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Saint Paul weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1858-1859, 1859-08-27
Honeymoon Cut Short.

4he following incident is told of navy off,
Ger who had just married daughter of
clergyman in England:
"After the nuptiai ceremony, the happy
couple left town to spend the honeymoon !;
but scarcely had they departed when tele-
gram from the Admiralty reached the bride
groom's residence, directing him instantly to
join his ship in an English port, as it had been
ordered to sail the following morning on for:
eiyn service. No time was lost in spatching
the telegram after the newly married couple,
whom, much to their CONSERVATION, it soon
reached; but the order was imperative, and
with that devotion to duty so Characteristic
of the British officer, the bridegroom at once
tore himself away from the arms of his
weeping bride, and within three hours after
his marriage was bowling along at the rate of
some thirty or forty miles an hour en- p cute to
headquarters, leaving his better half to return
the shelter Of the parental roof till the arrival
of more peaceful times.
Saint Paul weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1858-1859, 1859-08-27
A Modern Romance.

Over q month ago an independent farmer
named Harwood Gilbert, living at Yarmouth
G. W., eloped with his wife's sister on the
morning of the day she was to have married
one Henry DOcke. The friends of both par
ties were in q terrible pucker, but made no
pursuit About a wcel. ago the truant pair
returned, and the excitement in the village
grew apace. Gilbert charged Miss Blewtt
with seducing him, and she declared the Sc
duction was the other way. The brothers of
the girl took her home and kept her under
strict surveillance. Gilbert could not sec her.
and wrote letters appointing meetings, &C.
Fina,lI he vas gwen to understand that he
could see his inamorata at a certain hour of
the night He approached the house, pre-
concerted signal having been given, when one
of the infatuated girls brothers shot him with
buckshot through the body, hyt not danger
ously wounding him. He ran off to cottage
hard by, but the inmates knowing him would
not admit him, SO he was obliged to seek sue
cor elsewhere. A kinsman denied him admit.
tance to his innocent home, but took him to
his (Gilhert'sl house. The brother who shot
him is under arrest, and Gilbert is trying to
get well, promising to shoot the whole tribe of
blewitts.-Bntalo Com. 4dp
Saint Paul weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1858-1859, 1859-08-27
Good for Something.

A son of Cassius NJ. Clay, while cunning
recently, was bitten on the foot by some poi
sonous reptile, supposed to be rattesnake,
and his body Immediately exhibited all the
symptoms of the most virulent poisoning :;
but he was dosed until stupifed, with apple
brandy, aod the next morning was as we'll as
ever. So confident was Mr.. Clay of the eff
cacy of alchoholic spirits in all cases of poi
son by the bites of snakes and insects, that
he did not even send for a physician. Sale
ratus was bound upon the bitten spot until
ammonia could be produced, when the former
was moistened with it. This was upon the
theory that poison is an acid, and any alkali
will answer, though ammonia is thought to
be the best. Mr.. Clay's experience is con-
tirn>ed by that of many others, and it is the
part of wisdom for all to remember, and to
use when needed, this simple antidote, but
we hope nobody will think that, because whis-
key is good as a remedy for poisonous bites,
it is also to be used as preventive. For, al
though snake would be justified in refusing
to bite whisky soaked creature, we don't
think one ever did.-Xiluaukee Sentinel.
Saint Paul weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1858-1859, 1859-08-27
THE WATER.LILY.

How beautifully rests upon the water
That flower of purest white;
How like lovely bride or blooming daughter,
in snow-white garments dight.
How gracefully she seems to gaze below her
On the reflected sky;
Bowing at each dip of the passing oar,
AS the swift boat goes by.
Therein her morning brightness and her beaut y
An emblem of Gods love,
For all who tread the silent paths of duty,
Smiled down on from above.
lie never is forgetful of his children,
But, in their darkest hour,
Howe'er forsaken they may be by men,
Smiles on them in each flower
He paints the lilies and he makes them wither
4 lesson unto man,
In all his greatness he is passing thither
Into that unknown land.
We catch but glimpses of that glorious vision,
In music and in flowers.
Awaiting us beyond the fields Elysian
OF this cold world of ours.
Saint Paul weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1858-1859, 1859-08-27
ON is S6l pounds, or ts5, 900 pounds per

bottom Is SCI pounds, or ts5,OOO pounds per
square yard.
lst Experiment Three bottles, two of
them Theoretically sealed, were placed in the
pump and sunk to the bottom of the BORE
W hen withdrawn they were crushed to pow
der. The other, which was closed with a
strong cork, had it forced in and the bottle
pulveriZed.
I'd Experiment-Tw very strong cut glass
bottles were used one of them was crushed,
the other, a very small and thick one, was
forced half full. of water-but not broken,
and the cork remained firmly fixed in the neck.
The water forced into the bottle at the great
depth of 2,O25 feet, or over of mile, was
as pure and limpid as the purest spring.
Curious stones are brought, in limited
quantities, from the bottom, which, when
polished, show minute stars, new moons, and
suns, not regularly and clearly Defined
Ohio State journal.
Saint Paul weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1858-1859, 1859-08-27
An Ancient Race.

