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Minnesota weekly times., 1856-11-08

Ane Aoho"iuS CtatIstics, compiled from the
census of 1850, will be interesting in connection
with the present political issues. 1t will also
afford those patriotic citizens who intend moving
out of the Union in case the principles of l747
are restored, view Of their stock in trade and
the chances they have to earn their own subsis-
tence -
There are 81 States l6 free. and Is slave
States. The Territories of the United States are
greater than the area of all the States.
Newspapers North 4uT 80 1880
Newspapers South 7e3 81 722
Circulation North 334, l47, ,28I
Circulation South ..-...... 9l,l66. .O26
Value of Church property North s66,773,5l7
ss ss &c South 23,O38,54I
Capital in manufactures North $43I,2eo:35l
g {" South 059lS.S42
Postage received at the North S4.39I.86O
Amount paid out in the North 2,3Sl, ,6O7
Postage received in the South SI,4S6.9S4
Amount paid out in the South 'a i2,Os7,266
White pop. of the Is North. States 3,248.67O
White pop. of the Is South. States 6,222,4l8
White population of the Territories 9l,98O
Slave - fs<'J ~ IS South. States 3.2oi.5lO
Number of free negroes in the South 23s,1S7
sSy ti.A08 Ss IL 6. North @ 4 LOG 16O
Total value of property in Northern
States i-AN It'> = $4,102,l62.O98
Total value of property in Southern
States, including slaves $2,952,Slj,356
Educational income North $lO,97l,768
South 6,8l9,SO3
Number of libraries North 1883
s' g South 'A' az 722
Number of volumes North 3,sS3,6I7
&C South 40 752,749
Showing receipts over expenses in the North
of two millions Of dollars ;land loss to this de-.
partment of the Government in the South Of six
hundred thousand dollars,
Total number of slave owners in the South,
5000. OF these only $4,000 own, each, ten
negroes and. upwards. There are 100000 vo-
ters in the South. t .r...-.
California exports more in one year including
gold, than Texas has exported in 20 years, since
the declaration of the Texan independence. The
area and present population of the two States
are about equal.
California, with population of 100000 pro.
duces (including gold) as much in two years as
tho value of the whole cotton crop for one year
of the South, which has population Of ten mil
lions.
In 1855 there were in the North 1889 miles
of Railroad; in the South, Bills miles. yi
Minnesota weekly times., 1856-11-08

GY Rice County at the recent Election cast
400 votes, nearly three-fourths of which were for
Mr.. Noble, the Republican candidate for Repre-
sentative. 4. l...-. :f. .. y 4. t-.-
Minnesota weekly times., 1856-11-08

cT No news yet from the States. We shall
doubtless hear something soon, but whatever may
be the result, and none new can even approxi-
mately guess. we ardently hope that the Elec-
tion may not be thrown into the House. Fremont
has as good chance as any there, bat it would
cause q scene Of most violent and endless confu-
sion, that would 60 as far as anything towards :
dissolution Of these confederate States. y =
Minnesota weekly times., 1856-11-08

e. The /" Young Mems Dramatic and Litera-
~ Association" met last evening in the building
just above Bond & Kellogg's store, St. Anthony
st. II il were " LITERARY AND DRAxAflc Asso-
cIArIos" We should like It better, and il Lit.
srary association" merely, better yet.
Minnesota weekly times., 1856-11-08

u There is at present Railroads enough in
the United States il placed in line, to span the
globe with IN iron track, with locomotive every
three and half miles One hundred and sixty
square miles of woodland are cut over every
year to feed the $500 Steam Horses, and there is
annually more wood used simply for propelling
purposes on our engines, than England has con-
sumed to answer every demand in ten years.
g How this train gOes-dont it ?''
Minnesota weekly times., 1856-11-08
E~ The North Star (Hudson, Wis.,)

