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TIIE MIN NE SOT IAN
Stiini tfriabrr l, 1853.
FOR DELEGATE TO CONGRESS.
AIEXANDF.It WILKIN
WHIG NOMINATIONS
Fir»l (.'uumll District.
Council WM. H. C. FOLSOM,
A. U. HEATON.
Representatives. —FßANClS R. DELANO, Stillwuer.
KM. McEUSICK, “
Second Council District.
Council BEX. W. RRI NSON.
J A MK> K. IK UWIKKr.
K'pn irntati ret. —FXNDLK V McCORM ICE.
JOII.V HARVEY KAY,
JOSFPH M. MARSHALL,
vcirton .1. wilkinson,
aldkx bryaxt.
Third Council District.
Council JOHN H. MURPHY,
Represents, vt *.—CHARLES 't\ STEARNS,
RKCBEX BALL.
Fourth Council District.
Council DAVID B. LOOMIS.
Fifth Council District.
(No nominations received.)
Sixth (.'.until District.
Council —SAMUEL F. COOK,
Representatives, —JOUX 11. STF.VEXS,
\VM. XOBLKS.
Ilamsey County.
Sheriff. —AIiRAM M. FKIDI.F.Y.
Register of Deeds.— WILLIAM 11. TIXKL'H.
Judge of Probole —ALLEN PI ERSE.
Prosecuting Attorney. —DAVlD A. SKCOMUE.
County Commissioner. —BEXJAMlX PARKEH.
County Treasurer. —X ATI IA XI EL E. TYSON.
Caunty Surveyor.— JOHN T. IIAI.STED.
Coroner JOSEPH E. FULLERTON.
Assessors.—W 11. LIA M 11. STILLMAN,
CALEB 11. DOItK,
J. It. CLKWETT.
7T
/Our Party and Its Nominations.
If ever there was a time since the commence
ment of our editorial career that wc felt really
proud of the name of Whig, it is at this mo
ment more Ilian at any period heretofore. Here
in Minnesota—a political community only four
years old ; the capital of Hie Territory, and the
county of the capital, in the hands of our oppo
nents ; St. Paul four-iifths represented in the
lower branch of the Legislature last session by
notoriously incompetent men or whiffliug dema
gogues ; the county management in the bands
of men, a majority of whom disburse its money
recklessly, from their incapacity of reading and
understanding: the town government much
worse off: the revenues of both town and
county squandered upon favorites, with no
remunerating benefit to the taxpayers;—here
in Minnesota, witli all these abuses star
ing the dominant parly in the face, and with
hundreds of honest, good men in that party
who desire and daily strive to efTect a thor
ough reformation—this intelligent, well-dis
posed. ami really honest portion of that par
ty have not the power, within their own ranks,
of moving forward one inch in the good work.
How this state of things has been brought
about, or why it is so, it is not our purpose or
our business to discuss. But we take the fact
as we find it; and it is no news to this commu
nity, put forth by us to-day, to inform our home
readers, that to lx* a substantial citizen—an ed
ucated, moral, independent man—a thrifty
merchant, farmer, or mechanic—a talented
lawyer or skillful physician—a man of hon
esty and probity, who believes that it re
quires the same straight-forward integrity to
manage public affairs that it docs private,—we
say it is nothing in the way of information
heretofore unknown, that to be a man of this
character debars him from being nominated for
office in the Democratic party, much less elect
ed, although the majority of voters is largely
with that party.
We say, then, tbisday. with the recent action
of our party fresh before us, we are proud to
call ourselves Whig—yes, more proud than to
succeed to all the honors and emoluments of
even a national triumph through such men and
means as our adversaries aro employing here
in Minnesota. Why are we proud ? Look at
our Legislative ticket, and then at the one
standing at the head of the Pioneer and Demo
crat—“lookupon this picture, then upon that”
—and you have the answer. We ask the com
munity to support no brawling demagogue who
last year was one thing and this another, upon
questions touching not only the moral weal of
the public, but the very foundation of our Re
publican liberties—no man intellectually or
educationally incompetent to become a legis
lator—none whose moral standing among his
neighbors is not of the first order. This is why
wc are proud of the Whig party, and proud of
its action in Minnesota, now when it for the
first time marches into the field under its own
party banner. Take a glance at our men. It
is not necessary to enquire who this one is, or
who is that. They aro all known—known for
what they have accomplished in the way of dis
charging their duties, both public and private,
to tbeir fellow-citizens, their families and them
selves. They are all men of more than medium
capacity as business men : some of them are
thoroughly trained and experienced in matters
of legislation, and others are men of the
very first order of talent to he found in the Ter
ritory.
Will a majority of the people elect such men
instead of those notoriously incompetent and
unfit for public places of high responsibility,
who stand opposed to them .' We (the Whigs)
cannot do it alone. We must have the aid of
those of the other party who, with us, strongly
desire and ardently pray for good government,
sound laws, and strict accountability in the
discharge of public duties by public ser
vants. To accomplish these desired ends
you must elect responsible men. We have
nominated a responsible ticket; your party
has not. But we have not the power within
ourselves to give it success; and if successful
wc would prove ourselves void of all honor
and generous principle, did we claim the tri
umph as a Whig victory. This it would be wrong
to do under present circumstances, as a mat
ter of course. But by presenting such a ticket
as wc now do, we clear ourselves, as a party
and as men, of all the disagreeable conse
quences and disastrous results which must in
evitably follow its defeat. After we have gone
to the polls and voted that ticket, our duty is
ended, and our conscientious obligations to our
coun ry and ourselves discharged. The respon-
Bibility of our defeat rests elsewhere
To the Whigs we would say- sUnd firm ,
M ork as one man for the success of our ticket
—that ticket which it is an honor to you that
you have nominated. With no reproaches of
conscience and with clean bands you can come
up to the work. You have a ticket of charac
ter—a ticket of responsible, moral worth— a
ticket of brains. Let no inv«ptkaa«f the ene
<uy distract and divide you irfte least partic
ular. Shoulder to shoulder it is your duty to
go forward in this emergency. Defeat is no
disgrace under the banner of such men as you
have chosen. If you are overpowered by num
bers this year, rest assured the time will come
when if we continue to pursue the course we
have now adopted, we will succeed. It may
not be this year, or the next even ; but rest as
sured come it will. Move forward, then, in so
lid column ; turn neither to the right nor the
left ; and hourly you will find the honest, the
good, and the trustworthy of other parties fal
ling into your ranks and swelling your num
bere. \
For the Mlnuesotlau.
