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Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1858-07-09

lE1NOR SALE OR TO RENT-A Farm in Tat
nick, of fifty acres Of land With dwelling houses
and barn. good variety Of fruit upon the place. Also
houses, suitable for two families each one on Home
street, and one on Sunny Side. JOHN HAMMOND.
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FkNO EkST.A large square room, with an attic, over
mch30 diff JAMES r. PETRCE.N
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Two RENTr-A Psrlor and Bed Room No. Pear
Street. Also, a large upper room suitable for al
artist. Apply to SAoF GEOgT. s. CURTIS 9fll TE
mch29 dit = oast-a 1877 Main Street Cd
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a IA It's - s :
just received, choice lot Of Oats suitable for seed
also, constantly hand Corn, Rye Meal Feed, &c. for
sale by Pc fiaa Fua aa. o. b. PRATT r - -
p aps7 saaaa Diff ss Norwich Stree
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gENO RENT-House No. II Grafton street! Rent
$40 per annnm. Apply to WITTY & PRATT, or
q - PRATT, -eo..s dit mch25
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T09 LET.

Two RENT-A tenement on Allen street, opposite
the Dread Institute. Rent SI25. apply to VIII
LAID WOOD, on the premises, dtf .iel6
H ment of Eve rooms in good order yery pleasantly
A situated, at No 20 Chatham street, to be let at
20 dollars. Inquire on the premises DIFF lei
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STORE 10 r ENFz-Opposite the Bay STATE
- o2d House. Apply to 4, WIN. DICKINSON.
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"A FINE CHANCE FOR BUSINESS
IN FOR sALR, stock Of Merchandise bought prin-
epaly for cash and lease Of the store, in one Of the
best localities in the State The goods in good order
and Of moderate The sales are exclusively for
cash, and large amount Of capital ID requisite to do
business TO any reasonable amount The facilities for
doing an exclusive Dry Goods business are superior 20
most places in the county Terms made faYorabe For
Further particulars address "Merchant" Worcester p
o. Mass, which will receive prompt attention. and be
strictly conhdential $40 X du as ieS
The emigrant aid journal of Minnesota. [volume] (Nininger City, Minn. Terr. [i.e. Minn.]) 1856-1858, 1858-03-17

Emphatically, Minnesota is we'll wooded. Let the
reader take his map, and he will declare it is exceeding
ly we'll watered also. Well now those streams and lakes
upon which he looks, are as a general thing sklrted with
large bodies of good timber inexhaustible unless law
ishly destroyed. 1t is not as equally distributed as we
could wish, but no where can we have things just as we
could wish them In Minnesota are found those pine
forests which yield "A rich supply Of lumber of a better
quality than is found elsewhere in the United States,
and perhaps in greater abundance.
Of water, a few words Of explanation will suffice.
There is abundance, as the many streams and la1es Will
testify. Springs are numerous, and IN a majority OF
places water is found in short distances from the surface.
All animal life is h healthy. Stock of every description
is easily raised. The never failing abundance OF acorns
from the oak groves, and hazel-nuts, aid materially in
the suStenance and growth of porkers nor need l urge
that the upland and lowland praires afford, the one suf
fcient pasture, and the other sufficient food for winter,
for large bodies Of cattle.
The country presents great manufacturing facilities
Sites fer manufacturing establishments, mills, &c, are
found in numbers on every stream. The Fails of st
Anthony are second to none in the world, and thei'
worth is almost incalculable.
The successful cultivation Of fruit trees here is put
beyond a doubt, the peach and pear perhaps excepted
The cranberry, grape, plum, and c~rab-apple are indigo
nous, and are found in abundance.
Our system of free schools-the great school proper
ty endowment-and the interest manifested in establish
ing schools of a high grade, present another attractive
feature in favor Of Minnesota ; and in a few years may
vie with the older States in educational facilities.
In short, l would say to those who are looking for
place to carry forward pro6tably the pursuits of agricul
ture, trade, or mechanism-to those looking for a eli
mate conducive to health and longevity-to those look
ing for scenery on which to feast the ideal man-coM1
TO MINNESOTA. L. N. CoUNTRYMAN.
Nininger, March Is, 1853.
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Bows out at Night.

