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THE WEEKLY MINNESOTIAN.
OWENS A KOORE,
VOLUME 1.
THE MINNESOTIAN,
PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY,
BY J. P. 0 WESTS <s' G. W. MOORE ,
Saint Paul. Minnesota Territory.
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vertising.
James M. Goodiiue, Pioneer,
l>. A. Robertson, democrat,
Owens &. Moore, Minuesotian.
St. Paul March 24th, 1852.
Sf. E. AMES* R. R. NELSON.
AMES & NELSON,
ATTORNEYS AND COUNSELLORS AT LAW,
AND SOLICITORS IN CHANCERY.
St. Paul, Minn.
WILL attend with promptness and fidelity to all law
business Intrusted to their care In Minnesota, and
the adjoining counties of Wisconsin.
rr Particular attention nil; be given to the collection
of debts, and the location of land warrants. y
W. P. MURRAY,
ATTORNEY AND COI N'S ELOIt AT I* A \V,
IST. Paul, Minn. Terr.
WILL attend promptly and diligently to all business
intrusted to him. ILiivng nia le hluiself acquaint
ed with the quality and situation of the surveyed Luids
In the territory, he is prepared to locate land warrants
to the best advantage. Persons at a distance may send
their warrants here and their Interests will be attended
to a.s If they were present. £3“ Office on Third sreet.
September 17, 1861.
11. L. MOSS,
A TTORNEY & COUNSELLOR AT
A Law, Stillwater, Mm. Tt-r., will attend M pro
regional business in all the courts of the Territory ; will
attend to the location of 1-and Warrants, &c.
Land Warrants for sale.
A. VAN VORHES,
A TTORNEY & COUNSELLOR AT
XjL Law and Solicitor in Chancery, will attend to all
professional business intrusted to his care, in the different
courts of the Territory. [Stillwater, 1852.
Isaac Atwater,
A TTORNEY & COUNSELLOR AT
nIl. Law and Solicitor in Chancery. Will give prompt
attention to any biisln >*s intrusted him in the line of his
profession, in any part of the Territory. Particular at
tention paid to locating Land Warrants, Payment of Tax
es, sale of Patents wln»n issued, and Real Estate in gen
eral. Office at St. Anthony, ou Main street, opposite the
Falls.
\Y. Richardson,
"JYjOTARY PUBLIC, Conveyancer, and
J- Y I .and Agent. Office, opposite the St. Charles
House, St. Authotiy Falls.
THOS. P. WATSON.
Attorney, Counsellor Sf Solicitor.
(avocat franc a is. )
Office over Spencer’s store, Third st.,
St. Paul. mtf
inUtt.V & VAX ETITS.
ATTORNEYS ATLAW,
Office over Farrington** Brick Store, St Paul.
Dr. IC, BABBITT.
HAS Ills* office* in the rear of Levi Sloan’s store, when
he will he ready to attend to professional calls.
Saint Paul, Nov 29—mm y
DR. J. H. DAY,
WILL practice hi* profesMon In Saint Paul and vi
cinity. Office oil Bench street,
nov 29 uiui y
L. A. BABCOCK, 31.5. WILKINSON.
LAW FIRM,
BABCOCK &. MI LK IN SOX Attornics and Counsellors
at Law, Solicitors in Chancery, &e.
Office near the corner of Thir l and Roberts streets, St.
Pari- -Min. Ter.
H 111 attend to business of their profession In all the
Couttt of tlie Territory,
lute. 22, lSol.
BRECK & WILLIAMS,
ATTORNEYS AND COUNSELLORS ATLAW.
Ol'flrL on Tuird St. Saint rani.
Daniel Break. A. L. Williams.
Ire. 6.
W »I. HEART WOO it,
Attorney & oounsklkoii at law. Notary
lMlillc, and Land A-’ont. Sauk Ka|ild>, Minnesota
Territory.
JACOB J. NOAH,
ATTORNEY AT LAW and Justice
«. of the Peace —Commissioner for the States of Maine,
Connecticut, Rhode island, New York, Pennsylvania,
Kentucky, Ohio, Virginia, Alabama and Louisiana.
Office on Third St., St. Paul.
DR- T. R. POTTS,
CORNER Roberts and Sixth streets, St. Paul,
WILL attend to the duties ot Ids profession In St. Paul
and vicinity. September 17.
BILLS or EXCHANGE,
AND DRAFTS on all parts of the United Stales, at the
oitlec of the Minnesota outlit, by
CIIAS. W. BORUP.
J. QUINN,
BOOT AND SHOEMAKER—Corner
of Third and Minnesota Sta.—Gentlemen’* botts
and shoes; also Ladies’ and Children’s shoes, made to
order in the neatest anil most durable manner, and of the
best materials.
J. R. BREWSTER,
House, Sign, ami Ornamental Painter.
St. I’aul, Minnesota Territory.
INSURANCE!
TIIE undersigned is agent for, and will insure buildings
and good* in the following Companies:
Utica Insurance Company.
AStna Insurance Company of Utica,
Orleans Insurance Company.
