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Saint Paul weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1858-1859, 1859-03-26
Decidedly Personal.

President Buchanan uses no tobacco. Cen
eral Cass drinks no Bourbon" Senator
Douglas uses no pepper, and the Postmaster
General eats but two meals day. n P.
Willis, cuts his own hair, Caleb Gushing
shaves himself and wears no beard, Rufus
Choate and Henry Ward Beecher are dear
lovers of coffee. E. P. Whipple rarely break
fasts before ten, though he begins bushes at
night Edward Everett writes his ertempera-
neous Addresses Ralph Waldo Emerson of.
ten dimes at Parkers, but rarely takes wine !;
William Cullen Bryant finds inspirationin in two
or three cups of green tea, and Longfellow
smokes Meerschaum. The smallest sized
poet in America is Holmes, the best looking
one, Fields, (and he is as good as he looks)
and the biggest one, Pike, of Arkansas
Gleason's Line-ot- Battle Ship W. .".. /
Saint Paul weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1858-1859, 1859-03-26
MATERIALISNI.
For everywhere

For everywhere
We're too materiastic, eating clay,
Like men of the Vest instead of Adams corn
And NOah's Wine,
Until we're filled up to the throat with clay,
And grow the grily color of the ground
On which we are feeding. Aye, materialist
The ages name is.
There are many, even,
Whose names are written in the Christian Church
10 no dishOnor-diet still on mud,
And splash the affairs with it, You might think
The clay Christ laid upon their eyelids when,
Still blind he called them to the use of sight,
Remained there to retard its exercise
With clogging incrustaton. Close to Heaven,
They see for mysteries, through the open door,
And fain would enter, when their time shall come
With quite different body than ST. Paul [corn,
Has promised-husk and chatf, the whole barley.
Or where's the resurrection.
Aurora Lei1h
Saint Paul weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1858-1859, 1859-03-26
Life OF a Newspaper Editor In Cali.
fOrnfa.

IOFn18s
He rises at 10 o'clock in the morning, dres-
es himself, takes his hat, already pierced with
three or four bullet-holes, and goes to res
taurant to get his breakfast. After break
fast, he returns to his office, to read themorn-
ing papers. He finds he is called wretch In
one, in another liar, and in third a villain.
lie smiles at the thought of having something
to do, and signs his name to thee challenges,
which he invariably carries about him in or
der that he may be ready for any emergency.
These he dispatches, and sits down to write
an article, when he is suddenly interrupted by
some interloper, whom he is compelled to
throw out of the window. At noon he learns
that his challenges have been accepted for
the next day. At three clock, he goes to
fight duel which had been arranged the day
before, kills his man, and returns to dinner
On his way from dinner, gets mixed up in a
riot, and gets some bruises and wounds
When he reaches his sanctum, he finds an
Internal machine on the table Without mani
Testing the least surprise, he throws it out of
the window. He then writes leader on Nor
al reform-this done, he goes to the theatre
On his way, he is attacked by three men he
kills two, and takes the third to the nearest
station house.. When returning to his office
at three o'clock at night, he beats man who
tries to rob him kills dog with stone =
is almost run over by hack driver, and on
the threshold of his own door receives two
more bullets in his hat then congratuIates
himself on having passed q quiet day, writes
till two in the morning returns to bed, and
sleeps TRANQUILITY.
Saint Paul weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1858-1859, 1859-03-26
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From the Winona Republican,
s. Business ReVfVfng.

Reports from the East give us encouraging
news of general revival in manufacturing
and business interest, throughout the New
England States, particularly. The great indus
trial establishments of that part of the coun-
try are said to be "all alive again." and orders
are pouring in for manufactures IN advance of
production to such an extent that in many
cases the workmen are again employed the
full number of hours daily. -
Indications of this kind are indeed encour-
aging to the people Of the West as well as Of
the East, for are not the two sections of the.
country mutually dependent? q Let the man
ufacturing establishments of the East flourish,
giving plenty of work and good pay to their
operatives, and the West feels the beneficial
effect, in the increased demand for its unri-
vailed agricultural productions. Again--when
the West is prosperous, its people are ofcourse
better able to become purchasers-they send
their orders, and their money, and their pro-
ducts to the East, which stimulates in turn
the business of the manufacturing districts.
and thus the mutual interests of the different
portions of our country are sustained. Many
shortsighted persons at the East rejoice to hear
of anything which indicates depression of
business and a lack of prosperity in the West.
This we imagine is very wrong, and is the re-
suit of a narrow, sectional, unphilosophical
manner of viewing things. The more pros
porous the West becomes, the better will it be
for the East. There may be individual ex-
ceptions to this; but as general rule, it will
hold good. The surplus means, or wealth, of
the West is constantly tending towards the
commercial and manufacturing centers of the
East, and enriching them. Whatever luxu-
ries we can afford to purchase, we are neces-
STATED, more or less, to draw through Eastern
channels; this is the fate attending our locali-
ty, and it is unavoidable. We hope, there
fore, to see better and more rational feeling
cultivated between the two sections; and
while we are gratitied to witness the return of
prosperity to our Eastern friends, it is but
just that they should look with other than
feelings of jealousy or indifference upon our
magnificent West.
Saint Paul weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1858-1859, 1859-03-26
A Thrilling Revolutionary Incident.

