The miners' express. (Dubuque, Iowa) 1849-1854, 1850-07-10
FLOAT MINERAL.

How TO OBTAIN A RoUs1HG CoNTR1BUT1oN
1t is often easier to obtain avors from the pride
than the charity of men. A shrewd preacher,
after an eloquent charity sermon, said to his
hearers-'sl am afraid, from the sympathy dis
played in your countenances, that some of you
may give too much. / caution you therefore,
that you should be just before you are generous,
and l wish you to understand that we desire no
one who cannot pay his debts to put any thing in
the plate" The collection was arousng one.
young ladies of Cincinnati have acquired pas
sion for throwing themselves into the Ohio river,
for the purpose of being rescued by the gallant
young men who wait upon the wharves for
an opportunity to show their galantry and dar-
ing.
EB A New Y ork paper states that Judge DAILY
has recently made decision that woman may
not legally be held to bail for brech of promise
to marry; and that it is only the masculine gender
who can be SO held for refusing to consumate
such contract.
AN IMPROVEMENT UPON THE OLD METHOD
The Austrian Government has affixed the
name ofa Hungarian leader to the gallows, as
punishment for his rebellion. This is an i'm.
provement upon the old method, when they
used to affix mans neck to the same intsru-
ment.
People who are always talking have usually
no very deep feelings. The less water you
have in your kettle the sooner it makes noise
and smoke. 49,
1t is full fifteen years ago that we asked an
acquaintance how he felt while prisoner in
Egypt; but we remember the reply: / felt like
book bound in Morocco"
A PROCESS of tanning leather in IL hours has
been discovered and patented. This will effect
a great saving of time. The old method requir.
ed from to months.
THE KENTUCKY INFANT, aged Is years, and
weighing 537 lbs, is exhibiting at St. Louis
If he keeps growing in this way to 40 years of
age, he will do to ballast steamboat
A bell, weighing ten hndred and fifty tons,
has been cast in Baltimore city for the fire de-
partment of Washington. .'i< '.. "
The descent on Cuba, it is now stated, was
designed by the party leaving New Orleans on
the 9th or 9th Of May, to be made on or about
the Goth. They expected, before landing sig.
nal from the Creoles in Cuba in the form of
declaration of independence.
A LESSON FOR SECRETARY CRAWFORD.
The Washington Republic says:
The Secretary of the Treasury, it will be per-
ceived, acknowledges the receipt of ten eagles
and halfdme that have donbtlessrested heavily
upon the mind Of some repentant sinner That
still small voice is never silent.
The "still small voice. must be gnawing at Mr.
Crawford's conscience. 1t probably, the
work of some anti -Galphin who intended it
hint to Mr. G.. to restore that $l 00,00O which
he illegally took from the Treasury
The French Government is said to have Just
finished the largest steamer a1oat-each engine
is 500 horse power. She is named the Presi-
dent. ...s.
The Legislature of South Carolina has, by for
NAL resolution, called on the Hon. Geo. Euts,
Chief Justice ofthe State of Louisiana to deliver
an eulogy on the late John G. Calhoun.
t=y|lf tbs happiness to be nobly descended,
ts no less to have much merit that nobody in
quires whether you are SO or no.
~ 1t is merit and not title, which gives mpor-
tance. 1t is usefulness, and not grandeur, which
makes the world happy. 81 '.+s
o. An air sun, the motive power Of which is
an india rubber spring operating on condenser,
has been patented in England. rn. -., -
EyNever fret over the errors of the past; but
regard them as the dross oflife and monitors to
the future
PoErRY.-'So you would not take me to be
twenty!' said young lady to her partner, while
dancing the polka, few evenings ago What
would you take me for, them 'For better, for
worse,' replied he. .......ar -s-
sY A returned Californian says of the coun-
try and the people, 81 was stranger and they
too me in!'
ty generous man will, in his treatment to
an enemy, resemble the sun which pours light
all around it-even upon the clouds that try to
dim it's lustre. ~ r. *7.. .5# 'rsta 1 asg sa=s
The FRUITs.-Father Mathew, while in Vicks-
burg, administered the pledge to several hundred
The editor Of the Whig says that liquor vender
writes him that Father Mathew and the Sons of
Temperance have effectually ruined his business.
He hopes, however, that many of his debtors.who
have taken the pledge, will call speedily and paw
their grog bills, to enable him to live while he
is making arrangements to engage in another
calling. >.
o. The King ofSpain will give. a dinner to
all the poor of Madrid; on the day of the Queens
confinement
Ey Napoleon's favorite residence, at Fon-
tainbleau, is to be converted into cavalry
school. ~ " bn
Col. Benton is somewhat like man fond Of GOOD
eating. He likes bacon ham hugely, he is fec
tionately disposed towards roast beef, he is pas
sionately fond of pork and beans, he doats on
CHlcheu uAlils, anu Is peIIectly enchanted with
plum. pudding. But to see all theseluxuries on
one board, SO far from pleasing him, only throws
him into paroxysm Of anger. California is
Col. Benton's plum pudding, which he thinks
should be eaten alone, and without sauce
sa a4G5 st. Louis INTEL. III
{ WWm Hancock writes to his brother IN
Charleston, from California, that he cannot scom-
pare Sacramento and San Francisco cities to
anything but hill in all its glory.
I GT The price of building materials in New
York city and vicinity has fallen very considera-
bly, during the last few weeks. Good hard
bricks, which two months ago were sold fr ~
a 81 SO per M Z, can now be obtained for 43 rs
per M. Lumber has also fallen. 4lls8 81 sS
CHARITY BEGINS AT HonE.-John Randolph,
visiting planters wife in Virginia, found her
surrounded BY her female neighbors, bnsily en-
gagged in making up, garments for the Greeks,
then objects Of public sympathy. On leaving.
the house, he saw out side the porch i number 81
thu lady's little niggers, all in rags sd tstt6ts
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