St. Cloud Democrat. [volume] (Saint Cloud, Stearns County, Minn.) 1858-1866, 1860-12-06
For Salt River.

The Dug out, chartered by the Fusion
lists, starts tomorrow for the head of Salt
River: The cabin boy was sent with
$2o this morning to buy small storss;~
He returned while the captain and -.
were in the cabin taking Z 7" smile. aeaol
tho following colloquy took place:
Boy" Well; Captain, Pvs,sann Il
board with the small stores.'"
Capsais-@ What have you boueh6esz7
Boy-"1 spent twenty four dollsss e.
whiskey and one dollar for bread" :,
Captain-" Thunder! What are y,
going to do with 90 much bread 7-Al:
bany Journal.
- The postage collected in tho 6t,ts
Of South Carolins for the lest year auoun-
ted to SOL 900. The cost of the Federal
Government for Transporting the mails in
that State was $l92,2le. In Massachu,
sets the same year, the receipts wssu
$532, l84, and tho expenses $l53, 091.
In 1850, the population of South Carroll.
M was only 674, 593, and it is not 100.
600 more than that now. The population
of the two cities Of Chicago and Cincin.
natl is much greater And yet this State
Of South Carolina threatens to smash up
the Union if her politicians can't. havs
everything their own way in the FedsrA
Government. -. ~..' .st
QUEEN V1croR1A's PRupENcE-The,
London correspondent Of the Nese Eork
Sun says: ..-.~ ..,, =: ....r
I was told the other day an anecdote Of
the Queen, which illustrates her good
sense and real desire to promote the we'll
fare Of her subjects. She had agreed to
have her photograph taken for the gratid-
cation Of such Of her subjects ~ might
desire to possess the counterfeit present
ment of their ruler. She presented her.
self in plain black silk without parti-
Gle Of ornament. The photographer ven
tured to suggest that she should send 16or
some jewels. "No," said the: Queea,
=" this photograph is to 60 among my peo-
pie, and I wish to do all in my power TO-
discourage extravaganza" It is such.
little anecdotes az these that have secured
the Queen a high place inthe regard II
the people. I have everywhere heard her
spoken Of with affectionate scspect. 80
~ VIM. Armstrong, sailor, arrived
at Galway in the Prince Albert, telb =
marvellous story Of exposure and suffer-
ing. He was on the barque Kitty, from
Newcastle, outward bound, with stores f9r
the Hudson's Bay Company was wrecked
Aug. 18th, by contact with iccberR Of
Cape Resolution all escaped en- two boats
just before the barque was crushed and
sunk worked several days to get out Of
the ice field, the men were rapidly falling
from cold at last got into clear water, w1s
beaten about in all sixty-two days, when:
land was reached, Armstrong being the
only survivor in his boat-( the other
boats fate unknown He was succored
by Es9uimaux. sent to Moravian Miss
ion in Labrador, and thence to st. John,
N. F.
HAS SEEN BR1aurER DAYs.-Poor
Tom Marshall !! The last we heard Of
Tom, a few weeks ago, he was "down
East" having turned over new Leaf,
and was delivering temperance. Lectures.
He had announced his determination to
cheat the lunatic asylum out of At least
one victim. In the late number Of the
Cincinnati Enquirer we find the name Of
poor Tom in the police records of that
city, alluded to as a cred faced, blotched-
nosed, dilapidated individual, accused Of
drunkenness" When asked what he had
to say for himself, he made an attempt L,
palliate the ofense, at.ributing it to an At
tack Of rheumatism, making an eloquent
appeal to the court for clemency.
Poor Tom, descendant of one Of tho
most talented families in Kentucky, the
time was when, as Senator from that
State, the walls Of legislative halls runR
with his eloquence but that time 10 pas
ed, and we find Aim DOW poor, degraded
vagabond. How hath the mighty fallen;
u,
Ia During the burning of the Cla.-
endon Hotel at Buffalo, eight of the fro
men raised ladder Of sufficient weight
for dozen ordinary men to handle, to tho
fourth story Of wing over the Kitchen.
where it was said there was sick piri.
Amid the cracking Of the dames and the
dark smoke two Of them entered the vim.
dow, and cropping in the dark, sei.sd one
Of the chamber maids, Alice White, Who
was lying sick and unable to move, and
bore her maufully down the ladder. ~
~ Young men who hereafter eaano,
or will not pay their board and tailoe's bills
can follow tho example Of South Casol,pa,
and say they have !" seceded." .-.-.~,
>.TATE OF MINNESOTA, COUNTY Or
~ srHARNs.-PRo8ATE COURT. E}:.tE
At special term of the Probate Court, hold
in and for said County Of Stearns at st. Cloud.
on the Sd day of December, A. D., 1860.
In the matter Of the Estate Of John Hanrx