J. T. Headly is publishing in a New York
weekly religious paper 1.-The Diary of a
Chaplain in the Army of the Revolution."-
From it we extract the following:
At the battle of Bunker Hill, as the British
were advancing, through Charlestown, to the
attack, soldier entered house where the
husband lay sick. His wife was young and
beautiful, and hearing the soldier in the next
room, went out to meet him. He Immediate
ly addressed insulting proposal to her. Being
angriiy repulsed, he attempted violence, when
her screams aroused her sick husband from
his bed Nerved with the sudden excitement
he leaped up, and seeinghis wife struggling in
the arms of British soldier, ran him through
the body The man fell back on the floor,
and as his eye met that of his destroyer, he
shrieked out, My Brother - The recogni-
ton was mutual, and with the exclamation,
{" have murdered my brother p the over
excited invalid husband fell dead on the
corpse. These unhappy brothers were Scotch
men. One had emigrated to America sever
al years before; the other had joined the Eng
lish army, and after long separation thus
met to perish together
Saint Paul weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1858-1859, 1859-03-26
Legal Clrsunlocutton.

What roundabout way lawyers have of
drawing up deeds and documents. 1t is
almost enough to keep nervous person from
going to law at all" The following is sam
ple Suppose man wished to give another
an orange. Instead of making simple dec
laraton, and saying, 4 give you that orange
he must set forth his act and deed in this
way 4 do hereby give YOU all and singular,
my estate and interest, right title and claim
and advantage of and in that orange, with all
its rind, skin, pulp, juice and pips, and all
right and advantages therein, with full power
to cut, suck, bite or otherwise cut the same
orange, or give the same away, with or with
out its skin, riud, juice, pulp and pips, any
thing heretofore or hereinafter, or in any other
deed or deeds, instruments of what kind or
nature to the contrary or anywise, notwith-
standing"
Saint Paul weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1858-1859, 1859-03-26
A Bold Preacher.

The Washington correspondent of the N
7. Express writes that Rev. Mr.. Morsell, an
Episcopal Clergyman, preached to tho mem
bers at the Capitol on Sunday. The old and
new year were the burden of the discourse,
but the manner in which the lessons of the
past were borne home upon the Honorables
was truly refreshing. He alluded to the
scenes in the old Hall, the stains of blood and
the dishonorable conflicts which rested upon
it. He hoped and prayed that before bro
theirs hand lifted against brother, should
fall upon its victim, he might be struck dead
in the act In regard to the code of honor
and dueling, he branded it wilful murder in
the worst degree. He is apowerful preacher,
a logical thinker, and but few men, even in
Northern pulpits, would dare to say what he
said, much less say it in the Speakers desk
of tho Hall of Representatives.
Saint Paul weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1858-1859, 1859-03-26
|" What I,ve Earncd.o

Mr.. 10 Whitehill, of Columbus, formerly
Treasurer of State, was a rough joker, even
in his Office. -.
Some twenty years ago, verdant member
of the Grand Assembly called at the State
Treasury and said he wanted ''some money"
How much do you want? said White
hill. 4,a
"Well, I-don't-know," said the men,
ber ,.. ....
How do you suppose can pay you money,
then, if you don't know ?"
"Well, then, pay me about what l have
earned"
" Earned" said Whitehill, "EARNED !
You are member of the legislature, amt
you? and if that's all you want, l can pay
you off what you've earned very easy. Bob,
give this member that ten dollar counterfeit
bill aoeue had so !"-Summsit (Ohio)
Beacon
Saint Paul weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1858-1859, 1859-03-26

