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St. Paul weekly Minnesotian. (St. Paul) 1860-1861, 1860-11-09
The Jewess and her Child.
The Jsuish Chronicle says:

An occurrence lately took place at
Mysloyiez, frontier town of Prussian Pc,
land, which strongly reminds us both OF
the scene enacted at Bologna eighteen
months ago by the Papal agents, and the
stirring incident narrated in Uncle Toms
Cabin" when a female slave, pursued by
her taskmaster, in order that her child
should not be snatched from her, crossed
a river on the floating ice The heroine in
this case was Jewess, who, having be-
come the mother of an illegitimate child by
Christian, had the boy eircumclsed, an d
resolved to bring him up in her religion.
Suddenly the police appeared to take it
from her by force, in order to bring it up
in the Christian religion. A most exciting
scene now ensued The Responding moth
er, infant in her arms, fled, but was holly
pursued by the police, like hare chased
by number Of dogs. On, on she sped to-
wards the Russian frontier, but her pursu-
ers constantly gained upon her She had
just reached the brink of the river that
forms the boundary between the two coun-
tries. No friendly bridge spanned the
stream, no boat pulled from the shore. The
fate of the child seemed unavoidable; the
police had all but laid hands on her. But
no, her infant was not to be snatched from
her With the courage of despair she
plunged into the food, and, holding with
one hand the child aloft, she swan across
the river and safely reached the opposite
bank, where her pursuers dared not fol-
low her. Now, the iniquity of these pro-
ceedings consists, in the first place, in the
circumstance that as the Christian father
neither supported nor recognized the child,
he clearly had forfeited all p ternal rights
and secondly, in the injustice of the Prus
sian law, which, whilst it enacts that in all
cases of illegitimacy the child is to be
brought up in the religion of the mother,
prescribes that in the case of Jews the in
FAINT should be brought up in the Christian
religion, wherever the father or mother
happens to be a Christian. We under
slant that, reused by this iniquity, large
number Of Prussian congregations have
petiaoned the Gosernsaents for the repeal
Of this unnatural law.
St. Paul weekly Minnesotian. (St. Paul) 1860-1861, 1860-11-09
/ NOW SLEEPS THE CRIMSON
PETAL. .-
BY ALFRED TENSYsnx

Now sleeps the crimson pc sal, now the white:
DNow waves the cypress in. the palace walk
! Now winks the goIdfn in the porphyry font;
The hrefy wakens waken thou with me. g.
Now droops the uIiik-whise peacock like a ghost,
And like q ghost she glinI,ners unto me.
Now lies the earth all Dsnae to the stars.
And all thy heatt lies open unto me.
Now slides the silent meteor on, and leaves
4 shining turrow, as thy thoughts in me-
Now folds the lily all her5sweetness up,
And slips into the bosom of the lake:
80 fold myself, my dearest. thou and slim Z
Into my bosom aud be lost ia me.
St. Paul weekly Minnesotian. (St. Paul) 1860-1861, 1860-11-09
The Prince OF Wales interview
with the Last Survivor OF Bunker

Hill.
The interview between the Prince Of
Wales and Ralph Farnham, who is now
lO4 years of age, and the last survivor of
the battle of Bunker Hill, took place at the
Revere House, on Thursday morn
ing, the 18th ult. He was in troduced by
edward Everett The Prince received the
veteran so kindly that he said az prin-
ces alters acted like this to body, there
would be less wars"
The meeting was very cordial. The
Duke of Newcastle, who, with most of the
suite, was present, asked the veteran if he
saw Burgoyne when he surrendered, ad-
ding, you rather had him there" The
old soldier then remarked chuckingly, that
hearing so much Said in praise Of the
Prince, he began to fear that the people
were turning royalists. This, and Mr..
Farnham's manner elected much laughter,
in which the Prince joined. The Prince
then sent for pen and ink, and exchanged
autographs with his visitor
St. Paul weekly Minnesotian. (St. Paul) 1860-1861, 1860-11-09
SEE.D-WDliDS.

