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St. Cloud visiter [sic]. [volume] (St. Cloud, Stearns County, Minn.) 1857-1858, 1858-05-27

New PorATcEs.-Hcre it is, only the
third day of May, in the year Of grace,
1858, and VIC have baen Illustrating Oh
nc,o potatoes "away up in Minnesota."-
This may be startling announcement to
eastern ears which seldom if ever listen to
any tale from Minnesot other than those
of starvation and snow drifts; but it is
nevertheless true Judge Orlando Stevens
has laid upon our table quantity Of po-
tatoes raised this spring upon his farm at
Minnesota City, six miles out Of town.
They are all Of good size, and several Of
them are larger than hens eggs. This
will do to chronicle as the first fruits Of
the season. nona Republican,.
St. Cloud visiter [sic]. [volume] (St. Cloud, Stearns County, Minn.) 1857-1858, 1858-05-27

The new Kansas bill proposed by Mr.:
ENGLISH, OF lndiann, as compromise
between the two houses Of Congress, is so
Objectionable to both sides, that we hope
for its abandonment by its projectors, or
its defeat when it comes to vote. 1t is a
dishonest scheme, because it pretends one
thing and intends another. 1t has been
said of it with much truth, that it is at
once u bride and threat. The people are
to be allowed to vote on the Constitution,
but they are to be rewarded if they vote
Yea, and punished if they vote Nay. Mr..
ENGLlsH's bill provides for grant of
three millions Of acres Of land to the State
of Kansas if she accepts the Lccompton
Constitution, but if she rejects it she get:
nothing, and must stay out Of the Union
until census shall allow that she has a
population sufficient to entitle her to a
member Of Congress-which is now IS APO
and will be from 110, 900 to 125, 900 under
the census If 1860. Thus, if the people
reject Lccompton, they will be subjected
to pro-slavery rule for an indefinite period,
and minority will have new lease Of pow.
err, using it, as Of course they will, to
strengthen slavery in the territory, and
finally to fasten upon the people a slave
Constitution. Now, can anything be
more dishonest than this? If Kansas is
qualified to come into the Union under the
Lecompton Constitution, is she not also
qualified to come in under another Con
stitution if she SO elect? Yet she is to be
told, if this project succeeds, that unless
she votes in certain way she must b.
kept out Of the Union perhaps for years K
come.
But deceptive and unjust as this meas
ure is, its adoption by the Administration
for it is said to be approved in that quarter
involves u concession of almost everything
claimed by the opposition in relation to thu
validity Of the Lecompton Constitution
It is an admission that that instrument il
not the Constitution Of the people of Kan
sas; that it lacks what our neighbor of tn,
Union calls illegal virtue" and is of nj
force until legally and fairly ratified by thu
people. This is an important concession
and deprives the Lecompton scheme Of it
most Objectionable feature. IT,.
St. Cloud visiter [sic]. [volume] (St. Cloud, Stearns County, Minn.) 1857-1858, 1858-05-27

CORRESPONDENCE.
PRICE1oN MIN. APRIL 10TH,

Mrs. ED1TREss
The dastardly attempt to '.crush OUT free.
dom of speech in St. Cloud by the destruction
of your paper, has aroused the country. To
think that in the center of the New England
of the West, o press should be destroyed be-
cause Of its noble advocacy of rights of the
poor and the down trodden, almost staggers my
credulity.
Shall o Shareholder crack his whip over the
heads of the citizens Of St. Cloud? That's the
question. Most emphatically has the question
been responded to by your paper, and most
handsomely and unquali6dly do they sustain
you, in the good name of St. Cloud, by their
manly resolves. They ring out the true metal.
They have got tile snap in them. Going as they
do before the. country, along with the account
Of the outrage, they more than ncutralise it.
They do more to give good name to st. Clond
than all the windy puffs it has ever received.
own q little town property there, which,
since this event, and as result of the winding
up of it, consider enhanced in value one hun
bred per cent. No thanks however to General
Lowcry and his head laquey-Jccms! leave
them to the indignant scorn and contempt Of
their just incensed fellow citizens and to the
infamous notoriety they have brought upon
themselves.
/ inclose 81 for which please send me the
Visiter according to your terms. will make
an effort to get more subscribers here for you.
Truly yours,
Y EETT
St. Cloud visiter [sic]. [volume] (St. Cloud, Stearns County, Minn.) 1857-1858, 1858-05-27
Fair Play for Woman.


