Minnesota weekly times. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1854-1859, 1855-04-03

pose themselves to the inclemency Of the weather.
1t would also save them much trouble in writing
OF orc copying from various authors, as they .wonld
particular author, and then lay the book upon the
positive pole of the battery willing at the same
time that the automaton read such 80 with the
rest Of the services, including the singing. aT
Besides these advantages there is another, yiz.,
many Of the curates may be dispensed With. the
Thirdly, in connection with these phenomena,
he had associated the decomposition of light
namely, that light being a compound, and modi-
ned BY electricity, it is decomposed BY matter in
the vegetable, mineral metallic and animal worlds,
IN accordance with tho physical construction of
these bodies. Hence each material structure con-
meets the one and the same light that falls upon
itself to its own use, and reflects back light Pc
culiar to its own physical constitution. And this
in similar manner to the decomposition Of air
by the animal body, and of carbonic acid by the
vegetable; hence the great variety of colors in
the Landscape and of all material objects. -
Finally, that light does not travel, as stated in
with the age Of their invention and adoption, and
werc IN approximations to the truth in certain
degree. But, in the present age of simple and
progressive truths, they are not adequate to ex-
plain the peculiar simplicity manifested through
out the maternal creation and the present known
phenomena of its Laws. f-rcf er cni
$500 THE WEST. a.i s-aeo
The west of mosc is quite different thing from
the west of thirty years ago. The back woods
man has ceased to be the received representative
OF western character. Douglas, not Davy
Crockett is its present type. 1e e'il ii-'" t'9ai
When, thirty years ago, the slow waves of pop
uation beat lazily against the crumblng shores Of
the savage's supremacy it was no wonder, perhaps,
that in the chafng of the shallow surge the con-
fines of society should catch muddy and tur-
bid faint from the dissocializing contact Of the
Indian and the refugee-or that from the drift
wood of lawless spirits who were cast up upon
the reeking strand, there should grow out the
fierce elements of frontier life. ..-., -
A semi-cizilized, half-barbarous people then
lined the shores of the eastern tributaries of the
Mississippi, or were scattered in sparce settle
mcnts along the great river itself from Prairie
du Chen to Louisville great people these for
rifle shooting and deer-skin jackets. They had
their heroes and their wars and a rude history of
their own. TWAS sort Of polyglott margin of
the old society having reference to and indexing
higher state of civilization but not that civili-
cation itself by any means. 1t was the heel of the
political stocking yet on the knitngneedles of pro-
grcssion, and slowly working up into social tex
ture the huge yarn of population that lay ensnarl
ed among the older States and yet older nations
of the east. There no such relative infcriority
in the social condition of the west now. New
York can claim no precedence, except in popula-
ton, over st. Louis,--Chicago nearly eclipses
venerable Boston,-St. Paul is treading on the
heels of immemorial Charleston. The west is
no longer the antithesis-it is the correlative of
the east. The west, sir, 1--WE glory in metaphor)
is the gtttering edge of the great axe of modern
civilization, cutting ever deep and deeper into
the primeval solitudes of nature, while under its
keen fashioning every day grow up prouder mon
uments of human power than ever graced the
Tiber or the Thames. saa4r5s
The west, disdainful prima donna, is worth your
song, and that is why the Queen Birds have learn
ed of late to wing their way to California, Illi-
nois and Missouri.
We wear clothes here most fastidious New
Yorker. The nut-eating Yahoo is not the repre-
sentative of western life, notwithstanding a gen.
eral impression to the contrary in your village.
Knives and forks are not unknown in our domes-
tic afairs-kids, otto de rose, fashionable diseas-
es, carbuncles and catarrh are attainablc even in
this longitude. III
But however good the materials of which our
society may be composed-whatever energy may
be conceded us-whatever genius may be found
among us-we are not the less in eastern eyes
rude and inaYti6cial eonglomerntion of heteroge-
neous elements "a mere reconstruction of the
loose fragments Of eastern communities in ce-
ment Of emigrant mud and straw; sort of Arab
Hut, such as the traveller finds in PALMYRA, in
which tho proud Corinthian Capitol and the
monumental pilasters Of classic architecture, are
unfortunately used to patch up and support
mean walls of unrecorled rubbish. Heaven for
give those people. They will persist in misun-
derstanding US till VIC have overshadowcd them.
We tell you this, proud orient that though
this young and giant west may dress his graceful
limbs in your manners and institutions-he wears
no lincaments Of yours. The out-castl Offspring
of a false civilization, he was reared for a higher
destiny than Rome, at the udder Of the Mighty
river-Nature's breast.
Transplanted, indeed, our society may have
been in all but its vitalitybut the old exotic has
withered in its virgin bed, and from the human
germ has sprung forth mighty deriving ito
vitality from no foreign soil, indigenous, origin
a,grand in the green and glorious symmetry Of its
perennial blooms tree upon whose booghs stars
hang like ripe fruit-and under whose cool shade
the weary nations" as Kossuth calls them, may
find repose and-rattlc-sn snakes. ,..,.f..
A MALE SExIRAxls.--It is told of tho Indian
Rajah, Johas Indra, that he had porter named
Dato, who resembled him 80 much that he put
his own royal robes on him and seated him on his
thrown, and then took his station at the gate and
laughed to see his courtiers bowing before the
porter Dato, and obeying him. But the porter
said "who is that fellow nt the gate OF with his
head p They decapitated tho Rajah, and the por-
ter Dato, reigned in his stead.
e. A single pound of faxen thread, intended
for the finest specimens of French lace, is valued
ct six hundred dollars, and the length of the thread
10 about two hundred and twenty-six miles. One
pound of this thread is more valuable than two
pounds of gold. -. 80 lsosa ai4o1