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THE MINNESOTIAN.
St. Paul, Minnesota.
SATURDAY, JUNE 12,1852.
A WHOLE “PARTY > OVERBOARD. NECK
AND HEELS.
Let the reader not suppose by our cap
tion, that we are thus early, if at all, dis
posed to pitch into the Presidential con
test, with which we of Minnesota have
nothing to do, and should have very little
to say, or that we are about to under
take the illustration, by logical reasoning
or otherwise, of the fact that there was a
great political party capsized at Baltimore
last week. We are after no such illegit
imate game of Minnesota journalists. Our
quarry must be sought nearer home. And
it will be seen by certain inverted poinls
We have placed at each end oi the word
parly, that we have our doubts about the
thing which has been thrown overboard
being a parly. But, by recent proceed
ings befor* important committees of both
houses of Congress, we discover that
some thing, or some body, near neighbors
of ours, are. overboard, lloumlering about,
with the water gurgling in their throats,
and through the Democrat of this week,
crying ou*. lustily for help to Mr. Sibley
and his Democratic friends, the very men
who have contributed most to pitch them
into the driving, resistless current. ‘-Why
don’t you swim ?” hails Mr. Sibley. ‘-We
c-a-n-t,” answer back Robertson and
company, in despair. Zounds ! but ‘‘un
der certain circumstances a man must
swim.”
Perhaps we had as well stop and ex
plain before we go any farther. Every
body recollects the war of the Democrat
and its clique upon the legislative appor
tionment of the Territorv, as iixed by the
Assembly, session before last, and upon
the men who upheld and advocated that
just apportionment, based as it was upon
the democratic principle of equality and
justice to all parts of the Territory. It
is also known that last winter, a circular
was drafted at a certain law office up
town, and the signs manual of three ar
dent young Democrats obtained thereto,
two of them not readily, we were informed
at the time, as the “Democratic central
committee of the Territory which circu-
lar, the Democrat stated, was sent to “all
the Democratic members of Congress.”
This circular contained various “argu
ments,” proving conclusively, no doubt,
to the satisfaction of those who got it up.
that the people of the Territory resident
Upon the unceded lands, should be dis
franchised. That was the funniest De
mocracy we ever saw, but they oont It on
to Washington, labelled Democracy. They
also got up petitions to the same effect,
and procured numerous signatures there
to, some by their influence over their
‘blind party followers, and others through
fraud and misrepresentation.
We didn’t say much about the matter
at the time—only poked a little fun at the
■Quixotic antics ol these fellows now and
then, just to keep them in a sort of lively
stew—relying l'or justice to the people oi
Minnesota upon the good sense of Con
gress, and the vigilant attention her in
terests were ever bound to receive, so
long as Henry 11. Sibley was there to
protect them. The result proves we were
not mistaken. Recently in the House,
Mr. Stuart, of Michigan—of Kalama
zoo, Michigan—the friend and former
companion of Lawyer Ed. Rice, one of
the great guns of litis opposition to the
apportionment here in Minnesota—from
the committee on Territories, made an
adverse report to the petition of citizens of
« Mtnntsota, pra ving Congress to disap-
PRO\ E THE ACT OF TIIE TERRITORIAL
Legislature, approved March 31,
apportioning representation in
that Territory ! Hurra for Stuart and
the committee on Territories ' Something
politically good doe* r, then, occasionally
come out of Kalamazoo. Before t!ic
Senate committee, the matter fared worse.
It was not even considered worth report
ing upon.
While having this subject in hand, we
will proceed to give a brief history of
this whole factious warfare upon the
rights and franchises of a large portion of
the people of Minnesota. We do this, not
only tor the purpose ol showing to stran
gers who have recently come among us
some of the beauties of Minnesota De
mocracy, but also that we of older date
may keep posted as to facts transpiring
in our political advancement.
By the boundaries laid down in our
organic act, much the larger portion of
Minnesota is Indian territory. The same
act also declares, in substance, that all
parts of the Territory shall be equally
represented, according to population, in
the legislative assembly. The Governor
was to take the first census, and appor
tion the representation for the first leg
islative assembly. This duty he per
formed, never dreaming of cutting oft'and
disfranchising the hundreds of traders
and their employees, together with all
hunters, missionaries, government offi
cers, &c., residing upon the Indian lands.