ET The North Star Hudson, Wis.,) came to
US last week in an eclipse. The paper, reeking
with libels on COL Fremont, was bounteously
supplied with blackguard fustian and Buck Afri-
can theology, till the editors brains run outs and
left a column of welcome blank. He don't
amount to shucks. ,....,.,-. ........, ..e,l..
Minnesota weekly times., 1856-11-08

ca Rev. Frederick Baner, Pastor of St. Ma
ry's Roman Catholic Church, in Cleveland, Ohio,
was arrested last week, on charge of whipping
to death a Sunday School scholar named Barbara
Farman, because she attended the Ragged School.
Minnesota weekly times., 1856-11-08

Every man in the world would be Republi-
can, if he did not hope something more from
fortune and favor than from honesty and deser-
wing Industry. sl
Minnesota weekly times., 1856-11-08

President Frank Pierce intends to take up his
March next He will have to plant potatoes or
exercise in some way pretty violently to keep
from having the blues in rejecting on the past.
Minnesota weekly times., 1856-11-08

GT We would say to our friend A. Newell,
who kindly sent us a poetical selection the other
day, that we published the article some time since
--and cannot, Of course, afford to re-insert it.
Minnesota weekly times., 1856-11-08

CO Two years ago Senator Douglas bought
40 acres of land in the environs of Chicago of
Rev. DR.. Pyns, of St. Johns Church, Washing
ton, for $4,000. The present value is estimated
at $l0O,O j"
Minnesota weekly times., 1856-11-08

TAVERN place where ignoramuses meet to
chew tobacco and mangle politics. Gin is loqua-
cious, and cannot sleep we'll till it has "ralled
around the constitution" Tavern statistics may
be summed up thus: Two whisky slings make
one joke; three jokes one dispute and four dis
putes, one muss, three broken heads, several
swears, and a visit to the station-house. h.4a,
Minnesota weekly times., 1856-11-08

Gg The Fronterman, (Sauk Rapids,) sug-
gests to to those who are always cursing. the In
dans for firing the Praries, to be sure the i,een-
diaries are not white ss Ind ans" .al
Minnesota weekly times., 1856-11-08

Sylvester Lind Esq of Chicago, Ill.,, has made
the magnificent donation of 100000 for the es-
sablishment of Presbyterian University, at For.
est Lake, twenty Ave miles north of Chicago
Ever grateful be his memory! .
Minnesota weekly times., 1856-11-08

VIM. A. White, prominent citizen of Madi-
son, Wis, has very suddenly disappeared. lie
left Milwaukee (where he had stock on exhibition
at the State Fair reccnt!y,) for his home, and has
not since been heard of. Foul play is feared. =
Minnesota weekly times., 1856-11-08

O. Whitfield preached in life eighteen thou.
sand sermons. lie once put himself on what he
called I" short allowance viz three sermons on
the Sabbath, and one every week day.
Minnesota weekly times., 1856-11-08

CO In the coming Legislature of Maine there
will be only one Democrat! Can't he. shave
everything his own way %
Minnesota weekly times., 1856-11-08

CHANCE TO MAKE A. FoRTuNE.-See advertise
ment headed "Chicago Union Joint Stock Co."
By risking only one dollar the holder of ticket
will stand a chance of drawing purse of SlO,-
600 in gold, or one of four hundred and nineteen
other dividends. The enterprise is based ON
responsible foundation.--Ch Chicago Evening Jour-
nal. it9t tfli IaHaist Uf-s,r d15d
Minnesota weekly times., 1856-11-08

CO Wine. fresh from the press, is selling in
Cincinnati at 81 is per gallon.
Minnesota weekly times., 1856-11-08

C1y The magnificent and celebrated comet oil
1864 and 1856 with trail of 80 c, is expected
to appear this Fall. ''A' 'o
Minnesota weekly times., 1856-11-08

CT A man named Church, visited Staunton,
Va. last week, with load of Corn from Pendle-
ton. He is 50 years old /; while his mother is
l07, and his father 112-both living ana hearty.
Minnesota weekly times., 1856-11-08

