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The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1859-03-03
NEW FURNITURE SHOP,
Nashville, TcnncssCc.

The undersigned would respectfully Inform
the Public, tlIut he has Just opened an ext"n-
sive stock Of superior Furniture, Maltras 'e",
&C., IN the spacious wDrcroom IN NO No
Fogg's Building, on College street, three
doors North of A. llomilioH's warehouse. 1t
IL my intention 10 keep constantly on hfnd
the best Furniture Of Home and Estern mun-
utucture, which | can afford 10 sell hs cheap
IN any other IN the markct. ] have engaged
the services ofihc most competent worbIhen,
and am prepared to compete with the best
manufactures in the West. All orders en-
trusted TO me will be executed salisiaclOral.
ly and with promptness. Especial attention
will be paid 10 repairing all kinds Of Furnl-
turc, mud satisfaction warranted ia all cases.
All desiring bargains IN Furniture and Up
hol try, viii find It 10 their advantage TO give
M n call be,ore purchasing elsewhere.
Fret Furniture Store on College street
North Of broad. W. FAY.
Fcby 18th.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1859-03-03
AGRICULTURAL AND SEED srOI1
EYtSSNHE AVE IL 60.
No. d, College street, nr;ar G!iHt


We have opened an extensive SeeIad
Agricultural Store, and shall devote OF e.
elusive attention 10 this branch Of they ISL
ness, and purchasers can rely uponV Ag
supplied with grcNh seeds, and the mtp-
proved kinds Of implements and macht
Our Garden Seeds are from ID. Landt &
sons House, and all nrc the growth opjS;
our Field Seeds are selected with cOtlnd
are warranted 10 ]gcrminale,
SEEDS.
Cover, Timothy, clean and stripped inc
Grass, Orchard Grass, Herds Grass, Met,
Hungarian Grass, Musqult, Dosage Orgc,
Perennial, Rye Grass. And a full assSnCnt
Of Garden Seeds, bv pound ana p7rcF
CUNNINGHAM 80.
MACHINES AND lNPLlNfNS-
Thrcshcrs, Rcapers, Straw Cuttcf,C)rn
Shelters, Fan Mill, Corn and Cob }fhlers,
Churns, Scythcs, cradles, hoes, hcorsI hand
Rakcs, Millers', Garrett 81 Cottmad lacork
& Ealnley's Steel Flows, Avry's ltlows.
acknowledgements Cemen/ aster
Paris, Land Plaster, &c.
Fcby3l CUNNlNGHANCO.
Saint Paul weekly Minnesotian., 1859-05-28

she is more Republican. And in the North
the sheet anchor of the Democracy is the sed-
iment of the people,-that sluggish, unthink-
ing, unenterprising portion who are content to
be led by the nose by the names and doctrines
that tickled the ears of their ancestors
Wherever you find an active, go-ahead, clear
minded community, you will find the very
pith and marrow of it Republican.
Republicanism is sectional, so Tar as as
truth and intelligence are sectional, and no
farther. And as intelligence radiates south
ward it constantly finds soil in which it brings
forth more or less abundant crop of Repub-
lican ideas. You cannot fling shower of
facts into an intelligent mind without that
mind arriving at once at decided conclusions
antagonistic to human bondage. Hence we
find even in the South the fruits of the Repub-
lican movement. We hear of parties, as in
Missouri, based upon the issues. We see
statesmen like JOHN BELL of Tennessee tax
ing high toned position in reference to the
question; and we almost daily hear of men of
wealth throughout the South manumitting
their slaves.
Republcanism is an enlightened public
opinion acting upon ignorance; and as well
might the night strive against the gradual ir-
radiation of the day, as slavery resist the on
ward movement of freedom. 1t is a remnant
of the vast sandbar of superstition, oppres-
| sion, ignorance and intolerance, which once
covered the whole sea, but the waves have
dashed against it and the strong currents have
washed it, until but one huge, black spot re-
mains, offending heaven by its presence, but
gradually sinking and crumbling away before
| the eternal forces of liberty.
Saint Paul weekly Minnesotian., 1859-05-28
Our Cos nopOlitan City.

