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Minnesota weekly times. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1854-1859, 1857-01-03
Christmas Gone.

'Twas a pleasant day, Christmas! The clear
cold air was mellow with the sound of sleigh
bells and animated nature became more anima.
ted as the day drew to close. twas pleasant
day, Christmas. The outside chime of the gay
and thoughtless mingled with the solemn tones Of
the preacher, who in accents slow and measured
told of the birth and suffering of the Son of Man
twas pleasant day, Christmas. Little feet pat
tered to the music of childhood. twas pleas
ant day Christmas. Within, cheerful fires made
glad the hearth-stone, and around the festive
board gathered those who perhaps may never ga
ther again in this world; but it was a pleasant
time.
Christmas is always pleasant time-always
teeming with cherished thoughts, and bounding
hopes, and golden bubbles, and other days and
other scenes. But were all happy? Were there
not some bereft of the comforts of life, shiverng
beside the last embers of their scanty allowance
Christmas is a pleasant time,-but how much
more pleasant it would be made if all could alike
enjoy its pleasures. Christmas, however, is COM
ing again, SO that those who this year forgot the
poor, can make the next holiday one of joy where
Joy but seldom dwells.
Minnesota weekly times. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1854-1859, 1857-01-03
MONDAY, DEC. 20, 1856.
The Tendency Of Things.

| 1t is painful fact, and we blush to write it
our city during the same length of time, as We
have since the advent of the present holidays
We very much dislike to parade our local follies
and sins before our Eastern readers, yet we opine
that they may be better cured by q thorough
probing and exposure, than by being kept from
public scrutiny, and suffered to rot their way
through wider and deeper corruption.
The Holidays which custom-the great law.
maker-has sandwiched between Christmas and
New Year, instead of being commemorative of
the virtues and sufferings of the Son of Mary, or
an interval for the offering of prayers to the
coming year, and of incense upon the altar of the
year that's gone, is, in this city-yes, and many
others too-turned into wild arena where fast
men must drive fast horses; Bedlam, where
Dignity and Decency throw off the harness of
restraint, and mix in the reeling rabble; crazy
carnival, where all the .shale fellows" make mid
night hideous with their hooting, pour their years
earnings upon the billiard-tahle, and get jolly
drunk" because it is Christmas -
For shame, that this is true Who has not
seen it all? You haven't? Then you have not
been in the streetselse you would not have fail
ed to hear the oaths and the vulgarity from sal
low lips, and to observe the intoxication-th
spruce young snob who puffs his principe, and
" takes little now and then," and the prototype
Of his future, the ragged, blear-eyed, loathsome
sot, whose every step takes him one step nearer
to his grave! Will not the honest and the manly
of our city frown on these degrading, depraving
vices? Let us keep the moral standard of St.
Paul what it should be, and her Future will more
than realize our fondest imagining!
Minnesota weekly times. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1854-1859, 1857-01-03
The Christmas Festival.

We stepped into the Hall of the Pioneer
Guards on Christmas afternoon and were greeted
at our entrance by the silvery voices and trip
ping footsteps of bevy of happy children, as
sembled to commemorate the birthday of the
pure-hearted Nazarene. A table stretched along
one side of the hall, freighted with luxuries and
substantial food. A beautiful Holly-tree spread
its branches in the center of the room, laden with
presents of all descriptions, for distribution
among the young participants. Some interesting
remarks were offered by the Rev. DR.. Van Ingen
after which the company partook of the COLLATION.
and dispersed, with light steps and happy hearts
pleased with the entertainments and ready for an.
other year of Life's labors and joys.
Minnesota weekly times. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1854-1859, 1857-01-03
The Middle States Celebration.

The Middle States Society met on Christmas
evening at the Fuller House, and partook of an
excellent supper, provided by the Messrs. Long.
Without intending to particularise any, we may
truthfuly say that it was the best supper we have
partaken in the territory. After the assembly,
about l25 people, had done most ample justice to
the viands, speech-maktng was in order, and the
order was promptly executed. Excellent re-
sponses were made by the Governor and score
of other gentlemen, and " the feast, of reason
and the flow of soul "-and other fluids, contin-
ued till late in the evening, when the company
dispersed by an excellent rendering of ''Auld
Lang Syne." One blemish we cannot help men,
tioning; the ladies were entirely excluded from
the festivity, causing the company to resemble q
desert without sunshine,-a garden with the
flowers left out,-a lot of cannibals, minus the
pallating and refining presence of their paint and
jewels? But, strange to say under such cireum'
stances, the affair passed off pleasantly, and all
participants had q good time.
Minnesota weekly times. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1854-1859, 1857-01-03
walker in a Fix.