This was in 1849, and the elections were
held in the Indian country, returns made,
&c., just the same as upon the ceded
lands; agd no complaints oijme from any
quarter. The next year the Federal cen
sus was taken. Upon the convening of
the legislative assembly soon thereafter,
the Governor, as in duty bound, in his
message, called the attention ol that body'
to the duty devolving upon them of giving
to the people a fair and equal apportion
ment, based upon the returns of the Mar
shal of the Territory.
Party politics did not divide that Leg
islative Assembly; but it so happened
that all the Whigs and a minority of the
Democrats were in favor of a democratic
and equal apportionment, as recommended
by the Governor, while a majority of the
Democrats were in favor of disfranchis
ing the people upon the Indian lands.
This opposition to justice and right had
not its origin in any high or ennobling
feeling of principle. It grew out of
a narrow, cut-throat, factious opposition
to Mr. Sibley, which rankled in the hearts
of his personal enemies, some of whom
he had deservedly prostrated politically ;
and others had not come out so well in
trade as they might have done, had lie
suffered them to go on swindling and
'gouging him and his associates, from year
ito year, as they had comine icod. All the
base influences, all the hellish devices
ithat could be thought of, were this scs
: sion brought to bear against Mr. Sibley
land his Democratic friends in the Legis
lature. The Democrat was the organist
i °
of the factious conspirators, and ground
music to suit them.
The original draft of the Apportion
ment Bill was drawn by a Whig, and
| drawn much as it now stands. The al
terations from the original do not alTect
:the principle a particle. We do not al
jlude to this to detract one iota of credit
justly due the honorable gentleman
who introduced the bill in the Council,
and by his influence and eloquent appeals
in behalf of the Ind an country, succeed
ed in carrying the measure triumphantly
through, nor to claim the apportionment
as strictly a Whig measure, but simply to
vindicate the truth of history. W e say,
then, the present apportionment law was
drawn up by a Whig, a Whig not a’mem
ber of the legislative assembly, nor a
“ Sibley man” either, but one who hud
ardently supported Mitchell. The bill,
then, was not concocted by Mr. Sibley’s
friends ; but as they had generally been
found on the side of right and justice, the
inference was that they would of course
support it, against the war which had been
declared in advance against it bv the cor
rupt hirelings of faction—especially as
this war was based upon personal hatred
'of Mr. Sibley. The hopes of free and
universal sufiVagc were not disappointed.
McLeod and Forbes in the Council, and
Ames, and Randall, and Wells, and Far
ribault, and Trask, in the House, and all
the W ings iu both branches (all honor to
them!) carried the measure triumphantly
through,after undergoing bullyings.threats
of personal violence, clubs flourished
■over their heads in their places, and other
indignities, that only disgraced and even‘-
itally damned the perpetrators themselves.
|The conspiracy went so far as to hazard
the attempt on the part of the minority, at
the instigation of D. A. Robertson, to
i break up the legislature in a row. F.ffi
gv burning was also attempted ; but the
; bid went through, thanks to firmness and
a determination to do right on the part of
j the ma jority.
With these facts before us, it can then
; scarcely be wondered at, that our ever
true and faith!ul Delegate, aside from his
known honesty of purpose and careful
watching over the rights and welfare ol
his whole constituency, should feel an
interest in sustaining this measure of ap
portionment. when the hounds of faction,
who have ever had their fangs at his
throat, should pursue it into the halls of
Congress. lie knew and felt what his
last friends at home had gone through to
; sustain it. It had become in part, almost,
; “ bone of his bone, and ilesh of his fiesh,”
viewing the question of preserving it in
j the light of personal ambition. We were
I then fully prepared to hear from time to
time, as we did, that Mr. Sibley was
busy before the committees whenever
this subject was talked of, as lie ever is
when matters of the least interest to
Minnesota occupy the attention of mem
bers. And it is said, on good authoritv,
that only a short time since, lie appeared
before the Senate committee cn Territo
ries, and in a brief and powerful argu
ment, showed up these enemies of uni
versal suffrage in Minnesota—these Demo
crats, who are the exclusive friends of
\\ esternadvancement—in their true light.
