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THE WEEKLY MINNESOTIAN.
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©WENS A MOORE,
VOLUME 1.
THE MINNESOTIAN,
PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY,
BYJ.P. O WEJYS Sr G. W. MOORE,
Saint Pant, Minnesota Territory.
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vtrtUinf.
James M. Coodhue, Pioneer, I
D. A. Robertson, Democrat,
Owens & Moore, MlnnesotUn. t
St. Paul March 24tb, 1852.
M• E. AMES* R. R. NELSON. '
AMES & NELSON,
ATTORNEYS AND COUNSELLORS AT LAW,
AND SOLICITORS IN CHANCERY.
St. Paul, Minn.
j RT|7TLL attend with promptness and fidelity to all law
YY business intrusted to their care in Minnesota, and
the adjoining couuties of Wisconsin.
83* Particular attention will be given to the collection
of debts, and the location of land warrants* y
W. P. HURRAY,
ATTORNEY AND COUNSELOR AT LAW,
St. Paul, Minn. Terr*
WILI. attend promptly and diligently to all business
Intrusted to him. llaivng male himself acquaint
ed with the quality and situation of the surveyed lands (
In the territory, he Is prepared to locate land warrants 1
to the best advantage, persons at a distance may send
their warrants here and their Jnterests will bo attended 1
to aa If they were present. S - Office on Third sreet. !
September 17, 1861.
H. L. MOSS,
A TTORNEY & COUNSELLOR AT
il Law, Stillwater, Min. Ter., will attend to pro
fessional business in all the courts of the Territory ; will
attend to the location of I-a»d Warrants, &<*.
33* Land Warraut* for sale.
A. VAN VORHES,
A TTORNEY & COUNSELLOR AT
JLJL Law and Solicitor in Chancery, will attend to all
professional business Intrusted to Ills care, in the difierent
courts of the Territory. {Stillwater, 1862.
Isaac Atwater,
A TTORNEY & COUNSELLOR AT
CjL Law and Solicitor In Chancery. Will give pronipj
attention to any business intrusted him in the line of UU
profession, In any part of tire Territory. Particular at
tention paid to locating Land Warrants, Payment <>f Tax
es, sale of Patents when Issued, and Real Estate iu gen
eral. Office at St. Anthony, on Main street, opposite the
Fails.
W. Richardson,
■MOTARY PUBLIC, Conveyancer,and
-La Land Agent. Office, opposite the St. Charles
House, St. Anthony Kalis.
THOS. P. WATSON.
Attorney, Counsellor $ Solicitor.
(AVOCAT rRANCAJS.)
Office over Spencer's store, Third st.,
St. Paul. mtf
WILKIN K VAN ET I’EX.
ATTORNEYS ATLAW,
Office over Farrington's Brick Store, St Paul.
Dr. K, BtBBITT.
HAS hit* office In the rear of Levi Sloan'** Ktore, where
he will ba ready to attend to professional culls.
Saint Paul, Nov 29 —mm y
DR. J. H. DAY,
WILL practice hlM»rofe<*>ion In Saint Paul and vi
cinity. Oltice on Bench street,
nor 29 mm r
L. A. BABCOCK, M.S. WILKINSON.
LAW FIRM,
BABCOCK & WILKINSON AUornles *»•! Counsellors
at Law, Solicitors iu Chancery, Ate.
Office near the corner of Third au»l Roberts streets, St.
V atfc Min. Ter.
Will attend to business of their profession in all the
Courts of the Territory,
nav. 22, 1861.
BRECK & WILLIAMS,
ATTORNEYS AND COUNSELLORS AT LAW.
Orr ice on TuirU St. Saint Paul.
Daniel Wreck. A. l. Williams.
dec. C.
W«. IBDIBY IVttO*),
ATTORNET & COrXSELEOR AT LAW. Notary
Public, and Laml AgeitU Sauk Rapule, MiuncaoU
Territory.
JACOB J. NOAH,
\ TTORNEY AT LAW and Justice
-ZjL ol the Peace —C oinmlsaloner lor th<* Suites of Maine,
Connecticut, Rhode Island, New York, Pennsylvania,
Kentucky, Ohio. Virginia, Alabama and Louisiana.
Ofttce on Third St., St. Paul.
DR* T. R. POTTS,
Corner Roberts and Sixth streets, St. Paul, ]
WILL attend to the duties of his profession in St. Paul j
and vicinity. September 17.
BILLS or EXCHANGE,
AND DRAFTS on all parts of the United States, at the
once of the Minnesota outfit, by
CIIAS. W. BORUP.
J. QUINN,
BOOT AND SHOEMAKER—Corner
of Third and Minnesota Stf.—Gentlemen’s boots
and shoes; also Ladies’ and Children’s shots, made to
order in the neatest and most durable manner, and of the
best materials.
