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THE MINNESOTIAN.
SATURDAY MORNING, NOVEMB’R 25, 1854
Money Matters.
Our Georgia “Currency" dealers, It will be
Ken. arc commencing to “ spar” among them
selves : an<l between the up and ilown-town
firms who deal in the “ turpentine paper,” as
It has been called —perhaps partly on account
of it* coming from a turpentine State, and part
ly on account of its explosive qualities—our
people may yet come out of the present panic
with whole purses. This, however, can only be
a temporary security, and it is well enough to
have all eyes set upon a further extension of
this species ot “ currency.” It will be seen by
our advertising columns this morning, that
Mackubin 4 Mger ton redeem Macon until this
afternoon at four o’clock, and Borup 4 Oakes
pledge themselves to take Atlanta. ad infini
tum. Thus i*. is hoped that the honest publ c
wid yet come out ul\be present Georgia scrape
without loss.
The Galena Adrertiser of Saturday has the
following in regard to the Free Hanks of Illi
nois :
The news from Chicago is favorable. The
panic had sub-ideJ. Our State Banks will be
sustained. Those which suspended will soon
r -uni*- lMj*ine~* again. The following card "to
the public" appears in the Chicago papers of
Thursday, signed Ay two hundred and sixteen
firms, comprising the Wholesale Healers of that
city :
•• To tiik Public. —AVc the undersigned,
Wholesale Healers and business men of the city
of Chicago, having entire confidence in the
stock-secured Banks of this .State, and in our
City Banks in particular, and being convinced
that th'-re are no just grounds for the present
panic, do and will continue to receive the hills
of all the aforesaid Banks, as heretofore."
I’. Maxwell, Bank Commissioner, issues a no
tice, that for every bank note issued by the
above Banks, there "have been deposited with
the Auditor, in the hands of the Treasurer, good
interest paying bonds of the several States, to
tie- full amount of every dollar of their own
bills: and ail registered money is equally se
cured, one Bank with another. Those that
Lave closed their doors have in no way depre
ciated the security for their bills.
Fresh Oystkiis. —Let the people do as they
may in New York about eating fresh shell oys
ters, we can teil them that we don't hesitate a
moment out here on account of the reported
“dis< asj” which this year’s crop of the Livalv c
is said to produce. We are now writing lliirty-
Btx hours after swallowing two or three dozen
of Bayless' specimen of the genuine article, and
we rather feel improved than otherwise from
the operation. Our experiment can be follow
ed by calling at the nctv Ilcstaurain under the
Winslow House.
ChamV.in 4 Morgan, besides owning the
latest steamboat of the season, are still selling
goods ia their line at reasonable rates and fair
bargains. Their advertisement explains.
Buckwheat flour is now in season, but
is a scarce article in our market and much iu
demand.
The Illinois Central Railroad Company
are driving tlieir work to completion between
Galena and Dunlcilh
I'nExrti and German. —We can recommend
those who wish to study these useful languages
to Mr. Burnand, who may be found at the
American House. His testimonials from abroad
are such as to fully warrant his capacity as a
thorough and successful instructor of these
languages.
Raw Hands. —Of the Senators just elected to
the Massachusetts Legislature, not one ever
before served in that body : and of the 350 mem
bers of the House, not more than ten or twelve
have bad any legislative experienue.
jrir- in c inclnnati.a few days since, a young
lady, named Ellen Tompkins, dressed herself to
go to a ball. After she had completed her toi
let. and while w aiting for her partner, she was
seized with an appoplcclic fit and f.-il to the
floor. When they raised her up, she was dead.
A Gallant Bor.—A few weeks since, when
the Tunnel Bridge on the Baltimore and .Sus
quehanna!! Railroad, about five miles south ol
York, w as burned, a disaster, which would pro
bably have been one of the most terrible that
ever happened, was prevented by a brave little
boy of about twelve years old. When the
framework of the bridge bad fallen through,
the boy. remembering that the express passen
ger train was then about due from York, start
ed oil'-at the top of his speed to endeavor to
stop the train, which lie knew must he close ai
hand. As soon as he reached the curve, about
two hundred yards from the bridge, he observ
ed the train coming on at full speed, and fear
ing that lie would be unable to stop them, un
less by the use of extraordinary means, the no
ble little fellow took his position on the track
and running towards the approaching train
with his hands raised, caught the attention o'
the engineer, w ho immediately reversed his en
gine, and stopped within four hundred yards o'
impending destruction, the piers being some
twenty feet from the rocky bed below, and the
gap some sixty feet wide. Had the boy not
placed himself on the track, he would doubtless
have failed in his noble efforts, as the engineers
arc so olten cheated by mischievous boys on
the route, that they seldom pay any attention
to them.
Excommunication in Austria.— A letter from
Linz, in Upper Austria, lately, says : “An act.
little in harmony with the spirit of our age.
has just taken place in the church of Nieder
brechten. A young Catholic having married
a Jewess, underwent excommunication. All
the church was hung with black, and the buil
ding was so crowded that many persons were
carried out faiuting. The cure placed himselt
belure the altar, and. in an agitated voice, ex
plained to the congregation the nature and
cause of the ceremony that was about to take
place. A superior member of the clergy then
ascended i!, l . pulpit, and exhorted the cure to
fiiilul w ith courage and firmness the painful du
ty imposed upon him by his sacred functions
and the orders of the bishop. The cure who
was deeply affected, and wept bitterlv! then
took his place, and read the anathema' issued
by the pronounced the excominu
Dication ol the husband and of all those con
cerued iu bringing about the marriage.
The Tlartford Courant has been sold,
on account of the death of John L. Bosw ell.
Esq., to Tbos. M. Day. The price paid, says
the Hartford Times, was $24,000, half cash and
half in six months.
‘‘Tiik Docclas IH.nqet."—A patliering with
this name was held at the Trcmont llouse.Chi
cago. two days after the election. We think
he must have enjoyed it. But. for what do
they give a banquet to Judge Douglas? Be
cause he can use up his party quicker than any
•tber living man? —Galena Jda.
Frem tha Bolton if trcautllc Journal..
