The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1853-11-12

THE BACHEIOR.-In the vast hOwerfield of
human affection, says contemporary. the old
bachelor is the very scare-crOw of happiness
who dryics away the little birds of love that
come to steal away the hemlock seeds Of lone
Illness and despair. Where is there more pit
liable object on earth than he who has no anna
BILE woman interested in his welfare? How he
comes home at night wet aud hungry, and q
cold hearth. barren table, and lonely pillow,
which looks like the white urn of every earthly
enjoyment! See the sick old bachelor in the
dark afternoon of lie. when his heart is sinking
to its sundcrance. Not solitary star of memo
ry CLEANS over his opening grave. No weep
ing wife to bend like an angel over his dying
bedl No fond daughter to draw his chilly hand
into the soft pressure of hers. and warm his icy
blood with the reviyifyng fires of unavailing
affection! No manly boy to link his breaking
name with the golden chain of honorable sOcie-
ty. and bind his history in the vast volume of
the world he is leaving forever.
He has eaten and drank, and drank and died,
and Earth is glad she's got rid of him; for he
has done else than cram his soul into the cir
cumference of sixpence; and no human being
save his washerwOman will breathe sigh at his
funeral.
MUsHRooM ARTsrocEAcY.-Thc Newburyport
Herald, alludng to the growing evil of extrava-
gance in the United States, says:
There is not a country in the world where
the people are becoming so eXtravagant in their
mode of dress and living as in the United States
1t is one of the worst signs of the times. The
habits of this mushroom aristOcracy are really
disgusting. How it looks to see boys sporting
diamonds by the thousand dollars worth at q
time whose fathers were accustomed to wheel
barrows and whose children are pretty certain
to be in the work house. And girls, silly smp-
erng things, weighed down with jewels aud
bracelets, whose mothers broke their backs at
the washing tub, securing floors, and picking
oakum. The real substantial aristocracy never
indulge in such foppcries and fooleries
WONDERS OF THE TErEGKAPH.--We believe it
was Elihu Burritt who. some years since, de-
clared that the telegraph VI ould do away with
the idea that in the end of time, the angel Ga
briel would literally appear to announce the
termination of the world. for the telegraphlc
lightning travels SO much quicker than the
sound of the trumpet can go. that 1t would De
proclaimed all around this terrestrial ball IN
advance OF him. Just think how it would be,
if n man stand upon the top of some high noun
tain and send his voice in every direction to ev-
erv inhabitant of the earth at once, and you
will get an idea of what we shall have arrived
at when the telegraphic system is completed,
and the operator at the great central focus can
sweep round upon all the radiating lines. The
thought staggers us--the most vivid imagina-
ton is baffied and we sink back from the con-
ception prostrated, feeling the childhood We are
in, but getting glimpse, as Moses caught a
sight Of the promised land, of the strength, the
perfection, the manhood of those who are to
come after U.S. sf N.