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Minnesota weekly times., 1857-04-25

Fools NOT ALL DRAD.-A new feature is being
added to the other present-day crimes of murder,
plumber, rapine and arson, consisting of a recent
great trial of speed of two horses in New York
State. The bets were $25OO side, the horses
distance was from Albany to Whiteston, and was
accomplished in IL hours, the New York horse
arriving quarter of q mile ahead. The last
half mile was made in two minutes! This abuse
of horses is an outrageous cruelty, and should be
visited with penalty, severe in proportion to the
barbarity.
Minnesota weekly times., 1857-04-25

- New York city, with population of &c.
600, has church room for only 197, 900 persons,
leaving 432, 900 without any church accommoda.
tions, did they wish for them. Brooklyn, with q
population of 5000, has sittings for only II,
600, leaving $4,000 unprovided for; and thir-
teen OF the principal cities of this country with
an aggregate population of 2,048, ,7S5, have church
sittings only for So, ,436, leaving deficiency OF
l,296, lSs. The city of London, TOO, with pop
ulatlon OF 2.6SS, 900, has CHURCH room for only
800, 900, leaving 1,SsS,OOO persons without an
opportunity to join in public worship.-Es-
change.
This is not, in our opinion, half 20 much mat
ter Of regret as that Of all the seats in the Chris-
tian churches Of the United States, not more than
one-fourth are filed.
Minnesota weekly times., 1857-04-25

CoNsoLAToRY DOCTRINE As TO CoMETs.-M.
Babinet of the French Institute, in the course of
remarks which he has published concerning the
comet which is expected by astronomers in 1858,
which this comet has given rise, must protest
against the idea that comet possesses the pow
er of imparting perceptible mechanical shock.
can prove that the collision of swallow, intent
on suicide, and flying with full force against q
train of hundred carriages drawn by ten steam
engines, would be thousand times more danger
Gus for the train in question, than would be the
simultaneous shock of all the known comets
against the earth. What is comet? 1t is q vis-
ihle nothinpD
Minnesota weekly times., 1857-04-25

LOOK Our.-When stranger offers to sell you
an article for half its value, look out.
When a note becomes due at the bank, and you
to meet it, look out.
When young lady has ssturned the first cor
ner," and sees no connubial prospect ahead, it is
quite natural that she should look out.
When you find man doing more business than
you are, and you want to know the reason, look
at the advertisement he has in the newspapers,
and look ont.
Minnesota weekly times., 1857-04-25

CoLD ALL 'RouND.-The Natchez Courier Joins
with our other exchanges in assuring Us that this
Wintsr-spring is about the same every where. Il
says:
s'To cap the climax Of the freezing cold wealth
or of late, our citizens had presented to them,
ysssssoay SS0sning, .ne :ng@lar W appearance o. q
while the peach orchards are in blossom For an
hour OF more snow fell in abundance, but melted
- soon a. it touched the earth twas Q rare
spectacle for our climats.'s
Minnesota weekly times., 1857-04-25

The Republican party have won . gallant VIC
tory over the Rufaans at Toledo, O., electing the
whole Republican ticket and Eve of the, eight
councilmen. Last Fall, the vote stood Buchan-
an, 1880; Fremont 666. Now the vote stands,
Brownley, Republican, l,2l7 Dow, Democrat,
$50. The traitors are coming out
Minnesota weekly times., 1857-04-25
Another Nest Of Fillibusters.
New ORLEANS, March 80

New ORLEANS, March 80.
It is rumored that an expedition is fitting out
here for some point in Central America.
1t is supposed to be the intention to make the
first demontration on Veraqua, q Province of New
Granada, between Costa RIGA and Panama.
The expedition is said to be friendly to Gem
eral Walker, and that it is to act in concert with
him,
1t is also reported that the provisional Govern
ment has been formed, and that there are consid-
erable funds raised.
Minnesota weekly times., 1857-04-25

