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St. Paul weekly Minnesotian. (St. Paul) 1860-1861, 1860-11-09
Appearances of the Prince.

The following from the Philadelphia
Press is the best and most satisfactory de-
Scription of the appearance of the future
King OF the mighty Empire of Britain, that
We recollecl to have seen. 1t will be read
with more interest than the same amount
of reading devoted to the description Of
balls or receptions:
ALBERT Edward stood in the doorway of
the car. All eyes recognized him simulta-
neously. There Wa general murmur of
there he is He stood in the doorway, a
slight, sallow young man, looking irreso-
lutely through large, blue eyes upon the
upturned glances radiating from his own.
His hair was sandy, or of very light
brown, straight and smoothly brushed. 1t
fell upon forehead not ample in breadth
and height, but distinctly featured and well
cut at the eyebrows. His nose was aque-
line and large; his red ripe lips were heavy
and thick, and his cheeks and chin round
and FULL He had few shreds Of white
hairs, more properly furze,' upon his lip.
In body and limb he is not large, being, we
suppose, about five feet six inches in
hight, with shoulders slightly sloping, chest
only moderately broad, and figure neither
indicative Of slight nor Of particularly large
development. His lower limbs are not
long, and look to be somewhat muscular.
Ills face was expressive of embarrass-
ment, but withal open and frank. In CON-
pany more coDgenial to his years and ex-
periencc, Albert Edward might have looked
to better advantage. AS it was, he had the
appearance of sensitive young man ex-
cessively bored by his grace Of New
castle, etc, aud unambitious of the collect
i've stares Of the populace. lie wore a
white cashmere hat, which had been evi.
IDENTITY subjected to frequent conclusions,
and bore traces of being soiled. His col
lar was turned down over purple silk
scarf, in which glistened a diamond pin.
He wore thick, white or buff frock Goa.
of fine cloth, and pants of white and black
plaid, which fell ever patent leather boots
His vest was dark. In his hand he carried
a yellow cane bearing pear shaped head,
with which he frequently raped his
mouth aud teeth. This was the Prince of
England, the heir apparent to the leading
the world, whose boyish Saxon |
face and yellow hair any pedestrian would
pass without glance o.. remark.
@"The Prince had not graceful movements;
he walked with shutting, sailor-like gait,
and bent his body forward"
St. Paul weekly Minnesotian. (St. Paul) 1860-1861, 1860-11-09
The senator and the Dromios.

The senior Mr.. Guy, Of the National
Hotel, at Washington, bears quite like
ness to to Gen. Cass, and upon this the
correspondent of the New York Times tells
the following stor.,
A stranger, who supposed he knew my
host very well, put up 1.-THE National the
other night. Since this house has become
the crack hotel at the Capital, it is quite
full, and at that time, the newcomer neces-
sariy, for the first night was sent to the
upper floor to sleep. Coming down stairs
the next morning, a lite cross, he met
Gen. Cass, who has fine suit of rooms
there, in the hall, stepped up to him, and
in language more torcible and rapid than
elegant, sad:
"Pll be id if IN stand it You've
put me at the top of the house. | must
have room somewhere lower down."
General Cass, interposing and nervous
ly-" Sir, you are mistaken in the person
you are addressing. l am Gen. Cass, of
Michigan"
Stranger confusedly, Deg your pardon,
General Cass-thought it was my old
friend Guy. Beg thousand pardons, sir.
ALI mistake, all mistake, all mistake,
assure you, sir'
The General passed out of the building
but soon returned; as luck would have it,
the stranger met him full in the face again
but in another position. This time he was
sure he had mine host, for the Senator of
Michigan he knew had just gone out. So
the stranger stepped boldly up, slapped
the General heartily and Familiarity on the
shoulder, and exclaimed:
"By heavens, Guy, l have got rich
sell to relate. / met old Cass up stairs,
just now, thought it was you, and began
cussin him about my room"
General Cass, with emphasis, swell
young man, you have met old Cass
again !"
Stranger sloped and has not been heard
Of since.
St. Paul weekly Minnesotian. (St. Paul) 1860-1861, 1860-11-09
AUTUMN WOODS.

