Saint Paul weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1858-1859, 1858-09-04


the following is a copy:
The Old World and the New Welded
Aug. 10th 1853"
"Chaplains Morse, Field and Everett"
"The Cable lies deeply,-May it ever tell
he Truth"
cold England and young America United
Forever"
Time shall be no more"
"Old Time annih,lated by that precious
infant Young America
Franklin, Morse, and Field, Lightning
Tanners"
On the eighth side, representation of the
Cable.
j. Jay Knox, had also happily designed
Transparency.
ST. PAUL, Sept. LIST. 1865.
Geo. Peabody 4. Co. London Please send
quotations of day. j. j. KNOX & Co.
LONDON, Sept. LIST 1865.
). jay Kaoa, d Co: Sales this morning
10000 Northern Pacific r. R. 1913; 40 600
NJ nnesota State Bonds lO9 Good demand
Further up Third street every building was
pile of light. Bonds new Drug Store had
beautiful motto, I" I'll put girdIe round the
earth i" forty minutes" -Shahspeare's Mid
summer Nights Dream.
1.-The Midsummer Nights Dream, has be-
come midsummer days reality!"
lodges, Johnson's, Combs, Edserton's
Block. Rich's, Fonseca & Crawford's, the
Empire Block, and all the buildings opposite
and adjacent were brilliantly lighted, and
looked we'll. Irvine's Block was almost a
Solid blaze of light. Bells Grocery had in
each show window neat device; on one was
VIZ with "a British coat of arms, and a Lion:
on the other, j. B. and an American EacIc
flags, etc, the eagle holding in his beak, a
cable. Underneath, " England and America
arc once more united Let no one put them
asunder; woe to him that attempts it." etc.
The Winslow House was also a blaze from
basement to balcony. Along the line of the
bluff, too, nearly every residence was lit up.
presenting fine appearance against the dark
sky.
On jackson street also, there was a fine
display. Schurmier's Block was lit up with
two lights in each pane, and the stores below
had circles and stars of gas lights, that look
ed like solid jets Of flame. On Roberts street.
a line OF colored lanterns was suspended be-
tween Kings building, and Rogers store
both of which We're Illuminated, and Frost's
Block was letting its lights shnc, also, in
every pane Pollock, Ogden & Donaldson's
china store, and the stores across the street
were also finely lit up.
In lower St. Paul, sundry private resi-.
dences were finely lit up-Dr. Borup's, G. w.
Woolley's, Capt. Dana's, Theo Borup's, G..
Il. Cakes, and numerous Others TO ATTEMPT
to give complete list, or mention any more
than came under our observation durinp a
tramp through the rain, would be an impos-
sibility. 1t would require columns to enume
rate half the trans arencies, ETC.
In the Park, was to have been grand dis
play of Fireworks, and hundreds of Red
White and Blue tissue paper lanterns had
been put up on the fence posts But the rain
cut short the career of both, and the crowd
had to content themselves with gazing at the
bonfire, and looking at the City Hall, VIII ch,
even TO the cupola was sparkling with light,
as well as the Surveyor Generals office, the
Post Office, and Won IIanrm's store. besides
the private residences facing the park. In
front of the Surveyor Generals Office were
three tranSparancies, representing the Niaga-
ra paying out cable, and the m otto, "West-
ward the Star. of Empire takes its way" on
the other, the Agamemnon, and the words
" Perfect Continuity" TIE centre piece re-
presented Brother Jonathan and John Bull.
Esq, shaking right hands, holding in the left
the cable that untes us to our brethren across
the water
Let us remark here, that more than one
half OF the transparencles we saw, represented
the coats of arms Of America and England
joined or their flags twined, or the names of
Victoria and Buchanan festooned together,
showing that beyond the fumings of poiti-
clans, nothing but friendship, goodwill, and
fraternal regard is felt among the people here
towards those who in language, customs, and
institutions are allied to US so closely. The
sentiment universally set forth was that the
cable will unite the people of the two nations
more closely, in bonds of peace, good will
and love, AMI hasten the day when the law of
Universal brotherhood shall bind all "na-
tons, tongues and kindreds" together in har
monv.
Notwithstanding the rain: the streets were
crowded all the evening, and the most bril-
liantly illuminated parts had a continual
crowd in front of them, occasionally cheering,
as wagon load of men drove by. 1t seemed
as if the whole population were actuated by
the sentiments of the following lines, written
by Park Benjamin:
THE CABLE JUBILEE
Light up to mig It light up tonight
The windows and the street,
Becaus. there comes a language bright
Beneath the speecless deep !
Hang out the 1ags!. -hang out the flags l.
And celeb ate the wire
Which folds, along the ocean crags,
Its nigh y speaking fire !
Join in the worl rs embracing line
OF jubilee an march
And move, conquerors of Time,
Beneath each wreathed arch!
Let speech and glowing hymns be strong
And cannons' thunle play
While music leads the pa ssing throng
In triumph on its way
Ard God, who made electric light
To grid the earth and sea,
Will smile on all who hold to night
This lightning jubilee I!
1t was late in the evening before the lights
began to fail. but at midnight darkness and
silence both brooded over the city. Tired
and drowsy, its inhabitants had sought repose,
To dron1,, oc tho ranoantru Of the dau thnu