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The hydraulic press., 1859-05-28

EXTENT OF THE FIRMAMENT-FariOuS eS-
Inmates have been haZarded on the number
of stars throughout the whole heavens visi.
bic to us by the aid of first-class telescopes
NJ. Struve assumes for HerSchel's 30 feet re-
Hector that magnifying power OF $50 would
give 5 5,S00,000 for the number of stars living
within the zones extended thirty degrees on
either side OF the equator, and 20,314 600 for
the whole heavens. The number of telesco-
pic stars in the milky way, uninterrupted by
any nebulP, is estimated at lS,000,000 To
compare this number to something anala-
gous, Humboldt calls attention to- the fact
that there are not in the whole heavens more
than about 5000 stars, between the first and
the sixth magnitudes, visible to the naked
eye. Thus, the barren astonishment excited
by numbers and dimensions in space, when
not considered with reference to applica-
tions engaging the mental and perceptive
powers of man, is awakened in both extremes
of the Universe in the celestial bodies as in
the minutest anmalcules for, according to
Ehrcmberg, cubic inch of the polishing
slate of Bilin, contains 10000 millions of
the silecious shells Galionela
The assumption that the extent of the
starry armament is literally infinite has
Deen naue Dy Ut. OlDefS the OASIS OF IL con-
clusion that the celestial spaces are in some
slight degree deficient in transparency, so
that all beyond certain distance is and
must forever remain unseen, the gcometrical
progression of the extinction of light far out
running the effect of any conceivable in
crease in the power of our telescopes. We're
it not so, it is argued that every part of the
celestial concave ought to shine with the
brightness of the solar disc, since no visual
ray could be so directed as not, in some
point or other of its infinite length, to cn-
counter such disc.-N. T. Century,
The hydraulic press., 1859-05-28
Che Avdraulie 2ress.

To THE GIRLs.-Read what a practical
philosopher says in the Napa Reporter:
'Ladies-caged birds of beautiful plum
age, but sickly looks-pale pets of the par
Tor, who yegetate in an unhealthy atrnos-
phere like the potato terminating in dark
cellar, why do you not go out into the open
air and warm sunshine and add lustre to
your eyes, bloom to your cheeks elasticity
to your steps, and yigor to your frames?-
Take early morning exercise, let loose your
corset strings, and run up the hills on a wa
ger, and down again for filn roam in the
held, climb the fences, leap the dtches wade
the brooks, and, after day of exhilirating
exercise and unrestrained liberty, go home
with an appetite acquired by healthy enjoy
ment.
The blooming and beautiful young lady
rosy-cheeked and bright-eyed-who can
darn stocking, mend her own frocks, COM
mand regiment OF pots and kettles, feed
the pigs, milk the cows, and be lady when
required, is the girl that young men are in
quest OF for q wife. But your pining, lolling
screwed-up, wasp-waisted, doll-drcssed, con-
sumption mortgaged, music numbering, and
novel-deyouring daughters of fashion and
ldleness-you are no more fit for matrimony
than pullet is to look after brood of four
teen chickens. The truth is, my dear girls,
you want less fashionable restraint and more
liberty of action. More kitchen and less par
Ior; more leg exercise and less sofa more
pudding and less piano; more frankness and
less mock-modesty, more corned beef and
less bishop. Loosen your waist-strings, and
breathe in the pure atmosphere, and become
something as good and beautiful as nature
designed
The hydraulic press., 1859-05-28

NEwsPAPERs.-There are published in New
York city Is daily papers, in the German,
in the French, in the Italian, and II in
the English language. There are also 81
monthly and semi-monthly. semi-weekly
and l05 weekly papers. There are ten illus
trated papers published in London every
week, whose aggregate circulation is l,744,-
600 per week, and the weekly cost of the en-
cravings is about $4,000; making total an
nual circulation Of 9O,6Ss, 900 copies, and
spending 100000 a year for engrayings.-
Scientific 4mericon.
The hydraulic press., 1859-05-28

