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

ed to look The true way to reform is to mend
our wretched habits of straining ourselves to
such extreme lengths ; to take labor and re.
creation together to cultivate the art Of life
more, and the arts of living less.
RATHER STREET.-THE editress of the Olive
Branch, published at Boston, having received
a communication from Nashville, Tennessee.
whether some female printers could
be hired there to 90 to Nashville, replied as fol-
lows:
Every girl in Boston, who is old enough to
work in u printing office, or any other Office
has u lover, whom she would be just rs likely
10 trade off for q Ternessce article Us SHE would
l,r 10 swap him Oft for grizzly bear. The idea
of a Boston girl. who goes to operas, patronizes
Julliens concerts, waltzes once week, eats ice
cream, rides in the omnibus wears satin slip
pcrs, sometimes kisses the editor, going to Ten
nessee, except she goes there as the wife Of one
of your first-class citizens, editors excepted. is
truly ridiculous. Wouldn't girl in silk
dress, with lace-edged pantalets and shiny gai-
ter boots. look well trudging through the mud
and mre of Nashville to an old barn of print
ing Office, 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-j juice over the floor! Wouldn't she be
in nice fix when the editor and some great
brute of fellow. whom he offended. got play
ing at the game OF shooting their revOlvers
across the office at each others heads! Who
would make the fire when the --- had run
Oft and the editor was drunk. Who'd go home
with her dark nights! Who would take her
out to ride on Saturday afternoon, and go to
church with her on Sunday? No, sir. a Boston
girl wouldn't 60 to Tennessee for love nor mo-
ney. She can get enough of both nearer
home.
SOBER SUNDAYS IN pHILADELPuIA.--The expcr-
imcnt of closing all the liquor shops in Phila-
dclphia (says the Western Rcportcr) seems to
have had a fine effect on the morals of that city
1t reduced drunkenness, ARRAYS, fights, rioting
and noise and disturbance of the peace general
ly. Unluckily, however, just as the peaceful
citizens were beginning to feel secure and hap
by under the new order of things, the Supreme
Court of Pennsylvania decided that the law was
misconstrucd under which Mayor Conrad was
acting, and that the liquor shops could not be
compulsorily closed OH Sundays, but only fined
for detected offences. But Mayor Conrad rcfus-
es to back out from his course. lie says the
Commonwealth was not represented in the case
lately dccided-it being an er parte case. AL
ludng to the condition of Philadelphia before
and since he closed the liquor shops, he gave,
strictncss against offenders the following strik-
ing facts:
| No Sabbath passed without its swollen calen-
der OF cases OF turbulence, riot. inccndiarism
and bloodshcd ; and every Monday saw our bar
/ Al.
which is the parent of all crime. Every con-
sideration of duty demanded from the autIori-
ties reform; and aware of the utter inet1icacy
of Il fine that scarcely diminished the wages of
profitable crime, l adopted the expedcnt OF
binding over til" offenders to answer before a
court, known to be in earnest in its support of
the interests of morality and law.
The results amply rewarded the effort. a
quiet, long unknown. fell upon the Sabbatls OF
our country. The shouts of revclry and riot
and the Glamour Of contendinG fire companies,
no longer disturb our streets and not a single
case of fire, riot, or other popular disturbance
not Il case of gross personal violence. was re-
ported within the city upon any subsequent
sabbath. The following exhibit of watch cases
for the nights of Saturday and Sunday, heard
in this office. will show the almost magical eff
feet Of this policy. On the Mondays for five
weeks preceding the Sunday proclamation. the
! CttScS uuiiiDcltt-1J, oU. d. ~ anu 2AIlcl
| the proclamation, they diminished to-22, =,
Is, II and 7. But these effects were not con-
| fined to the Sabbath. That day pure purified
the following day, and leavencd the whole
week with Il better spirit The general dminrl-
| ton of offences is without parallel; and the
present wholesome condition of the city, in re-
gard to the public tranquility, makes it my
duty to persist in policy so benctcent. until
arrested by the actual intcrposit:on Of unqucs-
| tionable authority.
! MEMORY QUiCKENEp IN DRowNING.--The fol
lowing circumstance, youchcd for as true, is
one among many instances in which the memo
ry has received Il remarkable quckcning in
apparent drowning. Such facts are incontcsti-
bic: the solution has never been satisfactorily
given:
Some years since, A held bond of L for sew
cral hundred dollars. having some time to run
, At its maturity he found that he had put it
away so carefully that he was unable to find it,
Every search was fruitlcsS lie only knew that
it had not been paid or traded away. In this
dilemma he called on b, relating the circunl-
stance of its disappearance, and proposed a re-
ccpt as offset to the bond or rather an indcnl-
nifyng bond against its collection, it ever
found.
IL his SIcdI surprise, ID NOT only refused 10
meet the terms of difficulty, but positively de-
MED owing him anything and strongly intimat-
ed the presence of a fraudulent design on the
part of A. Without legal proof. and, there
fore. without redress, he had to endure both the
loss Of his money and the suspicion of dishon-
orablc intention in urging the claim. Several
years passed away without any change in the
nature of the case, or its facts, as above given,
when, one afternoon, while bathing in -
tI1.,
cramp. or from s)mc other cause. was discover
ed to be drowning. He had sunk and risen
several times and was floating away under the
water. when he was seized and drawn to the
shore The usual remedies were applied to re-
suscitatc him. and although there were signs of
life, there was no appearance of consciousness.
He was taken home in a state of exhaustion,
and remained SO for some days.
On the first return Of strength to walk, he
left his bed. went to his book case took out a
book. opened it, and handed his long-lost bond
to a friend who was present. lie then informed
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