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The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1860-11-30

The New York Commercial advertiser is
publishing series of articles on law and
lawyers generally, from which we take the
following facts in reference to lawyers in
the metropolis. There are about twenty
six hundred practicing lawyers in New
York city, this being one.tenth of the whole
number in the United States. All these are
not residents in New York. Very many
of them live in Brooklyn, Jersey City, in
Connecticut, or elsewhere, and have offices
in the city. 1t is extremely difficult to get
into practice in New York. A lawyer who
now makes sixteen thousand dollars a year,
states that for nine months after he opened
Office, he did not make money enough to
keep him in boots. A young lawyer is
doing extremely well if he makes living
during the first three years, and even then
getting into good practice depends in a
considerable degree on luck. There are not
}wenty lawyers in New York who realize
over ten thousand dollars a year by their
profession. The average income will not
exceed, if amount to one thousand dollars a
year. W. G. Wetmore is said to have a
more profitable practice than any other
lawyer in the city. He has very high
reputation as coaveyancer. Charles
O'Conner is said to have the next most
profitable practice in the city, and stands
very high as a MIST prius lawyer. His man
agement in the celebrated Forrest divorce
case was admirable, and attracted much
attention. AS a clear legal logician, a
learned and ready practitioner, and an i'm
pressive speaker he has few equals. james
7. Brady, James R. Whiting, John Nc
Keen and Ambrose L. JordOn, have few, if
any superiors. Either in this country or
England, in criminal law, Greene @. Bron.
son and Marshal S. Bldwell are recognized
as standing in the first rank of constitution.
al lawyers. F. B. Cutting has no superior
in insurance cases. Daniel Lord, E. w.
Stoughton, and John E. Burrell are we'll
read in mercantile law, aud most other
branches of their profession. James w.
Gerard and Luther r. Marsh manage jury
cases admirably. David Dudley Field, W..
Curtis Noyes, and Stephen Cambreling, are
very able and well read lawyers; and there
may be hundreds Of perhaps equal learning
and ability who follow after them.
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1860-11-30
Complimentary to Postmaster Dix
A Good Example.
The New York correspondent OF the Phi
adelphia Press. saws:

The New York correspondent OF the Phil
adelphia Press, says:
A fact was communicated to me yester-
day of character so unprecedented in the
political annals of this city, and so creditable
to the distinguished gentleman who was
its author, that it deserves to be published
and commended in every paper OF every
party in the country. 1t is the first instance
in this city where high Federal officer has
fatty refused to permit bis clerks to be
assessed for political purposes. I allude to
the Postmaster, Gen. Dix.
At the usual time for calling upon the
clerks in the Postoffice for the payment Of
the usual percentage of their salary for the
party, and when the person selected as the
tax gatherer appeared at the Office for that
purpose, he was informed by the General
that he would not permit the assessment of
single cent to be made upon single clerk
for any such object, that the clerks were
the hardest worked and the poorest paid Of
any employees of the government, and that
it was an outrage to exact from their small
pittance means to defray the expenses of the
campaign. He was opposed to the prac~
tice in toto, and would not allow it to be
enforced. More than that, as Postmaster
of New York, he would not submit to any
political assessment, believing the practice
to be subversive of the public interest; but
as Mr.. Dix, private citizen, be would
cheerfully give the committee five hundred
dollars, which he did. The thanks of every
government clerk in the country are due to
General Dix for this bold and manly act in
their behalf. 1t is worthy the emulation Of
every Postmaster and Collector of Customs
in the United States, and especially deserv-
ing of the heartiest commentator of the
press.
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1860-11-30