Admiral Sir John Ross, the venerable and cell
ebrated Arctic Explorer, recently died in Eng
land, after short illness.
Minnesota weekly times., 1856-11-08

RExovAL.--We learn that our estimable friend,
Col. John H. Stevens, has removed with his fam
ily to Glencoe.
Minnesota weekly times., 1856-11-08

CT Laziness begins in cobwebs and ends in
iron chains. It creeps over man so slowly and
imperceptibly that he is bourd tight before he
knows it. .ef.l M 1G r o4 ,-o.,
Minnesota weekly times., 1856-11-08

g Mr.. Mcconnell of Sangamon Co. ILL.,, has
aock of $1,000 sheep-the largest flock in the
United States
Minnesota weekly times., 1856-11-08

4 ca There is an oyster she'll owned BY the Uni.
versity of Leyden, which weighs lS0lbs. The oys-
ster was swallowed whole BY Dutch girl. ,
Minnesota weekly times., 1856-11-08

Cotton is called the ''great staple of Ameri-
ca,'' yet the whole annual product does not
half equal the corn and wheat crops of che North
ern Statea -.r
Minnesota weekly times., 1856-11-08
:. LEss6H IN HEE6L4 w6RE

49, .. ~
Not sigh was heard, npeA wSrd n complaint,
AZ home to her garrde sne hprded; "a
She was sick with toll, end her soul was faint,
: 6 And ehp seersed to b worn and uorneds 1A
9he hastened ~ sadly ~ the dad OF night,
Wifhoot fora moment turning;
Then working she turEsdher wanting sight.
Ha roehlight dimIy bruning.
From hsr achIng eyes hot4ears were shed, La
But tshe SPOKE not q vord In sorrow; -
She gazed on the face Of her child unfed, >
And anxiousy thought on he morrow
She thought, Is she pressed his feversh hand,
And drew her thin shawl aYonnd her, >---
or the bcasted freedom OF Eng1and's land.
And the slavery which ground her.
Aot half Of her weary task dope;
She had no coal for firing,
she fancied she heard some lovely one,
Next morning the dress admiring.
Slowly and sadly she laid 1t down.
The.work, perhaps, might gain some renowp,
But who'd think Of her and her willie2
She bent o'er the form Of her slumberng child,
On its wrotched pallet lying
Her cneek grew pale and her eyes looked wid-N-ef
Both mother and child were dying!
Lightly they'll speak Of them both morn i q -
.inihe panper srouad they'll lay them; - 2 q n
TneyIi merely say, ga poor dressmater's goneD 20
NYessthp how srtossppy'thsm! = (yl19v W
Minnesota weekly times., 1856-11-08

G. In our ailusion to the local Of the Pioneer
yesterday, we had no intention of speaking light
ly of the ladies of his party or even of himself.
We only {" owed him one, and took the oppor-
tunity 70 pay him-that's all! bn,I,ss.f = -
Minnesota weekly times., 1856-11-08

The Cate Casse, Arcola, and Clarion arrived
yesterday. The Flora is now due. ''~' '. -D
Minnesota weekly times., 1856-11-08

eT Rev. J. J. Waterman, Of Galens, liz, has
received unanimous call to the pastoral charge
Of the First Congregational Church Of Winona.
Minnesota weekly times., 1856-11-08

Tristan BuRoEs.--Tbe recent death of this
great New England orator, has brought again to
mind his tremendous philippe against John Ram
dolph--which probably never was surpassed for
venomous invective. 1t would have been outrs.
geous. uttered against any other man than Ran
dolph of Roanoke, who never scrupled himself to
wound an adversary in the most tender part
Randolph had no echildren-and the following
was the eoneiusion of Mr.. Barges's resors to
some sarcastic remarks upon New Englaud':si@
"S Sir, Divine Providence takes care Of his own
universe. Moral monsters cannot propagate.--
Impotent Of everything but malevolence Of pur.
pose they can no otherwise multiply mlseries,
than BY plaspheming all that is pure and pros.
porous and happy. Could demon propagate de.
mon, the universe might become a Pandemonium;
bat rejoice that the father of lies can never be.
come the father Of liars. One adversary of God
and man is enough for one universe. Too much,
oh how too much for one nation" ,,,.,
It is said, We know not how truly, that Randolph
Immediately left the Hall, and never raised
his voice there afterwards.s 20 SaA sdJ h9;ai3d
Minnesota weekly times., 1856-11-08

