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HIE MINNESOTIAN.
SATURDAY MORNING, JUNE 2, 18. r >s
The MiMtnri Outlaws and the Washington
Union.
In the face of the fact, the whole
country, that the Washington Union, the organ
ot the National Administration, has from the
outset sympathized with the outlaws from Mis
souri who recently invaded and conquered
Kansas, the Democrat of this city has contin
ually asserted, with the most impudent cool
ueas, to the contrary. For the 6ake of allow
ing the public to see that we have stated the
truth in regard to the course ot the Union, and
the Democrat the opposite of truth, we this
morning devote more space than we otherwiie
would to the publication of one of the Union's
recent editorials in justification of the Missou
ri mob. It will be seeu that the main excuse
for the outrege advanced by the Union is, that
the emigrants from Massachusetts were oppos
ed to allowing Kansas to become a Slave Stale;
hence the Slave breeders and Slave drivers of
Missouri who are not and do not intend to be
come citizens of Kansas, arc excusable iu dri
ving from their homes the Massachusetts emi
grants, who have acquired the rights of citizen
ehip by residence'. This is the logic of the
Administration, as set forth by its organ-in
chief, the Union. The hand organs at Wash
ington—the Star and Seutinel grind out the
same kind of music, only in much plainer
notes.
We commend this Simon-pure ‘‘Democratic
doctrine, from tlio fountain head, to out neigh
bor of the North Western Democrat, who af
fects to believe the tendency of his party is not
pro-slavery, and that there is no danger of
any more Slave States being admitted into the
Union, even if we continue to trust his dough
faced leaders with power. And we should sup
pose this Union ariicle would bo sufficient to
stop the St.l’aul Democrat from further falsifi
cation in regard to the sentiments of the Ad
ministration upon the Kansas question. Say
ing handsome things of Governor Reeder —
patting him on the back and calliug him “a
good Democrat”—is not going to answer at
this momentous crisis. Men must stand up to
the work on one side or the other. They must
either be against the Administration and the
Missouri outlaws, or for them. There is no me
dium, half-way ground to be occupied. The
Republican party of the country occupies the
former position and the Democratic party, so
called, the latter. The issue is fully made up
by this bold avowal of sympathy for the Mis-:
bourianson the part of the Union; and the Re- i
publican cry is, Freedom for Kansas—ao more i
Slave States—no inch of ground to be yielded j
to the tread of the Slave driver, let the couse-!
quences be what they may.
The Chicago Democratic Press introduces!
the Union s article to its readers with the fol- 1
lowing brief but pertinent remarks:
‘•lmmediately after the armed mobs from Mis
souri had given us a specimen of the ‘hidden is
sues,’ as they were graphically called by the
Richmond Enquirer, contained in the ‘popular
sovereignty’ doctrines of Mr. Douglas, and as
a part of the plan of their operations bad thrown
the press of the Pnrkville Luminary into the
Missouri River, the public were curious to see
what the Washington Union would say upon
the subject. Not that there was any doubt that
the Organ would apologize for the moboemts,
but they were curious to see to what extent it |
would go iu sustaining their nefarious schemes. ]
We give this morning an article from that pa-!
per. which shows how the Administration re
gards these ‘popular sovereignty’ movements.
The article is rich and well worthy the atten
tion, as indicating most clearly the leaning ot
Mr. Pierce and his cabinet iu the important
questions at issue between the intelligent,
peaceable citizens of Kansas and the Missouri
lioters. The article suggests matter for grave
reflection, which we have not time to dwell up
on this morning.”
More Trouble with the Sadt Canal.— We
lerrn from the Detroit Times of the 24tb
that probably some time will elapse before ves
sels will be permitted to pass through this
great connecting channel of the Upper and
Lower Lakes. A rumor is in circulation to
day, that further delay may be expected from
the iusitution of proceedings in Chancery, to
prevent the State officers executing the neces
sary deed of conveyance of lands to the con
tractors. A gentleman who claims a part of
the lands intended to be conveyed to the con
tractors, insists that his rights as a private in
dividual shall not be overridden by corporate
power or superior wealth.
Crops. —Farmers from the neighborhood ad
jacent to St. Paul, inform us that the crops are
coming forward finely since the late rains.
Upon the newly opened farms across the river,
the grain fields look particularly promising.
fSr* The 6tcamer H. T. Ye&tman arrived
trom St. Louis on Thursday night, and the Ga
lena came in yesterday morning. The Yeat
man brought a large froight for B. F. Irvine
& Co.
Tho Beloit Journal 6ays that during
the past week, red and white winter wh.at sold
in that village for $1,87 and SI,BB. It adds.
“ We have conversed with men who saw in
Beloit, in years gone by, a bushel of wheat ex
changed for a pound of taleratut! Where
now are the croakers who say that 4 railroads
don't benelit the farmer V ”
The Inaugration of the Immaculate
Conception of the \ irgin Mary, took place re
cently in the city of Mexico. The Archbishop
officiated, and there was a grand procession,
at the head of which three of tho highest
church dignitaries drew the car containing the
image of the Virgin.
Ik Town-.— Oar former fellow-citizen, John
C. Gairns, Esq., came up by the Galena.
Gairns keeps a store of the nicest and best
things extant for family use, at Galena, and
would no doubt be pleased to accommodate
his old friends up this way by filling orders.
Shingle Boms not Duty Free. The Sec
retary of the Treasury informs George Lane
of Lockport, N. Y., that shingle bolts, as de
scribed by him being an article produced by
"splitting” in addition to “sawing,” Rrc not
entitled to free entry under the provision of
the reciprocity treaty.
There is such a thing as splitting hairs as
well as pine logs.
Acquitted.— -Thomas Horton, engineer on
the Great Western (Canada) Railroad, at the
time of the accident last year, when six Nor
wegians were killed, has lately been tried for
manslaughter and acquitted, it being proved
that be exercised proper owe at the time.
