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Strange, SURPRISING STRANGE!
THAT Groceries can be sod SO cheap
i Great inducements held ctT 70 persons VISIT
ing Family Groceries, at my old stand as an oe'er
mined TO make room for my spring stock
j. w. DOWNEK,
mar2 Next Door to Blums.
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TIKI MAJ VI. > VT II,
Justice of The Peace, Notary Public, Collector a''a
General Agent.
UHAS removed his Office to the Brick Block opposite
I'll the Post Office corner of Third and Minnesota
streets where he wi! be found ready 10 attend to the
collection of debts, purchasing and selling real estate
na>ment of taxes locating laud Warrants, &c. Hav-
ing been in the business for some time past, ana
being provided with MAPS of all the surveyed portion
of the Territory and of the the ST. refers,
he fatters himself that will be able to give satislac-
ton to all who may give him call. , ,
n. E. Town Lots in st. Paul, ST Anthony ana HI
the towns ON the st sale reasonable prices
Also, Farms il the country, with or withoutlhpfoVe-
ments.
ST Pau,, June 2, l653.-1tf.
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GREAT EXCITEMENS IN THE GRAIN
MARKET.
Fine lot Of Conn., Oats, Rye and Barley On hand and
"A for sale by
w. CCNSTANS, Lower Landing.
April l4th, 1884. I-3t
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BOARDING.
A FEW respectable boarders will find com fortab,
"A home mt moderate charges in one of the most cen
ira, parts of the city, l.. HOWE.
Mankato City, June 2, lS53-7-ly.
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BiCELOW & FLANDRAU,
Attorneys and Coun:ellors at Lav.
Office over L. b. Wait & Cos. store, Third street,
below Roberts, ST. PAUL, MINNESOTA.
Twill attend promptly and carefully to professional.
" business in all the Lour:s Of the Territory
TO the collection of debts, and to all other business III
any manner connected with the profession
MuNEY TO LOAN in small sums on good security.
,.., - n,rr,ou CHARLES z. FLANDRAU.
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SONS OF TEMPERANCE.
MASONIC NOIIC e..

CT. PAUL DIVISION, No. l. 5. of I. meet every FIR
- day evening at TEMPERANCE HIL.
NAV i-lf n. BARBOUR, r. S.
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u. II. BRADLEY.

MANr-EACTJRFR AND DEALER IN ALL KINDS OF SAD
DIES HARNESS. pHlDi.FS. COLLARS. NNt>kS, &c.
Keeps constantly on hand ali kind OF Leather Oak and
Helnlocl, Sole Band. Bellows. Se St. anthony street
- Paul Minnesota NAV S.
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Have You good understanding

St. Paul, Minnesota Crockery Store.
st. Paul, Dec. 2. 1853. stiff
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ATTORNEY and COUNSELLOR AT LAW and GENERAL
LAND AGENT Particular attention viii be given t.
collections, pay ing taxes entering lands securing pre-
enptOns, and entries made by military land war
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n VRUsSEs-a large assortment Of dsIsSs ssa -
j justing tYusses for sale at the ,,r .rnvv
GETDLlTZ AND SODA F0WDERs-ls boxes N'
~ 'N~ st. PAUL DRUG S1OB6.
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WILBUR Nj. HAYWARD,
ATTORNEY and COUNSELLOR AT LAW, Office
at the Banking House of WM BREWSTER Z Co. Third
street Saint Saul. RefrenceS-Ex- President Fillmore
Buffalo y. Y, Hon. Hiram X. Jerome. Rochester, N.Y.
Hon. Aaron Goodrich, 81 Paul. Vim. Brewster, X Co.,
Pan
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MINNESOTA BANKING HOUSE,
March lith, 1854.
WILLIAM BREWSTER CO.,
Late of Western Bank, Ph1a,
Bankrs, Erchange and Real Estate Brokers.
0ROMpT attention given collections in all parts
of the Territory, and proceeds remifted at current
rates of exchange.
LAND WARRANTS BOUGHT AND SOLD,
And located time to the favor of actual settlers
Town ard country property fer sale for cash or OF
time We give personal attention to the purchase alle
sale of property, the payment of taxes entering land
locating land warrants, and all other business that ma,
-. ntrnsted to our care 49-tf
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u-VOR sALE-A good span Of hOrses. nesses sne
BASS, DOEJP CO.
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AWINET WAREROOMS.