Tubclar Bruises in Canada.— Our Canada ;
neighbors, with characteristic energy and en-!
terprise are vigorously prosecuting towards i
completion, the work on the various great rail- \
roads which are socn to intersect Canada. —
They seem to be fully conviuccd of the truth
of the old adage that whatever is worth doing
is worth doing well, and the work done is of;
the most durable nature. The iron railway
bridges which have been and ate to be con
structed in different parts of the provinces are
said to be among the finest structures in the
country. We have already given a sketch of
the bridge of tue Grand Trunk Company, op
posite Montreal, and we now Cud room for a
brief description of two of the bridges built
ufou the Hue of the Quebec and Rcbmoud
railway, taken from the Portland State of
Maine:
‘•The one over the Silk River is made of boi
ler plate, tbc tops, bottoms, and connecting
plates being of double or treble thickness, and
in form of construction, like a wooden trestle
bridge, the interstices being filled with com
mon boiler plate. The river, at tirst glance,
seems to be spanned with an ordinary steam
boat boiler, on which a road is placed. It is
however, inconceivably strong, resting as it
does upon substantial stone piers.
We came next on the bridge over the Etcli
ntin. The span it Rumens'. A tubular iron
bridge of lull feet span, rests upon two solid
stone piers of some fifty feet in height, one of
which is connected w ith the left bank of the
river by an iron girder bridge fifty feet in
length, the same as thrown across Silk Bridge,
hut of more than double the strength. The
tubular bridge, which is like a square boiler,
strongly arched in the interior, is only the
width of the road, on the very centre of which
the rails arc laid, and to which two iron gal
leries are attached. for the employees ot the
road to pass over when n •cesssary/and about
ten leet from bottom to top—in a word, it is as
it were a solid bar of iron seven feet in width
I by ten in depth, and of one-hundred and fftv
livefeot in length, laid across two stone piers,
rir the structure is so scientifically put togeth
er, that the immense weight of a large locomo
tive, on being pul on it. only caused a perma
nent depression of an eighth of an inch in the
whole span.”
Ji'tT' The Penobscot (Me.) river was frozen
over at the Suttkhaze dead water oa the night
of the 9th inst.
ffS" The Detroit Free press learns that the
propeller St. Joseph had sunk near Mauiton
Island, and all the hands on board except the
clerk, were lost.
Won't Pav.—T he Farmers who bring their
produce to town at present can hardly realize
for it to pay the expense of raising, so abund
ant have the crops b en this vea-.
The new cemetery ia Cambridge, Mass
near Mount Auburn, was consecrated with ap
propriate religious services recently. The
ground embraces 21 acres, purchased at a cost
of SIO,OOO.
In the town of Crockett, Texas, there
is said to he not a single marriageable female.
Ihc llorncllsv He Tribune learn
that C. P. Ward, of that place, ha-just closed a
contract for railroad constructions in Ohio
amounting to nearly two millions of dollars.
JZS” The proprietor of the gold placer in
Plymouth, Vt., says that S9OO a day can be
realized there, with one washing machine.
At Oshkosh, Wis., there is a Coating
pottery, with a lathe turned by bears. They
are said to be contented looking animals, and
do dot scent to dislike the occunation.
Wise Precaution.—The N. Y. Bost says: “as
one of our reporters was passing by the Third
ward polls in Courtland Street this morning,
he observed an individual emptying his pock
ets into the hands of a friend, with the follow
ing injunction, ‘Take it. Bill, my honey, take i!
all. I'm going to be drunk to-day 1”
rS* A writer in the N. Y. Journal ofCcm
tuerco says that when the accident to to the
Arctic was discovered, had the boilers been
blown clear of steam anil filled with air, which
could easily have been done, their bulk would
have sustained the entire fabric in which they
rested. Ihe builders of the engine confirm this
opinion.
ffS'Fivc members of the Canadian Parlia
ment arc natives of the United States.
Jenny Lind lately w rote to a Boston
friend that it was nut improbable that she
-hould again visit America.
.TXT- There have been several heavy failures
in Montreal.
."AT* John Ross, an experienced apiarist ol
Aarren, Mass., has a hive of bees from which
he has taken during the pa«t year, two bun
ered and roily pounds of extra honey! The bees
were fed upon a preparation made by himselt
and by the use of which they do far better than
when licit to collect their own food.
J?S~ The N. I. Evening Post says that be
tween four and five thousand persons took out
naturalization papers, within a few weeks ol
election.
—u Ihe railroad between Sprinficlil and
Delew are, in Ohio, having failed to pay expen
ses, the trains have been withdraw n and the
road is now lying idle.
sV farmer nam*'d McDonald in the
township of Goderich, Canada, succeeded in
treeing four bears ou the 4 th and then shot them
all.
An Imiudext Roiiubr.—The Detroit Adver
tiser says that a rough looking character w alk
ed into a prominent clothing store in Detroit
recently, remarking that he wished to look
round and sec where the best goods were, as
he intended to break iu there that night'and
help himself. The clerks laughed, and allowed
him to look at much as he wished. When night
came,sure enough the eashier'sdraworwasrob
bed of 3150 in cash.aud $709 in nice clothing
carried away. Nothing has since been heard of
the rascal.
Akkivai, of Arrison at Cincinnati. —The
man supposed to be W. !I. Arrison. arrested at
Muscatine, arrived at Cincinnati and was safe
ly lodged in jail. lie appeared low spirited,
and was placed under a strong guard. The
Graud Jury had already found a bill of indict
ment against him, and it was supposed he
would bo immediately tried. Arrison’* bro
ther had been iu Cincinnati for several days.—
\\ hen he left the city he wore heavy whiskers,
which he had taken off. The papers talk as
though there was no question about tbe per
sonal identity of the prisoner with Arrison.
I The Wreck of the Sew Era— o*3 Lire* Lost—
j Antral of the Northern Light—Unprecedented
Passage —More Forgeriea.
New York, Nov. 15.
i At 7 o'clock this morning all the passengers
| of the New lira yet surviving, were landed oil
the beach. 135 in number, which added to the
20 saved yesterday, makes the total 159. The
number lost was 215. Three ol the rescued
have died on the bench. The passengers will
j reach this city before to-morrow night.