As Lawyer Rice remarked in his celebra
ted babies’ moccasins and bar meat”
speech, upon this same subject, Mr.
Sibley went before the committee “to
call tilings by their right names," and he
did so. Such a castigation, perhaps
Robertson and his cut-throat gang never
previously received. Even Col. Good
hue's severest skinnings were not so
.deep in toward the bone. It was "to
the quick— to the very red;” and the stripes
can doubtless now be seen, laid across the
opposite side of their shoulders from
where the Pioneer was wont to posture j
with whip in hand— their backs all fleck- I
e<] and cross-barred with bloody scabs, j
reminding one of a prison window with
a white curtain hanging inside. The effect
of Mr. Sibley’s effort is seen in the ac
tion of the committee — refusing to take
ar.y notice whatever of the petitions and
th: “ Democratic ” circular !
So down we go again, and overboard
we are —“horse, foot and dragoons”—
petitions—“ Democratic Central Commit
tee” circular and all ! “ Babies’ moccasins
and bar meat” triumphs—Pembina, Cass, j
Hennepin, Dakota and Wabasha are in,
and Robertson and company, the faelion
ists, are still out of the ring, where they
will have to reim.i’i. Th; three or four
hundred people who have settled upon
the Indian lands since last fall, will be
happy to learn that they are still voters,
even if the treaties should go over, il
they have been in the Territory six
months. The base scheme of the Demo
crat, and its co-laborers, to disfranchise
them has been thwarted. Rest in peace!
WHIPPED AND CRAWLING FOR MERCY.
I Perhaps it is travelling a little out of
our sphere to notice a certain article in
th; 1 ast Democrat, relating to Mr. Sibley,
but we can't help it. Referring to some
of Mr. Siblev’s recent efforts in the House
in behalf of the Territory, our neighbor
isays:
/ “It will be seen that Mr. Siblev has
nq-iiartv position which |yj
4,q1-]irevTouslv occupied, classes him
self among Partisan Democrats.
he wjsgly, for a no-party, or neutral
position, can never have weight, or com
mand respect iu Congress, or elsewhere.
Mr. Sibley lias heretofore acted in concert
with Governor Ramsey, and other lead
ing whigs of the Territory. If like Gen.
Jo Lane, he acts ihe part of a decided
Democrat at home, for the future, and
gives his voice and influence to the dem
ocratic party in the Territory, without
regard to fear or favor, he will entitle
himself to full communion in the Demo
crat iu church. IVe hope that Mr. S., and
every friend of his, of democratic predi
lections ar.d sympathies, will so act —and
thjjCnlLinvidious comparisons and disline
tions wdl he forhornej and that misunder
s!anding~and recrimination nhopt ldic.jm
cideiils. errmaJuind iiiislakes.pl' the,
may bo buried in ouTTviim.”
Now what does the reader suppose he
bases this assertion upon, that Mr. Siblev
has abandoned bis position in relation to
local polities. Simply a casual remark in
one oi that gentleman’s speeches, that he
was a Democrat, an assertion he makes
invariably whenever he refers to politics,
and which the Democrat traduced him
roundly for making, at the dinner given
the Governor and Secretary.
Why, the crawling, crouching creature
that thou aril Togo and write such a
paragraph as this, the very day almost
that news arrived in town, that Mr. Sib
ley bus just applied his scalped to thy
great favorite bantling, the disfranchise
ment of the Indian country, until there is
not a piece left of it as large as his hand!
Is this the man from Lancaster, Ohio,
who boasts that, with Sam Medary, he
wielded the destinies of the party in that
great State?
“'.Visit, Will the n-i'irlnj blood ..f Lancaster
Sink in the ground?”
I\e all recollect when the Democrat
echoed hack the triumph.nt challenge,
thrown out to Mr. Sibley and his friends,
by one of its co-laborers in the Legisla
ture: —
<• Lay . n M c
And d—d bo lie who tries hold, ■ non^li
This was the way the Democrat talked in j
those days. Now that Mr. Sibley has
knocked the last plank from under him.
by kicking out of Congress his miserable
federal measure to disfranchise one-third
ol the voters of Minnesota, he cries j eca
t" —“ let the past be forgotten”— “enough. l
enough! dear Mr. Sibley—O Lord, O j
don’t! I give in— l surrender.” The j
great cotyardly, craven booby !