Messrs. Editors. —lt unfortunately appears,
that through the action of certain members of
the last Legislature, some of whom are candi
dates for re-election, a question touching a
sectarian church matter has been introduced in
to our politics. As you are no doubt familiar
with the record upon the subject, will you please
give your readers the facts relative to the votes
upon what is generally termed the “Catholic
School Bill?” A SUBSCRIBER.
Knowing as we do, that newspaper discus
sions of questions of this character arc always
calculated to inflame and excite the public
mind, particularly in communities such as ours,
to an extent dangerous to the public peace; and
at the same time feeling convinced that opin
ions are thoroughly matured, and determina
tions fully made up in the breast of almost ev
ery voter in Minnesota as to how he will cast
his ballot upon this issue, we have not felt
ourselves called upon to say anything calcula
ted to widen a breach so unfortunately made
between neighbors and citizens. But as a res
pected friend calls for the facts in the premises,
we cannot overlook an editorial duty by refus
ing to give them.
Upon examining the record, we find upon
pages 130 and 131 of the printed Journal of the
last House of Representatives, the following
proceedings:—
“ Mr. Murray, from the Select Committee to
which was referred sundry petitions for a
change in the School Law, made the following
report:
A majority of the Committee to whom was
referred sundry petitions from the citizens of
St. Anthony, St. Paul and Little Canada, pray
ing a modification of the present School Law ;
beg leave to report:
That while they have been unable to give
the matters set forth iu the petitions, that at
tention and investigation which their import
ance as affecting the rights and interests of so
large and respectable a number of the citizens
of this Territory, would demand, it is evident
to them that the petitioners have just grounds
of complaint, and that the present school law
is defective in this, —that while a revenue is de
rived from every tax payer of this Territory, to
support and maintain common schools, more
than one-third of the entire population ot this
Territory have never derived any benefit from
the large amounts paid for that purpose.
Your Committee believing that duty demands
a conciliation of law with individual liberty
and freedom ot conscience : and where any law
does not, by reason of its imperfections, meet
the wants and situation, and theatbousand cir
cumstances which diversify human character
and pursuits, or where it fails to benefit com
munities or denominations, by reason of a con
scientious belief in opposition thereto, in com
mon with their fellow-citizens, their case, of
right, ought to be provided for by such legisla
tion as isconsistent with the welfare of every
other citizen, and of the whole.
Your Committee, therefore, ask leave to in
troduce the accompanying bill, and recommend
its passage.
W. P. MURRAY, > n
L. M. OLIVER, 5 Committee.
The report was accompanied by No. 18, (11.
of R.) ‘ A Bill ameudatory of the School Law.’
Which was read a first and second time, and
laid on the table to be printed.”
The following is the bill as originally intro
duced by the Committee :
“ Ab. 18, (H. of if.) —lntroduced by Mr.
Murray, from Select Committee to which
was referred sundry petitions on the subject.
Feb. 16, 1853. if end first and second times,
and laid on the table to be printed, Feb. 16,
1853 :— A Bill Amendatory of tue School
Law :
Be it enacted by the Legislative Assembly of
the Territory of Minnesota: —Sec. 1. That all
communities of any denomination, willing to
have a school ot their own, in which religious
instruction will he taught as well as other
brauebes of education, be authorized to do so,
and tbeir schools shall be entitled to all the
benefits accruing to district schools.
Sec. 2. All schools well organized, and com
posed of at least twenty-five children, shall re
ceive a part of the school money, according to
the number of children regularlv attending the
said school.
Sec. 3. It shall be the duty of the Trustees of
any School District to issue warrants upon the
Treasurer for the proportionate share of money
coming to any school as aforesaid, on applica
tion of the teacher or trustees of said school,—
Provided, that said teacher or trustees shall
prove by the affidavit of at least one person, the
number of scholars in regular attendance,
which number shall be at lea-st twenty-five.
Sec. 4. Such schools only as are composed of
at least twenty-five children, and are kept in
operation at least four hours every day, during
five days of every week, 6hall be considered
well organized schools, and entitled to a share
of the school fund.
Sec. 5. All acts and parts of acts, contraven
ing the provisions of this act, are hereby re
pealed.
Sec. 6. This act to be in force from and after
its passage.”
The next proceedings touching this bill we
find on page 140 of the printed journal. They
run thus:
•‘The House resolved itself into a Committee
of the Whole, Mr. Ramsey in the Chair, having
under consideration
No. 18, (H. ofR.) ‘A bill amendatorv of the
School Law.’
After some time passed therein, the commit
tee rose and by the Chairman, reported the bill
back to the House, with an amendment.
The question then recurring on the adoption
by the House of the amendment proposed by
the Committee of the Whole.
Pending the question, Mr. Murray moved a
call of the House, which was ordered.
And the roll being called, Messrs. Noot, Rus
sell. Rolette and Truax were reported absent.
The Sergeant-at-Arms was directed to report
the absent members in their seats.
On motion of Mr. Ames,
Further proceedings under the call of the
House were dispensed with.”
