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The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1857-07-18

WHAT THE MORMoNs HAVE DoNE.-The
fact that Utah Territory have been organized
nine years, and has an estimated population
of from 10000 to $4,000, and that in that
time not an acre of land has been bought
from Government, while in Minnesota, organ
lied at the same time, millions of dollars
have been paid into the Treasury by the set
tiers for the lands which comprise their lands
and homesteads, speaks volumes. Ciyiliza-
ton reigns in the one territory. and barbar-
ism reigns in the other. While the people of
Minnesota have entered their homesteads on
the public lands properly the Mormons have
ignored the U. S. surveys, and bought and
sold the soil. precisely as if they held the
same by original right of proprietorship.
Judge Douglas, in his speech upon the Nor
mons, at Springfield, illinois, states that nine
tenths of them are aliens, who have refused
to be naturalized. With such a population.
the result of events in such colony is natu-
raj enough. Z.
The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1857-07-18
LATER FROM EUROPE.
Arrival of the Steamship Arabia.
NEw YoRV .Julv

New YORK, July 8.
The steamship Arabia, from Liverpool, af-
ternoOn of June 9th, arrived this evening
at o'clock, bringing nearly 100 passengers
She passed on the 28th the steamer Ameri-
ca, from Boston.
In the British House of Commons the
Jews Oath bill had passed by a large ma
jority.
Queen Victoria, attended by brilliant
staff, had personally distributed the Victoria
Cross or Order of Valor, in Hyde Park. The
attendance was immense.
The French elections have all gone one
way, the opposition securing only about half
dozen members
Latest advices from India show that the
mutiny of the native troops had assumed a
very seriour shape. They had taken pos
session of Delhi and Havre, masSacreing the
Europeans.
The English Cabinet had conferred the title
of Prince COnsort upon Prince Albert there
by ma ing him legally a member of the roy
al family, but without giving him any addi-
tiOnal authority.
The reception of the name of Mr.. Dallas
at Oxford University for degree is said to
have been rnther equivocal, as if they doubt
ed the friendly disposition of President Bu-
chan and disliked what they construed into
approval of pro-slavery administration.
Accounts Of the grain and potato crops
continue to be highly encouraging.
FRANcE- The ministerial journals are
highly excited at the result of the elections.
New elections are ordered in cases where
an absolute majority for either candidate was
not obtained
Gen. Cavaignac stood in this predicament
in Paris, while in the provincial district in
which hewas candidate he was defeated by
a large majority.
The Bank OF France had reduced the rates
of commercial bills to 81 ter cent, but the
interest advances and relnnins at six.
The Times mentions rumor Of serious
plot connected with the recent election move
ment. Four Italians on whom papers and
firearms were found had been arrested.
Advices from Madrid state that the Span
ish and Mexican Ministers had long con-
ference without improving the state of the
affairs between the two countries is consid-
cred critical.
The English and French Ambassadors were
contriving to effect reconciliation.
The report that Gen. Concha had sent ves-
sells to the coast of Cuba, is fully confirmed
officially.
Lord Howden had sent to the Spanish
government another very strong note on the
Cuban Slave Trade
Later advccs state the Mexican Minister
positively intends to leave Madrid in the
course of week, if he was not previously
recognized in his official capacity.
A dis fatch from Triest announces another
victory of the Circassians over the Russians.
The latter lost one thousand men.
The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1857-07-18
Troops Massacred by the Indians
From Utah.
ST.. LOUIS. july Z

ST. LOUIS, July Z.
The st. Johns Journal of the I'd inst,
publishes the following report brought in by
q French trader:
One hundred troops and five hundred
teamsters, under command of Col. Sumner,
were lately attacked by large body of Che
yennes and Aripahoe Indians, two hundred
miles west of Fort Kearney, and were all
slain.
The report is confirmed by trader ar
irving from Pacific City, Iowa, and also by
an emigrant train which has just arrived from
Salt Lake.
The Salt Lake mail arrived at Indepen.
dence on the Both ult, and but few Indians
were seen on the route.
The emigrant trains were doing we'll.
The snow had all disappeared. Grass and
water were abundant.
The Mormons are anxious to know the
character of the reports made by the return
ed officials.
They were greatly surprised at the bill res
pecting pologamy which was before Congress.
They treat Surveyor Burr's report with con-
tempt, and accuse him of making false state
ments regarding the country and its inhabi-
tantS.
The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1857-07-18