Jackson County Mutual Insurance Company,
Xew York Protection Company,
—ALSO—
Will Insure lives in the Connecticut Mutual Life Insii
fap'4Company. ALEX. WILKIN.
St. Paul, November 5,1851 g
F. E. COLLINS,
AUCTION & COMMISSION MOUSE
TIIE undersisncil having received an Auctioneer’s c'om
mlfslon from the Ooventor of Minnesota, lias opened an
Auction and Uonimlssion House, In St. Paul, where he
will sell on commission, Groceries, Orv Goods, Furniture,
fcc. He believes that the superior mlvautages of
St. Paul as a market, will be a suftieient inducement for
business men and manufacturers at a distance, to send
their goods, Me., to be sold on commission at private sale,
or at auction. His charges w ill be m slerate.
X. B. Particular attention wl|) be paid to the sale of
real estate, In or about St. Paul, St. Anthony, or Stillwa
ter.
March « p. E. COLLINS.
REFERENCES:
Gov. Ally. Ramsey, St. Paul,
**<>>• It. H. Sibley, Mcndota,
llavu, Olmsted, Merchant, Benton Ct.,
“ J -C. Ramsey, St. Paul,
“ Wm. H- Forbes,
Elfelt A Brothers, f „ . , c ,
J. W. Simesos, l Merchants, St.
John Farrington, t Paul.
D. I. Feller, j
Franklin Steele, Mer. st. Anthony.
MM. HOLCOMBE,BsQ., Stillwater. ■
t'entral Mouse, St. Paul.
CIAYK & BURTON have taken this old and well known
J house. They have fitted it up anew, and are now
prepared to accommodate boarders and travellers with
comfortable quartern. No pains will be spared to make
the Central House one of tlis best Hotels in the West.
November, 1851.
RODNEY PARKER, late of the American llou*.* Ln«r
rll, Mass., having a lease of the large hotel at the
upper end of JSt. Paul, with everything in proper order
fur the convenience of travelers, boarders, or families de
siring furnished apartments, respectfully invites his
friends and the public to give him a call, believing that
he can do as much for their comfort as can be expected
in a new country, not yet supplied with regular markets.
Temperance House,
i T OT MO FEET, Proprietor,—Corner
-I~J of Fourth and Jackson Sts., Saint Paul. Pcrma
* nent and transient boarders furnished with good and com
fortable apartments. Charges moderate.
Hair-Way House.
TOJIN MORGAN, (mid-way between
St. Paul and Stillwater.) begs leave to say to stran
gers visiting Minnesota, and the public generally, that
having made his arrangements complete for the accom
modation of the public, and being situated in the midst
of the most delightful scenery, surrounded by lakes that
abound with fish, and In an atmosphere of unsurpassed
purity, he hopes to see company from abroad, as well as
from the neighboring villages. They will find the charges
moderate.
Minnesota Boarding-House,
SC McCRAY would inform the pub
• lie—residents and strangers—that he has taken
the large house on Kaglc Street, opposite 1). L. Fuller’s
j Brick Store, where he is prepared to accommodate his
1 customers with the best style of boarding. The house
I has been thoroughly repaired and painted. His table will
be furnished with every tiling the market affords ; and
those who come prepared to plank up the Ca h every
: Saturday night, will find the “Minnesota Boarding House”
a comfortable and pleasant home. None others are de
sired. [April 17 —6m.
OAK HILL CEMETERY.
A LL persons desiring burial lots can
J. A. obtain information by calling upon the Secretary,
J. W. Selby, or the President, <*. IV. Borup. 29y 1
P. CIIOUTEAU, JR. JAS. HARRISON; FELIX VALLE.
CHOUTEAU, HABBISON k VALLE.
Commission Merchants and Proprietors of the St.
Louis Rolling Mill.
A ND manufactures of bar iron in all its
if- various shapes; Sheet Iron and Boiler Plate, Nails
and Spikes from the ore or the Iron Mountain. Inn Store,
No. 123 North Second street, St. Louis.
September 1, 1851.
Nathan Spicer,
TEWF.LER AND WATCHMAKER,
•J at the sign of the Big Watch, Third street, 43
next door to tin* St. Paul Drug Store, is prepared
to make gold and silver watches, rings, spoons, |{pt J.
No., on short notice. Also to repair the same, as Qmv
well as music !>ooks, shell combs, or finger rings, brace
lets and ear drops, lie also keeps for sale a great variety
of rings, perfumery, and whatever goods are usually en
quired for at a Jeweler’s.
W. H. FORBES,
UUR COMPANY—St. Paul Outfit—
J- Also Dry Goods and Groceries, corner of Third and
Jackson streets.
jTwT BABCOCK,
FORWARDING and Commission Mer
chant, Upper Landing, Saint Paul, Minnesota Ter
ritory.