A LECTURE BY GEORGE WIN. CURTIS.
The following is the New York 7rib-
Mne's report of the Lecture on Woman's
Rights by Geo. w. Curtis, in that city.
A large audience greeted MIR. G.. w.
Curtis last night at Mozart Hall, where he
lcotured on the above subject. He said
that whoever had heard public speaking or
read public discourses in this country, had
learned we'll the art of "not how to say it,
There was always some party to be compro-
missed or some prospects to be ignored
Happily, tonight, there was no party, not
even q committee to be compromised by
any plain speaking. stand here tonight
alone in sweet and good cause. In say
ing what think of it speak only for my
sell, though I may speak also for many Of
che good and true who hear me. The SUBJ
ject is of such nature that those who speak
about it may say nearly the same things
and arrive at the same conclusion. AL
though new subject to a popular audience,
it already has literature Of it's own, many
advocates Of its own, and has become as ia
miliar to those who have thought of the
question as flowers are to May. When we
see something that ought TO- be done and
may be done, we soon begin to consider
how it shall be done. Twill therefore hope
hat our talk together this Spring evening
may be like the talk of Boaz when he saw
Ruth cleaning in the fields and said to her:
..tBe it far from me that when we reap thou
shouldst but CLEAN; lay thy sheaf adown,
come share my harvest and my home"
IApplause. just in the degree that the
World advances, every question of right and
responsibility g! is subjected to l most search.
ing discussion. It does no good to lose
our temper or call names. When this
nursing Of question grows more robust
scolding may quiet it, and when It grows
older and tugs at your coat tails, swearing
may do or frightening with the bugabooj
but still later, when this poor little baby Of
question, at which you laugh has grown
St. Cloud visiter [sic]. [volume] (St. Cloud, Stearns County, Minn.) 1857-1858, 1858-05-27
Death of a Revolutionary Here
a.zt 49, 80. ina

Mrs. Sarah Benjamin died in Mount
Pleasant Township, Pa, on the Goth ult.,
at the age of one hundred and fourteen
years, FIVE months and three days. Her
maiden name, says the Honcsdalc Demo-
crat, was Sarah Mathews, and she was
born in Goshen county, N. Y, on the 18th
of November, 1743, She was thrice maj
ried. Her first husband was Mr.. William
Reed. He served in the revolutionary
army in the carly part Of the struggle, and
died of wound received in Virginia. Her
second husband was Mr.. Arron Osborne,
.fGoshen, n. Y. Hc was also in the army
of the revolution, but survived the war.
Her last husband was Mr., John Benjamin,
with whom she settled in Mount Pleasant
in 1912. He died four years afterwards.
She had five children, the youngest of whom
is seventy years old. She has left four gen..
earations Of defendants. From her youth,
until past forty years of age, she was in the
midst of rough and stirring scenes Of border
warfare or Of the revolutionary struggle.
Her temperament was such that she could
not be al idle spectator of events. She ell
tered very deeply in all these vicissitudes-
Up to the latest period of her life she dis.
tinctly recollctcd the family Of Mr. broad
head, whose sons, in 1855, boldly resisted
party of two hundred Indians, making
fort of their house. She was in the vicin-
ity of Minisink when Brant, the Indian
chief, led party of Indians and tories
through that settlement, scalping the inhab+
itants and burning the houses, After the
second marriage she accompanied her hus-
band in the army.
During marches she made her self useful
preparing food, and when in quarter, en-
gagged in embarking some heavy ordinance
at Kingsbridge, on the Hudson, ostensibly
to attack New York, then in the hands Of
the enemy, it was necessary to do it in the
night, and to place sentries around, lest
they should be observed or taken by sur
prise. Her husband having been placed
as sentinel, she took his station, with
overcoat and gun, that he might help to
load the heavy artillery.
Soon Washington came round to exam
ineth outposts, and detecting something
unusual in her appearance, asked, "Who
placed you thcre?' She promptly replied,
in her characteristic way, Chem who had
right to sir" He, apparently pleased
with her independent and patriotic spirit,
passed on. She accompanied the army,
with her husband, to the South, and wa..
present at the siege of Yorktown and the
surrender of CORVALLIS. During the bat
tie she was busy il carrying water to the
thirsty, and relieving the wants Of the suf-
fering. When passing where the bullets
Of the enemy were flying, she met Wash,
ington, who said, "Young woman, are you
not afraid Of the bullets?" She pleasantly
answered, "1he bullets will never cheat the
gallows." She possessed extraordinary ell
ergy, even in her extreme age, and would
relate the events Of her early days with the
vivacity of youth.
St. Cloud visiter [sic]. [volume] (St. Cloud, Stearns County, Minn.) 1857-1858, 1858-05-27

