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Saint Paul weekly Minnesotian., 1859-04-23
OF Lager Beer, Porter ana


We commend the following action of the
Parliament of Great Britain to any who feel
so habitually welded to break off using them.
They are facts which no respectable manufac-
turer will attempt to gainsay: 5'd~ ...-
The Parliament of Great Britain takes con-
siderable pains to protect the public against
the adulteration of food and drink, so injuri-
GUS to the health of the people An investi-
cation was had recently by select commit
tee of that body, and the report has just
been made and published in the Weekly Re-
cord of February 5th. Mr.. Normandy, who
was examined in regard to the aduiteration
of beer, said that the public who sells
it adulterates it with common salt to in
crease thirst, and with sulphate of iron, CO.
culus indicus, sulphate Of ammonia, and ex-
tract of gentian. Coculus indicus is used to
produce intoxicatlon, but is mure injurious
than the intoxicating effects of alcohol in the
beer. There is difference of fifty per cent.
of alcohol in the beer after it comes into the
publican's hands. Out of fifty samples of
draught porter and stout examined, only one
third of them were the produce of malt and
hops alone. The 'mildness, briskness and
distinguished acidity," even = of the better
samples, might be traced to the adulteration
with foots sugar, or like saccharine matter,
roasted quassia, and sinking fnings. Nico-
tine, alum, copperas, acetate of potash, and
vinegar, are all used to flavor and color the
beer. Many of these substances are of
remarkable poisonous nature. They are
sold usually by the druggists to publicans
In gin, sub-carbonate of alum and potash
are used, and also sulphuric acid and oil of
almonds, to produce what is termed the "head-
ing, or bubbling when poured into the glass.
The ''fnings" are made up of fish-fins and
fish skins, and frequently the rats get into
the tubs, and are poured out with the finings,
in decomposed condition, into the beer bar
rels. This is the stuff that Englishmen drink,
and it is very much like the drinks that are
furnished in this country; the latter, however,
being more adulterated then even the English
article, because there is not the same care Ia
ken to expose the practice Of adulteration.
The physicians of this country attribute the
difficulty they now have with riania-a-potu
cases to the vianously adulterated compounds
which are now sold under one name or anoth-
er as spirituous drinks.
Saint Paul weekly Minnesotian., 1859-04-23
The Transatlantic Balloon.

The arrangements making by Mr.. La Noun
tain for the manufacture of the balloon with
which he intends to cross the Atlantic, are
rapidly progressing to completion. The twine
from which the net work is to be made is
believed to be the most complete article of the
kind ever made in this country also a selec-
ton of a superior quality of India silk, which
will probably be employed in the manufac-
ture of the balloon, an apparatus for MAIN
tanning different degrees of latitude with
out wasting gas, or dscharging ballast which
lis to be attached to the car, is being made
The enterprise begins to assume tangible
form
Saint Paul weekly Minnesotian., 1859-04-23
A Problem.

Suppose man and girl were to get mar
ried-the man thirty-five years old, and the
girl five years this makes the man seven
times as old as the girl !; and they live to-
gether until the girl is ten years old, this makes
the man forty years old, and four times as
old as the girl and they still live until she is
fifteen, the man would be forty-fve, this
makes the man three times as old; and they still
live on till she is thirty years old this makes
the man sixty-only twice as old and so on.
Now how long would they have to live to make
the girl as old as the man? ~ -aa aT.g 3
Saint Paul weekly Minnesotian., 1859-04-23

TROUBLE IN CATHOLIC CHURCH.-The
Archbishop has suspended Rev. Mr.. Dayman,
of St. Johns church in 5Oth street, for saying
that shell was paved with the skulls of bad
priests" and for other enthusiastic language
Mr. Dayman, who is a convert from Protest
antism, addressed his congregation in the op-
en- air near his church last Sunday, and de-
clared his intention of building a chapel at his
own expense. 1t is said that his congrega-
ton will follow him.-N. Y Commercial Ad-
Uertiser.
Saint Paul weekly Minnesotian., 1859-04-23
SHE ALWAYS MADE HOME HAPPY.
BIZ " HARRIE.''

She always made home happy!
With her kind and winning ways
With her voice of cheerful gladnesse
With her cheerful hymn of praise.
She always made home happy!
Though she charmed no passer by
With the beauty of her person,
Or the brightnes of her eye.
Though no pearls or rubies glittered,
Mid the ringlet's of her hair,
In her heart there shone q radiance
Of jewel far more rare.
She always made home happy!
Though her song was not divine,
Though no harp beneath her fingers
Thrilled to notes almost sublime.
Though no artist, yet she painted
Many beam of heavenly love,
On the friendly faces round her,
That shall shine in realms above.
Saint Paul weekly Minnesotian., 1859-04-23
Uses of Adversfty.