Cotton CuIture AOan0OneO IN AnOla
Our foreign files contain the following
very significant paragraph, showing that
after all the protracted efforts to grow cot
ton in the British Indian possessions, the
attempt has been at length abandoned as
hopeless:
In the annual report of the Bombay
Chamber of Commerce statement an.
nounces that the Indian Government had
finally abandoned, as being hopeless failures,
their experiments at cotton growing in that
country. These experiments had commenced
as far back as 1889, and were prosecuted
almost without intermissiOn during the
seventy two years that have since elapsed.
They had cost, from first to last, G350,0O0,
and, as the report states, had absorbed "the
energy and intelligence of governors, COL
lectors, commissioners, American planters,
and painstaking amateurs" Yet the result
Of all this prolonged effort and enormous
outlay had been nothing but a continued
series of disappointments. One solitary
success is recorded as having been achieved,
on "a small SCALE" by Mr.. Shaw, collector
at Dharwar, who, taking up the enterprise
in 1910, upon an area OF only 22O acres,
developed the results SO rapidly, that in
1851 there were 3l,688 "kupas" planted
with American, and 224, 3l4 with native
cotton, and in 1856 the area increased to
156,3l6 kupas appropriated to the Ameri-
can, ard 1905 to the native variety Of
the plant. 1t does not appear that Mr..
Shaw was assisted by any government grant
in this work and, at all events, all direct
cooperation of the State with the cultiva-
ton of cotton is now summariy abandoned.
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1860-11-30

A STRANGE ENCoU NTER.-When Louis
Philippe and his que en- were in exile, in
Clearmount, they visited the convent of
the Sacred Ceur. Th e nun who conducted
them through the ho use was so amiable
and agreeable that tho queen, on leaving,
expressed her extreme satisfaction. " Per
haps," added her MAZE sty," you will be in
terested to know WHO your visitors are.
This gentleman is Louis Philippe, I am
the Queen Amehe." The nun, bowling pro-
foundly, replied, with gentle smile, "and
am Mademoiselle Bonaparte."
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1860-11-30

In a communication to the London Me.
ehanie's Magazine, Thomas Allan, ESQ.,, a
distinguished electrician, states that of l2-
600 miles of submarine cable which have
been laid in various parts of the world,
only 1900 miles are in working order at
present.
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1860-11-30

TIE census just taken gives Iowa pop
ulation of 675,0O0. In 1850 her popula>
ton was 1924. Increase in ten years
482, 1876. This, we believe, is the largest
PERCENTAGE of increase of any State in the
Union.
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1860-03-16
Important Foreign News.

NEW YORK, March 4-9 ?. M.-Tbe
steamer Africa arrived this morning, with
Liverpool dates to the 10th ult.
The conservatives show increasing hostil-
ity to both the budget and commercial
treaty with France, and in the House of
Lords an explanation had been called for of
the article which binds England not to pro-
hibit the expectation of coal.
Lord Russell announced that he would
introduce reform bill on the 1st of March.
He also said that correspondence was
progressing with the government of the
United States with respect to the free adj
mission to the American coasting trade
between the Eastern States and California,
&C., but the matter was not in position to
be laid before the House.
1t is denied that Austria has replied to
the proposition of England touching the
Italian question. 1t is also reported that
Russia rejects the proposition.
Advces from Madrid states that Mar
shall O'Donnell is actively engaged in
accommodating the country surrounding
Tetuan. He had received delegation from
the Moorish government, stating on what
terms peace would be granted, and had
referred the question to his superior, who
had dispatched messenger to Tetuan with
the conditions on which peace will be
granted.
Public spirit in spain is warlike, and it
is believed will continue so.
DIR. Murray, Bishop of Rochester, is
dead.
The land forces of England are fixed at
IA 600 men, being an increase of nearly
$500 in addition to the East India army,
which numbers $4,000.
A circular to the French Diplomatic
Agents in response to the late Encyclical
letter of the Pope, is published, and is at
tracing attention. 1t apparently convicts
the Pope of improperly using his spiritual
Office for political purposes.
AUSTRALIA large number of political
prisoners from Venetia are being sent to
Sclavonia and elsewhere.
Austria had seized a large quantity of
arms on the way to Servia through her
territory.
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1860-03-16
A Bold and AdrOit Robbery.