! BEAUTIFULLY SA1D.-We have the fol-
lowing extract on homestead exemption
law, from letter written by a distinguish
ed Judge Of Tennessee:
"Secure to each family, whose labor may
acquire it, a little spot Of free earth that it
may call it's own-that will be an asylum in
times of adversely, from which the mother
and children, old age and infancy can still
draw sustenance and obtain protection;
though misfortune may rob them ofall else,
they can feel they are stillfrec, still entitled
to walk the green earth and breathe the free
air ofheavc,, in defiance Of the potency and
power of accumulated wealth, and the dom
ineering of the pretending and ambitious.
The sacrcdness of that consecrated spot will
make them warriors in the time of eternal
strife. These shocks of corn, said Xono-
phon, inspire those who raiset them to defend
them. The largest Of then. lin the field is a
prize exhibited in the middle of the stage
to crown the conqucror Secure home to
every family, whose labor may obtain one,
against the weakness, vices or misfortunes
Of the father, and you will rivet the affect
ions of the child in years of manhood by a
stronger bond than any consideration that
could exist. He will remember where he
had gamboled in his early youth, the stream
upon whose fowery banks he felt another :
love, and the green spot within that little
homestead where slccpthe loved and the
lost 40 :.s@ ~. 40:
St. Cloud visiter [sic]. [volume] (St. Cloud, Stearns County, Minn.) 1857-1858, 1858-05-27
Extract from private CORES
pondence.
BIDDEroRD MAINE APRIL 13, 1855

BIDDEroRD MAINE APRIL 13, 1858.
= hope you will not be driven, but get to pub
fishing another paper again and in time you
will show those ''bordcr ruffians" that their
mob spirit is not such as can flourish in the
noble land of Minnesota!
am pleased with the noble welcome the
Editor of St. Paul Times, made you to use his
columns. am Subscriber to his sheet, and
shall herafter, feel a livelicr sense of his
manhood, when reading his paper, than before.
On your rcsuming, shall tryto send you a
few Subscribers
Yours very truly for a Free Press, or none
St. Cloud visiter [sic]. [volume] (St. Cloud, Stearns County, Minn.) 1857-1858, 1858-05-27
NfISNEsorA AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE

MINNESOTA AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE.
We are. grati6ed to learn that arrange
mcnts have been made to secure three hun
dred and twenty acres Of land to be given
to the State for the benefit Of the State
Agricultural College located near this town.
We hope to see a commencement made
this season on the buildings and grounds Of
the College.-Glencoc Register.
St. Cloud visiter [sic]. [volume] (St. Cloud, Stearns County, Minn.) 1857-1858, 1858-05-27

THAT AR TrnSlp.-We were present
cd by our energetic and good-looking Sher-
if, George w. Baker, with a most magnif:-
iccnt turnip, weighing two and one half
pounds, which was raised this Strtny.-
Talk about your country "down South"
now, will you? You can't come in. IF
there is any country this side Of sssundown'
that can beat Minnesota, we should like to
hear from them, dorchester Free Press. -
St. Cloud visiter [sic]. [volume] (St. Cloud, Stearns County, Minn.) 1857-1858, 1858-05-27

l9r Capital punishment is not inflicted
in Wisconsin, and movement to rcinstatc
it has called forth in the Milwaukee Wis
consin an article argueing in favor Of the
present and milder mode of punishment
by Imprisonment. The writer insists that
the crime of murder has not increased
since the abolition Of the gallows, and
challenges the proof to, the contrary. S..
St. Cloud visiter [sic]. [volume] (St. Cloud, Stearns County, Minn.) 1857-1858, 1858-05-27