You wear out your old clothes. You are
not. troubled with many visitors. You are
exonerated from making calls. Bores do not
bore you Sponges cannot haunt your table.
Itinerant bands do not play opposite your
window. You avoid the nuisance of serving
on iuries. No one thinks of presenting you
with testimonial No tradesman irritates
you by asking "Is there any other little
article to-day, sir ?" Begging letter-writers
leave you alone. Impositors know it is use
less to bleed you. You practice temperance.
You swallow infinitely less poison than others.
You are saved many debt, many decep-
ton, many headache. And, lastly, if you
have true friend in the world, you are sure,
in a very short space of time, to learn it.
Saint Paul weekly Minnesotian., 1859-04-23
THE LITTLE STREET SWEEPER.

Out through the drifted snow,
Out ere the Day doth glow fling
Between his bars of gold, and Ger the earth doth
His amber shafts. or ere the city, voices ring
Along the path of trade:
Out from a wretched shed,
Out from her strawy bed
Creepeth child, with weary look and sad.
Along squalid street,
With bare and bruised feet
Into square begirt with dome and psrapet,
And church with fretted towers firm set
Against the lofty sky:
With bruised feet and bare,
Through the dim morning air
Stealeth that child with wet and sunken eye.
The Sun now leads the Day
Upon his orient way,
And touched with fire are Christian town and fame;
And well-fed Life rushes with might and main,
Joyous and proud and strong:
Yet still beside the mart
With sad and sinking heart,
Stealeth that child her weary way along,
A path across the street,
Where roads of traffic meet,
And Trade and Fashion now do surge and sweep,
Across the jostng path her cold, thin fingers keep
For horse and coach and dray;
Pass, pass, pass; sweep, sweep, sweep;
How hard 1t is to keep
For needless thankless Thrift and Pride away !!
A piteous prayer and cry
To every paSSer-by!
And yet the gilded coach goes flashing on
Fhnging rich ordors through the hurrying town,
Hurrying so fast away;
And still that cry is there
Spare me from hunger, spare, stay.
And from your gains and pride one moment
There is path that lies
From earth into the skies:
Across empyrean heights and pinnacles that glow
With endless light that angel fingers SOW
With pearl and gold do SOW
And yet with garments mean
The low born NAzARENE, Two.
Opened that path for as by toll and shame and
Ye who that path would climb
To heavenly gates sublime,
10 streets unswept, whose domed towers do raise
Their lofty heads, where choired anthems praise
That CHILD of lowly birth:
Think ye cross the street,
Think, as that cry ye meet,
Inc path that ends in heaven begins on earth.
Saint Paul weekly Minnesotian., 1859-04-23

A WOMAN OF NERvE-We find the fol-
lseing matrimonial announcement in an ex-
ch,nge: .... .,. r..
."1n Granville county, N. G., on the first
day of January last, by Rev. Elijah Hester,
Mr.. James Brogden, the father of eighteen
children, to Miss Mary Cash, all of Granville"
Saint Paul weekly Minnesotian., 1859-04-23

rW- Clark, the American who persisted in
running in the Hartford district in opposition
to Loomis, the regular Republican nominee,
got all of 216 votes. Loomis, however was
elected by only 65 purality, so Clark came
near doing all the misshief he could have
hoped to accomplish. Mr.. Clark will proba-
bly, now find the oblivion he SO richly de-
serves. - -r -
Saint Paul weekly Minnesotian., 1859-04-23

t- 81 wish could be cured of lying in
bed so late in the morning." said lazy hus-
band lounging on his pillow. "Well, In try
the water cure" said his wife, pouring a
bucketfull on him.
Saint Paul weekly Minnesotian., 1859-04-23
From the. st. Joseph (Mo.) Journal, March 81.

From the st. Joseph (Mo.) Journal, March 81.
War Among the Indians of the Plains.
By letter received from our correspond
ent Missouri" dated Lone Star, N. T.,
March 21st, we learn that an Indian war, on
an extensive scale, is on foot among the vari-
GUS tribes of the plains, headed by the Mime
tongues, part of the Sioux tribe, numbering
eight hundred lodges; and negotiations are
now pending between them and the Cheyennes,
Arrapahoes, Crows and other tribes. A long
talk was to come off in few days after our
correspondent wrote, when it was thought
they would inform the commanders of the
various forts, of their intention to declare war.
Saint Paul weekly Minnesotian., 1859-04-23
Railroad Freights.

