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

days.
EB- We omitted to notice yesterday that
Chamblin had returned from St. Louis by the
Col. Morgan. His stock of goods is upon the
Navigator, which will be up in day or two.
The PLAINS OF CHALDEA.--Layard says that
these plains produce some of the finest fruits in
the world. very delicious peach has lately
been introduced into England, which has Gre
ated good deal of excitement among nursery
men. The plains in the spring of the year are
covered with gorgeous flowers. Truffies grow
there in great abundance, and are quite extern
sively used as an article of food. The hanging
gardens of Babylon, Layard says, were no fic-
ton. He has found picture representations of
them in his researches.
MORE "PURGERY."-Most of our readers re-
collect the "drugged liquor" said to have been
used few months since to prevent the election
of u s. Senator at Concord, New Hampshire.
1t now comes ont that the affair was another
case of outrageous .'purgery." which calls
loudly for the interference of the Times. The
"drugged liquor" administered to the Demo-
cratic members was not dragged In the ordina-
ry way. In other words, it was sweetened with
Peruvian or Chincha Islands sugar, commonly
called guano. A correspondent of the Man
chester Democrat asserts this to be fact 1t
seems that in a back room of a hotel where IL
quor was kept, Mr.. Uri Lamprey, an agent of
the New York Guiana Company, who was at the
same hotel, had with him several choice SAM
pies of pulverzed guano. which he kept in
bowls, and on favorable occasions exhibited them
to his friends among the members. One even
ing, being hastily called out. he incautiously
set away his puiverized samples on the same
shelf with the sugar bowls. Shortly after,
some Of the Democratic members wishing "to
strengthen the inner man." went into the clio
set, which was not yet lighted up, and having
used the decanters, partook also very freely of
the sweetening from the guano bowls. Several
important results followed-the chief of which
was the immediate falling off in the vote for Mr..
Wells for U. s. Senator-the drugged members
being unav oidably detained from their seats.
Ta- The potato rot has commenced quite
extensively in Scotland, in several localities in
Ireland, and in one or two of the central coun-
ties of England. The other harvests are gene
rally favorable in Great Britain and on the con-
tinent.
HEAVY SENTENCE AGAINST LIQvoR DEALER
CAMBRIDGE, MASS, Aug 1.-THE case ofPor-
ter, which has been up for some time. has been
concluded. He was charged with violating the
liquor law. The sentence against him is that
he pay fine of three hundred and fifty dollars,
and that he be imprisoned for four years.
.1'ss- The wheat crop Of California is said to
be very large, and large quantities are being
exported.
10 News from China represent that coun-
try in fearful state of anarchy. In some pro-
vinces the Mandarins have forbidden the fur
Their cultivation of tea
Coon ADvICE.-Never jest with the sorrows
and frailties of men. Fralties are misfortunes
heart is its own sorrow.
COMING DowN.-The prices of beef cattle the
past week in New York have fallen nearly 81
per hundred. Some sales, it is stated, have
been made as low as 81. A few weeks since
Sll 20 was about the average.
ns> Itappears that the thirst of the Pierce
Administration for rapine and war was not full
ly satiated by the burning of Greytown. and its
many other acts of wasteful prodigality, and
that the President is now engaged in infcting
series of petty annoyances upon the people of
Maine and New Hampshire, by removing the
Morrill, men from the Post Offices in the former
and the ant-Nebraska men in the latter State.
When Nebrascal cannot be found at hand to
take the office, it is either discontinued or re-
right sort of tool can be found to take
charge of it. Here is an instance, asrelatcd by
the Manchester Democrat:
"Last week the people of Tamworth Iron
Works paid the penalty for voting the anti-Ne-
braska ticket last March, by having the Office
| removed to a rum-hole one halt mile from the
village"
We should think the good people of Maine
and New Hampshire, were suffering sufficiently
from the severity of the drought and the de-
structve fires that are at present beclouding
their prospects, without having superadded to
their misfortunes, the scourgings of an admins
tration which, by their own generous votes,
| they helped in elevatiug to power.
~ The London Times contains long and
somewhat severe, though moderate and concil-
iatory editorial upon the burning of Grcytown.
The following is an extract:
"The act of Captain Hollins speaks for itself.
1t is indeed, without a parallel in any history
with which we are acquainted. for the place was
wholly incapable of firing shot in its own de-
fence; not man was killed or wounded in the
attack, and the enterprise was one of mere de-
struction. The American papers, from which
we have extracted these details. record them
with the strongest expressions of shame and re-
greet; and We cannot doubt that the public
opinion Of the enlightened classes in the United