CHANGED.-The Boston Post, in comparing
the times of '49 and $50 in California says:
Things have changed in California. The
artificial has given place to the natural a
quiet, sober prosperity distinguishes the
State. 1t is progressing in everything; it is
drawing now upon its own resources-a sure
source of wealth. 1t has order, churches
and newspapers, and is altogether reformed
rake. Its wild oats have yielded good
harvest of experience, at least, and every
month it improves in decorum and we'll
doing"
The hydraulic press., 1859-05-28

The Hoe presses built in England for the
London Times do not give satisfaction
Such was the exclusiyeness and self-sufici-
ency of the English builders, that they would
not allow mechanic sent by Mr.. Hoe to as
sist in building them, to enter their works,
but kept him in London until some mechani-
Cal blunder made his advice necessary. The
presses could have been built in New York
in six months; the English mechanics were
two years about them, and now they are pro-
nounced failure.
The hydraulic press., 1859-05-28
NOBODY CAN HAVE SEEM 1T

NOBODY CAN HAVE SEEM 1T.
PROM THE GERMAN OF o. F. GRIPPE.
Fast down the staircase swinging.
With flying feet passed;
Quick up the staircase springing,
He came, and caught me fast;
And the stars are dark and dim,
Many kiss had from hin,
And nobody can have seen it.
Down into the hall dcmurely--
The guests were assembled there,
My Checks flushed hot, and surely
My lips did their tale declare.
thought they looked at me, every one,
And saw what we together had done,-
Yet nobody could have seen it.
The garden its sweets displaying,
Beckoned me out of doors:
The welcome call oDeying,
i fastened to look at the flowers
There blushed the roses all around.
There sang the birds with merry sound
As if they all had seen it,
The hydraulic press., 1859-05-28
JUST AHEAD.

By Z. r. WELLS.
The miners lIied with anxious fears
To test the gravel found;
Their lit all-the toll of years
Was vested in the ground.
And as they gaZed each hardy man
Bewailed his falling stock;
No prospect in the trial pair
No color on the rock.
Yet still their dropping hopes to save
Each to the other said
"Cheer up. and work away my brave,
Well find it Just akead.'
And fhus within the darkest hour,
When friendships voice is dumb
Hope gives the sinking soul power
To feast on joys to come.
No earthly joys are half so grand,
No present scenes so fair,
No brain-created fairy-land
And castles in the air.
Our highest bliss with rapture rife
Is that by fancy fed,
Our dearest happiness in life So
Is always ''just ahead. !"
Trinity Journal.
The hydraulic press., 1859-05-28

WOMAN at certain village in England,
went for arsenic with which to poison her
husband, but the apothecary gave her soda
and informed her husband. The latter took
the poison and pretended to sicken and die,
and when she supposed him fairly dead the
wife put rope about his neck and under
took to make it appear that he had hung
himself He could not stand that and came
to and used the rope to- give her right
down good hiding.
The hydraulic press., 1859-05-28

The United States Patent Office at Wash
ington, contains nearly 10000 models per-
tanning to patented inventions, all of which
are open to- public inspection and examina-
ton, together with the drawings and speci-
fications relating thereto.
The hydraulic press., 1859-05-28

CALIFoR.sIA RArs.-The Alta enumerates
eighteen different kinds of indigenous jump
ing rats, jumping mice, and rats and mice
that are not jumping Some of these are
very large-from eight to fifteen inches long
from the point of the nose to the end of the
tail. They are assigned to particular Sec
tions of the State.
The hydraulic press., 1859-05-28

ACCORDING to the ssAsiatic Researches" a
very curious mode of trying titles to land is
practiced in Hindostan. Two holes are dug
in the disputed spot, in each of which the
lawyers on either side put one of their legs,
and remain there until one of them is tired.
or complains of being stung by the insects.
in which case his client is defeated. In this
country it is generally the olient, and not the
lawyer, nwho puts his foot in it."
The hydraulic press., 1859-05-28