J. R. BREWSTER,
House, Sign, and Ornamental Fainter.
St. Paul, Minnesota Territory.
INSURANCE!
THE undersigned Is agent for, and will Insure buildings
and goods in the following Companies:
Utica Insurance Company.
JStna Insurance Company of Ctlcft.
Orleans Insurance Company.
Jackson County Mutual Insurance Company.
New York Protection Company.
—ALSO—
Will Insure lives in the Connecticut Mutual Life Insu
rant Company. ALEX. WILKIN.
SL Paul, November 6,1851 g
fTeTcollins,
AUCTION & COMMISSION HOUSE
THE undersigned having received an Auctioneer’s Cora
mission from the Governor of Minnesota, has opened an
Auctiou and Commission House, in SL Paul, where he
will sell on commission, Groceries, Dry Goods, Furniture,
Jtc. Ht believes that the superior advantages of
St. Paul as a market, will be a sufficient Inducement for
business men and manufacturers at a distance, to send
their goods, Ac., to be sold on commission at private sale,
or at auction. His charges will be m jdcrate.
N. B. particular attention wl(l be paid to the sale of
real estate, in or about St. Paul, St. Anthony, or Still wa
ter.
« F. E. COLLINS.
REFERENCES:
Gov. A let. Ramsey, St. P»nl,
2' H ‘ s «»*.ey, Mendots,
ii ..Y ,D Olmsted, Merchant, Benton CL,
‘ £•<" Ramsey, St. Paul,
u Wm. U. Forbes, \
Eltelt & Brothers. /
J. W. Simpson, > Merchants, St.
John Farrington, ( Paul.
D. L. Fuller, j
Franklin Steele, Mer. st. Amhonr
wm. Holcombe, Esq., stm«r.ier?
Central House, St. Paul.
CAVE & BURTON have taken this old and well known
house. They have fitted it up anew, and are now
prepared to accommodate boarders and travellers with
comfortable quarters. No pains will be spared to make
the Central House one of ths best Hotels in the West.
November, 1851.
RODNEY PARKEK, late of the American House Low
ell, Mass., having a lease of the large hotel at the
upper end of St. Paul, with everything In proper order
for the convenience of travelers, boarders, or families de
! siring furnished apartments, respectfully Invites his
friends and the public to give him a call, believing that
be can do as much for their comfort as can be expected
In a new country, not yet supplied with regular markets.
Temperance House,
1 T OT MOFFET, Proprietor,—Corner
I -Li of Fourth and Jackson Sts., Saint Paul. Perma
' nent and transient boarders furnished with good and com
j fortable apartments. Charges nexleiate.
Hall-Way House.
TOHN MORGAN, (mid-way between
' St. Paul and Stillwater,) begs leave to say to stran
: gers visiting Minnesota, and the public generally, that
: having made his arrangements complete for the accom
modation of the public, and being situated in the midst
j of the most delightful scenery, surrounded by lakes that
j abound with fish, and In an atmosphere of unsurpassed
, purity, he hopes to see company from abroad, as well as
j from the neighboring villages. They will find the charges
moderate.
; Minnesota Boarding-House.
SC- McCRAY would inform the pub
• lie—residents and strangers—that he has taken
the large house on Eagle Street, opposite D. L. Fuller's
Brick Store, where be is prepared to accommodate his
customers with the best style of boarding. The house
has been thoroughly repaired and painted. Ills table will
be furnished with every thing the market affords; and
those who come prepared to plank up the Ca»h every
Saturday night, will find the “Minnesota Boarding House”
a comfortable and pleasant home. None others are de
sired. [April 17—6 m.
OAK HILL CEMETERY.
A LL persons desiring burial lots can
-l*- obtain information by calling upon the Secretary,
J. W. Selby, or the President, C. W. Borup. 29yl
F. CHOUTEAU. JR. JAS. HARRISON, FELIX VALLE.
CHOUTEAU, HARRISON & VALLE.
Commission Merchants and Proprietors of the St.
Louis Rolling Mill.
A ND manufactures of bar iron in all its
iA various shapes, Shset Iron and Boiler Plate. Nails
and Spikes from the ore of the Iron Mountain. Iron Store,
No. 129 North Second street, St. Louis.
September 1, 1861.
Nathan Spicer,
TEWELER AND WATCH.MAKER,
at the sigu of the Big Watch, Third street, ag
next door to the St. Paul Drug Store, is prepared
to make gold and silver watches, rings, spoons, J.