Ere in the Northern gale
The summer tresses OF the trees are gone,
The woods of autumn, all around our vale,
Have put their glory on.
The mountains that infold,
In their wide sweep, the colored landscapes
round,
Seem groups OF giant Kings, in purple and
gold,
That guard the enchanted ground.
Iroam the woods that crown
The upland, where the mingled splendors glow,
Where thegsy company q g.. trees ss, look down
Ny steps are not alone
Ia these bright walks: the sweet southwest, al
play,
Flies, rustling, where the painted leaves are
shown
Along the winding way.
And far in heaven the while
The sur tina, sends the gale to wander here,
p0urs out on the quiet earth his smile
Tlie sweetness of the year.
Where ros the solemn shade
yerdure and gloon, where plany branches
!: So sSnsss.d asa.ea shepossA .ef x,2 nermasis
e TIE valleys SICK with hest2
Let in through ali The trees
Came the strange rays; the forest depths are
bright;
Their sunny colored foliage, in the breeze,
Wrinkles like beams u light.
The rivulet late unseen,
Where pickering through the shrubs its waters
run,
Shines with the image of It's golden screen,
The glmmerings OF the sun.
But meath yon crimson tree,
Lover TO listening maid might breathe his
fame,
Nor mark, within its roSeate canopy
Her blush of maiden shame.
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A Hard.Shell Sermon.
BY THE REVEREND SLITHERTON sLATHER.

Brettering, Saints, and Sinners-ah -
It's sum time sence yore beloved paster
has slung the Scripture at gore pore on
,safIk.ifed beds. He's not been . wrAsiin
with Satan somewhar else tho. No, breth-
ering. Thar's paster for every flock,
and the subscriber never mixes in with
outside fights. I've been trainin for the
fall an winter season--a preparin fur to
give old horns and spear tail another mill
in this hyar twenty-tour foot pulpit. I've
been a gatherin muscle an gettin my house
in order, for such a fight as 20 never
dreamed of, and if l don't split old Satin's
huffs up plum to his knee jints and putt
up his shelters, it wont be fur want of
wind and bottom-that's so.
Yore pastor has been q rustykatin at
Newport--ah, whar be drunk old port
alb, at the White Mountains-ah, whar the
dinner were black, and at the Sulphur
Springs-ah, whar the devil war to pay,
and ginerally collected all wanted, and
down thar at Cape Cod-ah, whar the cir
culation meejum ar fish scales and Holsters
eyes f-yes, brethering, thar's whar I've
bin. I've been q lookin at sin in all its
shapes. I've eat with it, drunk with it,
loafed with it, but haint brought none of
it home with me. Nary a wunce. They
couldn't spare morsel of it in them places
1t war a luxury.
| met Satin thar, but didn't tech him.
It's no uce tacklin him in hot weather.
Never tackel an enemy on. his guano hill.
Wait ontil you catch him away from home.
Ketch Satin in the cold wether, and it's as
good Is hip holt in wrastle with Jar
seynian. But knowed that the mint the
old feller got through a collectin his dues
thar, bed make tracks for yore neighbor-
hood. / knowed that when l opened my
fall season hyar, I'd find him ready for the
fight, and good menny of yore pore,
misserbel sinners and backsliders, reddy to
so yore pile on him. But you'll lose yore
money. A parstor who's had Junne, jew
lye and Orgust toe train in, and hez been
practicin with the dun bells Of revela-
ton, and punchin his mawleys inter the
san, bags of Genesis, and gettin up his
Ne1Aycudnezzar ginerally, amt to be putt
rdoWffsby passed. of onbelievin heethen-
ah No, not eff the parstor understands
his constitushun, and wears spiked bro
gans to provide against slippin up on the
bannanner rhines of temptation which sin
throws in his way-ah!
St. Paul weekly Minnesotian. (St. Paul) 1860-1861, 1860-11-09
The Navies OF England and France.