THE DEMOCRATIC nominee.
The nomination of Franklin Pierce, of
New Hampshire, as the Democratic can
didate lor President is announced by the
'atest arrivals from below. It was a
result brought about without previous
concert or deliberation, owing to the fact
that the Convention got into a snarl, and
could not do any better. He was the
first choice of nobody—not even his own
State. Yet it appears to suit the hungry
spoils-cravers hereabouts amazingly.—
To hear them give the story, he is just the
man they wished nominated ! Du tell!!
The Lnited States Economist, (New
\ ork.) of the 23d, says :
“II gold is to become so suddenly
abundant, and enter so freely into the
channels of circulation as to fall in vahi",
as compared with all other industrial pro
ducts, then it follows, as a matter of
course, ill it fixe 1 incomes, derivable from
■ong leases and stock dividends, will de
cline in actual value in the same propor
tion, and instead of being worth more
money, should be worth less; that is to
say, capital invested in any industrial
; product will he beneficially affected in
proportion as gold falls in value; hut in-
I vested in stocks, its revenue will deterio-
I tale in the same proportion.”
Lola Montes failed at Albany, and also '
| at Buffalo. But her failure at the latter
place saved her wardrobe. She refused
(to dance again at the theatre, removed
her wardrobe, and the same night the
J theatre burnt to ti e ground.
lowa.— The YVJiigs of the First Con
gressional District in lowa have nomina- .
ted, in Convention, Philip Yiele, as their
candidate. He lives in Lee county, and '
is a true Whig. If the Whigs bestir '
themselves, they can elect him.
Western Farm and Village Association not ‘‘bro
ken up’ —The Location and People—'Character
of the Country—Future Prospects—Wabasha
Prairie.
The first of last week, we paid a vis
it to the settlement of the “ Western Farm
, and \ illage Association” at Rolling Stone,
one hundred and thirty-five miles below
' j St. Paul. The cause of our omission to
allude to this matter in our last issue, is
well known to our acquaintances here in
i St. Paul. We arrived home from our
i visit very ill, and were unable to write a
single line for last week’s paper.
It having been published to the world
by the Galena Jeffersonian, and copied in
to the Pioneer and Democrat of St. Paul,
that this colony had “broken up,” we,
having great doubts as to the truth of the
statement, concluded we would test the
matter personally. Leaving here on the
Excelsior, in due time we were put ashore
at Holmes’ Landing, Wisconsin, which
is nearly opposite the new settlement, al
though three miles distant, across sloughs,
islands and tow-heads. This is a good
place to stop at over night. The Germans,
at the lower hauling, are kind, accommo
, dating people, and will give you a good
. comfortable bed. In the morning the wow
will have a nice cup of coffee, and some
ham and fresh country eggs all ready for
The next thing was to get over to the
settlement. The Teutonic Charon which
we had employed, said we would be there
“ ver quack;” and so we were. We gli
ded across the low islands among the for
est trees and shrubbery, frightening the
ducks and pigeons Irom their social morn
ing chats, and were at Rolling Stone be
fore the sun was high above the majes
tic cliffs that tower away in the east.—
Instead ol finding the settlement “broken
up,” we saw on stepping upon the ground
groups ol rugged men and women, —firm,
resolute looking people, busy at all kinds
of work one might expect colonists to be
engaged in. Some thirty ®r more com
fortable cabins are already erected, and
others building. The number of families
on the ground at the time was perhaps
forty—not less. They were resolute,
contented, and determined to stay. Most
of them are in good circumstances. They
were planting gardens, and preparing for
cultivating the soil on a more extensive
scale. Further additions to the colony
were expected from New York. One
family that had just arrived, were so un
fortunate as to lose most of their house
hold goods by the upsetting of a boat in
the slough. The lady remarked to us,
with an air of contentment and resigna
tion. that it was a heavy loss, but people
who removed to a new country must ex
pect to submit to some hardships. Wc
concluded she would get through.