CO. Always talk Scotch to a beggar, and il
will save you some trouble and much tin. a.4a
Minnesota weekly times., 1856-11-08

O. The word s. Alabama" signifies in the or
ignal Indian " Here let us rest" Beautiful
signi6cation!
Minnesota weekly times., 1856-11-08

e. About >s2s, 200 900 worth Of gold has
been found and brought from California since
'49. Who has got it all?
Minnesota weekly times., 1856-11-08

u Cy Wood of all kinds is very scarce, and
very high-going up every hour; probably be-
cause a load is SO light. Diggs thinks a cord Of
the infammable is " mighty small of its age.''
just six timbles full for $500, yet even at the
price there is none in market. Woodmen spare
no trees, cut every single bough, and bring 'em
if you please, before your patrons freeze, and
make US warmer now. t.
Minnesota weekly times., 1856-11-08

There are at present over 20 Jewish Syna
gosues in New York, and almost 10000 Jews,
Minnesota weekly times., 1856-11-08

CT Mother said an inquistive urchin, few
days since, " would you be any relation to me If
father hadn't married YOU p, O.. Tia o.u ,r9..
Minnesota weekly times., 1856-11-08

!. CO The national debt Of Europe amounts to
$46o, ,0oo, ,0oo, 900. This debt is tho only cobs-
sion that holds the Empires together. -
Minnesota weekly times., 1856-11-08

GT The ancients were of the opinion that
Echo was . maiden who had pined away for love,
till nothing bat her voice, was left
Minnesota weekly times., 1856-11-08

Josiah Quincy styles the chivalrous Brooks
I" the tail and striking muscle of the serpent sla-
very."
Minnesota weekly times., 1856-11-08

E<sp Look down street a moment, reader =! u"
YOU see that tall digniGed looking lady and gen.
tleman mantled in costly furs? Do you see that
child Of four or five summers waddling along be-
tween them warm hat is upon its head its
shoulders are wrapped in comfortable dress It's
feet are encased in thick woolen hose-but do
look n. its little legs! Below the short skirts is
e. breadth rs bare as Natures self, and the poor
child is thu, exposed to all the cold winds and
the tedious weather of this November CLINE
This is sheer cruelty The mother looks across
1t 4" the poor Indian, whose untutOred mind y is
trying to dispose of a string of ducks, and shud-
ders at how the poor thing must suffer " by
and -by, his head bare, and his limbs half uncov-
cred never thinking of the little Dhite martyr to
SCOTS fashion plates, who is shivering BY her
side, and wondering when the warm Summer will
come again. Such conduct is barberous and in
human, not to say immodest--and when We see
an innocent child suffering such maternal in-
QUESTION, we cannot help thinking that those pa
rents were just the to torment birds and tor
ture insects in their youth, and stick pin through
q grasshopper to see if he could fly! Parents |!
gather together all your, fashion.traps and put
them in the stove, and clothe your children warm
if you would save their health and their lives
Minnesota weekly times., 1856-11-08

"a There is a rumor that Thomas Carlyle has
abandoned his half written " Life and Times of
Frederic the Great, "and is about producing BIZ
ography Of Gen. Washington--a much greater
Minnesota weekly times., 1856-11-08

