The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1854-05-27

THE EVER OCTHFrI PAIMERSTON.-Cnlike
almost any other man in the world, he doesn t
get fat, and he doesn't get thin; he dOesn' t
stoop: he doesn't totter; he doesn't use stick
nor wig, nor list-sbOc, nor tOp-coat; nor
does he look as ifhe ever could would or should
do anything ofthe kind. See him what wealth
or you will, you always find him in the same
| tempcraturc-always equable, always serene,
yet always genial. Hail. rain or snow, out of
doors. it is always sunshine with him. In the
dog days or in December, other men come into
their house painting like so many semi-calcined
sugar-bakers. or shivsring like recently sub
merged skaters dragged out of the Serpcntine
by the barbarans of the Human Society. But
be the thermometer at 80 of Fahrenheit, 0 . Of
Rcauncr, Palmcrston is corporally never either
hot or cold. and mentally the medium is SEEM
ingly ever the same. Not his the smooth re-
serve, the dccorOus sclfpOssession of Gladstone
or Sydney Herbert. which, if it never battles,
yet never animates. At case with himself, he
puts every one around him at case too.-Liv-
erpoOl Albion.
RIPARIAN RIGHTS. A decision of consider
able Importance and one in which many of our
citizens are interested. was given. we under
stand. yesterday morning, in the circuit Court
Judge Wilson. of Kane county. presiding 1t
was given upon point made in the case of the
Illinois Central Railroad Company. ap vs.
Walker. and was adverse to the claim OF the
latter to right of property and of reclamation
in the 'soif' of Lake Michigan beyond low wa
ter mark. The decision is in accordance with
the general rendering of the Courts i'm this
country, allowing to the owners of land front
ing upon Lakes, DC, the right to fish or pros
pect, and of the use Of the water for common
or domestic purposes. but denying the claim to
the permanent occupant Of the bed of the Lake
for piers, harbors, aud the like, by private in
dividuals.-Ch Chicago Democrat.
SpAIN-TTE NEITrAIIrY LAws.-Thc promo
sition made in the United States Senate on
Monday, by Mr.. Sldcll, to empower the Pres
idcnt to lcgalizc piracy. against Spain, in case
her government should see fit to make arrange
mcn,s for the gradual abolition of Slavery in
Cuba, attracts some attention both at Washing
ington and elsewhere. In one respect the prof.
cct is a cowardly one inasmuch as its object is
to involve this country in a war with Spain by
an indirect proceeding.
The President is first to take off the restraints
on private war and declare the commerce of
Spain lawful plumber, and the coasts in its pos
session open to the descent OftrecbOotcrs Such
an act is as flagitiOus in its nature. as if the
government were to take off the protection
which our laws give the man accused of crime
and were to proclaim immunity to those who
would rob him Of his property or hunt him
down and shoot him without a trial. The civ
lliItu WI Ill HIS It's OWN CUSTOM anu uSHncS OIL
peace and war, founded on honor and human-
ity. and it becomes us to respect them Let
the neutrality laws be repealed so far as respects
Spain, and six weeks would not clapsc before
the two would be engaged i'll direct hOstlitcS.
The only manly and honorable course for our
government which is at all sensitive on the
point of national disgrace. is to make war with
Spain. ii there he a just and necessary Occa-
sion of war, and to remain honestly at peace
y
between peace and war, in which Mr.. SliJclls
scheme seeks to place the country into the
very measure which its contrivcrs have not the
madness directly to propose and to get the
name OF the United States erased from the list
Ofncutral nations
So much for the timcrous and sncakinr char
actcr of the project. In another point of view
it is audacious. rs it seeks to interfere with an
act of strictly domestic policy and local lcgis-
lation-audacous, as it intcrfcrcs against the
interests OF freedom and seeks to strengthen
the fctt,rs of the slave. There is no liberal
tendency of the age. there is no generous i'm
pulse of the human heart, there is no rccOgni-
ton of the value ofpersonal liberty among any
race OF people. which does not stand in direct
hostility to such procccdings.-.N: y. Ercning
Post.
SCANDAL. IN New l0RK.-Thc following bit OF
gossip appears in the New i ork correspondence
of a Philadelphia paper
Gossip here has had, as the Bible SAYS of
sin "swcct morscl'' to "roll under h,r
tongue" in the shape of scandal, for a few
days. The gentleman concerned in the cOntrc-
temps is a Mr.. f., about nineteen. and the son
of one Of the firm of the important silk house of
F. Il Co. The lady is, or was. a Miss Bis
set. or Bissop. a danscusc at some of the thea
tres. Mr.. F., rumor assures us, becoming cna-
morcd of the face or feet of the fair Bayadcrc,
disguised himself in shabby clothing, and APP
plying to the property man of the theatre, Sc
cured an engagement as Il "supc, y in order to
he near the object of his idolatry Such devo-
ton could not be without effect. The lady and
her cher annie were soon seen riding Out togo
thcr to the High Bridge, dining in the private
rooms OF the Florence and suppng in the re-
chcrchc ditto of the City Hotel. Last Wcdnes-
day week the two lovers visited Brooklyn in
company and were married. Three days after.
the cnra@ed papa of the bridegroom discovered
the mesalliancc. But. instead of hushing up
the unfortunate affair, he lost all common sense,
and made himself the object Of universal laugh
ter, first by threatening to prosecute the whole
theatre for conspiracy to ruin his son. and
next by using the most ridiculous means to OBJ
tain the lady's certificate of marriage. under
the belief that if he could once destroy the doc
ument in question, the union would be annul
led Inc Old gentleman folly has filled the
streets with comment of course. In the NEAR
time. the lady holds on to her young husband.
who alternately finds Inns elf locked up one day
in his fathers attic, and the next in his brides
arms; refreshing alteration. The elder F., as
dernier resort, is now hunting up evidence of
the impurity Of his new daughter-in-law. and
making arrangements ad interim, to ship his
son of to Canton as coriosity.n
r='~ There are in Paris $4,000 Free Masons.
The Grand Master is Prince Murat