The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1854-10-21

soOa We shall be in the condition or the irish
during the famine year. They were said not
to live upon present food, but upon the recol-
lection Of what they ate in years of plcnty-
Boston paper.
rB- The Evening Post has the following I'M
der its Religious Intelligence" head - a
scamp at a hotel, the other night says the bus
ton orre.pondeut Of the Independent, stole
c,orgvmau's bag. well filed with sermons.
Hope he may iud them full OF the hottest or
thodoyy, for regular universal salvation man
uscript would hardly bring such fellow to re-
pcntancc.'
IT. VIM. a. Howard Esq. of Detroit. is the
Anti-Nehraska candidate for Congress i'll that
district. There is no more deserving candidate
in nomination in that " any other State. Ile
is fearless, consistent and uncomproni;sing
/ friend of freedom and his election over Stuart.
his Nebraska opponent would be victory
over which we should most heartily rejoice.
Er,- The st. LOU, Democrat says that the
Hon. Edward Bates. Of that city il opposed to
the Nebraska bill. He is named for L. S. Sen
ator Mr. Bates is one of the parest and ahlc>t
men in the Union, and his election 10 the L. S.
Senate would do honor to Missouri and the
West. His opposition to the kansa, Nebraska
bill of Douglas is we'll known and his ohiec-
tons to the measure were very ably set forth
in communication published in the st. Louis
Republican some months ago.
SUMMARY PRocHss.-Wm. i. SHEPPARD was
brought out as a candidate for Mayor Of Louis
yille on the morning. Of The election. and chosen
by $50 majority. The celebrity o: this operation
indicates that the Know Noth.nys had u hand
in it. If these things are suffered to so on, ne
man among US is safe The most humble indi
viLual may be seized and incarc"ratcd in TIE
White House for four years without a .nelacnt's
warning
THERE is NoRrH.-.a::I Webster long
mourned over the huniiatns sHb,crgicncy OF
the North. He often sichcnci al the avidity
with which Doug h-Facca' submitted to TIE
unjust demands OF their Sou.iicrn task mas tcrs
and sometimes not only looked forward ~ the
period when this suhscrvicncy would cease, but
when there would bc "a Norta." This prcd:c-
ton he uttered in his celebrated, MarsLield
speech, as follows:
ave talk Of the North. There has been no
North think the Nortl: is at last discovered
| think there rW be .horth bat up to the re-
cent session of Congress there has been no
North. What l mean to say il, If am to I'M
derstand q geographical! section of the country
in which there has been fould strong consci-
anti md .!
such North has existed"
IfMr. Webster was still among us, he would
see that now, if never before. the North Star
is discovered" and that THERE Is NORTH
Slavery has had it, las; triumph.
\ WONDERFUL. SroRY-We notice in the Eu-
ropcan papers a fact very cNtrao rjinarv that
We would hardly give credit to it, if it was 1t
endorsed by men Of the highest standing II
Berlin and Vienna. \ very worthy ally Lad
, 10y first marriage twin sons to whom she was
devotedly attached. Their health Icing dcll-
cate she decided on leaving Germany. BY the
!. advice of the most en- ncnt physicians she fixed
her residence Ill Ital y: there, under the intt:-
ence of the fine climate. they grew. bat pre-
served the nervous imprcssab!lity which in
their youth had put their lives in danger
Their Likeness to each other was truly surpri =
, ing. Both devoted themselves to the fine arts
painting especially. When lG years old tey
were considered a. masters but about that time
crisis took place in their disease, attacking
both. The physicians decided that the Young
! men must separate they objected for a long
time, but at last overcome iy the applications
OF their mother. they left to chance which one
should leave. 1t ir!! upon Alfred, aud he start
cd to visit Greece ana The East. to he absent a
year. Regularly were transmitted by him to
his mother and brother left behind. pictures,
81 faEn .f,, 7
III his travels. But these pictures taken from
nature. were so exactly TIE counterpart of what
had been painted by the brother at home dur
lg the same time. that they could not lie dis
tlnguisied one from the Other. While in Up
per Egypt, Alfred died. and the physicians
wrote to the mother an account of Il c circum-
stances attending his death Upon the same
dly and at tie same hour, the broth, in Italy
also died. The same circumstance attended
his dcath-the last words uttered were the same
The distracted mother returned to Germany
Two years after. the mother gave birth to two
twin sons, the exact conntcrparts OF those She
had lost. She gave them the same Names
The same symptoms Of feeble health began to
show themselves, and change of climate again
ordered. The mother repaired 10 Spain. The
twin sons again devoted themselves to painting
When l6 years old they were also taken sick,
and separation ordered. The mother for a
Time resisted, but finally consented that one of
them should visit the south Of Spain. Chance
again designated Alfred as the one that should
60. The same phrEomrna was again witnessed
what was painted 10y the one in CadiZ. was re-
produced by the other in Barcelona or Madrid
pom the very day that Alfred was about to re-
turn to his mother and brother. he was sudden
ly taken ill and died. Al the very same mo-
ment the brother died in the arms Of the moth
/ er, both pronounced the same words their bro
theirs had pronounced twenty year, before.
This story is published in the German prpers
for verify. The Courier Its Eiuts Inns.
from which we translate it, youchc< for the re-
spectability of those by whom it is endorsed
! London Times.
I'RINCIPLEs.-Man. unless he be guided an
governed by principles which are decp-rooted
in the soul and unyeding. is 4 most fororn
creature. Without these lie is cont"mptible
more degraded. more aIicci than the beast that
perisheth. Endowed with intellectual capacity
possessing soul that is destined 10 out