From the Washington Union.
Tlio Kansas Question.
Much of the excitement manifested inconncc
tiou with the late occurrences in Kansas may
be fairly attributed to Ihc fact, that sujficimt
attention hus not been given to the provocation
under which the Missourian* acted, and to the
peculiar manner in which they are interested
in the social and political condition of the Ter
ritory. When viewed in its true light, with all
the allowances proper y to be made for the*
course adopted by the Missourians, the qnes
tion involved is lull of danger to the peace ol
the country, aud, therefore, to be noticed safe
ly or profitably must be correctly understood.
In the first place, it should be borne in mind
that Missouri is a slave-holding Stale, and
hence, that her citizens have a deep stake in
all that concerns the institution of Slavery.—
i On two sides she is already bordered by Free
! States, and ir. those as in most ol the other
Free States, the spirit of Abolitionism has re
! ccntly seemed to be predominant. Thus situa
I ted, it is not surprising that the people of Mis
| sourishould feel keenly sensitive astotheerec
! lion of another Free State on another one ol
: her borders —tin re by drawing around her on
i three sides a cordon of Free States, filled with
I liostility to her institution®, and controlled by
men who avow their purpose to adopt every
means to oilert the ultimate abolition of slave
ry. Bordered on two sides already w ith open
enemies to their institutions, it is natural that
Missourians should look with absorbing intcr
: »st to the future political condition of Kausas,
which border her on a third side.
In the next place, it is important to observe
that Congress had adopted the principle of pop
ular sovereignty as the rule by which the fu
ture political condition ot Kansas was to be
determined. The legitimate meaning of that
rule was that the inhabitants of the Territory.
I attracted to it as their future homes, in thcvol
! untnry and ordinary pursuit of their happiness
. and for the permanent prosecution of their in
i dusirial occupations, should determine whoth
! er Slavery should or should not exist in the
j Territory. J\'cx! to the inhabitants of Kansas
\ thimselves. the people of .Missouri had the
| deepest interest in the settlement of this ques
tion. To them it was only second in imp rt
ance to the question whether Slavery should
continue to exist in their own Stale. They
felt that if they should be surrounded on three
sides with Anti-Slavery States, it would be al
most tantamount to the abolition of Slyprcry in
their own. Vet the principle of Ihc Kaunas bill
was so fair that its adoption w as cheerfully ac
quiesced in by her people.
In the third place, it cannot he too carefully
remembered that the Abolitionists of tne Free
States at no time acquiesced in the principle of
popular sovereignty on w hich Kansas was to
bo organized. When this principle was first
adopted in the Compromise measures qf 1850.
the Abolitionists arrayed themselves against
it, and aiter its adoption persistently repudia
ted it as a rule obligatory upon them. When
the bill to organize Nebraska and Kanza was
introduced, it contained the principle of popu
lar sovereignty, at adopted in the Compromise
of ISSO. So soon a,i it was introduced, the
Abolition leaders iu COiiiMSS3 appealed to the
Anti-Slavery men everywhere to resist it pas
sage; they opposed it as fiercely und fanatical
ly before the clause for the repeal of the Mis
souri nsfrictioa was inserted aa afterwards,
sho.vin ; in lisputably. that it was the
ofpopultr sovereignty which provoked their
hostility then, as it did when the Compromise
of 1850 was passed.
This set I tied and linen:. querable hostility of
the Abolitionists to the principle of the Kansas
bill was known to the Missourians, and hence
they had every reason to expect that the)’
would spare no effort to defeat its practical
applilation in the organization of the Territory,
The kansas bill h d hardly become a law be
fore this spirit of hostility to its provisions was
manifested in a manner that could not fail to
inflame the popular mind of Missouri. In Mass
achusetts, situated more than a thousand miles
from Kansas, an act of incorporation was ob
tained tor the organization of the *• Emigrant
Aid OoniD.uiv.” the avowed object of which
was to operate upon and control tue luturc po
litical condition of Kansas. The objects of
this association are no longer involved in mi
ce, tainty. One of the missionaries of the
Company, writing to Iho New York Tribune,
on the Bth of May. thro .vs the responsibility of
the failure of the abolition scheme on Iho Mass
achusetts Aid Company, saying: “This in
stitution, whose really grand conception fear
fully menaced the very existance of slavery,
soon became, through its gross mismanage
ment, a real godsend to the nascent conspiracy.
From the moment that its first sonorous chal
lenge ruug through the nation, Atcbinson felt
that he had gained a point whereon to rest his
lever. That defiance to Slavery, so unwisely
hurled, was to the Sou'll a call to arms, and
Missouri must be. from her position, the first to
respond. Had the challenge been boldly and
ably followed up, the legions of darkness
might at once have been overpowered and put
to flight.” The writ, r, who is indorsed by the
Tribune, proceeds to say : *• The first step
taken (by the Missourians) was to circulate
through Missouri the programme of the Emi
grant Aid Company, und thus prepare the ig
norant and jealous masses for what was to
follow.”
* Here, then, is the origin of the Kansas diffi
cultly fully and authoratiiely confirmed.—
Massachusetts Abolitionists ombined. with
their money and their influence, to defeat the
honest purpose of the Kaisis law. and “by
their grand conception fearfully menaced the
very existence of Slavery'' in Missouri. The
citizens of Missouri saw the danger, and vet to
woi k to arouse the people to a sense ol their
dangir&y circulating throughout the Slate
the prog name of the .Massachusetts Aid So
ciety. The result is before the country. The
writer whines over tlio discomfiture of the Ab
i olitionists, and rebukes them for the failure- of
| their scheme, whilst he seaks to east- odium on
| the Missourians for resorting to measures tor
i defence.