Anothsr Geologse.ign1onster


DR.. Leidy of Philadelphia, has reconstruct
ed from fragments of gigantic bones found in
amarl pit at Haddonfield, New Jersey, an,
other pre-Adamite reptile not yet named, but
aptly described as a. kangaroo-like alliga-
tor. IL Oil. GJ .--a *4IE Iy-Etrg. r-.T.7 :
(. "The creature was evidently of unimagin-
ed dimensions. Its shind leg bones, when put
together would reach seven feet, upon which
the pelvis and back bone and. upper skin
will still 60 on making it nine or ten feet high
upon the thaunches. On the contrary, the
fore legs Were So sldisproportionately short,
that had they been found at different place
no anatomist would have hesitated to assign
them to animals Of different kinds or at least
to different individuals I; but the animal which
this most resembles, discovered in an English
rock OF the sameage by DR.. Mantell, shows
the fore and hind legs equally dissimilar. The
fact no doubt is, that we have here the rel
les Of a kangaroo-like alligator, of more than
mammoth size, living near the great tertiary
rivers and lagoons, and feeding on the vegeta-
ton, as it sat erect on its vast hind legs,
supported by its tail. To get at its length,
Dr.. Leidv took the number of neck and back
vertebre common to all kinds of reptiles, and
averaged the number of tail vertebre between
the hundred in the tail of the iguana and the
twenty or thirty in the tail of the crocodile,
and thus fixed the probable length of the
whole creature at twenty-five feet. Its tail
must have been three feet deep its neck thin
and its head no doubt small. Its teeth are but
two inches long, but set in such tessaated
wall around the mouth as to make formda-
BILE cutting and grinding apparatus The
family must have been very extensive, for DR..
Leidy is now able to recognize it's represen-
tation by some before enigmatical fragments
from Nebraska and the Lower Mississippi
The formation, we know, extended across the
continent, because its shells are found from
Mexico to. the Arctic Sea and on Vancouver's
Island.
Horace, in jolly mood, has drawn the
picture of herd of whales browsing among
the thickets of wood, and calls them the
flock of Proteus, but Edgar Poe himself nev-
er could have dreamed of a herd of alligator
kangaroos as large as two story log cabins,
with tails as long as their wood-yards, not
gnashing together rolling-mill squeezers set
with railroad spikes at one another, but lov-
ingly nibbling the long under branches of the
fir forest, fragments of which, turned to brown
coal or Ignite, and surcharged with ulphuret
of iron, were found together with their
bones" ""
Saint Paul weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1858-1859, 1859-03-26
The American Constitution.

Lord Brougham pronounces the following
States: ......
Union should be formed. This is the natural
result of mems joint operations in very rude
state of society. But the regulation of such
Union upon pre-established principles
formation ofa system of government and legis-
lation in which the different subjects shall
not be individuals but States-the application
of legislative principles to such body of
States-and the divining means for keeping
its integrity as a Federacy, while the rights
and powers of the individual States are main
tanned entire-is the very greatest refinement
in social policy to which any state of circum-
tances has ever given rise, or to which any
age has ever given BIRTH"
Saint Paul weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1858-1859, 1859-03-26

W Cartouche, the French robber, was
once requested by young man to be engag
ed in his band .''.' -''.' 3
"Where have you served?" asked the rob
ber.l lg- gre.. .-lr .-a.-.. ..5. -t '.-..-.. r.
"Two years with an attorney, and six
months as inspector Of police"
"Well," answered the chief ssthat whole
time shall be reckoned as if you had served
inmy troop" .s IL. >~- Id.
Saint Paul weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1858-1859, 1859-03-26
SUCH Is LIFE.
BY L. B. HUNTER.

As passed near a murmuring rill,
/ saw a merry child.
Who sought his cup OF JOY to NIL,
With fancieS, vague and will.
His kite was floating in the air,
His boat upon the stream;
And, thus amused, no anxious care
Did blight his youthful dream.
In various pastime, smoothly glide
Away his golden hours; ,-...
he only sees life's "sunny side,"
Strewed Ger with fragrant flowers.
And such is life Its golden chain
Eucircles Youths bright morn;
Impulsive hope, and pleasures train,
Inspire each early dawn.
l sought again that verdant spot,
Where merry Youth had played,
Alas In vain-I found him not;
His wayward feet had strayed.
But farther down the stream of Life,
l saw, in manhood's prime,
Toiliug with hope, in worldly strife,
Ambitions hill TO climb.
No aimless track doth he pursue,
To hoard up wealth untold; Ii
Retiring manhuad sinks from view,.
Beneath his dazzling gold.
Thus tolls that cold and joyless man,
To reach ambitions goal,
Nor heeds the "Great Original "plan,
Which satisfies the soul.
The poisonous weeds of worldly lust,
And mammon smoky breath,
Concealed the path. marked for the just,
Which leads from fear and death.
Filled with sorrow and despair,
He views the early past,
But Life is WEAKNESS and care,
All Ger with shadows cast.
And such is life, where Moloch's god
Is worshipped as divine;
But all must kiss the chast' ming rod,
Who worship at his shrine.
Lay up treasure, then, above,
True riches it will be;
A neyer-failing fount of love,
To all eternity.
Saint Paul weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1858-1859, 1859-03-26