ALWAYS on hand, or made TO order, SOFAS EASY
CHAIRS, DIVANS, WILLOW WAGONS,
MATTRESSES CARD AND CEN
IRE TABLES and CHAIRS
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GEO. l.. BECKE Il,

AGENT OF HARTFORD FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY.
Office in brick block above american House, st. Atlo-
nj
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HOUSE SIGN and ORNAMENTAL FAINTER. corner OF
Fourth and St Peter street, s.. Paul PAINTING and
GLAZING done in superior and workmanlike man
ner. All orders promptly and neatly executed. Work
/ Warranted @ give satisfaction.
Thibodaux minerva. [volume] (Thibodaux, La.) 18??-1858, 1854-09-23

T1ME-A day has persisted from our brief
calendar of days-and that we could endure,
but this day is no more than the reiteraton of
many other days. counted by thousands that
have persisted to the same extent and by the
same unhappy means, viz: the evil usage OF the
world made etfectua and ratified by our own
sloth Bitter is the upbrailing which we seem
to hear from a secret monitor" My 1flehd,
you make very free with your days; pray, 40"
many do you expect to have? What is your
rental, as regards the total harvest of days which
this life is likely to yields Let us consider
Three score years and ten produce d total sum
of 25.550 days, to say nothing of II or Is more
that will be payable to you as a bonus on &C
count of leap years. Now out of this total, one
third must be deducted at a single blow tor
single item, viz, sleep. Next, on account OF
illness, of recreation, and the serious occupa-
tons spread over the surface of life it will he
little enough to deduct another third.
Recollect also that twenty years will have
gone from the earlier end of your life; wiz,
about 1000 days. before you can have attained
any skill or wisdom, any definite purpose i'll
the distribution of your time. Lastly. for that
single item, which among the Roman armies
was indicated by the technical phrase, ''eorpus
carere" Attendance on the animal necessities,
viz, eating, drinking, washing, bathing and eX-
srcising, deduct the smallest allowance constant
with propriety, and upon summing up all these
appropriations you will not find so much as
1000 days left disposable for direct intellectual
culture. Four thousand of forty hundreds will
be hundred fortes; that is, according to the
lax Hebrew method of indicating six weeks by
the phrase Of forty days, you will have hundred
bills or drafts Father Time, value six weeks
each, the whole period available for intellec
tual labor. A solid block of about eleven and
half continuous years is all that long life
will furnish for the development Of what is most
august in mans nature. After that the night
comes when no man can work; brain and arm
will be alike unserviceable or, if the life should
be unusually extended, the vital powers will be
dropping as regards all motions i'll advance"
Thibodaux minerva. [volume] (Thibodaux, La.) 18??-1858, 1854-09-23

AScIENr.--Some time since, some grains Of
wheat which had been taken from an old
Egyptian sarcophagus at Cairo, we're given to
the Agricultural Society of Compeigne by whom
they were sown with the most surprising results.
The stems which have risen from this seed arc
as large as reed, the leaves are more than an
inch in breadth, and the ears have each one
hundred grams of very large size, so that sew
eral of the original seeds have multiplied two
thousand fold. 1t is thought that the seed dates
as far back as Sesostris. The wheat seed can
lie there a thousand years in the tomb, and yet
arise to beautiful life-but the atheist will let
man live only his three score and.ten.
Thibodaux minerva. [volume] (Thibodaux, La.) 18??-1858, 1854-09-23

RESPECT TO THE DEAD IN PARIs.-A common
practice in Paris, which impresses a stranger
favorably, is that of lifting or taking off the hat
as funeral passes. This is observed by all
classes. A little while since, (says writer,
noticed a small funeral train moving in the
direction of the Madeleine. Evidently the one
borne to burial was Of the humblest class,) for
the body was followed only by few workmeh
in blouses and women without bonnets. AS it
passed on, hats were taken off by the we'll
dressed crowd, sitting or moving on the walk,
by gentlemen in carriages with footmen in golden
liveries, and by men driving their watering carts
through the street. 1t was a touching and
beautiful SIGHT
Thibodaux minerva. [volume] (Thibodaux, La.) 18??-1858, 1854-09-23

EFFECTS OF THE DRoUTH ON THE PRICE or
CArTLE-A gentleman who has been through
all Southern Illinois, and who is extensively
engaged in the cattle business, says that while
cattle fit for beef measurably hold their prices,
cattle unfit for beef can be bought for song
The drouth is getting worse and worse. There
is little or no hay corn, and feed is very short.
He says the utmost despair prevails among the
stock raisers. He says the best of calves sold
at 81, yearings at So, and two year olds at
$40 Water had become so scarce that farmers
had let their cattle out to find water in the run
ming streams; where they best could. II the
drouth lasts month longer, some of the best
herds of cattle will be entirely ruined
Thibodaux minerva. [volume] (Thibodaux, La.) 18??-1858, 1854-09-23