The New York Central Railroad managers
have decided to reduce their freight charges to
the point necessary to recover to this City
that trade which has been distracted from us
by the lower tariffs adopted by the Pennsyl-
vania Central and Baltimore and Ohio roads.
This advantage to the Philadelphia and Balti-
more merchants has been from So to 81 per
ton, and has been sufficient to materially in
jure the trade of New York. A memorial
signed by large number of our merchants,
representing this fact, was presented to the
New York Central managers, who have acted
promptly upon it, and call upon the business
public of the City to sustain them. The Erie
managers will no doubt follow in the same
course. The managers of the two roads have
been in consultation for few days, but no
platform Of common interest has been adopted.
The Central, we understand, was willing to
divide the cattle traffic. but the Erie demands
division of all the business of the two roads.
To this the Central was unwilling to yield.-
n. Y. Tribune, 1st. 5'5
o' .raH BALTIMORE, April 8.
The New York Central Railroad having is
sued circular announcing its purpose to take
freight from New York to the West as cheap
as the Baltimore and Ohio will, from Balti-
more, the latter is determined to reduce
freights so as to maintain the present differ
ence in favor of this city.
Saint Paul weekly Minnesotian., 1859-04-23

tw From several notices and illusions in
our eastern exchanges we see that some of the
eastern steamboats, are provided with steam
organs, or "Calliopes," which announce their
arrival at any town by playing tune. 1t is
q great improvement 11 .ar"a r. .aI
Saint Paul weekly Minnesotian., 1859-04-23
The Great Billiard Match.

The Billiard match at Detroit, for $4,000,
between Michael Phelan and Johnny Seereiter,
was played on Tuesday evening, the 18th.
The choice of play and ball was won by See
reiter. The following table will show the pro-
gress of the game, at different hours, until it's
close at five o'clock Wednesday morning:
Saint Paul weekly Minnesotian., 1859-04-23
Root River II. H.
he Lacrosse Democrat says

The Lacrosse Democrat says: ..-.....
The work of grading on the first twenty
miles Of the Root River railroad, will be com
pleted first of May. Weexpect to report the
letting of twenty more miles grading at an
early day. ......t.. -...... n.t '.tsg
Saint Paul weekly Minnesotian., 1859-04-23

+ W What's the difference between sail
or and soldier? One tars his ropes while
the other pitches bis tent. n. ..r B.. 3
Saint Paul weekly Minnesotian., 1859-04-23

sW- Why is it easier to be a clergyman
than physician Kase it is easier to preach
than to practice. Gap ar-Es rg..s.w -l-
Saint Paul weekly Minnesotian., 1859-04-23

W A writer says that ''life may be mer-
ry as well as useful" Every person that
owns mouth has always good opening for
laugh. = -,
Saint Paul weekly Minnesotian., 1859-04-23

w- A man who has no bills against him,
belongs to the order of nobility in more than
one sense. Es.-. .-r..
Saint Paul weekly Minnesotian., 1859-04-23

H If lightning-rods do not actually take
the lightning from the clouds, they at least
take the fear of it from timid hearts.
Saint Paul weekly Minnesotian., 1859-04-23

W The blemishes of great men are not
the less blemisfes; but unfortunately they
are the easiest parts for imitation. -. ~.
Saint Paul weekly Minnesotian., 1859-04-23

I ~ Small newsboy to Horrifed Dandy.
".Wont you scratch my 'ead, Mister my
'ands are so cold can't.
Saint Paul weekly Minnesotian., 1859-04-23

WA truly grateful heart may not be able
to tell its gratitude, but it can feel ana love
an act. ...... .-.-....g
Saint Paul weekly Minnesotian., 1859-04-23

~ Love letters are generally species Of
noose.paper. @-' ." IA.-
Saint Paul weekly Minnesotian., 1859-04-23

H Hot weather is very trying to fat
folks. s., ,.t.s. -. g ze.ftrr. 5a .s
Saint Paul weekly Minnesotian., 1859-04-23

H The remembrance of well spent
life is sweet. g.,liar ..s...,,i. +,
Saint Paul weekly Minnesotian., 1859-04-23

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The Placer herald., 1859-03-26
The Country Paper.