Loved we'll when pausing in the twilight meadow,
Ihon first vouchsafed thy plighted troth to me
All heaven then trembling on the sunlit shadow
Eve showered around us from the trysting tree.
Loved more, when joy-bells chimed our nuptial
hours,
While bridal -maidens grouped thy form beside,
Marked my betrothed fair-my blooming bride /!
Loved most, when nestled by our home -heartb's q
shining,
Our first wee prattler clngng to thy knee.
saw, through thy dear eyes, thy soul dvininp
The Lover, Husband, Father, blent in me-
Dublin Unioersity Magazine.
Saint Paul weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1858-1859, 1859-03-26
CUPID,S GARDEN.s

As wur in Cu-pit's gardin
Not mwOar nor hat an hour,
IT wur ther | zeed two may -dens
Zlttin under Cubt's bower,
gatherin Of sweet jessa mine,
The lily and the rose,
These be the fairest flowers
As the garden grows.
vondly stepped to one O. them
These words to her zays
"Be you engaged to ARA young man,
Come tell to me prays."
81 beant engaged to nara young man,
| solemny declare
l aims to live a may den,
And still the laurel wear.
2ay5 !, "My stars and gartersl
This here's pretty go,
for vine young mayd as never wos
To Ear all man kind TO-"
But t'other young may den looked sly at me,
And vrom her seat she risn
lays she, "Let thee and go our own way,
And we'll let she go shis'n."
*Frcm the Securing of the White Horse" b
he author of "TOm Browns School Days."
Saint Paul weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1858-1859, 1859-03-26
Our Best ParlOrs,

Don't keep a solemn parlor into which you
60 but once month, with the parson or sew
ing society. Hang around your walls pictures
which shall tell stories of mercy, hope, cour-
age, with faith and charity. Make your hv-
ing-room the largest and most cheerful in the
house. Let the place be such that when
your boy has gone to distant lands, or when
perhaps, he clings to single plank in the
lonely waters of the wide ocean, the thought
of the still homestead shall come across the
desolation, bringing always light, hope and love.
Have no dungeon about Jour house; no room
you never open no blinds that are always
shut.-N Marcel ..- --stt
Saint Paul weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1858-1859, 1859-03-26
"A Chicago Young Lady Falls Heir to
$45,OOO,OOO.

We hear that a young lady of this city,
who has hitherto followed the humble voca-
ton of sewing girl, and whose name is Ma
ry Schooley, received letter yesterday from
an Uncle resident in New York, stating that
herself, in connection with the writer of the
letter, and another Uncle, also residing in New
York, had fallen equal heirs to the comforta.
BILE sum of $4,000, 900, or about sl35, 900,
900, by the recent death of an uncle at Cal
cutta, India, where he had accumulated his
immense fortune in mercantile pursuits
This story is current in our city, but we will
not, at present, vouch for its truth, though
we hope to have it fully confirmed.-Chicagc
Tribune.
Saint Paul weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1858-1859, 1859-03-26
Paul Jones in the Firth OF Fourth,

Last week, Mrs: Reekie, widowd, died at
Pathhead, near Kirkcaldy. She was known
to have been as the last Of those young lasses
who lighted the fires in Ravenscraig Castle
when the men of Pathhead kept armed watch
and ward nightly for the return of Paul
Jones: She often ref rr,d to this period in
her life, and described m nutey the appear
ance OF Mr.. Shirra, WI en- engaged in praying
on the beach for that wind which drove the
vessels OF the dreaded Paul down the Firth
She was n years single, 33 years married,
and 3S years window, and was in the hab-
it Of fsaying that she have lived three lfetimes.
Her offspring was as follows children,
65 grandchildren, 116 great-grandchildre
and 3 great eat-great-grandchildren-in all 1913.
Edinberg Reoiep.
Saint Paul weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1858-1859, 1859-03-26

~ The joint resolution passed by thelate
Congress, comforting upon Commodore Chas.
Stewart, of the U. S. Navy, the rank of Sem
ior Flag Officer, was well merited compli-
ment to this veteran commander. The rank
is sort Of equivalent to that of Admiral, and
it will terminate at the death of Commodore
Stewart. 1t corresponds t07General Scott's
brevet rank of Lieutenant General -.
Saint Paul weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1858-1859, 1859-03-26
LINES TO A LADY.
BY BAYARD TAYLOR.