WIDows.-Young widows are always blithe
They ever meet one with smile and flatter.
ing words. Can any one tell why !? Young
widows play very scrupulous attention to
dress None know SO we'll that colors, black
or otherwise, are best suited to their complex
ion. nor what freaks of millinery serve to
heighten the beauty Of their form. Their
knowledge OF this subject they will put in
practice, Does any know why? Young
widows, if at first pleasant, gay and agreea-
BILE, through afectedness, become really so
through habit 1t is said she who married a
second time is better wife to her second
than to her first husband. Who can give a
reason if we have not given it :? Young
widows are the most charming part of crea-
tion the envy of one sex, and the beloved
of the other and why
The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1857-07-18
Contributed to one of the English Annually
JEALOUSY.
By SIR r. BuLwER LYrrT0N

1have thy love-I know no fear
OF that divine possession;
Yet draw more close, and thou shalt hear
jealous hearts confession.
l nurse no pang lest fairer youth,
Of loftier hopes, should win thee;
There blows no wind to chill the truth,
Whose amaranth blooms within thee.
Unworthier thee if could grow,
The love that lured thee perish'd,)
Thy woman heart could ne'er forego
The earliest dream IL cherished.
do not think that doubt and love
Are one-whate'er they tell US;
Yet-nay-lift not thy looks above
A star can make me jealous.
If thou art mine, all mine at least,
l cOvet so the treasure,
No glance that thou canst elsewhere cast,
But robs me of pleasure.
am so much miser grown,
That could wish to hide thee,
Where never breath but mine alone
Could drink delight beside thee.
Then say not, with that soothing air,
have no rival by thee;
The sunbeam lingering in thy hair
The breeze that trembles by thee
The very herb beneath thy feet
The rose whose odors WOO thee
In all things, rivals lie must meet,
Who would be all things to thee.
If sunlight from the dial be
But for one moment bansh'd,
Turn to the silenced plate and see
The hours themselves are vanish'd
In aught that from me lures thine ewes.
My jealousy has trial;
The lightest cloud across the skies
Has darkness for the dial.
The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1857-07-18

PASSING by one of the corner groceries in
San Francisco, about three o'clock, one
morning, from which proceeded sound of
revelry, hapless stranger. on his homeward
way, paused to obtain little refreshment,
and said to the host
"It appears to me that your visitors are
rather late tonight"
30 dear, no. replied the host, ''the San
Diego boys generally run for forty-eight
hours at stretch. It's a little late for
night before last, p'r'haps, but for tonight,
why, bless you, it's only just in the shank Of
the evening as yet ~ .af1
The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1857-07-18
important to Financial Government
Agents.
WASHINGTON. july 3.

To obviate the endorsements and incon.
ven'enccs under the treasury law and supple
mentary act Of March last, the Secretary of
the Treasury has issued circulars to the de-
posltories and disbursers of public moneys.
making practical the provision that disbur.
sing officers shall draw for the amount de-
posted only in favor of the person to whom
payment is to be made, in pursuance of law
and instructions, except when payments are
to be made in sums nnder twenty dollars.
>. The department discountenances the use of
dlsbursing officers checks as a means of re-
mlttance from one section of country to
another, and instructs in all cases were dis
burslng officers shall receive money for the
Ireasurer's draft, remitted upon specific es-
Inmates for immediate expenditure, they will
at once disburse the money for the purpo-
ses and objects estimated without the defay
and Inconvenience of placing it in a public
depository, unless it be near at hand, in which
case such deposit may be made.
The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1857-07-18
Mete0ric PhenOmOn.
Correspondence Of tine New York Tribune.
CARBoNDALE Wayne Co., Pa, !
June 20. 1857.

A strange and startling phenomenon took
place near this city at sunset last evening. A
large cloud was seen making its appearance,
coming directly from the northwest, accompa.
MED by considerable wind. When near this
place dark looking cloud, or substance, was
seen to leave the cloud and make diagonally
for the earth. Sosoon as it struck the ground,
contrary to all expectation, it became highly
luminous. Making directly for large barn
that stood in the field, it passed through its
centre, setting it on fire, and continued its
course, gaining in velocity as far as the eye
could reach making straight course for the
woods, melting stones of considerable size
and burning up brush and underwood, ma
king complete road of rod or more in
width, for the distance of three miles, and
finally fetching up against a perpendicular
breast OF solid anthracite coal of 60 feet in
thickness, proving rather too much for its
leaving nothing but sulphurous
mass behind.
Yours PJOHNsoN.
The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1857-07-18