Twas notling-a mere idle word,
From careless lips that fell,
Forgot, perhaps, as soon as said,
And purposeiess as well.
But yet. as on the passing wind
Is borne the little seed,
Which blooms unheeded, as q flower,
Or as nOiSciess weed
So often will single word,
Unknown, its end fulfill,
And bear, IN seed, the flower and fruit
OF actions good or i'll.
St. Paul weekly Minnesotian. (St. Paul) 1860-1861, 1860-11-09
The Navies OF England and France.

Some experiments which were recently
made with a heavy Armstrong gun, the
exact result Of which have not been al
lowed to transpire, have, says the Observer,
shown that irOn-plated ships will not be
able to resist the fire of these guns. The
trials made last August with the Stork
gun boat, with 68-pounders discharged
against iron and steel plates, at distance
of two hundred yards, showed that iron or
steel clad ships could really be more easily
destroyed at that distance than ship en-
tirely of timber, and since that period it
has been found that 9S-pounder is cap
able of completely perforating four inch
iron plates. 1t has been found that with
charge of only five pounds Of powder, a 80
pound shot may be thrown from this gun
distance of five and a half miles. The
great steam ram now in course of construc-
ton at the Thames lronworks will be
armed with thirty-SN Of the Armstrong
guns, each OF which will be capable Of
throwing a shot of one hundred poupds
weight distance Of five miles. This ex-
traordinary addition to our naval power
will be $50 feet in length, So in breadth,
Al ! in depth; her tonnage GIFT tons :;
the engines are to be of l $50 horse power;
her total weight at sea 5000 tons, and her
speed 6 miles an hour.
A most remarkable vessel of war is now
being designed by Mr.. Page, to be sub
mitted to Her Majesty's Government, of
such nature as to defy the utmost power
of existing ordnance, and which will be
capable Of throwing with accuracy 700
explosive shells per hour into any dock
yard three miles distant. The ships which
England possesses Tor using the heavy ord.
nance Of the present day consist of 464
steam vessels Of all classes, and 296 sailing
ships, making a total of 760 vessels afioat,
or building and converting. On the oppo-
site side of the channel We have an ally
who owns $50 sailing ships and 265 sailing
steamers, or total of 445 vessels afioat,
building or converting. His sailing ships
carry 1922 guns, his steamers SOLO,
which are propelled with 1880 horses
power. In the steam navy of France there
are Sc line Of battle ships and frigates. with
6,293 guns, and have AZ, 800 horses pow
or. We can oppose them with "a ships
and frigates, with 1884 guns, and 47,740
horses power. We have 296 sailing YES
sells to 1876 of France, and we have total
of 464 steam vessels to 264 of France the
majority of 200, being msdeup of fleet Of
screw boats, screw floating batteries, screw
and paddle eoryettes and sloops, mortar
ships, and block Ups.
St. Paul weekly Minnesotian. (St. Paul) 1860-1861, 1860-11-09

DELIVERED Ar rHE RAD spLITTERs WIG
WAN, ST. CLOUD, ON MONDAY. OCT, 9srH,
1860.
St. Paul weekly Minnesotian. (St. Paul) 1860-1861, 1860-11-09

- The Clay monument at Lexington,
Ky, IS still unfinished, and there is no tell
ing when L win be completed.
St. Paul weekly Minnesotian. (St. Paul) 1860-1861, 1860-11-09
HOW Fred Douglas A answered q White
Chap who Wanted TO Marry His
Daughter and sac, 200.

We find the following letters in the
Rochester Express, which paper becomes
voucher for their authenticity:
2. AUBURN, Oct. Is, 1860
Mr. F. DouGLAs--Dear Sir II take the
opportunity to address you few lines as
follows: have been informed that you
had an only daughter ami that you desired
her to marry Wright man and whereup-
on you Civ $4,000 or $40, 900 dollars to
any respectable Wright man that would
marry her and cherish her through life. If
there is any truth in this reyort, 2 s let
me know and Twill marry your daughter
on those conditions, and viii endeavor to
make myself agreeable.
Yours respectfully. CuAs. HapP.
To f. Douglas. ss.
Direct to Charles Happ, Auburn, ~ Y.
St. Paul weekly Minnesotian. (St. Paul) 1860-1861, 1860-11-09
RocHEsrEn. Oct. II. 1860.