An impression has prevailed among
many of our citizens, that these colonists
were a community of socialists, who hold
every thing in common, after the fashion
ol the Shakers and other similar societies.
Such is not the fact. There is no com
munity of lands, or houses, or property
of any kind, real or personal. Neither is
there of labor. E icli man has his own
house and grounds, and his ow i goods,
teams and fanning utensils; pays for w hat
he gets, and receives wages when work-
ing for others, just the same in every res
pect as in ordinary communities. They are
an association only for the purposes of set
tlement, and holding claims. Among them
are inen of almost every sect and parfv,
religious and political, that we find any
where.
The location of this colony is one of
the most beauti'u! spots in Minnesota.—
Objection has been made to it, because it
is “up a slough six miles,” uhere
steamboats can never run. This matter
about boats not going there, at least in
high water, is all stuff. We u ill guaran
tee they will find their way up whenever
there is a load ol produce to bring out. —
I he water had lallcn considerably when
we were there ; still there was eight feel
in the slough. The village is located
upon a high and beautiful oak opening, j
covered with a line growth of timber.— 1
The soil is good, with a clay sub-soil.— j
Back is a valley, extending for fifteen or,
twenty miles, composed of as rich and
well disposed farming land as we ever
| saw. Tlie grass in this valley at the!
time we were there was knee high.— j
Through the valley runs Rolling Stone
creek, a mountain spring branch, leaping
in beautiful cascades, and settling again
in limpid crystal pools, alive with that
regal delicacy of the finny tribe, the!
| speckled trout. Good limestone and j
brick-clay have been found here.
W e came to the conclusion, that if the j
people of Rolling Stone did not succeed
in building up a prosperous and inde
pendent agricultural community in a few j
years, and making themselves and their
families more happy and comfortable than i
they were in the crowded cities of the
East, it would not be the fault of the!
country. The location has also the ad- j
vantage of being healthy. It cannot be
otherwise. Some sickness had taken ‘
place, but it resulted from exposure, and
inattention to the first symptoms of diar- j
rhea. The deaths had been three adults |
and two children. One man was not ex
pected to live when we left, and some
children were ill with measles.
We remained part of an afternoon and
night at Wabasha Prairie, six miles be
low. This beautiful and fertile prairie
is too well known to most of our home
readers to need description here. It is
situated on the main channel of the river,
with a good landing almost its whole ex
tent, which is about twelve miles. The
distance across, from the water to the
bluff is from five to eight miles. We
were hospitally entertained at the prairie
by Rev. Mr. Ely and lady, formerly of
Ohio, who have cast their lot in this new
land, built a shanty, and are comfortably
iniatiated into the mysteries of frontier
life. Mr. Ely has been untiring in his
efforts to administer bodily and spiritual
comfort to the sick and disheartened at
Rolling Stone, and immediately at bis own
door, where all those who settle in the
vicinity are landed. There are several of
the right kind ol set'lers upon the prai
rie. In addition to the family named, we
formed the acquaintance of Dr. Childs,
Mr. Thomas, former Secretary of the
Farm and Village Asso ia'ion,Mr. Thomp
son, Mr. Denman, the Messrs. Gear, and
others, all of whom are improving ihe
land and building bouses. We were in
formed that every foot of this extensive
prairie is already claime l. Back of it ihe
country, similar to the whole of Minneso
ta and Wisconsin below us, is cut by
those beautiful and fertile valleys, such
as we have described at Rolling Stone.—
Those immediately in the rear of Waba
sha Prairie, and below there to the lowa
line, forty miles or mare, l ave been most
ly claimed and settled since the opening
of navigation. Perhaps over two hun
dred families have removed upon these
lands. After the treaty is ratified, they
will need many things to complete their
social arrangements —post-offices, post
roads, new counties, county officers, and
all these necessary fixings. This is a re
mote part of the Territory from the capi
tal ; and as the immediate interests of St.
Paul are not promoted by its rapid settle
ment, citizens here arc apt to overlook its
wants. But it should not be so : and it
shall not be so, so far as we are concern
ed. The Minnesotian is as much at the
service of the people down that way, as
though they lived here in St. Paid. They
must have their post-offices and their
new counties whenever thev want them
Facts and Faitcirs.
