The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1854-05-20

the reader will Judge when we tell him that
the mail. Yesterday morning, brought us .fue
copies of that journal. one of April 29, May l.
2. 3, IA. The value of New York daily papers
to editors, depends upon their regular and
timely receipt. According TO present arrange
ments. we get no papers three days in each
week but on every second day VIC get two, and
these are usually from five to six days on the
road Somewhere between this city and New
York, there is a haltng place for all mail mat
ter for the f;,r-wcst. 1t is useless. we suppose
as long as Mr.. Campbell is at the head of the
Post Office Department. to complain, or TO en-
poet that the evil will be meet by any efficient
remedy. Should any lucky combination of
circumstances drive him from the place he is
incompetent to fill, we might then hope that a
few of his toadies and undcrlings could he fore
ed up to a decent discharge of their duties.
ANoI.D BooK.-Thc oldest book in the Unit
ed States, it is said, is n manuscript Bible i'm
the possession of Dr. Withcrspoon, of Alabama
written over a thousand gears ago! He de-
scribcs it as follows:-"The book is strongly
bound in boards of the old English oak and
with thongs by which the leaves are also well
bound together. The leaves are entirely made
of parchment, of most superior quality, of
fineness and smoOthness little inferior to the
best satin. The pages arc all ruled with great
accuracy, and written with great uniformity
and divided off into chapters and verses. The
first chapter of every book in the Bible is writ
ten with large capital of inimitable beauty.
and splendidly Illuminated with red, blue and
black ink still in vivid colOrs; and no two of
the capital letters in the book are precisely
alike"
1t has been suggested that a man behind
time should be fed on ketch-up.
MORE GoIp.-Thc New York papers copy ac-
counts from the English journals, of the discov-
cry of gold in South Africa. near the Cape of
God Hope. The metal exists in combination
with copper, and is not found in drift. as in
California. The largest nuggets spoken Of
are less than an ounce in weight.
A Coon IIlr-Ccrtain members of Congress
having declared themselves in favor of raising
the rates Of postage, on the ground that the
Post Office Department now costs more than it
produces. the Memphis Eagle and Enquirer
states that Congress costs the people round
sum every year and wonders if some plan
might not be discovered 10y which it could be
made to pay cIpenscs.
SINGULAR FATALIrY.-Mr Zachariah Bell;
Susan. his wife; and Thomas j.. and Elizabeth
s., their children; recently departed this life
on apple Creek, Greene cOunty-the parents
being carried off by typhoid Pneumonia and
the children by the measles-Gaiena .fduerti-
ser.
a BONDED WAREHOUSES newly marrid cou.
pie going to housekeeping.
1t has been satisfactorily asccrtained that
ducks enter water for Diners reasons, and come
out for sun-dry motives.
The speech of Mr.. Harris, Mississippi Dem
ocrat against the Nebraska bill, staggers the
supporters Of that measure to no ordinary cX-
tent.-Cor. " Y. Erpress.
We understand that Mr.. Harris is friend of
the present National Administration. As he
differs with it on one of its most vital princ-
pies, and has come out in opposition to its
cherished measure, we wonder if the Washing
ton Union will read him out of the Party ali
bany Register.
LARGE LOAD.-Thc steamer John Simonds ar
rived at st. Louis from New Orleans, on the
10Th ult., with 324 German emigrants and four
teen hundred tons of freight
BY the Post Office regulations, no person en-
titled to the franking privilege, can frank
letters not written Ivy himself, under u penalty
of SO.
AT Hardin. Allamakcc county, Iowa, on the
l!th. Jane Prescott was Poi: olod by eating
wild parsnip. She lived about one hour. She
was about sixteen years Ofagc.
TIE ERDss0N-At the last accounts, active
preparations were being made to raise the
Ericsson. which. it was supposed, would be ac-
complislcd in few days.
SHE'S TIE SoRr.-As an evidence of what the
girls can do if they have the mind. a Cincinnati
press states that three years ago poor orphan
girl applied and was admitted to set tyne for
that paper. She worked two years. during
which time she earned $500: and availing her
self of the facilities which the printing Office
afforded. acquired good education. She is
now an associate cdltrcss of a popular paper
and is engaged to be married TO one of the
smartcst lawyers in Ohio. Such girl is bound
to shine and eclipse tens of thousands who are
educated in the lap of luxury and taught all
the accomplishments of a boarding school.
Such a wife will he jewel to her husband. an
ornament to society, and an honor to her sex
and her country.
When you hear a young man talk ofthe won
dcriul smartness of his father. and allkiling
beauty of his sisters, just put him down SIS the
descendant ola fool, whO is expanding the stock
Just call round and see them girls and forty
six and a half to a yard of nothing YOU will find
from seven to ten old maids as frightful as sin.
and as cold as so many cakes of ice cut from the
north pole. Young men of parts latitude and
longitude, never trade in their style of goods.
RELIGIOUS FEDERATION IN TUsCANY.-P, otcs-
tant sojourncrs in Tuscany enjoy the rare priv
ilcSe of assembling for divine Worship. A cor
respondent of the Newark Advertiser. writing
from Florence. says that there are no less than
thrcc Protestant pastors in that city. The Brit
lsh and Swiss chappcls are large and commodi
Gus buildings and the services well attended
Connected with the churches arc Sunday schools
and bible classes for children. The facilities
for educating the youngin Florence are sur
passed in few cities. There are two Protestant
schools there.
SAVING AND SAW MIIIs.-Thc following may
b. Of some Interest TO our millcrs We
find it in the Scientific American:
Having been a lumbcrman for many wears
past both here and at the ncrth, and desiring
to put into our mills here the best machin-
cry in use, took tour to the State of Maine,
thence to Canada, and nothcrn New York, and
patiently examined all the best mills in these
regions. Being millwrisht by trade, 1 found
nothing to compare with what is termed the
llnc-IOO panv in Maina MI