Kittson’s Addition.
f T'HIS desirable ground, lying in the
JL most central and advantageous part of the basin
of St. Paul, where must Inevitably be the principal river
business of the town, and affording also the most choice
and delightful lots in the rear, upon the bench for dwel
ling houses; is surveyed into lots and now offered for
sale with titles undisputed and indisputable, at reasona
bly low prices, and ui*>n liberal terms of credit, for most
of the purchase money, and lumber for building on lots
sold in the addition, will be furnished at the rotary saw
mill on easy terms. CIIAS. 11. OAKES,
Agent for Proprietors.
SPENCER, KIRKPATRICK & MARKLEY,
Forwarding and Commission Merchants,
LEVEE, LOWER LANDING, ST. PAUL*
feb 14 22-tf_
S. P. FOLSOM,
County Surveyor.
May In* f.iund at ..ffliv nr of Register of Deed-, on Tl,lrd
street, one door below Minnesota Outfit. 17 —y
E. M’LAGAN,
STORAGE AND COMMISSION MERCHANT,
Jackson street, Lower Landing, St Paul, Minnesota.
I)KO.MPT attention given to all consignments, and char
ges moderate.
St Paul, October 19, 1851 7^
THEODORE E. PARKER,
Attorney and Counsellor at Law,
STILT.WATER, MINNESOTA TERRITORY.
To my old friend*,
AXI) TIIE “REST OF MANKIND.” I would say,
that 1 can he found during the winter, at the old
stand of Charley Cave, on Third Street, where I will al
ways l>e happy to wait upon them, liar and house fur
nished with tiie best of every thing.
uov. 22. tt. WM. HAUTSIIOIINE.
painting.
SHERMAN 5c MOREY, on Fourth street, St. Paul, near
tiie middle of town, in the building of Mr. Knox, tip
stair>, may b>* foutld, ready to attend to Painting in all its
department.'. House painting, sigh painting, carriage
and ornamental painting, all done up promptly, ond .with
paints of tiie best quality. If we do our work in a slov
enly, unworktnan like mannner we do not expect to get
business In tiie enlightened town of St. Paul.
l)«c. 13, 1851. SHERMAN A MPKKV.
BOOKBINDING.
THE subscriber would respectfully infoini the citizens
or St. Paul and its vicinity, that he is now carrying on
the above business in the 2d story of Spencer’s new build
inir, on the corner of Frtli and Roberts street.
£_r* Particular attention paid to rebinding old hooks and
periodicals. JaMKS MACKINTOSH,
fob 7 21— tf
J C Burbank A co. St.Paul] [W L Fawcette &co. St. Louis
NORTH-WESTERN EXPRESS COMPANY,
CONNECTING AT GALENA AND ST. LOUIS WITH THE
American and other Express Companies.
r TH) and from all the principal cities in the United States,
*• California and Europe, for the speedy transportation
of money and valuable packages, col ectiun of drafts, notes,
bills, accounts, Ac., purchase and sale of all kinds ot
merchandize.
AGENTS.
C. R. Rice Jc Co, St. Paul, Otis West, St. Louis,
J. Brookes, Galena.
N. B. —Particular attention paid to forwarding and
commission business generally.
may 1. 33-tf
AMERICAN SALOON.
I?RED. HARDY now keeps this well-known establfsh
. ment “on his own hook.” He hopes by a continued
attention to the wants of his customers, to merit their
patronage as heretofore. 19y
ST. PAUL DRUG STOKE.
HICHCOX & KELLOGG,
Corner of Third and Cedar sts., opposite Judge Lamberts.
WILL keep constantly on hand a general supply of the
best unadulterated drugs and medicines, and articles
usually kept for sale in drug stores.
Physician*’ prescriptions put up with the greatest care.
Medicines may be procured at all hours of the night,
without extra charge.
23* Profits small, an 1 terms cash.
SADDLE, HARNESS AND TRUNK MANUFACTORY.
*|AHE subscriber solicits the patronage of the public,
X ami assures all purchasers in his line, that he will
e 11 for cash, saddles, harness of ail kinds, and trunks, of
a better quality, and cheaper than any other establish
ment in Minnesota. Purchasers will do well to call at
his shop, on Third street, St. Paul, next door S.
11. Sergent’s and judge for themselves.
A. R. FRENCH*
C KETCHES OF MINNESOTA, the
O New England of the West, by K. S. Seymour. For
sale by LEDUC A ROHKER.
FIRE X MARINE INSURANCE,
BY the undersigued agent for the Protection Insurance
Company of Hartford, Conn. Policies issued upon the
most favorable term* by
W. P. Murray, Agent, Minnesota.
St. Paul, February 28, 1862 M-l®
SAINT PAUL, MINNESOTA TERRITORY, SATURDAY, JULY 3, 1852.
From the National Intelligencer.
The Religions Test in New Hampshire.
The opening of the Presidential Cam
paign by the Democracy of Philadelphia,
on Monday night, reminds us, in one re
spect, of the openining of that of 1844
in the same city, when our political ad
versaries in their ardor to start with as
much capital as possible, in utter disre
gard of lac's, ascribed the enaclment 1 1
the Tarift" of 1842 to “ Polk, Dallas &
Co.”
At the Democratic Ratification M et
ing held in Philadelphia on Monday ni'lit
last, over which the Hon. George M.
