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

of the Methodist Episcopal Church. It is well
known that the division into " the Methodist
Episcopal Church North" and ''the Methodist
Episcopal Church SOufh,' originally grew out
of questions relating to slavery. But it is not
so generally understood that the line between
them is not that which separates the Free from
the Slave States. On the contrary, the North
ern branch includes Delaware, Maryland, and a
part of Virginia Shareholders are members of
both branches, and slaveholding does not ex-
clude from membership in either Recently,
however, it has been proposed to make this the
distinction, and to retain none i'm the Northern
Church who hold property in Slaves. Some of
the Annual Conferences have expressed decid-
ed convictions in favor of it, and the leading
Methodist papers are carrying on the argument
with much ability. A minority of them only
the more conservative pOrtiOn-are for pre-
serving the present relations of the Church
THE LIBRARY DONATIoN-We publish to-day
the letter of Joshua Bates, ESQ., of London, to
the Mayor of this city, informing him that the
writer has made a donation of .ffiy thousand
dollars towards forming City Library in Bos-
ton. This is, indeed, a noble gift, and the good
which it is capable of doing is incaculable. 1t
places at once the establishment Of our City
Library on permanent basis. We call atten-
ton to the plain and unpretending letter of
Mr.. Bates 1t is model of modest, quiet lib
erality. 1t is the words of good man,
who wishes that his right hand should not
know what his left hand doeth In this age Of
money grasping, an act like this of Mr.. Bates.
shines like good deed in a naughty world"
Boston .4Ias
Wharf.-The Cape Girardeau Eagle says
that the crop of wheat throughout that part of
the country this season has been immense
Thousands Of bushels are hauled in every week,
and the two mills are overfOwingly full.
There is an old man in Belgrade, on the
frontiers of Hungary and Turkey, who has at
tanned the enormous age of one hundred and
sevcnty-two years. He is still in possession of
all his faculties, and smokes his pipe regularly.
Fifty years ago he used to 60 out hunting with
his great randsOn, and it is not quite one
hundred years since he made his third marriage
with young girl of nineteen, whom he has out
lived by forty-four years.
The Shah of Persia is % years of age and one
Of the handsOmest men in the empire His great
grandfather who has 800 wives, had a crowd of
children, who have had descendants in their
turn until at length it is computed that the i'm
perial family comprises at least ten thousand.
IRISH WYT-Not long ago, destitute daugh-
ter of Erin walked into an Office on Wall street,
and in a very insinuating tone, begged for lit
tie aid to support her starving family.
"Why, my good woman said the comforta-
BILE looking gentleman to whom she had address
ed her petition, you ought to take your family
and 90 to the poor house, instead Of begging a
bout the streets in this way
Sure yer honor she replied 1T wouldn't be
aisy to go to poorer house nor my own.
The rich man could not answer this clincher
with anything less than two shilngs. and Norva
went out with smiling face.-.N: Y. Eve. Post
IRISH PoTAToEs FOR AMERICA have lear
ned that some considerable shipments Of pota-
toes have been made during the last few weeks
from Dublin to New York and New Orleans.
A highly respectable emigration house in this
city has shipped one hundred tons, by a single
vessel for the latter port. with every prospect
of realizing a good profit. The potatoes are
packed in covered baskets prepared for the pur-
pose, and serve for ballast in vessels taking out
Notwithstanding Post.
Mr.. Porter an author, died recently in Eng
land. The immediate cause of his death was
gnat S sting on the knee, which produced NOR
tfcation. His sedentatry habits had led to q
to bad state of blood, so that he was ripe for
death from apparently so small a casualty as
the sting ola gnat.
REVERE House, BosroS-Tha Hotel contains
300 rooms and many of them furnished in
style of Undesirable elegance. At table set
a few days since for twenty-four, the gold and
silver plates used on the occasion cost over
twenty thousand dollars! We take it for gran
ted that no other Hotel in the L. S. can spread
so rich and costly service.
Genin the halter. of New York, proposes to
erect pridge for foot passengers across Broad
way opposite his store to enable the persons to
cross without danger from the numerous vehi-
clcs. 1t is to be made of iron sixteen feet high
five feet wide, and reached by stairs of three feet
1t will be of oriental style. and very Ornamen-
tai structure. The proposal has been referred
to the committee on streets"
The erection of new factory capable Of run
ming 10000 spindles has just been commenced
at HolyOke. 1t is intended to manufacture
WOODEN goods,
A widow advertises in the Boston Transcript
that she is very much in want of husband
very much indeed. She says she is twenty-siX
years of age. rather good looking, kind DISPOSE
ton. of good education, and worth ten thousand
dollars would like husband who has energy
and enterprise, and is in every sense of the word
a man, an honest men; whether polished or I'M
polished
a DOCTOR TAXING HIS OWN PnIS-The Com
mittec of the Wisconsin State Fair, awarded to
Bcrlah Brown, as a reward for .'the best spcci-
men Of printing copy of his own work Mr.
Brown complains bitterly at the insgnifcance
of the token.
DEATH FROM CHIoEoFoRM-On Saturday eve
ming last woman came to the Surgical Board
of the O'Fallon Dispeusary, for the purpose of
hcving an operation performed on one of her
fingers to remove a felon. Chloroform was given
her, and the operation commenced by Dr. PoPE
He had hardly commenced, however, when be
discovered she was dead.--tSt. Louis Rep.
A tunnel which will have nothing equal to it,
is building in Hungary, at place called Lar
nowitz. near the mines of Schemustzar. 1t will
be in length ten English miles, and will be used
to convey the produce of the mines to the rail
way, which is on the shores of the river La
Grau.
Dobbs says the difference between old bach
elors and murderers, is rather imaginary than
real. In his opinion the guilt of keeping peo-
pie out of the world is just as great crime as
thrustinS them out after they have got in.
Sinners will please notice.