The steam-r Northern Light has arrived with
' California dates to the 21th nit., with about 150
; passengers and $591.5:15 in specie. The pas
sage was made in 20 days and 12 hours, the
quickest trip on record. Nothing of interest
lias transpired in California since the sailing of
the last steamer. Better prices were being oli
i tainid for general goods. Tilings getting into
! a more healthy state.
Mr. Walker. ex-Prcsident ofSonora,is still on
trial for filibustering.
Considerable excitement exists with regard
to the Meiggs fraud, and the upprcbcusion of
• Smith, the late Mayor's Clerk, who was charg
ed with having unlawful possession of large
sums of money, amounting to upwards of $300,-
■ 000. The latter was in custody and his exam
ination hail taken place w ithout any satisfacto
ry explanation as to the amount of the missing
funds.
Mr. Harrison, late City Treasurer, has also
lteen arrested, charged with having fraudulent
ly taken the hooks, papers and money belong
ing to the Treasury—in particular the sum of
$3 03(1.000 city warrants remaining nnaccouiU
, eil for by him. The defence sot up is that the
newly elected City Treasurer Ims not yet com
plied with the law requiring securities, thus
justifying the withholding. The case has not
i been decided.
Additional of the forgeries of Meigs had been
discovered lint further inquiries had much re
duced the amount of cash taken. It probably
did not exceed $15,000.
From the St. Lout? Republican.
More Indian Murders.
Camp on tiik Banks ok tue Pi.atte River, )
October 23d, 1554. J
: Mr. Enrrott:—l seat myself to inform you ot
another massacre, which occurred night before
last. Our party, composed of eight, camped
ou the evening ol the 2lst iu.-t. at ait old cainp
ingplace of the emigrants, about two hundred
miles above Fort Kearney, south side of the
Platte. During the day of the 21st inst.. three
Indians came to the camp and seemed anxious
to trade, hut were informed by a young man
bv the name ol VV oll'e, that it was not our ob
ject to trade at that time, but he would give
them some tobacco, which he did. 'lltey then
left, and seemed content.
We were congratulating ourselves on the
success of this plan of making the Indians leave
without giving them anything more valuable,
or having trouble w ith them.
We seated ourselves to partake of our even
ing repast. and considered ourselves perfectly
at home : laughing and joking w as the order of
the night. But
l * Mir Ur.« jey aie! joyous hours
Bloom but to
For while we were seated the crack of a rifle
| soon changed our joy into sadness. The report
of that rifle told too true a tale, for by ray side
fell as fine and as proud.-ing a young man ns
ever walked this earth. We grabbed our rides
and soon reached the wagon. We there had
time to ascertain the strength of our enemy :
! fifteen composed their company. Halt naked.
! half starved, and well armed,they seemed ready
for any ki ml of hellish work. I ordered every
man to pick his man. and w hen I gave the word
| every rifle to!!. (or seven f. 11 to the ground :
the re-t retired for a time in the woods. We
thought that they had left, but Wolfe said that
lie wo:. 11 go and see : so !: > went slov.ly and
; cautiously towards them. Hardly hud he ad
vanced twenty paces, when eight of them ran
tow ards him. We fired and killed or wounded
two, but in turn they kill d three of ours, and
; wounded Mr. Wolfe in the ankle. We ran to
j wards them and Huy ran towards the woods.
' We had the extreme pleasure of seeing them
! kind on the oilier side ot the Piaito. but not
without many a ball passing near their heads
or bodies. We then returned to camp. The
excitement soon subsided ou our arrival th. iv,
for now came the melancholy duty of burying
! the dead. I cannot. Mr. Editor, say any more
1 about this, for my fedings will not let.tin*. I
am an old man. and have seen many a hard
time, but none ever trie.l nv- so much as this. I
will give you the nnm"S of the company :
Idolph Wolfe. New York, wounded;
Ilarvy Wickolf. New York ;
Benjamin Woods. St. Louis ;
Sami. Mantel,St. Louis ;
| Silas Nod way. killed ;
William Xod’wny. killed ;
Hiram Woodruff, killed :
Henry Law, New York, killed.
Mr. Wolfe, being the youngest of the conipa
nv. it behoves ill" to speak of Ills actions. Dur
ing the hour ot danger, be exhibited a rare ex
ample offortitr.de and heroism.
Respectfully yours.
SAM'L. MANTEL.
Quarreling.— lf anything in the world will
make a man feel badly—even worse than pinch
ing his lingers in the crack ot a door—it is un
questionably a quarrel. One seldom fails to
t tilnk less of himself after than lie did before.
He feels degraded in the eyes of others, and.
what is wor.-e. in his own estimation—and es
pecially is this the case when the quarrel is
between those wiio are under peculiar obliga
tions tn live together in love aud harmony. It
blunts the sensibilities on the one hand, and in
creases the power anil habit of passionate irri
tability oil the oilier. Aud yet. how many
weary themselves, needlessly and most unpro
fitable. with that w hich is worse than vanity—
a continued scene of quarrels, bickering and
fault-finding! If lh"y are servants, they are
always in a fever at the fancied or real w rongs
inflicted upon them by masters and mistresses.
If masters or mi-tresses, tlmy fret continually
about the miserable, ignorant heedless and un
grateful servants. In their intercourse with
their neighbors, and in business matters, they
complain loudly that they are ciliated anil
wronged, while in their nearer, and what should
he dearer relations, the same trait of character
embitters tiieir own happiness and that of those
with w hom they are comic ted. The truth is.
the mu: ■ peaceably and quietly we can get
along, the better for our neighbors and a!l
around u--. and infinitely bi tter for ourselves.
1. 1 nine cases out often, if servants are heed
less ami provoking, the h tter course is to
speak kindly, as kindly as possible—bear with
them until it is useless to hope for reformation
or improvement, and then discharge them—
without permitting them to have power over
your happiness, by seriously and habitually
disturbing your temper, and provoking you in
to unpleasant and useless displays of petulance
and anger. If a man cheats you’, quit dealing
with him : if lie is abusive, quit his company :
if he slanders you. take care that your life shall
he such that no one will believe him. No mat
ter who lie is. or how he misuses you, the wis
est way is to li t him alone, fur there is nothing
better than this cool, calm and quiet way of
dealing with the wrongs we meet with. But it
so connected w ith another that you cannot “let
him alone,” summon to your aid all the pow
ers of endurance you are master of. anil learn
to hear and forbear. Resolve, with the poet,
that—
44 Tlioiitl*. th»» r.c**n r*»nr around ni<*«
Y**t it still si all m.« on;
Thmieli a fb»w**rt sb«*n!'l •• irronnd me,
It hath sprin<;s that may be w 011 .,,
But. above ul* tilings, remember (bat the very
poorest use a man can put himself io, is to
yuarrel.—Portland Daily idvertiser.