Dallas presided, he opened the meeting
with an address, in which we lind the
following paragraphs:
“ I have heard it intimated to-day, for
the first time, that Franklin Pierce had
heretofore, while the Constitution of New
i Hampshire was in process of amendment,
j joined in defending and ret lining the
I proscriptive feature it contained against
Roman Catholics. Now, gentlemen, this
| is a weak invention of an already friglit
| enened enemy ; it deserves to be nailed
at once to the counter, as spurious and
base ; and I hope, by a simple statement,
to crush it at once and forever.
“It is true that this Constitution of
New Hampshire was disgraced by an in
tolerant and intolerably odious provision,
commonly called “ The Catholic Test."
which rendered the Catholics ineligible to
the Legislature and to the office of Gov
ernor. But it is equally true that the
most strenuous exertions were repeated
ly made by the Democracy, persevcringly
led on by two of her brightest stars, Levi
Woodbury and Franklin Pierce, to ex
punge an exception to common right, so
utterly inconsistent with the creed and
character of sound republicanism. Twice
did these just and generous champions of
civil an 1 religious liberty succeed in ob
taining from a Convention, called at their
instance, and for that very purpose, the
abolition of this “test,” and twice (as
the Constitution permitted no change of
its provisions, unless sanctioned by ttro
th in/s of the votes of the people,) were
they defeated by the opposition of com
bined Whigs and Abolitionists at the
polls.”
We regret that we have to correct an
error of fact coming from an authority so
eminent as Mr. Dallas, who, in defending
the candidate of his own party from po
litical aspersion—if the charge referred
to be such, for we do not know what po
sition Mr. Pierce occupied on that ques
tion—has been greatly misled in casting
upon the Whig party of New Hampshire
the responsibility of an odious decision,
made by the popular voice of that State,
in which it is notorious that the Whigs
have always been in a minority.
The facts in the case are widely differ
ent from what is stated by Mr. Dallas.—
The very day, (in March, 1851,) when
the people of New Hampshire rejected
the amendment to their Constitution which
proposed to abolish the properly qualifi
cation and the religious test, an election
was held for Governor, at which the
Whig candidate received only eighteen
thousand votes out of a poll of fifty-sev
en thousand. The vote was as follows :
For Mr. Sawyer, Wide, 18,431
For Mr. Ilinsmoor, Dim, 27,128
For Mr. Atwood, Free Soil Dom., 16.086
67,643
Mr. Atwood was the regularly nomi
nated Democratic candidate until within a
few days of the election, when, owing to
his free-soil predilections, he was thrust
aside, and Mr. Dinsmoor substituted in
his place. It is not probable, therefore,
that Mr. A. received the support of many
Whigs ; indeed, it is rendered certain that
lie did not receive their support, from the
fact that on this occasion Mr. Sawyer’s
vote was nearly the same in amount as
the Whig candidate for Governor had re
ceived at the several annual elections im
mediately preceeding that of 1851.
Now, in contrast with the above vote,
we insert from our own columns of the
31st of March, 1851, the returns of the
vote on the several constitutional amend
ments submitted to the people. These
returns we originally copied from the
New Hampshire Patriot, and professed
to give the complete vote of the State,
with the exception of one town :
Yeas. Nays.
On adopting the Bill of Rights, 10.434 10.753
Relating to tiie House of Representatives, 4.714 22,546
do do Senate, 6,015 21,333
do do Governor ami Lt. Governor, 8,013 18,802
do do Biennial Elections, See,, 5,552 22,953
do do Election of County Judges, 7,440 17,916
do do Trial Justices, Ac., 10,111 17,221
do do Test and property quaJiJi
cations, 9,862 17,122
do do Future Amendments, 9,023 17,687
do do Election of Judges, S. C., 7,316 19,769
do do Sup’t Public Instruction, 6,553 21,177
do do Commissioner Agriculture, 5,182 21,477
do do Election by plurality, 6.291 20,901
do do Abolishing the Council, 8,998 18,209
do do Other alterations, 7,040 18,698
That the Whigs are not accountable
for the defeat of the amendment abolish
ing the religious test and property quali
fication was clearly demonstrated by the
Press of the State at the time, which
gave publicity to the following facts, in
contrasting the votes given in the strong
holds of both parlies in favor of the
amendment. The comparison is made be
tween fifteen towns of each party, as fol
lows :
WHIG TOWNS.
Yeas. Nay*.
Merrimack, 139 69
Nashau, 1647 16
Nashville, 255 95
New Ispwich, 94 53
Dublin, 91 14
FitzwiUiam, 95 1
Jeffrey, 74 42
Keene, 233 6
Marlborough, 81 82
Trey, 61 13
Winchester, 208 6
Clan mom, 246 186
Rath, 107 34
Littleton, 100 60
Lyme, 88 67
2,512 674
DEMOCRATIC TOWNS.
Yens. Nays.