[Here an irrelevant message from the Coun
cil intervened, which we omit.]
1 £°- 18, (11. of R.) ‘A bill amendatory of
the School Law.’ ”
And the pending motion to concur in the am
endment proposed by the Committee of the
Whole, was laid on the table and made the spe
cial order of the day for Monday next.”
We will next see what was done with the bill
on ‘Monday next.’ The House did not meet till
two o’clock, P. M., and the special order was
not reached until near the time of adjournment.
There not being time left that day to consider
• measure so important, it was laid over by the
following action, page 143 of printed journal:
“ Bills which have been considered in Com
mittee ol the Whole l>eing now in order,
No. 18, (H. of R.) ‘ A Bill amendatory of the
School Law,’
Made the special order of the day for this day
now coming up, and the question then recur
ring on the concurrence or the House in the
amendment proposed by the Committee of the
Ti?iJ?. ot ‘ Qn Mr, R*w*ev,
°? the ulJ,e - * nd ®* d e t*>e
«P*c»*l order of tbe d*y for to-morrow.”
*°* Ulw “Qtc of what to-morrow
Xpi • *-> ■«-'».
Jsiysfirsjj Cm "
No. 18, (H. of R.) ‘ A bill amendatory of the
School Law.’
Which was considered in Committee of the
Whole on Friday last, an amendment proposed
and the question on the adoption of the amend
ment and the bill laid on the table, and made
the special order of the day for Monday, not
having been reached on Monday, it laid over,
and
Now coming up in order of business.
And the question recurring on the adoption
of the following amendment, proposed by the
Committee of the Whole, viz :
Strikeout the words ‘Beit enacted by the
Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Min
nesota.’
And the ayes and noes being called for and
ordered, there were ayes 8, noes 8.
Those who woted in the affirmative were
Messrs. Dutton. Ludden, McKee, Russell,
Ramsey, Truax, Wilcox and Speaker—B.
Those who voted in the negative were
Messrs. Ames, Lott, Murray, JVoot, Oliver,
Randall, Stimson and Wells—B.
So the amendment proposed by the Commit
tee of the Whole was not concurred in.
The question then recurring on ordering the
bill to be engrossed for a third reading,
Mr. Murray moved that the bill be engrossed
and read a third time on to-morrow,
And the yeas and nays being called for and
ordered, there were yeas 6, nays 10.
Those who voted in the affirmative were,
Messrs. Ames. Lott, Murray, JVoot, Oliver.
and Wells—6.
Those who voted in the negative were.
Messrs. Dutton, Ludden, McKee, Randall,
Russell, Ramsey, Stimson, Truax, Wilcox and
Speaker—lo.
So the motion was negatived.
The question again recurring on ordering the
bill to be engrossed for a third reading,
And the yeas and nays being called for aDd
ordered, there were yeas 9, nays 7.
Those who voted in the affirmative were,
Messrs. Ames, Lott, Murray, JVoot, Oliver,
Randall, Stimson, Truax and Wells—9.
Those voting in the negative were,
Messrs. Dutton, Ludden, McKee, Russel),
Ramsey, Wilcox and Speaker—7.
So tb bill was ordered to be engrossed.”
We now go through to the last scene of the
drama which we find on page 168 :
“Bills ready fora third reading being now
in order,
No. 18, (11. of R.) ‘ A bill amendatory of the
School Law,’
Was taken up.
The question then recurring on ordering the
bill to a third reading,
And the ayes and noes being called for and
ordered, there were ayes 5, noes 12.
Those who voted in the affirmative were,
Messrs. Lott, Murray, JVoot, Oliver, and Ro
lette—s.
Those who voted in the negative were,
Messrs. Ames, Dutton, Ludden, McKee, Ran
dall, Russell. Ramsey, Stimson, Truax, Wells,
Wilcox and Speaker—l 2.
So the House refused to order the bill to be
read a third time.”
This is all and everything appearing upon
the record in regard to the introduction and
final failure of this measure. We have itali
cised the names of those members, now candi
dates before the people, who at various stages
of the bill, either gave it a full or partial sup
port. It will be seen that Messrs. Murray,
Noot, and Louis M. Oliver went the ‘ full figure’
from the outset. Murray and Oliver reported
the bill; Murray moved a call of the House af
ter it came out of Committee of the whole, when
he found Noot and others of its friends absent,
and n dangerous amendment pending; Murray,
Noot, Oliver and Stimson voted against that
same amendment, which wa3 to kill the bill by
striking out the enacting clause ; Murray wish
ed, after this motion had failed, to put the bill
through by railroad speed, and so he moved to
have it “ engrossed and read a third time to
morrow for which motion Murray, Noot, and
Oliver voted ; and then, this being lost, the reg
ular question to engross and finally read upon
a time not defined, coming up, Murray, Noot,
Oliver and Stimson voted for it, aud so it was
carried. Next, on the final passage, away goes
Murray, Noot and Oliver on the same track, but
this time without success.
By this analysis, it will be seen, as already
remarked, that Messrs. Murray, Noot and Oli
ver were determined to put the bill through at
all hazards, and also that Mr. Stimson voted in
favor of it upon two test questions. He was
playing a game of -hide and seek,’ which will
be an interesting study to men who admire and
require consistency at the hands of their public
servants. Had he so desired, he could have
killed the bill by voting to strike out the enact
ing clause, but that motion was lost by a tie
vote— he in the negative. Then again, upon
the engrossment, which Jefferson, and all other
writers upon parliamentary usage sets down
as the first great question upon which the
friends and opponents of a bill must show tbeir
respective hands, Mr. Stimson lets the second
opportunity slip of voting against the measure,
but on the contrary went dead for it. The mat
ter is made the more decided in this case from
the fact, that the rules of our House of Repre
sentatives, unlike those of most other legisla
tive bodies, do not admit of the amendment of
a bill after it is ordered to be engrossed, ex
cept by general consent. Finally, upon the
last heat, Stimson rode the opposition horse,
and helped to distance Murray, Noot and Oli
ver.