Wednesday morning, at a few minutes
before 5 o’clock, a strange steamboat whis
tle in these waters was heard below the
point. It did not take long to manifest to
that portion of St. Paul, who were out ol
bed, that the new packet, West Newton,
was approaching our landing. Before peo
ple who bad been awakened by her whistle
could get their clothes on. she was at the
landing. She is a regular teener to run ;
and we believe it is conceded she is the
fastest boat now above St. Louis, except,
perhaps, the A Ilona. She made the run
Irorn St. Louis to Galena last week in -11
hours and 39 minutes, the quickest trip
ever made. The St. Louis papers had
just finished blowing about a “quick trip”
of one of the Keokuk packets, between
the same points, in JO hours. The New
ton arrived at Point Douglass in 30 hours
from Galena, having made all the usual
landings. Ilad she come on up to Saint
Paul, instead of going to Stillwater first,
she would have arrived here in about 32
hours. Capt. Harris is certain she can
make two Irips per week, and do all bu
siness that may offer, with case. Her
card, announcing her hours of departure
from St. Paul, will be found in our ad
vertising columns. She is not as large as
some of our packets, but is lilted up in
elegant style, and her accommodations are
not surpassed by any other boat in the
trade. She is bound to become a favorite
forthwith.
The Ben Campbell will certainly be
here to-morrow or Monday, no accideiu
preventing. She was detained in St.
Louis some days, to finish painting, and
Capt. Lodwick was very ill; but she
wouid be in Galena in lime to leave upi n
her regular day—yesterday. Competent
judges who have examined her, sr.y that
she is the most elegant and commodious
of all the new packets that have appeared
upon the waters of the Mississippi this
season. We believe she makes no pre
tensions to very fast running. The St.
Louis Intelligencer has the followin'/ of
her:
! Another Fine Boat. —Capt. M. W.
Lodwick's new Galena and Si. Raul mail
packet, Ben Campbell, recently built at
j Pittsburgh, under his immediate super
intendence, made her first appearance at
lour wharf yesterday forenoon. The Ben
! Campbell, from outward appearances, is a
boat ofllie first water, and a glance with
j >'» her spacious, well ventilated and su
| perbly finished cabins and state-rooms,
i " ill snihee to stamp her as a No. 1 first
| class passenger and freight packet. In
i Lict, her cabin is one of the handsomest
I «’« have ever seen on a boat of her size,
j new in style. neat, comfortable, and even
luxurious, with every improvement inge
nuity and genius could suggest, and every
eomlort and appropriate luxury money
could procure. Capt. Lodwick,'her com
mander and owner, may feel proud of bis
new craft, which we arc free to sav is
one of the very best Pittsburgh built
boats we have ever seen at our wharf. ]
Her dimensions arc, length on deck, 200
feet; beam, 29 1-2 feel; hold, 5 feet; her
cylinders are 18 1-2 inches in diameter,
with six feet stroke. She has three boil
ers, 40 inches in diameter, 24 feet long.
She is also furnished with a “doctor,” fire
engine, hose, with all the necessary ac
companiments. Her wheels are 26 feel
in diameter, with ten feet buckets The
hull was built by Messrs. E. &. N. Por
ter &. Co., of Shousetown, seasoned mate
rial and an extra quantity of fastening.
The cabin was designed by Charles Goer
ing, and built by James Millinger. Her
machinery by Warden & Lee, of Pitts
burgh.
M-ssrs. Melvill of the Dr. Franklin,
Girdon of the St. Paul, Pym of the West
Newton, Brooks of the Nominee, and
Dawley of the Golden Era, have kept
our office so well supplied with papers
this week, that wc have had very little
use for mails until just this moment —
| Friday afternoon—when -we are very
anxious about that Democratic Vice Pres
idency, and the Platform, before we go
*o press. The Excelsior, old Doctor, or
West Newton ought to come in now, just
to accommodate us.
|
The St. Paul on her trip up last Man
day, started out of Galena with the
'a’gest passenger list ever carried from
that port to poin's above. She brought
nearly two hundred to this place.