Bamstead, 63 330
Centre Harbor, 19 97
Gilnianton, 61 494
Effingham, l 136
Ossipee, 12 281
Tuftonlvorough, 42 149
Wake ft eld, I 212
Woll borough, 11 363
Bow, 26 160
Chichester, 11 172
Warner, 36 236
Wilmot, 43 151
Alexandria, 12 190
Ell«worth, I
Hill, J**
360 *3,186
This table shows that the above named
Democratic towns gave almost ten votes
to one against the amendment, whilst the
Whig towns gav« nearly four to one in
Offiee-rCorncr of Jackson and Fifth Streets.
favor of it. The town of Concord, in
which Mr. Pierce Resides, gave 122 votes
in favor of the amendment to 509 against
it. P
These facts contradict the statement at
tributed to Mr. Dallas, and exhibit the
liberality of the Whigs of the Granite
State in a much more favorable light
than that of the Democrats.
Notwithstanding the jubilation of the
opposition at the harmony of the party,
and the general satisfaction with which
the nominations of Pierce and King were
received, it seems that all parties are not
suited exactly. The friends of Mr. Bu
chanan, while they accept the nomina
tions, and praise t.em faintly, complain
bitterly that the favorite of Pennsylvania
should not only have been passed by, but
that insults should have been liberally of
ferred to him and his friends, by the peo
ple of Baltimore, or the occupants of the
galleries, who took occasion to hiss at ev
ery manifestation made for Mr. Buchan
an. They say that the Democratic States
were all in favor of Mr. Buchanan, but
that lie was defeated by delegates from
Whig States. There is some ground for
this charge, and it may possibly exert
some influence on the result. The Bu
chanan journals are evidently in bad spir
its, and promise to support the nominees
in a way which shows how liitle interest
they feel in the contest. The Lancaster
Intelligencer complains bitterly of the
conduct of some of the Democrats of
Pennsylvania, and says the nomination
will throw a damper upon Mr. Buchan
an’s friends, which it will require time to
remove. It tries to console itself with
the fact that “if the Democratic States
alone had made the nomination, he would
have been the nominee beyond question.”
“ The delegates,” it says, “ who adhere!
to him so faithfully, were all from Demo
cratic States, casting a majority of the
Democratic vote of the Union, going to
show most conclusively that he was the
choice of the party in a majority of the
States that can be relied upon to elect a
President. But they were overruled and
borne down by the delegates from States
who never have carried, and perhaps nev
er will be able to carry a solitary elector
al vote for any Democratic candidate for
the Presidency. It may be all right and
proper that Democratic delegates from
Whig States should be admitted to seats
in our National Conventions, but modesty
alone, to say nothing of justice and sound
poliev, should induce them to square iliolr
preferences so as to correspond with
those of the States that have to elect a
President, if a Democratic President is
to succeed at all.”
The Harrisburgh Union, too, appears
to be in very deep distress. It can’t find
terms bad enough to suit the conduct of
the Cass men of Pennsylvania. In its
agony it can only find relief by the use of
such terms as “desperadoes,” “cracked
brained politicians,” “ miserable crea
tures,” “ low,” “ base,” “ contemptible,”
“ blood-hounds it affirms that they
were not only despised by the friends of
Mr. Buchanan, hut the true, warm-heart
ed, whole-souled friends of Gen. Cass, in
New York, Michigan, Massachusetts,
Kentucky, and other States, shrank back
from them as from a leper, and then goes
on to speak of and rejoice over the con
temptuous trcalmcnt they received from
the Virginia and Alabama delegations,
which, it declares, despised and spurned
the miserable creatures that came to de
fame him ; hut he failed to obtain the
nomination, which lie would have re
ceived “if it had not been for the blood
hounds that were constantly in his track.”
It was left to Pennsylvania to have “ men
claiming to he of the same political faith,
who crowded the bar-rooms of a sister
city to thwart the expressed will of the
State,” and to “ defame and vilify Penn
sylvania’s favorite son.”
Other newspapers indulge in similar
remarks, and betray deep chagrin and
disappointment at the defeat of Buchanan.
The “ enthusiasm” does not appear to be
very strong in Pennsylvania, notwith
standing the demonstration at Philadel
phia. The extreme disgust now felt by
the friends of Mr. Buchanan may be
overcome before the canvass is over; but
it is doubtful whether they will go into
the fight with any spirit, unless they
have some such prospects ahead as made
them such devoted friends of Mr. Bu
chanan. There whole stock in trade was
invested in him, and his failure has made
them bankrupt. Their conduct, we sup
pose, will depend very much on arrange
ments “ not intended for the public
eyehut this conduct will be of very
little importance, if the Scott standard is
raised in the old Keystone.—Cin. Gaz.
Tall Bridge. —There is a bridge in
course of construction on the Buffalo and
New York City Railroad, where it cross
es the Genesee river, near Portageville.