Says Jefferson in his Manual of Parliament
ary Practice, (pages 61 and 62) speaking of
this question to engross a bill:
“The bill being now as perfect as its friends
can make it. this is the proper stage ior those
fundamentally opposed to make their first at
tack. All attempts at other periods ire with
disjointed efforts; because many who do not
expect to be in favor of the hill, ultimatelv, are
willing to let it go on to its perfect state to
take time to examine it themselves, and to hear
what can be said for it; knowing tnat, after all,
they have sufficient opportunities of giving it
their veto. Its two last stages, therefore, are
f or *k' 8 ’ that is to say, on the question,
Whether it shall be engrossed and read a third
time? and, lastly, Whether it shall pass? The
first of these is usually the most interesting
contest: because then the whole subject is new
and engaging, and the minds of the members
having not yet been declared by any trying
vote, the issue is the more doubtful. In this
stage, therefore, is the main trial of strength
between its friends and opponents ; and it be
hooves every one to make up his mind decis
ively for this question, or he loses the main
battle; and accident and management may
and often do, prevent a successful rallying on
the next and last question, Whether it shall
pass ?”
Mr. Stimson is a candidate for the Council in
the First District. Although, as the record
above shows, he was only two-thirds for the
measure and one-third against it, straight-for
ward men cannot help regarding the position ot
Murray, Noot and Oliver as better than bis, for
they were consistent throughout.
Widows.— The Washington
Star s»vs that in the course of last week, one
hundred certificates were allowed in pension
cases of Revolutionary widows who married af
ter 1800, and came under tbe pension system
through the act of February 3d, 1863. Under
this mot sixteen hundred claims have already
been allowed ; five hundred are suspended for
want of sufficient proof, and three hundred
more are on file for examination. When the
law passed many insisted that not more than
three hundred such claims would be nre«ented
in all. r
FACTS AND FANCIES.
Some of the affairs of the Minncsotian of
fice became slightly deranged last week, owing
to our own illness for a day or two, and the
sickness of our carrier. We mention this mere
ly as apology to those of our subscribers in
town who were not served with their papers on
Saturday.
Whig Nom ixationh. —We to-day place in the
proper position the nominations of our friend ß
for Legislative offices, so far as we have learn
ed them, throughout the Territory. In glanc
ing over them we do not see a name that should
not receive the cordial and active support of all
true Whigs. Such nominations are an honor
to any party—defeated or successful.
The discourse delivered by Rev. Mr. Neill
last Sabbath, upon the subject of Education,
will be printed in pamphlet form, and ready for
publication in a few days. It will be found at
T. Richie’s, corner of Third and Wabasha
streets.
Washington County. —We had the pleasure
of attending the Whig Convention for the First
Council District, held at Stillwater on Monday
last. Great unanimity pervailed, and the nom
inations gave the most entire satisfaction. The
candidates for Council, Messrs. Folsom and Hea
ton, are so well known as two of the most act
ive businesss men on the St. Croix, that they
cannot fail to secure a successful support irres
pective of party. The Whigs of Stillwater, on
Monday evening, unanimously nominated the
best House ticket they have ever run. See pro
ceedings.
The Pioneer sticks up and supports the
ticket nominated at the Court House on Thurs
day of last week, and then in its columns imme
diately follows an article upon “ Sheep in Min
nesota.” B-a-h !
Mr. Hart, the Mail Agent, arrived by the
Franklin. Wc understand he has directed the
Post Master at this place to contract for
carrying the mails on the routes up the Mis
sissippi, and the Minnesota. This will he
gratifying to our people who have been debar
red mail facilities for some time past.—Pio
neer.
We understand Mr. Hart also directed our
postmaster to forward all matter going east of
Chicago directly to that place, and to make up
the Galena mail for Galena direct, instead of
sending it to Dubuque. A most excellent ar
rangement.
Fourth Council District. —lt was a matter
unanimously conceded by the Whigs of that
portion of Ramsey county, embraced witbin the
Fourth Council District,that Washington should
select one of her own citizens for this position
during the ensuing term, and that we would
rally to his support, might and main. Wash
ington has done so with great unanimity ; wc
have endorsed the selection in mass convention,
and it now behooves us to give the candidate
the entire benefit of our concentrated energies.
Let St. Paul remember, that iu the days of her
trial—during the long session of 1851—Burt
Loomis stood up for her, alongside her own true
representatives, Brunsou and others, and car
ried her point on the Capitol question ; and let
not that portion of the district west of the Mis
sissippi forget, that to his firmness in the chair
of the Council, it is indebted for all its repre
sentation had in Minnesota’s legislative pro
ceedings during the last two years. Men of old
Washington you have your mail—do your du
ty 1 That all will be right, here and beyond,
west and’south, we feel well assured.
Minnesotian Job Office. —ln a very short
time we will add some five hundred dollars’
worth of new material to our jobbing depart
ment, which will place us on an equal footing
with any similar establishment in even St. Lou
is or Chicago. Among other new and desira
ble fixtures, we will have a rotary card press.
Mr. Moore made these purchases while in New
York, but the lines of transportation are so
crowded with freight, that he has beaten them
home, perhaps a week or two.
—Our tables here in St. Paul, this first of Oc
tober, continue to be graced with melons, to
matoes, Ac. No frost yet worth naming.
Whigs !-The only way to accomplish the ends
of good government in Minnesota, is for you to
stand straight up to the whole of the excellent
tickets you have nominated in the various dis
tricts and counties.
Independent Candidates.— Geo. W. Camp
bell, of Point Douglas, an old citizen and a true
man, is an independent candidate for the House
of Representatives in his District. Nathan C.