Er.i.swonm Rank, Maine.—The bills or the
Ellsworth Bank. Maine, are again received at
the Suffolk. Bank. .Some of the bills have I e n
sold to the brokers at fifty per cent, discount.
— tC'/sicago Trib.
Eleven persons have been arrested for
illegal voting in New York.
DcxKißk, N. Y., Nov. 14. j
A snow storm in prevailing here. It is now !
four inches deep, and still falling.
MONDAY MORNING. NOVEMBER 27, IS54j
‘■Board •( Trade.” j
A call is in circulation among our business
men, for the purpose of organizing a Board of.
Trade in St. Paul. This has been a favorite]
measure of the Democrat for several weeks, j
and we are pleased to find our neighbor has
] been successful in inducing the merchants to !
propose the holding of a public meeting for the 1
primary purposes ol organization on next Wed- i
nesday evening.
; The main point to be reached, it would
seein, is the establishment af some definite ba
sis in regard to the circulation of foreign hank
paper within our city. If anything tangible
and permanent can he arrived at under this
head, we sincerely hope the Board of Trade
• w ill he formed, and will, at least, succeed in
| carrying out this one object.
f But then, there is evidently, in the Locofoco
Bank haling quarter of not only the Democrat
office, but also the Pioneer.a strong disposition
; to get up a local bank of circulation in St. Paul,
to be chartered by the almost uuaniin usly
"Democratic” Legislature, now soon to assem
. hie. Such an "institution” any man of coin,
f mon business sense and capacity must he aw are
as money matter* now stand, will become a
source of sure and serious detriment to the
i people of the Territory.
We have full faith that the bus’ness people
ol St. Paul, are sufficiently wide awake to dis
, countenance any attempt of this kind that may
be proposed just at this time.
i Winter at Last.—We had a driving snovv
i storm all day on Saturday, and it would seem
that winter has at length made his entrance
into Minnesota. We believe everybody is
! ready to welcome him, and as the boats have
, all left us, the sooner lie sets up his throne and
I court in real earnest, the more lie will be re
’ speeted.
i I -
] j f Tiiose who go to law—we never do i!
, iwe can possibly avoid it—will find a new law
i firm iu our advertising columns, entitled
Palmer 4 Hayward, office in Empire Block*
1 .lej ate industrious mid enterprising young
1 gentlemen in the line of their profession, and
. will he found on hand at ail times by those who
■ are ambitious to have their names appear as
’ plaintiffs or defendants upon the Court calen
dar.
f Mu. Riiield.vpfkr s School.—Urgent busi
ness prevented us attending the closing exer
cises of Rev. Mr. Riheldaffer’s late term of
school on 1 relay last. He has some fifty pu
[ ! J Hs, umi we are told by those present on the
. occasion that they exhibited a degree of pro*
‘ ficiency iu their several branches of study in
j ‘-‘very respect creditable to themselves and their
. instructor. We know no teacher inure capa
. file, in all particulars, ol taking charge of the
’ "youngsters" about town than is Mr. Rihel-
I dalfcr. It will be seen that a new term of
. his school commences to-day at his rooms in
• the Central Presbyterian Church.
t ]
I Sr. Pai r. IL,use.—The glorious old pioneer
( ; Hotel of St. Paul—the St. Paul House, corner
I of Third and Jackson streets—after being
I thoroughly refitted, w ill open to-morrow un
der the att'p.ces ol Mr. I). K. Route, nu exper
] iencod and competent landlord. We are as
'fired the St. 1 au! House will be kept in a
style second to no other Hotel in the citv.
I ' Tne Minnesota Republican says au ap
. plication w ill he made to the approaching ses
sion of the Legislature t.t procure a city char
ier lor St. Anthony. The population of the
; tow n, the Republican estimates at 3099.
Fr ill t!,c M!nneso:a Reputilican, Xuv.l3,
SI. Antlicnv Items.
I Great Grinding. —CY.pt. Rollins informs u
iluit the Minnesota Mill ground, the other dav.
i thirty six liushets and twenty nine jun/nds o!
corn meal in less than one hour! On Monday,
ihe mill ground, oil an average, thirty-five
Im.-licls of corn p r hour through the w holi
day, with but one run of stones; and belter
i still, on Tuesday, we learn they put through
| I'ffi bushels in four consecutive ’hours. House
keepers w ill please take notice, and "l.urrv up"
j the Johnny cakes.
Anoi.iikr Biitdgk. —A substantial bridge is
being erected over the deep cut at the foot o!
1 bird street. I; Gto form a part of the Terri
torial road from .St. Baal to Fort Ripley.
Suspension Burnt;:'.--Mr. Griffith, the engi
neer. informs us that by the first ol next week,
tile vvork of .-n-pending t he wood vvoik upon
the w ires will probably be Commenced.
Growth of Minneapolis. —The number of
dwellings has increased of late at about the
rate of six per week; which followed up fi.r a
year would give an added population of three
hundred luiniiies. The winter will interrupt
this growth : but should the land sales come
otf in any reasonable season, and should the
present scarcity of lumber be got over w ith. we
may look lor a rapidity of grow th unparalleled
in the history of this Territory.
Many ol the habitations recently put up are
only temporary affairs, owing to”the want ol
material, and the general hutry to get into
vvinterquai ters.
Supposed Murder in Benton Co.—A man
jby the name of John Everett, living a short
distance above Elk River, was arrested this
1 week on suspicion of having killed bis own f.i
•hcr. ihe lather is missing. The arrested
man was taken through this place ou Tuesday
to St. Paul jail, we suppose.
A Shy A outu. —"Everything is arranged for
your wedding with Susan Thompson,” said a
b‘ther to his only son :"I hope you will be
have yourself like a man. Thomas’.”
Ihe individual addressed was a voung man
seated on a chair, despatching a piece of bread
and inollasses. llis only answer was a sigh,ac
companied with a flood of tears.