Some spirited editor gets off the following
which is true from the beginning to the end
"All free and liberal institutions" saws he,
''are essentially local-springing up over the
whole face of notwithstanding and
beautifying all the parts. Then all is heal
thy An empire of freemen is made up of
a multitude of communities dis
tricts - townships -counies-States- each
free and having its own voice, and its own in,
terests. The voice is spoken, and these in
terests are advocated hy the local press
which tlourishes indigenous in a republic,
but is impossible in land of despotsm-
Let a free people once discard, or cease to
support their home newspapers, and take the
tone of another community, and they will
become annexed to that community, and are
strangers to their own-its peculiar local
feelings opinion, and interests. The local
presses employ a considerable capital, and
disburse among their neighbors some thou
sands Of dollars annualy-keep vigilant
look out after the interests, political civil and
pecuniarv, of the community they serve
are an important record Of particular local
tacts-and render weekly an account of the
doings of the world. And what do city
weeklies give their country reades for their
ready pay? Old stories, stale news, city
fashions, with hasty political hash-the
Ieavings Of the daily papers from which they
are chiefly made up. Genuine patriotism is
always local, and lives ard moves and has
its being as near home as possible, and looks
abroad for nothing which its own neigIbor-
hood can support"
The Placer herald., 1859-03-26

DYING-Benjamin f. Taylor, Of the Chi
cago Journal, makes the following beautiful
picture:
There is a dignity about that going away
alone, We call dying-that wrapping the
mantle ofimmortalty about us; that putting
aside with pale hand the azure curtains
that are drawn around this cradle of world;
that venturing away from home for the first
time in our lives; for we are not dead-there
is nothing dead to speak OF, and we only go
off seeking foreign countries not laid down
on the maps we know about.
There must be lovely lands somewhere
starward, for mono ever return that 90 thlth-
er and we very much doubt if any would if
they could.
The Placer herald., 1859-03-26
South Carolina and the Slave Trade

1t is a singular fact, and as honorable as
it was unexpected, that the nuIlifying
State of Sou h Carolina has spoken out
against the slave trade with an emphasis
that has marked the expression of opinion
in no other Southern State. Her press, so
far as we have seen, without a solitary ex-
ception, have protested with the greatest en-
ergy and warmth against the infringement
of the law, and the Introduction Of Africans
into their State. We have already had oc-
casion to copy from some of them, and we
publish this morning an article from the
Winnsborough Register, that speaks out in
terms not to be mistaken. 1t will be seen
too, in the same connection, that the relig-
ious societies of that State are taking up
the matter, and giving the illicit commerce
their unqualified condemnation.
Savannah Republican.
The Placer herald., 1859-03-26
From the Troy, N. " Budget.
The Rapid Descent of Brace of Ambi-
tiOus DemagogOes.

The latest Presidential rumor from Wash
ington is novel, but not strange or startling
in these times. TIE rumor comes from the
Washington correspondent of the Cincinnati
Gazette, who gravely afiirms that Forney
and Broderick are busily engaged in bring.
ing out William II. Seward, believing him
to be the man to save the country in 1860
Stranger things than this have happened.
B. Rep paper.
There is nothing, we concede, very strange
about the matter The Democratic party,
from its first organization-from the days
of Aaron Burr down to those of John =.
Hale, and Preston King-has every year
had to cast Oft such excrescences, in order
to maintain its purity and retain the conf
denco OF the people. Forney and Broderck
were unable to see anything tolerable in
Black Republcanism, until the first failed to
obtain seat in the United States Senate,
and place in the Cabinet and the second
failed to control the Federal appointments
in the State of California. The first effect
of these failures was to throw both of them
with the opposition on the Kansas admission
question. They rofessed to follow Douglas,
u"' ''oy ici"Ho" w sup "nc'o "c StopPeu.
Douglas was honest enough or sagacous
enough to feel that the embrace of Black
Repubicanism was political death, and he
repelled its touch. Forncy and Broderick
threw themselves, body and SOUL into the
arms of Black Republicanism, in tho inton-
sity Of their disappointment, and being com
pcled to stay there, it is not singular at all,
that notwithstanding all their past profes
sions, they begin to find astonishing virtues
even in Seward, whom they had formerly
denounced as "the Prince of Darkness"
and whose election to the Presidency they
had freely predicted would prove the destruc
ton of the Union. The opposition are wei
come to both of them, and are in duty
bound to make the most of each of them
which at the utmost extent cannot amount
to great deal
The Placer herald., 1859-03-26
The Ashes of Columbus,

A cathedral in Havana claims the honor
Of sheltering the remains Of the navigator.
A recent traveller thus describes the place:
"a mural tablet in the choir, on which is
a bust of the ilustrous Genoese in alto relief
informs the public that all that is mortal of
him reposes there; that whilst he has left the
country he discovered to be the home of
prosperous millions, he has made a voyage
to still more distant land from which no
traveller returns-One of the officials who
had an eye to business during the services,
presented me with printed card telling the
story of the hegira Of these illustrous bones.
Though Columbus died at Valladolid, in
Spain, his remains were not permitted to
rest there. They were first transported to
Carthusian monastery, at Seville; next
they were removed across the seas to st.
Domingo, and finally they were disinterred
and brought to Havana. Here in the An
TILES, with which the discovery has rendered
his name immortal, and has so intimate
connection, it is fitting that his dust should
repose. The land which his heroism reveal
ed to an astonished and admring world,
may well afford him enough wherein to
sleep his long sleep"
The Placer herald., 1859-03-26