The wife of a steamboat pilot, Mrs. Yates,
entered the Louisiana State Bank, at New
Orleans, few days ago, as we learn from
the Crescent, to get check for five hundred
dollars. The paying teller handed her
twenty five 800 gold pieces, which she
wrapped up in her pocket handkerchief, and
left the bank. AS she was walking down
Court street, toward the river, she heard
hurried steps behind her, and young man,
of about twenty two years, or thereabouts,
tapped her on the shoulder. He was hatless,
and had pen stuck behind his ear, looking
exactly like bank clerk who had rushed
breathlessly from behind the counter, with
out stopping to lay down his pen or catch
up his hat. The first words be calculated
were; "Madam, we have overpaid you sixty
dollars by mistake. You will oblige me by
returning Immediately to the bank" Mrs.
Yates assured him there had been no mis-.
take, as she had counted the money over
very carefully; but as he persisted there
was mistake, she cheerfully consented to
return. With casual remark and an air
of gallantry, he politely took the handker-
chief containing the gold from her, walking
by her side, she, of course, suspecting no
ching. When they got into the vestbule of
the bank, the young man coolly opened the
door of the directors room, in which there
was no one at the time, and handing her a
chair, he told her to sit down, and he would
attend to the "lttle affair" for her without
OBTAINING her longer than necessary. She
seated herself and allowed him to walk out
with her money. After waiting consider
able time, Mrs. Yates got up, and walking
to the paying teller's desk, innocently asked
him if the matter was settled. He looked
at her in blank establishment, and said he
believed he had paid her check. Explana-
tions followed, and the robbery was discov.
cred, to Mrs. Yates dismay and astonish-
ment.
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George Sanders.

The Washington correspondent of the N.
7. Herald thus humorously alludes to GEO.
SANDERS:
"George Sanders, New York Navy
Agent, whose electioneering operations,
eating and drinking, are addressed to the
judgment via the stomach, has already es.
tablished, as learn, his headquarters in this
town, where the hungry and the thirsty who
are of any account for the purposes of the
Charleston lobby, may come and welcome,
and eat, drink and be merry. 1t is the bus
mess of George to scrutinize the various
State delegations-to separate the sheep
from the goats, to encourage the weak breth.
rem in the Squatter Sovereignty faith, and
to bring over the wavering from the other
side. These important duties necessarily
involve the moral suasion of stewed oysters,
Virginia ham and Bourbon whisky, and in
the employment of these substantial argu-
ments your enterprisirg Navy Agent is with.
out peer. His theory of the whole duty
of man is the election of Judge Douglas as
our next President; and discarding all
such trash as party platforms, electioneering
speeches, resolutions and pamphlets, bis
system ofelectioneering is, " eat and drink,
gentlemen, for tomorrow we de-"
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1860-03-16

With q proper supply Of windows, and a
proper supply of fuel in open ireplaces, fresh
air is comparatively easy to secure when
your patient or patients are in bed. Never
be afraid of open windows then. People
don't catch cold in bed. This is q popular fal-
lacy. With proper bed clothes and hot bot
ties if necessary, you can always keep pa
tient warm in bed, and well ventilate him at
the same time. X n know an intelligent
humane house surgeon who makes prac-
tice of keeping the ward windows open.
The physicians and surgeons invariably close
them while going their rounds !; and the
house surgeon very properly as invariably
open them whenever the doctors have turned
their backs X Do you ever 60 in~
to the bed rooms of any persons Of any class,
whether they contain one, two, or twenty
people, whether they hold sick, or well, at
night, or before the windows are opened in
the morning, and even find the air anything
but unwholesomely close and foul And
why should it be so? And of how much
Importance is it that it should not be so ?
During sleep, the human body, even when
in health, is far more injured by the influence
Of foul air than when awake. Why can't
you keep the air all night, then, as pure as
the air without in the rooms you sleep in ?
But for this, you must have sufficient outlet
for the impure air you make yourselves to
go out sufficient inlet for the pure air from
without to come in. You must have open
chimneys, open windows, or ventilators no
close curtains round your beds; no shutter
or curtains to your windows, none of the
contrivances by which you undermine your
own health or destroy the chances of recov-
cry of your sick.-Miss Nightengale.
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1860-03-16
sinful skofer or entreeted me to amend my
wicked vase and line such meetin.h house Il

sinful skoffer or entreeted me to amend my
wicked vase and jine such meetin.house to
Onct. ,"2tsf ~-s1 sil IS la y - E5ir'f ~ S
Resolved, that my buzzum teams with
many kind emoshuns lords the follerin indi-
viduals to whit, namelee-Mis Square Bax-
ter, who generously refoosed to take q sent
for bottle of camfire lawyer Perkinses
wife who writ sum verses on the Eppisodes;
the Editor of the BaldwinsviIle Bugle of
Liberty, who nobly assisted me in walluppin
my Kangaroo, which sagashus little cuss
seriously disturbed the Eppisodes by outra-
jus screschins and kickins up Miss Hiram
Doolittle, who kindly furnisht sum kold Wit
ties at tryin time when it wasn't konve.
nient to hook vittles at my house & the
Peaseleys, Parsunses, and Watsunses, for
their many ak ofkindness.
Trooly Yures,
ARTEMUS WARD.
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1860-03-16
Bathing Below the Zeros.