The following is an amusing instance of
the tenacity with which the Highlanders hold
to the honors and antiquity of their kim
dred:
A dispute arose between Campbell and
Mclean upon the antiquity of their families.
The latter would not allow that the Campbells
had any right to rank with the McLeans in
antiquity, who, he insisted, were in existence
as clan from the beginning of the world
Campbell had little more Biblical knowledge
than his antagonist, and asked him if the clan
of Mclean was before the flood
Flood what flood ?" said Mclean.
" Ia flood that you know drowned all the
world but Noah and his family and his Aocks,"
said Campbell.
Pooh you and your food" said Nc
Lean; "my clan was afore ia flood"
81 have not read in my Bible," said Camp
bell ''of ia name o Mclean going into Noah's
ark"
'Noahs ark ~ retorted Mclean, in con-
tempt whaever heard of Mclean that had
ma boat O his own?
Saint Paul weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1858-1859, 1859-08-27
How People Live at Saratora.

The correspondent of the New York E.r
press furnishes the following description of life
at Saratoga. He says:
Hardly has the sun dissipated the night,
ere the crowd of sojourners commence their
migration to the Spring We always have the
pleasant accompaniment of music while par
taking of the waters here, and no one can de-
ny that the grounds are laid out in the most
picturesque manner; the walks intertwine
and twist in various directions, and are as
smooth as carpet floor; in various spots
there are marble statuary, which assist in
lending classic appearance to the place.
Here you will meet people from ali portions of
the globe; they are of various classes. The
old habitues, who come and have been COM
ing here for forty years, and who drink Con-
gress Water because every one else does the
same thing, they make it a boast how much
Saint Paul weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1858-1859, 1859-08-27
~ The London correspondent of the Man.

~ The London correspondent of the Man.
chester Guardian learns that Miss Florence
Nightingale continues to lose strength under
her continued labors. The scenes and suffer-
ings of the Crimea made a deep and abiding
impression on her devoted and deep natu. e.
She determined after her return to give her
self up to the removal of the manifest sources
of that evil which she beheld in full play in
the lazar- houses Scutari, and under the dis
NAL hospital marques before Sevastopol.-
Ever since the conclusion of peace she has
been laboring al the work of barrack and hos
pital Improvement, with a view to the anchor
alton Of the health of the soldier and the in.
crease of his comforts. She has persevered
IN this labor in spite of impaired health and
failing strength.
Saint Paul weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1858-1859, 1859-08-27
l. A B O R /.

Toll swings the axe, and forests bow;
The seeds break out in radiant bloom.
Rich harvestS smile behind the plow.
And cities cluster round the loom.
Where tottering domes and tapering spires.
Adorn the vale and crown the hill, : -
Stout Labor lights its beacon-fires,
And plumes with smoke the forge and mill.
The monarch oak, the woodlands pride.
Whose trunk is scanned with lightning scar Z
Toll launches on the restless tide,
And there unrolls the flag of stars:
The engine with its lungs OF fame, ...s.-si
, And ribs of brass and joints of steel, E.
From Labor's plastic fingers came,
With sobbing valve and whirl of wheel.
'Iis Labor works the magic press,
And turns the crank in hives of toll
And beckons angels down to bless
Industrious hands on sea and soil
here sunbrowned Toll with shining spake,
Links lake TO lake with silver ties,
Strung thick with palaces of trade
And temples towering to the skies.
Saint Paul weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1858-1859, 1859-08-27
Tornado at Prince Edwards Island.
BOsTON. Aug. 10,

BOSTON, Aug. Ig.
The Prince Edwards Island Eram,ner de-
scri5es the tornado of the 9th inst as being
the most terrible ever known on the Island,
tearing up strong trees and doing much dam
age to property. A number of boats in the
Harbor were upset, one of which contained
Fred. Goodwin, son of Hon. G. r. Goodwin,
formerly Collector at Charleston, and a Miss
Maloney. Both were drowned
Several other cases of drowning are report
ed, and vessel is supposed to have gone
down with all on board, seven in number
The Examiner fears also for the safety of the
fishing vessels, of which there large num-
Der out. A telegraph dispatch was received
at Charlottetown, from New Brunswick, CIV
ing notice of the storm there.
Saint Paul weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1858-1859, 1859-08-27
Extraordinary Xercfse.