&.c., on short notice. Also to repair the same, a- (onflo
well as music books, shell combs, or linger rings, brace
lets and ear drops. He also keeps for sale a great variety
of rings, perfumery, and whatever goods are usually en
quired for at a Jeweler’s.
w. 11. FORBES,
PUR COMPANY—St. Paul Outfit—
-- Also Dry (ioods and Groceries, corner of Third and
Jacksou streets.
J. w. BABCOCK,
FORWARDING and Commission Mer
chant, Upper landing, Saint Paul, Minnesota Ter
ritory.
Kittson’s Addition.
'"UHIS desirable ground, lying in the
L most central and advantageous part of the basin
of St. Paul, where must inevitably be the principal river
business of the town, and affording also the most choice
and delightful lots In the rear, upon the bench for dwel
ling houses; is surveyed into lots and now offered for
sale with titles undisputed and indisputable, at reasona
bly low prices, and up«*n liberal terms of credit, f'»r most
of the purchase money, and lumber for building on lots
sold In the addition, will be furnished at the rotary saw
mill on easy terms. CHAS. 11. OAKES,
Agent for Proprietors.
SPENCER, KIRKPATRICK & MIRKLEV,
Forwarding and Commission Merchants,
LEVEE, LOWER LANDING, ST. PAUL.
; feb 14 22-tf
S. P. FOLSOM,
County Surveyor.
May be found at office of of Register of Deeds, on Third
' street, one door below Minnesota Outfit. 17—y
E. M’LAGAN,
STORAGE AND COMMISSION MERCHANT,
Jackson street, Lower Landing, St Paul, Minnesota.
I)ROMPT attention given to all consignments, and char
ges moderate.
j .St Paul, October 19, 1851 7
THEODORE E. PARKER,
Attorney and Counsellor at Law,
STILLWATER, MINNESOTA TERRITORY.
To ill}' old friends,
AND THE “REST OF MANKIND,” I would say,
that 1 can be found during the winter, at the old
stand of Charley Cave, on Third Street, where 1 w ill al
ways be happy to wait upon them. Bar and house fur
nished with the best of every thing.
uov.3P.tt. W'AI. nARTSIIORNE.
painting.
S HERMAN &. MOREY,on Fourth street,St. Paul,near
the middle of town, in the building or Mr. Knox, up
stairs, may be foufld, ready to attend to Painting In all Its
departments. House painting, sigh painting, carriage
and ornamental painting, all done up promptly, ond .with
paints of the best quality. If we do our work in a slov
enly, unworkmau like mannuer we do not expect to get
business in the enlightened town of St. Paul.
p«c. 13, 1851. SHERMAN A .MOREY.
BOOKBINDING.
TnE subscriber would respectfully lnfojnt the citizens
of St. Paul and its vicinity, that he is now carrying on
the above business in the 2d story of Spencer’s new build
ing, on the corner of Ffth and Roberts street.
s'f* Particular attention paid to rebinding old books and
periodicals. JaMES MACKINTOSH,
fob 7 21—tf
J C Burbank K co. St.Paul] [W L Fawcette &co. St. Louis
NORTH-W£ST£RN EXPRKSS COMPANY,
CONNECTING AT GALENA AND ST. LOUIS WITH TIIE
American and other Express Companies.
TO and from all the principal cities In the United States,
California and Europe, for the speedy transportation
of money and valuable packages, col ectlon of drafts, notes,
bills, accounts, &.C., purchase and sale of all kinds ot
merchandize.
AGENTS.
C. R. Rice it Co.. St. Paul, Otis West, St. Louis,
J. Brookes, Galena.
N. B.—Particular attention paid to forwarding and
commission business generally,
may 1. 33-tf
AMERICAN SALOON.
FRED. HARDY now keeps this well-known establish
ment “on his own hook.” He hopes by a continued
attention to the wants of his customers, to merit their
patronage as heretofore. 19y
ST. PAUL DRUG STORE.
HICHCOX & KELLOGG,
Comer of Third and Cedar sts., opposite Judge Lamberts.
WILL keep constantly on band a general supply of the
best unadulterated drugs and medicines, aud articles
usually kept for sale in drug stores.
Physician*? prescriptions put up with the greatest care.
.Medicines may be procured at all hours of the night,
without extra charge.
53* Profits small, and terms cash.
SADDLE, HARNESS AND TRUNK MANUFACTORY.
f pilE subscriber solicits the patronage of the public,
A and assures all purchasers In his line, that he will
e 11 for cash, saddles, harness of all kinds, and trunks, of
a better quality, and cheaper than any other establish
ment In Minnesota. Purchasers will do well to call at
his shop, on Third street, St. Paul, next door east of S.
H. Serge tit’s aud Judge tor themselves.
SKETCHES OF MINNESOTA, the
O New England of tb» West, by E. S. Seymour. For
Mile by I.EDCU & ROIIRER.