The fllibuster, Walker, who is trying to
revoutionize Nicaragua SO as to hitch it on to
Uncle Sam's farm, seems to meet with trouble.
At the last accounts he had been driven by the
'natives" from almost every position he bad
assumed, and had finally taken refuge on board
steamer. He was thus cut off from all commu-
nication with his army, and his men were suffer-
ing for want of provisions and clothing, and
dying off by contagious diseases. A detachment
of one hundred of his men, after fighting nine
days at Granada, had surrendered to superior
force of Costa. Ricans. Thus the fllibuster's
mushroom fortune wanes. Three months ago
he sent word that he should never come home,
till he could come by land. Poor fellow. Accord
ing to present appearances, he will either have
to lay his ambitious bones among the inhospitable
forests of Balize, or on his return, go good
ways around!
Minnesota weekly times. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1854-1859, 1857-01-03

CO During the past week, the newspapers
which have come to us from the States have con.
tanned nothing except quack advertising in hall
the sheet, and that other diluted advertisement Of
Executive quackery, " the Presidents Message
in the other half. We have received enough oi
these things to carpet the road from this city tt
St. Anthony, and if printers could spread it ou
as thin as bad logic and worse rhetoric have done
the stuff would stretch from St. Anthony to th'
moon. May our down east exchanges recover
their sanity soon!
Minnesota weekly times. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1854-1859, 1857-01-03
Negro Citizeuship.

Washington, Dec 16
After the adjudgement of two minor cases the
argument in the case Of Dred. Scott, vs.. j. F.
Sanford, was resumed. Mr.. Geyer, for the appli-
cant, took the broad ground that an African is
capable Of becoming citizen, and that it has
been 30 decided by the courts in number Of ca
ses.
At the time Of the adoption of the constitution,
every State except the save-holding States in the
Convention for the adoption of the constitution
left open the African slave trade for twenty
years, and to his mind it was not the intention
of the trainers Of that instrument to make impor-
tation of material for citizenship.
Minnesota weekly times. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1854-1859, 1857-01-03

Gw We learn from the St. Anthony Repub
lican, that the levee of the Universalist Society
few evenings since, "has outdone everythin;
ever got up in the territory," and that the gross
receipts from the sale of admission and ball
tickets, refreshments, and fancy articles contrib
uted to the bazaar, amounted to $500, leaving
clean profit of about $500, which is to be expend
ed in furnishing the new stone church, which
when completed, will doubtless be the most ele
giant structure of the kind in Minnesota.
Minnesota weekly times. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1854-1859, 1857-01-03
TUESDAY, DEC. 80, 1856.


A package Of mail about as big as piece of
chalk, arrived at the P, %. yesterday after te-
dious voyage, bringing us Liverpool dates of the
7th, and Dubuque dates of the 10th. We under
stand wag thinks of sezing the letters as sscon-
traband goods!" About half dozen recent pa
pers1have come to- hand, and from them we make
clippings elsewhere.
Minnesota weekly times. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1854-1859, 1857-01-03

w A Daily Mail has been established be-
tween this city and Saltwater. We learn from
our Post Master that twenty-four new mail routes
have been opened in the Territory since October |!
Query: Increasing in ageometrical ratio-as ev-
erything else does here-how many will be estab-
lished by January 1st 1858?
Minnesota weekly times. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1854-1859, 1857-01-03

CENTRAL PRESBYTERIAN SABBATH SCHOOL CELE-
BRATIoN--The celebration of this Society came off
at the Central Presbyterian Church yesterday
morning. Speeches, recitations and songs regaled
the passing hours, and made it joyous occasion
for both parent and child.
Minnesota weekly times. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1854-1859, 1857-01-03

CY The editor of the st. Croix Union has
kindly volunteered to 60 and fight the "Inguns."
Peace will no doubt be restored as soon as the
" Inguns" are made acquainted with the inten-
tions of this very courageous champion of small
potatoes and genteel vulgarity!
Minnesota weekly times. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1854-1859, 1857-01-03
Superior.