l have been an observer, as / am a sympathizing lover
of boys. | like to see them happy, cheerful, and giee-
some. Indeed, | can hardly understand how a high
toned, useful man can be the ripened fruit Of a boy
who had not a full share of the glad privileges due to
youth. But while | watch with a very jealous eye all
rights and customs which intrench upon the proper
rights of boys, | I'm equally apprehensive lest the
parents who are not fore thoughtful, and who have
Infatuated themselves to no close observations upon
this subject, permit their sons indulSences which are al
most certain to result in their decentralization, If not in
their total ruin and among the habits which have OBJ
s,rved tending most surely to ruin, know OF none more
prominent than that Of parents permitting their sous to
be in the streets after ~nightfall.
Boys should be taught to have pleasures around the
family cenfre-table, in reading. conversation, and in
quiet amusements. Boys are seen in the streets after
%n,ghtfall behaving in "a manner entirely destructive of
all good morals. Fathers and mothers, keep your chil-
dren home at night, and see that you take pains to make
your homes pleasant, and attractive, and profitable to
them and above all, with a view of their security from
future destruction, let them not become, while forming
their characters for life, so accustomed to disregard the
moral sens1ntSss shame as to openly violate the Sabbath
day in stred ~pastimes during its day or evening hours.
There is a project on foot among the British North
American Provinces to have them united under one
6 Jvernment
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From fifty to sixty thousand tons Of pea or ground
nuts are yearly shipped from Africa to this country and
to Great Britain and France. The export Of pea nuts
and palm oil to America and Europe presents the annual
value of at least fifteen millions of dollars So much
for merely two articles Of African produce.
Barth's travels cover Central Africa as far as to within
eight degrees north of the Equator. Livingstone's re-
searches come to within the same distance South. So
that there is still a belt of sixteen degrees, with the
equator as a centre, which no white man has yet visited.
Lieutenant Burton, celebrated for his successful VISIT to
Mecca and Medina, is now travelling in that portion
He hopes to cross the entire Continent, midway between
the routes Of Barth and Livingstone.
Meanwhile, We nov knoW enough to be sure that we
have heretofore known but little of Africa or its iuhab-
itants. Both Barth aud Livingstone, the latter espe-
cially, prove the whole immense tracts from the Sahara
on the north, to the Kalabari desert on the south
with a breadth Of from five hundred to two thousand
miles-is a wonderfully fertile and we'll watered coun-
try, probably not inferior in natural productiveness to
the valleys of the Mississippi and Rio Grande, capable
of yielding all tropical productions, and inhabited By a
most interesting people, or rather by a group of races,
all of whom differ materially in character from the ma
tives of the Slave Coast, who have hitherto stood as the
types of the population of Africa. The revelations are
the great significant facts of modern discovery, and point
the way to results exceeded by nothing since the dis
covery Of America.
The bearings of these discoveries upon the African
Colonization enterprise afford a plain and obvious in
ference. Liberia becomes more than ever the source
Of hope for Africa. It is a refuge aud an exam
pie, where civilization and Christianity will rest hope.
full and vigilant, ready to take advantage Of every
opening which Providence may bring about to dispense
its blessings in widening extent over the Continent.
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and the daughters of Naomi we're wont to CLEAN. l
asked to see Solomon's pavilion, but alas, the cypress
timbers and the cedar wainscotting bad been taken
down, and in their place there is a brick-built cottage
with a roof of red and green tiles. The entrance hall
is whitewashed there is a little parlor with a Birming-
ham carpet, and a drawing room papered with a red
bordered yellow PIPER, purchased in Paris, Rue des
Moineaux. The chimney is Prussian, and the curtains
are of Swiss muslin. Instead of the servants of the
spouse, 1 found two n~ursery-maids, one from Paris and
the other from Florence The slave who prepares the
tents of cedar is now called John He has red
whiskers, blacks his masters shoes, scrubs the floor
every day, and varnishes it on Sundays and if some
romantic person should inquire, as | had the no'uete to
do, about the dark S~hulamite, he will be shown FIVE
sweet little English children, redolent Of cold cream and
Windsor soap, as fair as floss silk, with their hair in
corkscrew curls, and wearing prunella boots, blue capes,
and green parasols. The cinnamon trees have been cut
down for frewood and the aromatic canes grubbed up,
but the FIVE little misses do crotchet work under the
shade of a ION Crietien pear tree. Since the Eastern
war MIR. Goldsmith has obtained the custom of the
PAcha of Jerusalem for vegetables Last year be had
seven crops Of potatoes, thanks to his wonderful
drainage
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CurlOsilieS Of SCienCe.-NO. q.