The parent started, and in an angry voice
exclaimed :
"What objection can you have? Susan is,
handsome and wealthy,and married von must t
he. some time or other. Your mother and I
were married, and it is my command that you
prepare yourself lor the nuptials."
“Yes." sobbed Thomas, "that's a different
thing. You married mother, but I'm sent to
marry a strange gal
, | Could the young man who looks upon the ;
j wine when it is read, hear the hiss of the ser- j
I pent, and see the sling cf the adder, in its;
sparkling depths, with what energy would lie
I lash the enp trorn him, and cry out against the
destroyer.— If. 11. Burleigh.
i ~3~ Tiie Washington Union says: ‘-Tl.c
principle of the Nebraska Dill is stronger than
the Democratic party/’
This is fully corroborated by the recent elec
tions.
To re Opened. —Tlieie is to be. after to-mor
; row. a railroad connection between St. Louis 1
and Cairo, a distance of nhout two hundred
|mile«. Tbe Ohio and Mississippi road is com-i
j pleted to the Central at Sandoval, and theCen
! tral from thence toCairo. So wego—railroads 1
i nee opening coutinually in our Stale. —Galena j
I Jeff. I
Translated from th* French for the Wastitnfton Globe. ] {
Men with Tail*. It
Au engraving, which cannot fail to bo sue- ]
cessful. has appeared in the last number of the ;
Medical and Pharmaceutic France. It is the (
full length polrait of a man with a tail, drawn ,
at Mecca iu 1842, by the only European who '
can speak otherwise than by hearsay of that j j
singular variety of our species. The artist is ( (
the traveler know n in Alrica. the theater of his ,
discoveries, by the name of llaflji-Ahdel-Ua- |
mid Bey. and in Frantic, his native country,by -
that of .VI. du Couret.
It is a long tons since men provided with |
this appendage have been talked a'oout. and of,
which only certain monkeys of distinction, the j
chimpanzee, the gorilla, and the orang-outang
are destitute. They were talked about iu the
days ol Ptolemy, and if modern travellers are
to be believed, it is a very common phenome
non. Some of their relations ppear, ho wever,
to be worthy of credit.
One traveller relates, that he saw at Tripoli j
a negro nann-d Moli-amcd. a native of Bouruou.
who had a tail half a foot long. Mohaiucd de
clared that all his tribe were tailed, ms well as
himself, and the slave merchants confirmed
w liat he said.
The Hollander, John Struys. saw-, with his
own eyes, in the island of Formosa, a man
sporting a caudal appendage more than a loot
long, and "covered tv it It red hair very much
like an ox tail." aud, according to him, all the 1
inhabitants oftho southern part ot Formosa
were iu the same predicament.
If we are to believe (Jcmelli. Manilla is in
habited by negroes with tails four or live feet
long. And Uorueniaiin affirms that, between
the gulf of Benin and Abyssinia, there are au- ]
thropophagi with tails, called N'iam Niams. !
Nevertheless, dow n to the present time.these
relations were classed w ith those that asserted
the existence of the lininoculi, or cyclops. iu Iu
: din ; tlm Bleinmyes. or acephali, iu Lybia ; the
j centaurs, in Scythia; the tritons, syrens, in-re- 1
ids. etcetera—all ol which was believed in for
mer times, ami which Saint Isidore, for exam
I pie. In lieved to be very probable, although he
disbelieved the existence ol the antipodes, and,
; iude.d. that was generally disbelieved.
■ Since the discovery of M. Couret. the thing is
now incontestible. and every one can have the
satisfaction ol looking at the authentic likeness
Ufa man with a tail, which siippliim nt is
three inches in length, aud almost as flexible us
the tail of a monkey.
M. Couret adds, that his model lias the gift
of speech, and that, besides bis maternal lan
guage, lie speaks the Arabic fluently. lie was
i a slave, and worked for his illa-ter, who was
; oblt.ed to give him a ration ol raw mutton ev- !
cry morning, and. us ho was anthropophagous
i by nature, this was a wise precaution.
All Hie memoir; of it's tribe, which is that of
the Gliilaues—'iie same, probably, as the Ni
am-Niauis. which i- m::c’i more of a negro Maine
—arc a .‘cording to the Mecca slave, provided
wuli the caudal prolongation. Since his tirst
communication upon the subject.M. Comet has
mace a voyage in Africa, and he had been
specially charged by ihe French Government
to obtain a NiAin- N'iam. Unfortunately, he
was not able to reach that tribe, but its exis
tence is confirmed l.y so many proofs, thal it
becomes difficult to doubt it.
The Sultan of Tiigurt. whose acquaintance
M. I.’ourt formed in Alrica. declares that he
once had in his capital a negress of the race ot
the Niam N mis. of the u-ual confirmation. (7.
c., ' qu’pp. d with a tail.)
Prince Mnhaund, son of the la. t Sultan of
• Fozzau. confirmed, wis m he was iu Paris, the
! existence o! the Siam Niams, at the south ol
J Bournou, and stated that his brother, who
: reigns there, had mu war upon them,
j M. M. Anninl aud Yaysiere. travoisrs in Ab
| yssinia, Rochet dTlericourt, d'Abbadie. and
Francis do Ca-telnau. have all heard of theN'i
!am Niams. The last lias collected.with respect
j to them, tiie declarations of a dozen negroes of
j Soudan, and ho attaches great value to the
declaration o! a certain Mahiiminuh. or Manuel,
1 a slave at Babin, remarkable l„r his Ri
te! Fgeiue, who had made a very long journey,
and w ho,e vi rae.ly v.asattcs cd on varionsoe
ca-ions. ins Manuel staled that lie had made
part of a i expedition oi liana.-:-, conduct. ,| l,y
j tin- Suba i ot ivuuo. against the Ni.im N.ain-.
; the object ol which was expressly to verify i
th ‘r existence. We will let M. Castclnau
The llaons-a expedition slept nine nighis in
these forests of l.aachandoa : frequently it was
I necessary to open a road for (lie Perse -, and
i.n annuals were seen. Put not a .-ingle man. j
Ujeui g. t ting out of the for. -t, they began to i
ascend high mountains, and a few days after
l wards they discovered a band of w il’d Niam-
Niatns. They were sleeping in the sun : the
Haou-.-as approache-.l them silently, and mas
sacr d the whole. They all had tails, about
forty centimeters (about fifteen inches) in
length, aud two or three thick ; and they were I
without hair. Among the dead were several ■
worn. a. who had tail- also, in every otiier re- ;
spect these people resembled < ther negroes.!