Ha • ing failed to di-feat tlie Kansas bill in
Congress, the Abolitionists resolved to defeat
its principle, and, l>y the aid of incorporated
wealth, to locate in the western border of Mis
souri a community of Abolitionists who would
forever sympathize in their fanatical senti
ments with the Aholutionisls of Massachusetts.
It was a bold and daring scheme, by the legis
lation, the money and the men of Massachu
setts, to defeat an act ot Congress which se
cured the bona Me and voluntary settlers in
Kansas the right to cho-ise and c»labli-h their
own institutions. If the Abolitionists ot Mass
achusetts had organized an armed expedition
to move into Kansas for the nvoyyed purpose
of making it a Freesoil State, they would no'
have been guilty of a more palpable violation
of the true intent and spirit of the law than
they actually were in their effort, by the use ot
incorporated wealth, to import into the Terri
tory such Abolitionists as would dedicate Kan
sas to perpetual Frecso lisrn.
It was this open attempt to plant a colony
of Massachusetts Abolitionists on the western
border of Missouri that amused tlie indignation
of the Mis ourians and impelled them to adopt
the measures for counteracting the schemes
which have given rise to the prevailing excite
ment. But for the movement of the Abolition
ists. there is no good reason to believe that
the Missourians would have interfered with the
legitimate execution of the Kansas law. They
were provoked to measures of counteraction by
a movement which threatened their interest as
well as the organic law of the Territory. We
do not maintain that the measures resorted to
by the Missourians were legal or justifiable—
we deprecate them deeply—but ar the same
time wc arc prepared to make much allowance
for their excesses, in view of ibe provocation
of the Abolitionists, and in view of the deep
Interest which they had in the result Whilst
the Abolitionists are seeking to revive sectional
agitation by inflammatory denunciations of
the Missourians, it becomes the national
men of all parties who love tho Union and de
sire its preservation, to bear in mind that the
Abolitionists themselves are responsible for
committing the first offence, and this fact should
be considered in judging of the conduct of the
Missourians, who are charged With obstructing
the right of sufferage in the late election.
See Larpenteur’s advertisement. That’s
all that ji neeaseary to cay or do.
A Hasb of Politics.
Since February there has been an increase of
200 Know Nothing Councils in New York, ma
king the present number 1.169, and embracing
according to the most leviable estimates; about
170,000 members.
Three or four years ago, Senator Seward was
crucified by the entire slave holding interest
including the Union-savers of the North, for
hinting in the United States Senate that there
was a law—a law of God—above the laws of
Congress. Rut the doctrine has been growing
popular ever since, and {ticking up converts all
over the nation, as circumstances developed
oxen gored by other people's bulls. And now
we find an explicit endorsement of it from R.
M. T. Hunter, democratic Senator from Virgin
ia. aud one of the many distinguished getlemen
in training for the presidential succession. In
a late speech in Virginia, against the Know-
Nothings. be said, and we quote from bis full
j speech published in the Washington Sentinel:
j “The Catholic of the present day no more
admits Ihc supremacy ol the church in tempo
ral matters than the Protestant; their difference
is in regard to spiritual concerns. The Protes
tant maintains the right ot private judgment
in matters of conscience; the Catholic believes
that in spiritual affairs the decisions ot the
church ought to overrule the individual judg
i ment. But Protestants anil Catholics, all Chris
tian churches and individuals believe that the
allegiance w hich they owe to God is higher than
any obligation to man; and that iu a conflict
between human and divine must serve
God rather than man.”
The redoubtable George Saunders, who holds
divine laws, at least, in no sort ol respect, is
so much shocked by this avowal of Senator
Hunter, that lie lias exploded in a le ter of in
didnation, rebuke and denunciation to the de
mocracy of Virginia. He dissolves the Union
—on paper, on account, of it.
The Boston correspondent of ihe New York
Herald writes that ex-President Fillmore is re
sponsible for Gov. Gardner’s course a® to Jjdgo
Loring. lie having gone on to Boston for the
express purpose of influencing the Governor
not to remove the Judge; and for this motive,
as staled in “Algoma’s” own words;
‘•Mr. Fillmore's aim is the presidency. He
expects to get it through Ihe aid of the Know
Nothings. At this moment he lias a better
chance of getting their nomination than any
other man. The whole southern branch of the
party is tor him. lie holds in his hands a great
er control over the northern branch than all
the rest of the aspirants combined. It was ne
cessary for him to convince the South of liis in
fluence at the North, and of his ability to pre
vent the party from being completely aboli
tionized.”
Gov. Morrill, of Maine, Democratic Repub
lican Know Nothing, lias been expelled from
his Know Nothing Lodge. This gives him one
the less horse to ride.
| Immigration. —There has been a slight fal-
I ling off in the travel from the Eastward for
the last few days, though the throng which is
j crowding into the country is still large. In
deed, we think the number coming is quite
large enough, either for the good of the settlers
themselves or for the liealty growth of the
country where they arc going.— Galena Adv.
Plenty of good land up this way yet, neigh
bor, and no inconvenience to those who have
already settled should a hundred thousand
move arrive this season. We say, let them
come!
American* Ikon.---The Railroad Advocate,
speaking of the comparative excellencies of
American and English iron, has the following:
In regard to tnc wear of the two kinds ot
iron, we have conc'. ,, 6i''‘ i cxpcticncc. We
do not believe there is a mfPi ot auy experience
who will deny that American iron is much
better than English iron. On the Reading road,
where careful examinations have been redCr^ l
and with a tonnage unsurpassed by any rai. 1 *
road on the globe, it is found that American
iron wears but from one third to one-half as
fust tlf* it vn. TLouvcrugo ol wixyaurk'
wear of 60 lb. English rail was about 11 pir
cent, annually. The average of four \vais' ot
the “Erie”( English) pattern, was 16 per cent,
annually. Contrast with this the wear, in the
same track, of the Phoenix and Danville rails.