Some experiments which were recently
made with 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 a
charge of only five pounds OF powder, a 80
pound shot may be thrown from this gun
a distance of five and half miles The
great steam ram now in course of conStruc-
ton at the Thames Ironworks will be
armed with thirty-siX 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 9 900 tons, and her
speed Is 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 total of 760 vessels afloat,
or building and converting. On the oppo--
site side of the channel We have an ally
who owns 1870 sailing ships and 265 sailing
steamers, or a total of 445 vessels afloat,
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 46, 800 horses pow
er. 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 aga steam vessels to 264 of France the
majority of 200 being made up of fleet Of
screw boats, screw floating batteries, screw
and paddle coryettes and sloops, mortar
ships, and block Ups.
St. Paul weekly Minnesotian. (St. Paul) 1860-1861, 1860-11-09
.sDtxie,s Land.W

The most popular tune since the publ
catbn of s.Old Folks at Home" in the
United States, is the plantation negro mel.
-ody of "Dixie's Land" Throughout the
Eastern States ltsis creating perfect fu-
rors. tits played and sung everywhere, by
brass bands, string bands, orchestras and
serenaders whistled by ragged urchins
in the streets, and by calliopes ON steam
boats, and forms one Of the chief attrac-
tons in the musical soirees of the parlor.
During the visit of the Prince of Wales
to the St Louis Fair, it was alternated with
"God Save the Queen" ankee Doodle, /"
''Hail to the Chief" .'Hail Columbia" and
other national airs Of the two countries.
At the Douglas demonstration at Indian
apolis, there were eight brass bands pres.
emit, vieing with each other in the perform
ance OF this stalking" melody.
An amusing anecdote is told in regard to
it, which, happened lately at a st. Louis
theatre. The orchestra played it, when
the curtain rose and the play began. But
the audience would not listen. The cry
of "Dixie" ran through the house from pit
to gallery, completely drowning the voice
Of the,actor. He made several Intellectual
attemptsto be heard and left the stage
The old manager appeared, flushed with
anger, and in an excited voice exclaimed,
Gentlemen, what means all this ill-man-
nered confusion? What do you want?'
Immediately . hundred voices cried out
"Dixie,' "Well," said the manager, ''you
can't have it. You've had Dixie once to-
night, and you'll have Dixie no more"
He retired to the green room, and the
actor again appeared. But atwas no use.
A deafening shout for s'Dixie'' met him
from the audience, and after stammering
and suffering for alfew moments, he left thu
stage. The curtain dropped, the orchestra
played Dixie" and the play progressed
without any further interruption.
Leayenworth Herald.
St. Paul weekly Minnesotian. (St. Paul) 1860-1861, 1860-11-09
The JeWess and her Child.
The Jsuish Chronicle says:

ne CeUtSH CiTOnlctS says:
" An occurrence lately took place at
Mysloyiez, u frontier town of Prussan Po
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 "Unclc Toms
Cabin" when 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
a Christian, had the boy circumciscd, 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
stIeail, ITO DOlt puiieu iTOm the SnOTe. ne
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-
ow her. Now, the iniquity of these pro-
ceedings consists, in the first place, in the
that as the Christian father
neither supported nor recognized the child,
he clearly had forfeited all p ternal rights ;
md 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,
,rescribes that in the case of Jews the in
ant should be brought up in the Christian
'eligion, wherever the father or mother
happens to be Christian. We under
slant that, ronsed by this iniquity, a large |
number of Prussian congregations have
,etitoned the Government for the repeal |
# this unnatural law. 4
St. Paul weekly Minnesotian. (St. Paul) 1860-1861, 1860-11-09

stance. You may be an inmate of the
State Prisoner on your way there--a
fact which you see would interfere with the
iulfillment Of your part Of the proposed
bargain, even if | could fulfill the part you
assign, me- You want fifteen or twenty
thousand dollars. This is q common want,
and you are not TO blame for using every
honorable means to obtain it. But candor
requires me to state, that If you were in
every respect suitable person to be bought
for the purpose you name, | have not the
amount required to buy you.
have no objection to your complexion,
but there are certain little faults of gram
mar and spelling, as well as other points,
in your letter, which compel me to regard
you as person, by education, manners
and morals, as wholly unfit to associate
with my daughter in any capacity whatev-s
er. You evidently think your white skin
of great value. | don't dispute it 1T Isl
probably the best thing about you. 4 Yet
not even that valuable quality can com
mend you sufficiently to induce even so
black negro as myself to accept you as
his son-in- law. Respectfully. =
FRED. DOUGLAS.
St. Paul weekly Minnesotian. (St. Paul) 1860-1861, 1860-11-09
THE PRINCE OF WALES AT THE
TOMB OF WASHINGTON.
BY J. BARBER.