D. Taylor, of Taylor's Falls, a gentleman tho
roughly competent in every respect for the po
sition, runs for the House, by general consent
of Wbigs and Democrats in the Marine and
Chisago District.
Large Cow.—Our fellow-citizen, Mr. Thomas
Wall, returned from the East by the Dr. Frank
lin, bringing with him some fine stock, includ
ing a milch cow, weighing upwards of sixteen
hundred pounds!
lf ever wc should be so unlucky as to get
into Congress while Minnesota is a Territory,
we will go for an amendment of the organic
act, so that each County will be entitled to five
Registers ot Deeds and ten Sheriffs, and the Le
gislature be composed of two hundred and fifty
Councillors and five hundred Representatives.
The reasons for these alterations are obvious
to everybody about St. Paul at this time.
Cheering for the Whigs. —The political
news from all parts of the country is most
cheering for the Whigs; Franklin Pierce’s Ad
ministration has tumbled into a thousand
pieces, even before a session of Congress bas
assembled under it. It will be seen by extracts
which we to day copy from leading European
journals, that its failure is regarded on the
other side of the Atlantic as a historical fact,
and the causes of the failure are being discus
sed. Iu New York the Democratic party is
again riven asunder, with two State tickets in
the field. The good time is coming, and no
mistake.
Whig Nominations in Wisconsin.— The Whige
of Wiicousin, in State Convention, have made
the following nominations: Governor, Henry
S. Baird, of Green Bay ; Lieut. Governor Ber
tinc Pinkney, of Fond du Lac : Secretary of
State, J. A. Hadley, of Jefferson ; Treasurer,
James Maxwell, of Sauk; Attorney General
Orsamus Cole, of Grant; Bank Comptroller,
B. F. Pixlev, of Rock ; School Superintendent,
J. G. McMynn, of Kenosha ; State Prison Com
missioner. Elisha Starr, of Milwaukee. This is
considered on all hands a remarkably strong
ticket.
Mr. A. Dodge, late from Wisconsin, has
gone into merchandizing by buying out Still
man, on Roberts street. Dodge is an active,
business sort of an individual, and will never
dodge the responsibility of keeping as good an
assortment of family groceries as can be had in
•St. Paul.
Minnesota Productions. —H. L. Moss, Esq.,
left at our office the other day, a fine, large
bunch of the Isatiella grape—the first ever
produced in Minnesota. The grapes were fully
ripe, and of the largest size we have ever seen
of this species. The vine was transplanted last
spring from the nursery of Merrifield A Newton,
who are using great exertions to introduce in
to the Territory all the best varieties of the dif
ferent kinds of fruit. The fact is now demon
strated that the best descriptions of the culti
vated grape can be produced here. Speaking
of grapes, reminds us that we saw growing fine
ly, a few days since, in the garden of Major Van
Vorhes, at Stillwater, vines of the Catawba
grape, which will probably bear next year.—
The Major has the best garden we have seen
this year. He presented us with a basket of to
matoes, two of which, growing upon oue stem,
weighed four pounds. Several others, singly,
weighed twenty-eight ounces. The vines from
which they were pucked are over seven feet in
height, and still growing— green and thrifty as
two months ago. The soil of this garden is
swamp muck, spread upon a bed of clay, and
the acid incident to this species of earth neu
tralized by the introduction of lime and leach
ed ashes.
Returned. —Our citizens who have been East
and South continue to return by every boat.
This week wc can mention, among others, Mr.
Randall of Fort Ridgloy, Mr. F. Steele of Fort
Snclliug, Col. J. H. Stevens of Minneapolis,
and Messrs, llohrer and Geo. W. Farrington of
St. Paul. We are indebted to Mr. F. for late
St. Louis papers.
The West Newton went out yesterday well
filled. The boats of the Minnesota line are do
ing a good business, we judge.— Galena Adver
tiser.
h\ e rather think they are. We came round
from Stillwater on the ‘ Old Doc.’ this week,
and found her crowded to excess with both
freight and passengers. On Tuesday evening,
Capt. Lodwick gave our young folks another
one of those agreeable ‘ hops ’ for which the
Doctor has become celebrated this season. The
Galena Packet Line was never more popular
than at this time.
Mercantile Movements.— Cathcart, Kern A
Co. have moved into their new store, nearly
opposite Tyson’s, and opened up their new
stock—an extensive and well assorted one.
Winne A Cooley, next door, continue to receive
by express, sundry nice articles to adorn and
beautify the outer man. Chamblin, round the
corner on Third, is back home with a heavy
stock of all the fancy and staple articles in bis
line; and Larpenteur, further below, has kept
up his well known taste and judgment in the
selection of his fall goods. Plenty of room for
all of them, aud all must prosper as St. Paul
prospers.
A Modern Nimrod. —We find the following
paragraph in the Chicago Democrat of the 22d :
“ Sir George Ross, from Montreal, arrived in
this city on Saturday morning, by the Michi
gan Southern Railroad. He has twenty-one
dogs with him. three servants, four tons of bag
gage. comprising guns, pistols, and all the ma
terials for sporting in all its varieties, from
snipe-shooting to Buffalo hunting, and other
shooting utensils. He leaves in a few days tor
Minnesota, to take a hunt, from thence he will
proceed to Texas to spend the winter, and de
signs taking an excursion to the Rockv Moun
tains in the spring.”
If the Minncsotian will quote anv statutory
provision which proves that Mr. Dow is no't
“ legally qualified " for the office ot Prosecut
ing Attorney for Dakota County, we will admit
that some of our irons are burning.— Pioneer.
The game is not worth the candle; but we will
meet the pettifogging of the Pioneer office and
its candidate by asserting the well-established
principle, that none but a voter can hold office,
and no one but those who have resided iu Min
nesota six months next preceding an election
can vote.