0~ Prof. Bacon, of Boston, recently stated in
lecture before the Medical College that the Sac
charum of the Sorghum, or Chinese Sugar Cane.
is not cane sugar, but what is we'll known as
grape sugar or glucose-the same kind of sweet
substance that is obtained by boiling starch in
diluted sulphuric acid; and that its sweeteninp
properties are not half equal to cane sugar. This
s an important fact, if his statement is correct.
It will soon be tested for considerable of the Sor-
ghum has been planted in this Territory this
Spring.
Minnesota weekly times., 1857-04-25

ca Some children in Ellicottsville, N. Y. re-
Gently found under an old bridge. shot bag con-
tanning $500 in gold pieces. The ownership Of
the bag is q mystery, and it has been deposited
for safe keeping, until its owner can be found.
Great place that Ellicottville, where they leave
bags Of gold "laying around loose" under the
bridges for playthings for children!
Minnesota weekly times., 1857-04-25

SETTLERS MEETING At WABAsHAw.-Handbil
have been issued, calling meeting of the set.
tiers on the reserve, at the American Hall in Wa
bashaw, on to-day at ten O'Clock A. Mn the
language of the call, sfor the purpose of taking
into consideration the present condition Of the
settlers on the Half Breed Tract, and to devise
the best means for their protection.' In case the
weather is stormy, the meeting will take place on
the ensuing Monday.-Lake City Tribune.
Minnesota weekly times., 1857-04-25
CO The Pittsburgh Dispatch relates the fol
lowing good story:

ga lawyer in . nsighboring county was once
called upon suddenly to attend wealthy farmer
after further medical attendance uas pronounced
useless. He proceeded to draw a will, ia accord.
ance with the dying mans directions, and both
supposed the business concluded, when the law
yer recollected fine tract of the farmers posses
sions which had not been provided for, and re.
marked, s'You have forgotten that hundred acres
in - township what disposition shall be made
Of that?'' sob! no." quickly replied the dying
man, "Fl keep that nysslf-theres coal IN Il %
Minnesota weekly times., 1857-04-25
MINNESOTA FRUIT AND ORNAMENTAL
TREES, SHRUBS, ROSES, DAHLIAs, PGNIAS, PHLoxRS
nmga Nd GnaA

T1EES, SHRUBS, ROSES, 0AHLiASs P0NIAS, PHLOXES,
Greenheuse Plants and Seeds.
VL7E hand the largest Trees
w and Plants offered above Dubuque including Ap-
pies, Pears. Pums Cherries Grapes, Curants
Rsspberes, Strawberries, Pie Plants, Asparagus &c.
In the ornamental line furnish choice Bvergeens,
Naples, Ems, Mountain Ash, Poplars Abeles, snowbas
Lacs, Almonds, Syringas Heneysuckes,
kncs Of Roses, 10 good varieties Phox 20 kinds Pnias,
Gladious, Lilies, and many other herbaceous plants.
Our new Greenhouse is we'll supplied with monthly Roses,
Geranums, Verbenas &c, Of and vigorous growth,
taken from cold sfer otd
last For blooming they are much better thsn old pians-
one to nve years 20 that ey are rally worth two Or
times as much :. those lust besides on about one
and other places East, viii endure our climate,
Orders may be sent through the Post Once, left ct our
establishment Halfway Saint Anthony
Road All kinds Fruit frees, Shrubs, Plants in Pots
ssther with Garden and Flower Sees win b kept at the A.
cultursl and Seed Store Of j. b Holmes, Esa., sd
who will also receive orders for he 0rovsland Garden and
Nursery. (mh97-2mwl L. II. BORD co.
Minnesota weekly times., 1857-04-25