The rail of Reeves, Buck & Co., of Phoenix*
ville. wore at the rale ot 5 per cent, a year lot
six years. The Montour or Danville rail, at
the rate nearly of 5j per cent, for four years.
Whatever may be the quality of the rail,
the Reading road will prove its durability.—
No other test is needed—where fifteen millions
tons ot freight and cars arc passed over a road
in the space of six years. It a rail is laminated,
has soft spots, or is made inferior in any re
spect, it is bouud to show- itself, inside out, in
a five years’ test on the Reading road.
We hope other great roads will be made to
show the relative wear of the two irons; not
to establish any more conclusive proof of the
superiority of America iron, hut simply that
its real character may become more generally
known.
Greei.y ix Paris. —Horace Greeley writes to
the Tribune from Paris that the Emperor Na
poleon is a good deal of a man—that he is pop
ular with the army and peasantry, but unpop
ular with the nobility, the professional men.
and the middle classes—that the Empire will
not survive him—and that the attempt upon
his life, which was made the very day that Mr.
Greeley reached Paris, did not uxeite as much
sensation in the French Capital as the murder
of Bill Poole did in New York. He relates,
too, i he follow iug veritable anecdote :
A Frenchman walking in the Place de la
Concorde, was met by another .who exclaimed
in deep agitation— *• Have you heard the news?
The Emperor has just been bhot—lie is killed!”
“Served him right,” responded the other.—
4 Vice la Republique /” • No?” cried another
runner from the Avenue Champs Elysces, 4 he
hat. been fired at but not killed—he is uoburt.”
“ I am delighted to hear it,” instautly respond
ed t ho Republican of ten seconds previous
•• Vwel' Emperew /” So wags the world.
It would seem from the following which
wc find in a late number of the Milwaukee
Sentinc 1. that Boston is not the only place that
sends back paupers to where they belong :
More Paupers Landed. —Three families of
paupers sent here by ihe poor masters ot
Cleveland, were landed on Kellogg & Strong's
pier yesterday. Arrangement were being
made to send them back agaiu. Th • captain
of Hie boat was totally ignorant, of the tact that
the passengers were paupers. They were Bo
hemians, and were iu a destitute condition.
A clock has been invented in Maine for
the use of persons who have been deprived of
their accustomed beverage by the Maine Law.
Upon the dial the figures indicating eleven and
four o’clock arc omitted, and thus the happy
possessor of tne time pieces failing to be re
minded of the accustomed hours of refresh
ment, forgets that he is dry.
New York Caxai s. —The .cvenue from the
New York Canal 6 is falling off so largely from
the sharp competition of the railroads that
many persons begin to contemplate the neces
sity of a sale of them, as is to be done in
Pennsylvania, to get rid ot the cost of man
aging them.
jyj" The Albany Argus relates that the Rev.
Mr. Chase, of Brunswick—a small village adja
cent to Troy—has run awffy with another man’s
wile—a newly married woman and but eighteen
years of age; whereas the monster is over fifty,
and has a wife and ten children.
Sixty passenger and forty-eight freight
railroad trains arrive at and depart from Chi
cago daily.
MONDAY MORNING. JUNE 4.1855.
The Reason why we had no Mail on Saturday.
The Golden Era, in port on Saturday morn,
ing, was the first arrival of a boat of the Daily
Packet Line, since the line got fairly into op.
eration after the opening ol navigation in
April that has failed to bring a mail. Some of
our contemporaries have complained at the
non-arrival of mails when the boats were de
tained aground; but this is unreasonable. Of
course the packets are bound to come through
daily whenever they can; and if they can't
come themselves, they are not expected to in
fuse into the mail bags the power of locomo
| tion. necessary to go ashore and come up by
land—although we have known mails old
enough to go alone.
The Golden Era was unable to get into the
*• harbor ” of Dubuque this trip, on account of
the low stage of water in the slough. She was
compelled to land on the outer shore of the
main island. The Captain felt that he was not
compelled to send in for the mqil, and the Du
buque postmaster thought he was not compell
ed to send it out to the boat. And the boat
came away without the mail.
This is the substance of the matter, as wc
learn from the Captain of the Golden Era him
self. A little accommodation on the part of
either party would have obviated the difficul
ty. Wc should state, however, that on the trip
previous, Capt. Atchison sent in his yawl for
the mail, and was detaiued thereby some con
siderable time.
The postmaster at Dubuque is a very accom
modating officer it appears when it suits him and
the Dubuque interest to be so. But if he can
get a *• lick ” at the packets, by “ hook or by
crook,” the dogs may take Minnesota and her
mail accommodations for all he cares. lie is
willing and anxious that wc should have our
mails regularly, but more anxious to get up
an apparent cause of complaint against the
carriers of our mails. He puts the chip on his
shoulder, boy fashion, and dares the packet
Captains to knock it oJ. He makes the traus
portation of the mails entrusted t<> bis charge a
personal matter of Dubuque feeling toward Ga
lena; and rather than yield a jot to accommo
date us, he will cavil with the boats “to the
ninth part of a hair.” There are plenty of
loafers at hand, to swear that the water in the
Dubuque mud hole is four feet deep when there
cannot be found a sufficient depth to swim a
duck; and so what cares the Dubuque Post
master if the packet officers.swear to the cou
trary, and protest they cannot get into the
•• harbor.”
So. between the Galena boats and the Du
buque postmaster, wc arc likely to have great
irregularity in the arrival of our mails, now
that the water is getting low. Well, then, the
next best ihing to bo done is. for Minnesota,
Northern lowa and Western Wis. to unite their
influence; have the distributing office removed
to Dunlcith, and leave the Galenians and Dti
buquers to settle th • relative merits in regard
to tbc adaptation of th-ir slougbs and ditches
to the purposes of navigation as best suits the
two belligerent parties. Tbc fact is, we are
determined up this way not to suffer by mail
failures through this foolish controversy—if w e
cau help ourselves.
