The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1854-09-16

LryuRIorsSEss OF PoNrEIl-TuE LOST ARTS.
Yet wonderful was the perfection of art as
here exhibited: amazing was the wealth of
city adorned with such temples, theatres, and
other public cdlices, as are yet to be seen in
their old places and proportions along those
Silent streets; vast. too, was the wealth of pri-
rate citizens who dwet in those houses, whose
Noors are composed of rich MOSAIC whose walls
are adorned with elaborate frescoes, whose
courts are surrounded with marble pillars and
heantliicd with marble vases and fOuniains.-
an the garden of one of those houses reeently
eNhumed the statuary has been left precisely
as found-pretty little groups surround the
fountain, whose very pipes can be traced to the
reservoir above
There is nothing new under the sun. not even
our patent methods of heating houses and
warming water for baths. This was done at
Pompeii by means of ilrcs of tiliinr carried
around the rooms within the walls. and having
apertures for the escape of heat from the fur
mace below. We don't know so much after all
IN America in the nineteenth century. Take
away the gospel, and We know. n comparison
with those ancient lords, very little of the urts
and elegancies of life
me streets of POmpeii are rectangular. and
were better paved and probably better regula-
ted imam the streets OF New York. The houses
were much better built. The cement made
two thousand years ago is like rock today
HOW wonderful is the preservation of those
walls. In ashes to be sure, but in themselves
proof against decay! How perfect the moulJ-
inS>, the capitals. How distinct and how dol
icate the painting On those walls and ceilnos,
How admirable the arrangement of those
houses and gardens. But we must not lnpcr
Iohpcil, It's gloom is the more oppressive
for the sunlight that shines upon lis dcsola-
ton. "'S''"'
Can 1T BE soe-The Washington Star has a
chapter on lobbying and drumming in Con-
gress, in which the following occurs:
The Lady drummers, too, are on the ground,
They sit in the ladies' gallery of the House.
osiing the creatures below; from under curls
aud artificial flowers, knowing we'll Just whom
to strive to get out of the hall when an import
ant vote is about to be taken; or who to seek
10 molly In his opposition to an obnoxious
ineasure-with q squeeze of the hand, a melt
ing look, had an-"Ah, do now, for nv sake y,
As strange as it may seem, it is generally he
iieved here, that more or less ladies are hand
somely paid at times for services rendered af
ter that fashion, in influencing the action of
Congress. They are. of course, for the most
part, winter birds with us, and are nearly all
blaze in society here; their Washington associ
atoms being almost exclusively hotel society.
SALMON BREEDING. thing relating to
the saimon-breeding ponds in the Tay, has turn
ed out we'll. The overscer has not observed
above Fifty dead since they left the ova. The
hsh are now from an inch to two inches lone
the larger have the par marks we'll develoned
and are very active. The keeper has begun to
feed them, by sprinklng liver dried and pound
ed into dust on the surface of the water.
WHAT CHANGE-Five years ago there were
not halfa dozen farms in the whole valley of
the II Croix now there are five Touring mills
in operation and erecting within distance of
ten mics OF Hudson, and each mill containing
rom two to three run of stone.
There are also, within the same distance,
twelve saw-mills completed and in course of
erectlon-three of which will be furnished with
gangs altogether capable of cutting so, 600, 900
feet Of lumber annually. What other section
Of the Great West can say as much ?-Hudson
Journal.