The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1852-12-04

Lo, THE Poor PRTNrER-Mr. Buckingham. in
his recent work, personal Memoir and Recol-
lections of Editorial Life, makes the following
mention of Journeymen Printers, most wor-
thy mechanics, who always found a friend in
the author of this pleasant book:
MANY persons who condescend to illnmi-
nate the dark world with the sparkling of their
genius through the columns of a newspaper
and others who publish sermons and tracts re-
ligious, moral, and political, little think of the
labor of the printer, who sits up until mid
night, or till day light, to correct his false
grammar, bad orthOgraphy, and worse punctu-
alton. | once saw the manuscrip pit of a sermon
in the hands of a printer which was entirely
without points, and every line began with a
capital letter, as if it had been poetry Sup
pose these productions had been printed as they
were written. The disgrace would have fallen
upon the printer. After an experience of more
than fifty years, "hold this truth to be self
evident" there are no class of working men so
poorly paid as printers. For ONE who makes
himself rich by printing disconnected with the
business of publishing, FIFTY barely live above
poverty, and die in the possession of little more
than enough to pay the joiner for coffin and
the sexton for grave"
! INTERESTING REIIc.-The identical pulpit in
which Whitfield preached his powerful sermons
in England, was brought over to this country
a few days ago, and is now deposited at the
Tract House, in the rooms of the City Tract
Society. 1t is about six feet high. nearly
square at the top, and is light framework of
hard wood so as to be easily removed from one
place to another. and easily stationed in the
open air. 1t is. easily put in compact form by
the operation of hinges and held together by
iron hooks. 1t was sent here by Mr.. Geo. G..
Smith, of England. In another part of the
/ pfy s nuildtpt- is tho chair IL
pied by the "Dairyman Daughter" and the
g Shepherd Of Salisbury Plain who form the
subjects of interesting narratives, widely known
~: Y. IoM. Conn.,
| We learn from the Scientific American that
instantaneous portraits can now be taken on
collodion by O very ingenious French lnven-
ton. The person whose portrait is to be taken
is placed at some distance of. in front Of the
| lens and the operator. while converslng with
him. pull trigger. By so doing newly in
vented cap (oIturateur) turns on its own axis
and in its rotary movement allows the light
and the image OF the sitter to pass through a
hole twice the diameter Of the lens. The por-
trait is obtained in the fraction of second, and
for auickncss can only be compared to cleo
tricity.
| The Prussian Police, made arrests on infor-
nation sent by the Chief of Police Of New
York. Of individuals sent to Europe to pass
forged Prussian notes fabricated in America
One of them was arrested before he landed
from the ship at Bremen, with large amount
of the forged paper in his possession the 9th
er has just been taken at Dusseldorf, having
arrived by another route. Every step of the
forgers was regularly reported to the Berlin
police by a member OF the band. and they were
allowed to carry out their attempts only tc
fall into the hands of the authorities when the
proof was ripe.
A long pending suit in Cincinnati, between
Nicholas Longworth and the heirs of the lat,
VIM. Irwin. has been compromised. The lattel
got 84a acres Of land, within the corporate
limits Of the city. II is Of immense value.