by MRS. JANE G. sw1ssHELM'
IT'S years, six long years, mother, since
We wrapped the winding sheet
Around thy worn and wasted form
Thy rest was calm and sweet. -f-1
Death came in his good angle garb,
And freed from racking pain;
I would not then for worlds have called
Thy spirit back again.
But Earth is very silent now
1t wants thy pleasant tone;
Its hottest, bril- htest light is fled
Thy loving smile is gone.
/ listen in the twilight, to
The plaintivc whipporwill-
The signing of the zephyr's breath.
aud murmeriug of the rillx
Thy voice, thy dear voice, moth r mine,
Is wanting, wanting STILL
The sky with all her brilliant eyes,
Could ne or look half SO fair,
Did not think thy spirit pure
Looked down on me from there.
When sickness lays his iron hand,
To press my faint head down;
IT'S then, it's then, my mother DOR
feel that thou art gone
No love is half so tirclcss then,
No hand is like thine own,
When friends, kind friends arc around my
bed,
And ieycd ones standing near
TO speak in tones of sympathy,
Their kindly words of cheer
] turn in utter loneliness,
To whisper, mother dear,
That sound Of mother, mother DEAR
Earth has no other word
With half so much of melody.
How has my full heart stirred
To hear it poured from cherub lips
Like notes from some glad bird.
No wonder that turn mine eyes,
With longing looks above
The world is very desolate,
Without q mothers love.
St. Cloud visiter [sic]. [volume] (St. Cloud, Stearns County, Minn.) 1857-1858, 1858-05-27

nR The coal business of Ohio in 1910
employed four hundred men; in 1850,
seven bundled; aud il 1857 FIVE thousand:
The labor Of those Eve thousand men have
supplied independent Of the large amount
of coal used for fuel a motive power, in
steam engines, &c, equivalent to the labor
Of FIVE hundred thousand men.
St. Cloud visiter [sic]. [volume] (St. Cloud, Stearns County, Minn.) 1857-1858, 1858-05-27

81. ~. Rev. Dr.afAYLoR Of Onaehita
Hh La. shot one Of his negroes re-
Gently for insubordination.-
St. Cloud visiter [sic]. [volume] (St. Cloud, Stearns County, Minn.) 1857-1858, 1858-05-27
eky-, Punch has a portrait of 'sThe mex

ambassador 70 Naples It IS a seventy
four FOUNDER, behind which stands an Eng
slish tar with his hands on the fuse.
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TAEST,ClOuDVlSlTER
oFFICEON RIVER STREET, OPPOSITE THE
STEAMBOAT LANDING.

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St. Cloud visiter [sic]. [volume] (St. Cloud, Stearns County, Minn.) 1857-1858, 1858-05-27
Written for Meals Saturday Gazette.
ON THE ADVERSARY OF MY
MOTHERS DEATH.

by MRS. JANE G. Sw1SSHELM'
St. Cloud visiter [sic]. [volume] (St. Cloud, Stearns County, Minn.) 1857-1858, 1858-05-27
THE KANSAS DODGE.

ours very truly for Free Press, or none,
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1858-09-15

1HE LAsT IE1ERYTEF SETEEES BEsrox AID BIZ.
4sAAAs.Ars, Jacobs, da1sh,sr. e. ths late Col
,.o give. the following account sf hsr fathers
interview e short tine before hl d.ashl i.b P-s,
dent Buchanan:
he took the Presidents hand in bi. ,,s ..ss =
clear tones " buchanan, We are frisnds. =. -. =
aiHered on many Points, as you ven knew. 49,
nave always trusted in your integrity 5F pBvr.,,
supported yOuin preferences % Frsmo5f. beSs-S-
ne headed q sectional party, whose success would
nave been the signal Tor disuni0n. I have kpov1
yo9 long, and knew you would honestly sndesvor
70 40 fight have that faith il YOU nov. but Won
must look 70 Higher Power to support and z1ids
you. ne VIII soon meet in another World Ian %
ing nov, you viii soon follow nv peace vitb Cod
Is made; ny earthly affairs arranged but I eoul5
not 60 without seeing you, and thankinr vou ~
your Interest in ny child. Much more vss "a
ihat is toe sacred 70 repeat Colonel Benton wag
much exhausted, and Mr. Buchanan frequently
urged him 70 spare himself Mr. Buchanan re-
nsfkea to members Of the fanily that Eothin9 ever
nSa given him greater pleasure When Mrs ia
coos returned TO her fathers room he called her 10
nim m snd said :" Ny child, you are a witness of
anSt mas passed this evening think Of is remember
It. am glad Buchanan came; all is psaos Witb ne
and can rest
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1858-09-15
Conclusion of Pathetic Story OF Real