FIRE fc MARINE INSURANCE,
BF the undersigned agent for the Protection Insurance
Company of Hartford, Conn. Policies Issued upon the
most favorable terms by
W. P. Murray, Agent, Minnesota.
St. Paul, February -A®, 1892 2t-!m
SAINT PAUL, MINNESOTA TERRITORY, SATURDAY, JULY 17, 1852.
THE MINNESOTIAN.
The Language of a True Patriot.
We never supposed that Mr. Fillmore,
in any manner, was personally disposed
to seek a nomination for re-election to
the high office he holds. His whole
course since President, in fact, contra
dicts the entertainment of any such motive
on his part. Had he striven, by the use
of patronage and power incident to his
place, to make himself popular instead of
doing his duty without fear or favor, he
might very easily have secured the nomi
nation. The following correspondence is
but further evidence of Mr. Fillmore’s
devoted patriotism and singleness of pur
pose ; and had some of his over-zealous
friends in Congress, six months ago
heeded his counsels, the Whig party
would have come together in National
Convention with less of the elements of
contention among its members of differ
ent sections. No President since the
days of Washington ever retired carrying
with him the love and respect of the
whole people to a greater extent than
will Mr. Fillmore on the fourth of March
next. But read his letter to the Conven
tion :
To the Editors of the JY. Y. Express
With a desire to correct some misrep
resentations that have been made of the
1 position of the President before the Na
tional Whig Convention recently conven
ed at Baltimore, I desire you to publish
the two letters enclosed. They were
placed in my hands on the 14th inst., and
have remained in my possession, without
being seen by any person, until this
time. Previous to the setting of the
Convention, the President frequently and
in an earnest manner expressed to me a
desire that his name might be withdrawn
from the position in which it had been
placed by his numerous and ardent
friends. Upon the adoption of the plat
form of Whig principles, and particular
ly after the first ballot, I felt my position
in the Convention, as the depository of a
discretionary power so important, to be
delicate and perplexing in the highest de
gree. In obedience to the President’s
wishes, I desired to withdraw him from
the honorable contest, while on the other
hand, from the first to the final ballot, no
considerable portion of his friends among
the Delegates could be found to consent
to the unconditional abandonment of their
first choice. As I was unable to
see that the inlerests of the country
or of the Whig Party were in dan
ger of being compromised by my de
cision, I allowed Mr. Fillmore’s name to
remain in the hands of his friends to the
end, in the belief that such devotion as
was manifested by them called for the
sacrifice on his part of all considerations
mcrelv personal.
GEO. R. BABCOCK.
Irving House, June 28, 1852.
Washington City, June 12, 1852,
lion. George R. Babcock,
Delegate to the JVational Whig
Convention from Buffalo Dist., N. Y.
My Dear Sir :
To you as a personal and political
friend, representing my old Congression
al District, which has never deserted or
betrayed me, I desire now to make a last
request, and that is, that you present to
the presiding officer of the Convention
for nominating candidates for President
and Vice President, whenever you may
deem it proper, the enclosed letter with
drawing my name from the consideration
of that Convention,
In determining what is a proper time
to comply with this request, you will
consider the cause in which we are en
gaged, and the reasonable claim which
my friends may have to the use of my name
for its advancement. While lam willing
to submit to any sacrifice for them or for
the cause, I wish it distinctly understood
that I ask nothing for myself, and you
will therefore decide the question wholly
regardless of any real or supposed wish
of mine.
That my friends, to whose solicitations
I have yielded in this matter, may not be
prejudiced by my withdrawal, I have not
thought it proper to disclose this intend
ed act to any person but yourself, lest it
might be said that in so doing I had not
acted in good faith to those who have
thought my name essential to the success
of the Whig cause. You will therefore
perceive that the responsibility is with
you, and with you alone, to keep the
whole a profound secret until the proper
time shall arrive to present my letter to
the Convention; and of this, with full
confidence in your prudence and wisdom,
I constitute you the sole judge.
On the one hand, you will be careful
to guard against any premature act or
disclosure, which might embarrass my
friends or give them just cause of com
plaint, while on the other you will not
suffer my name to be dragged into a con
test for a nomination which I have never
sought, do not seek, and would not take
if tendered, but in discharge of an im
plied obligation, which every man assumes
upon uniting with a political party, which
is, to yield to the will of a majority of
those with whom he acts.
I have the honor to be
Your friend and obd’t serv’t,
MILLARD FILLMORE.
A. R. FRENCH
Washington, June 10, 1852.
To the President nf the National
)Vhig Convention:
Sir : This communication will be pre-
Office—Corner of Jackson and Fifth Streets.
sented to you, and through you to the
delegated wisdom of the Whig party
over which you preside, by the Hon.