THE Cleaner, in replying to the question
of "what is modern Judaism doing?' says:
"We cannot account totally for the reason;
but it seems that the institutions of Juda-
ism, on one side, never degenerate into the
extravaganza of celibacy and monasticism,
nor, on the other, into Sicklesism or Tatism,
nor Billmanism or confessional BagioIism."
The hydraulic press., 1859-05-28

THE RELIGIOUS FooL.-The man who hears
a good sermon, but who, because some pas
sage in it does not suit him, or some man
nerism of the preacher otfends him, gets mad,
denounces the whole, and is determined to
be unprofted.
The hydraulic press., 1859-05-28

The National Era says it is not for the
generation among whom Elizabeth Brown
ing has sung, and Charlotte Bronte spoken,
and Harriet Hosmer chiseiied, and Rosa Bon
heur painted, and Mary Lyon taught, and
Florence Nightingale lived, to despair of wo-
mans achievement Off highest destiny.
The hydraulic press., 1859-05-28

IMPERIAL LEGs.-The observing editor of
lie Phdre says that from his own eyes he has
been convinced that Napoleon three times is
bow-legged, and he intimates that in order
to conceal this natural or acquired deformi-
ty, His Majesty only appears in public on
horseback or in a carriage.
The hydraulic press., 1859-05-28

Some ladies in New York have an associa-
ton called the Hearthstone Club, which
meets at the Cooper Institute, and talks over
domestic economy and the work and welfare
of women generally.
The hydraulic press., 1859-05-28

IT is expected that the trial trip of the
Great Eastern steamship will take place in
July. She will sail from Portsmouth, Eng
land, to the middle of the ocean and back
again, to test her qualities under all possible
conditions of sail and steam
The hydraulic press., 1859-05-28

THE aim of education should be to teach
US rather how to think, than what to think
rather to improve our minds so as to make
us think for ourselves, than to load the
memory with the thoughts of other men.
The hydraulic press., 1859-05-28

AFTER all, the language will shape itself
By larger forces than photography and die
tionary making. You may spade up the
ocean as much as you like, and harrow it
afterwards, if you can-but the moon will
still lead the tides, and the winds will form
their surface.-O. ". Holmes.
The hydraulic press., 1859-05-28

AGEENAN naturalist has described sin hum
dred species Of flies, which he has collected
within a district of ten miles Thirty thous-
sand different kinds of insects which prey
upon wheat, have been collected s%s7s
The hydraulic press., 1859-05-28

THE French hair harvest amounts to nearly
one hundred tuns year. The price varies
from zoe. to 81 per head, according to weight
and quality.
The hydraulic press., 1859-05-28

Sterneinsinuates that attorneys are to law
ycrs what apothecaries are to physicians ;
only that they do not deal in scruples.
The hydraulic press., 1859-05-28

The MISIsTRy.-A people will love a min
lster, if minister seems TO love his people.
-Conper
St. Cloud Democrat. [volume] (Saint Cloud, Stearns County, Minn.) 1858-1866, 1859-10-06
R"GAGE sALE.-Br VIRTUE OF A

M G A GE ALE by VIRTUE OF A
ll power of sale containedin certain mort
gage bearing date October 23d 1865, and recorded
in the Registry of Deeds within and for the
! county of Meeker, state of Minnesota on the
5Oth day of October 1853 at eleven o'clock A.
NJ. at pages 337 and338 of Book 'sB', of NOR
tgages, executed by George A. Nourse and
Cleora E. Nourse his wife as mortgagors to
George s. Hillard as mortgage, in the condl-
ton of which default has been made, and on
which there is now claimed to be lue The sum
of two thousand one hundred and seventy three
33-100 dollars (no suit or proceeding at law
having been instituted to recover the debt Sc
| cured by said mortgage or any part thereof y
will be sold at public auction to the highest
bidder for cash, at the hotel in Kingston in
said county of Meeker on Friday the 23d day
Of September A. D. 1869, at one o'clock p. NJ.
the following described real estate situate, ly-
ing and being in said county, being the same
described in said mortgage and mortgaged
thereby, to wit: the saw mill, and the sash,
blind and furniture factory built by Whitney
standing therein; together with the land on
which the same stand, with the right to draw
and use from the mill pond adjoining, all the
water necessary for the economical running of
said saw mill, and to draw and use from the
fume of the grist mill situated in said town
all the water necessary for the economical
running of said sash, blind and furniture fac
tory; said grist mill however to have sufficient
water for its economical running in preference
to said saw mill and factory. T.
July IL, 1859. GEORGE 8. HILLARY.
aug-l1-6w. s.-~ Mortgage.
St. Cloud Democrat. [volume] (Saint Cloud, Stearns County, Minn.) 1858-1866, 1859-10-06
WIN Jim norner Il q DSMocrt.

