American telegraph. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1851-1851, 1851-08-11
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WOMAN'S RIGHTS.

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WoMAN's RIGHTS
Why such confusion when we see
The ladies IL Bl0o9sers
In this at least we should permit
Them to enjoy their humor.
If nature in her kindest mood
Gave fair proportions to them at.
1t is but right that fashion should
Permit the dears TO show them. x
Though sappy heads with sapless limbs
10 There are enough--I know it #l
To cry for shame My notion is
' They re right So, let 'em go it.
Minnesota. The population of ST. Paul, $50
miles above st. Louis on the Father Of Waters,
is 1000, and rapidly increasing; 81 houses
have been erected since the lst of March. st.
Anthony, at the falls of that name, contains
1000 inhabitants five steamboats, arrive here
weekly, all crowded with passengers, Still
water is the only other considerable place,
though other villages are springing into exist
ence every year, and growing rapidly. g"To
the invalid, its dry, bracing air, and pure
spring water, are panacea for all the ills with
which he is afflicted. To the farmer it presents
a soil rich and fertile, well watered with beau
tiful rills and rivulets, and climate well suited
for great variety of productions"
learned judge being once asked how he
would act if man owed him ten pounds, and
refused to pay him, replied, Rather than bring
an action, with its costs and uncertainty, L
would give him a receipt in full of all demands
yea, would send him, moreover FIVE pounds
to cover all possible costs"
The Crops IN Ohio.-A correspondent, writing
from northern Ohio, ys:-"Th wheat crop
is excellent; oats very good; better by onehalf
than last year; corn very good; potatoes are in
Jured by the potato bug-a striped fly about
three-quarters of an inch long; the grass is
much injured by the grasshopper; fruit very
scarce"
The statement that Col. Cutter, the navy
agent Mt Portsmouth had sailed for Europe Is
erroneous. The Boston Courier says :" He is
still here If he has any pecuniary differences
with the Government, they will be arranged by
his sureties and he has not lost the confidence
of his friends"
John NJ. Smith, of Dubuque, United States
deputy surveyor, and Oscar Lyman, member
! of his company, were instantly killed on the
wenty-fourth ultimo, in consequence of tree
falling across their camp.
A prospectus has been issued of line of
steamers between New York and Galway 1t is
proposed to raise S400, 900 in shares of S25
each, as capital stock; and to petition Con-
gress for contract to carry the mails by the
Galway route
The New York Mirror learns that there is n
prospect of Jenny Lind joining Maretzek's opera
troupe; and that she will appear in several
light operas, such as La File du Regiment"
''Sonnambula," SC.
Potato Crop IN Ohio-The Cincinnati Com
mercial says: The potato crop, this year. has
never been equalled by any previous one. In
addition to the abundant supply, their flavor is
far superior TO any that have been introduced
in our market for many years.
We see it stated that Mr.. Macaulay has
abandoned the charges brought in his history
of England against William Penn. 1t will be
honorable to Mr.. NJ. if he has retracted Au-
thors are too apt to act in the spirit of Doctor
lSangrado, who kept on killing people according
to his system, mainly because he had written a
book in favor of it, and not because he was not
amply convinced by experience that it was
wrong.
The other day, a gentleman in Natchez, Mis-
sissippi, looked on so long to witness game at
billiards, that he became sympathetic and inn
bibed the motion of the players to such an ex-
tent that, on leaving and going into the street,
he played on n China tree cannoned on the
| Mansion-house lamp-post, and finally " held"
| himself in the gutter
p;oht Dersons were drowned in New York
borher on THURSDAY by the upsetting of a sail
| hoot The party consisted of Mrs. Green,
| Lolonoino TO New York, her four children and
nurse. and two sailors living at Snug harbor.
I Mrs. Green kept an eye in6rmary in New York
Maoistrqte: What has brought you here, sir?
Prisoner: Two police men, please your honor
Mqqistrate: Then suppose liquor had nothing
to do with it Prisoner: Yes, sir; they are
both drunk.
George w. Kendall, esq, of the New Orleans
Picayune, has gone to the Congress Of Indians,
at Fort Laramie.
The Stockholm journals state that Mile Jen-
ny Lind has just purchased one of the largest
estates in Sweden-that Of Beckarshoerg lin
the province Of Nykoping .
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