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The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1857-01-03

ANOTHER Fremont STATE 1t is said in
New York that Minnesota will take the init
atory steps for admission into the Union at
at this SESSION of Congress, through the Del
egate, Mr.. Rice. We prefer to know first
whether MIR. Rice can make any money
by keeping Minnesota out, before we shall
believe the eport.-Chicago Tribune.
The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1857-01-03

~ There is one city in the world, aside
from Boston, where smoking in the streets is
prohibited In Warsaw, street smoking has
for some time past been interdicted, and
fines instituted for an infraction of the regu-
lation.
The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1857-01-03

FROM SUpERIoR.-Messrs. Ely and Carry
arrived from the Superior country on Satur-
day last. Times were brisk and business
fiourishing up there when they left. Other
parties are on their way and may be expect
ed down during the week.
The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1857-01-03

e Gen. Tom Thumb sailed to-day in
the Persia for Europe. Mr.. PIT. Barnum
went out few weeks since as his business
manager. The General travels now exclu-
sively on his own account. He will remain
abroad probably about four years.-N. Y
Mirror, 10h.
The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1857-01-03

ERIE Cry BANK.-There appears to be
no authority for the rumor affecting the con-
dition of this bank. We have examined our
papers with a good deal of industry and can
find nothing in them rejecting unfavorably
on this institution.
The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1857-01-03

LEGIsLATIvE.-Hon. Francis Baasen.
member of the House from Brown county.
has arrived in anticipation of his legislative
duties, and is stopping for the present at
the American.
The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1857-01-03

* At what time of life'may man be
said to belong to the vegetable kingdom :?
When experience has made him sage or when
by his acts he proves himself green /? We
pause for reply.
The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1857-01-03

u Two young typos in Davenport
nave invented new and beautiful style of
door-plate, that can be furnished for from
80 TO- $5, and applied for a patent. '
The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1857-01-03

E@L The New York Evening Post IN
derstands that Mr.. Jacob Little proposes to
pay twenty-five per cent in cash, and seventy
live per cent on time, with interest, to ali his
contract creditors, provided all come in.
The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1857-01-03

E@ Lola Montez is coming to the
United States to superintend the education
of her adopted child-the offspring of Fol
land, her manager, who was drowned.
The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1857-01-03

A lady who resides near Lake Minneton-
ka having spent an evening from home re-
Gently, on attempting to return, lost her
way and was compelled to spend tile night
amid the cold blasts of winter. Her feet
were SO badly frozen that amputation, it is
thought will be necessary.
The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1857-01-03

~ Col. Benton is still DELIVERING his
"Union'' lectures in various parts of New
England.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1857-09-16
VALUABLE BOOKS.

DURTON'S Anatomy of Melancholy, a new
ID edition, corrected and enriched by TRANSACTIONS
numerous classical extracts, from the London edi-
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Life of Martin Luther, the German Reformer,
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Taylors Statistics of Coal, I'd edition, revised,
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Gregg's Commerce of the Prairies, 2 vols. limo
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Hahn's Hebrew Bible, 4th edition, improved,
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This work is pronounced, by Prof M'Clintoek
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Walkers Manly Exercises, containing Rowing,
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The works of Michael de Montaigne, eompri
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Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1857-09-16

SOAKED Corn FOR Horseshoe Of
the most successful and judicious farmers
in the vicinity of Baltimore, effects a sa-
wing of from one-third to one half of his
corn, by soaking it thoroughly before feed
ing. His method is this:-Two empty
vessels, hogsheads,or something similar, are
placed in his cellar, where there is no dan
ger from frost, and filed to the chime with
ears of corn. He then pours in water till
the receptacles are filled. When well soak
ed, the corn is fed to the horses, and when
the contents of one cask are consumed, it
is again filed, and the animals fed from the
other. Even cobs, soaked in a similar
manner, but in pickle instead Of pure wa
ter, are eagerly devoured by cows, especial
iy if the usual allowance of salt is withheld.
The corn cob contains a large quantity of
nutriment, and is by far too valuable to be
thrown away. Il. +.
Chester, Kent CO., Nd, Jan. 2, 1857.
REMARKs.-This has become a general
practice among judicious farmers, who feed
their horses upon corn. Our estimable
friend, David Landreth, Esq, who keeps {
number of fine horses upon his great seeC
farm, near the town of Bristol, on the Del
aware, always feeds them upon soaked corn
and has done so for sveral years. He con
siders it a decided advantage.-Germa
Telegraph.
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North Carolina Book & Stationary
STORE,
WHOLESALE AND RETAIL.