HERE is little article we think some of
framing to hang conspicuously over the edi-
tors table:
"The public have funny notion about
printers. They think it costs nothing to
puff; advertise. &c. And one and another
will spunge an extra, q puff, or some benevo-
lent advertisement. They forget that it is
printers ink that makes niue-tenths of their
immense fortunes They forget that it takes
money to pay compositors-to buy ink, type
and paper-and lastly they even forget to
thank you for working for nothing, by gratu-
itously putting their business as
The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1857-07-18

THERE is rich man in the liberal and
openhearted community of Boston, the Led
ger tells us. who can boast of being the mosl
splendid specimen of meanness yet known.
He employs little hoy as house servant, who
accidentally broke side door-light while
washing it. The light was of common win
dow glass, but the liberal, high minded, and
would-be-aristocrat ordered glazier to put
in plate glass, and made the poor boy pay
for it! The cost of the glass was equal to a
week and half's wages, and the glass orig
inally broke, cost just one quarter that of the
new one. How many souls of that size
could dance on the point of cambric needle?
The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1857-07-18

ALEXANDER DuMAs's version of Hamlet has
been performed in Paris and well received
The elaboration system in play writing has
given rise to several actions at law young
and unknown authors having complained that
old and popular ones, to whom they had sub.
mitted MS. plays, had unscrupulously pill
laged the main ideas of their pieces, in some
cases their very incident and language, and
had worked them into plays, for which they
reserved to themselves all the honor and
profit.
The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1857-07-18
(rrom the Louisville Journal }
MY FATHER.
L. MEAiNRIAM 1881.
-, Orchao ill., u,l.nows

My Father a! Orphan lips unknown
TO loves sweet uses sob the word
My father dim with anguish, heard
In Heaven between a storm of moan
And the white calm that faith hath fixed
For solace, far beyond the world,
Where, all our starry dreams unfurled,
We drink the wins of peace unmixed.
Mine folded in the awful trust
That draws the worlds face down in awe,
Holding her breath, as If she saw
Gods secret written in the dust
My father! Oh, the dreary years
The dreary winds have walled across
Since his path, from the hills Of loss,
Wound, shining, DER the golden spheres.
What time the Angel at our door
Said soft, between our orphan-moan-
Arise. oh, soul! the night is done
And the day hath bloomed forevermore!
l locked my icy hand across
My sobbing heart and sadly cried
| lose thee in the glorifed-
The world is darkened with my loss!
Oh, Angel cried Wrath complete!
With awful brows and eyes intense!
lsor faiths white robe of reverence
Sid noiseless to my sorrows feeD
Oh, Angel, help mt out of strife.
1 could have borne all mortal pain
L could have lived my life in vain
But this hath touched my inner life
And eighteen hundred fifty seven
Hath filed decade Of slow years
Since first my orphan cries and tears
Broke wild across the walls of Heaven.
This eve his grave is winter-white.
And 'twiNt the snow-wind'S stormy thrills
hear across the NortherR hills
The solemn footsteps of the night!
Blow wind Oh, wind. blow wild and high!
Blow Ger the dismal space of woods
Blow down the roaring Northern floods
And let the dreary day 60 by!
Blow, wind, from out the shining West,
And wrap the hazy world in glow
Blow wind and drift about my snow
The summer of his endless rest.
For he has fallen fast asleep
And cannot give me moan for moan
My heart is heavy as stone
And there is no one left to weep!
My soul is heavy and doth lie
Reaching up from my wretchedness-
Reaching up blindly for redress
The stern gray walls of eternity!
Once in the golden spring time hours,
In the sweet garden of my youth,
There fell a seed of bitter truth
That sprang and shadowed all the flowers
Alone! The roses died apace
And pale the mournful violet blew
Only the royal lilly grew
And glorified the lonesome place!
In me the growth of human ills
Than human love had reached no higher,
But Seraphim with lips of fire,
Have won me to the shining hills
/ cannot hide my soul in art
cannot mend my lifes defect
This thunderous space of intellect
God gave me for a peaceful heart
Hush oh, my mournful heart, be still,
The heavy night is coming on,
But heavier lie the shadows drawn
About his grave so low and chilli
From out the awful sphere Of God,
Oh, deathly wind, blow soft and low!
My soul is weary and would go
Where never foot of mortal trod!
EMMA ALICE BROWNE
PEMBROKE FARM, PLEASANT GROVE, PA.
The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1857-07-18