They were entirely naked.
Some days afterwards they f-11 in with nth r j
bands, who met w ith the same cite. One ol the I
bauds was engaged iu eating human lle-ii, and I
the heads of three men were still roasting at ;
the lire on poles driven into the earth. Man
mi le-longcd to the vanguard, and saw many
.d t!i sc people killed : lie examined the bodies,
in .’ii-iired the tails, and can have no doubt of
I their existence.
The Haouassas w re six months in the coun
try, exploringiiiul ravaging it. It is covered
w i:h very high rocks. The greater part of the
N am Niams live in tin- holes in the rocks, but
some of them build miserable huts ot straw.
The Haouassas were frequently attacked by
these savages.and they k lied a great number
ofilien), the people are a dull black, their
teeth are filed and their bodies not tattooed,
t hey obtain fire by means of a stone found in
■ lie country. Their arms are cluhs, arrow s anil
] javelins: when they attack, they utter shrill '
yells. They cultivate rice, in i ze. and other
[ grains, and fruits unknown to the llaouassas ; 1
they are well formed, a id their hair woolly.
The chief ol tiic N.am Niams begged former*
j irv. but the King of Kano ordered all the pri
j .-mu rs to be kili. d because the if lull tails, and
i fie did not believe that any one would buy such
! The Niam-Niams have a breed of small cuttle
' without horns, and goats ol a great size, as well
as sheep.
It. as cannot lie doubted. Ibis strange peculi- !
. arily is that of the whole race, iis accidental
; appearance among the varieties of th" human
: species, from which it i- habitually absent, is
n*»t at all improbable. If we are to believe cer
tain authors, this fact is not v-ry uncommon. !
1 .1. B. Kobinet. in a book entitled. •• Ellio ts ot i
Nature In her attempt to Make Man"—a book
in which is to be found all the extravagancies j
i indicated by the title—cites very numerous ex- '
aniples.
A certain Cruvillier de la Cronlat, who was
a successful corsair against the Turks, •• w as a«
well known by his tad with which lie was born,
as by his valiant actions.” A lemonade girl
at Baris had a tail.“ vv Inch 50 persons had seen." :
An attorney at Aix. named Bernard, was called
■ Big-tail. •• bcevu-e he was known to have a tail,
which had been seen vvhil.-t he was bathing j
when young, 4c.”
In a pamphlet entitled ‘‘Notices of Central
America and of a Nation of Men with Tails to !
be found there”—a pamphlet from which the |
relation of the negro Manuel is extracted, M.
de Cn-t limit declares, that the fact appears to
him to be contrary to zoological principles ; |
•• lor it is to be observed,” lie says. ‘- that the
monk-vs that most resemble mail are niruidv
deprived of this appendage, not having even
tite rud munis of it. ; We are not of ifi,- >ame
op'Rioil o! this vvell-ir.formed traveler, with re- |
spect to Ihe alleged contiad et o i he notices.
So tar from being in opposition to the cmir-e of
nature, the fact ill question would be an addi
tional example of the transitions so numerous
and so finely gradated, of vvli.ch the natural
sciences place oys the marvelous
spectacle, in innumerable instances. Two spe
cies dittereut in dignity being given, it is not
an uncommon tiling to discova r in the most no
ble. iinperTeel ions trom vvh'ch the interior is ex- :
empl. VV, re it licce--ary to cite examples, the
difficulty of choosing would be the only diffi
culty.
Tne explanations of this fact, in appearance
so ktrauge, and in reality Foaimple, is very ear-
I ily given. It is to lie found inembryogrny. M.
' Serre had given It previously to 1842. In his ar
; tide. Organogeny, in the New Encyclopedia—
I that every human emhryo from the fifth to the
i sixth and seventh week, is provided with a cau
dal prolongation. This prolongation disap
' pears among men in general, but remains
ninong the Ghilanes. aud that is all. Therefore
1 the singularity witnessed among them is in per
fect conformity with one of the most general
laws ot organic nature.
I
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I Not Bad. —The Piscataquis (Me.)Observer is
responsible for the following:
A gontlenmn called at a hut in the Aroos
-1 took valley, aud requested some dinner. The
lady, her spouse being absent, refused to sup
ply lfls necessities for money or the love of hu
manity.
“Very well,” said the hungry traveller, a
lie turned his footstep* from the inhospitable
abode, "you will want nothing to cat to mor
row.”
••Why not?” answered the woman.
“Because.” answered Ihe weary man. “the
Indians are digging a tunnel at Mooselicud
Lake, and they are going to turn all the wa
ters of the lake into the Aroostook valley, and
you and all the rest of the people are to be
drowned.”
Upon this intelligence, the old lady hurried
off to tli" priest to infirm him that a flood was
to overflow the valley, and to ask what was to
lie done in the sad emergency.
Thu priest endeavored to quiet her fears by
; telling her that God had promised that lie
: should never send another flood upon the
I earth.
! ‘ But'’ said the affrighted woman, "it isn't
God that's going to do it; its the cussed In
dians.
Never borrow if you can possibly avoid it.
Be just before you are generous.
Keep yourself innocent, ifyou would be liap
-I’l-
' when you arc young, to spend when
! you are old.
Never think that which you do for religion
is time or money misspent.
; Sporrrxc.—We understand tiiat a politician
in town tile day before election, was very busy
;in threatening •■to spot' 1 every old Democrat
! who abandoned the Administration and •■tie
tribe.’’ He had used up his marking pot sev
eral times, and has been busily engaged ever
since. He says it's very much like taking the
census.— Toledo lileide.
f No men are so deep but that shallow
places can be found in them.
“How is your husband, dear?” asked one
lailv of another.
•• (). lie's in a very bad slat".” was the reply.
“ And pr.iv what kind of state is lie in,” still
persisted the other,
j •• In State Briton.”
