The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1854-10-28

~ launched under the Immediate supervision
Of Capt. Luce. and there appears to be strong
reasons for the belief that three missing boats
may yet be heard of with many more passed.
gers.
Later news confirms the above. Capt Luce
had arrived in New York.
cS~ The steamers Minnesota Belle and Royal
Arch, both from Galena, arrived yesterday.
By our fellow-citzen, Mr.. VIM. Brewster, a pas
senger on the former boat, we have Chicago
papers of Monday last.
INVITING on FACTs.-We think the Pioneer of
Saturday was ungrateful to the Times, mas
much as that paper did all it could to help the
democrats at the late election. The Pioneer
don't seem willing to let the Times keep up
even a decent appearance Of being any longer
Wing A few days since it undertook to say a
word or two softly about the Wing victories in
Ohio, &c. &c, to which the Pioneer answered
by tauntingly pointing its coadjutor the Times,
to the rout Of the Wings at home, which it la
bored so hard to bring about-as much as to
say, "you did it, 1t is wrong in the Pioneer
to be thus poking sharp sticks at its ally
Es- Cadwaldcr Evans, we'll known as the
inventor of the safety valve, extensively used
on western steamers, died of diarrhua at Pitts
burgh lately.
1aIs- A census of Savan nah, Ga, Just taken
shows total population of 6,2S5 whites, and
5,49l blacks.
5ns- Bulwcr. the novelist, in a letter to
gentlemen in Boston, said: Il have closed
my career as a writer offiction. am gloomy
and unhappy. have exhausted the powers of
life, chasing pleasure where it is not to he
found"
A LARGE FLEEr.--Therc are at present an
the port of New York. IS steamers, lS6 ships.
us barks, 100 briggs, 3S3 schooncrs, besides a
fleet of coal and lumbermen, etc, numbering
same 800.
IRIZE EssAY.--Thc Boston Herald SAYS: The
Board OF Managers of the NJ i. Church. have
offered premium of $500 for the best essay
upon Systematic Bcneficencc The pride is to
be ffivcn in one sum. or be divided among the
competitors as the committee see fit. Time in
which the manuscript can be received UP to
May 1876.
CATION Our citizens would do we'll to
keep an eye upon their clothes, if they are left
out over night, as we know of one instance. at
least, where they have been stolen from the
lines within the past week. We understand
that those from whom the articles were stolen.
amounting in value to some $40. have their
eyes upon The theft!
Ests- By late intelligence from the Marquc-
sas and Society Islands, we learn that the ma
tivcs were being rapidly killed oil by intestine
wars. The French were looking on with un-
concern, as it tended to facilitate their occupa-
ton of the Islands. The missionaries had met
with little success, and were thinking soon of
retiring from the field of their labors.
HEALTurULNEss OF FRUIr-Thc editor Of the
American Medical Monthly, in timely arti- |
Gle OH greatly misunderstood subject says
that partakng immoderately Of even the rip
est and best fruit is as injurious as drinking TO
excess opium eating. or snrfcitng of any kind;
and that eating unripe fruit, even when pre
pared by the most skillfully conducted culina
ry operations, and cnticingly presented in the
sarniture of paste and irosting, is unsafe eat
ng fruit at improper hours, too--ripe or IN.
'ipe-is highly pernicous.
The Hon. Leonard Jarvis, for several forms
Representative in Congress from Maine. and
| prominent politician of the Democratic school |
recently died at his residence, at Surry. in the
state mentioned, at the age of sevcnty-two |
ne was native OF Cambridge and Il graduate
d harvard, in the class of 1900. Jarvis was n !
lear relative of the late Dr. Leonard Jarvis Of
Jlarcmont n. H., and of the Hon. William |
Jarvis, formely Consul at one of the Snanish
ports and now resident at Wcthcrsfeld, vt.
MAN BORN TO l.ABOR.-Man was born to labor |
md is SO organized that he cannot he happy |
Dr. neatly without some steady occupation.
ana II ihbor and occupation are necessary to
: neatly state, how much more necessary must
hey he to a mind diseased: Half the crimes
committed against society originate in mems
lot Knowing how to employ their faculties in
'one useful pursuit. Solitary confinement
cannot remedy the evil. and leaves the con
vet, after he has served his time, as helpless
Is befOre.-I0rtiand Argus.
ANECDorE OF LAFAYETTE-During the revo
utionary war, Cen Lafayette being in Balti
more, was invited to a ball. He went as re-
Iuested, but Instead of joining in the amusc-
nent, as might be expected of young French
nan Of twenty. he addressed the ladies thus
Ladies, you are very handsome, you dance
cry prettily; your ball is very fine-but my
oldiers have no shirts" This appeal was ir-
esistible. That ball ceased the ladies went
ONE and went to work, aud the next day q (
arge number of shirts were prepared by the o
lIrest hands of Baltimore for the gallant de- !
enders of their country. .
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