In public conversation between ourseH
and Mr.. James Homer, only two days be-
fore his nomination by the convention; no
stated that the reason why he was Dem
ocrat, was because the Repubzicant party
opposed the KnoD Nothing party, OF
WHICH HE WAS A MEMBER in
Pennsylvania, and that at heart He WAS
A KNOW NOTHING STILL. These
statements were made by him in the Office
of Messrs. Paulding & Austin, and in the
presence OF those gentlemen and Mr.. Scott.
Let him deny them if he dare ! Irish
men, Germans, Swedes and Norwegians
Of Nicollet County, what do you think Of
such candidate, and Of party which
dominates him; kno,oing him to Be such I
Will you support them ?-&. Peters Free
Press. II :iA2fss'-
St. Cloud Democrat. [volume] (Saint Cloud, Stearns County, Minn.) 1858-1866, 1859-10-06
DAY & BEVERIDGE,
ATTORNEYS, COUNsELLoRs, SOLICITORS
AND COLLECTING AGENTS.
GEO. 4. II. DAY, 4: FRANCIS BEvERIDGE.
ST. ANTHONY. MINNESOTA.

Will collect vigilantly, and remit promptly all
claims collectable, and attend all the Courts in
the following COUNTIES: Ramsey, Washington,
Scott, Anoka, Wright, Benton, Stearns, Morri-
son, Crow Wing, Meekcr and Carver; and also,
the Supreme Court, and U. S. District Court
For collections made ON demand, or at sight, one
or two per cent. charged, Bankers rates, only
They will pay taxes, and redeem lands sold for
taxes, in any part of Minnesota.
REFERENCES:
Halsey, Pres. Bank, New York; "
Bell & Co., Bankers, do; North & Noyes, do;
Johnston & Brothers, Baltimore; Harvey Sey-
mour, HARTFORD Day, Owen & Co do: Hon II
Gray, Judge Court of Appeals, Elmira, NY; Era
Bidwell, Banker, st Paul; Sxnborn, French &
Lund, de-; Washington Bank, Boston Amos
A Lawrence, do; Tilton, Gregory, & Richard
son, do j Parks, Marlborough House, do
Alexander Mitchell, Milwaukee Wis Farmer
& Millers' Bank, do Child, Pratt 4 Co, St
Louis; John Draper, do; George Smith s. Co,
Chicago: Willard, Alexander & Co, do.
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St. Cloud Democrat. [volume] (Saint Cloud, Stearns County, Minn.) 1858-1866, 1859-10-06

OLD SHoEs.-Wc would be very glad
that any of our citizens, having east of
shoes OF clothing Of any description, for
which they have no application would send
them to our house We are sorry to learn
that some of our citizens have burned large
Quantities Of old shoes and clothing while
We have deem overrun with urgent demands
from persons in want. The. winter is COM
ing and some of the back settlers are not
able to supply their families with clothing.
Some who will not beg-win not go to
ask for help. We have become acquainted
with people. of this class and can dispose
ola great deal of east of clothing 30 that it
will bring much comfort to many. Please
send us the old clothes and especially tho
shoes. No matter if they do not appear
worth giving. These in comfortable cir.
cumstances have little idea of what may bs
of use. ..-:.t ..'.
St. Cloud Democrat. [volume] (Saint Cloud, Stearns County, Minn.) 1858-1866, 1859-10-06
WHITE PEOPLE Soil AS SLAVES The