Vaixaei.k Mineral. —A few years ago, a bed
of w hat some geologists cal'ed bituminous coal,
and others shale, was found in Scotland. It
was found to produce an illuminating material
of excellent qualities, and one firm who have
manufactured from it what they call paraffine
oil. sell about 8,000 gallons p' r week, at ss.
per gallon. They do a business amounting to
ne rly half a million dollars p, r year, in the
manufacture anil sale of this oil. It is not cer
tain (bat a similar material cannot be found
] here ia tome of the coal districts of this ccuu
tr-v -
History Corrected. —Tito Muscatine Journal
tells the following story of that extremely mo
de t individual. Senator Douglas, of Illinois:
Moscow Never Burned. —Coming up on a
boat, a few days ago, we happened to tail iu
: with Senator Douglas, who came o:i board at
Quincy, on his way to War. aw. In the course
"f a very interesting account of his travels in
j Russia, much of which have been published ie,
h-tt- rwinters. lie slated a fact which has lie;I r
yet been published, but which startlingly con
tradicts the r, voiced historical relation of one
j of I lie most extraordinary events that itev,:
I felt to Ihc lot of history to r cord. For this
reason the Judge said he felt n delicacy in mak
ing the asset lion that Lite city vj -Wuscutc never
leas burned !
An Episode tnti:e Election.— There i= much
wire pulling going on during everv election,
j wanch is hidd m Iroiu the public eve, but which
!is very amusing to those who arc posted. We
; have a case in point.
| Th«* day before the election which lias closed.
I Senator Douglas called o:i Dr. Heimutb, then
j holding office ot Sorgo ni of the U. S. Marine
i Hospital, and d.ret,,! him to go over to the
] N u tli sid". find Mr. Hoffman, the Independent
; German *iaadidute. and induce Idm to witli
i draw*. !•*. withdrawal tin* Senator considered
necessary to D.vi r-ry selection, and to induce
! Hoffman to comply. Mr. Douglas authoriz' d
111 Imonth to infiu in him that if he w ithdrew,
lie should never be forgotten by the grateful
ile arts of the great Democratic party, that he
i should have what office he pleased in the future,
a:,.1 should be Ink' ll under the especial pro
]I, cling w ing of the .S"iiator h'm-elf. Mr. Hoff,
i Ulan, knowing that it was easier to promise
1 than to perform, refused to withdraw, and
lleliniitli. after exhausting ail his powers ol
persuasion, returned to Douglas, having com
mitted the deadly crime oftailing to obey his
mandates.
'I he Judge heard his report in silence, shook
Ids head, as Bill Brow n of Indiana did ou a
I similar occasion, arid motioned to him to re
i tire, lie did so, and awaited his late with fear
and trembling.
The election passed by. and as Douglas had
foreseen. Diver-y v.us nowhere.
The next day Mr. Ili lniuth received his dis
j missal Iroin his oflice, dated at Vv a.-lii 11 gton
. soni ■ three weeks ago, and which had Iveen in
the pocket of the Senator ever since. —Chicago
Tribune.
I Home Attractions.—See what a picture here
j drawn (in an article of the N. Y. Times) of the
repulsion given to the sacred place ol home by
fashionable life in New York :
“Why should a boy spend his evenings at
j home ? What is tin rc to charm him iu tiiat
| great mansion w here pulses alternate fiver
[ and gloom one night a hot, crowded party ol
! rouged women and silly men : the next, a ( till,
desolate array of empty chambers, with the
tired master of the house snoring on the sola,
and his untiring lady and daughter tip stairs
I dressing for another ball. No fireside com
i forts to tempt the young man to his home. -
j Ev cry thing is huge, and splendid and dismal
! in self-defence he has to fly.”
Man Suot at Prescott. —\Yc learn from the
i St. Croix Union, tiiat on the ltitli or 17th inst.,
] in the neighborhood of Prescott, a man was
I shot. The perpetrator of this act is an old
i man, name unknow nto tt», but the cause is as
.wo learned it given : ‘•The deceased was a
I surveyor who was employed by two men to
survey a piece of land lying in the vicinity of
Prescott, and claimed by this old man, whom
they endeavored to drive from the land by
! surveying and entering it. When the survey
or was about to survey tlie land, he was order
ed away by the claimant, but he paid no at
tention to the old man's warning, whereupon
ho was ordi red the second time to eease with
his operations and quit the land, or he wotilu
he shot, lie left hut soon returned wifi his
surveying apparatus, and the ohl man follow
ed him to the place and shot him, the ball en
tering bis mouth and coming out on the hack
pa:t of his head killing him immediately. The
man was arrested and imprisoned in Prescott,
lie confessed the deed.”
Luck.—The worst misfortune that ever befel
man. is the conceit that we are boru under pat*-
ticular stars, that there is a latalisin in our dea
thly, and that good or evil genii shape the curs
es and distribute the fortunes of our lives. In
this pervading and over-mastering idea Hos tile
secret of the misery of thousands in our midst
and everywhere around us. The notion is prev
alent, far more so thnu our philosophers have
dreamed, that no matter liow we exert our
selves, whether we are honest, industrious, tem
perate and religions, or not. we can umke no
headway in the world until we obtain our lift
of luck. The poor cry luck, w hile they guzc on
the possessions of the rich, and the idle echo
luck, when their rags come iu contact w ith the
garments of the thrifty.
The real causes of liiflcrence in classes of so
ciety. aud between the tasks and enjoy meats of
individuals, are overleaped by the easier and
more consoling exclamation, “ It's all luck!”
Satisfied with this explanation, the beggar,
though stout of liinh and able to cast Otf his
mendacity, clings to his staff and accepts the
charily of those w hom ho calls the lucky. Nor
the beggar alone, hut men in all the mal ts and
professions of life, drag tliemsi lvcs along, faint
hearted. miserable and murmuring against the
apparent evil destiny that denies to them the
prosperity, ease and luxury of their neighbors.
Brolessing to believe it) an equitable Brovi
dence. they ascribe Ihc success ol those whom
they envy, but w ill not imitate, to some stroke
of chance, anil like the fabled teamster, whose
cart ran in the ditch, cry " Help us, Hercules!”
without thinking of putting their own shoulder
to the wheel.