A cotemporary has adopted the practice,
becoming quite common, for marking papers
with an X on the expiration of subscriptions.
A subscriber recently responded in the follow
ing good hit
Messrs. Lansing: That your Xposition is
Acusible in the Xtra X Inhibited on the
Aterior of the last Standard you will allow
me to Apress my readiness to admit. Please
to Aamlne the enclosed y change, and if
deemed an Expiration for my rerDissness, it
will be Expected that you will Xtend to me an
Aoneration from your Xactness, by Xpung-
ing or Ascinding the said X from my next
paper. Not that your mode is by any means
Aceptionable in Xercising right, but rather
to be Atolled, as a very Xpeditious one in
making Namples of delinquents. Please
Acuse my impudence
Yours, Truly.
Saint Paul weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1858-1859, 1859-08-27
HOW they Predict the Weather at the
Smithsonian Institute.

Prof. Henry, at the Scientific Association,
gave an account of the method pursued each
day at the Smithsonian Institute, to record
and predict the weather. They have map
OF the United States hung upon board.
with the pins stuck through at the points
where the observers of the Institute are sta
toned. The Institute has daily reports by
telegraph from many of these points. Each
morning an assistant hangs a cord on the pins
to indicate the state of the weather-black if
raining, green if showing, brown if cloudy,
and white if fair. All storms travel east, and
thus they are enabled to predict with great
certainty the condition of the weather twelve
hours in advance.
Saint Paul weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1858-1859, 1859-08-27

ing in house of assignation on Plumb street
above Fifth. From his papers, and from his
declarations to the Coroner, we learn that five
times has he attempted to kill both bimself
and his wife. 1t would also appear that he
married her aware of her abandoned life.
The following note found on him, shows his
desire to see her last evening:
"Send me word by the boy Nav come
and see you? await an answer on the cor
ner. can not exist without seeing you.-
Let me cOme-must see you very soon. Oh,
Blanche! Blanche Blanche! Blanche! |
am very repentant. Come! come l cannot
live without seeing you" -.--.
We can't say whether he sent duplicate
Of it. About IL o'clock last night he called at
the house on Plumb streetahd desired to see
her. She was up stairs in bed. She came
down to see him and he told her he wanted to
walk out with her, and said he, 'I am going
to kill you" She said she wasn't afraid, and
they went out. The next known of them,
the reserve corps of policemen in the Ninth
street station house were startled by two pis-
tol reports at the corner OF Plum and Eighth
streets.
They Immediately ran to the corner, and
there saw DeMarbas and Blanche at the door
of BroOkfield's Marble yard Blanche was
sitting up quietly, while he was stretched at
full length on the pavement, apparently dead.
Mr.. William DeBeck of the County Audit
or's Oftice, who accompanied the police, caught
young man by the shoulder, saying "Tve
got you sir" DE Marbais spoke up: "There
is no one to blame but me. | did it," Po-
liceman McGrew went to Blanche, and assis-
ted her to rise. She said, :" came out of the
house to die" Then she exclaimed in agony,
"Oh my daughter! Oh my daughter r'-
Mr.. McGrcw asked her where her daughter
was. She said she was with the Marsh
Troupe, and upon being removed, as she was
forthwith, to the Ninth Street Station House.
she took off splendid jet cross, tipped with
gold, kissed it, and desired it to be sent to
her daughter Adele.
Upon examining them at the Station House,
it was found that she was shot in the left breast
just above the nipple, and that she was shot
in the right ear. The Policeman took from
him two three inch pocket pistols, of Aliens
patent, which he said he had purchased yes
terday morning and loaded for this express
purpose.
AS he was lying in the Station House, DR..
Carey informed him of the probability of his
recovery. He said, eff live want YOU to
hang me for this damnable deed-for shoot
ing the wife love so well.''
They were removed to the Hospital, where
he said that before they came out of the house
they had taken 80 grains of morphene, divid-
ed into two portions, dissolved it in water,
and drank it.
Blanche is young woman of beauty and
has sweet countenance. 1t is thought she
is French.
DE Marbais is young man of short stat
ure, and we learn that he is or has been in the
negro minstrelsy business.
p. S. At half past two o'clock this morn
ing the physicians thought it possible Blanche
might recover, but had no hopes that De Mar
bals would.
Saint Paul weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1858-1859, 1859-08-27
Destructive Fire at Washington,