When completed it will be 230 feet high,
and about 500 leet span ; stone piers, set
on the bed of the rock, and carried up
30 feet from the bed of the river, a few
rods above the upper falls. From the
top of the piers, the wood-work rises 200
feet, and so perfect is the model of the
bridge, (that may be seen on the ground,)
that is thought there will not be the least
tremor or motion, under the heaviest train
of cars that may ever have occasion to
pass over it. The limber grown on 160
acres has already been exhausted, and 50
acres more purchased. It is thought 210
acres will afford timber enough to com
plete the superstructure. Something of
an idea may be formed of the size of the
bridge, as it takes over 30 tons of iron
just for bolts. —Northern Christian Ad
vocate.
NOT SATISFIED.
Freni thcTlevelnml Iter* Id.
The Season—Sentimental’- Copper—Uopperdani-
Cornwall.
Eagle Harbor, L. S. June 6, ’52.
Dear Ens :—This is one of the days
when, if ever, one is disposed to read or
to write. It is just cool enough to make
a gentle fire feel comfortable: cloudy
enough to give everything out of doors a
gloomy aspect, and windy enough to keep
all musquitoes and sail crafts quietly at
home. It may sound out of season to you
Southerners to be speaking of cold and frost
in June, yet you must remember that we
are six degrees of latitude rearer the Pole,
and that the snow and ice is still piled up
along shore, in the sheltered nooks and
caves that indent the coast. I expect to
be believed, therefore, when I say it is
cold. The spring flowers are striving to
raise their heads and expand their leaves,
but it is a discouraging business.
I saw to-day a few lady slippers and
the blossoms of the “ shad ” or June ber
ry. But there is so much of the ever
green here, that the forest is never bare
of leaves. In summer, fall or winter,
there is always the same dark green of
the pine, the balsam and the lighter tinge
of the white cedar, as immutable as the
rocks on which they stand. There is
never a breeze, but there is the same ev
erlasting moan in the tops of the trees,
like the distant subdued woq of the surf.
The most experienced connot distinguish
them apart. How many a weary traveler
through this tangled swamp, has imagin
ed himself near the wished for lake when
he only heard in the distance the low
song ot millions of long pine leaves play
ed upon by the northern winds. Toiling
onward till night puts an end to his hopes,
he lays his weary body on the ground.—
Their tone which was so sweet when it
seems to be the tone of the waves, be
come sad and melaneholly, when it is
sung by the treezes among the branches
over his head, in the solitude of night.
Put there are in this rugged, forbid
ding, winter cold region, objects such as
are alluring to men. The atmosphere is
clear, dense and cold, and, and therefore, it
is peculiarly a land of health. There are
white fish and speckled trout not to be
mentioned at the same meal with any other
fresh water fish, and only one of the salt
water tribe, the shell.
And then those ancient hoary looking
mountains, so grim and rough that have
looked down upon these solitudes for so
many centuries, with the same forbidding
aspect they wear to-day, they are rich in
veins of that precious metal which comes
nc.vl 10 gold and silver ill the attentions of
the miser and of women. These riches
are destined to great celebrity throughout
the world. As yet the mines are not
fairly opened. It will require at least ten
years to develop them at the rate of pro
gress hitherto.
The greatest depth already readied is
only about 350 feet, and the greatest
length of galley is not less than a quarter
of a mile. Copper mines in the old world
that have been long wrought, are some
times worked to this extent before any
valuable mineral is obtained. There are
additional levels in the Cornwall mines
said to be twenty miles in length and
shafts that have readied a depth of 2500
feet. In Germany they have not carried
their galleries, drains and adits as far
horizontally as in Cornwall, but have
descended 4500 feet into the earth.
It is well with copper mines that
they increase in richness with the depth,
the limit to profitable operations being
fixed by the expense of raising the water.
You see plainly that Lake Superior min
ing is in its first infancy. It might be
fore this have kicked off its swaddling
clothes had it not been for the discourage
ment and troubles that have been for
years imposed by the action of the gener
al government in regard to titles. If its
future prospects had not been brighter
than any other known mines of copper,
the region would now have been deserted.
Being in a sentimental mood, I have
thus given you iny sentiments on the
weather, on music, and on copper, and
beg leave to close here, by subscribing
myself respectfully yours,
PIIOCION
Tehaul)tepee Route—lnteresting from Mexico.
Baltimore, Monday, June 7, ’52,
The New Orleans mails came to hand
to-night, bringing dates as late as due.
The main point of the Mexican news
has already been forwarded by telegraph.
The application of A. G. Sloo for the
right of way across the Isthmus of Te
hauntepec passed by the Mexican House
of Representatives by a vote of 60 to 20,
asks his exclusive right of way across
the Isthmus for 40 years, with a grant of
a league of land on either side of the road.
He binds himself in one year to build a
plank road across the Isthmus, and, as
soon as the travel will justify it, a rail
road ; Mexico to receive for forty years
two-fifths of the receipts of the route, and
at the expiration of that time the road to
revert to Mexico, who is to pay the
grantee or his heirs two fifths of the re
ceipts for forty years. The other fea
tures of the grant, in relation to transit,
duties, &c., are similar to those in the
Garay grant. Both parties to the grant
are to be represented in the management
of the Company.