This piece was written by BAYARD TAYLOR as he
embarked on the Pacific main; ard if any one does
not find it charming would like to know who
he is:
From the bosom of Ocean | seek thee
Thou lamp of my spirit afar.
As the seaman adritt in the darkness,
Looks up for the beam of his star!
And when on the on-lighted water
The spirits Of solitude Sleep
My soul in the light of thy beauty
Lies hushed in the waves of the deep.
As the shafts of the sunrise are broken
Far over the giltterng sea-
Thou hast dawned on the wave ofmy dreaming,
And each thought has sparkle of thee
And, though with the white sail distended,
speed from the vanishing shore,
Thou wilt give to the silence of Ocean,
The spell of thy beauty the more.
Saint Paul weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1858-1859, 1859-03-26
A Type OF Woe.

A poor editor out somewhere, falling into
the hands of the Philistines, breaks forth in
the following gizard moving appeal:
Sheriff, spare that press
Touch not sing lie type!
Don't put me in distress,
To stick to me through life.
lis all in all to me;
Ii lost, what shall I dop
Then why not let it be?
Oh, Sheriff, boo! boo! boo
Saint Paul weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1858-1859, 1859-03-26

Quaint Defence OF self-ContradictiOn.
Mr.. Ruskin, recently addressing an audi
ence in England said:
"Some of my hearers, this evening, may
occasionally have heard it stated of me that
am rather apt to contradict myself. l hope
am exceedingly apt to do so. l never met
with question yet, of any Importance, which
did not need for the right solution it, at least
one positive and one negative answer, like an
equation of the second degree. Mostly, mat
ters Of any consequence are three-sided, or
four-sided, or polygonal and the trotting
round a polygonal is severe work for people
any way stiff in their opinions. For myself,
l am never satisfied that have handled a
subject properly, till have contradicted my
Self at least three times" r--
Saint Paul weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1858-1859, 1859-03-26

W- Let all your things have their places
let each part of your business have its time
and. -
PUNCHs LAsT-At Quarter Sessions one
of the magistrates slept and snored. A young
barrister sent up this note to the eniors coun.
sci - s -rts1.r 4 -iul.t .-- .
"Q.-Why is Sir Tunbelly like the first
ship on record
A.-Because he snores-harEr '-s'r-9
Saint Paul weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1858-1859, 1859-03-26
UPON A STOLEN KISS.
BY GEORGE WHITTIER.

Now gentle sleep hath closed up those eyes
Which, waking, kept my boldest thoughts in ave.
And free access unto that sweet lip lies,
From whence long the rosy breath to draw y.
From those two melting rubies one poor kiss:
None sees the theft that would the thief reveal,
Nor rob her of aught that she can miss.
Nay, should twenty kisses take away,
There would be little sign would do SO;
Why then should then this robbery DELAY?
Oh! she may wake, and Herewith angry grow
Well, if she do, I'll back restore that one,
And twenty thousand more for loan. e
Saint Paul weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1858-1859, 1859-03-26
THE TOKEN ROSE.
BY DAYARD TAYLOR,

BY BAYARD TAYLOR.
For thee | plucked the wilding rose,
And wore it on my breast,
And there till daylight's dusky close
Its silken cheek was pressed
Its desert breath was sweeter far
Than palace rose could be;
Sweeter than all earth's blossoms are,
But that thou gavest me.
! kissed its leaves in fond despite
OF lips that failed mine own,
And loye recalled the sacred night
Ills blooming flower was blown:
vowed no rose should rival mine,
Tho withered now, and pale,
Till those are plucked whose white buds twin,
Above thy bridal veil
Saint Paul weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1858-1859, 1859-03-26
f@" Hayo, Ben I"

w" Hayo, Ben p r
Hayo, back again What We want ?"
SLOWS yer folks this mornin' p .
f" Purity WELL Mothers smart as usual
Jim and Tom well-and old pap died last
night" ~ @ '-
"Your father died ?" .-ls.- .-,
".Yes he kicked the bucket bout 12
o'clock, an I've got his watch! Say, Just
going up to the prison to see cousin Joe hung.
will ye go?" 80 ta o1. :"
Just about one remove from asayaeei .
Saint Paul weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1858-1859, 1859-03-26

~ "Mr Lemon has come over to our
party said politician, exultingly, to an op-
ponent.
Well," replied the other, " if your par
ty has nothing stronger than lemonaid to re-
cruit with, it must be in bad way"