GT The New York Tribune's Kansas Relief
Fund has reached the handsome sum Of $l6,977.
May it double before spring. 1t will all be needed
to relieve the destitution and suffering of the
Free State people of Kansas.
Minnesota weekly times. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1854-1859, 1857-01-03

90 Prof. Siliman's scientific party, co-labor.
ers with Prof. Moore and DR.. Francis, who re.
Gently left New Orleans for tour of exploration
in South America, were waylaid by the Indians
robbed by them and left entirely destitute.
Minnesota weekly times. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1854-1859, 1857-01-03

GTMayor Becker reports to the Council that
he has succeeded in negotiating the City Bonds
for the Improvement of the Levee, upon highly
advantageous terms to the Corporation. A large
proportion of the sum was negotiated at par,
and the remainder at a merely nominal dis.
count.
Minnesota weekly times. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1854-1859, 1857-01-03

Cg We ere informed, by the Henderson Dem
ocrat, that hunt took place from that city the
day before Christmas. Nicholas Higher and L.
5. Reynolds were chosen captains, and they Sc
lected thirty hunters on side. We have not
heard the result, but as game is thick as forest
leaves up in those woods, we suppose they made
ga haul -
Minnesota weekly times. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1854-1859, 1857-01-03

GY Prof. N. P. Ingalls,, with the excellent
company Of vocalists, and the accomplished
violinist F. E. Wagner, who performed here a
short time since, gave concert at st. Anthony
last evening.
Minnesota weekly times. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1854-1859, 1857-01-03

1.-TWO engines were crossing a bridge about
eight miles from Dubuque, on the 16th when it
gave way, and precipitated the engines, engineers
and firemen, through the chasm Is or 20 feet
No lives were lost.
Minnesota weekly times. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1854-1859, 1857-01-03

CV The St. Anthony Republican says that a
lady near Minnetonka recently spent an evening
from home, and in attempting to return lost her
way, and stayed out all night, freezing both her
feet so badly that Dr.. Smell thinks amputation
will be necessary.
Minnesota weekly times. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1854-1859, 1857-01-03

c. The keeper of the Delevan House at
Albany, (Which has always been conducted on
the temperance plan,) having announced his in
tention to sell table wines to all who order them,
Mr.. Delevan, the proprietor of the hotel, has
addressed him note protesting against what he
terms ga breach Of covenant agreement Should
his protest be unheeded, Mr.. Delevan threatens
that litigation, as "certain painful will follow .
Minnesota weekly times. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1854-1859, 1857-01-03

CV Maryland has the heaviest debt in pro-
portion to population, of any State in the Union,
it exceeds fifteen millions to population Of five
hundred and eighty-two thousand, bond and
Minnesota weekly times. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1854-1859, 1857-01-03

SESsIBIE.-Bonnets are again to be worn on
the To head. letter from Paris says cat present
there is at the imperial court an organized cru
sade against the small bonnets now worn by the
laoies. 1t is wished to give them circumference
This is why some Of the guests have appeared in
velvet hats with large brims, in the English stye.
called chapeaux de Palliance.
Minnesota weekly times. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1854-1859, 1857-01-03

GY The Providence Post suggests the propri-
ETY. of MIR. Summers making an apology for bis
speech which gave offence to Bully Brooks, when
he returns to his seat in the Senate Chamber !!
| That editor is modest man!
Minnesota weekly times. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1854-1859, 1857-01-03

CI Mr.. Benjamin, from Louisiana, and Mr..
Yulse, from Florida, both U. S. Senators, are
Jews.
Minnesota weekly times. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1854-1859, 1857-01-03

c. The Methodist ladies of Monticello held a
Festival on Christmas evening, and the Presbyte-
fian Church of Shakopee has recently been the re-
cipient of like benefit. Festivals are conta-
OIL
Minnesota weekly times. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1854-1859, 1857-01-03

G:Y The Railroad from Portage to La Crosse
will be contracted for in January, and the line
COMPLETED in eighteen months thereafter
Minnesota weekly times. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1854-1859, 1857-01-03

C~ In 1872, an English ship stranded near
New Rochelle. Such have been the changes in
the sea that the wreck lies in the midst of cul-
tivated field, thirteen feet above the sea, and
around it are two thousand acres of cultivated
land.
Minnesota weekly times. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1854-1859, 1857-01-03