The Result in Virginia
Virginia Ei.i.crro.-s.-Oue hundred and ten
counties officially heard u' om > ®i vc ovcr 10(000
majority for Wise.”
This is the latest news we have. Jl.’rc are
yet some thirty or forty out of thc-wuy c«,”rt
ties to hear from, which will uot probably vary
the above result materially. That Wise is elec
ted, there can be no doubt.
And so, Samuel has butted his ‘’National”
brainsout against aVirginia worm fence! All
hopes of his becoming a “National” character
on a large scale arc thus nipped in the blossom
by this black frost, which swept over the Old
Dominion on the 24th of May. Ho lias not even
done as well in that State as the old opponents
of modern “Democracy” were in the habit of
doing in days of yore. “Sain” will now have
to stop and cool bis blood. After this rearing
and prancing onset of his in Virginia—where
he became “as ardent as a Southern sun could
make him”—he needs rest and reflection. Per
haps lie had better follow the example of some
of his most distinguished friends: take a trip to
Europe and there remain until alter the Presi
dential question is settled.
But ‘3am” is young yet and may learn by
experience, though this is somewhat doubtfu’.
It is certain, however that his “Uuiou saving”
services are not required in Virginia. The
•‘Democracy” can attend to all that!
River Hems
The Golden Era coming up, found several
boats aground at Beef Slough, including the
War Eagle on her way down. The War Eagle,
however, got off before the Go’den Era left.
Tho Henrietta on Saturday reported tho Fire
Canoe and Galena aground at the same place.
The former had been there severa' days.
The Hamburg turned back from Beef Slough.
The Clarion. Lady Franklin and Fire Canoe
arrived yesterday morning from Galena. She
brought two mails—her ow n and the Golden
Era’s.
Lumber at St. Anthony. —The last St. An
thony Republican says:—“Mr. Morrison in
fo* ms us that when the new gang-saws are all
put in full operation, the St. Anthony mills
will be able to turn out some 50,000 feet of
lumber per day. The whole force is st 11 re
quired to fill the accumulated orders; but if
the supply of logs continues, the docket will be
cleared in two or three weeks. At present the
water in the Upper Mississippi is at so low a
stage that it costs nearly a dollar per thousand
feet to get logs from the Rum River Boom to
this point.”
The number of applications for bounty
land warrants under the act of March 3d, ’55.
received at Ihe U. S. Pension Office up to the
19lh nit., was 142,000. It is about time for
some of these warrants to make their appear
ancc.
The editor of the Battle-axe of Freedom
and Tommabawk of Liberty, w riting from Phil
adelphia, after hearing Miss Louisa Pyne siog
the song of the “ Skylark,” says:— 44 Her voice
is delicious—pure as the moonlight, and as ten
der as a three shilling shirt.”
One Vote.—At a recent election in Cbam
beraburgb, Pa., one vote, elected the three town
Auditors. It was not generally known they
were to be voted for. One single individual
familiar with the charter of the borough vo'ed
for those officers. They were, of coarse elect
ed, and be selected them. The borough was
surprised.
The Sioux Treaties and Liquor Prohibition.
The Democrat thinks the provisions of the
Treaties are not sufficiently strong to keep
liquor out of the country embraced within the
late Sioux Purchase. Well then, perhaps the
people will adopt the Winona doctrine, as ex
emplified by the following proceedings which
wc find in a late number of the Argus of that
village. We know of no place in tho Sioux
country where the inhabitants allow liquor to Le
sold, unless it l,e atJShakopee; and we were not
aware of its being tolerated there until the
Democrat so informed us. The Argus says :
A few days ago there was erected a shanty a
few rods from the levee, and many inquiries
were made for what purposes it wa3 to be used,
and who was the owner. No one could give
any information further than they heard it was
a drug stare. It was opened for the reception
of the public yesterday, wc believe, and one or
two persons were seen walking cross legged,
and it was with difficulty they could keep their
legs united. Ilut today they increased in
numbers, who were so tired —and three or four
were I mnd flat on their backs in a hot burning
sun. star-gazing. These were the first cases we
had seen in Winona, of this kind of beastly in
toxication, and thought it was appropriately
named drug store.
The citizens not caring about a couple of
strangers coming into town and putting their
visitors and residents to sleep in broad day
light. making their door yards and houses a
bo pital for the men that got rtnoed, privately
assembled about the shanty at ‘‘evening’s
dawn.” requesting the proprietors to step out
and see a few citizens of Winona, and at so po
lite a request could not refuse to see them,
when they called in propria persona. Their
exit being made from under the roof, a tremen
dous crash was heard, accompanied by the
shout of an hundred exulting voices, and on
not a very close inspection, found their noble
board shanty level with the ground, falling
gently on their decanters and glasses, with an
unmistakable sign that they could not be lon
ger used for tlie purpose they hud been so
basely perverted. The crowd dispersed after
giving three hearty cheers for the downfall of
all such medicine shops; no accident occurring
to mar the enterprise, which very often occurs
on such occasions. In half an hour after this
was wittussed, peuce and quietness again reign
ed over Winona's plain as though naught had
ever disturbed her placid bosom, or rolled its
lake of peaceful quietude.
We congratulate the citizens of our town on
t his important sU p and think the *’ends justi
fy the means;” having a law that is not enforc
ed, and were it, the cases would be appeal
ed from year to year and the manufacturing
of drukurds by the hundreds, with their drugs
and medicines, in the meantime. This will es
tablish Winona’s fame as a Maine law and tom
perance community, with an example that will
show sinners “ the way of the transgressor is
hard.”