CHAs. HApP. Esq, Dear Sir Y GU are
an entire stranger to me, and direct me to
no one from whom | can learn your true
character and responsibility. This, if no
other difficulty existed, would seriously
embarass me in making o favorable an
swer to your proposition. You should
have at least given me one respectable rsf-
erence. The fact that you have not done
iso, with other Circumstances connected
with your letter, makes it quite doubtful
whether could honorably accede to your
proposition. You date from Auburn, and
tell me to direct to you At Auburn, but
YOU do not narne thes street Pardon me
for regarding this IS . suspicious circupa-
St. Paul weekly Minnesotian. (St. Paul) 1860-1861, 1860-11-09

THE PRACTICAL RESULT OF soUATTER SOW
EREiGSTY AS APPIED 10 THE QUESTION
OF SLAVERY. 81
St. Paul weekly Minnesotian. (St. Paul) 1860-1861, 1860-11-09
AUTUMN WOODS.

= Ere in the Northern gale,
Tie summer tresses of the trees are gone,
TIE woods of autumn, all around our vale,
Have put their glory on.
TIE mountains that Unfold,
In their wide sweep, the coiored landscapes
Seem groups Of giant Kings, in purple and
That guard the enchanted ground.
Irosm the woods that crown
The upland, where the mingled splendors glow,
Where the gay company OF trees look down
0nthe green fields below.
Ny steps are not alone
In these bright walks: the sweet southwest, al
Flies, rusding, where the painted leaves are
shown
Along the winding way.
fsss ..,s And far in heaven the while
The sur that sends the gale TO wander here,
Pours out on the quiet earth his SMILE
The sweetness Of the year.
Where nov the solemn shade,
yerdure and gloom, where many branches
So ssatsla. sa.sa he s.nsAsoi AIS uss asa.ss 8
The valleys sick with heats
Let in through all the trees
Came the strange rays; the forest depths are,
bright ~. ssEs&. '5~'sT
Their sunny colured foliage, in the breeze,
Wrinkles like beams u light
The rivuiet, late unseen,
Where pickering through the shrubs its waters
run,
Shines with the image of its golden screen,
The glimmerings of the sun.
But meath yon crimson tree,
Lover 10 listening maid might breathe his
fame,
Nor mark, within its roseate canopy,
Her blush of maiden shame.
The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1860-08-10
MunetaTv sna Commercial 8tbisu.

BALTIMORE, August 9, 1850
The transactions in Stocks day quite light but
for Railroad shares the market was firm. Baltimore
and Ohio advanced S2A to per share, but there was
very little done in it, two lots of % shares each only pelng
sod both $50 buyer 6j days 1t closed regular way
at $79k bid, $50 asked Northern Central Railway was
also rmer than on yesterday the sales showing ad
vance in of Sales were made of 325 shares 225 at
s22a cash and 100 at s22H buyer 60 days. and the mar
ket for it closed at s22$ bid S22h asked regular way
There was nothing in Railroad bonds but there was
some inquiry for City 6's, and sales were made
Of sl5is 1905 at 102, which is decline of -
We note also a sale Of 20 shares Union Bank at
s76& For the Mining stocks the market continues
quiet The sales to-day include shares Cambridge
sl yesterdays price, and 300 shares Guilford at So A
MSH, these figures being decline of 116 on these of
yesterday. Gardner Hill closed 81 bid, s7b asked
Springfield at SIX bid si4 asked, North State at s2S
bid, $2h asked and Guford at $32 bid, S3H asked reg
ular way.
There is but little doing in foreign Exchange but rates
continue pretty firm The rates to-day are as follows
viz: London, bankers bills 1O96GllO do commercial
do. 1O9h @lO9&; Paris 60 day bills 5fI33; do short
sight do, 5flla Antwerp 5f12k Bremen 79E; Amster-
dam AN; Hambur 371S Cologne 73H; Frankfort-on-
the Main AZ.
In New York to-day the Stock market was very strong
and all the leading ancie advanced heavily. Erie i'm
proved q; New York Central y; Reading NJ Harlem
~ Cleveland and Toledo 2A; Michigan Southern 322s;
Michigan Southern guaranteed q; Galena and Chicago
215; and Missouri G's q. Virginia 6s declined but
this the only stock the list which fell off price
SALES AT THE BALTIMORE STOCK BOARD.
$l5iS Bait. 6's '9O-lO2 500 shs Guilford NJ.
SO SO shs ih E SqiGR R1assS SG6-sS 500 Co sSSs4
225 2 shs. N. G. .RR. -22H 100 shs. Cambridge
lVo bbU-ZZH Mining Go. 1's
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NEW YORK MINING BOARD-AUGusr s.
The Tribune, of this morning, SAYS:

with again very great activity and almost unprece-
dented aggregate of transactions the Board there
was ate hesitancy in prices at the opening. Several
parties in to realize profits rapid advances of
the last few days and there more disposition shown
IN some quarters to begin TO put out short lines The
stocks offered for sale however, taken very freely
and more being wanted the market hardened toward the
close of the session The offers for time purchases were
large and difficult execute in such an excited market
The market foreign bills is dull at
Sterling is l09hd1091; Francs l5G5 49, Freirhts
miveIpool-3 600 bushels wheat 1ld in ships bags
aouo ops' hour at is. To London1 500 bbs -four at
IS I'd TO Glasgow 900 bbls. -four on private terms
vessel Of 54 tons to port Europe for 50
sold for S15,000d16, 900. 1850
The directors the New York Central Railroad veser
day declared semi annual dividend of three per cent
payable on the 10th inst The Sole Leather Tanners AS
sociaton held their semannual meeting at the Astor
House yesterday and decided continue their efforts to
curai the manufacture of that article in homes of rails
ing the price to a remunerative figure.
The Americdn GdSlight Journal publishes a table of
Gas Companies Of which the following is a summary:
5Sl American Companies ies................S4 SAT oil 2I5
% Companies in British Provinces.......... 2ll2O4O
~ Cuban, Mexican, and South American Cos 6,5lOOOO
423 Companies Aggregate capital. $50, ,523 255
OF this capital New York has $2 $50 $50 made up by
III Companies, which sell coal gas average of S. 70
per thousand feet.
Land Warrants are quoted as follows:
Buying. Selling
40 Acre Warrants per acre .slOO silO
so Acre Warrants. - 4" 80. 81 92
l2O Acre Warrants, :" g .... IS 50
100 Acre Warrants, " 9 49,. &c SO
The following table shows the condition of the banks
in the four named cities:
OILS July % ssss %sPs s5GSs d 'iFsnR 5ssts RsgSs5 Isss
& YORK uIg @ o. zSis27 i 2SSss is Sf; Ss S9SsSs sSSs
Boston Juy7.... Gi77soo 5,I64OOO 7l27o)O I96iOOOO
Tst' Esst s2 So ,s ss sS!5 l5 1Ss3 IS, s. 55
bse2ssse ssls7 s's ss=,s sis7oo' -: o,.
The receipts of the New York Central and Erie roads
are S5 ,0c0 day in advance of August, 1859
The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1860-08-10

MILLEDGEvLLE, Aug. 9.-The Breckenridge
State Convention, assembled here is largely at
tended, and the proceedings harmonious. Mr..
Toombs made a speech. but Mr. Cobb is not pres
ent The following electors have been chosen for
the State at large: Charles j. McDonnal and Henry
r. jackson.
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National Convention of Teachers