Delusive and fatal idea! There is no such
thing as luck in the aggregate arrangement of
conditions : no good nor evil genii shaping our
destiny, nor no •• particular star” full of bale
ful or happy influences under which we are
born, if there are genii and stars influencing
us. they are in our physical, mental aud moral
constitutions, and the good luck of the prosper
ous may he traced to industry, intelligence,
shrewdness ol calculation, and a firm laith in
the omnipotence of well used means ! So. too,
the ill luck of tile thriftless conies from the a -
sence of these creative elements. It is libeling
the wisdom and goodness of God to say that
these contrasts in human condition ar.* a mere
hap hazard result.
i Free society or mankind of its ow n artifices,
! and it will be seen t! a God I as dispensed his
equally to all. and it one man has managed to
! convert more earth, ocean, a.r. and their goi d
things to himself, than another man has got. it
is the work ol that man's providence and not of
: God's distribution. The hoii-' s and lands of
the rich, it the matter is sifted, have been accu
mulated by intelligence and industry, upon a
i fixed and immutable principle.w Idle tile hovels
: and squalor ol the poor, are the result of igno
] ranee, ii d fl"i;ce. and their associate vices. In
i the majority of cases the "Pirtunc-secker”
j might have accomplished the position of the
" fortune posses-or.” if. instead of wailing for
] title in his affairs, lie had studied the steps by
j which thefoi tenatcman ascmled. and followed
' after him. But no. chance, luck must do the
: work—the fortune must come.
| Some men sit on logs ami trust Providence
] to raise their potatoes : but Providence keeps
1 account only with those who digs j a (|, e g ( .],|
piant the seed, and gather th" harvest. Less
star-gazing searenog for gold bugs, and mur
muring at ill-luck, and more industry, faith iu
! self and tin* means at hand, and men will find
j that tii ■ differences iu their condition are not
[ natural but artt.'icinl. We have no sympathy
w-:tii the eternal gtiimhling about luck. For
tune is the handmaid of certain principles, and
will always re-pond to them : misfortune, in the
common sense, is Hie same. Until man conies
to see that he is largely tin* nrii.t- r ol his own
temporal ile.-tiiiy. and ti.kis ic- fortune into
his own hands, he will haw* both room and ilis-
J.ot tion to find fault with Providence and God.
—,V. V. Mirror.
A few for Cun. v.EX. — You were
made to b • kind, says Horae Mann, generous
: and magnanimous, li there is a hoy in the
! school who has a club foot, don't let him know
; that you ever saw it. Ii then: is a poor lmy
with ragged clothes, don't talk alio.it rags in
ins hear.ng. If there is a bright one be not
envious ol liini ; fi.r if o.ne boy is proud of his
taii.i. and another is envious of them, there
are two great w rongs aud no more talents than
before. If a 1 ;rg ror strong' r l.ov has iujnr
* d you, and is - iry lor it lorgit - him, and re
quest the t' acher not to punish him. All the
l school wall show by their countenance how
i much better it is to have a great soul than a
: great fi.-t.
Good Anv:n: to Readers. — If yon measure
the v alue of-tndy Lv tile insight you get into
subjects not by the povva rot saying you have
read many l'ciks. you will soon perceive that
no tine' is so badly saved ns tiiat which is sav
ed bv getting through a book in a l urry. For
if to the time you have aiven you addl’d a lit
tle more, the subject would have been fixed ou
your mind, aud tii*- w ho." time profitably em
ployed ; whereas, upon you: po -■ nt arrange
ment because you vv oubt not vivo a little more,
you have lost all. Besides this is overlooked
by rapid and .-uperhciul leaib i-—that the best
way of reading book* with rapidity is to ac
quire that habit of severe attention to what
tiny ci.la n. tuat perp'lually confines the
mind to th" . ui"l ■■ object in view. Will'll you
!•■■>' e read enough to have acquired the habit of
reading without suffering your mind to wan
der, mu! when you can bung to bear upon
your sub,- et a f real share of previous knowl
edge. you may then read with rap’difv : before
that as you have taken the wrong ‘road, the
finder .von proceed Hie more you will be sure to
err. —Sidney tiwith.
I Niurrr M.vriitages.—An U iglisli paper
descanting relative to t:.c various qualities of
connubial bliss, slates that in the efty of Lon
don. the official record for the pa-t year stands
tints :
Runaway wives 1.132
Kuna'.Viiy liu-ba ids 2.348
Married persons legally divorced 4.175
Living in open warfare 17.335
Living in private mi-understanding, 13.279
Mutually indifferent 55.310
Regarded as happy
Nearly happy. 1.375
Perfectly happy j;j
A Goon One.—A fmr lady fit rotor stepped
into Hie telegraph efilee, at Jack-on Tcnn., a
‘evv evenings since with a sealed latter in her
baud, and dec red the polite oj c a or to send it
to her husband, in Arkansas, lie unsealed the
document, preparatory to giving it the slip
over the wires, and !o ! an ! behold it was
found to contain about two pages.closely writ
ten, ami a token of remembrance for her dear
ab-enl hu-shaml iu the shape of a large line lock
of ha ir.
| Progress okSurmarine Communication with
,Ei roue.— Last evening at 7 o'clock. Ihc New
A ork, Newfoundland and London Telegraph
i Company s st'gimer \ ictoria seven days from
Newfoundland, Cnpt. Slayler. arrived in this
port having, as passengers. Ai. I). Field. Chief
Engineer of the Company, and Chandler While,
the Vice President. Tlmy report that Ihe sub
marine table. 1.0 inilcs long, is nearly com
pleted. and will lie laid aero-s the Gull of St.
Lawrence.connecting St. John’s Newfoundland,
: with New York, as soon as the ice vv ill permit.
No doubt is expressed ol the completion of the
undertaking early in June next. About 300
miles of the telegraph I olvvccn St. John's and
Cape Ray. which is three quarters ol the entire
length contemplated, is already finished, and a
month's labor is all tiiat is required for the re
mainder. The work on the island was begun
at St. John's and progresses towards the Weft.
The merest of this announcement will be
beighte I when we mention the fuel that Ibis
telegraphic junction of St. John's anil New
A'ork alone will make a ditlercnce of four or
live days in the transmission of European in
telligence.—.V. Ik Post.
OM friends, like old swords, are trusted beat.
Wtbtter.
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