On last Saturday evening while listening to
BAYARD IONS lecture, we were forcibly
struck by the reflection that St. Paul might
not inaptly be termed the Moscow of America.
Here. as in Moscow, we find almost all the
nationalities Of Christendom assembled and
mixed together in odd confusi n. Polish serfs,
German mobiles, English gentlemen, aristocrats
from the Eastern States, lazzorni from Italy,
Germans, Swedes, Danes, French, Spaniards,
Irish, Scotch, Hungarians adventures, min
listers, rogues, gentlemen, ruffians, philanthro-
pists, and bankers, Not a State of the In
ion from Florida to Maine, from Wisconsin to
Texas, but has sent here her quota of repre-
sentatives and if we have not here the Asiatic
tribes found in Moscow, their place is more
than supplied by the Sioux, Winnebagoes and
Chippeways. The very animals represent
this conglomerate feature of our population
One can see in the same street at the same
time fast horses from New York, Indian DO.
nies, Red River nags, Canadian steeds, and
occasionally a steed from Mexico with the
peaked Spanish saddle and the huge stirrups.
The English pointer is cheek by jowl with
wolfsh-looking dog of the red man the noble
quadruped of st. Bernard snuffs at the same
bone with the cur from st. Louis in whose
hybrid blood thousand breeds are mixed
We hear in the streets our own language, the
patois of Yorkshire, the harsh gutturals of
Northern Europe, the impetuous tones of the
French, the deep intonations of the Indian
and broken fragments from Connaught In
our buildings and edifces we represent every
style of archtecture-from the log cabin, or
the Sioux lodge, to the pretentious private
residence or the substantial banking house.
An experienced traveller can see in the differ
ent cottages the various styles of all the East
ern States, more particularly those of Eng
land.
We expect 20 yet hear of Mr.. TAYLOR de-
livering lecture in Moscow on the oddities of
st. Paul
Saint Paul weekly Minnesotian., 1859-05-28
Editorial Correspondence.
On BOARD ENTERPRISE.
ST. ANTHONY, May. %, 1855


To tie Editors IF tie MinneSotian:
As l promised in communication last
week, am bound a trip up the river, and I
am here, this Monday morning bright and
early, in pursuance thereof.
And to see, as do, the levee where the
Enterprise lands all covered with bags of
grain, and to meet the street lined with load
ed wagons drawing it down to the landing be-
low the falls, gives feeling Of thal.kfulness at
the prosperity it manifests.
Since last Wednesday, the Enterprise has
made two trips, one to st. Cloud and Sauk
Rapids, another up as high as Davis Land
ing, thirty eight miles above here. The first
trip, it got down here Saturday noon, and
brought down taeo thousand sir hundred bush
els of corn, oats, and potatoes, and would
have brought more, but it had a lot of hors
es and buggies on board, which prevented I
full load of grain. 1t unloaded Immediately
and went up to Davis Landing Saturday nigh
and brought down last night ,seoenteen hunlret
bushels of corn and seoenteen hundred bushel
| of potatoes. And it now has fine lot O
! merchandise on board for st. Cloud and Saul
Rapids, some forty tons. 1t certainly is cheer
ing to sec such evidences of the prosperity G
the upper country.
But we are off, and must close. j. D.
Saint Paul weekly Minnesotian., 1859-05-28