~ Benefit ball, to the Minnehaha Hook &
Ladder Co. will come off at Woodman's Hall
Minneapolis, on New Years eve. It is expected
to be an enjoyable time, and is just far enough
from our city for an agreeable slide. Who's
going? ro 4
Minnesota weekly times. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1854-1859, 1857-01-03

CO Miss M. Coolbaugh read highly praised
number of the "Social Wreath" +" on Tuesday
evening, before the Minneapolis Lyceum.
Minnesota weekly times. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1854-1859, 1857-01-03

owe bear our blushing honors with all due hu-
mility.-Pioneer.
CWSo does the robber of hen roosts, or the
midnight assassin! We cansee but little diff
ference
Minnesota weekly times. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1854-1859, 1857-01-03

GY Picked up by the Editor of this paper, in
Third Street, on Christmas Eve, a lady's black
velvet Mantilla. The owner can have the same
by applying at The TINES Office in person.
Minnesota weekly times. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1854-1859, 1857-01-03

cTAt New Wark, N. j., on Friday evening,
the Republican party celebrated their recent tri-
umph at the North, at supper attended by seve-
raj hundred persons. Among the reported toasti
on the occasion was the following:
The memory of Sam.-Alas, poor Yorick! III
was fellow of infinite changes, and many Of
this company knew him well-but where be hi.
jibes now, his gambols, his songs, his flashes ol
merriment that were wont to set the table in
roar9 Not one now to mock his own grinning.
Minnesota weekly times. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1854-1859, 1857-01-03

POPULATION OF IowA.-The population of Iowa,
by census recently taken, is 503, 3,2O4.
Minnesota weekly times. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1854-1859, 1857-01-03

ca The feat of trotting 20 miles inside of ar
hour has been accomplished by Trustee and Lady
Fulton.
Minnesota weekly times. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1854-1859, 1857-01-03

ca A cobbler in Mobile, who professed to
teach music, has the following sign over his door.
"Delightful task to mend the tender boot
And teach the young idea how to flute"
Minnesota weekly times. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1854-1859, 1857-01-03

w A Retrenchment Society" has been
formed in New York among the ladies, the object
of which is to inculcate economy in the way Of
dress and household affairs. A sensible Society.
Minnesota weekly times. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1854-1859, 1857-01-03

BEAUrIFuL.-One pound of gold may be drawn
into wire that would extend around the globe.
So one gold deed may be felt through all time
and even extend its consequences into eternity.
Though done in the first flush of youth, it may
only bright spot in it.
Minnesota weekly times. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1854-1859, 1857-01-03

ca Under the head of &c Broken English" a
Paris paper places such Londoners as get smash
ed up by railroad collisions, or financially busted
Minnesota weekly times. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1854-1859, 1857-01-03

Ca The Shakopee Advocate gives rumor
that E. S. Goodrich of the Pioneer is to have the
Office of Receiver in the new Land Office soon to
be opened at Buchanan, near the head of Lake
Minnesota weekly times. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1854-1859, 1857-01-03

Cy A celebrated wit was asked why he did
not marry young lady to whom he was much
attached. s'I know no reason," he replied, ''ex-
cept the great regard we have for each other"
Minnesota weekly times. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1854-1859, 1857-01-03

CY- The citizens of South Carolina are about
to purchase splendid carriage and present it to
Mr.. Buchanan, the President elect.
Minnesota weekly times. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1854-1859, 1857-01-03

GV Charles Beupry died suddenly at Waba.
shaw on the 10TH, inst, of delirium tremens.-
Query: Is anybody to blame
Minnesota weekly times. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1854-1859, 1857-01-03

9V The men and boys of Bridgeport. Mass,
nad mouse hunt last week, two parties number
ing forty persons, participating. The victors
reported eighteen bushels slain, and their oppo
nents fourteen bushels. ~ppo0
Minnesota weekly times. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1854-1859, 1857-01-03

GY| The attempts of the Chicago Gas Works
to make good gas from Illinois coal, has proved
failure.
Minnesota weekly times. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1854-1859, 1857-01-03

@ Among the refined exhibitions at recent
County Fair in Georgia, was that of young
lady who rode horse bare backed and a-strad-
die, and won the prize of equestrianship.
Minnesota weekly times. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1854-1859, 1857-01-03