BUFFALO, Aug. S-The American Normal Asso-
citation commenced its session yesterday. Delegates
are in attendance from almost every State The
session will be continued to morrow, when the Ma
tona Teachers Association holds its annual session.
Four or five hundred teachers present from all
ma arts Of countrv
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!9a gA!R NEWs 3 DOW: MAaEE1s SEE fovaIH PAGE

HE RICE KIDNAPPING CAsE.-Nothing new of
@ pareGular interest in relation to the kidnapping
rastora nas transpired since evening edition of
bos not contrary to expectation, Nickerson
the oTa;-y ye. got bail. The parties who managed
oonaaa5 1t so generally and emphaticaly
SS ny ny the community are shy in coming
forward. Inc sum of $40, 900 is of M account. +
is the attitudein which those who m,r rJ
WiIi appear that is feared. The general belief is
that the boy is beyond any legal reach oee, Is
lates to the laws OF our country The , iU lar as re-
for kidnapping was such to afford ,e di chose1
speedy passage to Canada. Those who rect o. ana
the bold and infamous theft were fully up petated !"
They performed their diabocal act with suona uane.
and ceerity, but are likely to suffer its penatv Ss
is rumored that 81 900 paid to the chief nartr
for the abduction 1t is likely to prove very dear
affair even at these high figures. The mother of
the child it is sad is at Newport indueing in the
gaieties of that fashionable and fast resort The
actlye efforts of the police are not at present so
much aimed in the direction of the instigators of
!ne aHair as at the actual operators and perpetra
.ors-the executive tools. Should the boy Rice be
In Oanada 1t will! be of little use to pursue him.
Ihe workmen occupied in dredging the channel
OF the Potomac river found the other day seven
iron buckets, which had been used in cleaning the
cnannel twenty years previous. The iron was mot
Injured ana each bucket weighed about forty
The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1860-08-10
LATEST NEWS.
TELEGRAMS.
From Pixies Peak

ST. JOSEPH, Aug. S.-The Pixies Peak express
has arrived, bringing dates to the I'd of August
Last Tuesday three sporting men, named Wood,
Steele and Rocker, while intoxicated, entered the
Office of the Rocky Mountain Club, and forced the
editor, VIM. H. Byers, to accompany them to the
Criterion Club, threatening to kill any one who at
tempted to interfere or rescue him. He finally
made his escape to his office, but was followed by
the rowdies, who fired voey from their revolvers
into the building, which was returned, wounding
Steele The whole town was by this time aroused,
and the people turned out in pursuit of the party
Steele was shot in the head. The other two were
captured shortly afterwards. The feeling in favor
of lynching them was strong, but finally they were
reserved for trial Wood was formerly Destroy
ing Angel at Salt Lake City, but fled from there in
consequence of having killed a saint All three
are desperate characters New discoveries OF gold
are reported.
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Conspiracy to Burn Railroad Bridge.

CHICAGO, Aug. S.-JOsiah W. Bissell was arrested
here last night, and Walter F. Chadwick at Rock
Island, both charged with conspiracy to burn the
railroad bridge across the Mississippi at Rock
Island. A bill of indictment was found against them
this morning by the grand jury. Mr.. Bissell is
the agent of the st. Louis Chambers of Commerce,
and of certain parties who have suits pending
against the bridge. Mr. Chadwick is attorney in
the case. The evidence of the plan formed to burn
the bridge is said to be conclusive.
The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1860-08-10

The Rev. William Neill. ID. d preshr,o,;o,
clergyman of Philadelphia, died at his Residence in
tnat city, on Wednesday, in the SD year of his
The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1860-08-10

Pennsylvania Democratic State Convention
CREssoN, August 9.-The State Democratic Com
mittee met to-day. Prior to the meeting every
effort was made to concate existing differences.
resolution was offered by Mr.. Fulton, of Arm
strong county, that the electoral ticket shall stand
but that each section shall place their candidate at
the head of their tickets, and that the one having
the highest popular vote receive the full electoral
vote
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General Eppa Hunton, of Occoquan, Virginia,
has received letter from the Adutant General Of
the State of Virginia. approving of his conduct in
reference to the late difficulty at 0ccoquan.
The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1860-08-10