Frederica Bremer having received since
her return home so many letters and par
cels from strangers in America as to have
made the heavy postage thereon a severe
burden to her, begs that such will hereaf
ter send their letters and packages to
the care of Marcus Spring, No. 22 Broad
street, New York (post paid) to be for
warded in some less expensive way—all
persous writing to her will do well to use
thin silk paper.
KING’S EVIL, Oil TWO IN A BED
Good stories are now so scarce none
should be lost, and the following, told by
Mr. J. H. McVicker, the Yankee come
dian, is among the best we have heard:
At a small village, not a thousand
miles off, a number of stages arrived, fil
led with passengers, who were obliged to
stop at a small tavern, in which there
was no great supply of beds. The land
lord said that he should he obliged to put
two or three gentlemen (who were, by
the way. nearly all strangers to one anoth
er) together, and reques'ed they would
‘ take partners.’ Stage coaches avc filled
with all sorts of people, and a bed-fellow
should be selected with care. Everybody
seemed to hesitate. Mr. McVicker, who
was one e>f the passengers, had made up
his mind to snooze in his chair, or have a
bed to himself. He saw that his only
chance to get a bed to himself was by
his wits, and walking up to the register,
he entered his name and remarked:
“ I am willing to sleep with any gentle
man. hut have the king's evil, and it is
contagious.”
“The king's evil!” said every one;
and the landlord, looking ‘ thunder struck,’
remarked, as he eyed Mac rather closely,
“ I’ll see, sir, what I can do for you by
yourself.”
In a short time Mae was ensconced in
ihe landlord’s bed, who slept on the floor
to accommodate strangers. In the morn
ing, while all were preparing for break
fast, a fellow traveler accostc.l the come
dian with,
“ Pray, sir, what is the nature of the
complaint of which you spoke last night.”
“•The nature!” drawled out Mac, a
little non plussed for an answer.
“Yes, sir. I never heard of such a dis
ease before.”
“ Why,” said Mac, brightening up, “I
thought every one knew. It is a disease
of long standing. Its first appearance
in America was during the Revolutionary
War, when it took off some of the best
men our country contained. At tlie bat
tle of New Orleans it amounted to an
epidemic ; and since the arrival of Kos
suth in this country, it has broken out
afresh in many places.”
“Indeed!” said the stranger, “ I con
fess I have never heard much of it.”
“ Perhaps not,” said Mac, “for it gen
erally goes by another name.”
“ And what may that be ?”
“ Republicanism,” laughingly replied
Mac, as he turned away to arrange his
toilet for breakfast.
NAUTICAL THEOLOGY
A story is current of a sailor, more dis
posed to divinity than nautical men in
general, who, when in this port, formed
regularly one of the congregation at the
church of a certain popular preacher. It
chanced that during one of the discourses
to which Jack was an attentive listener,
the Rev. Dr. alluded several times in
scriptural phrase, to Satan being bound in
“ chains for a thousand years.” The
passage struck the attention of the sea
man with peculiar force, and during the
week he pondered frequently upon the
words, feeling every time an increasing
satisfaction that an individual towards
whom he had never been over partial,
was so securely and for such a lengthy
term disposed of.
On the following day he went to hear
the doctor again, but to his great surprise
and to the unsettling of all his recent
comforting notions, during one portion of
the sermon the preacher asserted that the
devil “ goeth about like a roaring lion,
seeking whom he may devour.” Jack
quitted the church oppressed with a host
of conflicting thoughts and emotions, and
unable after many a tough soliloquial ar
gument, to reconcile the two statements,
he resolved to summon up courage and
wait upon the clergyman, in order to have
the mystery solved. He did so, and af
ter considerable humming and hitching of
the trowsers, at length spoke and told the
doctor that he could not make the two
sermons fit; and asked, if his Satanic
majesty was really bound in the way sta
ted, to know the length of his cable.—
“ Oh,” was the dignified reply, “it ex
tends over the whole world.” “My
eyes!” rejoined Jack, “does it? why
the lubber might as well be loose.—Liv
erpool Times.
The Administration and Califor
nia Wiiigs. —The Whig Committee of
San Francisco recently passed strong
resolutions condemning the appointment
by the President, of Lieut. Beal of the
U. S. Navy, and of Edward W. Jones of
the banking firm of Palmer, Cook &. Co.,
both known as ultra Democrats, to two of
the most responsible and lucrative offices
in California. They also declare that the
course pursued by the General Govern
ment towards the Whigs of California,
has tended to discourage and dishearten
them in their attempts to disseminate the
great principles of the party on the West
ern shore of our Republic ; that while
they have a firm and abiding confidence
in those principles, and will defend them
when called on, they yet most respectful
ly suggest that common justice demands a
recognition of their clear rights, on the
part of those whom they have assisted to
place in power.
The Whigs have carried New Orleans
in the election of delegates to reform the
Constitution.
“Quit spitting that nasty tobaccs on
the floor, Josh, or I’ll whollop you*”
“ La, mother, why don’t you speak
properly ? You should have said, cease
ejecting that offensive saliva of the Vir
ginia weed upon the promenade, or I will
administer to you a severe castigation.” —
Exit, Josh, a leetle ahead of the broom
handle.