The years are Truths avengers? Broad and
grand
They make their path through Errors realm
of night
Bearing bright torches in their lifted hands,
And GROWING Virtue with trauscendant
lghtl
The murky clouds Of Prejudice divide,
And new era dawns upon the Earth,
As bends the royalty of Place and Pride
Before the ightier Royalty of Worth.
10! where Guelph, to Sovereign Greatness
just,
Bares bis young brow beside our HERDS
dust
Yes, the great grandson of the madman King,
Who set price upon The ReberS head
Plants meath the shadow Of our Eagles wing
A yOtIve tree to the DELlvFRER, dead
Feud rs forgot, and ancient wrong forgiven;
The ties OF kin are strengthened and renewed,
And Freedoms Martyrs, rom their homes in
Heaven,
Smile on the pledge of new born brother
hood,
As proud Old England by her royal Son.
uncrowns her head TO buried Washington.
St. Paul weekly Minnesotian. (St. Paul) 1860-1861, 1860-11-09
A Goddess Universe.

A man may, for twenty years, believe
in the Immortality Of the soul; in the one
and twentieth, in some great moment, he,
for the first time, discovers with amaze
ment the rich meaning of his belief No
one in creation is so alone as the denier of
God; he mourns, with an orphaned heart
that has lost its Great Father, by the
corpse of nature, which no world spirit
moves and holds together, and which
grows in its grave; and he mourns by
that corpse till be ihiiuSslf erhmbles off
fromit The whole world lies before him
like the Egyptian sphinx of stone, half
buried in the sand; and all is the cold iron
wash Of a torTnles eternity. Jean Paul.
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still too sensitive to anoW them to do the
same. From being an unwilling bearer,
he soon becomes to be willing pArtaker,
and the advance is rapid to clarifying in II.
and himself bee ming the temp er to others
to lead them in the same part he has him
self trodden. 1t is by this weakness, this
moral cowardicc, that we are lead into sin,
despite the promptings Of cur better ma
lure. II may be that IN cur hearts We de-
spise the men by whom we are Id, but we
come at last to applaud their sentiments
and adopt their tone
St. Paul weekly Minnesotian. (St. Paul) 1860-1861, 1860-11-09
From ibs New York Evening Post
WORLDS WRITTEN To MUSIC.

"Lore, the traitor, found me gay,
Lett me sad aud mourning;
When pressed him most to STAY,
Left me without warning;
Though weep he will not heed me;
Though 1 cali, ne II come no more;
All, bereayed,
All, deceived,
Loves cheat, SO sigh no more
Should |, wandering, ever meet him,
Shall bid him go or stay:
Kindly greet, or justly beat him,
And drive the rogue away?
But hope whispers, times a healer,
Gates ofbrass lie doth o'erilrow,
Then believe,
He can relieve,
One poor human heart from woe"
AS thus complained, the wand'rer
Singing came his homeward wav,
And my foolish heart grew fonder,
When he cried, "'1waS only play :"
Butwiih heart strings now I'll bind hmm,
Trust bin; no more from my view;
Good tetide him,
For I'll hide him
Safe from all the world but You. G.P. J.
St. Paul weekly Minnesotian. (St. Paul) 1860-1861, 1860-11-09