WHITE People Soil AS SLAVES The
Abbevi1e (Ala.) Banner says that Pa.
tience Hicks, young womtn about II
years Of age, nho was held as a slave by
John Guilford, citizen Of Henry county,
under bill of sale made to lin by one
James G. Wilson, was brought before
Judge Williams, under writ Of habeas
corpus, sued out by Mrs. Casa Ann Hicks
the mother of said girl, who arrived in the
town Of Abbeville on Tuesday, the 9th
inst. On the trial of the case it was prov
ed that Wilson went to the house of Mrs.
Hicks, in Columbus, Gcargia. rbout the
first of last March, where he remained
sick for several weeks. On his recovery,
he desired to marry the yourg lady, and
finding that her mother was opposed to
their marriage, he stole her away and
brought her to the house OF the Rev. John
Guiltord, to whom he sulc her for slave
On his return to Columbus he procured
her brother; boy about fifteen years old
and sold him to gentleman in Georgia.
The girl was worked on the plantation
and is considerably SIN burnt, which
makes her appear rather dark. The girl
Patience hae an infant daughter. The
case was tried before Judge Williams o.
the Probate Court, and the mother and
child were released from the services Of
Guilford. The Banner states, however
that the counsel for Guilford have taker
the case to the Supreme Court, not with
the expectation of again cnslaving thu
the girl, but with the expectation Of clear
ing Guilford of the cost imposed upon hin
by the Judge of Probate.
St. Cloud Democrat. [volume] (Saint Cloud, Stearns County, Minn.) 1858-1866, 1859-10-06

he State Of Minnesota, County of Stcarns.
L District Court, Fourth Judicial District.
Ann Donahoe, Plaintiff; against William j
Wales, Defendant SUMMONS.
To William J. Wales the above named Defen-
dant: You are hereby Summoned and
required to answer the Complaint in the above
entitled action, a copy Of which said complaint
is filed in the Office Of the Clerk of said Court
at St. Cloud in said county of stearns, and to
serve copy Of your answer to the said COM
plant on the subscriber, at his Office in St.
Cloud in the county of Stearns, in said State,
within twenty days after the service of this
Summons on you, exclusive of the day of such
service; and if you fail to answer the said
Complaint within the time aforesaid, the Plain
tiff in this action will take judgment against
you for the sum Of One Hundred Dollars, with
interest at the rate Of three per cent. per
month from the I'd day of November A. D.
1867 besides the costs and disbursements Of
this action. WM. J. PARSONS,
Plaintiffs Attorney.
Dated, St. Cloud MIMI, L
July 18th A. D. 1859.
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St. Cloud Democrat. [volume] (Saint Cloud, Stearns County, Minn.) 1858-1866, 1859-10-06
A Democratic lie nailed

Let it be borne in mind by the people
that the Democratic State Platform, James
NJ. Cavenaugh and the Wiuona Democrat
have each and all been convicted, and pub
licly branded by Mr.. Window, Of the
most deliberate and fragrant violation Of
the truth, in the charge Of Know Moth
ingism which they have made against
that gentleman. If they have any forged
or spurious documents in their possession
to which they may resort for the purpose
of making show Of truth on their part,
Mr.. Window stands ready to prove to the
satisfaction of all honest men that this &C.
cusat;on of Know Nothingism is = delib-
crate falsehood, manufactured out Of the
whole cloth for political purposes. Pin
the slanderers down!
St. Cloud Democrat. [volume] (Saint Cloud, Stearns County, Minn.) 1858-1866, 1859-10-06
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NJ OR TG AGE SA LIE NOTICE IS
lNl hereby Given That default has been made