We learn that Mr. A. DeGrafT. the celebrated
| l tail road contractor of Dayton, Ohio, has been
i i town some days, a- d is about to submit a
I proposition to build the first division of the
' Dubuque and Pacific Railroad to Dyersville.—
| We fervently hope it will lx; such as the com
j pany can and will accept. We would even en-
I courage Mr. DeGratf to consider this project in
| altogether a different light from the imiUituili
! nous roads to which the attention of Railroad
J contractors are so frequently and constantly
demanded in various parts of the country.
The two roads to which this first division is
designed and destined to become the trunk—
arc not ordinary schemes devised for the pur
pose of facilitating tho travel front one city to
another—to bring in the produce of a few coun
ties. but, but roads that will and mu s t become
gigantic thoroughfares—roads that will reach
inloand become the channel of intercourse with
the outer world—of great States.
The Great JK'orth- West is as great as ever
only farther removed from the Atlantic. Of
these two roads one of them will, whi n bn It.
receive the trade and travel of the vnst region
of country this side of the Rocky Mountains,
and West and Northwest of Dubuque—theotli
cr will open .Minnesota and the territories North
j along the waters of the Red River to in‘er
l course with the old States during the long and
odious eight months ot winter v which al
though " o Cir*l life may be animated, business i*-
stagnant
We are conw'nf also, that if this first divis
ion is built, the CA; ,, '*-' i on ol flic two roads
North and West arelixert /acts. We wool I not
wish to deceive Mr. DeGrafT of one else or
have them deceived, but wc confer <s*tr judg
ment is so far b ased that wc very utucu '-“sire
the road to go ahead.
While wc hope that Mr. DeGrafT will think
favorably of the road, wc also hope the Di
rectors will be actuated by a zealous desire to
put the road under contract and since the gen
tleman comes here for the purpose of examin
ing the project, will take ail proper means to
make an arrangement with him. —Dubuque Ex
press and Herald.
-Cmc-voo May £9.
This is ‘ good news” for Minnesota ns well
as tor Dubuque. It DeGraff gets bold of the
work our lowa friends may rest assured he
will put it through, if such a thing be possible
with any man living.
As tight as money matters arc at present for
Railroad purposes, it cannot be long ere the
Minnesota branch of this road is completed to
our Territorial line. It is absolute folly to sup
pose that the great system of roads, extending
East and South, of which the Illinois Central
at Duulcith is now the Northern and Western
terminus, will m*ke a final stop at that point.
The Iron Horse will merely rest for awhile ou
the shores of the Yississippi and then come on.
in this direction.
St. Paul Meat Market.— The people of St.
Paul have been imposed upon some months by
the exorbitant price charged in the market for
fresh meat;. We were therefore agreeably sur
prised ou Saturday to find that the best quali
ty of stc iks had depreciated from 20 to 12c.—
Upon enquiring the cause, we learned that St.
Paul owes this breaking up of the meat mo
nopoly to Charley Coulter, our extensive cat
tle dealer. He put the price of his animals,
ou foot, to the butchers at a fair and living fig
ure. and then told them that unless they re
tailed at less ‘ gouging’’ rates, he himself
would commence killing and retailing. They
‘ caved,” of course. Mr, Coulter could just as
well as not have kept up the price of cattle,
but be is a man possessed of a heart above such
meanness.
We learn that our St. Anthony friends
have their new boat the North Star, nearly
ready for business. It is said she is sufflicient
ly light to get to Sauk Rapids on the present
stage of water.
J&T' Thomas McCraney, Esq., one of the
first settlei s of lowa, and a highly esteemed
geutleuian. died at Duauque on the 24tb. He
built the Grst house ever erected in the now
city of Dubuque, and settled the’ first white
family on the west side of the river above Ke
okuk. He was also a member of the first Gen
eral assembly cf the Territory of Wisconsin in
which lowa was then included, and was elected
one of the delegates to form the lowa State
Constitution.
pß* A number of sealed letters with post
office marks, were found in a ball of paper rags
received at a paper ipill in Connecticut. The
workmen amused themselves by opening and
reading the Utters, dome of which contained
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Good Sews.
Minnesota Historical Society.
The Executive Council of the Minnesota His
torical Society, met on Friday afternoon, the
Ist iust., at the office of W. G. LeDuc, Esq.,
over the Post-Office.
The committee appointed at a previous meet
ing, to ascertain whether a room could be ob
tained in the Capitol building for the use and
occupancy of the Society, made report—
That »• ecretary Rosser had assigned for tbc
use of the Society, a commodious room on the
first floor of the East wing of the Capitol.
On motion, the Report was accepted; and it
was voted that the thanks of the Society be
presented to Secretary Rosser for the prompti
tude he has thus shown to give a “local habita
tion” to tho Historical Society of the Territory
of Minnesola.
On motion, Dr. Thomas Foster aud W. G. Le-
Duc. Esq., were appointed a committee to take
possession of the room, and make arrangements
to transfer thereto, the library and curiosities
now in possession of the Society.
" Ou motion, it was
Resolved, That the members of the Society
be called upon by the above committee, and by
the Trea urer.J. Wesley Bond, to pay over forth
with the annual fee of $1 each, now due and
unpaid for the year 1855. in order to enable
llie committee to procure whatever fixtures
may be necessary to furish the new hall of the
Society.
The President stated that a communication
had been made made to him by Dr. B.rup. to
the ofl'ect. that lie had received assurances from
Copenhagen. Denmark, that casts of ancient
coins and medals in possession of the Northern
Scandinavian Society, would be forwarded to
the Minnesota Historical Society, whenever
they had any safe and proper place for their
preservation and exhibition.
The Secretary reported that he bad received
from J. S. Reillieid. of Now York, the gift of
Gayarrc’s History of Louisiana, in three vol
umes.