WASHINGTON, Aug 1G.
The extensive Machine, Blacksmith and
Saving Shops Of the Capital Extension Works
were destroyed by fire, which commenced
about half past three o'clock this morning.
The origin of the fire has not been ascertain
ed, but it is supposed to have been acci-
dental.
The buildings were comparatively of little
value, but the machinery contained in them
was very expensive, including the lathe for
turning the immense stone columns for the
Public Buildings. Powerful engines and
tools, and large quantity of costly marble,
finished and unfinished, has been destroyed.
The loss is variously estimated at from S5O,,,
600 to 100000. There was no insurance up
on any portion,
Saint Paul weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1858-1859, 1859-08-27

On sunny summer morning,
Early as the dew was dry,
Up the hill | went berrying;
Need tell you-tell you why?
Farmer Davis had daughter,
And 1t happened that | knew,
On each sunny summer morning, Jenny,
Up the hill went berrying too.
Lonely work is picking berries,
So joined her on the hill;
Jenny dear" said l, "your baskets
Quite too large for one to FILL"
So we staid-we two--to fill it.
Jenny talking-I was still
Leading where the hill was steep,
Picking berries up the hill.
"This is uphill business" said Jenny;
SO is llfe," said |, 4" shall we
Climb it each alone, or, Jenny,
Will you come and climb with me?"
Redder than the blushing berries
Jenny's cheeks a moment grew,
While, without delay, she answered,
g will come and climb with you."
Saint Paul weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1858-1859, 1859-08-27
Lost Woman Found.
EEANKLIN. N. H.. Aup.

FRANKLIN, N. H., Aug. 10.
Mrs. Betsy Danforth who mysteriously dis
appeared on the 25th Of July, was found to-
day alive, but reduced almost to skeleton,
in a slough half mile from the house where
she lived. She says the only sustenancc she
has had for the last twenty-six days was
water
Mrs. ID: is "a years of age, and partially
insane. She was unsuccessfully searched for
by large party Of citizens for two weeks
after her disappearance, when all hopes of
finding her were abandoned
Saint Paul weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1858-1859, 1859-08-27
Stabbfng ARRAY ut Oshk osh.
Oshkosh. Aug. 10

OSHKOSH, Aug. 10.
Yesterday afternoon, while the Deputy
Sheriff of Winnebago County, and Albert
Tucker were securing some grain upon which
an attachment had been issued, Tucker was
stabbed in the breast by the owner, Mr.. Ro-
gers, who came up behind him, with butcher
knife concealed in his sleeve, struck him from
behind, the blade penetrating his lungs. The
Deputy Sheriff escaped with slight cut on
the arm. Mr.. Tucker is not expected to live.
Considerable excitement prevails among our
citizens, a party of whom are in pursuit of
Rogers, who had not been taken up to last
evening
Saint Paul weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1858-1859, 1859-08-27
Additional by the Asia.

New YORK, Aug. Is.
FRANCE.-Thc Moniteur of Friday MORN
ing contains the following:
A deputation of Vcnetians presented an ad-
dress to the French Minister at Turin intend
ed for the Emperor, and in which was con-
tained protestation on the part of the Prov
inces of Venetia, against the direct and indi-
rect domination Of Austria on that part of
Italy. The minister, we are informed accep-
ted the document, but said not work in re-
ply to it.
The Fatrie says, that according to letter
from Florence it is supposed that Garibaldi
would take command of the Tuscan army.
The PoPE's PREaDENCY.-A correspondent
of the Univsrs gives the following as the SUBJ
stance Of the answer of His Highness, to the
Emperor Napoleon's proposition Plus XI.,
thanks the Emperor of the French for the
interest which he unceasingly::displays for the
Holy See, and the person of the Pope. He
regards as an instance of the Emperor's filial
devotion, the proposition relative to the hon
orable presidency of Confederation, OF Ital-
ian league, and he would not refuse that
post, without having the most ample infor-
nation respecting the engagements which
would result from it, and the relations which
would exist between the various Italian SOW
ereigns.
When he has procured such information he
will be enabled to see whether Catholic inter
est permits him to accept it, and in that case
the pacification of Italy, and the return of it's
rebellious provinces will naturally have to
precede the establishment of that Confedera-
ton and the Honorary Presidency.
The Austrian Gazette states that Cardinal
Antonelli has presented scheme of an Ital-
ian Confederation consisting of sort of mu-
tual assurance association Of the Italian gov
ernments destined to replace the Austrian
protectorate. The object of the confedera-
ton is declared to be to control revolution
whenever it may show itself and to fortify the
governments in such way that they may an
nihilate all revolutionary proceedings
The Journal de frankfort affirms that in
consequence of the complications which pre-
vail in Italy the Emperor has resolved onlv
to withdraw from Venetia the 4th battalion of
the 22d regiment of infantry, so that the for
ces assembled in that country will be dilnin-
ished by only 900 men.
Saint Paul weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1858-1859, 1859-08-27
DELIGHT IN DISORDER,