FIELD AND GARDEN aEEDs,
KEW AND GENUINE. es
w md nan ss glad % sss osr srie6s snd a SSo arc
wanting eeeds for the Rarm Gssden Among Field
SiIiir. poilSD OARS SEA EIaIr Si AND Lar fo121oEs,
King PHILIP, RED BLAZE, AND OrH1R WHITES
win large assessment Of Seeds for Root crops.
For the Kitchen Garden WIN be found fun and complete
ties and sssc.sd Vi. great and many 4 much
Several new varieties Of Seeds van be found among Inn
CHINEsE SUGAR CANE-PURB SEED.
% have obtained supply q the go the
most theroasy endorsed 6y the Iesdins and
Agricultural Societies, and Agricultural Papers the Union.
be sd which found a valuable a. corn, in
oSr e the forage making II much more
yield from 400 . 500 yrup equal 70 the best
excellent fodder. sown broadcast o. Il Close a on land
sey o r
The seed excellent tor human food and when ground
The seed which has been very carefully Esps pur. from tn.
original importation, will be offered cloth packages each
with fun direction cuvaton which is perfecsy sim,
ple These PACKAGES will be forwarded NAIL rREE OF
When By mail, viii furnish proportionse qusn.
ty. Early orders solicited, supply seed quite
OUR MPLENENT DEPARTMENT viii be found complete
stocked With tool: and machines and
70 Dealers supplied liberal discounts.
Fun oas'sus' gratis GssRr sn IsieDs 81 & postage stamp
mhls-stw No. aol Lake Street, Chicago. III.
WHOLESALE BOOT AND SHOE STORE.
THE subscriber having srsck of Boots and
.nS o.Sc ss m ,da y
he Is now ss.y.s large aSdtons e his .rnsr sss
ss low sars sndon terms a. house in The
JAXEs DUNLOP, '''
mh12-2mw No. 60 Lake Street. Chicaro.
Minnesota weekly times., 1857-04-25

AN INGENIOUS YANKEE.-A good looking young
Yankee has appeared in Cienfuegos, Cuba, with q
banjo, and has set himself up az the Original
!" Young Snodgrass." Crowds 60 to see and hea,
him. He sings the history of the murder of DR..
Burdell, set to the air of Jordan, and brings all
in even the facetious Coroner Connery. He ID
rapidly making fortune.
Minnesota weekly times., 1857-04-25

A FAIR HIT.-The Buffalo Commercial has the
following in regard to the late marriage of Miss
Boxer, to her fathers coachman:
Mr.. John Dean, coachman in New York, has
driven his team over the family of Mr.. Boxer,
wine merchant who resides in the Fifth Avenue.
All the members of the family were injured, en-.
cept daughter of Mr.. Boxer, who was saved by
the presence of mind of Mr.. Dean. No blame i
attached to the driver!
Minnesota weekly times., 1857-04-25

ca In selecting Mr.. Toucey for the Depart
ment of the Navy, Mr.. Buchanan has shown his
Judgment and discrimination of charactsr.-Nev
Hampshire Patriot.
or Especially in consideration of the fact
that Mr.. Toucey doesn't know larbodrd from star
bOord..-Boston atlas.
Minnesota weekly times., 1857-04-25

ca The following oath is said to have been
administered in the Iowa Legislature:
You do solemnly swear to support the Consti-
tuition of the United States and of this state and
to fold papers to the best Of your ability.
Minnesota weekly times., 1857-04-25

RzxEnsIR Tms.-During the Spring, team,
and cows should have dose Of Welps German
Condition Powdae at least twice . week. The
former will then do more vork, stand heat bst-
ter and wall always have good appetite. The
latter will yield larger quantity and better asl-
ity Of milk. See adv.
Minnesota weekly times., 1857-04-25

@The people of Warren, Mass, at meet
ing held on the I'd instant, passed resolution
in favor of state convention at Worcester at
an early day, ''to devise means to secure prompt,
Efficient, organized, united and continued action
in the crisis resulting from the Dred Scott case
and the state of affairs in Kansas.''
Minnesota weekly times., 1857-04-25