The Monday packet will have a goodly
company of St. Paul folks, going down.
Rev. Mr. Merrick, of the Episcopal Mis
sion, we regret to learn, is compelled to
go East on account of ill health, and will
leave on Monday. Charles J. Hcnniss,
Esq., Collector of the Port, .also goes East
upon business of a very delicate nature.
May lie not falter and turn back !
*
Notwitbstan ling the wind of Sunday
made some bad work with Stces’ new
building on Third street, all damages were
repaired, and the lop brick was laid by
Thursday. A flag is filing there now.
to denote, wc suppose, that the building is
finished. It certainly cannot be they
have been thinking anything up atop
there. It is a fine structure, and adds
much to the appearance of Third street.
The first court ever held in the new
county of Chisago convened at Taylor’s
Falls on Monday last, his Honor, Chief
Justice Fuller presiding. They have an
expeditious way of doing things up there.
The grand jury were charged and sent
out at nine o’clock the first day. In an
hour or so they had a chap indicted for
selling liquor. He was immediately put
upon his trial, and by one o’clock was
tried and convicted. Very little business
was before the court, and it adjourned
Wednesday. Taylor’s Falls is a rapidly
grow ing place, and has the right kind of
a population to push it ahead. They take
more newspapers there than at any other
post office on the St. Croix, save perhaps
Stillwater.
There was a mistake in the Telegraph
ic report, published some time since, that
the bill for the completion of the public
buildings of Minnesota had been killed in
the House. All our bills, save the one
granting land (otlic St. Paul and St Louis
I river railroad, arc in a very favorable
stage to get through Congress. There
| has been some very interesting debates
upon these bills, which we would be glad
to publish had we the space. The es
sence of what was said has, however,
appeared in the other St. ! alii papers.
Mr. Sibley, as usual, stood up to the
work manfully, and battled his measures
■ through.
Fatal Disease. —We learn from a
! gentleman just fioin Dubuque, that the
cholera broke out in that city oil Wednes
day evening last, and that a number of
citizens and lumbermen have died. We
j 'earn. also, that some eleven persons died
|on Saturday—-among others. Mr. Emer
son, brother of J no. S. Emerson of this
i city. Thus far, the disease has been very
‘atal, and appears to be spreading.— GW.
•Jeffersonian.
A gentleman who arrived by the Nom
inee on Thursday, informs us' that there
were nine or ten deaths in one day at Du
buque. The sickness was mostly con lin
ed to that part of the town known as Dub
lin.
Murder. —We learn from the las'. La
Crosse Spirit of lie Time , that a Mr.
■Limes Richardson was brutally murder
ed a few days since on Black river at I lie
“In lian Gr. ves. ’ by a man named Gro
ver. A quarrel between the parties had
grown out of (h g-shoi ting, jealousy,
Sic., end upon the day of the murder they
met, : n 1 without notice, it appears, Gro
ver seized a knife and plunged it into the
breast ot Mr. Rich ladson. killin'? him al
most instantly. Grover had been arrest
ed. and was in the custody of the officers
at La Crosse.— GW. Jeff.
Another murder has recently been coin
| niitted near La Crosse—a shocking, cold
[ blooded outrage. A man who had arri
j ved there with a team and some money,
i went out to look for land. He was fol
lowed by a desperate villain, who mur
dered him. took the team and money, and
dressing himself in his victim’s clothes,
undertook to pass for the murdered man.
He was arrested. Verily, our little
neighbor is getting her name up.
