The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1852-11-20
A Washington correspondent Of the Baltimore

"A W aSHinTtOn correspondent OF inc DalllnOfc
San says: Tie impudeNcc OF the English Gov
ernmcnt is astounding. In their Adm rally
Maps Of Arct Discoveries. they have actually
stolen the Am >rcan discovery of 'Grinnell' S
Land, claim 1t as Brit sh, ana call it Albert
Land. Peter Force. the dist. gu. she'd antigua
ran. read paper recently before the National
Inst .tutc in this city, Wind eating the American
discovery of Lieut.. Ueliaven, the commander Of
the Grinnell expedition. in search OF Sir John
Franklin, and convicting the British Admiralty
and map-makcrs, out of the mouths of their own
commanders. OF the grCssest ftlschood and most
unblushing robbery. The world is under addi-
tional obligation to MIR. Force for setting this
matter right on the instant, before the british
claim had acquired historical ire, ocabilty.'
TELEGRAPH PROFITs.-The Washington and
New York Magnetic Telegraph Company, the
Pioneer line under Morsc's Patent, was organ
lied in January, 1916. The capital of the line
is S37O.OOO. 1t has six wires to Philadelphia,
and seven thence to New y ork. 1t employs l2O
persons in ALL at IL stations. The total receipts
from July 1st, 1917, to July lst, 1852, were
1886, ,G4l. Within the past tscal year, 253 S57
messages have been transmitted, earning Sl03,-
$50, and showing the average cost OF each mes
sage to he 40 cents. The dividends have been
s to II per cent, annually 4; probably consider
able more this year. as by the consolidation Of
the wires of the Balm Telegraph since January,
the nett earnings have been much increased
WHAT BARNrM SAYs.-Some of Barnum's hints
to business men. are capital. In giving some
advice to young friend, he says:
Let your pledged word ever be sacred. New
er promise to do thing without performing it
with the most rigid promptness. Nothing is
more valuable to man in business than the
name of always doing as he agrees, and that to
In
gives a man the command OF half the spare funds
within the range of his acquaintance, and always
encircles him with host of friends, who may be
depended upon in almost any conceivable cmer-
gcncy.
ANTIQuIrY.-Rcccnt discoveries in Hcrcu-
lancum, Ninevah. and elsewhere, are conclusive,
proving that the people of antiquity were ac-
quainted with many things in the arts of which
the mOderns thought they had no knowledge
On the contrary, every year is furnishing evil
dence not that the ancients were ignorant
of what we know, but that we are ignorant of
the ancients and what they knew. They are
like the Bible, the Oldest record of the carly
time. with which the more we become acquain-
ted the better we shall like. and the more we
shall revere it.-.Nerdtk .4drertisey.
HAMILTON CouSTY.-This county has. at least.
1000 voters. At the late election, the official
returns SHOW aggregate Notc vi lo:o@'- cA-
elusive of the Twelfth Ward. rejected for in
formality. This shows but about 10000 votes
were given on Tuesday last though our neigh
bors Of the Enquirer have it 24,262. We think
there were at least 5000 voters in Hamilton
county that did not vote at the State election.
Bring these all out. Caldwell over Haynes.
now 2.i5l: in 1851. he had 3,557 over Storer
majority reduced 1.l16.-Cin. Gaz.
THE ROMANCE OF MYsTERY.-Willis thus speaks
of distinguished writers, and the bad effect that
familiarity breeds:
"Thackeray is about taking the bold step Of
coming over bodily to displace his ideal-an
experiment which Dickens and Kossuth found
so disastrous, and upon which few authors or
heroes that EVER lived, could safely venture
The soul and the body seldom look alike
Once demigod-cd, a man had best stay in his
cloud. What sort of descriptions do you sup
pose the correspondents of the country papers
would give of Milton. if he were to re-appear
and walk Broadway for month? America is,
to English authors, an optical posterity-the
broad Atlantic being we'll adjusted magnify
ing glass which produces the same effect as the
trans-envoy and competition Of the Styx'
The aggregate wealth of the United States
amounts to $4,000, 900, 900, and the population
is "a, ,000, 900 souls