quote below the ruling prices of the Markets now.
FLOUR.—FIour is now stationary at low rates. We
qujt from sales at, Extra, $5,6Oa|G,UO. Superfine, $4,-
75a; i,50.
1 (Ifi.-i—3sa4oc per do*.
•' TER.—Best firkin, 20 to 30c per lb.
I": VISIONS.—Pork, |2sas2S per bbl.; Hams 15a170
per ll».; Potatoes 40a50c per bu.; Cheese, 10a61c per lb.,
Dried Fish, SalOo per lb.;
FRESH MEAT.—The establishing of private Meat
Markets throughout the city has reduced the price of
Meat sensibly; It can now be bought as follows: Beef,
by the quarter, 7a9; Mutton, 15a20c; Pork, by the
carcass, 7aloc per lb.; Veal, 15a30c; Venison, <saloc
per lb. Fresh Fish, GaBc.
POULTRY.—PouItry has been somewhat more plenty
duringthe past two weeks, ami has been retailing at a
bout 20c per Ib. The enormous profit derived from this
business should be an incentive to more persons to en
gage in a systematic raising of Turkeys, Geese, Chick
ens, Ac., of which the supply has never folly equalled
the demand here.
GROCERIESCoffee, 14a20 c; Brown Sugar, 12a14c ;
Refined Sugar, 15a17c; Crushed and Powdered Sugar,
17a20c; Tea,soaSOc ; Rice, 6aS.o; Molasses, SOc af 1; Syr
up, $1,00a51, 25; Star Oand'.es, 80a85c per lb.; Tal’-w
Candles, 16a20c; Lara 01’, $1.40a1,60 per gal.; Salt, s4a
$6,60 perbbl.; Vlne-; art 18a20c pe gal.; Tallow, 12a
18c per lb.; Lard, ’,6a200 per lb.
The supply o' Groceries is good, and the stores well
stocked with, mo «t articles we quote.
DRIED yßUlT.—Peaches, unpared, 19c, pared, 25c.
Apple* / carcer-18 to 200 per lb.