George R. Babcock, who represents in
your body the Congressional district in
which I reside.
I trust that I shall be pardoned by the
Convention for adverting briefly to the
course which I have pursued' and the
causes which have induced a means
of explaining why I have selected this
time and mode of making this annuncia
tion.
All must recollect that when I. vv/is' so
suddenly and unexpectedly called ,to the
exalted station which I now QgftUitV, by
the death of my lamented and
predecessor, there was a crisis m our
public affairs full of difficulty and danger.
The country was agitated ky political
and sectional passions and dissensions,
growing out of the slavery and territorial
questions then pending, and for which
Congress had as yet been able to agree
upon no measure of comprom sc and ad
justment.
The Uniou itself was threitened with
dissolution, and patriots and statesmen
looked with apprehension to .he future.
In that feeling I participated most pro
foundly. The difficulties and dangers
which surrounded us were calmly but
anxiously surveyed. I was oppressed by
a sense of the great responsibilities that
rested upon me, and sincerely distrusted
my ability to sustain them in a manner
satisfactory and useful to the country.—
But I was bound to make the attempt,
and to do it with any hope of success, I
felt it necessary to discard every person
al consideration, and devote myself to tbo
difficult task before me with entire sin
gleness of heart.
To prepare and strengthen myself for
this task I endeavored to lay aside, as
far as practicable, every merely selfish
consideration—to banish from my mind
every local or sectional prejudice,—and
to remember only that I was an American
citizen, and the Magistrate of the Ameri
can Republic, bound to regard every por
tion and section of it with equal justice
and impartiality. That I might do this
more effectually, I resolved within my
self not to seek a re-election.
Thus prepared I entered upon the dis
charge of my official duties, with a de
termination to do every thing in my pow
er to aid in the settlement of those dan
gerous controversies. Fortunately for
our favored country, a majority of bolh
Houses of Congress, rising above mere
party and personal considerations, nobly
and patriotically devoted themselves to
tlit gicji wuik or |nu_iii<-aiiun. xtie con
stitutional advisers whom I had called to
tny aid, and to whose fidelity, talents and
patriotism the country is chiefly indebted
for any benefit it may have received from
my administration, with a unanimity and
zeal worthy of every commendation, cor
dially gave their countenance and influ
ence to the legislative department, in per
fecting and adopting these healing meas
ures of Compromise, to which, upon
their passage I felt bound by every con
sideration of public duty, to give my of
ficial approval. These laws being en
acted, my constitutional duly was equally
p’a’n to “ take care that they were faith
folly executed ßut this I found the
most painful of all my official duties.—
Nevertheless, I resolved to perform it,
regardless of all consequences to myself;
and in doing so, I determined to knew no
South, no North—and no friends but
those who sustained the constitution and
laws, —and no enemies hut those who
opposed them.
The gratifying result of this policy is
before you and the country. The angry
strife which for a time threatened to array
State against State, and brother against
brother, and deluge our happy land with
fraternal blood,and desolate it with fire and
sword, has fortunately passed away. The
surging billows of sectional agitation are
calmed, and the public mind is fast set
tling down into its accustomed channels
and will soon renew its wonted devotion
to the Constitution and the Union.
Availing myself ot this happy change,
I had determined, when the present Con
gress met, to announce to the public, in
my annual message, my previous resolu
tion not to sufler my name to come be
fore the National Convention for a nomi
nation. I accordingly prepared a para
graph to that effect, but was finally per
suaded to strike it out, lest it might have
an unfavorable influence upon the then
pending election of Virginia. After that
had passed, I concluded to withdraw my
name by a published address to the peo
ple and prepared one accordingly; but
this coming to the knowledge of some of
my friends, they represented to me that
my withdrawal, at that time, would not
only endanger the perpetuity of those
measures which I deem so essential to
the peace and welfare of the country,
but would sacrifice many friends who
had stood by my administration in the
dark and perilous crisis through which it
had so recently passed. The first was
an appeal to my patriotism, and the sec
ond to my gratitude. I could resist
neither, and therefore yielded to their re
quest, and consented that my name should
remain where it was, until time should
show, as I presumed it would, that its
further use could neither benefit them
nor the cause which we all had so much
at heart. It was, however, distinctly
understood that I could not consent to
use any efforts to procure a nomination,
but if one were freely and voluntarily
tendered, I should not be at liberty to de
cline it.
The embarrassing question now pre
sents itself, who is to determine when
the use of my name can no longer bene
fit my friends or our common cause ?
To assume to decide this myself, in ad-
vance of the Convention, without consul
tation with those who have so generously
sustained me, might be deemed by them
unjust. To consult them is utterly im
practicable, and to suffer my name to go
into a contest for a nomination is contrary
to my original intention, and utterly re
pugnant to my feelings. I have, there
fore, without consultation with any one,
felt justified in assuming the responsi
bility of authorizing and requesting Mr.