LARGE COPPER VACUUM PAN-At the
Novelty Works, New York, on the 9Th inst,
Messrs. Stilman, Allen s. CO. had on exhibi-
ton a new copper vacuum pan fot boiling
sugar, which they have just completed tor
the Boston Sugar Refining Company, AND
which they claim to be superior to anything
of the kind ever made in this country. 1t 10
an immense iron and copper pan and boiler,
9 feet 2 inches in diameter, and weighs
about i've tons. The pan is feet and 6
inches deep, and is welded together in the
most substantial manner. Its entire cost
will be about $4,000.
Thibodaux minerva. [volume] (Thibodaux, La.) 18??-1858, 1854-09-23

The REVOLT AT BARcELoNA.-The nature
of this outbreak may be guessed from the
following extract of letter from Barcelona:
"Our critical situation continues. The
Republicans, who see in the ministry formed.
and who feel tina: the opportunity is escaping
them, make prodigious efforts to carry the
movement further. They tamper with the
troops, and should not wonder if they
succeed in seducing them. If we are
beaten, the throne of Isabel will run great
risks; Catalonia will proclaim the fall ofthe
dynasty and Republic, and will raise 40 or
$4,000 volunteers, whom it will be very
difficult to put down. To attain this end,
they strive to sow discord among the officers
and to mislead the soldiers, telling them
that Generals Larocha and Concha will not
have Espartero and the National Guard, and
intend to make Moderado reaction in favor
of Narvaez The fact is, that they want a
little Communism, and TO take out of the
pockets ofthe merchants and manufacturers
the money which their own fathers forgot to
leave them. General Concha does all he
can 10 counteract their maneuvres, but
am pursuaded we shall come to blows before
long. One.half of Barcelona has emigrated
for fear of the revolution rather than of the
cholera, which up to this time is no great
matter, bu, fear is the reigning malady"
Thibodaux minerva. [volume] (Thibodaux, La.) 18??-1858, 1854-09-23

g The Newburyport Herald says the
factories on the Chicopee and Agawan2
rivers have been able to run but few hours
for several weeks past. The drought has
checked the production of so large number
of mills, that it has helped the market for
manufa ctures. A great rock in Connecticut
river, opposite West Springfield, has showed
itself above the water only twice for more
than halfa century, once in 1901, and again
in 1916, and last Saturday it was ten inches
below the surface of the water.
Thibodaux minerva. [volume] (Thibodaux, La.) 18??-1858, 1854-09-23

No LICENSE IN TExAs.-Texas has gone
"No License" by au overwhelming MAORI
ty, The act voted on is weak sister, only
prohibiting sales in less quantities than one
quart: but the peoples vote afirms the
great principle of prohibition, which will be-
more efficiently enforced by future enact
ments. Maine, Massachusetts,, Vermont,
Rhode Island, Connecticut Michigan, WIS
consin, Iowa, and now, Texas-hase success
sively declared for prohibition, backed oy
the cities Of Washington and Baltimore.
Thibodaux minerva. [volume] (Thibodaux, La.) 18??-1858, 1854-09-23

SIN IN A F1DDLE.-When the violin was
first introduced into the choir of the church,
the innovation gave great offence to some
of the worthy Pensioners. Especially was
the playing of the bass viol exercised with
sorrow and Indignation, when the frivolous
and profane fiddle first took its place IN the
House of God by the side of his sedate and
portly instrument. He accordingly la'd me
case before the parson, who, after listening
sobery to his complaints, replied: sit may
be bus say SIR don't know ss but w yna
oreater the fiddle the greater the sin IN The
hero of the !" big fiddle" was untuned.
Thibodaux minerva. [volume] (Thibodaux, La.) 18??-1858, 1854-09-23

MANUFACTURE OF NEaRoEs.-Dr. Vanhuse, OF
Mississippi, says the Eutaw Wing, writes to the
West Alabaman that DR.. Lieburg has discover
ed tincture OF ointment, which, if applied by
certain rules, will in few days change the
fairest skin on earth to the real African hue, and
that the children of those thus blackened will
be black, as was the case with their parents, and
that all the soap in the world cannot wash it off,
The doctor also composed another wash, which
makes the hair as kinky as that of the reat
African. We think, says the Louisville Courier,
that the southern States should purchase the
patent right of it, kidnap all the abolitionists,
black them, and make them as black Of skin as
thew are of heart
Thibodaux minerva. [volume] (Thibodaux, La.) 18??-1858, 1854-09-23