GT lady pedestrian has been displaying her
abilities to n numerous audience in Chicago. She
walked thirty consecutive hours, and declared
her ability to hold out several houss longer.
Minnesota weekly times., 1856-11-08

| CO The heroic Sir Charles Napier wrote very
beautifully and tpuchingly to lady on the eve
of his great victory at Meanee, Sc II survive
shall soon be with those love; if fall shall
be with those have loved." ..of .s,air1sss,
+ .AWoxAY's sSxnE.--Oue of our exchanges+-the
editor Of which has evidently been warming him
self in the sunshine of pretty face-has the fol-
lowing :-"A beautiful smile is to the female
countenance what the sunbeam Is to the landscape,
it embellishes an inferior face, and redeems an
ugly one. A smile, however, should not become
habitua, or insipidity is the result; should the
mouth break into smile on one side the other re-
naming passive and unmoved, for this imparts an
air of deceitful grotesqueness to the face. dis
agreeable smile distorts the line ef beauty, and is
more repulsive than frown. There are many
kinds Of smiles, each having distinctive charac-
ter-some announce goodness and sweetness; !; 9TH
ers betray SARCASM, bitterness and pride some
soften their languishing tenderness Others bright
en- it BY their brilliant and spiritual visacity.-
Gazing and pouring over mirror cannot aid in
acquiring beautiful smiles half 30 we'll as to gase
inward, to watch that the heart keeps unsnllied
from the reelection Of evil, and is illumed and
beausi6ed By all sweet throbs."
Minnesota weekly times., 1856-11-08

WoxEN IN CoSGREss.--Lucy Stone Blackwell, in
a recent speech, said that the election Of women
as we'll as men to Congress would improve tho
character Of that body. An exchange suspects
that the habit of "pairing- of" " wonld, in that
even be even uore common than it is now. ., ~,
Minnesota weekly times., 1856-11-08

E@ If every man labored for himself, and
for himself alone, there would not be much Of
the cry of 'laziness' in the world-such thing
would not be kuown, being contrary 10 the very
nature of man.
Minnesota weekly times., 1856-11-08

Six newspapers have been seized in Madrid BY
the Government. No wonder that Spain is bad
II governed. What an awful Gorgon Is that
press 70 tyrats! !-Charieston Is. C.) Mercury.
Hadn't " the Honorable gentleman from South
Csrolina" better look nearer home?
Minnesota weekly times., 1856-11-08

CRIMS N New YoRK.-During the last six
months, the police of New York city. have made
II arrests for murder, lS3 for passing counter
felt money, II for assault with intent to kill,
for arson, l53 burglary, l,4S2 assault and bat
sery, % forgery, o gambling, los bgamy.-
There were 1924 offences committed against
property; 1873 violations of Corporation Ordi-
nances s., 2,454 persons were accommodated with
lodgings at the several station houses.
Minnesota weekly times., 1856-11-08

D ca Dick told his wife, when be saw her out
walking in her spring silk dress, that he never
before realized the force of the novaist's remark
Of his heroine" that she swept gracefully
al --L.I .llll..
Minnesota weekly times., 1856-11-08

CO. Punch has pictorial representation of
"Life at an American HOTEL" probably suggest
ed By the murder of Keating by the Democrat,
Herbert. In the picture a guest is represented
as holding revolver to the head of his opposite
neighbor, with the iinperious demand, " Pass the
mustard"
Minnesota weekly times., 1856-11-08

CT A papor 10 British India publishes q let
ter from person at Karrachee, who says that
he is determined to export 100 900 salted rats to
China. -sel HeGf h6E ,i3gffe DooD 9 T. sseon
Minnesota weekly times., 1856-11-08

uV' A young woman has been bound over for
triel in New York, on tho charge of marrying
two husbands. She is only seventeen, and re-
specially connected. The case is the old roman.
tic one of love crossed by parental will. "Af-
Minnesota weekly times., 1856-11-08

ca Isn't there fun in the States just about
now? Let's breathe easier--the country is once
more saved! Work is suspended for this week
down East, and our brothers and cousins are lis
tening to every cannon, and watching every fash
of the telegraph with anxious solicitude, to see
who has beaten !! Don't we wish we were there
just for one half hour to watch the issue! This
morning our Nation has a new ruler--- probably.
If our Pathfinder is elected, the peaceful weapons
of Eternal Truth have achieved glorious tri-
umph over Fraud and Gutta Percha if he is
beaten, the IDEA still lives on, precious and as
strong as ever, and our heart shall offer its sen.
timent in cup of sparkling water, ss Here's to
you---Fremont -
Minnesota weekly times., 1856-11-08