GVWe are apt to think Yankee drollery suffi-
ciently extravagant, and western humor still more
hyperbolical. But an old Greek epigrammatist
beats the Americans all hollow. He describes
man whose nose was so long, that he was unable
to hear himself sneeze!
Minnesota weekly times., 1857-04-25

O. Gen. jackson, it is stated, bequeathed a
a gold snuff box to I" the most valiant patriot of
the State of New York" The most valiant pa
triot has not yet received and for two reasons:-
First, the New Yorkers cannot find out who he is,
and secondly, they cannot find the snuff.box.
Minnesota weekly times., 1857-04-25

"a The empress Eugene Of France, rides be-
hind horse that, few months ago, drew daily
loads OF red and black republicans in an omni-
bus between Boston and Charlestovn.
Minnesota weekly times., 1857-04-25

The N. Y. ExPREss.-A libel suit, in which the
damages are laid at $2O, 900, has been brought
against the New York Express. If verdicts were
recovered on all the libels of which the Express
has been guilty within year, the concern would
not pay five cents on the dollar.
Minnesota weekly times., 1857-04-25

Ben Perley Poore has been invited to q
permanent place on the Washington Union, but
has declined. =
Minnesota weekly times., 1857-04-25
k& ThA nA0nla of Warren Mao ek . ma

H The State Of Maine can now boast of own
ing heet Of merchant vessels valued at fifty
millions, and efsster than the commercial marine
Of any kuop6an power, Great Briteip alone ex-
copied.
Minnesota weekly times., 1857-04-25

o. Two negroes were struck by lightning,
near Hamburg, Ga, few weeks ago, and one OF
them "totally consumed" Loss from $500 to
81 900; no insurance.
Minnesota weekly times., 1857-04-25

ca s'Envy's memory" says John Foster, ssis
nothing but row of hooks to hang up grudges
on" Some peoples sensibilities are mere bum
die OF aversions, constantly employed in counting
the things and persons they cannot bear.
Minnesota weekly times., 1857-04-25

Washington Irving, who is now in his sew.
entyffth year, recently received an invitation to
be present at the Grafton delivered by Edward
Everett in Albany. He returned an answer re-
GREETING his inability to attend, on account of his
being so busily occupied in getting the last vol
ume of his work on Washington through the press,
and his being necessarily subject to the printers
call. A lesson for Young America.
Minnesota weekly times., 1857-04-25

GV The New York Mirror says that some Of
the stage proprietors of that city have adopted
the classic motto from Caesar, "Jam forte in om-
nibua.,,
Minnesota weekly times., 1857-04-25

0YpNo less than ten bridges are already built,
projected or in progress of construction on the
Mississippi river at various points above St.
Louis.
Minnesota weekly times., 1857-04-25

@ A party of our street boys, yesterday, it
being the lst of April, called out to a WAGNER,
ssyour wheel is coming off %. "Go to HI 7"
said he. "Thank you" was the reply, sswhat do
you ask for the ride 20
Minnesota weekly times., 1857-04-25

"a Within the last six months, there have been
fearful forebodings of such a state Of things as
would render it the duty of the Southern people
to dissolve their connection with the North. But
the crisis has passed, the danger has been divert
ed, and we trust forever.
Minnesota weekly times., 1857-04-25

To MAKE BLACK REPuBL1cAN.-Get an hon.
est Democrat him Governor of Kansas
and garnish with Border Ruf6anism. He will be
done to turn in few months, and according to
Douglas be a traitor fit the halter of the ssBlue
Lodpeo
Minnesota weekly times., 1857-04-25

GY Mrs. Platt, of Lawrence Co., Ga, died q
short time since, at the extreme old age of ll6
years. She was mother when the Declaration
of Independence was signed.
Minnesota weekly times., 1857-04-25

a bevy Of the principal fashionable ladies
in Cincinnati appeared on promenade few days
since without hoops, and with robes descending
'sclassically straight"
Minnesota weekly times., 1857-04-25

o. The emigration to Kansas is unparalleled;
so great as to oblige the running of extra rail.
road trains.
Minnesota weekly times., 1857-04-25

ca A volcano in the United States is some-
thing new, yet we have reliable intelligence of
such phenomena. An aperture has been form
ed in the emountains, within three miles of Circle
vile, Virginia, from which black smoke is rising,
and large stones have been thrown to great
height.
Minnesota weekly times., 1857-04-25