Babcock, either before or alter any vote
may be taken in the Convention, and
whenever lie shall feel satisfied that I
have discharged my duty to my friends
and the country, to’ present this letter,
and withdraw my name from the consid
eration of the Convention.
I trust that my friends will appreciate
the necessity which compels me to act
without consulting them. I would cheer
fully make any personal sacrifice for
their sakes or for the good of my coun
try, hut I have nothing to ask for myself.
I yielded with sincere reluctance to their
entreaties to suffer my name to remain
before the public as a possible candidate.
I knew that it placed tne in a false posi
tion. I foresaw that it would subject
me to the base imputation of seeking a
nomination, and of using the patronage of
the government to obtain it, and then to
the mortifying taunts from the same ma
lignant source of having been defeated.
But. conscious of my own integrity, I
cheerfully consented to encounter all
this, rather than that my friends should
feel that I was indifferent, either to them
or the cause, and 1 am most happy to
avail myself of this occasion to return
my sincere thanks, and to express the
gratelul emotions of my heart, to those
friends of the country who have so gen
erously and so nobly stood by the Consti
tution and the Union, during the perilous
scenes through which we have just pas
sed. My sincere prayer is, that their
country may cherish and reward them
according to their merits.
I hope and trust that my withdrawal
may enable the Convention to unite har
moniously upon some more deserving
candidate ; one who, if elected, may be
more successful in winning and retaining
the confidence of the party to which he
is attached, than I have been. Divided as
we were, upon my accession to the
Presidency, on questions of vital impor
tance, it was impossible for me to pursue
a course which would satisfy all. I
have not attempted it. I have sought
more anxiously to do what was right
than what would please; and I shall lcel
no disappointment at. finding that my
conduct has, in the estimation of a majori
ty of the Convention, rendered me an
unavailable candidate. But it should at
all times be a subject of felicitation to
any man that he has been enabled to serve
his country by sacrificing himself. This
is a consequence which neither he nor
his friends have any cause to regret; and
I hope mine will view it in that light.
For myself, permit me to add, I have
no further aspirations. 1 feel that I have
enjoyed much more of public honors than
I deserved, and I shall soon retire from
this exalted station with infinitely more
satisfaction than I entered upon it, and
with a heart grateful for the confidence
which my countrymen have reposed in
me—grateful for the indulgence with
which they have received my humble ef
forts to serve them, and anxious only that
they may be belter served by my succes
sor, and that our glorious Union and free
institutions may be perpetual.
I have the honor to be, sir,
Your fellow-citizen and obd’t serv’t,
MILLARD FILLMORE.
Gen. Pierce and the Cent Story,
Thc New Orleans Delta, a dashing, in
dependent paper, copies the famous story,
—related by old Gov. Steele, about Gen.
Pierce’s remarkable generosity, in fur
nishing a crying youngster with the cash
wherewith to purchase a cent’s worth of
candy,—and lias its own laugh over it, as
follows:
Now, if the democrats have any sense
—and there are not a few of them who
manifest very little of that common fac
ulty,—they will never inquire into the
truth of the foregoing story, but admit it
to be literally correct: Gen. Pierce, see
ing a little boy suffering for want of a
stick of candy, when his companions
were well supplied with that essential of
juvenile filicity, did not pass by unobser
vingly, as the editor of the Bee would
probably have done ; nor did he stop, as
the too impulsive and excitable editor of
the Bulletin possibly would have done,
and given the boy a quarter of a dollar,
with which he would probably have
bought candy enough to bring on the
cholera, and thus provoked the other
boys to give him a confounded licking;
but the General, being sagacious as well
as benevolent, took a wise as well as
philanthropic view of the case, and gave
the boy a cent. A cent ? Oh !ye pre
cocities of Louisiana, do you know how
much a cent is in New Hampshire,—ye
spendthrift scape-graces, who think so
little of a dime, which your fathers, with
much richer parents, when they were
boys, looked upon as a small fortune,—
do you know that, to a New Hampshire
boy, a cent is as big as a cart-wheel ?
A cent will buy half a dozen fish-hooks;
a cent will buy, at least, three cakes—
more than enough for any ordinary juve
nile stomach ; a cent will buy just enough
candy for any common boy to eat, and too
much for the uncertain juvenile stomachs
hereabouts.
We should consider Gen. Pierce no
friend of ours, if he were to give our
boy as much candy as a cent will buy in
New Hampshire. Governor Steele was
therefore right. General Pierce's gener
osity is not to be measured by the amount
bestow eJ, but by the admirable sagacity
which so nicely apportioned the supply to
the demand. It showed an excellent
knowledge of the principles of political
economy, in the democratic candidate.