VIGILANCE CoMMIrrEE~~The inhabitants
of Southport, N. y having been much an
noyed Of late by gang of thieves, haye Of
ganized a Vigilance Committee, and actually
hung fellow named Odel, lately, for steal
ing pair of boots from Jones store
After hanging spell, they took him down,
but on his refusing to confess the theft. they
strung him up again, and on being second
time relieved, he owned Up. They then took
him to jail
The Placer herald., 1859-03-26

An editor "out West," having been D"e-
sented with bottle Of Old London Dock
Gin, drank it, and then attempted to write
paragraph of thanks, with this result:
an conclusion, here's to Fire Fountain
Company No. Some the Brassfontane Belle
Band, and the rest of our home insutions
and orgzatiops, including the ladies, and
other branches Of business (hic) in and
around town, and especially the Messident's
Pressage, Monument, etc, all Of which may
be had cheap at the Buck-Drook-Broof
aud Drag Store OF Binnger's Old London
Dock Gin. for 50 yeaT if payment is deS
ed until the end Of the Atlantis Cable
The Placer herald., 1859-03-26
ONLY WAITING.

Only waiting till the shadows
Are little longer grown;
Only waiting till the glimmcr
OF the days last beam is flown:
Till the night of earth is faded
From the heart once full of day;
Till the stars Of heaven are breaking
Through the twilight soft and gray.
Only waiting till the reapcrs
Have the last sheaf gathered home;
For the summer time is faded,
And the autumn winds have come.
Quickly, reapers, gather quickly,
The last ripe hours Of my heart;
For the bloom of life is withercd,
And hasten to depart.
Only waiting till the angels
Open wide the mystic gate,
AT whose feet long have fingered,
Weary, poor, and desolate;
Even now hear their footsteps,
And their voices far away;
If they call me | am waiting,
Only waiting to obey.
Only waiting till tic shadows
Are n little longer grown;
Only waiting till the glimmcr
OF the days last beam is flown;
Then from out the gathering darkness
Holy, deathless stars shall rise,
BY whose light my soul shall gladly
Tread its pathway to the skies.
The Placer herald., 1859-03-26

CURE For CoNNunIAL INFArUArIoN.-A
Buffalo lady, who claims to know "whars
what" proposes that young men and wo-
men be set up in house keeping before they
are allowed to be engaged that the young
woman shall wash and mend and DUST and
that new born infant shall be procured
from the hospital, and that she have the
charge of him in addition to her other du-
ties. She is of the opinion this process
would 'disenchant' the young people.
The Placer herald., 1859-03-26

ADVISORY COMMITTEE:
His Excelency John B. Weller Sacramento;
Hon. Jos Walkup; Sacramento; Hon. W. G. STRAIT
ton, Sacramento Hon Stephen Field, Sacra-
mento; Hon NJ Ii McAllister, San Francisco;
Hon Ogden Hoffman. San Francisco; Hon j S X
OSier, Los Angeles; Right Rev. Bishop Kip, San
Francisco; Right Rev. Bishop Allemany, San
Francisco; Hon. John G Fremont, Mariposa; Hon.
Harry Thornton. San Francisco; Hon Edward
Stanley, San Francisco; Hon Milton S Latham,
Sacramento; Hon D Baker, San Francisco;
Hon Balie Peyton, San Francisco; Edward J
Pringle, Esq, San Francisco; Henry W Halleck,
Esq, San Francisco; VIM Lent, Esq, Santa Clara;
Major E D Keyes, San Francisco; Hon N Q Blake,
San Francisco; Hon 7 W freedom, San Francisco;
p Tracy, Esq San Francisco Hon Ed W Nc
Kinstry Napa; Hon Benjamin Hays, San Diego;
Hon joaquin Carrillo, San Luis 0bspo, Hon
Sam'l Bell Mckee, Oakland; Hon John Haynes,
Crescent City; Hon p Daingerield, Shasta; Hon
F Bliss Marysyillc; Hon b Il Myres, Auburn;
Hon Ed Norton, San Francisco; Hon Chas M
Creaner, Stockton; Hon Niles Searls. Downieville;
Hon Warren Sexton, Oroville; Hon Pablo de
Guerra, Santa Barbara. March3