Thomas Corwin has been nominated as candidate
tor Congress by the Republicans of Fayette county
The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1860-08-10

AN UNFORTUNATE INvEsrMENr.-The Christian
hteuigencer gives currency to rumor that legacy
of Sl00, ,00O which was made many years ago to the
General Episcopal Theological Seminary of New
York, has been almost totally lost through an in
discreet change in the mode of Investment The
Lnteiigencer contrasts this unfortunate piece of
management with the discretion displayed by the
Board of Corporation of the Dutch Church, which
has had the control of hundred of thousands of
dollars for nearly half century, and yet has never
lost dollar in any investment made at its own
suggestion.
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THE ELECTIONS.
OV' ''''' 70
Ellis majority ......................
Whole vote in the thirty four counties

Ellis majority Observation-Disclosures, 4O27
Whole vote in the thirty four counties in 1853,
was AT 7,679-in the same counties in 1860, it is &c.
S69-showing an increase of 9,190. Ellis increases
his vote 1887; Pool increases over McRae's vote
6,S53. net gain for Pool of 4,5lG. The same
ratio M throughout the State will give Governor
State will probably reach lis, ,000-about Is 900
larger than ever before cast.
The Opposition have gained fourteen members
OF the Legislature, with twenty counties vet to
hear from. The Democratic majority in the last
Legislature was fftysix on Joint ballot
KENTUCKY.
The election OF Gen. Coombs is generally conced-
ed by everybody. As far as heard from, in 35
counties, Coombs heads the Democratic candidates
13 000
The Breckenridge wing say that the Douglas
wing transferred large portion of their vote from
K. X. Boiling to General Coombs His majority,
therefore, depends on the action of the two wings
of the Democracy in the Democratic counties vet
to be heard from, which inaccessible by rail
road or telegraph.
Some days must elapse before the final result can
be ascer tained
MISSOURI.
Full returns from the State election in Missouri
have not been received. The Democrats have car
ried the State, but are without the figures
which would enable us to determine the exact rela-
tive standing of parties In the st. Louis district
Mr.. Bair's triumphant election for the full term
and his defeat for the unexpired term, or narrow
escape from it, present an apparent paradox. The
explanation lies in the fact that Barrett the Demo-
cratic, and Todd, the Union candidate, entered
into an arrangement, Barrett running only for the
short: and Todd only for the long term. Mr..
Blair's unequal success against the opposing can
didate indicates that the Union men carried out
the arrangement more faithfully than the Demo-
Gratis.
LIGHTING TUNNELS WITH GAs.-The Burgen Hill
tunnel, of the New York and Erie road, is the
longest tunnel yet opened in this country. Its
length is, we believe, 4,3O0 feet, being zoo feet
longer than the kingwood tunnel of the Baltimore
and Ohio railroad. 1t is the intention to light the
former, the latter tunnel has been lighted with
gas throughout. The gas will be turned partly off
when no train is passing, the supply being con-
trolled by an attendant at either end. None of the
long English tunnels, we believe, are lighted by
gas. Until the opening of the Burgen Hill tunnel,
that of the Virginia Central road, through the Blue
Ridge, was the longest, its length being 424O feet
The last named tunnel, was of extremely difficult
construction, being opened throughout without
shaits.-Troy Daily Wig
General Eppa Hunton, of Occoquan, Virginia,
has received letter from the Adjutant General Of
the State of Virginia, approving of his conduct in
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The BRGTrsH NAvY.-Donald Mckay writes to the
Boston Commercial Bulletin some of the results of
his observations in the British navy yards The
Government is now building ffty-three steam war
vessels of various kinds. CARRYING l7S3 guns, or
nearly many the whole United States navy.
By the middle of next year, when the ships now on
the stocks are completed, the British feet will
count 1855 vessels with 1909 guns, and l32,7S6
| our navy. Over two hundred thousand men will
| be required to man the vessels. The French navy
| is in guns only little over half strong as the
English.