Conclusion of a Pathetic StoFy OF Real
Life. r--.- .
Sometime in June last, We published, under the
title Of Truth Stranger than Fiction the story Of
TWO young men in the west Of England, named ely
ma and PAUL, the latter Of whom was supposed to
have been murdered by The former, but Was met in
Chicago few days previous to disqualification Of the
narrative, by Mrs BOsustoW, sister Of the suspee~
ted murderer Il will be remembered that the sis
ter and Paul. the supposed murdered man, we're on
their way 20 EBgland 20 what could be done for
Clyms, who had eleven years been insane from the
suspicion excited against him, and the death, by
grief Of bis belrothed The Cleveland Herald gives,
from private letters the sad termination Of this pa
rhetic story of real life
On their arrival in England, PAUL and Mrs BOs-
ustow proceeded at once to their former place Of
residence.
The unusual circumstances Of post-earrisge en-
tering he Quiet little village al late hour Of the
night created considerable curiosity, and IN short
time the astounding news that the supposed mur-
dered man had arrived alive aud prosperous heW
like wild FIRE through the village, and the humble
tavern where the strangers put up was surrounded
by an excited crowd esger to see the man who
seemed To have risen from the tomb to visit them.
The ordinary quiet course Of village life was so dis
turbed that huge bonfire was lit near the tavern,
and the excitement was kept up until toward
morning.
On arriving at the asylum they learned that the
patient of whom they we're in search had been ly-
ing dangerously i'll for some time.
For two weeks be lay in this condition, gradually
getting worse During this time he was aithfuly
attended BY his sister and Paul. the latter scarcely
ever leaving the bedside being in hopes Of at some
time obtaining sign Of recognition from the un>
fortunate patient On the twentieth Of last month
Clyma aWoke from deep sleep, and with . return
Of reason Il was some time before he recognized
PAUL., who ehsnced to be standing at bis bedside,
but, when be fully aware who ii was, the shock
nearly caused relapse During the day be be
came more conscious Of passing events and held
brief conversations with his sister and PAUL touch
ing the sad DR. ma in which they had borne parts
The physician observing that the patient was grad
ually becoming weaker, forbade any more eOnVeF
cation Of the kind and succeeded in getting him
into a quiet sleep. Il was his last Toward morn
ing Clyma aWoke, repeated two or three times the
name Of his long dead betFOthed, sHd before assis-
tanee could be summoned had passed away from the
scene Of his grievous Affections
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1858-09-15
SHELLEY MEDICAL COLLEGE.


CNESSION OF tS5S-9-THE FIRST REgULAR CouEsA of
in this Institution viii commence Monday ne ~ p No
vembeE, 1865, and will continue tll the Is Of Aail
Tie Preliminary Course Of Ecturss5 uee V ~ 7.'ls
viii be given during the month Of October
FACULTY.
THOMAS L. MADDIN, NJ D., Professor OF AnA'ony' NDe'-
erptive, theological anc slr8stl i. r,-,--,-, =
JOHN FREDERICK NAY, n D. Professor Of Prtneple5 and
DANIEL p WRIaHT, u. Professor Of PhyaOIOyand Pa
IorS 99lp 9 pStLLESDER, NJ D., Professor Of Es,s1a koda
and Therapeuticgi ...--r o,-r,l-t-g
RICHARD 0. CUhkhf3 N D. froiessor Of A1'i'1-i
and Medical Jurisprudeucei -, p-,-fi,. q
= a. H1sKINs, N. D., Professor Of Theory ana ~ u
Ior p F5RD N. D. Professor Of Obstetrics and DISEASES Of
Women and Children; r s,.t,--
n N COMPTON, N. D.. Dsronsraior q 49,
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der control o .s 81 n bs presence Of the Glass; and Cni
cal Lectures delivered aIn5 20
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Graduatoe - % can be obtained for 81 50 % s4psr week
@ 5s---fser details announcements apply %
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