On motion, the Council adjourned.
ALEX. RAMSEV.
President.
E. 0. Nkii.i., Secretary
Oregon.
From Oregon, the news is up to the 24th of
April:
Tub Indians.- -The Oregonian is informed
through a messenger from the Indians in the vi
cinity of the Walla Walla country, that the va
rious tribes of Indians in the two Territories of
Oi egon and Washington in that neighborhood,
are perti ctly quiet and peaceably disposed,
and are anxious to cntci into the contemplated
treaty with Gov. Stevens and Gen. Palmer; and
it was with a view to f. cilitating the assembling
of this council that they had dispatched a mes
senger to Gov. Stevens.
Gov. Stevens and Gen. Palmer are now ma
king arra'.geinejits to have a grand assembling
of the tribes of the two Territories in the vi
cinity at an early day, with a view of entering
into a treaty with them that will settle our In
dian relations in that direction on a permanent
aud peaceable footing.
A New Paper-A new weekly paper has been
started at Oregon City called the Oregon Ar
gus, W. L. Adams. Editor and Proprietor. It
hoists the banner of the Maine Law.
Edpc.vtiox. —Owintr to the sparseness of pop
ulation and the indifference of many of the peo
pie, the common schools have been much neg
lected in Oregon. There seems to be some gen
eral movement to advance the cause. The Ar
gus says:
• One of the most favorable symptoms wo
have t record is. an apparent general interest
•m tlic subject of schools. Wo hear of simul
taneous movements in its belialf in a number of
places in different sections of country. A mini
her ol enterprising nten in Polk county have
lately undertaken to erect a house at a cost of
some three thousand dollars for the purpose of
combining a good district school with one where
ali the higher branches necessary to be taught
in the country, can be acquired. There are
some two hundred and sixty acres of land do
nated to the institution, which will mostly lie
sold out in Jols to suit purchasers who may wish
to settle the-e for school privileges. The build
ing is under contract to be erected we suppose,
by this time. The institution is to take the
vame of Bethel Institute
j'SMTICAi. Nominations.—Gen. Joseph Lane
has been nominated for Delegate toCou-
gross.
The Democrats nJ-'Pf a Nebraska platform.
The Whigs have L G *’• Gaines.
The Convention r< solved “tbt».*- the only plat
form this Convention w ill furnish t-‘“ noin, " e ®
be this : General Gaines against the w<7. ■
The county nominations wt re not yet made.
We see one or two Whig County Conventions
were in session and had adopted Anti-Nebraska
resolutions.
From the X. V. Correspondence of the Boston Journal
Cfn. Scott,—His Appearance.
New York. May 21, 1855
In passing down Twelfth Street to-day,l nut
for the first time for many months, Gen. Scott.
He resides in a splendid mansion in that street,
w hich ho has purchased since the title of Lieu
tenant General was given to him. with the sal
ary added from the time of the war with Mexi
co. He grows old quite rapidly, and the
change in bis appearance since the result of
the campaign that elected Gen. Pierce is very
apparent. His lofty lorrn is bowed down—lns
elastic step lias passed away—a look of sadness
and weariness has settled upon those once ex
pressive and decided features. He leadsa very
retired life—sees but little company, rarely ap
pears in public, and usually walks alone. It
is not possible to see General Scott and not be
struck with the truthfulness of Shakespeare's
assertion that *■ there is a tide in the affairs of
men.”
Intelligence lias been received of n tornado
at Maratbon township, Lapeer county, on the
loth inst. Several bouses were unroofed and
otherwise injured—trees were torn up. and the
water af a lake 40 rods wide was raised higher
than the tree tops leaving the lake nearly dry.
One tnan was dangerously injured. *
Witnesses who have just returned from the
scene of the tornado, report that the wife and
part of the family of a Mr. Gillet were caught
up a fearful distance by the whirlwind, and the
former killed; the house occupied by them was
crushed and tern into pieces ot wood about 3
feet long, and a chest containing several hun
dred dollars, has completley vanished.
TpSr- The Vienna correspondent of the Lou
don Times remarks that so long as no revolu
tionary elements are brought into acliou. Aus
tria will leave Russia to get out of her diffi
culties as she best can, but if England and
France should resove to form a corps f refu
gees and employ them on or near her frontiers,
the holy alliance would assuredly again be
formed.
The distance from Paris to Marseilles
is 550 miles, and is now performed in 19 hours.
The completion of the lines cf railways to all
parts of the frontier has imme. sely increased
the military power of France.
An editor down east says that be felt
called open to publish Father Walworth’s ser
mon on the Location of Hell,” as it was a
question in which nearly all of bis readers were
deeply and warmly interested.
STAGE COACHES
WILL LEAVE
St. Paul every morning at 9 a. m„ and npon tbe srrl*
of the St. Anthony Falls’ Stage.
Will leave
Stillwater every morning at 1 a. m., and arrive In town
to connect with St. Anthony Falls’ stage. £
Stillwater on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays, at
a. m., and remrn on alternate days.
A coach for Sliakopee will leave St. Paul on Hondaya
Wednesdays and Fridays, at seven o’clock, P. M., and
return on alternate days.
53“ Passengers will be called for at the Principal Ho
tels. S. POWKRS, Proprietor.
Aug. 23. l ft M. [City papers copy.
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CHAIN .V CRASS SEED SEPARATOR.
FBI ISIS Machine took the first premium at the Worlds
Jl luir New York, u/-oat the New York State Fair in
18.V2.
it lias been genera//} introduced in the Stales, and Is
acknow/vdged hv a// be far superior to any other Ma
china for c/onniuz grain and grass seeds, and Is fast su
perseding the use of all oile rs.