We stated, the other day, that a DIR.
MAYO G: SMITH, of Newburyport, had ac-
customed himself to battle in the open, or
icy, as it might he, river during the winter.
In letter to the Herald of that city, he
says:
This is the fourth winter I have bathed in
the river or sea since l returned to the
United States. I have run FIVE miles, d.
vested myself of clothing, dashed into the
river, swan amid ice cakes, then dressed and
ran two mile home. I have dived into the
stream from the end of a pier seven to fifteen
feet into the channel, whose rapid current
and tidal motion ordinarily prevented freez-
ing-or if frozen, have cut the ice, and at
no time this or the preceding winter have I
been sheltered by house or shed; but after a
bath, such in the warmth, that summer
clothing would suffice for covering. The
coolest morning it was fifteen deg. below
zero, or Al deg. below freezing point. 1
usually run a couple of miles, use flesh brush
and towels, sometimes stand in the snow,
frequently dry myself in the cold northeast
winds. I take no beverage, no coffee, tea
or spirituous drinks nor do I use tobacco.
I never feel cold after leaving the water ;
never suffer from colds never have coughs I;
1 never had disease of any kind no aches /;
no pains. My bathing time is by or before
sunrise.
Cold baths should not be used at all
times. know of but one rule for guidance.
Should reaction occur after bathing, it is a
safe practice-not otherwise. No man can
Judge for another-every one may for hims
self. If, Immediately after the shock, plunge
or shower, warm glow is difused over the
body, it is beneficial. A rent in ones coat,
fracture of boot, damp feet or current
of air, is often more dangerous, nay, deadly
fatal, than the entire submersion of the body
in congealing water, or its exposure to freez-
ing air. More risks are daily incurred by
ladies with unprotected feet in one day,
than winters bathing.
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1860-03-16
Death of Prof. Goodrich.

We are panied to announce the demise of
the Rev. Chauncey A. Goodrich, professor
of pastoral charge in Yale college, who died
at his residence in this city somewhat sud-
denly of paralysis, on Saturday evening last,
aged about sixty-nine years. Professor
Goodrich had just passed through course
sidered out of immediate danger from this
disease, when he was attacked by paralysis,
and suddenly removed from among us. His
connection with Yale college has been a long
and honorable one, he having served in the
capacity of tutor and professor for nearly
half century. He graduated in 1910, in
the same class with Prof. E. A. Andrews,
Gov. VIM. w. Ellsworth, Prof. S. F. B.
Morse, and other gentlemen of distinction !;
was elected tutor in 1872, which post he
filled with marked ability as an instructor
for two years in 1914 be was settled in the
ministry in Middetown, in this state,
where he preached until 1917, when
be was called to the professorship of rhe.
which chair he filled for twenty two years,
with the utmost acceptance to the institu-
tion, and the most gratifying results to the
pupils under his charge. In 1889, owing
to his enfeebled state of health, he resigned
his professorship of rhetoric and accepted
the less laborious position of professor of
pastoral charge, which he held up to the
time of his death.
Professor Goodrich was very active in the
matter of college discipline, as well as in
imparting religious instruction to the stu
dents. His manner was always courteous
and agreeable, and, although rigid disci~
plinarian and heightened moralist, he inva.
riably won upon the affections of all con-
nected with the institution. He was one of
the few professors who uniformly recognized
the students when he met them outside of
college, and the courteousness of his bearing
was only exceeded by the warmth and cor
diality of his manner in addressing them.
Professor Goodrich married the second
daughter of the late lamented Noah Web
ster, LII. D., of this city, and, after his
death, was engaged for three years in revis-
ing and charging the great American die
tionary by that distinguished photographer.
In this labor he rendered important service
to the English and American scholar by
many improvements in that dictionary, and
the addition of several thousand words in its
vocabulary. He subsequently published an
interesting work, entitled "Specimens of
British Eloquence," with valuable histori-
cal and other references to the great
speeches it contained.
Professor Goodrich leaves widow, and
we believe, two children, with very large
circle of friends and relatives to mourn his
loss.-NeaO Haven NeaUs.
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1860-03-16

