The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1853-11-05
NUMBER s.

Here, with nine pupils happier than if t had
| been queen. and feeling that would not ex-
change situations with any person living, I
commenced the first citizen school ever taught
in Minnesota. There were mission schools am
ong the Indians, and government school at
Fort Smelling Ofthe nine pupils. two of them
were white. There was a daily increase until
the number amounted to thirty and when those
IN attendance numbered forty, only eight OF
them were Americans.
To create love for the beautiful and refine
the feelings. daily bade my pupils replenish
my vase. Gan old pitcher. minus the handie,)
with wild flowers, which grow profusely all ar.
ound Our room soon exhibited rural aspect.
Evergreens had obscured the logs and their mud
chinkings; and to give variety. rats had their
gambols over the loose floor. a snake sometimea
gave us call and a friendly hen left daily
token of her benevolence in one corner. and
bade us good morning with her merry cackle.
Occasionally We were obliged to have :smudgei
that the mosquitoes might not render US uuitd
frantic. as
was happy Men. am happy in the retro.
spect. Never has regret crossed nv heart a
On the contrary. it has been continually theme
OF rejoicing and gratitude. that BY Divine grace
l was enabled to overcome all impediments.
and came just when did-when no other ona
! ScenfPT
and crown.
Never, under any circumstances. do recol.
lect to have been so happy in listening to tho
preached word, as in the aforesaid school room:
Here, too, was organized the first Sabbath school
when there was but one single protesting Chriss
tian in St. Paul
Prosperity has attended every effort the fec.
BILE instrumentality has been abundantly blest,
After one year. a neat and pleasant frame
SclOOI-nG n1 of
yearchange was visible everywhere. The sound
OF the hammer was heard in every direction.
Inc Territory was organized, officers arrived
and entered upon their duties. Population in.
creased, churches were built other towns arose
farms were opened. and the merits of the finest
and falrest region Of earth began to be felt and
understood. To-day we boast of all the ele.
ments of refined and Eastern society. We baye
all the privileges of New England, morally and
spiritually surprising it, If earth
has Paradise, it is here
st. Paul has State House, a Court House
SIX churches. seven schools, 1000 Inhabitants,
and in reality is only four year DID,"
have i'll preparation special description of
st. Anthony and st. Paul, with statistical in.
formation most encouraging respecting their re-
ligiohs, moral. educational social muncipa1
mercantile and other relations, which, doubt
not will interest your readers.
Yourstruly, DAVID P. HOLTON.
THE GROWTH OLA NEwsPAPER-The Missouri
Republican, the largest and one of the very abb
lest papers in the whole west, comes to us prip.
ted on entirely new type and materially increas.
ed in size 1t is accompanied by a fac siuaile
OF the third number published in July. lsOS
and the parent sheet and its successor present a
singular contrast. In order that our readers
may form some idea of the present size of the
Republican. we copy aragraph from the re-
IL 81 :%ex
form. it contains about 522 900 ems equivalent
to book OF 264 pages. Every morning (seven
days In the week) we give an average of from
ten to twelve columns of reading matter. These
reduced to book pages. would be equal to IS
pages per day, or 575 pages per week. To issue
this sheet, and carry on the various departments
OF our news, book and job printing Offices and
the bindery. we give employment to from 100
to 100 hands. as the amount of work NAV re.
qulre. We employ men, women and boys and
require every one to draw their wages week.
ly."
10 this We may add that the size of the sheet
upon which the Republican is printed, is Sc bv
81 INCHES that it confirms 1900 square inches
OF printed matt that its superficial area in
more than IL square feet; and that it contains.
as we learn by actual count. one thousand and
mtrty-e,ghf separate paying advertisements in
its daily edition.
The third number of the paper. specimen Of
winch Is before us, contains 1000 ems, is prin-
tea on sheet l6 by l3, or about the size of q
sheet OF foolscap writing pages, and has q SUI
perhcial area of II square feet contains about
l6O square inches of printed matter, and five
separate advertisements. including two from
the office OF the paper. In the paper of Oct. 4,
1893. we find under the teleeraphic head the
Battles news twelve days from Europe and
in the issue of July 26, 1908. the --latest news
from Europe" bears date April 24th, orer three
months from Liverpool. The paper was first is
sued under the title of the Gazette and it was
started by Mr.. Charless, then in Louisville. who
having obtained the contract for the territorial
printing engaged Mr. Jacob Hinkle, a printer,
10 60 to ST. Louis and commence operations
He procured a press and some types and trans
ported them to ST. Louis on keel boat-BuE
Express.
The EARTHQUAKE AT THEBEs.-A brief account
of the terrible earthquake which occurred at
Thebes on the 18th, 10Th, and goth of August,
has appeared in a previous number of this pap
er. The investigate instituted by the gov ern-
ment has brought to light the following addi-
tiOnal particulars of the sad calamity:
"a religious festival was to be celebrated on
the 18th, and at dawn everything seemed propi.
tious for the joyful occasion. The sun rose clear
and bright. the air was warm and pure-it was
one of the lovliest days of summer. But at an
early hour two feeble shocks of an earthquake
occurred, and although hardly perceptibie in
themselves, they proved the forerunDers of an
awful catastrophe. At half past eleven ter
rble noise, followed by violent trembling,
caused the inhabitants to flee from their houses
in alarm. The trembling continued for con-
siderable period, destroying many houses Of
Thebes, and in the Faubourg of Pari, uninhabi-
table. The great aqueduct of the town was
considerably injured. This principal shock was
succeeded by many minor ones-more than
twenty occurring on the night of the 18th alone:
The last decisive shock was on the morning OF
the 2lst. 1t is fact worthy of note that the
impulse of the shock was always perpendicular,
the houses falling directly Oh their foundations.
No new springs were exposed, and in no case
was there any rupture of the soil In the town
Of Thebes eleven corpses had been dug from the
ruins at last accounts. and nineteen persons
who had been rescued alive, were doing well.--
Intermittent fever had been very prevalent since