One of the “BoHer..'*
We find in the Tribune the following
characteristic letter from a popular and
distinguished Member of Congress from
Ohio. When we saw his name in the N.
Y. Evening Post, in company with cer
tain others, named as ‘•bolters,” we knew
he would set himself l ight so soon as the
opportunity offered:
To the Editors of the Tr ibune:
House of Representatives, >
Washington, July 3, 1852,
Dear Sins : If my position in polilics
is a matter of any interest either to the
readers of the Tribune or of the Post, it
is but fair that it should be correctly
stated. For the last seven years Gen.
Scott has been my first choice for the
Presidency. I had the honor of pre
senting his name to the Philadelphia
Convention cf 1848, and of joining with
the Ohio delegation, in voting for him
first, last , and all (he time. Since then,
I have joined with the Whigs of my Dis
trict and State in declaring on all proper
occasions, that he was our first choice,
and, as evidence of our sincerity and fi
delity, we intend to give him the Electoral
vote of Ohio.
Y’our intimation that I voted for Van
Buren is unjust, because I have never
voted anything but a Whig ticket, and
have probably devoted as much time and
’abor against Mr. V. B.’s pretensions as
any man of my age in America. 1 have
never been a candidate, except when reg
ularly made so by the nomination of the
Whig party. That the Free Soilers have
voted for me is true, and I always make
my grateful acknowledgments to them for
their confidence.
I regard the ‘Platform’ which Gen.
Scott has made, by a service of near half
a century, in defending the Union, the
Constitution, the Laws, the Country,
without regard to sectional parties or sec
tional interests, as more reliable and mer
itorious than any which politicians may
have constructed. It is good enough for
me.
I deny the right of the Post or Trib
une, under such circumstances, to assign
to me the equivocal position of a ‘•bolter.”
I nm Air Scott anti Graham, and my hum
ble services are dedicated to the con
test. Truly yours,
L. D. CAMPBELL.
Horace Greeley, New York.
The Democrat of this week—now in
the absence of the Ex-Ohio Marshal, ed
ited by the author of the celebrated “Kco
letters,” which fact it is quite sufficient
to name to insure its and the “aforesaid’s”
due appreciation—emblazons Mr. Camp
bell's name as a “bolter” notwithstanding
the above letter! Will he do “ the fair
thing,” and correct his gross libel upon
Mr. C.P No! He'll follow the example
of his molasses candy hero, and fain /
first—Ac will!
Michigan Central Railroad. —The
running lime on this road from Chicago to
Detroit is now 12 hours, and it is contem
plated shortening it 3 or 4 hours more.
It is understood, that the road from De
troit to Buffalo, on the Canada side of
Lake Erie, will be completed by the first
of August, 1853 —the time commonly set
for the opening through of the Galena
and Chicago, and the connecting portion
of tne Illinois Central. When the Cana
da road is finished, it is said that it will
be the shortest route possible from here
to New York and Boston by one hundred
miles, and that New York may be reached
from Galena, in forty-two or three hours.
Two days will be the ordinary running
time, we presume. By express it will
be made in less time.— Galena Adv.
New England Responds. —The Bos
ton Atlas says : “ The enthusiasm with
which the nominations of Scott and Gra
ham are received in this State, and
throughout New England, exceeds our
most sanguine expectations. They have
struck a chord in the popular heart, which
has not been touched since the days of
‘Old Tippecanoe.’ The same men, the
same influences, and the same strong pop
ular feeling, and we may say, the same
opposition—that were then called forth,
are now waked up. and will be felt in the
coming contest. The people have taken
up these nominations, and will bear them
in triumph to victory.” We expected all
this. The masses will soon begin to move.
Look out for tall gatherings in a month
hence.
Cholera at Jackson, Mo.—At the
last accounts the cholera had abated in
this unfortunate town, after sweeping
away one-sixth of the population. Forty
nine persons had died in town and be
tween thirty and forty in the adjoining
country. Such was the consternation,
that many left the corpses of their nearest
relatives unburied, and the sick to die.
No wonder the disease was fatal. Such
base cowardice never goes unpunished.
A letter in the St. Louis Intelligencer,
says: “Many of our most valuable citi
zens have died of it. Among others,
Dr. Davis and wife (Alleopathic) and
Dr. Dennison, (Homeopathic). Dr. Den
nison had treated the disease with entire
success; on the 25th, he was taken down
with it himself, and was found lying
under a tree in the last stage of the dis
ease.”
EDITORS AND PUBLISHERS.