Col. D. A. Robertson left for Lake Superior
on Monday. He intends being absent several
weeks. Messrs. R. R. Nelson and D. A. J. Ba
ker left on the Franklin this morning for the
same destination. May health and prosperity
attend them.— Democrat.
Ben. Thompson, and Messrs. Newton and
Stinson have returned from their Lake Superior
tour since our last, looking iu fine health. They
bring no news of importance.
Captain W. B. Dodd, the Pioneer states is
an independent Democratic candidate for the
Council in the Dakota District. This is regar
ded in knowing quarters as a Gorman and
Olmsted movement against Jos. R. Brown, the
candidate of the Rice Democracy. Neighbor
Brown has gone up the Minnesota to attend to
the Captain's case.
ln Washington County, the prospect of
Mr. Rice’s getting all the votes at first claimed
for him. is daily growing" small by degrees and
beautifully less.” The Whigs have rallied on
Captain Wilkin to a man. Put him through !
Blum again starts for New York on Mon
day, after more goods for bis Bazaar. He keeps
things moving.
We had a slight frost yesterday morning, re
minding us that we were nearing October.— Ga
lena Adv., 22nd.
We hadn't.
—Davis A Co., at the Rice House have afresh
stock or Groceries. Ac., which rather • knocks ’
anything they have yet had on hand, and they
are generally up with the times.
Eureka. —lt will he seen that our neighbor
Brewster advertises several lots in this flourish
ing town, located upon the upper Minnesota.—
Investments at this point are worthy the atten
tion of moneyed men.
Failure of the Administration.— The Amer
can correspondent of the Loudon Times, under
date of New York, Ang. 16, forcibly sets forth
the reasons of the failure of Gen. Pierce's Ad
ministration. We quote several extracts :
*• We are witnessing a new spectacle among
us—the moral prostration of a new President
during tbe first six months of his administra
tion. General Pierce is the first American
President who has lost ground in the beginning
of his government; the first who has either
been deserted by his original friends or become
to anything like such an extent obnoxious to
tbe public. That General Pierce has gone
down in public esteem, and lost the prestige
which attended his assumption of political pow
er, will not be denied; nor that he has most di
rectly and powerfully contributed to the dis
memberment of the Democratic party.
He was nominated by acclamation, and the
national Democratic party everywhere aband
oned itself to the most confident hope. He
stood forth before the country as tbe represent
ative of the grand idea of nationality. He!
seems to have perfectly understood his position. 1
In a letter to the mayor of Boston, after his elec
tion, he said that “he knew he was neither nom
inated nor elected for any personal qualifica
tions, but as a reliable representative of the na
tional sentiment.” He felt this. He had nev
er been largely in public life ; be was conse
quently not very much known as a political
man. When his star rose over the country the
mists of uncertainty bang before it. and like
other objects seen through a mist, it loomed up
in uudue proportions. But these mists are gone
now, aud the object can be surveyed with accu
cy. He could not have given stronger pledges;
the Union men desired no stronger : and from
Washington's time to ours no President had ev
er been favored by so fair an opportunity to win
lasting fame.
But it soon became evident that Gen. Pierce
had adopted a false, feeble, and futal policy as
the guide of his administration—namely, to
unite all factions bestowing honors and emolu
ments upon their leaders. This was his idea of
nationality and a national Democracy. He com
mitted that mistake which no public man ever
committed without ruin. He sold his friends
for the sake of buying his enemies, and thus lost
them both. He either abandoned or neglected
nearly all the great men of the country who
had saved the Confederation in the fearful agi
tations of 1850. and he bestowed nearly all the
great and profitable places in his gift upon those
factionists, north and south, who had been the
original fomentors of abolitionism on the one
side, and of disunion aud secession on the oth
er. No men who had distinguished themselves
as friends of the Union were taken into his
councils; and the Government, in nearly all its
departments, is now, with few exceptions, in
the hands of those men who became notorious
only as the avowed enemies of the peace meas
ures of 1850, —measures which General Pierce
had often declared could alone save the Union
at that trying crisis—and men who Gen. Pierce
declared should receive no countenance or fa
vor from him, and who should he looked upon
with distrust and suspicion by every true friend
of the country.
The policy is untnistakcably manifest now;
and it is fast working out its inevitable results.
Every national Democrat in the Union has be
come hostile to the administration, and it finds
that iu leaning upon the factions on which it
has showered all its favors it is leaning on a
broken reed. General Pierce has uo party now.
The 1* reesoilers of the free States have aband
oned none of their ground or their principles.—
They suspended their agitations and intrigues
and active hostility against the law and consti
tution only long enough to get place and pow
er, and then grew more virulent and factious
than ever. The Disunionists of the South have
taken exactly the same course, and among the
thousands ot both. General Pierce cannot point
to a man of them in whom the country has con
fidence, and he is, doubtless, now convinced
that by giving these factionists his favors and
confidence he has made no new friends for him
self, and lost his old ones—that, instead of al
laying agitation, he has actually revived it when
it was dead—that, instead of consolidating the
Democratic party, he has hopelessly dismem
bered it.
The most mortifying weakness is thus stamp
ed upon the Administration—something often
more fatal to a Government than the boldest in
iquity. Where wickedness undermines one
Ministry, weakness prostrates a score. The
broad contrast all this offers to the bold policy
of General Jackson is a matter of universal re
mark, aud its effects are working themselves
out quite fast euough.