Farmers are invited to call ami see this Machine, be*
fore purchasing any other. For safe only by
McCLOFI) liltivniKß,
lyw Agents tor the Territory,
Jan.!), IS.>5 Near tiie head of Third St., St. Pan/.
Successor to J II Byers, Uobcrt Street, Saint Paul,
■ VdCI.I) oil the attention of the public to his largo
▼ ▼ mill well selected stock of M voi, consisting tu
port nf the follow in}.':
('barter Oak; tiolih-n Kra; Kmplre State; Clark tCar
rlor; lilark Diamond; I'nion Air Tlghi; American, do;
Albion, ilo; Western Queen; Morning Star; Prize Prem
ium; California, do; Eastern; K.igle; Pioueer; Air tight,
l.'ncle Sam:
A large asset liuriit of Parlor Stores. which will be sold
at cost
Having an exc. llcnt t’cppar Smiih and Tinners ecu*
slanily in his ■ mpli'.v, lie is prepared to don/1 kinds of
work in his llue of business with despatch and in the best
manner
Orders from the eotintry promptly attended to. Coon
try merchants and others, Would do well to glee him
heir custom St Paul. Fob a. 18bb
i AGRICULTURAL WAREHOUSE.
HAVING mad<= the necessary arrangements with
the Ih>» Manufacturer* and Dealers In the East,
j we shall. on I hr* evening <’f Navigation, >*• prepared t«
I All all orders tor implements of all kinds Consisting In
! pari ol
j Ploughs, Cultivators. Grain and Need Prills. narrow*,
flora Hoe.-*, Hay anil Straw Cotter*. Corn Shelters. Fun
! ntmi Mills, Grain and Gras* Seed Separator*, Ox-Yoke*
(and Bows, Farmers 3oHers, Grain Cradles, Scythe*,
Snath*, liny and Manure Forks, Sickles, Hoes, Hay and
harden Rak< s, Shovels, Spades, he.
W . htl' l always have on hand the newest and most
, f et.?*Of implements, as well as those of the
I' si Makers lit the and wit) ep ourrelveead-
Tc, new m vent,' "vernem* that will
be of interest to the Farmer.
The attention of Farmers and otbei. ,s .
establishment where we are prepared to son jl*- - c
et-t market prices lor cash.
MCCLOUD A BROTHER.
Net- the head of TltirJ Street, Saint Paul.
Starch 19,18.T5.-wtf
HANFORD, THAYER & CO.,
MANUFACTURERS tx. WHOLESALE DEALERS IN
All Kinds of Clothing,
SHIRTS, DRAWERS AXD FURNISHING GOODS,
Oil and Robber Clothing, Etc.,
Nos. 180‘and 182 Main Street,
HAVING enlarged our Store double the former stac,
making it tbo largest and best arranged Clothing
Warehouse in tbo city, we arc prepared nt all times to
offer unusual Inducements to purchasers In our line.
Our stock is manufactured expressly for the Western
Market, and we can aud will sell a shade under the mar
ket price. HANFORD, TIIATER & CO
ST. LOUIS.
Cnracr of Green, one Door below the Virginia. Hotel.
March « , 1865.
FLAVIEN BEAUDETTEE,
HPOUI.D respectfully announce fo the Inhabitants e
’’ Mi nduta and vicinity, that he has erected a CAR
Rl AGE &. WAGGON SHOP, also, a BLACKSMITH
SHOP, on the.cnrner of first ami F street*, in the town
ot M EXDOTA, w here w aggons and carriage* of the hen
quality will always be found for sale, and all description
of Blacksmith work executed with dispatch.
Mendota. Jan 26,1856 wljr
Detroit, May 24
GEO N PROPPER
Ciiicaco, May 25
Propper A Wilcox.
Practical Surveyors and General Land Agents,
Office, with 1) M Hanson, Al torney-nt-Law, Second street
near the U R Land Office, Minneapolis, Minnesota Ter,
and Platting of all deserlptions dime with
accuracy Particular attention giv<n to surveying
and locating government lands In the pineries and else
where In the territory Gold and land warrants are In re
quest. Investments made or loans negotiated, collections
made and taxes paid ; agencies solicited Stranger* and
citizens wishing to locate, sell or purchase lands are in •
vtted to call Claimants can ma£e advantageous arrange
ments with ns for their purchase money Valuable prop*
erty now and always on hand in the embryo cities of
Minneapolis, St Anthony and St Paul; also, Improved
farms, rural and pine lnnds, all of which we offer on tho
mo«t d.hsrat terms We respectfully solicit and hope to
men ta share cf public and private trust
Aug IS, 1854 dkw
In Minneapolis, at the Falls of Saint Anthony !
OFFERED for a few days only, a Handsome
House and Lot on Washington Avenue
threeJine lots, fronting Bridge Street, near the
Suspension Bridge; a half black, on Fourth Street,near
the Presbyterian Church ; eight b acre lots, on Lake St.,
desirable for rc.-idcnct-s; six lots on Prospect Avenue,
below the Falls; IGO acres beautiful prairie and open
ings, adjoining town In tho rear; a splendid farm,with
improvements. on 'he Mississippi near Minnehaha Falla;
aibo,Jive blocks at the Ferry aud Steamboat Landing In
the Lower Town, Ac.; all promising to be very snen
ranked w Ith the most valuable property in the Territory,
and can uow be had at low figures liy applying at once te
PROPPKR & WILCOX,
Surveyors and Land Agents, neartbe U. S. Land Office,
Minneapolis. Minnesota Territory-
Aug 28, 1864
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STILLWATER AND TAYLOR’S FALLS.
WILL LEAVE
SIIAKOPKK.
ON THE
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To Farmers Sc
SAL VOX’S IMPROVED PATENT.
JOSEPH BERGFELD,
NOTICE TO FAH'I
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Valuable Property for Sale*