Three children of Mrs. Brown, residing
in Pine-street, St. Louis Missouri, by most
remarkable coincidence were scrofulously
inclined, the eldest, Jane most particularly
so, and the mother finding such to be the
case, did all in her power to relieve the suf-
ferer, but in vain she became worse, the
blood of the others was equally impure, and
they all three were so bad at last, as to be-
come quite an object of horror to their
friends. The mother, about eight weeks ago,
put them through course of Holloway's
Pills and Ointment, aud strange, yet true it
is, that their blood became thoroughly puri-
fled. and the scrofulous symptoms disappear
ed. They are now all three in excellent
health, to the establishment and delight of
their affectionate parents.
Thibodaux minerva. [volume] (Thibodaux, La.) 18??-1858, 1854-09-23

DANCING WITH A Boor BLAcK.-A cores
pondent of the New York Times, writing
from Saratoga, is responsible for the follow
ing:
"There has been aristocracy here of all
grades and shades, from the genuine simon
pure,' down to the mushroom and Goldfish
and looked in one evening, and saw the
valet de ehambre of a gentleman at one hotel,
Waiting with one ofthe haugh,iest beauties,
who was denominated BELLE at the other
He may have been quite as good as his mas
ter; but l doubt whether the young lady
would have smiled so graciously on him, or
permitted his moustache 10 come so near her
cheek, ifshe had known that he had spent
part of the evening brushing coats and
backing boots"
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GAR1BALD1.-The name of this famous

GAR1BALDI-The name of this famous
Italian appears in new connection in the
foreign journals by the Europa, and one that
exhibits him in the light of a man of pru-
dence and common sense, as we'll as true
patriot. An improper use having been
made of his name at Parma, to excite barren,
hopeless and unproductlve results, he has
deemed it right to issue the following
address:
"Since my arrival in Italy have twice
seen my name mixed up with lnsurrectlon-
airy movements of which do not approve.
[ conceive it my duty TO declare this pub
licly, and to warn our young men, always
ready to encounter danger for the redemp-
ton of the country, not to allow themselves
to be so easily led away by the falIacious
nsinuations of deceiving or deceived men,
who, pushing them on TO untimeIy attempts:
ruin, or at least, discredit our cause.
Genoa August T." q. GARlBALDI
A Turin correspondent of the London
Times writes that
"When Garibaldi first arrived in Genoa
some months ago. every effort was made by
the MaZznl party there to induce him to
lend his name to their conspracies, but he
was deaf to all their entreales, as he had
been to the same kind of arguments in
America and gland, and when the absurd
affair Of SaIanaza took place last May, with
which it was endeavored by the reaction
lists TO identify his name, he gave the Pied
montese Government such satisfactory as
surances of his entire disapproval of such
proceedings, that it did not hesitate TO allow
him TO visit his friends and remains as long
as he pleased in the country; and the
Sandman Government seems fully borne
out in discrediting the reports of Garibaldi's
completely with the revolutionary party of
the present day by the foregoing declare
ton"
Thibodaux minerva. [volume] (Thibodaux, La.) 18??-1858, 1854-09-23

MIND YouR PRoxuscIATIoSs.-Ay young
gentleman OF our acquaintance created quite
a sensation q few evenings since while
reading TO a circle Of young ladies a poetic
etfussotl--@ To q Beautiful Belle, by pro-
neHaeing the latter word in two ssllabsss.
Thibodaux minerva. [volume] (Thibodaux, La.) 18??-1858, 1854-09-23

Novel ScENE-The ex postmaster of Bos-
ton is in Germany. He sends home an
account of a dinner to a railway congress, at
which locomotive appeared upon the table,
to which was attached train loaded with
the choicest and most solid food. The sue
cuent train advanced slowly, in imitation of
the passenger trains upon all German roads
After having made the tour of the table
without stopping, in order to give view of
the good things with which it was freighted,
the train again started, making station in
front of each guest, permitting him to fill his
plate according to his appetite and fancy.
The trains followed each other in quick sue
cesson for two or three hours, departing
each time we'll loaded with edbles, and
always returning empty to the depot This
is exactly the thing for our American eating
tables where the fashion according to Eng
fish authority, is, to gulp everything with
railroad speed
Thibodaux minerva. [volume] (Thibodaux, La.) 18??-1858, 1854-09-23