SSEDLEY," said Charles IL, "look me out
a man who can't be corrupted-I have sent
three Treasurers to the North, and they have
all returned thievesn
"Well, your Majesty, I will recommend
Mivert." ~ ~ - 8
. sMivert you dog" said the King, awhy
Mivert is thief already" as. 4s5
Therefore, he cannot be corrupted, your
The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1857-07-18

Since last evening letter has been re-
ceived by the committee of arrangements
from Ex-President Fillmore, explaining the
reason for his absence, that he is suffering
from an inflammation in the eyes, EXPIRES.
idents Van Buren and Pierce and Hon. WI
II. Seward send their acceptance of the invi-
tation, and will be here tonight. The stu
dents of Union College, Schenectady, and the
Mayor and Common Council, and military of
Troy, has also signifed their intention of he
ing present. Gen. Cooper has issued an o.
der to the regiment of the Sd brigade to
attend the funeral fully equipped, by request
of General Wool, who was in the cito to-day.
The Burgess Corps will attend as mourn
ers, and will flank the hearsc with aims.
The flags of the shipping and all public build
ings are and will remain at halfmast Many
of the stores and buildings in the city are
draped in mourning. A committee of the
Common Council, with detachment of the
Burgess Corps, left this city at liz this
morning to escort the remains down. They
lett the corpse at Schenectady, and accom-
panied by delegation of citizens from BOs-
ton reached here this p. NJ.
The remains were met by the Burgess
Corps and large number of citizens, and a
procession was formed which marched to the
capitol. The streets were crowded with
spectators The corpse, on arriving at the
CAPITOL was placed in the assembly cham
bers, which presents very imposing appear
ance.
The columns, gallery and speakers desk
being draped in black. The coffin which
contains the remains of the illustrious de-
ceased, is metallic one, and is enclosed in a
wooden shell covered with black cloth. The
coffin is placed on a stand in a vacant place
before the speakers desk. A stock of arms
is placed on the side of the coffin, and the
silence of the large chamber is unbroken ex-
cept by the tread of the sentry, who guards
the remains. The heavily draped mourning
chamber will be opened for visitors from Z
too ii tomorrow, but at Mrs. Marcy's re-
quest, the coffin will not be opened.
The Burgess Corps is divided into four
companies for the purpose of guarding the
remains. The first company is under COM
mand of Sergeant Taylor, and will be on duty
from IL to 6 p. NJ. The second company is
under charge of Lieut.. McHenry, and will be
on duty from G p. M. till II NJ. The third
company is in charge of Lieut.. Culey, and
will be on duty from IL NJ. till A. NJ, and
the fourth company in charge of Gen. Meni-
pie, will be on duty from A. NJ. till noon
And the stores and public buildings will
be closed at noon tomorrow until P. NJ.
The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1857-07-18

,. MORE BREssLINIsMs.- Treasury defalca-
IONS are in vogue in Ohio. One of five
thousand dollars is reported in Sandusky
county, and the last State Journal mentions
a rumor that the Treasurer of Daleware
county is defaulter to the amount of twenty
thousand dollars, oI sIL.N ID ~.
The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1857-07-18

An independent man is described by Pitt
as "one who cannot be depended upon.'-
Guess Pitt knew, and, as stern politician,
none knew better.
The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1857-07-18

A Quaker once hearing person tell how
much he felt for another, who was suffering
and needed his assistance, dryly asked him
'Friend, hast thou felt in thy pocket for
him Z" =
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1857-01-01
SOMETHING NEW--CLOTHEs SAVED.