CO Rhevagrant boys in New York have hit mp
on new dodge for raising the wind, viz, taking
horses left awhile in the street to the Pound, and
claimig the legal premium there for stray and un-
acknowledged steeds; numerous complaints have
been entered upon the subject. 'Eloiy % so
! CO Theodore Hook once said to an hospitabls
author, at whose table his publisher got very
drunk Why, you appear to have emptied your
wine cellar into your bookseller % ~
Minnesota weekly times., 1856-11-08

DoGs.-lt is hard to believe that two racet, 50
spliced together as the canine and human, do not
lap OVERHEARD to feel that some dogs are not
better worth saving, aud some men more 6 t to
rot in unhallowed ground and be forever fort,ot-
ten than some dogs. Creatures so intellig' mt,
and yet so patient of our negect-so sensitive,
and yet so forgiving of our roughness and our
ngratitude! So gentle when we do not seem to
love them, so overjoyed when we do So unc,,m-
planning even of hunger if we are not ready to
feed them-even Of storm and cold, when tur ned
out from the bright fire on the winters night, to
watch for US while we sleep warm in our be ds.
So ready to fight and die for Us and those of our
poorest belongings Surely for qualities like
these, though tney 60 upon four Inequalities
that would grace Christian or hero-there
should be some outer vestibule in religion. We
might even let child pray, it seems to me, that,
through the open door of heaven for the humble,
where he is taught that the beggar that takes
aims from his hand may sit above him, his faith
full dog may be permitted to look inn. p.
Willis. F lqar ~ e1 s.s 9rI ..r5 4
! SHALL FRIENDS MEET HKREAFrER 7-I have
asked that dreadful question Of the hills that
look eternal; of the flowing streams that lucid
flow forever Of the stars, amid whose fields of
azure my raised spirits hath walked in glory.
all, ali were dumb. But while gaze upon the
living face, / feel there's something in the love
that mantles through its beauty that cannot who'll
ly perish. We SHALL meet again, Clemanthe.-
TeLtourds Ion. ,@f.. s..:...,, ,.e'.., r9'..ss...
How fathers CAN GET RID OF THEIR DAUcH-
rERs.-Take a romantic young lady of about II
lock her up on bread and water for month IN
the n orth corner of the house, just to keep her
out Of the way Of that presuming young man
who wears moustsche, and is so lonesome with
out his g Marie" In less than week, the Mar
seiles quilts, torn " all to finders, will be found
some morning hanging down over the back stoop,
and in year the romantic young lady Will be
seen streaking it past that "cruel PARENTS"
house, with . live something in a willow wagon.
c. To do justice to mans merits, be should
be dead or unknown to you. We can never dis
cover any genius in our most intimate friends.
Men are hills the nearer YOU approach them
the less lofty and steep they appear. Probably
no one was more surprised to hear that George
Washington was elected president than the dirty
boy who used to shoot marbles with him. a, ~,
q. Six newspapers have been seized in Madrid BY
the Government. No wonder that Spain is bad
" governed. What an awful Gorgon Is that
press 70 tyrants !ACharieston Is. C.) Mercury.
Hadn't " the Honorable gentleman from South
Carolina" better look nearer home?
Minnesota weekly times., 1856-11-08

CI Yesterday was the severest and most bois-
ferrous of our Autumnal days. We half fear the
gentle, winsome maiden, November, has forgot
this hoidenish romping is specimen of her de.
cency She is a virago instead of virgin, if
this ranting and freezing are all she intends to
bring to our 6re-sides. Meanwhile, reader, let's
sit here and shiver. j..,.@ - ......t,JT o.. sf