arrest the evil several penal hws were pas
sed by government against .i9endiarianion
and for two centuries all Chin was agitated
on the Understanding could srrest the ma
nia-and the whole country pomised to be
one scene Of incessent conHagrtion. Atlast
it came at last-an ingeniou, enterprising,
and clear-headed Chinaman, a Ghinaman ofthe
Pioneer stamp, discovered tbt, pigs could
90 roasted soithout 6urning the houses =
The evil at once ceased-and from that day
to this the Chinese have enjoyed their roast
pig and their domestic iresides in peace and
security.
We had always suppesedthat the necessity
of high toned principles to any party and to
any state of society was recognized by all
newspapers. We have constantly based our
actions on that belief and have sought to keep
it constantly before the people. But the fto-
nesr and Democrat, on tae 21st May, 1859,
wakens up suddenly to the conclusion after
ten years of 1itoral existence, that there are
are such things in the world as morality, hon.
esty and decency; that in short it is possible
to roast pork in a new way. Hear it:
"It is the little politician only who seeks to CO.
cree when he cannot convince; and appropriately
belongs to the party organs to circulate the fulmi
nations of the conceited demagogues who contro
them. This Is not to our taste nor in our province
We have, however, definite opoinions on politlca
principles, and on party policy.
flight continues to break upon the Pi0neei
| at the rate Of the last lew days, we shall ex
pect disagreement of the vast profits mad'
by "party influence" and general denunci
alton of the iniquities, douple-facedness, hol
lowness and corruption of the Democrati
| party.
Saint Paul weekly Minnesotian., 1859-05-28
The Pioneer & Democrat the Friend Of
the People.

The Pioneer & Democrat of Saturday con-
tains an article in which it strives to show
that it opposed the resolutions of Aid. Branch
through an unadulterated love for the peo-
pie, and that its present position in reference
to the City's contract with Pease, Chalfant
G. Co., are r,t inconsistent Let us look at
the matter
The Pioneer argues that the Resolution of
Aid. Branch will prove injurious ito poor
men, who receive orders for work done for the
City," by making the orders less negotiable,
and placing the holders at the mercy of bro
kers who will buy them at from five to ten
per cent less than they would otherwise rule !"
How comes it that if the Pioneer had such
sincere desire to conserve the interests of the
laboring classes, that it opposed the Pease,
Chalfant & Co. contract, whose purpoae and
effect was to raise the orders to par, to do
way with the discount of from five to ten per
cent and to make them in the hands of the
laboring classes rule at the highest rate2
The Pioneer is the friend of the people
when the interest Of the people and the Pio-
neer are identical, but when they conflict the
philantbropist and demagogue are lost sight
of
Saint Paul weekly Minnesotian., 1859-05-28
Republication not Sectional. 1.

Although the Republican party professe S
no disposition antagonistic to the spirit Of free
dom and human rights on which our govern
mcnt is based, and in fact desires only TO
prevent the spread of slavery, it is constantly
asserted that it is sectional party. The best
answer to such declarations is to be found in
the progress Of events in Missouri Missouri
is Slave State, a Slave State from the COM
mencement, and so decidedly welded to that
institution, that her very constitution contains
clause making it punishable offence to ag-
tate the question of abolishing slavery. Had
Republicanism been, as asserted, a sectional
party it would never have passed the north
ern boundary line of the State of Missouri
But Republcanism grows wherever love of
liberty or a respect for human rights can be
found, and as a consequence we find at this
day in Missouri powerful and growing par
ty, bent on the extirpation of slavery from
the State. and possessing such. strength
that it is generally conceded that before many
years Missouri will be free State. The St.
Louis Democrat, referring to recent Repub-
lican victory in the city of st. Genevieve,
says:
"Thus the towns and cities along our rivers and
railroads continually giving expression to a
feeling which is finding its way rapidly into the in
terror. From every part Of the State the most
| cheering news is daily - ing US. The results
OF the coming elections slready beginning to
be shadowed forth. The question of time itself
Is almost settled. The fall of the slave power IS
now inevitable"
Its fl. It worth noticing that the light of
truth enters Missouri along the great avenues
OF commerce, the rivers and railroads.
Wherever intelligence travels she is accomp..
MED by free and liberal sentiments, in otoer
words by respect for the rights of all men,
in other words by Republcanism. There
was as much truth as wit in the words of the
editor in Indiana, that all the people therea.
bouts who could write legible hand without
running their tongues out, were Republicans"
1t is because the North is far ahead of the
South in intelligence, in enterprise, and in all
the essentials of an enlightened progress, that
Saint Paul weekly Minnesotian., 1859-05-28
Steamboat Racing.