In my last, mentioned some curiosities about snow,
| intend before | close to speak further Of crystalization,
as it is a very curious thing in nature.
In those parts of the temperate zone, where snow
covers the ground during the winter months-that best
of all the cereals, wacat, grows to the greatest perfec-
ton. Two main reasons may be assigned for this.
lst. 1t keeps the ground warm, and if very deep allows
the roots of the winter wheat to grow and get firm hold,
and the carly spring finds it vigorous, healthy, and
heavy. 81. A large quantity Of Ammonia is found in
snow, which enters largely into the composition of wheat,
hence the snow operates as a powerful fertilizer; and
every time the farmer sees the storm covering his fields
with a large body of snow, he may rejoice, that it is in
the providence of nature that his fields are being en-
richcd.
Capitalization is the power which determines the
forms Of inorganic matter. As the results Of the vital
forces, as exhibited in the animal and vegetable king
doms, are bodies bounded by curved lines and surfaces,
the result of the (vitaD forces displayed in the inorganic
or mineral world are straight lines and plane surfaces.
We apply the term ~'lifeless' or inert to all solids,
and yet there are score. forces existing in all minerals
which bind their ultimate particles together-not in con.
glomerate mass, bat geometrically-in regular bodie.
having equal sides and similar. Henceforth we shall
Aoe upph u Spchs, u SlOUc, duU STdVCI,W ItuOut
thinking of those peculiar forces which give US regular
and beautiful forms, even in inorganic matter.
Cohesive attraction is but another name for these
forces Take for instance a piece Of quartz. 1t has sx
sides, and is an oblique rhombic prism. If it be now
taken and broken in fragments not larger than the head
Of a pin, each fragment will be a crystal having six
sides-a prism like the 6rst-and though we may call
that cohesive attraction, which kept the little crystals
together, it is highly probable that the same force keeps
them regular.
The large bodies Of granite rock found in New Eng.
land 50 abundant, is the quartz, and therefore compose;
of an infinite number of crystals and every grain Of
sand is a quartz crystal-a regular ~body-bounded BY
straight lines
The common salt, Of which we consume 20 much
{t"o much, lcrystalizes into Thousands of little cubs, ant
when we throw it on a fire, Or heated surface, it crackles
or decrepitates. Why is this -? It holds water, not BY
absorption, but mechanically, and this, heated, bursts th'
bands that hold it, (evaporates,) and escaping, gives
notice of it by firing a farewell salute.
L. N. CoUNrRYMAN.
.Niainger, March Is, 1853.
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How &c feels 70 be hanged.

An acquaintance of Lord Bacon who meant to hang
himself only partially, was cut down at the last extrem-
ity, having neatly paid for his curiosity with his life.
lie declared that he felt no pain, and his only sensation
was of fire before his eyes, which changed first to black
and then to sky blue. These colcrs are even a source Of
pleasure. A Captain Montaguac, who was hanged in
France during the religious wars, and rescued from the
gibbet at the Intervention Of Viscount Terrenne, com.
planned that, having lost all pain in an instant, be had
been taken from a light Of which the charm deied de.
scription. Another criminal who escaped by tho hs,eak.
ing OF tho cord SAID that after a second of suffering, a
IHie appeared, across it the most beautiful avenue of
trees. Henry w., Of France, sent his physician to
question him, and when mention was made Of pardon
the man answered coolly that it was not worth the ask
ing. All agree that the unessinsss il quite momentary,
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The Atmosphere.