A sweet disorder in the dress
kindles in clothes wantonness:
A lawn about tie shoulders thrown
Into fine distraction ',-st,
An erring lace, which here and there
Enthralls the crimson stomacher-
A cuff neglected, and thereby
Ribbons to flow confusedly-
A winning wave, deserving note,
In the tempestuous petticoat-
A careless shoe-string, in whose tie
! see y wild civility-
Do more bewitch me than whrn art
Is too precise in every part.
Saint Paul weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1858-1859, 1859-08-27
FrOnl.Washin-ton.
Special Dispatch to the N. Y. Tribune.

Special Dispatch to the N. Y. Tribune.
WASHINGTON, Aug 10.
The President has worked hard to make
points in Nicaragua and Mexico, but now that
it is officially admitted that nothing can be
done with the Governments of those coun.
tries except by employing that force which
Congress has refused to authorize, it is not
strange that so old and experienced a man as
Caleb Gushing should decline to take hand
IN game regarded as already lost. Mr.. Di-
mltry, translator of the State Department.
has volunteered, it is said, for the forlorn hone
but probably has stipulated that his place in
the Department shall be assured to him on
his return.
1t is now said that Mr.. Hunter, the pres
ent Chief Clerk, drafted the Webster letter
to Chevalier Hulsemann, as we'll as General
Cass's first letter on the expatriation ques-
ton.
Webster was competent to draft his own
letters to any one.-ED.
Saint Paul weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1858-1859, 1859-08-27
LILLIAN.
By f. ALMY.

Three tiny bits of paper white,
Fairy Lillian gave 10 me;
On these little waits Pll write
What in Lillian's eyes see.
On her brow and temples fair,
Summers three in wavy fold
Twining in her silky hair,
II With rays of sunny god.
On her rounded infant cheeks,
and her fragrant rosebud lips,
Dimpled chin, where beauty seeks
To hide her smiles i'll faint eclipse.
In her eyes ETHEREAL blue,
Dove-like in their mee!, surprise
Of holy wonder, looking through
The cherub glance Of Lillian's eyes.
Baby germ of rarest mould!
Bud of sweetness, Ice anG grace!
blessed years shall get unfold
Brighter bloom on Lillian's face.
Musing Of thee through the light,
All day long thy smile keep;
Fairy Lillian, sweet good night!
| shall kiss thee ih my sleep.
Saint Paul weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1858-1859, 1859-08-27
Atlantic Telegraph.

New YORK, Aug. 10.
The Atlantic Telegraph Company has issu-
ed an invitation to inventors, patentees and
manufactures of submarine cables, to come
forward as soon as possible with specimens
and plans of cable suitable for ocean service,
to be submitted to the Company for the exam
ination and testing of experiments.
The invitation extends to all persons engag-
ed in the business, in whatever country re-
siding, the object being to get the very best
cable that can be produced. All conmuni-
cations are to be addressed to the Secretary of
the Society, George Seward, No. %, Old
Broad Street, London.
Saint Paul weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1858-1859, 1859-08-27

rived this morning. A nugget of gold weigh
ing 56 pennyweights had been taken from
Nevada Gulch. Rich diggings had been dis
covered in the heads Of the Bayou Salada.
ExtraVagant reports continued from Colorado.
A newspaper had been issued at Mountain
City. The State Convention sitting at Auro-
rora adjourned after havinga framed State
Constitution, the features of which are not
given Boundaries, latitude 81 to 43, longi-
tude 1O2 to 1O7. There is a division senti-
ment as to the propriety of State organization
and the Convention is to submit the question
OF Territorial or State organization at the same
time