A trial of speed is on the tapis between the Grey
Eagle and the Northerner, which has just beat the
Key City, when they next get in port together.-
The money is up, and the sport deepens. Ihere
will be some of the tallest running ever done on
the river.
We find the foregoing, as matter OF fact,
inserted in the local column of our Saturday
paper. We enter our protest against all such
practices; they are an outrage upon the trav-
cling public, and cannot but prove injurious
to the interests of the owners of the boats by
lessening the amount of travel, if not by the
destruction of the boats themselves. The on
ly parties at all gratiied by racing are the
Jew officers in each boats, who to satisfy a
small and foolish pride would put at risk the
lives and property entrusted to their care
The evil is, that not only the officers who are
parties to the wrong are endangered, but the
innocent travelling public, men, women and
children. If the Captains and Clerks of the
boats are bent on squandering their exist
ence, let them take trip by themselves, first
having bought the boats from their owners,
and go 1t until not patch of either vessel re-
mains. Or, if this is not satisfactory, let a
couple of venturesome Captains be selected as
champions of the rival interests, and each as
cend heavenward on barrel of gunpowder
emulous to see which can 60 highest! The
public might witness such feats with satisfac
ton, but it is not right that those who have
contracted to carry travellers from point t.
point with comfort, despatch and safety
should violate the terms of their agreement
and unnecessarily add to the risks of the voy
age.
We call the attention of the owners of tn
boats to this matter, and hope that the travel
ing public will avoid every boat which is know
to be addicted to the pracuce OF racing
Saint Paul weekly Minnesotian., 1859-05-28

river below the water power. The pipe ffun
ths.Tiver, to the reservoir is seven hundEsd
feet long, and elevated ore hundred and thir7
ty feet.
The halls, saloons, a1d Offices, throughout
the entire house, are heated by steam, in
pipes from the steam bdler. 4.
The floors of all the rooms, excepting those
in the attic story, are covered with the finest
Brussels carpsting; and the entire fixtures
/ and furnishing are Of the very best character
known to present science sl1 Of 1855
The house is owned by pa4se MCLEAN
ESQ. formerly Of Boston, and q under the
| management of j. F. DARRow, Esq, gen.
t,eman of the largest experience, infinite tact,
and suck consummate skill as to make the
whole machinery move with the noiseless per-
fection of clock work. lra.~
Altogether, it is an institution OF which the
cities of St. Anthony and Minneapolis es,
pecially, and St. Paul and the whole State OF
Minnesota smay justly be proud. The view
from the large, commodious Cupola, reached
bya spacious flight of easy steps from the
sixth story, upon every side, whether up o.
down the meanderings Of the Mississippi, O.
) upon the broad, undulating expanse OF grqXe
and prairies, on each side, as far as tssly,
can reach, presents scenery of the love an
beautiful and the grand combined, which n
, where can be eclipsed. And the drives o
| every side are of the most pleasant characte
I quote from the circular of the house.
5 s.This House is just completed, at cost of $1l(
OOO and furnished in princely style, at an additio
al expense of $50, 900. The celebrated Falls
}, Minne-haha. Laughing- W. ater,) are located abo
q four miles distant from the Winslow House, in
southerly direction. They are approached by
l. excellent Road from the Hotel, and as an object
=, pre- eminent beauty and romantic interest, tn
never fail to excite the admiration of the touri
e Lake Calhoun, Lake Harriet, and Lake johanna
70 are all located within five miles of the Winsl
" House. These Lakes are all pentifully suppl
l. with all kinds Of Fish, and the Prairies and 81
d. rounding Forests abound with game
70 have made this description quite length
IS but when is considered the newness of Il
whole country, and the unequalled rapid
Ia with which it is developing, an institution a
Oh 's,,siness enterprise of this extent will warrs
&C. respected attention. j. D.
Saint Paul weekly Minnesotian., 1859-05-28