Scott as a Temperance Man.—Gen
eral Scott may be placed among the very
earliest pioneers of the temperance re
form. As long ago as 1821 he published a
pamphlet ( first appearing in the National
Gazette of Philadelphia,) proposing a
plan to discourage the use of intoxica
ting liquors in the United States. This
paper was written with great ability, and
furnished the matter for thousands of
temperance speeches and addresses since
delivered. He was first led to this effort
to lessen the great mischiefs of intem
perance, in consequence of the difficul
ties that beset him in improving the dis
cipline of the army. Though never a
teetotaller in the strictest sense of the
term, General Scott has, nevertheless,
always been a strictly temperate and ab
stemious man. Indeed, in all his private
and social relations, he is a man whom
the youth of the country would do
well to follow as a model. His moral
character gives lustre to his historic
celebrity. He has never been corrupted
by the temptations of office, debauched
by laxity of principle in public men, or
stimulated by avarice or habits of ex
travagance into any forays, direct or in
direct, upon the public treasury. Per
sonally, he is without reproach and above
suspicion. His example has lifted others
up. No example has ever dragged him
down.
Henry Clay’s Manuscripts. —It is
stated that Mr. Clay, upon his retirement
from the State Department, at the close
of John Q. Adams’ administration, confi
ded to Gen. Jessup all the original manu
scripts and rough drafts which he had
written whilst Secretary of State. These
were to be used after his death, in case
the calumny should be revived, that al
though he spoke well, he could not write.
The manuscripts are very voluminous—
filling a large trunk and a box. Their
publication will be looked for with great
interest. Gen. Jessup was Mr. Clay’s
second in his duel with John Randolph,
and, although politically opposed, the
wannest friendship always existed be
tween them.
Mr. Clay and General Scott. —The
N. Y. Express states that Mr. Clay con
versed with freedom of Gen. Scott’s nom
ination. His preferences were for Mr.
Fillmore, but “he was satisfied with the
nomination of Gen. Scott, and he spoke
in the highest and kindest terms of him
as a man, as a soldier, and as a Whig;
and the only drawback to his full com
mendation of the final acts of the Con
tention was the reiteration of his early
and well known repugnance to the selec
tion of military men for the highest civil
offices.”
Steamboat Epplosion—Frightful
Loss or Lite. —A telegraphic despatch,
dated New Orleans, July sth, says : “The
steamboat St. James, returning from Bi
loxi, exploded and burned this morning,
on Lake Ponchartrain. Fifty lives were
lost, including Judge Isaac Preston, of the
Supreme Court, Corporation Attorney
Wolfe, and other prominent citizens, and
many ladies and children, returning from
the watering places. There is much dis
tress and excitement in the city. The
St. James was racing with the Mobile
beat.
Cheering News !—The injunction laid
upon the Rock Island and Chicago Rail
road, and which it was presumed would
delay the progress of the work, has been
dissolved by a decision of the Court in
favor of the Railroad, which will now
progress to completion at an early day.
This is cheering news and will cause in
creased confidence in the Road.—Daven
port Gaz.
Chinese. —There are now, it is esti
mated, 12,000 Chinese in California, and
they are represented as amongst the most
industrious, sober and honest of the pop
ulation. A letter from there says:
“None have ever been charged with
any grave offence. They are unseen in
our poor-houses and prisons. In the
mines, instead of finding and appropriat
ing new and rich placers, they generally
content themselves with claims that have
been deserted by the more impatient mi
ners.
The New York Herald, a warm Pierce
paper, says : “General Scott will, like
General Taylor under the same circum
stance, resign his commission in the army.”
Gen. Taylor resigned his commission af
ter he was elected President of the United
States, and the Herald is undoubtedly
right in saying that Gen. Scott will re
sign under the same circumstances.—
Louisville Jour.
Cholera at Sea. —The steamship
Philadelphia left Aspinwall on the 22d
ult., for Havana and New Orleans. When
two days at sea, the cholera broke out a
mong the passengers and crew, and forty
persons died. Among those who died
was Mr. Birdsall, the U. S. Mail Agent.
The steamer was not allowed to stop at
Havana, and put into Key West.
Dr. H. Holt has withdrawn from the
editorial management of the Dubuque
Herald. Its charge devolves upon Mr.
Mahony.
Ohio and Indiana. —The accounts
from the above States are cheering. The
old Whig party wheels into line beauti
fully, strengthened by volunteers from all
quarters.
Large Arrival or Cofper. —Part of
300 tons of mass copper brought from
the Saut by the propeller Peninsula, is
now lying on the dock of Hussey & Sin
clair. It is from the Cliff, Northwestern,
Adventure and Bluff Mines ; principally
from the Cliff. A portion of it was ta
ken in the smelting works of J. G. Hus
sey & Co. — Cler. Her.
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