Your readers must not fall into a mistake
here. 1 attach none too much importance to
this unwise and wrong distribution of office and
power by our President. Office here means
just what it does under monarchies—power.—
The political power of the United States is now
in the hands of the enemies of the Union, just
as far as the holding of office is by the constitu
tion put in the hands of the President. Besides,
there is one rule established by our political ex
perience which has no exception—the fate of
every one of our administrations has been de
cided by the manner iu which the official pat
ronage of the Government has been distribut
ed. The opponents of a triumphant party nev
er look for its favors. It is expected that the
friends of a new President will share his confi
dence and favors. Therefore, when Disunion
ists and Freesoilers have from the beginning
been receiving by far the larger share of office
and place General Pierce could bestow, they
have bcenquite as much surprised as have their
opponents. They did not expect favors—they
did not in most ‘instances, ask for them—and
now they do not hesitate to avow with greater
boldness than ever, their obnoxious and danger
ous principles.”
First Council District Whig Convention.
Pursuant to cull, the Whig Delegates of the
First Council District assembled in the County
Commissioners’room, in Stillwater, on Monday.
Sept. 26th, at two o'clock, I’. M. J. I). Trum
bull was called to the Chair, and J. H. Ly ford
appointed Secretary.
The following Delegates presented their cre
dentials and were admitted to seats:
Cottage Grove.—Ja's S. Davis, T. It. Lv
ford.
Stillwater.— E. McKean, John Oliver, John
McKusick, J. D. Trumbull. It. B. Johnson, Hen
ry Sawyer, James Berry. C. Carli.
On motion, Orange Walker from Marine Pre
cinct, and W. H.C. Folsom from Chisago coun
ty were admitted as Delegates.
On the first formal ballot for a candidate for
Councillor in the Fourth Council District. D.
B. Loomis had ten votes and X. Greene Wilcox
two. Whereupon D. B. Loomis was declared
the nominee.
The convention then unanimously nominated
William 11. C. Folsom arid A. D. Ileaton for
Councillors in the First Council District.
The Delegates from Washington County then
proceeded to nominate a county ticket, "which
resulted as follows:
Register of Deeds —Harvey Wilson ;
Sheriff—3. D. Trumbull ;
7'reasurer —Christopher Carli;
Prosecuting Attorney— C. D. Gilfillean ;
Surveyor —Abraham Van Vorhes ;
Assessors —Morton M. Colton, Ja's S. Davis,
James McComb.
Road Supervisors— B. T. Otis, 11. W. Crosbv,
A. Stevens.
On motion, it was unanimously
Resolved, That Alex. Wilkin be supported as
the Whig candidate for Congress at the ensuin'-
election.
On motion, the proceedings of the conven
tion were ordered to be published in the Minne
sotian.
On motion, the convention adjourned.
J. D. TRUMBULL, President.
J. R. Lvford, Secretary.
Whig Convention ot thr Second Council Dlswtct.
A meeting of the Whigs of the Second Coun
ty District was held at the Court House in St
Paul, on the 26tli lust., at 2 o'clock. P. M„ pur
suant to a call from the several precinct com
mittees. for the purpposc of nominating candi
dates for the Council and House ot' Reprcsent
ativos, to be supported at the ensuing election,
j The meeting was called to order by J. W.
j Selby, Esq., upon whose motion the lion Ya
| r?n Goodrich was elected l’rssident, and Mer
i !r’ iU . A !! c ? ol< ' ctL : d Secretary. Upon motion of
L. A. Babcock, it was voted “ that the meetin
procced to ballot for candidates for the Council
i and House of Representatives, and that two
Judges and two Clerks be appointed to receive
the votes and record the names of the voters
and that the polls be kept open until 8 o'clock
in the evening ’ The time forclosing the polls
having arrived, the votes were counted, and
Benjamin \\. Brunson and JamesK. Humphrey
were declared duly nominated as candidates for
the Council, and Findley McCormack, Joseph
M. Marshall John H. Day, Alden Brvant and
.Morton S. W ilkinson as candidates for the House
of Representative?.
L. A. Babcock, Esq., offered the following re
solution, viz :
Resohed. By the Whigs of the 2nd Council
District (in Mass Convention assembled 1 that
we hereby express our preference for and rati
fy the nomination made by the Whi-sof Wash
ington County, of the Hon. D. B. Loomis
candidate for the 4th Council District; which
was passed unanimously, After which the
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Alla'S™,!™'
Thc -.- St ’ Loulß Intc "'KM>eer says
that the proposition to exempt slaves from ex
ecution for the debt of the master, is gaining
S ,° h Uth ' K “>» '* »UCh Sale!
that produce the scenes that abolitionists use
with so much effect; and which no doubt are
often deplorable. If the agitation results in a
aw exempting slaves, it will be to a great ex
longw property/' 0 dec,arin £ »'>n,an »*ing. no
Whig Mass Meeting—Stillwater Precinct.
At a meeting of the Wbigs of Stillwater Pre
cinct, held in Stillwater on Monday, the 2Gtli
of Sept., to select candidates to be supported
for Representatives and Precinct officers at the
ensuing election, A. Van Vorhes was chosen
Chairman, and J. E. McKusick, Secretary.
On motion of R. B. Johnson, the convention
proceeded to nominate two candidates for Rep
resentatives. Franncis R, Delano, and William
McKusick were (on the first ballot) unanimous
ly nominated.
On motion, A. Van Vorhes and 11. K. McKins
try were nominated for Justices of the Peace,
and Adolphus Orman and William Cove f< r
Constables.
The county convention having neglected to
nominate a candidate for Coronor,
On motion, Emanuel D. Farmer was nomin
ated by acclamation,
The necessary County and Precinct commit
tees having been appointed, the following res
olutions were unanimously adopted:
Resolved, That we pledge ourselves to use
all fair and honorable means to elect the en
tire Whig ticket.
Resolved, That it is the determination of the
Whig party of this Territory, to stand by each,
other and vote the entire Whig ticket hence
forth and forever, and hold no intercourse with
any political faction.
the Convention then adjourned by giving
twenty-one loud and tremedous cheers for Capt.