OBJ FELLowsH1p.-On Monday the Grand
Sire of the Independent Order of Odd Eel
lows submitted TO the Grand Lodge of the
United States, which commenced its sessions
that day in Baltimore, very interesting
report, from which we learn that there are
under the jurisdiction of that body 3llO
lodges, with 2O4OO0 members, their annual
revenue being 81 ,375 0OO and expenditures
for benevolent purposes S53O,000. The
Grand Lodge of British America having
been extinguished, the Grand Lodge of the
United States has, at the desire of the men,
bers of the Order in Canada, resumed its
authority over all the continent north of US.
When this resumption took place on the 18th
OF October last, there were but six Lodge
in British North America: but now there are
fifteen actively at work. The Grand Master
of California has inquired of the Grand Sire
as TO the propriety of admitting Chinese
members to the order. and allowing them to
have Lodge to work in the Chinese lam
guage, and the reply has been favorable
Pennsylvania has the largest Grand Lodge
in the Union, with over five hundred subor-
dinate Lodges, and membership but little
short of ffty-lhousand. The revenue in that
State for the past year reached $250,0o0, Of
which 81 IA, sos was expended in relief
Thibodaux minerva. [volume] (Thibodaux, La.) 18??-1858, 1854-09-23

~ What reasaa have we to believe that
wkea CGlambas discovered America IL ~as
lahahited By eivil4zsd people,
Because tbs Hass tAsag be sag sss
x-sas .s.sil ptssksax sns8 lifile ssf
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" People go according 10 their brains.
II these lie 10 theil head, they study II ia
their stomach they eat, :f IN their heels.
they dance
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A REMARKABLE SPRING IN CALIFORNIA


A late San Francisco paper publishes, among
other extracts from the unpublished journal
of Mr.. S. N. Canalho, an artist who has re-
Gently journeyed from the great Salt Lake,
through the Cain pass to Los Angeles, the
following description ola remarkable Spring,
in whose waters the human body will not
sink. Uuder date Of May 3Oth, the traveller
writes:
"We remained at camp all day yesterday,
and at ten this morning we were on the
road to Cottonwood Spring, some twenty
miles distant, where we will find water and
grass; and then will commence journey
over another desert of fifty-fve miles. We
followed up this little stream for about three
miles, when the road turned little to the
right; but was anxious 10 see the head of
the stream-for, from the appearance of the
surrounding country. judged it to be very
near. Farley Pratt, several other gentlemen
and myself, continued up the stream, and
after ride of half mile we came TO a
large spring, thirty-fve feet wide and forty
long, surrounded by acacias in full bloom.
We approached through an opening, and
found it to contain the clearest and most
delicious water | ever tasted; the bottom
appeared to be not more than two feet from
the surface, and to consist of white sand.
Farley Pratt prepared himself for battle,
and soon his body divided the crystal waters.
While was considering whether should
90 in: heard Mr.. Pratt calling to me that
it Was impossible TO sink, the wafer was so
buoyant | hardly believed it, and to be
able TO speak certainly: also addressed and
jumped ill., What was my delight and as
tonishmen, to find that all my efforts to sink
were futile. raised my body out of the
water, and Suddenly lowered myself, but
bounded upwards as i'll had struck SPRING
ing board: walked about the water up to
my armpits, just the same as if | had been
walking on dry land. The water, instead of
being about two feet deep was over fifteen
The length of the longest test-pole we had
along. 1t is positively impossible for a man
to sink over his head in it. The sand on
the banks is very fine and white: the tenn
perature of the water is 78 farenheit. can
form no idea as to the cause of this singular
phenomena. Great Salt Lake also possesses
this quality, bu, this water is perfectly
sweet In the absence of any other name,
have called it the Buoyant Spring. have
never heard it spoken of as possessing this
quality, and should like some one of the
Swans to explain the cause oflhe buoyancy
We fingered in the spring for fifteen min
utes. when we dressed and resumed our ride.
highly delighted and gralified by our explo-
ration. made drawings of this spot and
surrounding mountains"
Thibodaux minerva. [volume] (Thibodaux, La.) 18??-1858, 1854-09-23

70 The eggs and bones of huge bird
have been discovered in Madagascar, in the
country of the Sakalaves. In 1850 two eggs
and some fragments of bones of similar
kind were sent to France, and placed in the
Museum of Natural History, at the Jardin
DIES Plantes. Capt Arrange ofthe French
merchant service, has just brought home
two more of these eggs, and he declares
that the Malgaches assured him in the most
positive manner that an immense bird still
exists in the interior of the island, and that
it was able to carry off a COW. One ofthe
two eggs now brought home contains near
ly three pints more than those in the mu-
scum How far these discoveries may go to
verify the history of Sinbad the Sailor, the
reader must indge.