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rounding country, that he has the largest and best
stock Of Books and Stationary ever offered for sale
in the city of Raleigh.
Believing that the wants and taste of every COM
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found IN the large Northern cities, where a full
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the subscriber has been induced, during a recent
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Booksellers in adjacent towns and country Mer
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By special arrangements with the ~principa
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cover the bed three inches deep with sta
BILE manure to be forked in the spring with
another dressing of salt. Let the stalks
grow the first and second year without cut
ting, that the roots may get well establish
ed: the third year the asparagus will be
fit to cut, and will with similar treatment
each fall and spring-with perhaps a slight
addition of earth to prevent the roots from
coming too near the surface-continue t
yield well for many years.
Remember, room, q rich, warm soil
moist, but well drained, and salt enough t
prevent the growth of weeds, are peculiar
ly beneficial to the asparagus plant. Wit
these, and good care, n cannot fail to
have that inmate of all good gardens, a
asparagus bed.-Rural NeW Yorker.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1857-09-16

BREAD MAKINa.-Making bread too
white may sound like an old phrase to the
reader, yet we see by a late foreign letter
that. Messrs. Monnez & Chearcui, two
French chemists, who have superintended
tie provision of bread for the hospitals, and
subjected all kinds to experiments, have
submitted to the Academy of Sciences at
Paris a memoir, in which they condemn
the practice, remarking that when too white
it is a condiment and not an aliment. The
exclusion of bran is a loss of nourishmeni
to the consumer.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1857-09-16
AGRIC I'LL L.
The Asparagus Bed.

How shall l get an asparagus bed p asks
one Of our subscribers. We will try and
give the information desired.
To begin with the beginning-the seed
may be sown in autumn or early in the
spring, in a good loamy soil. Select good
and ripe berries, put them in water, and
when slightly fermented, the seed can east
ly be washed from the pulp and dried
One ounce viii grow a thousand plants
Sow in drills an inch deep, about one foot
apart, and cover with fine soil, pressed
down lightly. Keep the weeds ont, stir
the soil often, and thin the plants to six
inches apart in the drills. At one year old
select the best and thriftiest plants to form
your bed.
The asparagus bed should be open to the
morning sun. And it is better if protected
from the north and east, yet open to light
and air. 1t should be very rich, and on
this, more than anything else, depends the
amount and value of the product. Dig up
a loamy, porous soil two feet deep, inter-
mixing largely and thoroughly with ma.
nure to within six inches Of the top; thif
should be filed with garden loam. Then
take the young plants from the seed bed
iDjuring their roots as little as possible, anG
carefully set out in rows two feet apart, one
foot apart in the row. Then cover the be-
two inches deep with dark colored soil
made as by mixture of charcoal dust O
muck, and sprinkle salt until the surface j
white again. This will keep down tn
weeds and promote the growth of the aspa
rsgus, which, it should be remembered
originated on the sea shore.
In autumn remove the dead stalks an,
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o TO BUT PIANOS.

Z n purchasing so costly an article as a PIANO
Il every one wishes to be sure of getting the hest
and cheapest; and as there are degrees in quality
good, BETTER, E and all makers are not equal
ly desirable, we suggest that the wisest and safest
plan would be to take them on trial, from houses
of established reputation and responsibility, whose
character would be sufficient guarantee against
imposition. We have been selling PIANOS for
more than twenty years, our instruments have
been spread almost broad cast over the country,
and no one can say that we ever sold a bad one.
I. P. NASH, Petersburg, Va.
August 9Th, 1857. 5O-S2.-tf.
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THE STAR CLOUDY A.. S. Roe, Author Of
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Gray's First Lessons in Botany.
Also a New Edition of Gray's Manual of Bota.
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The Bible in the Workshop-by Rev. John W.
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Also the Religion of Geology by DR.. Hitchcock.
Books recently published worth Reading.-Lit-
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Art Scenery in Europe, and other Papers, by
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Violet or the Cross and the Grown, by Miss
IL Mcintosh.
Chesterfeld's Letters to his Son, New Edition
IN John Halifax, Gentleman.
North Carolina Geological Survey, by Profess1
m Emmons, being the Report of the Geological Sur
Id vey of the Midland counties.
n Price So. Postage when sent by mail 81 cents.
of For sale by W L. P0MEROY.
ee Raleigh, April z, 1857. 80
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1857-09-16
School Advertisements.
HILLSVILLE
CARRnIA Gn11Nry VA

