The Minnesotian. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. Territory) 1851-1852, 1852-03-27

Col. VIM. Williams, a delegate in Con-
gress from Connecticut, after having
signed the Declaration of independence,
said to one of his companions 'If we
are defeated in our struggle for independ-
ence, this days york will make bad york
for me. l have held commission in the
rebel army; l have written for the rebel
newspapers; l am the son-in-law of a
rebel Governor-and now have affixed
my name to the rebel declaration. NV
sins are, therefore, too great to be par
doned by our royal master; then must
be hanged" The olher gentleman an
swered: 81 believe my case is not so
desperate, for | have had no connection
with the army, nor can it be proved that
heretofore l have written or done any
thing obnoxious to the mother country"
The immediate and prompt reply was
'Then, sir, you deserve to be hungn
Mrs. Swisshelm declars that the "coil
Of an anaconda would make better cir
die for young woman's waist than the
arm of drunken husband"
GEN. CAss' Srock is R1sIsG.-It is
said that all the New York city delegates
to the Baltimore Convention are in favor
OF Gen. Cass, also, that the MARYLAND
delegation will be in his favor.
"My lad," said school master, "what
is member of Congress 20 "a member
of Congress is common substantive,
agreeing with self-interest, and is gov
erened by eight dollars a day, under
STOOD"
A fellow seven feet high, passed
through Charleston on his way to Califor-
MIA. On being asked why he ventured
upon SO hazardous journey, he replied
that they didn't want him any longer
down in Maine.
Why is it easier to be a clergyman than
physician because it is easier to
preach than to practice.
An old lady, who was apt to be troub-
led in her dreams, and rather superstitious
withal, informed the parson of the parish
that on night previous she dreamed she
saw her grandmother, who had been dead
for ten years. The clergyman asked her
what she had been eating? ooh! only
half mince pie''
"Well," said he, I" if you had devour-
ed the other half you might probably have
seen your grandfather too
DIR. Beeswax, in his ESSAYS on Wo-
man, remarks with some truth that beau
ties generally die old maids. They set
such value on themselves, Che says, J
that they don't find purchaser until the
market is closed. Out of dozen beau
ties who have come out within the last
eighteen years, eleven still occupy single
beds. They spend their days in working
green dogs on yellow wool, while their
evenings are devoted to low spirits and
French novels.
An editor down south says he never
dotted an I but once in his life, and that
was in fight with contemporary.
A clergyman at Portland, while writing
sermon the other day, occasionally eras.
ing sentence which he desired to i'm
prove, was interrupted by his little son
Father, does God tell you what to
preach?
"Certainly, my child"
"Then what makes you scratch il
out "'
CITIZEN TYPE" "A New England edi-
tor speaks of the arrival from New York
by Railroad, of number of beautiful
and accomplished female sassengers, who
came up from the city to visit their
friends and spend the holidays
Not SO bad after all, as a number of
them were dressed in the Boomer cos
tune. ----.-.
BRAo- TRIP.-The steamer Pittsburp,
recently made the trip from Louisville to
Cincinnati in l l hours and six minutes
the best time ever made between those
ports.
Some of the Massachusetts, papers
have adopted the custom of publishing
births as well as marriages. 1t is now
become mooted question whether the
notices of births should precede the mar
riages, or pice versa. The advocates of
one side urge that births very naturally
follow marriages, while their opponents
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