Minnesota weekly times., 1854-11-14

~ A writer b Is London Economist sums
up very able articloon Napoleon H., a. fol-
lows: "a
! ssThe same man Who landed at Boulogne m
f84O with aLsingle steamer and few friends on
q desperate asd abortiye expedition Yevists it in
1854 to review vast army end receive the hon.
sge OF countless spectators. The same man who
stx years. ago lived IN obscurity in London,
scarcely able to pay his taior's and quite unable
to pay bis hOrse-dealer's bil-whom many look
ed upon as stupid and whom none looked upon as
wise-of whom few augured we'll and whom few
would trust much-we have just been receiving
the visits and compliments of the eoasort Of our
table-one of them the son-in-law Of the very
monarch whom he had sueceeded-and admitted
beyond all denial into the social circle of royal
personages. Nor is this change in his singular
fortune the only one, nor perhaps the greatest
We can imagine him smiling with even more
grim satisfaction as he contests the language of
the English press regarding him in 1852 and now,
sitting with the Times and Examiner of Decem-
ber, 1851, or August 1854, before hm--and mar
yelling at the metamorphosis-t unmeasured
abuse which was showered upon him at the former
date, and the decorOus respect and cordial praise
with which he is spoken of now. The ssseedy
swelP' and the s'sanguinary and audacious ruff
fan" is now the polite and sagacious Emperor,
and taking wine e-a-tete with Prince Albert
and King Leopold"
| Gy Some years ago when Tom Corwin and
Tom Ewing were on political pilgrimage to the
Northern part of the State, they were invited to
| tarry night with distinguished politician
The guests arrived rather late and the lady of the
mansion being absent, young lady, niece, un-
dertook to preside on the occasion. She had
never seen great men, and supposed they were ele-
phantine altogether, and all talked in great lam
guage. 'sfr. Ewing will you take condiments in
your tea, sir?" inquired the young lady.
eyes, Miss, if you please" replied the quon-
dam salt-boiler. COrwin's eye twinkled. Here
was fun for him. t.-
Gratfed with the apparent success of her first
trial, at talking with big men, the young lady ad-
dressed Mr.. Corwin in the same manner: ssWill
you take condiments in your tea, sir ?'
"Pepper and salt, but no mustard,'' was the
prompt reply of the facetious Tom. OF course
nature must out, and Ewing and the entertainer
roared in spite of themselves. Corwn essayed
| to mend the matter, and was volube in anecdote
and wit and compliment. But the wound was
iInmedicable. The young lady, to this day, de-
| clares that Tom Corwin is a course, vulgar, disa-
greable man.-IoEedo Blade.
THE GULF SrREAM.-Professor Bache's seNotcs
on the Gulf Stream'' have been communicated
to the Treasury Department. Those notes en-
body, says the Charleston Mercury, the interest
ing results of examination this remarkable
ocean current by various officers of the Coast
Survey.
They cover an extent of II degrees of latitude
and Is degrees of longitude, from Cape Cod in
Massachusetts, to Cape Canaveral in Frorida.-
These surveys show that wide region of the Gulf
Stream is very far from being simple current of
warm water, gradually falling of, so to speak, on
either side to the general temperature of the sea.
tits, on the contrary, distributed into alternate
warm and cold belts, parallel to the central cur
rent, and traceable with much regularity through
out the whole extent of the surveys. Another in
terestng fact is, there is found marked CORES
pondence between these belts and the form of the
bottom of the sea. About sixty miles of the
coast, the sea deepens sheer down, from 100 faith
oms to over 600 fathoms, forming profound
chasm less than 80 miles wide; then as abruptly
shoaling to $50 fathoms by an extraordinary
sharp ridge. Over this ridge, at the depth Of
200 fathoms, the temperature is found the same
as at 600 fathoms in the gorge; in fact, the iso-
thermal line following, like their shadow, all
these abrupt and surprising variations of the sea
bottom.