O. chap has just written from Illinois, to
his father in Connecticut: "Uome out here dad
mighty mean men get Offices in the West.'
Minnesota weekly times., 1857-04-25

IINIsHED Brass works, such as Globes eas and wstse
II Cocks, Steam Whistles, Msslssnra an6 sthss 0sa0D
coe1u, Water Cages, &e., fuEulshe1 e TIE
wxS111M NoyudY WORKS,
J0av1nenWbs
Minnesota weekly times., 1857-04-25

"a David Bruce, the we'll known type and
stereotype founder of New York, died in that
city few days since, in the seth year of his age.
Minnesota weekly times., 1857-04-25

10 The National Hotel at Washington was
closed ON Saturday last. It has been entirely
deserted by the travelling public and resident
guasta .A
Minnesota weekly times., 1857-04-25

"a Since the Dred Scott decision, it is getting
to be the opinion that sshe freedom of the Ameri-
can people" which we hear so much about, means
the freedom to hold slaves! ~
Minnesota weekly times., 1857-04-25

q The New York Sunday Atlas says that
large number 9f ladies in that city have adopted
the practice Of carrying pistols in their bosoms or
mufs, 70 protect themselves against gaEroters and
pickpockets.
Minnesota weekly times., 1857-04-25

~Ex-President Pierce will settle down on q
farm in the interior of his native State, New
Hampshire, where, for the rest of his life, he will
devote himself to the raising of horses and stock
cattle. Three of his horses left Baltimore last
week, in the Boston steamer on their way to New
Hampshire,
Minnesota weekly times., 1857-04-25

O. Rev. John Howard, the esteemed Pastor
of the Presbyterian Church at Woodstock, Va,
committed suicide last week, BY hanging himself
with pocket handkerchief. He had for q long
time exhibited symptoms of mental alteration.
Minnesota weekly times., 1857-04-25

How A FORTUNE WAS MADE BY LAZINESs.-Lazi-
ness has ever been set down as vice unfavora-
BILE to thrift and the acquisition of wealth. Like
all general rules, however, it has its EXCEPTIONS
one of which we recently heard of, in which lazi-
less positively made the fortune of q man. A few
wears ago our hero, who was about the LATEST
man in TIE country, became possessed of some
property in Chicago. Too indolent to take care
of it. he gave directions to have it sold, and did
actually dispose of it at various times, but was
too lazy to make out the deeds. Meantime the
property increased enormously in value, and the
delays caused by this mans laziness, placed him
at the end of few years in possession of an es-
tate worth some 5000, 700, for which at first he
would gladly have accepted $40. 600. This state
ment, if not credited here, will be readily ac-
knowledged in Chicago, where both the hero and
the fact are well known.-Cincinnati Enquirer.
WE LIVE IN SUSPICIOUS TlMEs.-Clerks have
lately been playing fast and loose to such an
enormous extent with their employers money,
that it is extremely difficult to know whom to
trust. We shall hear of the clerk of the weather
having embezzled something next. He will be
taken up probably for having been in the habit of
skimming the milky way and appropriating for
years the cream to his own use or else he will
be convicted of transferring some of the brightest
stars from the armament and stitching them all
over his person, in order to be "a blaze of swell
as Es.erhazy was at Moscow. If We were Saturn,
we certainly should count our rings every night
to see that none of them were missing london
Punch.
Minnesota weekly times., 1857-04-25

