Minnesota weekly times. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1854-1859, 1854-11-28

with more work than they can perform, and our
farmers with an excellent home market for the
surplus productions of their very prolific farms.
Hudson Republican.
PRESIDENTS PROCLAMATION.
1t is pretty generally known that an understand
ing has been had with the United States and Rus
sia as to the rights of neutral powers at sea-
To consummate this purpose convention was
teld at Washington with the Uuited States of
America and the Emperor of all the Russias, in
July last, the result of which has not been made
public until the present time. The President has
now issued a Proclamation, in which the follow
ing articles of agreement between the two pow
ers are set forth.
ARTICLE l. The two high contracting parties
recognize as permanent and immutable the follow
ing principles, to wit:
lst. That free ships make free goods-that is
to say, that the effects goods belonging to SUBJ
jects or citizens Of power or State at war are
free from capture and confsc-tion when found on
board of neutral vessels, with exception of arti-
cles contraband of war.
I'd. That the property of neutrals on board
an enemy's vessel is not subject to confscation
unless the same be contraband of war. They
engage to apply these principles to the commerce
and navigation of all such powers and States as
shall consent to adopt them on their part as per-
manent and immutabe.
ART. H.. The two high contracting parties re-
serve themselves to come to an ulterior under
standing, as circumstances may require, with re-
gard to the application and extension to be given,
if there should be any cause for it, to the princ-
pies laid down in the first article. But they de-
clare from this time that they will take the stipu
latons contained in said article for rule, when
ever it shall become question to judge of the
rights of neutrality.
ART. III. 1t is agreed by the high contracting
parties that all nations which shall or may con-
sent to accede to the rules of the first article of
this convention, by a formal declaration stipu-
latng to observe them, shall enjoy the rights re-
sulting from such accession as they shall be en-
joyed and observed by the two powers signing
this convention. They shall mutually commune
cate to each other the results of the steps which
may be taken on the subject.
ART: Nv. The present convention shall be ap-
proved and ratified by the President of the United
States of America, and by and with the advice
and consent of the Senate of said States, and
by his Majesty the Emperor of all the Russias,
and the ratification of the same shall be ex-
changed at Washington within the period of ten
months, counting from this day, or sooner, if
possible.
These articles have been signed, and conse-
quently the agreement is in full force. 1t is
matter of some importance to our commerce, and
we are glad that it has been so happily arranged.
RATHER sr1cr.-The editress of the Olive
Branch, published at Boston, having received a
communication from Nashville, Tenn, inquiring
whether some female printers could be hired there
to 90 to Nashville, replied as follows:
{" Every girl in Boston who is old enough to
work in q printing Office, has lover whom she
would just as likely trade off for Tennessee ar
ticle as she would be to swap him off for grizzly
hno ha of II
eratas, patronzes Julien's concert, waltzes once
week, eats ice cream, rides in an omnibus, wears
satin slippers, sometimes kisses the editors, going
to Tennessee, except she goes there as the wife
of one of your first class citizens, editors excep-
ted, is truly ridiculous. Wouldn't q girl in
silk dress, with laced pantaletts and shiny gaiter
boots, look well trudging through the mud and
mire of Nashville to an old barn of printing Of
fee, while in one corner of the same room two old
darkies are jerking away at a ramage press, and
in the other the editor is squirting tobacco juice
over the floor ? Wouldn't she be in o nice fix
when the editor and some great brute of fellow,
whom he offended, got playing at the game of
shooting their revolvers across the Office at each
others heads Who would make the fire when
had run off and the editor was drunk? Who'd 20
home with her dark nights? Who would take
her out to ride Sunday afternoon, and 90 to
church with her on Sunday No, sir, Boston
girl won't 60 to Tennessee for love nor money.
She can get enough of both nearer home.
CINCINNATI PAID FIRE DEPARrxENr.-Accor-
ding to the record kept by clerk Of the Cincinnati
Fire Department, the total amount of losses by
fires in that city during the six months ending
September 30, 1854, under the paid fire system,
was $66, 1852, on which the total amount of insu-
rance was ST. ,456. During the same period Of
the year 1853, under the volunteer SYSTEM the ag-
gregate of losses by fire in Cincinnati was $3l3,-
$40 and the insurance 81 "a 480.
The SABBArH.-Sunday is one of the best gifts
all times it has been blessed institution but to
US, the over-taskcd and over-anxious American
people, it is indispensable as it was to the Is
raelites, when the weekly HALT was ordained.-
They were marching in the wilderness we are
encamped in the wilderness, and our task is to
subdue the wilderness, and prepare a field where
on the future history of mankind is to be trans
acted. If ever people needed the mere rest of q
Sunday, we need it. IL ever a people needed the
inward renovation which the Sunday we'll spent
is able to bestow, we need it.-Home Journal.
cTThe advice nearest my heart and deepest
in my conviction is, that the Union Of the States
be cherished and perpetuatad. Let the open ene-
my to it be regarded a. a Pandora with her box
opened and the disguished a. the serpent creep
ing with its deadly wies into Paradise. Madison.
TIE SPIRITUAL SHINoLE-MAcHrNE TaIuxPH.A
The Palmer (Mass.) Journal describes the opera
ton of the shinglc-riving machine said to have
been invented by the spirits, and constructed BY
A. G. Billings, of Palmer. It is neatly Hn-
ished, strongly built machine, and it walks into
the blocks, which are fed in from two iron sides
like huge giant. It does the work admirabls
splitting the blocks into pieces Of any tbiekDssl
desired for shaving. 1t is said to be capable d
irving IS 900 shingles pee day. -aI
DIED. cHt NOE q
In Saint Paul, Of eossunpon, the md issts Levi
sLoAH, in tAe md yeasef his aee. I .51rTe@
Thefnera take piscs from his late residence On SAM
Antbony street, s afternoon oeoe. HIS iends and
aoquaintanees and the xasonie fraternity, repetfuy IN
v1tel to attend. s ,t t.-gF e-r--~.z s.s =.
At Otter Lake, the lssh instast HNHA A., yeungss
sushtss f ysnkiin and sepArOas Jone sged II months