GV The funeral procession in Milwaukee re-
Gently in memory of the venerable pioneer, Solo
mon Jeneau, far surpassed the cortege at the
death of General Taylor.
Minnesota weekly times. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1854-1859, 1857-01-03

FISH WITH LEas.-The Rochester, N. Y, Union
says that several fishes with four legs each have
been brought from Fort Defiance, New Mexico,
where they were caught in a small stream
They are about seven inches long, and resemble
a young Goldfish with legs like an alligator
They have been sent to Professor Agassiz Of
Cambridge, Mass.
Minnesota weekly times. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1854-1859, 1857-01-03

LOOK our.-The st. Catharines, &C. wy Jour-
nal says.-"Ten dollars forged notes on the Com
mercial Bank, Canada, are abundant, and so well
executed that not one out of hundred persons
would refuse them. We have seen some of them
that have been taken bY shreWd public men.
Minnesota weekly times. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1854-1859, 1857-01-03

GVThe Providence Journal shrewdly remarks;
-"We have known Democratic Presidents to
turn out worse than they promised, but we nev.
er knew one of them to turn out better. We do
not expect to find the first example in Mr.. Buch.
Minnesota weekly times. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1854-1859, 1857-01-03

GY-An editor in Iowa has been fined two hun.
dred and fifty dollars for hugging girl in meeting
sCheap enough ]" says another of the fraternity
"We once hugged a girl in meeting, and it has
cost us a thousand wear ever since.O
Minnesota weekly times. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1854-1859, 1857-01-03
UV The majority for Buck and Breck ;, in
the State Of Mississippi is 1l,175.

RATHER TAKEN ABAcK.-During Col. Bepton,s
recent lecture in Boston (of which we publish an
account to-day,) ne seemed to be rather taken
no Fugitive Slave law in the event of the Ts;on
being severed, like Cleopatra's pearl in the Vine
gar, the audience came down with a perfect storm
OF applause. The Bostonians evidently believe
with Mr.. Clay, that s'negro hunting is a pursuit
which no Southern gentleman will engage in.''
ana an shas 1t isn't very elevating calling for
Northerners.-Cin. Gaxeffe -
Minnesota weekly times. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1854-1859, 1857-01-03

CO The Submarine telegraph between New
York and Newfoundland is working admirably.
Minnesota weekly times. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1854-1859, 1857-01-03

GW An English paper states the Mormons are
making numerous converts in that country, by
exaggerated pictures of life in Utah. They now
teach openly their doctrine of polygamy; but it
seems no mpediment to converts from the gentler
sex. The annual emigration of converts is COM
puted as high as 5000.
Minnesota weekly times. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1854-1859, 1857-01-03

e. Somebody says the DEVIL is a mean word,
any way you can fix it. You can't make re-
spectacle word Of it any how. Remove the D
and it is evil, remove and it is vile, remove the
and it is i'll, remove the !, and the itself sounds
like hell.
Minnesota weekly times. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1854-1859, 1857-01-03

GT 1t is said that during the past year, Pres,
colt, the historian, has received $4,000 as the
income of his literary labors.
Minnesota weekly times. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1854-1859, 1857-01-03

CV Mrs. Stoves new work " "DRED {" is meet
ing with reception unparalleled in the annals Of
book-craft. To show how utterly false aad
malicious are the statements of the Pioneer and
sheets of like kidney, that it &c has met with q
repulse in England" it is only necessary to read
the comments of the English press. The London
Times says "the sale of sDred'-Mrs. Stowe's
unequalled life-sketch-has reached one hundred
and twenty-five thousand copies, and the demand
continues unabated."
Minnesota weekly times. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1854-1859, 1857-01-03

FIRST CHURCH DEDICATED IN NEBRAsKA.-Tht
first church dedication in Nebraska Territory tool
place in Nebraska City lately. The dedication
sermon was preached by Elder Goode, after
which collection for the purpose of paying tht
of $500 was raised. The Church belongs tt
the Methodist Episcopal denomination. 1t is 81
by 40 feet, and the inside of it, it is said, has
been finished off in a style which cannot be sur
passed even in the older States.
Minnesota weekly times. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1854-1859, 1857-01-03

GY Hon. E. B. Washburne, of Illinois will
please accept our thanks for late Congressional
Minnesota weekly times. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1854-1859, 1857-01-03

CsT The Democrats have obtained majority
in both branches of the California Legislature.