WArAB.-David Gilman gives notice in the
Sauk Rapids Frontierman, that proceedings have
been made for the recovery of the title to the
property in thatvillage, which was fraudulently
obtained by Parker II. French (the Nicaraguan
llibuster) and r. L. Metcalfe, and warns all per-
sons not to purchase of them or through them
st. Amthony Republican.
Minnesota weekly times., 1857-04-25

ca Ex-Secretary McClelland designs fixing
his permanent residence at Detroit, where be is
now sojourning.
Minnesota weekly times., 1857-04-25

q Why 10 sympathy like blind mans buf
because il i fellow feeling fog fellow creature.
Minnesota weekly times., 1857-04-25

Toledo, April7.
At the charter election yesterday, the entire
Peoples ticket was elected by about four hum
dred maiority
Minnesota weekly times., 1857-04-25

"a In eighteen counties in Wisconsin, Judge
Whitsn, the Republican candidate, had 5000 ma
iov;kv
Minnesota weekly times., 1857-04-25

An absent-minded woman recently wash.
cd the face of clock, then wound the baby up.
and set it forward fifteen minutes.
GY Religion is an insurance against fire in
the next world, for which honesty is the best
policy.
Minnesota weekly times., 1857-04-25

A MAXIM OF WAsuINaroN.-"Labor to keep
alive in your breast that little spark of celestial
fire, conscience" was one of a series of maxims
which Washington framed or copied for his own
use when boy. His rigid adherence to princi-
pie, his steadfast discharge of duty, his utter
abandonment of self, his unreserved devotion to
whatever interests were committed to his care,
attest the vigilance with which he obeyed that
maxim. He made it shine before men. He kin
died it into flame that illuminated his life. No
occasion was so momentous, no circumstance so
minute, as to absolve him from following its gui-
ding ray.
The explanation in his account book, in regard
to his wife's annual visits to the camp during the
Revolutionary War, with his passing alluslon to
the s'self denial which the exgencies of his coun.
try had cost him." furnishes charming illustra.
tion of bis habitual exactness. The fact that ev.
cry barrel Of -four which bore the brand of ssGeo
Washington, Mount Vernon" was exempted
from the otherwise uniform inspection in the
West India ports-that name being regarded a.
sufficient guarantee of the quality and quantity
of an article to which it was afixed-supplies
not less striking proof that his exactness was ev
erywhere understood.
Minnesota weekly times., 1857-04-25
Bayard Taylor in Norrland,

This persevering traveller writes to the Tribune
from Pitea, in CSC North Latitude, with the ther-
mometer indicating 400 below zero, which he
pretends to think is cold! He talks in this strain
''This is Arctic travel, at last. By Odin, it 10
gorious! The smooth, firm road, crisp and pure
as alabaster, over which our slegh-runners talk
with the rippling, musical murmur of summer
brooks; the sparkling, breathless armament the
gorgeous, rosy flush of morning, slowly deepen.
ing until the orange disc of the sun cuts the hori.
zon the golden blaze of the tops of the bronze
frs the glittering of the CLASSY birches the long
dreary sweep of the landscape the icy nectar of
the perfect air the tnglng of the reused blood
in every vein, all alert to guard the outposts of
life against the besieging cold-it is superb The
natives themselves spoke of the cold as being
unusually severe, and we congratulated ourselves
all the more on our easy endurance of it. Had we
Judged only by our own sensations, we should not
have believed the temperature to be near so low.
We made two Swedish miles by noon, and then
took breakfast of fried reindeer meat and pan
cakes, of which We ate enormously, to keep up a
good supply of fuel. Braisted and l consumed
about pound of butter between us. Shrek
not, young ladies, at our vulgar appetites-you
who sip spoonful of ice cream or triHe with
diminutive meringue, in company, but make
amends Oh cold ham and pickles in the pantry, af.
ter you 60 home-I shall tell the truth, though it
disgust you. This intense cold begets necessi-
ty for fat, and with the necessity comes the taste
"a wise provision of nature. have no doubt I
shall be able to relish train oil and tallow can
dies before we have done with Lapland.