The Minnesota pioneer. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. Territory) 1849-1855, 1849-11-22
NO. XXXI.

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tive of generous, warm hearted, cruel,
Ily oppressed people. That he loves his
native land--that his patriotism is diyldr.
ed-that he cannot forget the claims Of
his mother isiand--tia, his religion Is
dear to him-does not decrease my estlS
nation Of him. - - -Sf,sI.
"a stranger in a strange land, he. is
to me always an object of interest. The.
poorest and the rudest has a romanes iH
his history. Amidst all his gaiety Of
heart and national drollery and wit, the
poor emigrant has sad thoughts OF the
'ould mother of him, sitting lonely in
her solitary cabin by the bog side--re..
collections of fathers blessings and e
sisters farewell are haunting him--as
grave mound in distant churchyard far
beyond the wide wathers, has an eter-s
nal greenness in his memory-3or there,i
perhaps, lies 'darlint child, or a fswate.
crathnr, who o,rce loved him--the neM,
world is forgotten for the moment---blues
Killarney and the Lify sparkle before
him-Glendalough spreads beneath hlm,
Its dark green mirror--he sees the same
evening sunshine rest upon and hallows
alike with natures blessing, the ruin of
the Seven Churches Of Irelands aposss
tolic age, the broken mounds Of che
Druids, and the Round Towers ofPhG-s
ncian sun worshppers-beautifui and
mournfu rccollections of his home waken
within hin---and the rough and seesmng-
I ly careless and light hearted laboreE
melts into tears. 1t is no light thing to,
abandon ones country and household,
gods. Touching and beautiful was the
injunction of the Prophet Of the He
brews: Ye shall not Cypress the stran-
ger, for ye ha'olo The heart Of the Stranger
seeing that We were strangers in the land
of Egypt" ssg
.g~ The three principal powers of
! Europe are now without ministers. at
/ Washington SIR III. Lytton Bulwerhass
not arrived from England; nor Prince
Bodsco from Russia; nor NJ. Bots LEI
Compile from France. 5rz Atf0
C.. a flIl-rigged schooner, bull, at
Mineral Point, Wisconsin,, has been
taken by land to Galena, (IiI., and
launched. She viii go down the Missis-
sippi to Ney Orleans, and thepcc 10 San
Francisco.
&C. Mr.. Creeiy has given S loo to tho
Journeymen tailors now on a strike iDrs
higher wages at Boston, and $50 for the
relief of the destitute IunGa rian exiles.
Such benevocnce would cover multi-a
tudc of sins.-but Horace Greely has as
few to cover as most men lie breaches
a good deal of doctrine that we do not
like; but the man is in honor 10 the race
20 They are having delicious au-
tumn in Ohio. At the last accounts from
Cincinnati, fifteen kinds Of roses we're
in full bloom in one garden near the Ely.
We find it stated in the same paper,
that the whole country IS ''full of hogs,
We suspect the roses are all CANNON.
eg~ Men are like tea, the real strength
and goodness is not properly drawn out
of them until they have been in hot water.
eay- The Yankee Blade says: nearly
all the suicides in TINS country are by
foreigners. Yankees rarely make way
with themseives--ior nearly every one
thinks he has a chance Of becoming
President, and, at any rate, his curiosity
prompts hun 20 live on, just TO see what
he will com6to.'' l.o.ai
! eaS~ Blair and Rives Of the Washinae
ton Globe, have dissolved partnership.
: Mr.. Blair retires, and will, it is stated,
soon start paper to advocate Mr.. Ben.
tons claims to the Presidency. -
BoNArARrE's PovrRTY IN EARLY LIRE.
NJ Theirs, in his History Of the Consul.
ate, relates some very strange and pre-
viously unknown particulars, respecting
the early life and penury Of Napolsop
Bonaparte. 1t appears that, after he
had obtained ii subaltern's commission
in the French service, allI after he had
done the State good service by his skill
: and daring at Touloa, he lived for some
time in Paris, in obscure lodgings. and
in such extreme poverty. that he was of
ten without the means Of paying ten sous
tive pence for his dinner. pnd frequent.
iy went without any meals at ait He
was under the necessity OF Borrowing
: small sums, and even worn out clothes,
from his acguaintances! He and his
brother Louis, afterwards king Of Hot
land, had at one time, only one coat hes
tween them, SO the brothers could only
90 out alternately, time and time about,
At this crisis, the chief benefactor Of the
future emperor and conYueror, cat whose
mighty name the World grew pal" was
the actor Talma, who often gave him
food and money. Napn,epn's face, af-
forwards so famed for its classical mould,
was, during this period of starvation,
harsh and angular in its lineaments wjth
projecting cheek bones. His mesgt8
fare brought on an unpleasant and un-
slightly cutaneous disease, Of a type 20
, yirulent and malignant, that il took all
" the skill and assiduity Of lis accomplish
ed physician, Coryisart, to expel it after
a duration Of more than ten years. phe
. squalid beggar then--the splendid sei1l-
= pcror afterwards--the threadbare habi6-
: menfs-the: imperial mantlc--slIo, hoxs1.
and the D;liacc--fne rneaorc food md kfo