EDITORS AND PUBLISHERS.
A SHREWD CALCULATOR
I must tell you that story of Hugo, for
it’s not a bad one; and, good stories, like
potatoes, ain’t as the used to he when I
was a boy. Hugo is a neighbor of mine,
though considerable older than I be ; and
a mean neighbor lie is too. Well, then,
he was going to get married to Gretchen
Kolp, he goes down to Parson Rogers, at
Digby, to got a license.
1 Parson," says he, ‘ what's the price of
a license ?’
‘ Six dollars,’ says he.
•Six dollars,’ said Hugo. ‘That’s a
dreadful sight of money ! Couldn’t you
take less ?’
‘No, says he. ‘That’s what they
cost me to the secretary’s office, at Hali*
fax.’
‘ Well, how much do you ax for pub*
iishing in church’ then ?’
‘ Nothing,’ says parson.
“ Well,’ says Hugo, ‘ that’s so cheap I
can’t expect you to give no change back.
I think 111 he published. How long does
it take?’
‘ Three Sundays.’
‘Three Sundays!’ says Hugo. ‘ Well
that’s a long time too. But three Sun
days only make a fortnight, after all; two
for the covers and one for the inside like:
and six dollars is a great sum of money
for a poor man to throw away. I must
wait.’
So oil' lie went a-jogging towards home,
and a-looking about as mean as a new
sheared sheep, when all at once a bright
thought came into his head, and hack he
went as hard as his horse would carry
him.
‘ Parson,’says he, ‘l’ve changed my
mind. Here's the six dollars. I’ll tie
the knot to-night with my tongue that I
can't undo with mv teeth.’
‘ Why, what in nature is the meaning
of all this,’ says the parson.
‘ Why,’ says Hugo, ‘l've been cipher
ing it out in my head, and it’s cheaper
than publishing bands after all. You sec,
sir, it’s potatoe digging time; and if I
wait to be called in church, her father
will have her work for nothing ; and as
hands are scarce and wages high, if I
marry her to-night, she can begin to dig
our own to-morrow; and that will pay
for the license and just seven shillings
over; for there ain’t a man in all Cle
ments that can dig and carry as many
bushels in a day as Gretchen can. And
besides, fresh wives like fresh servants,
work like smoke at first, but they get
sarcy and lazy after a while.’
Power of Kindness. —The Jackson*
ville (111.) Journal says, that when the
superintendent of the asylum for the
poor in that county first took charge of it,
he found an insane man who had been
loaded with chains for years. Believing
that this cruelly kept the man insane, lie
took the responsibility of faking them
and gradually restoring him to liberty.—
The man at first raved, expecting fresh
torture ; then lie doubted, and finally re
alized that he was free. He was over
powered with delight, exclaiming con
stantly, as he looked upon the outer world
of sunshine, “ O, how beautiful!” The
gratitude to his liberator prevailed. At
length he voluntarily went to work in the
garden, though he had nearly lost his
power of locomotion, and became entirely
recovered. He is now working on a
farm.
Every day we meet in our exchanges
instances of the horrible influence which
the blasphemous humbug doctrine of the
Spirit Rapping is gaining over good men
and women on all other subjects perfectly
sane. The following, a case in point,
we find in the St. Louis Evening Dis
patch, 26th ult: —
“ A gentleman living, we think in Illi
nois, known to many in this city, has a
family of sons and daughters, grown up
men and women of the highest respecta
bility. Some years ago his wife died,
and he, living in strong remembrance of
her love as a faithful good wife, has never
married. During her life they were
very happy, perhaps less than the usual
domestic vexations of married life attend
ed them ; not the first blush of suspicion
ever attached to her good name. But
this has been swept away by the damna
ble (excuse the expression, but it is
the most applicable, and we write it down
in great sincerity) magic juggling of a
medium, who has borne evidence from
some departed spirit, that she, the good
wife, the revered in memory, was un
faithful to him through her whole career,
and that the children, one and all were il
legitimate. Is not this truly horrible ?
But the worst has not come. Wholly
under the influence of a conviction that
spiritual agency is a fixed fact, the gen
tleman has disinherited his children as
common bastards, and driven them from
his heart. A wife’s memory blasted,
children's names dishonored in their life,
and made a thing to couple with a scourge
to whip their hearts with, a happy home
made cLaolale, and a father’s closing eye
of life rendered dreadful in its loneliness.
On what evidence ? On nothing.
Travel. —To give an idea of the great
increase of travel between this place and
Chicago the present season, we mention
the fact, that on Wednesday last, there
was received at the stage office of J.
Frink & Co., four hundred dollars for
stage fare from this place eastward. We
are told further, that the stage company
find it difficult to get stock enough on the
road to meet the public wants. If such
be the fact now, who can estimate the
amount of travel, when the Railroad is
finished through to this city, and when
the large and fine tract included in the
Sioux purchase is fairly thrown open to
settlement and civilization —both of which
events will soon transpire. —Galena Adv.
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