The atmosphere rises above us with it's cathedral
dome arching towards the heaven Of which it is The most
familiar synonym and symbol. 1t floats around US like
that grand object which the Apostle John saw in his
vision, 8 Il sea Of glass like unto crystal So massive is
it, that when it begins to stir, it il losses about great ships
like playthings, and sweeps cities and forests like snow
fakes to destruction before it. And yet it is SO mobile,
that we have lived years 10 it before we can be persuaded
it exists at al, and the great bulk of mankind never
realize the tfsth that theys<re shrthad imam ocesn Of
air. Its weight is so enormous that iron shivers
before it like a glass, yet q ~soap-ball sails through it
with IMMUNITY, and the tiniest insect waves it with its
wings. We touch it not, but it touches us; its warm
south wind brings back color to the pale face of the in
valid its cool west winds refresh the fevered brow
and make the blood mantle in our cheeks even its north
blasts brace into new vigor the hardened children of
our rugged cline. But for it, the rainbow ,xould want
its %triumphal arch, and the winds would not send their
Aeecy messengers on errands round the heavens. The
cold ether would not shed its snow feathers on the
earth, nor would drops of dew gather on the flowers.
The kindly rain would never fall-hail, storm, nor fog
diversity the face of the sky. Our naked globe would
turn it's tanned unshadowed forehead to the sun, and one
dreary monotonous blaze Of light and heat dazzle and
burn up all things.-[British Review.
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The East.

We think of the East as the home of magic and won
der, the misty birth place Of wisdom, the haunted
shrine of an antique civilization, crowded with Macy
immensities of human experience before the gates of
Tadmor were swung, or the crown of Palmyra had been
so much as dreamed of. 1t rises in our thoughts with
its dim swarming peoples, now sunk 6breless in soft
seas Of sense, now frenetic with superhuman inspiration,
as a kingdom whose hills are ribbed with silver shafts,
it's streams belded with golden sand, its trenched ra-
vines lined with ~psbbiing diamonds, the edge of It's
strands covered with coral, the floor of its bays strewed
with pearls, tho breath of its meadows odorous with
myrrh, its towering trees of perennial green and bloom
ever sagging with delicious fruit, coo! fountains spout
Ing in every court, and entranced bulbulbs w~arbling on
every spray. Its geographical! features and its intellcc-
tual conceptions, alike, are on a scale of p%rodigious
grandeur, whose vas,itLdc cru,hes the power of sense,
but provokcs Imagination to the fullest expansion of her
cloudy wings Its t'anges encounters the ocean with a
shock that shakes the globe, aud its Dhawalaghiri makes
Olympus but little better than a wart its banyan over
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Improved mode Of Ventilation.

During the preparations for the marriage in the Palace
If - JAMES Il very plain man was seen walking to
AMI iro in every part Of the building, as if he were
master Of the whole house, Now he was in the chapel ;
then in the gallery he passed out from one hall to
another; the ball room the throne-room; the priyy-
council room and even into the Queens boudoir. A.
the roysl procession passed along the corridors, he was
standing alone against the wall-and the crinoline was
slightly crushed in consequence Of the obstruction.
Who was the intruder No! he was not an intruder
but walked about in every place by express command.
I will give you a little account Of him.
Charles Watson is . native of Scotland, aud WAS
The emigrant aid journal of Minnesota. [volume] (Nininger City, Minn. Terr. [i.e. Minn.]) 1856-1858, 1858-03-17
Cheating the Devil.