The consideration of the bill was post-
poned until the first Tuesday in April.
Mr.. Washburne, of Illinois. from the
Committee on Commerce, reported a Joint
resolution directing the unexpended balance
of the appropriation of March 1856, for
repairing works and piers in order to secure
the light house at Chicago, to be diverted
to the repair and improvement of the harbor
of that city. He said that the original APP
preparation was $87 900, of which sufficient
had been expended for the light house, leav-
ing $4,000 for the harbor. The resolu-
ton was passed.
The House proceeded to the election of
Chaplain. There were upwards of twenty
persons nominated, including, by Mr.. Briggs,
the Jewish Rabbi, DR.. Rafael.
Mr.. Branch nominated the whole clergy
OF the District of Columbia.
MIR. Potter nominated Rev. Mr.. Lee,
recently expelled from Kentucky.
MIR. kllgOre moved to postpone the cleo.
ton until the first of July. Negatived by
81 majority.
Mr.. Briggs withdrew the name of DR..
Rafael.
The whole number of votes 100; necessary
to choice Sc. Mr.. Ball received Al votes,
Mr.. Proctor Al, Thos. H. Stockton Sc,
remainder scattering.
The House again voted for Mr.. Stockton,
of Philadelphia, elected by l50 majority.
On motion of Mr.. Sherman, the bill to
reduce mileage from 40 to 20 cents per MILE
to be computed by a straight geographical
line was taken up.
Mr.. Washburne, of Illinois, Intellectually,
requested Mr.. Sherman to give an amend
ment, repeating laws allowing any.
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1860-03-16

A Truth WELL STATED.-The following
sensible remark is made by the London
Times in recent we'll written article upon
the morbid exaggeration of "Lord Broug-
ham and the Veterans of the old Anti.
slavery Society.
Their minds, says the Times, are still
scared by these horrible stories which were
burnt in upon them in their youth, when
England was not only slave owning, but
even slave trading State. Their remorse
is so great that the ghost of black man is
always before them. They are benevolent
and excellent people, but if black man
happened to have broken his shin, and a
white man were in danger of drowning, we
much fear that real Anti-slavery zealot
would bind up the black mans leg before he
would draw the white man out of the water.
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1860-03-16

LEAvENwoRTH, March 2.-The central
overland express has arrived here, bringing
dates from Camp Floyd to February 22d.
All was quiet at Salt Lake. Bill Hick-
man was slowly recovering from his wounds.
The health of the troops at Camp Floyd
and Fort Bridger was good.
The express brought three passengers
from Denver and $4,000 in gold dust No
letters came by this arrival. Business at
Denver was improving, and many miners
were leaving for the mountains.
New diggings had been discovered in diff
ferent sections, and parties had gone over to
the Colorado, prospecting. A company
was being organized to explore that river as
far down as Fort Yuma.
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1860-03-16

A NEGRo's TOUCHING PRAYER.-The
Rev. DR.. Lay, the new Missionary Bishop
of the Southwest, was native of the city
of Richmond, and married lady in the
neighborhood. On his return here to attend
the meeting of the General Convention, he
brought his wife with him, to the great de-
light of all the family, and especially of the
old family servants. 1t was great gala
day among the slaves of the household, and
they expressed their joy in a variety of
demonstrations. One good old negro, who
was an "exhorter" and "cIass leader"
went off alone to pray, in view of the glad
event. His prayer was overheard, and this
was the burden of it,
20 Lord, We Dress dy name for bringin
young Missus back to de old home agin,
safe and sound. We Dress dy name, too,
Tor givin of her SIGH good husban. O
Lord, take good care of him and, o Lord,
as thou hast made him a word-speaker for
thee, do thou, o Lord, be a heart-strrer to
him-for jesus sake, amen !"