A railroad car is above all others the
place to witness scenes.
Not long since at q railroad station not
hundred miles from our own place, we
were the innocent observer of little oc.
currence that impressed us deeply.
As soon as the train had halted by The
crowded platform, young lady of really
progressing appearance, and one who
evidently belonged to the upper circles"
sprang lightly and expectantly up the
steps and glided into the car. Having cast
her eyes down the row of doing passen-
gers, her countenance lighted up-a half
suppressed exclamation of joy escaped her
gi,lisl. lips, and the next instant she was
standing beside seat, at the further end
of the car, occupied by gentleman and
lady of very respectable appearance. The
gentleman appeared considerably young,
and somewhat diffident--the apparel Of
his companion denoting the bride
No sooner had the young lady reached
the pair, throwing her white arms about
the young mans neck she imprinted a
hasty kiss on his bearded lips and ex-
claimed:
why sIicu! i%llOW 0O JOu uO aDu
is this the dear little wife you wrote US
about?"
Right here we plainly discerned a blush
mantling the young mans face, mingled
with look Of unparalleled surprise, and
the eonntenance Of his companion betoken
ed juvenile thunderstorm. But the
feminine discoverer, not to be discouraged
by any amount Of coolness, continued
"But why don't you get off the train
Don't you know you've got home? III
Young man hesitated --companion fidg
eted. Affairs were evidently approaching
grand climacteric. Passengers Uttered
reporters took out their note books. Al
last the young lady, frightened at the at
tention she had attracted, and panied BY
the indifference Of those she had come L
greet, burst into tears, and placing hel
head upon tie young mans shoulder, sob
bed out
sOhyfred what does. all this mean
Have you really forgotten me e''
Ioung man trembled with emotion,
cctnpanion began removing her gioye--a u
the time looking faenacilgly 81 the curl
covered head Of the intrudsr. Reporter,
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~
MY HOME.

| have beautiful home
Beside the freshest sea.
And angels are wont TO come
On neighborly visits TO the.
they come in HE morning grey;
They come IN the evening red;
They walk with NE by day.
And at night sit round my bed.
I've an orchard smoothly imbed,
And cattle sleek and clean
A gardeu neatly trimmed,
And a lawn forever green.
And the house within Is sweet
As milk yet warm within in. p,ir
There's the sound of childgxs's feet
But never OF chIGren's N,GL
And the chamber where sleep
Is perfect eastward room;
There the mornings earliest peep.
With an 0dor of cloyer.- bli,yrr.
My study, The daiutiest nook
On the wall no useless mark;
And IL want book
lean ind il in The dark.
When neighbors of heat complain.
There is coolness in my halt:
Aud no matter how hard the rain.
A sunbeam on my wall
I've nothing to do but enjoy;
Work does itself in my pla1
live like a needless boy.
And dread TO be man.
zee the night draw on,
And the sweet stars open sfseir ewes
l sec the morning dawn
Without thought of surprise;
see my cattle fed
In thepastures dewy green;
See ulen moving the mead, ~
Aud believe that have seen.
Such is my beautiful home,
Beside beautiful sea,
Where angels are won't TO come
On daily visits to me-
NOW SLEEPS THE CLRIMEON
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MISCELLANY.
The Ra,h of Blood.

About the year 1916, Elizabeth Batho,i,
sister of the King Of Poland, and wife Of
rich and powerful Hungarian 1agnate,
was the principle actor in the most singu-
lar and horrible tragedy mentioned. 10 his
tory. She occupied the castle Of sCsejta in
Pennsylvania. Like most other ladies Of
that period, she was surrounded BY troup5
Of young girls, generally the daughter of
poor but noble parents, who lived in hon
rabls servitude, inreturn for WHICH, their
70, q ndtheix dowry
ACC il
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/, Now sleeps the crimson peal, now the white.
tNow waves the cypress in. the Palace walk
: Now winks the goidlin in The porphyry font;
\ The hrefy wakens; waken thou with me.
Now droops the nilk-white peacock like a Ghost,
And Ike ghost she glinsmers unto me-
I Now lies the earth all Dsnae to the stars,
And ali thy heat: lies open unto me-
Now slides the silent meteor on, and leaves
a SHINING tnrrow, as thy thoughts in me.
. Now folds the lily all her5sweetness up,
And slips into the bosom of the lake;
30 told myself, my dearest. thou, and slip< !.
Into my bosom aud be lost in me.
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SEI.D-WDbsDS.

Twas nothiug--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 flower,
Or as 0 noiseiess weed
So often will single word,
Unknown, its end fulfill,
And bear, III seed, the flower and fruit
OF actions good or i'll.