Ingraham and crew, and an equal number for
the Whig ticket throughout the Territory.
A. VAN VORHES, Chairman.
J. E. McKusick, Sec'v.
The Bank of Atalata. —The New York Times
remarks: “ The fraud of the Atalanta Bank of
Georgia continues to be imposed on the people
of the Northwest. The owner of the bogus con
cern is the only man o f any prominence that
continues to defy the Banking Laws of Illinois
and Wisconsin. Other private Bankers have
shown themselves content with the liberal priv
ileges now afforded by these laws. There is no
sort of ultimate security for the notes. The
whole operation is a species of outlawry. Ev
en the Charter of the State of Georgia, original
ly granted for very different objects, aud in good
faith, has been made a mockery of. It was seiz
ed upon for bogus use, without anything like
a compliance with its letter or spirit, and the
first direction made up of non-residents, and
its notes first put afloat in the Northwest.—
Georgia is about the last State in the Union
likely to tolerate this fraud upon her laws, lon
ger than the offender can be reached by the
Governor or Legislature.”
Quinine in Yellow Fever. —A correspon
d'lit of the Columbus Times, writing from
Mobile, says: “A new practice has been
adopted with remarkable success by two or
three of our most eminent physicians; and it
is so curious and simple that l” cannot forbear
to mention it. It is merely one large dose of
Quinine, (20 grains.) taken as soon as the un
mistakeable symptoms show themselves. It
relieves the racking pains in the head and back,
puts the patient to sleep, and he wakes up iu a
perfect perspiration cured. I know a physi
cian iu New Orleans, who has pursued ibis
practice aud has not lost a case where the rem
edy was immediately given. It has proved
highly successful here.”
Washington, Sept. 15.—The proceedings at
Syracuse excite the most profound interest in
high quarters. Opposition to the settled poli
cy of the Administration will not be tolerated.
Insubordination will assuredly meet with the
Executive frown. Any opposition on the part
of Adamantines, Incendiaries. Flexibles or oth
ers, will receive a severe rebuke. Vcrv hard
things are said here of the Hards.
German Whig Paper.— Mr. A. Rocslcr, form
erly of Milwaukee, lias commenced the publica
tion of a German Whig paper at Quincy, Ills.
James T. Brady, formerly Mayor of New
\ ork, and an influential Democratic leader, has
resigned his post of President of the Young
Men's Democratic Union Club, in that city, and
in his letter of resignation gives, as his reason
that he is not willing to support the National
and State administrations. This is one of the
numerous indications of open war among the
Democracy of the Empire State.
Some of our printers crawled out from their
sick rooms yesterday morning, looking the very
pictures of hatchet-faced wretchedness. May
their shadows never be less, nor their face's
sharper.— JV. O. Crescent.
i TJip present editress of the magazine con
ducted by the factory girls at Low. 11, a Mbs
barley writes to a friend lam proprietor
of the New England Offering. Ido all the pub
lishing. and as it is bound in niy office, lean in
a hurry, help fold, cut covers, stitch, Ac' I
have a little girl to assist me in folding, stitch
ing. Ac.; the rest, alter it comes from the print
er s hands, is all my own work. I employ no
agents, and depend upon no one for assistance
My edition is four thousand.
Can a man be considered a loose character
\>bc*n no conics home tight every night.
The editor of the New York Times has been
paying a v.»t to the Brooklyn Navv Yard, and
he thus details a few of the “ways .and meins”
adopted to - bleed ” Uncle Sam.' lie says
and rot .‘ C(l tet ‘ ls ° f Sabino
and her ne.ghbors ; cogitated on the probabili
t) of the noble frigate hanging h\' the ears in
its excellent ship house for thirty odd years
longer and then went to another place jit in
time to see the gun carriages that were con
demned as unfit for use bidden off at auction
for sixteen cents apiece. That auction, bvthe
way was a curious affair. There were present
exactly five persons, including the penner of
this paragraph. The auctioneer wen Unto the
ly refresMne ‘hat was real
ly refreshing. \ou might hßvc thought from
his earnestness, that he had one of Keesc's™
parcels branch/ 0 ' Th ‘‘ Car , riagUß w «t off in
cents whtw K occasionally as much as 19
extravagant T” 7 d ' 1,0 do " bt - as
D The g f" • 1 hc P n , rchaSf ' rß had a bargain of
niece of S ,ron ..“>>‘ B 'hat run through each
Price that The f°' ?t morC than do «hlc the
price that the speculators paid for them The
b i a other°sl,a^ tb r m T hUshi P or has them made
m other shape for his use, will discover tint
hfngs* aUhm° n h r 7 profit made on s,,cl ‘
things although Government gets none of it.”
Port ot St. Paal.
Ua l’£T “I'™!! ° nd nurtures for the
week ending triday, September, iilth.
Arrived.
West Newton. Harris Galena
Nominee Blakely Ga?ena
Asia F .?." klln o° d .^ ck Galena.
Luello .Morrison ofH Lo ! ,,f '-
Humliolt Haycock \{-
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Departed.
lluoiholL Serpent Minn. River.
S. p ™‘ u ” 2»te-.v:::.S&
Luella St. Louis.
Humboit Morrison St. Louis.
oott, Haycock Min. River.
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.vpaiulusled Stccess.—The demand for Dr.
I Lane’s Liver Pills, wherever they have been
introduced, has increased with astonishing rap
l lty. Their popularity is unprecedented in
t e annals of medicine. Even physicians arc
using them in many cases, when they can ob
tain them. Patents, however, need not be at
the expense of medical advice, as they can pur
chase a box of the Liver pills, with which di
rections will be furnished, which will work a
speedy cure. The following certiorate, from a
gentleman in Ohio, speaks strongly of the effi
cacy of this great remedy:
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any good. LEWIS COWGILL.
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