The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1852-11-20

THE Co-PARTyERsHIP OF NArToNs.-The CON-
merce Of nations is nothing else than the CO.
partnership of nations in carrying on the same
business. These international connections are
not limited partnerships; they are not optional
neither can they be dissolved.-
Individual firms may dissolve their connection
by mutual consent. and perhaps TO their mutual
advantage But the great commercial firm of
Nations cannot do this. England cannot dis
solve its partnership with the United States or
with France; nor can either of those countries
cut its commercial connection with England.
without the most serious detriment to its inter
ests. Until England can grow silk. cotton.
hemp. sugar, tea, rice, specs tropical fruits,
and dig gold and silver enough from her soil to
supply all that her necessities or luXuries de-
mand. she must remain in co-partnership with
the countries that produce these articles. Her
connection with these countries is not like that
which exists between two individuals " no oc-
casionally or regularly trade with each other.
or instance, the cotton manufacturer of Lam
cashire must have American cotton, or be must
stop his mill. Well, if he please. he may have
his choice among thousand brokers of the
American article. If one does not suit him he
has only to step across the street to another
He need not buy at the same American Ware
house twice in twenty years. and still spin as
good cotton as can be grown in the United
States. But England, as nation. cannot do
this. There are scarcely three warehouses in
the whole world al which she can purchase cot
ton. Three-fourths of all she manufactures
come from the great national warehouse of
America. This is not all she has to mix Amer
lean cotton with all she buys elsewhere. in order
to make desirable article. John. then. can
not say to Jonathan "1ll step across the street
to Norway Belgium, OF New Holland to buy my
cotton Nor whit more can Jonathan say to
John. '.1ou may go elsewhere to buy your cot
tom" But why not? simply because these two
neghbors arc cO-partners in business which
they can neither sell out or divide. The bonds
of their commercial connection can no more be
loosed than 1.-THE bands of Orion They are
bonds which the sword cannot sever. The ire
sistiblc terms of their compact were fixed in the
dlspensation of seasons. soil. aud climate, long
ere either nation was born. Every year new
reciprocal necessities and interests are strength
enlng and multiplying these bonds. Already
half OF all that jonathan has to sell, after sup
plying his own family, he sells to his brother
John. and half he buys 10 supply what he can
not produce he buys OF John. Thus. half of the
land, capital labor, and SIX Ii which the United
States employ in Foreign trade, is invested in
the business carried on under the firm of Messrs
John and Jonathan.-Eiihu EwriH.
BEAUTIFUL ExrRACT.-I saw the temple reared
by the hand OF man. standing with its high pin
naclcs in the distant plain-thc storm beat upon
1.-THE God of Nature hurled his Thundcrs
against it-and yet it stood as firm as adamant.
Reyclry was in its lIall-the gay the happy,
the young, the beautiful were there. IrcturnCd
and the temple was no more-its hieh walls lay
n scattered ruins: moss and wild grass grew
wildly there. and at the midnight hour the owls
cry added to the dcsolatiOn of the scene-the
young and gay who revclled there had passed
away.
saw the child rejoicing in his youth-the
idol OF his father; returned and the child had
become old. Trembling with weight of years
he stood the last OF his generation, a stranger
amid the dcsolat.on around him.
saw the old oak stand in all its pride on the
mountan-thc birds are carollng on its bOughs.
returned the oak was lealless and sapless-
the winds were playing their past;me through
the branches.
"Who is the Destroyer sail l to my guar
dian angel.
1T is time said he, ':whcn the morning stars
sang together with JOY over the new made world,
he commenced his course, and when he shall
have destroyed all that is beautiful on earth
pluckod the sun from its sphere-veilcd the
moon in blOod--yea. when he shall roll the
heavens and earth away as a scroll, then shall
an angel from the throne of God come forth.
and with one foot on the sea and one on the
land, lift up his hand towards heaven and hcav-
ems Eternal, swear Time is, Time was, Time
shall be no longer
Ruins OF ANCIENT CITIES IN THE ISLANDS OF
THE NORTH PACiFIC.-The ruins of ancient cities
immense magnitude and extent have long been
known to exist in several Islands in the Pacific
Ocean, the origin and existence of which, histo-
ry furnishes no account. In one of the Ladronc
Islands. group lying in latitude l6 deg. north,
and longitude 10 degrees cast. some two thou
sand miles from the coast of China. are the stu
pcndous ruins of one of these ancient cities.
The Vineyard Gate. published at Edgartown,
Mass, gives an account of a visit to these ruins
by Captain Alfred X. Fisher, of the Nantucket
whale ship America. The principal street was
three miles long, and the buildings all of stone
OF dark color. and of the finest material. Near
the centre of the street were twelve solid stone
columns, near fifty feet in height and ten feet
in diameter at the base. surmountcd by stone
caps of immense weight. From the principal
avenue, other streets diverge at regular inter-
walls and at right angles. The ruins of the whole
city were ovcrgrown with trees of ancient and
gigantic growth. The native inhabitants. nor
the Spaniards, in whose possession the Island is
at present could give no account of the found
ers of the city. 1t seems to he q counterpart of
those Central American Cities. the record of
whose people is blotted from the memories Of
men.
A NOVEL MIsrAKE.- Quite an amusing scene
took place in Hanover street. last evening.
little before dark, which was richly enjoyed by
the few who were so fortunate as to witness it.
II seems that q young man. clerk in an embrold-
cry store on that street, saw his father riding
past in a carriage, and wishing to see him very
much, rushed out in pursuit OF the vehicle. In
the course of his run he accidentally struck
with his hand the skirt Of a gentlcmans coat.
The gentleman thought that pocket had been
picked and without stopping TO ascertain that
fact. he Immediately ran after the supposed thief
at rapid rate The race was long and nobly con-
tested. but the clerk reached his fathers vehicle
and got in with him and drove of, not conscious
of the fact that he had been pursued as a sup
posed pickpocket. The gentleman, baffled in
his attempt 10 catch his prisoner, was about to
depart from the spot, when he happened to put
his hand in his coat pocket, where be found his
money all safe. He gave one loud exclamation
on making this discovery, and Immediately left
amid the boisterOus laughs of the bystanders,
who had seen the Boston Chronicle.