Minnesota weekly times., 1857-04-11

The YANKEE NOtlou, Il COMIC mOntuIys ID it1
M.rch number, hits of the departing Pierce as
we'll as anything we have seen. A broad-brOw
ed, scow ling, Minerva-looking woman, draped
from head to heels in the American flag and crown
ed with jaunty Cap, glowers 6ercely upon an
old. looking, curly-headed boy, with the yeritabe
features of Pierce, whom she tweaks by the ear,
as he skurries with prudent haste for the nearest
door. The poor boy is drawing o sleeve-cuf
across his nose, and with little satchel, evident
ly containing all his worldly goods, looks the very
personE .ation of weazen- faced missry not know
in which way to turn. But the banner-cad wo-
man does not seem after all so unmindfu Of the
comfort of her late charge, for she has prepared
bird, her carrier dove, the American eagle, to
convey Lin to his former home. With aiacrity
the pro I'D bird Of the mountain stoops from his
cloudy home, seizes the poor wight, alas in the
most careless manner by the back part of his pan
falcons, and scaling the heights and soaring far
above the dwellings of men, lands him among the
highest, coldest peaks OF the White Mountains
in the recrcant Black Republican State of New
Hampshire. The Joyan bird in his haste does
not even let 60 his hold, but out and bears
away ip his beak that portion of his unmension-
ables by which he had sustained his burden
through his weary fight. For the illustration en-
tire please see any of the shop-windows where
they faciIis descensus figures largely among the
numerous views of DR.. Harvey Burdell and Har-
that sort which aront the light of day, and set us
| asking all in breath, 'What is the world accom-
| ing to?' And this is the refluent surge of that
immense wave of popular favor which bore Mr..
Pierce to the chair executive with such roar =
Yes, indeed; it was scarcely one year in going
up to bear him to
'srouei the highest point Of all his greaness,''
and it has been three weary years whose history
| is blackened with murder, arson, outrage upon
individual and social rights, nationa, turmoil and
sectional hatred, rolling black, until the last tur
| bid drop has filtered away and left him standing
| high and dry. Were MIR. Pierce q strong, posi-.
| lively bsd man, we might quote to him the sen.
| tence which spans the coat of arms of Virginia
sic sen,1,er tyrdnnis-but he has been led for
ward in his policv by men who wished him HARM
| and sought to build themselves upon his ruin, We
should in charity wish him henceforth life of
peace and repentance, and for his political spi-
taph the simple words" Born in Concord, died
in Discord. Pittsburgh Gazette.
BUILDINGS AS BEAUTIFUL AS RUBIEs AND OTHER
Precious SroNEs.-Professor Hardinge of New
York, who claims after eighteen years expert
ment, to have have discovered process of melt
ing quartz, ect., remarks:
GAS an illustration of the architectural AID
ornamental uses to which my inventions may be
proftably turned. by using the liquid rock after
separating the gold, have said that intended.
at some suitable public locality, to erect a model
edi6ce, of moderate size, of materials the most
beautiful and endurable which imagination can
conceive-equalling in brilliancy any and all of
the precious stones except the diamond, and vet
at q cost of material not exceeding common
brick. The chief object of this structure vill be
to show at a glance the practicability of mould.
ing and colorng chsaply all the materials requn ed
tor architectural purposes Of utility and orna-
| ment, SO AS to produce edi6ces Of the most endu.
ring character, rivalhng the spendo- of oriental
romance, and yet at cost not exceed ng the lrice
of common brick.
"ihe floors will be of similar materials, color.
Ell in Mosaic, with oxides Of minerals. The style
of architecture vii, be unique: the ornamental
projections of the rarest marble, and many of
the precious ssones." slare.st fs-ss
END OF THE WORLD AT HAND.--Paris is yerv
much excited by an astronomical controversy at
which ali do not laugh! The two most eminent
astronomers, one Of France, the other of Germa-
ny, are arguing whether the world is to come to
an end on the thirteenth Of June next All the
scientific world, it appears, have long been unea-
sy at the approach OF the COMET to our earth; and
though it is conceded by the dsbelievers that the
contact must taSe place in June next, they argue
(or MouS. Babinet, the French astronomer, for
them,) that, a. comets are but atmospheric af-
fairs, it will not materially affect US. The Ger
man, on the contrary. says that it will not mere
ly be the passing of ga gentleman who smokes,'
but that it's centre is solid fire, and that the sur
face of the earth will bs turned into . sea Of
fiery lava, BY his formidable cigar! Ths nilien.
mum, of course, 10 to turn out fiction, and Mr..
Barnum will barely have time to get well of his
bilious fever. We beg new subscribers to the
Home Journal to keep sending p their 1.-Two dol
lar bills in advance, however -disntsrestedly re-
minding them that the less paper they have sbops