The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1852-11-06

brlgantine coming into the harbor. very
narrowly escaped being involved in the same
catastrophe.
TREMENDOUS EXCITEMENT ALONG THE WISCONSIN
| RIvER.-We learn that upon the recent deepen
ing of the canal connecting the Fox and Wiscon-
sin rivers, large share of the Upper Wisconsin
waters passed through the canal into Fox river.
1t is said that the volume of water which has
ever since flown into the latter river, is equal
to sixty feet in width by three feet in depth /;
and consequently the Wisconsin waters have
been drawn off to an equal extent. Some time
elapsed before the inhabitants discovered the
cause of the unprecedented fall; but the facts
were at length discovered, and ever since the
excitement has scarcely been confined to reas-
enable bounds. Meetings are being held at the
villages to organize for resisting the outrage of
| the Board of Public Works, in permitting the
Wisconsin waters to be thus plundcrcd for the
benefit of Fox river.
The Wisconsin river, we believe, was long ago
declared by an act of Congress to be public
highway, and navigable for 200 miles up. This
| fact, we presume, was never taken into consid-
GRAFTON by the Board, else they would not thus
have indirectly violated law so essential to
! the trade and commerce of that river. If how
ever, it can be established, as some lawyers con-
tend, that the Wisconsin waters are fugitives
| from servitude, and the offence cognizabe un-
der the fugitive slave act and consequently the
Board, the adcrs of such escape. then govern
ment will be bound to arrest the offenders even
though the bottom of Lake Michigan be the
asylum. The matter is a serious one, involv-
ing grave questions for future litigation
Grant Co. Herald.
| INTERESTING FACTs-Paris cxpends nearly
100000 on every republican May fete or near
ly half as much on a day amusement as on her
| primary schools for year; while four theatres
actually receive an equal sum.
! The annual cost Of the Legion Of Honor. which
gives $4,000 persons the privilege of wearing red
ribbons in their button-holes, 81 600. 900. The
yearly cost of the Paris Prefecture of Police is
Sl,6S0,O0O. Upwards of Sll 100000 are dis
pensed every year in pensions The yearly cx-
penscs of the army and navy are nearly
100. 100000 dollars: for public buildings, &C..
l5,0OO,OO0. and for public institutions for
the 1S.O0O,000 youth of France, $1,000, ,O00.-
Louis Napoleon, since he has assumed the SUI
premc power, has increased the expenses of the
army, public building. and his own disburse-
ments as Chief Of the State, upward of S7.000,-
600, while the budget for public instruction has
decreased nearly 100000 of francs. He has
appropriated 81, 600 for the purchase of busts of
| himself These sums show the relative impOr-
tance of the objects in the eyes of the govern
ment. No expense is spared in the education of
soldier in the art of war. The present army
of France is perhaps the most efficient in the
world. The army is, however, considered more
necessary protection to the government
against its own citizens than against foreign
powers. 1t affords the exclusive evidence, that
the people Of France who are not the friends of
monarchy are ranged under the banner of revo-
luton. This will ever be the case where au-
thority relies upon force to control, rather than
education to enli ghten ignorance.
Another fact speaks volumes. The entire
number OF the youth Of France receiving edu-
cation in 1850, above that of elementary knowl-
prisons contained $4,000 prisoners or one
three-hundredth part of the adult population.
Idlcness and the want of some regular en-
ployment often pave the way to the depths of
crime and misery. The idle are generally dis
solute. 1t is an old maxim. as true as it is old,
and not at all too simple and undigniied for
those who would be wise to hear, that
"sstan finds some mischief still
| For idle hands TO dos
Parents can in no way so easily and infallibly
rear their sons to be prohigates, and the in
mates of brothels, and profcients in all popular
vice, as by teaching them not to work. and per-
mtting them to command their own time. Let
the parent but regard labor as dishonorable, let
him teach his son that gentilty consists in leis-
ure and amusement; let him furnish him with
no absorbing business for either head or hands /;
let the son choose his own companions, and
spend his time without question, where he
pleases; let him pass his evenings away from
the parental fireside, and especially let him
have full supply of money to demonstrate his
respectability, and display his generosity, and
command the various sensual indulgencies that
solicit his senses, and with almost infallible GER
tainty, such course will secure the prostitution
of his virtue and send him forth beggared of all
respect and all peace, and all hope into the
4 midnight darkness of eternity.
The MENOMONEE PAYNENT-The payment Of
the MenomOnee Tribe Of Indians, takes place
this season at Lake Shawnow-over one hun
dred miles up the Wolf river. There is to be
some $4,000 paid at the payment, and $4,000
yearly thereafter for twele years. 1t will be
made sometime between the 5th and 18th O
= November. There is usually great excitemen,