THE fourteenth session of this Institution will
commence the first Monday in August, and close
the third Friday in December.
Board can be had in town at six dollars per
month, in good families. Hillsyille is a small
village near the top of the Blue Ridge, command.
ing a view of the most picturesque, romantic and
sublime scenery. 1t is well supplied with whole
some water and pure air from the surrounding
mountains. It is renowned for health. It affords
as good society as our smaller towns generally.
1t is situated on the main thoroghfare from Tenn.
to N. G. over which passes a daily line of stages
It is within a few hours travel of the Va. & Tenn.
Railroad.
The last scholastic year numbered one hundred
and ffty-three students. An annual Catalogue il
issued, which will be sent to any person, at any
time, desiring further information about the schoo
B. T. THOMPSON, Pres't.
Assisted by a full corps of efficient Instructors
Hillsville. Va, July 1, 1857. 45-5mpd.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1857-09-16
500 Agents Wanted
A HOMESTEAD FOR $40!
THIRD DIVISION.
1910, 900 north Of Farms and Build.
ina Lots,

In the Gold Region of Culpeper county, Va,
to be divided amongst 10000 subscribers on the
7th of December, 1857. Subscriptions only ten
dollars down; or SIS enc half down, the rest on
delivery Of the DEED. Every subscriber will get
a Building Lot or a Farm, ranging in value from
SO to $25, 600. These Farm and Lots ere sold
SO cheap to induce settlements, q sufficient num-
Der being reserved, the increase in the value of
which will compensate for the apparent low price
now asked. Upwards of 1850 lots and farms are
already sold and a company of settlers, called
"THE R~APPAHANNooK PIONEER ASSOCIATION" il
now forming and will soon a settlement
Ample security will be given for the faithful per
Torrance of contracts and promises. Nearl.
$4,000 acres of land, in different parts of Virgin
10 now at command, and will be sold to settlers a
from 81 up to $500 per acre, objectionable title
WiII in all cases be given. Farmers, Coopers an
other mechanics are wanted, and 500 Agents t
obtain subscribers, to whom the most liberal in
ducements will be given. Some Agents writ
that they are making $500 per month. For flu
particulars, Subscriptions, Agencies, &c.
Apply to
E. BAUDER, Fort Royal.
= Carolina Co Va.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1857-09-16
9 u m .

A wayward son of the EN- erald Isle left
his bed and board, which he and Marga-
ret, his wife, had occupied for q long while,
and spent his time around rum shops,
where be always managed to count himself
on hand, whenever anybody stood treat
Margaret was dissatisfied with this state Of
things, and endeavored to get her husband
home again. This is the way she did it
Now, Patrick, my honey, will ye COON
backP No, Margaret, l won't COON
back And won't you COON back for the
love of the childerf' mo, not for the
love of the childer, Margaret Fax, thin,
will ye COON for the love Of me self p
Niver at all. Way wild ye.' An Pat
rick, won't the love of the Church bring
ye back?' The Church to the devil, and
thin I would't.' Margaret thought she
would try one more inducement. Taking
a pint bottle Of whiskey from his pocket,
and holding it up to her truant husband,
she said: Will ye com for a dhrap Of
whiskey, dear? All, me darlin, answer
ed Pat, unable to stand such a temptation,
it's yerself that always brings me home a.
gain-ye've got such a winnin' way wild
ye!
A DEAD NEGRo-When the cholera
was at its worst in 1849, in New Orleans
an old negro who had weatheredthe yellow
fever many times, at length got frightened
at the havoc which the disease was maxim,
among all classes. His master one nigh
heard him praying to the angel of the Lord
by the light of a tallow candle, ito spar
him diS time-to let him live a little Ion
ger and den take him to glory But h
concluded his prayer by protesting perfec
submission to the will of the angel of d
Lord even should he be called to go in
: mediately on his long journey. Sambo
!, master determined to test the sincerity
:. this last profession. He knocked loud an
: distinct at his door. 'Who dar p says San
! DO. The angel of the Lord was answe
! ed. what you want@ 4 have called f
Sambo ? The master heard the cand
suddenly extinguished with a q0hoot ar
Sambo emerge ically answered, He n
~ here dat Niger is been dead tree Ueek
PA, why don't you buy hen, SO we CT
Id hen would not lay all the eggs we wan
u why, yes IL Would, "a; we only use a G
zen eggs a day, and a good hen could CT
he tainly lay that many Our printers de
ed il says this young lady is a sister to the Q
ht who thought milk was pumped out of COY
on and the tail was the pump-handle.
mn my son. said an iDdulgent father to
4. only representative of himself, you shol
"a. always think three times before you spea
One day, as the father and son were stal
,en ing at the fire, the formers c~oat-tail caus
. fire without his noticing it. The
nd thought he would think a little, and sa
Father, I think well, what my sor
But, father, I think What do J
III think p why, father, I think your G
or tails on fire. cried he, getting out of
! ia. room, for fear of feeling his fathers ca
One of our exchanges tells us of a |
pa genius up his way, who being asked, as
lay summing himself on the grass, what
the height Of his ambition, replied,
marry a rich widow that's got a cough.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1857-09-16
Petersburg Female College,

