The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1853-07-16
NUMBER "A.

DowN AMONG THE DEAD MhS-=Dr. Reid. a
traveller through the highlands Of Peru, is said
to have found lately in the desert of Atacama,
the dried remains of an assembiage of beings,
five or six hundred in number, men, women,
and children, seated in a semcrcle, as when
alive. staring into the burning waste before
them. They had not been buried life had not
departed before they thus sat around, but hope
was gone, the Spanish invaders were at hand,
and no escape being left, they had come hither
to die. They still sat immoveable in that
dreary desert; dried like mnmmics by the ef-
feet of the hot air, they still kept up their posi-
tion. sitting up as a solemn council. while over
that dread Areopagus silence brOods everlast-
ingly.
Let them remain there, as monuments of the
gigantic wrongs perpetrated by Christian
people, against harmless race. Let them re-
main in everlasting Silence. speaking no word.
but forever appealing, in solemn earnestness,
for vengeance on their cruel spoilers. Let them
sit there in dread council, where they came to
die, with their face to the desert With the bright
sun that they wOrshipped above, and the free
air of the plains breathing upon them, till the
hour of retribution shall come. That hour is
advancing, with slow but sure approach. Spain,
the greatest and most powerful, the proudcst
and most prosecuting of nations, at the time in
which they lived. has, from the date of their
province has fallen from around her-jewel al
ter jewel has dropped from her crown, until but
one, of all the bright gems of the new world
that glistened in her dadcm, remains, and evelt
that is lOosened to speedy fall. The very
richness of the spoil which resulted from her
rObberies of the children of the sun, hastene,s
her downfall The treasures that were carries
home bred disease that has been and is under
mining her constitution and will be the cal.>,'
of her final degradation. Where is now the G'';
Hidalgo, the iron men of Spain, the high horcs,
the renown, the strength, the indomitablc eoui=
age and chvalfy of Spanish knighthood! All
gone, passed into history, leaving behind only
effeminacy, decay. Pun C faith and false pr
tension TO chivalry and honor
The old Spaniard the stern. enduring soldier
of false religion, who plundercd in the nan,'
of the Deity, and shed oceans of human bIe',si
in the name of his church, has passed away, ii!
the curse of his cruel propagandism is darker
ing over his descendants. The retributiOns O.;
heaven, which in the broad and just philosophy
of nature is sure, sooner or LATER to folio"
wrong, are gathering against them. While th"
world is in motion, moving onward and mp
ward, while progress is going on all around her.
Spain, wrapped in her gloomy superstitions.
and hugging the bigotry and fanatieism that
have eaten away her vitality, sits gloomily lv
the waysde. Already in the twilight of her
closing day, the long night to which no morn
ing succeeds will be upon her. and these drici!
and mummy-like victims of her cruelties aT''
wrongs, they sit in their silent dcsolation is.
the desert of Atachama." will see in her de-
gradatiOn the answer to their appeal to heaven
against their destroyer-.qbany Register.
We infer from the following paragraph in the
last Nieusbode, that the Milwaukee Wisconsin
has been getting into some sort of "row:'
Rorw.-De Milwaukee Wisconsin van vcrl.-
Dingsdag is in rouw vcrchcnen omdad de re,ls
actcur van bIad door George Smith ell 1e Az
lanta Bank, ter zake van laster, ON Gene schad-
evcrgoeding van $4,000 vervolgd wordt.
It's nothing more than we expected.
Why do the Democracy of this county any
longer hesitate to take high and noble stand
in the selection of the very best men for Office:
Mt. Ttrnon Banner.
Because the very best men arc Wings Don't
ask such silly qucstions.-Cleue. Her.
The newspaper publishers Of Connecticut
held, few days ago, a State Convention, and
olutions, the following.
Reso1red AS the sense Of this meeting, that
the publishers of newspapers in this State, owe
it to themselves, to charge for Obituary Mott
ccs, Resolutions, &c, exceeding five lines III
sing rates.
Resolued. As the sense of this convention
that editorial notices to promote private inter
csts, resolutions of societies, &c, should inra-
riably be paid for.
SINGULAR PHENoMENON.-Our readers arc
aware that on Walnut Hills excavations are he
ing made on the line of the new Short Line
Railroad. The wOrkmen when excavating.
passed through layers of crystalzed limestone,
and soap or slate stone alternately, in which
very little water was found.
A few days since, however, when they were
about one hundred and twenty feet from the sur
face of the earth, the flame of candle or bur-
ming match accidentally come in contact with
liquid supposed to be pure water, that had
gathered in one of the holes drilled in the rock.
Much to the surprise of all present the ap-
parent water instantly took fire, after the man
ner of infammable gas-but sent up strong
clear and steady flame, as ifit were composed
of some kind Of oil. On applying fire to the
liquid which was in the other drill holes in tho
vicinity it also burned in the same manner.
Since that time lamps and candles have been
entirely dispensed with, in the subterranean
apartment, the substance continuing to burn
stcadely, and emit an excellent light. Many
persons whose curiosity is excited visit the spot
daily to witness the singular phenomenon. The
liquid gives no unpleasant Odor while burning.
-CanctnnQft Sun.
GiRfs.-Holmcs in one Of bis poems, says in
aparenthetlcal way
--" My grandpa
Loved girls when he was young.'
No doubt of it; for Holmes is a sensible man.
and must have had sensible grandfather. All
sensible men love girls when they are young.
and when they are old too. (We apply the old
to the men, not to the girls-mind you) Girl
hood is an institution-a peculiar institution
which as lovers of the union we are bound to
cherish; and as to girls large and small, we
hold that no gentlcman's family "is complete
without them.'' OF girls an American poet
says
ssWith rosy checks, and merry dancing curls,
And eyes OF tender light,
very beautiful are little girls,
And goodly to the sight"
And as to large girls-"big, bouncing girls''
what a pity it is that they must soon be
matronly, queenfy women,
who are only not angels because they are not
girls who, by-the-by. are not angels either,