cials walked, Mr.. Sibley wore spurs and
gauntlets, and Mr.. Forbes was also spurred |
The following completed the list of this De-
mocratic staff:
Major L. O. Dayton (the young man,
Major Harwood Iglehart brigade Judge
Advocate)
Major - Bowes (Brigade|Engineer.)
Major VIM. H. Mower.and Captain L. E.
Thompson, Of Saltwater
The morning being rainy, the parade did
not commence until Q o'clock, P. M. The
streets were muddy, but happily the heavens
withheld their libations, and no more water
was inflicted on the heroes than the little that
was necessary to qualify their brandy and
| water.
We have ridiculed this affair, first, because
it was ridiculous per SEE We need no such
militia system-no such displays. When
war does come, the exigency will call out the
real military men of the State and they will
be appointed to offices, for their ability, Their
/ eXpeTleIlCc, lCshSt VI III ~
their views may be on partizan politics. We
have noticed it thus, also, in the second place
because against all precedent in other States
our military organization is being made q
partizan system of by Mr.. Sibley; and nei
ther he nor his appointees need, therefore
expect any mercy at the hands of the Repub
lican press.
As to Mr.. Sibley himself, while his con
duct, in the respect of making the military
system a partizan matter, has been so mar
row minded, his personal action, as to putting
himself in gorgeous uniform and paradins
about the streets in it to show himself off il
laughable in the extreme. He holds no mill
tary commission or Eproper military ranl
whatever. Through his Office of Governo
only he is er-otfcio Commander-in-C Chief o
the Military power of the State-merely al
er-oficio military man-and it must strik
every one that it displays an intense amour
of silly personal vanity, which we will lool
hopelessly to find displayed by Executive
of other States, for him to be thus dressn
himself up in soldier clothes, however regard
less of expense, to strut his brief hour ur
til next January sees him succeeded b,
some man less Of a pop-in;jay as we trust an
believe we will.
just think of it, all good people of
Governor of State, getting himself in field
marshals' uniform costing $3.50, ,and trudgin
a whole afternoon through the muddy street
of city, for no other earthly purpose but
exhibit his supposed handsome form in mil
tary costume! Isn't it rich?
Saint Paul weekly Minnesotian., 1859-05-28
Bayard Taylorss Lecture on MOseOv

Bayard Taylor's Lecture on Moscow.
Those who attended BAYARD TAYLoE's lee
ture on last Saturday evening, at the First
Presbyterian Church, were doubles all much
pleased.
Mr.. TAYLOR is not as large man as many
had been led to expect from previous descrip-
tons. He might be called handsome of a
light complexion and somewhat Drowned by
travel. This lecture was wisely adapted to
the public requirements the prop
er medium between shallowness andIprofund-
ity. 1t was made up of perfect melange Of
facts, fancies, anecdotes, picturesque descrip-
tons, and lively historical illusions. He
brought before us almost in one breath NAPo-
LEON and TAMERLANE, the burning of Mos
! COW and the contents Of Russian market ::
| the pagodas of China, the minnarets of Tur'
KEY and the temples of Hindoostan the boots
of PETER the Great, the crinolines Of Paris
the gold and silver furniture Of the Kremlin
and laughable anecdotes about cattle contracts
and goose grease. The language was wha
the women call beautyul--atter the LUc,
STONE order-sparkling, brilliant anG mi c
up with bright colors and Arabian stories.-
The gesticulations were upon principle, ant
not the natural movements of the moment
and yet after the first few sentances they
served admirably to assist in giving energy
and vitality to the lecture, a result seldom at
| <,;uod l,v cf,d;o1 ,pOf;onc
Mr. TAYLOR is essentially Yankee in tn
enlarged sense Of the term. His wandering
in other lands have not taken from him hi
native practically. Good sense was the pre-
dominant trait exhibited in his lecture on Sat
urday evening. The matter and the arrange
ment of the matter were both highly judicious
the delivery was good; and it will live in tn
memory of his hearers as glittering, glancing
moving panorama of genius and jewels, tai
tars, turbans, feathers and frippery, peasant
and princess Underneath all this a grea
deal of sound information was conveyed an
enfaced
Mr.. TAYLoR's audience was perhaps tn
largest AMI finest every assembled on an
similar occasion in St. Paul. All our citizen
who have not heard him should attend thi
evening his lecture on Life in the North
they cannot fail but be pleased.
Saint Paul weekly Minnesotian., 1859-05-28
Notes from a Surveyors Camp.
little more'-"Capt. Bragg"
CAMP LIFE IN "BrG woops,"
Notes on q GoU't Surpey. {

