The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1853-02-19
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EVENING PARrIEs.-The New York Express
notices an improvement in the fashionable
world that might be initiated elsewhere with
advantage to convenience, comfort and health
1t is in the hour of assembling and leaving at
Evening Parties. and the new style is, says the
Express-and all honor to those who have had
the courage to introduce ito invite your
friends to visit you, if you intend to entertain
them, at seasonable hour, and to depart at q
seasonable hour, also:
"Mr. and Mrs. A. b will see their friend,
on - evening, between the hours Of EIGHT and
your company from 8 to II on eyening.n
The Express sensibly adds:
Inc Improvement OF course, consists in going
10 party at q seasOnable hour, and in leaving
at something near seasonable hour, also
Peopie g, to parties generally from half past
nine to eleven and come away at the small
hours of the morning. They violate all laws,
physical and moral. turn day into night, and
abstract from bodily health a good deal moro
than they add to mental enjoyment or intellec.
tual improvement.
The day after one of our modern parties is
like day after disaster. Party-goers show
the marks of it by the change in their looks.
manner and general appearance. Their ewes
are red and heavy, and peep from their brows
like pale star from under dark cloud
There is the loss. if not of confidence in your
SELF and your powers of endurance, the loss Of
health. the unfitness for good days work, or
good day s enjoyment Nor are you alone a
sufferer. Servants must be kept up to lock you
out at one house and to let you in at another.
You order your carriage at IL and go home at
2; and thus no matter what the weather is,
keep some poor fellow of driver or footman--
to say nothing of the dumb bcasts--waiting
upon your pleasure in the street at midnight
and after.
Surely, such practices ought to be reformed,
and surely, too, he is true benefactor who has
the courage to tell his visitors, as politely as
he may do, in card of invitation, that he
would be happy to see them before midnight.
He would like to be master of his own house
again. after II, and you, his guest, will be all
the more welcome, if you take his or her invi.
tation, as it is meant for the good of both par.
ties. Who then will follow up the fashion,
" from eight to eleven?" A ball may run an
hour or so longer but for your talking parties
how much might he talked in an hour? Three
solid columns of the Express is only fair
hours speed, and how few could with wit or
wisdom, great talk or small talk, fill so much
space.
FnAIBrsrERISa IN CoNcREss.-The Fillibus~
ters do not seem to be in high feather in either
branch of Congress. The Washington corre-
spondent Of the n. Y. Express, on the goth,
writes:
"Fillibustering in the Senate-at the head Of
which Gen. Cass has again set himself UPS
decidedly below par in both Houses of Con-
gress, and falling lower and lower. The Gem
eral makes no sort of Roadway, but runs aioul
of snags at every point. Mr.. Hale's dissection
OF him, the other day, is exceedingly admired,
and it is pronounced to be the very happiest
effort of "Jack Hale He entirely Out-did the
General at his own trade of taking all creation;
and he mixed up with vein of the keenest sar-
casm, some very clOqent maxims of sound phi
| losophy. Some of the Democratic Senators
were Hale's most especial congratulators-and
such Senators as Rusk, Houston and Butler
were as much delighted as were Wings What
Hale left undone, Senator Butler, of S. c., COM
pleted the doing Of-and Senator Mason has
polished the job. Fillibusterism thus is reduc-
cd to nothing in the Senate-and in the House,
its leader, Mr.. California; Marshall dropped
down to p votes. There are to be no ten mil
Is lions no fight, no picking ofa quarrel even, at
present, for democracy" being about to as
sumo the reins of Government don't mean to
start any responsibilities.
The two Houses of Congress are thus passing
the very highest tribute to Mr.. Fillmore's con-
servative and safe administration of our For
eign affairs. The Democratic leaders. with
some exceptions, are following exactly in his
wake.
ATTACKED BY A GRHzLY-A gentleman fur
nished us the following particulars, yesterday,
concerning melancholy and perhaps fatal rem
contre, which took place on Friday, in the Con-
ira Costa range of mountains. Two brothers,
named Cobourne, were in the mountains, near
the road leading from Oakland to Martinez,
| shooting quail, and being armed simply with
light fOwling pieces, their ammunition consisted
of small sized shot. While thus engaged, they
suddenly found themselves in close proximity
to huge grizzly bear, who made awarlke de-
monstration toward them. Aware that that
their guns would be of no avail, they took fight
in search of place of security. Being closely
pursued, one of the brothers adopted the exper-
iment of falling PROSTATE upon the earth, face
downwards. Contrary to what has generally
been believed respecting this animal, the bear
made a furious attack upon him, inHicting sew
eral dangerous and horrible wounds upon his
person; after which he retreated, without pur-
suing the other brother. The latter returned
to his companion, and did all in his power to-
ward relieving his distress; but although he
was we'll taken care of, it was considered that
his wounds would prove fatal. A large party
of hunters started out yesterday in pursuit Of
the monster, from Oakland, but did not suc-
cced in finding him-San Francisco Uhig.
Dreadful CALAMTY-TwENrY LIVES LOST
We learn from a reliable source, says the New
Madrid Journal of the 18th, that four coal
boats were sunk at Merriwether's bend, one
day last week, and out of twenty-one men who
composed the crews, only one man escaped
The survivor states that there was a high wind
blowing at the time, and while rounding the
bend the waves ran over the side of the boats,
causing them to sink Immediately.
| THE FUR TRAPPERs.-Mr. Mobiles, of this town.
ship, has just returned from the haunts of the
| trappers, on Cedar river in Chickasaw county,
so miles above Bradford. The trappers had
not done anything previous to Mr.. Ms arrival,
took out to them. They anticipated, however,
a profitable season. Game was plenty, and
they had killed number of buffalo. Mr.. No
bles thinks the country on this portion of the
Cedar contains some Of the best Of farming land
He reports the snow there as being two feet
deep on level.-Lansing hateligeneer.
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