The daily Gate City., 1855-09-11

CT What, Says Carlyle, is the net pur-
port and upshot of war? There dwell and
toll in the British village of Dumdrudge, usr-
sually, some FIVE hundred souls. From these
by certain ''natural enemies' of the French.
there are successively selected during the
French war, say thirty able bodied men,
Dumdrudge at her own expense, has sucked
and nursed them she has not without diff
Guilty and sorrow, fed them up to manhood.
and even trained them TO crafts, so that one
can weave, another build, another hammer,
and the weakest can stand under thirty stone.
avcrdupois. Nevertheless, amid much weep
Ing and swearing, they are selected all dres-
sed in rcd, and shipped away at the public
charges, some two thousand miles, or say on
lv to the south of Spain, and fed there till
wanted. And now to the same spot in the
South of Spain, are thirty similar French ar
tiaans, from a French Dumdrudge in like
manner vending till at length, after infinite
effort, the two parties come into actual Iux-
Imposition and thirty stand fronting thirty
each with gun on his arm. Straightway
the word 'Gre!' is given, and they blow the
soals out Of one another; and in place Of six
ty brisk, useful craftsmen, the world has six
" dead earcasscs, which it must bury and
anew shed tears for. Had these men any
quarrel? Busy rs the devil is, not the small
est. They lived far enough apart; were the
ontirest strangers nay, in so wide a uni
verse, there was even unconsciously, by COM
mcrcc, some mutual helpfulncss between
them. How them Simpleton, their Cover
one another, they had the cunning to make
thcse poor blockheads shoot.
The RIGHT TO THE STREEIS.-A recent de-
cision of Justice Coleridgc, in Newark, n. j.,
presents rather a different view Of the rela-
tive rights of persons driving horses and
those walking in our streets. A widow had
sued for damages, her husband having been
rim over and killed BY An omnibus. The
Judge, as reported in the Newark Advertiser,
said there was one thing it was really right
to state;
"When passing along a street, the side
pavements were for foot passengers, and the
center of the street was for carriages, and
those persons who wished to cross were bound
to watch thor opportunity, to use due caro-
and caution but at the end or corner of a
street, If foot passenger rishes TO cross,
it should be kno,rn that the center Of the
street belonged as much to the foot passen
ger as to the carriage, and he had as much
right to tell the driver of carriage to wait
Tor MIN as Tor the driver TO IN Ike him wait. =
WITHDRAWAL OF LAND SALES IN MINNESOTA.
The editor of the st. Anthony Express has
received letter from Judge Meeker at Wash
ington, dated August Goth, in which he statcs
that he had interviews with Secretary Nc
Cleliand, and Commissioner Hendricks. on
the subject of postponins the sales, and that
the efforts of tho friends of Minnesota had
been successful, and that all but about 700,-
600 acres distributed in the different districts
had been Withdrawn. More acceptable news
to all Mnncsotians could not be received, and
we rejoice that the dark cloud which has
oyershadowed us has passed by, without
overwhelming us in destruction. Minnesota
will now secure another years emigration of
nctual settlers, and those already here will
have further time to secure their homestcads.
- .NinneSotion