SOMETHING GNEW-CLUTHES SAVED.
- Tho subscriber having determined to open
attention Of families Hotel keepers and the public
generally, to the many advantages he cfers in Wash
ing and Ironing. lat. He intends using bis patent
scarcely at all 2ndly. He proposes to do washing
for families pi ice that viii enable them TO do
with fewer servants, thereby saving expense and
any appointed day, and returned neatly washed and
iron ed in few hours notice. His Laundry fs at his
rexiden noe on Marshall street, three squares above
Brook Avenue, where Clothes can be deisd without
being sosd BY the dust of the city He expects to be
in full operation By the lat Of January next For
further information please call at his shop, on Sth
street between Grace and franklin whore the wash
ing Machines are manufactured.
deN-1mA VIM. H. WOODWAhD.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1857-01-01

PREACHING IN A TRgATRE.-Rev Isaac Lord
of Ipswich, England, has been preaching to i'm
nense crowds on Sunday afternoons in the theatre
in that place. He does aot seem TO fear contami.
nation from the bricks End mortar When Thai
berg gave his concert 10 she school children in this
city week or tw % ago, one section refused to go
because the directors thought it was very immoral
to visit the theatre Phsla Ledger
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1857-01-01

REV. DR.. LIVINGSTON, the celebrated African
traveller, has returned TO England, after seven
teen years absence He crossed the great African
continent almost in the centre, from west to east.
has been where no civilized being had ever been
before, and has made many notable discoveries of
great value. He had great difficulty in speaking
sentence of English, having disused it SO long
while travelling in Africa. He had with him a
native from the interior of Africa. This man.
when he got to the Mauritius, was 30 excited with
the steamers lrious wonders of civilization
that be weD and jumped into the sea and
was DROWN
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1857-01-01
LIQUORS FOR WINS
II non & POWERS have in store a large an,

LIQUORS FOR CHRIsTMAs...WINs
IL TON POWERS have in store large and
general assortment of Wines and Liquors, among
which will be found:
puncheons of superior Old Jamaica and Anti.
gus Rum, suitable for Egs.nog
IA half pipes Henysee, London Dock, and Otard,
Dupuy Co 3 Brandes, vintsges OF i84o, 1874,
1343 and 1850
pipes superior Hollard Gin
Is bnls. very old Whiakeys, Pure Rye and ether
fine Whiaksys
1913 do. medium Whiskeys
$50 do. Cincinnati, Pennsylvania, and other
choice Rectifed Whiskeys
81 and t pipes medium French Brandy, pale
and dark
q and pipes Port, Sherry and Madeira
Wines some suitable for cooking purposes,
and portion very choice.
ALSO-Among our collection will be found
riety OF choice Bransies, Wines, Schiedam Gin, Ram
and scotch Whskeys, &c, &c, bsttisd mp and pack
ed in casss suitable for family and Apothecarys use.
among which will be found
London Dock Cognac Brandy. Otard, Dupsy 4
Co'svintage l840; Stalkers Amoutiado Pale sherry,
very delicate, vintage Is43 sandemsss London Mar
kee Port, warranted genuine, vintage 134o; lslsy
Scotch Malt Mountain Whiskey, very pure, viutsse
1912; Out Jugs Old Schedam Gin, pine apple fla
yor vintage l842; Jamaica Rum, prime for Egg-nog,
vintage i842. All of which call attention OF deal
and customers. de 8 lin
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1857-01-01

How TO DETECT PuoToGRArHIC BANK BILLS
The method of detecting photogra ph Is to
touch it with solu tion composed OF icya adide po
tsssium in an ounce OF pure water. This solution
Il poison II will remove the Photographic i'm
preston almost instaataueously, bus i: will not
touch the carbon Ink Of the bank note plate pr. Mt
er. 1t can he put up by any aposhecary for eieh~
fepu
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1857-01-01

AMERICAN DIFFICULTY AT HONG KOSG.-The
third mate of the American ship Eagle Wing wa.
arrested st Hong Kong on the charge of producing
the death of Chinalnan. The American went TO
the store of the Cbiaaman and purchased a shirt,
saying that he would call the rext day and pay for
1t The Chnaman followed him and demanded
Immediate payment whereupon q fraeas ensued
and the American struck the ChinAman several
blows in the face. ard he fell dead The coroner's
jury summoned to hold inquest upon the body
of the Chnaman found verdict of wilful murder.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1857-01-01

AN ENGLISH INyENTIoE.-The Lon don papers
describe, Us new invention, a steamboat that has
been bdilt on the Clyde, tie hull Of which resem-
ble5 an ordinary steamer cut down the middle lon
gtudnaAy, wlA single powerful paddle wheel
between. The little steamboat "John Smith that
has been plying every summer between Philadel-
pha and The Island tor not less than fifteen years
is buitt on a similar plan Larger boats we're also
constructed on this plan many years sinca, for the
Hudaon river, bat they failed to realise the expec~
tations rs to speed, and the invention was absn-
dCued