A gentleman by the West Newton
brought up a fine lot of shrubs and flow
ering plants monthly roses, geraniums,
&c. He has them for sale next door ,
above Farrington’s store. They are
really worthy the attention of our lady j
friends, and all others of sufficient good (
• astr to love flowers, ,
Some writer in the Democrat (we pre
sume one of the aggressor’s attorneys or
some one of their jackalls) sets up a piteous
howling at the prospect a certain indi
, viduul has of losing a considerable quan
tity of liquor, which he brought here
knowingly in violation of law. Now, we
hope to see no jot or tittle of the rigor of
(lie law abated in this case of flagrant
violation, for an open and flagrant viola
tion it is. and so will an impartial jury
decide when the facts are all known.—
This is no question any longer between
temperance men and anti-temperance men
—between teetotlers and drinkers. It is
a question as to whether this community
will sustain the law of the land, or allow
it to be trampled under foot. And we
can tell the steamboat owners and ship
pers below, that the orderly and law
abiding citizens of Minnesota will be
very apt to remember the boats and the
men who are instrumental in sending li
quor among us, contrary to law. The
Nominee had no kind of business, —more
especially as she professes to be a strictly
temperance boat—to receive this freight
at Galena. Wc arc satisfied, however
it was an oversight, and she will not do
the like again. But it will not do for
gentlemen to set up in defense of their
guilt} client, that he was ignorant of the
existence oi the law when he shipped the
liquor. If such be the fact, how was it
that he agreed to bills of lading s.t Galena,
containing certain unusual reservations in
la\or ol t lie beat, in case the liquor should
be seized upon its arrival here ?
lion. Martin McLeod was in town this
week. He has been spending the spring
upon the Minnesota river, troin Lac qui
Parle all along shore down. He states
that the smaller branches of the Upper
Minnesota have been much higher this
season than last. The tipper Indians are
impatient lor the ratification of the trea
ty. Henry Jackson and others from
Makato. and Mr. J. Catheart, from Le
Sueur are also down. They have planted
their crops, and now await the Senate’s
permission to go and cultivate their..
Onr friend and fellow-citizen, W. B.
White, Esq., who is rusticating amid the
scenes of his boyhood, in Massachu
setts, writes that Gen. Scott is bound to
be the Wi ig nominee. The idea which
prevails in the West to some extent, that
Mr. I* illmorc is the second choice of Mr.
Webster's friends in Massachusetts, is
erroneous. We thought so all the
while.
We have been favored ly U?. Bortip
with the perusal ol a letter just received
from J. B. Culver, of Eon du Lac, Lake
Superior. The lake was still mil of ice.
from La Point? t„ that place; and there
was no probability of its clearing out be
fore the lOdi inst. He says : “We found
the head of the lake full of ice. down as
tar as Bark Point. Wc were three days
working through the ice, cor.ldling all
the way. It cannot clear cu'ircly before
ihe lOih ol June. The wi'er lias been
very high at Fon du Lie, up to the top of
the counter in our store. Ii was horrible
when the ic-e went out. (Hi May.) I
removed all of the goods to the top of the
hill, fearing the whole establishment
would be swept away. The ice came
dow n in huge cakes, four lect thick ”
Ihe current in the riierat the time of
the ireshet was so strong that it could not
be stemmed with a light canoe. This
mass of ice which has till now rested
upon the bosom of Izike Superior, ac
counts for the chilling breezes we occa
sionally receive from that quarter.
The hurricane of last Sunday must
have been a strong one to prostrate a
I name so well put together as that of the
Kittson House. It will not delay the
completion of the building a great while,
as < lie saw mills are busy ;i t work getting
out lumber lor the purpose.
Col. Donseman is here, and thinks
the Treaties will ecitabily be ratified so
soon as the nominations arc through with.
No man is better posted upon ireaty mat
ters than Col. Houseman.
Business continues not so brisk in St.
Paul as might lie expected .-.t this season
of the year. This is owing to the eon
tinned suspense about the treaties; and
it will he so until they are ratified. Still
there is considerable doing among our re
tailers. Farming has been much more
extensively gone into than upon any form
er year, which in due time, if the season
prove good, will have its effect upon
trade. No finer weather could possibly
be given our farmers than they have had
to get in their crops. The lumbermen
have scarcely yet commenced sending the
product of their last winter’s labor to
market. Lory few logs have gone out
of the St. Croix, and none from the Miss
issippi above the mouth of that tributary.
The boats continue toarrive crowded with
passengers and well freighted.
We would call the attention of citizens
and strangers to the new advertisement of
Messrs. Pattison & Benson. Also, see
World’s Fair; Calhcart & Tyson’s new
stock of Groceries, and all other custom
ers of ours, new and old.
The noblest qualities wherewith na
lure Ins endowed woman for the gooJj*
the world, is maternal love ;hV love
which seeks m return.