Squire H., living in the town of A., was a man
in easy circumstances, with everything enough in doors
and out. ln his yard was a huge pile of wood, sawed
and split, and sufficient in bulk to keep a dozen fami-
lies through the winter with enough more where that
came from.
poor widow woman in Strengthened circumstances, with
four mouths to feed and four little bodies to warm be.
sides her own.
Squire H. dotted on his big wood pile, and was in the
habit Of taking a peep at it through the closed blinds
OF his window, before retiring at night. One night he
saw a female hanging around the pile, and opening the
door partially to get a better view, saw her stoop, pick
up a large armful, and start of. She had not proceeded
far, however, when she stopped short, and he overheard
the following: L cannot steal-the eye of God is upon
me ; and down went the wood, and she walked of a
few steps and stopped again i have not a stick of
poor children are freezing. The Squire has enough and
will never miss So saying, she filled her arms again
with the converted fuel.
Again she started, and again hesitated. what {!
steal II never did such a thing and God forbid that
/ should do it now 7 and down went the wood upon the
pile again. But the thought of her suffering brood
brought her once more to the pile, and she filed her
arms the third time with wood. Once more she started
and again turned back Il will not steal will trust
in God and if it is his will well perish together So
saying, she threw down the wood upon the pile, and the
Squire saw her enter her dwelling and close the door.
He retired to bed, but slumber was slow in visiting his
eyelids. He thought of the poor widow aud her suffer
ing children, and perhaps when he slept he dreamed of
them.
Early the next forenoon widow w. was surprised to
see the Squire's four OK team, loaded with wood, haul
up in front of her dwelling, and the Squire commence
pitching it off.
What's this, Squire H !? said the aAonished and
half frightened woman; i didn't order that wood, aud
God knows | can't pay for it,
It's yours, and all paid for, ma'am,' sung out the
Squire, tugging away at q big log; you cheated the
devil last night!
mistake about it.
Il tell you it's yours, for cheating the devil last
night said the Squire, and here comes a man to saw
1t up, split it and pack it away in your wood house.
The widow began to smell a rat and stammering
her thanks to the Squire, retreated into the house. Sac
wanted tor no more wood hat winter.
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Modern Jerusalem.

A French gentleman, who delights to frequent the
spots on which celebrated poets have dwelt, or whence
they derived their inspiration, has published in the
Moattewr an account of his visit to the Gardens of
Solomon First, he visited the sealed fountains
large subterranean reservoirs, wherein the waters spring.
ing from the mountains are collected, and whence the
water is conducted to Jerusalem by pipes AT a short
distance from the reservoirs are the celebrated gardens.
They extend along a valley which runs from Ell Bourach
to Bethlehem. 1t is the most charming spot in all
Palestine. Solomon was a good judge in more senses
than one. There are murmuring streams winding
through verdant lawns there are the choices fruits and
flowers, the hyacinth and the anemone, the fig tree and
the pine. Towering high above the garden, and con-
trastlng grandly with its soft aspect, are the dark pre-
cipitous rocks of the neighboring mountain, around
whose SUBMITS v~ultures and eagles necessarily scream
and describe spiral circles in the air. The rare plants
and flowers which the great cnchantcr Of the East col
lected within these gardens were protected from the
north wind by the mountains. Every gust of the south
wind was loaded with perfumes. With che first breeze
Of spring the fig tree put forth its fruits, and the vines
began to blossom. 1t was in the words of Scripture,
6 a garden of delights The negotiations of the north
and the south were interminylcd. One part of the gar.
den was called the Walnuttree Walk, Cor, as the En- li.h
Scripture translation has it, the Garden of NutS,) an
other is the Beds Of Spices The writer's guide WIS u
welleducated Italian, who informed him that the Gar.
dens Of s 'lomon are now let to an Englishman. 'rhe
present. be said, is MIR. Goldsmith, OF the house of
Goldsmith Il Son. He is undertaking the gardens of
Solomon on the Yorkshire system. You will be as.
tonished to see how s~uccersful he has been. Here is
the house. | perceive a bright brass knob shining in
the centre of a small square OF porcelain let into a white
wall. Over the knob Was the following superscription
in the English language 6 Ring the bell This bell
seemed to my imagination rather an anomaly in the
garden of Solomon-but that is a trile. We did ring
the bell, and went in. The Grst thing that struck my
eyes were red draining pipes lying about, and beraing
the mark of the manufacturers, Samuel l. Co., No. l2S
Strand. MI. Goldsmith was draining that biblical val
ley, the dew of which was so often brushed away by the
naked feet of the Shulamite. 1t was in the month OF
September. An American moving machine Was cutting
a second crop Of artificial grass on the very spot Uaaert
the daughters of Jerusalem gathered those lilies of the
field which were more beautiful than Solomon in all his
glory. A patent reaping machine was rapidly garner
ing the crop Of that glebe in which the sisters Of Ruth