THE Fall Session of this Institution will conn
mence on Wednesday 23d September next.
The Directors are happy to inform the public,
that they have secured the services of Rev. Viii
liam H. Christian, late of Raleigh, N. c., as Pres
ident, who, with other Professors and Teachers
of the first rank in their several departments, are
presented to the patrons of the College as worthy
of their highest confidence.
FACULTY.
REV. W. Il. CHRISTIAN, A. M, President,
and Prof. of Natural Science, Bellies Lettres, &c.
WILLIAMS T. DAVIS, A. M.
Prof. of Ancient Languages and Mathematics.
ALEXANDRA POLICEMAN,
Prof. of Modern Languages and of Guitar.
1. FRED. WULFF,
Prof. of Music and Drawing.
MAB'LLE JOSEPHINE De BELEM,
Assistant in Music-Solfeggio.
MISS E. L. DAVIS,
Assistant in Latin.
MlSS--
Assistant in Mathematics.
MISS HARRIET COULLING,
Assistant in English.
MISS E. A.LACY,
Teacher of Oil and Grecian Painting; Drawing,
Wax Fruit, and Flowers, dc.
BOARDING DEPARTMENT.
The Boarding house will be under the control O
the President and his lady. The young ladies will
be regar ded as members of the family, and will re
ceive such attention, and be subject to such disci
pine as are proper to this relation.
Petersburg, Va, July 2, 1887. As 27-3mo.
p. S. Catalogues will be forwarded to any wit
will address a note to tho President, or Professo
Davis.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1857-09-16
FOR ONLY 81.

ON the receipt of 81, will be mailed to any per-
~ son a recipe of a remedy for Horses, while
suffering with Bolts or Grubs, which was never
known to fail to give ease in their greatest agony,
if given in time. Many valuable horses have been
saved from an untimely death by this remedy, and
if given as advised, and it fails, the money will be
refunded. No person who has a horse should be
without this recipe. Other remedies will be added,
which will be conducive to health and thrift, and a
great preventive of distemper, which horses are
subject to. Address r. NJ. BROWN, the P. M. OF
New Hill P. O., Wake county, N. C.
March 2, 1857. 51-3m
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RALEIGH PAPER MILLS
PATENT PLOWS.

PATENT PLOWS.
The Bladed Pillow is cheap and strong,
Will pulverize-and last so long,
That he who by the Plow would thrive,
Must surely one of WycHE's drive.
Poor Richard, revised.
LNAIR experiments have shown that from 10 to
Il so per cent. more wheat and oats come up
when plowed in by the Blsded Pillow, than when
turned under with the ordinary pillow that corn,
cotton, tobacco, &C., require less labor in planting,
come up better, and are much more easily tended,
and that the product is largely increased.
This light and durable pillow is easy to both
driver and team, and can be cheaply and readily
repaired.
The Mole Plow upward splits the sod,
And scarcely leaves a single clod,
Mixes and drops the furrow-slice
Just where it was before, SO nice!
The subsoil or Mole Pillow, with a vertical cutter
near the edge of the middle of the shave and a
cutting plate on tie p~osterior part of the shave for
turning the soil in towards the pillow, operates in a
different way from any other-breaking close to-
nacious lands thoroughly, and allowing weeds roots
and grass to pass over the cutters.
Orders for any quantity of the above Flows
may be sent to Uriah Wells, Pc. ersburg Va. OF
Blake, Barnard & Co., Nos. %, "a & 26, Merchant:
Row, Boston, Mass. Arrangements for manufsc+
turing will be made with others soon.
For further information address the Patentee.
WILL: E. WYCHE.
Brookville, Granville N. C. 37-tf
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FORM BOOK.

THE NORTH CAROLINA FORM BOOK
containing all the most useful FERNS which
occur in business transactions between man and
man, as well as in official stations together with
the Constitution of North Carolina, and of the
United States the act fixing the fees of Clerks,
Sheriffs, DC, calculated for the use of the citi-
zens of n orth Carolina, and made conformablc to
law. Complied by a member of the bar. Prico
ST.. For sale by H. D. TURNER.
Il. T. will send the above work by mail, pos
tage free, upon the receipt of 81.
Raleigh, 1857. 26-
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LAND FOR SALE.

west of Franklintan Depot, 200 acres of good bot
tom land on Smiths Creek; 100 acres finest tobac'
co land, in forest, well timbered. Good houses
on each tract. Apply to Rev. B. D. Hester, of
Granville Co., or the subscriber at Normal College.
yards of the College Building which House, with
proper attention, can take in 10 to 10 Thousand
dollars annually for regular and transient board
Any one, or all of the above, will be sold OF
terms to suit the buyer. T. LAWRENCE.
August 10th, 1857. 52-3n