NOR AGE SALE.-NOTICE is
III hereby given that default has been made
in the conditions Of certain indenture OF
mortgage, made, executed and delivered by
David S. Crosby and Mary A. Crosby his wife,
to John l.. Young, on the 25th day Of May,
A. D. 1858, and recorded in the Office Of the
Register Of Deeds of Benton county in the
A. d. 1858, at o'clock A. NJ, in Book "B
of mortgages, on pages 1872 & 1873. That said
mortgage has been duly assigned by said John
L. Young to Winthrop Young by virtue of q
Deed Of Assignment, duly executed on the
18th day of December, A. D. 1868, and record
ed in the Office of the Register Of Deeds OF
said county Of Benton, on the 18th day OF De-
ccmber, A. D. 1858, at 4 o'clock P. NJ, in
Book "B" of Mortgages, on page 230.
That there is claimed to he due on said
mortgage at the date of this notice the sum OF
Three hundred and fifteen dollars seventy
four cents ($3l5 1900 according to the terms
of d certain Promissory Note secured by said
mortgage. and that persuant to a Power Of
Sale in said mortgage contained, and in accor-
dance with the statute in such case made and
provided, the premises mortgagedin and by vir'
tue of said mortgage, to wits All that tract, piece
or parcel of land lying and being in the coun'
ty of Benton and State of Minnesota, and
described as follows, to wit: The East half o.
the North West quarter, and the East half Of
South West quarter Of Section No. Twelve
[I2) in Township No. Thirty eight 1887, Range
No. Thirty-two 1927, West, containing Ono
hundred and sixty (l60) acres more or less
| according to Government survey, will be SOLD
| at public auction on the 18th day of August
A. D. 1859, at three o'clock in the afternoon
Of said day at ''Day's Hyperborean Hotel.
in the town of Sank Rapids in said county Of
Benton, to satisfy the amount due ON sale
mortgage and costs Of sale as by law allowed
WINTHROP YOUNG,
Dated June 18th, A. D. 1859. Assignee
VIM. S. MOORE, Atty. for Assignee.
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St. Cloud Democrat. [volume] (Saint Cloud, Stearns County, Minn.) 1858-1866, 1859-10-06
A Virginia Camp-Meeting.

A correspondent Of the New York Tri-
bnne says,that camp-meeting was held
recently in Fairfax Co Va, and that imme-
diatcly after the camp broke up, twenty
seven negores were sold on the ground to
some Southern traders! A mother and
seven children were among the number.
One Of the men was on his knees engaged
in prayer, when the trader who had pur-
chased him stopped his mouth with bis hand
and hand cuffed him. What q scene on
Methodist camp ground! To what depths
are we sinking. Shade of Wesley, pity
US God Of mercy, forgive us our great
wickodness and deliver US speedily from all
completely with this abowination which
maketh so deEolate II.
Northern A0ependent.
St. Cloud Democrat. [volume] (Saint Cloud, Stearns County, Minn.) 1858-1866, 1859-10-06
LIFE OF A POLITICAL EElTOR IN New

LIFE OF A POLITICAL EElToR IN NEW
ORLEANs.-He rises in the morning at
ten o'clock, dresses himself, take his hat
already pierced with three or four balls,
and goes to restaurant to get his break
fast. After lreskfast he returns to his
Office to read the morning papers. He
finds that he is called wretch in one, in
another liar, and in a third a william
He smiles at the thought of having some
thing to do, and signs his name to three
challenges, wuich he always carries with
him ready for emergencies. These he
dispatches and sits down to write Al arti-
Gle, when he is interrupted by All interlo-
per whom he is compelled to throw out of
window. At noon he learns that his
challenges are accepted for the next day.
At three o'clock he goes to fight duel
which had been arranged the day before
kills his man and returns to dinner Or
his way to dinner he gets mixed up Will
a riot; is wounded. When ho reaches hi
sanctum he finds an internal machine O.
the window. Without mlifesting &C
surprisehe throws it out Of the window
He then writes leader on political re-
form-this done he goes to the theatre
On his way he is attacked by three men,
kills two, and takes the third to the near
est station hcuze. When returning hone
at nine o'clock at nj ht he beats a man
who tries to rob him; kills dog with 4
stone; is almost run over with hack, and
on the threshold Of his door receives two
more bullets in his hat; the congratulates
himself on having passed quiet day, re-
tires to bed and sleeps TRANQUILITY.