-------------------- CAMP LIFE IN BIG wooDs"l
Notes Gout Surrey.
To the Ezitsrs aftae Afnnesotian:
In my last omitted to state that when
about completing our second tier of town.
ships, about forty miles west of Crow Wing,
another serious accident occurred to one Of
our party, who had, while meandering lake,
his foot badly frozen, and had it not been for
kind and efficient aid, it would have resulted
as fatally as the first. After night of pain,
the sufferer was placed on train, contri-
vance similar to an Egyptian mummy case,
or sarcophagus, or an ancient hurdle on which
| criminals were drawn to execution, and
drawn by mules over logs and bogs, founder
ye L. and pitching in the snow-banks every
4 like whale" boat in a heavy surf among the
breakers, and arrived in promiscuous man
ner about sundown the following day at head
quarters, where lady, Zone of her gentle
sex the seeming paragon,") overlooked, at
tended to, and assuaged the pains Oh the HI
valid, and gave him, he tells US, an example,
f during his long confinement, of patience and
= strong nerve, and exhibited to him mental
X
n stamina and kindness of heart, SURPRISING
y even that of the good Samaritan. All! Mes
= sieurs Editors, the experiences OF the worth
!, of a true woman cannot be drawn from city
d drawing rooms, or from ladies with nothing
to wear" who "bear their hearts upon theii
, sleeves for DAVIS to peck at;' but get you in
is "tight place" on the frontier, and We car
hear witness and endorse the admirable tact
i fortitude, and kindness of one of '' the wo
# men of Minnesota" and to thy great expert
ence of her sex's disposition and yirtues-al
the world over-in all countries and in al
climes-frcm Kamscatka to Circassia, the.twt
antagonistic countries in point of physique
let me add my humble tribute to yours, goot
judge and great traveller on earth, o, Mung'
st Parke. ARIEL.
Saint Paul weekly Minnesotian., 1859-05-28

~ N. P. Stanton, Eos, President of the
La Crosse Railroad Company, has instituted
proceedings against Newcombe Cleveland for
libel, laying his damages at O,0Oo.
Saint Paul weekly Minnesotian., 1859-05-28

to ticklfs capriciots taste Of the mob, and
'd;sch the boomerang to excite the at
tentidI and alarm the fears Of the weak ano
timid.
.-.ffurthis digni6ed and patriotic employment
we make no objections, except when ne oo-
rndes bis noisy instrument, like an Italian
organ grinder, under forbidden windows.
-------------------------- ------------- -.- MINoEsoTUs.
Saint Paul weekly Minnesotian., 1859-05-28
Our Dakota Correspondent.
MOUNTAIN Pass, D. T. May 10.

"The march of civilization is onward;
Westward no is the course Of empire;
Log cabins peer-cities follow in their wake,
And potent States from Territories retire.