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THE WEEKLY Ml IVIV F.SOTI \IV
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MONDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 24, 1855.
Tbe Republican Conventions.
The proceedings of the Republican Con
ventions of Ramsey county and the Second
Council District, both of Which convened on
Saturday, appear in our columns this morn
ing.
The delegations from the different sections
of the county were full, and the proceedings
entirely harmonious. A glance at the names
of those who composed the Conventions is suf
cient to show that the interests of the people
were well taken care of in the selection of
candidates. That the delegates did their
work well and truly, cau very easily lie seen
by glancing at the names of the different
nominees. We have the best ticket, through
and through, ever presented to the people of
Ramsey county by any party, and one which
must certainly be elected if the people are
♦rue to their own interests.
tf our set of county' candidates are not
men who will guard the interests of the tax
payer, and stop the leaks in the county Treas
ury'. we should like to know where any one
would go to find such men. We will have
Something more at length to say upon this
head in a day' or two’.
The resolutions adopted in tlite County
l ‘(invention are precisely of the right stamp.
Those who Wish to know what the real prin
ciples of the Republican party' are, as we un
derstand them, will find them in this plat
f< Tin.
Good Nomination:— Dr. P. P. Humphrey,
->f Blue Earth County, has boeti nominated
the Council by the Republicans of the
Di-trirt comprising the Counties of the
Upper Minnesota .Valley*. This is a most ex
cellent nomination, and one that should be
ratified at the polls.
Land Sales Postponed. —The Pioneer of
Saturday lias news that the Land Sales will
certainly be postponed.
Dr. Way land.— Those who were school
boys when we were, and many who have
since hammered hardly at their brains in the
class room in order to comprehend the ab
struse syllogisms laid down in “ Political
Economy and “ Moral Philosopy M by the
learned ex-President of Brown University,
will be happy to greet their hard old task
master in the political arena. The New
York Evangelist contains the following sug
gestion, which we, away out here in Minne
sota, take great pleasure in endorsing:
u The papers have recently announced the
retirement of Dr. Waylaud from the Presi
dency of Drown University. This has called
forth a general expression of admiration and
gratitude for his eminent services to the
cause of education, during the thirty years
fhat he has held that oflice, coupled with an
expression of regret that his great talents
are no longer employed in a public capacity.
However welcome this repose may be to
him, it is a public loss to have such Jt man
withdrawn from active life in the maturity of
ais powers, and while his mind is rich with
learning and experience. "VY'e have seen if
suggested in one of our exchanges, that he
should be chosen to the U. S. Senate ; and
novel as the proposal seems, it has many
reasons in its favor. The mind of Dr. AVay
lp.nd is not unpractioed in political studies,
lie has written an admirable book upon i>o
litical economy, and the questions of the" day
have engrossed a large share of his thoughts
for many years. His intellect is eminently
Hear and practical, and we believe would im
mediately command great resect and influ
ence in the National legislature. Certainly,
Rhode Island possesses no private citizen
whose fame is equal to his: and of all her
sons, not one could be found more worthy
to represent the State of Roger Williams.”
AußivALs.--Arrivals of boats and absent
citizens have been plenty the past few days.
To L. C. Dunn, Esq., who came up by the
Golden Era on Sunday morning, we were
indebted for Eastern p*<q>ers two days in ad
vance of the mail. New goods are coming
in rapidly, and the fall business may be said
fo have commenced.
ir*r The crop of sugar-cane now grow
ing in Cuba will probably be the largest ever
gathered upon the island.
A Competitor to Gen. Whitfield.— G.
W. Perkins, Esq., has come out against Gen-
Whitfield as a candidate for Delegate to Con
gress in Kansas, and is supported by the
Leavenworth Register, a paper; claiming to
belong to the National Democratic School.
Munificent Legacy.— The late Thomas
P. Cushing, of Roston, left the munficent
sum of $150,000 to the town of Ashburham,
Worcester county, Massachusetts, to endow
two seminaries of learning, one for each
From the New York Trlbuue.
Aflssottri-Knneas Law.
The modest company of Missourians who
have just finished up the business of making
laws for Kansas, by appointing for six years,
Sheriffs, Probate Judge, and three County
Commissioners for each of the eighteen Coun
ties into which they have seen fit to divide
the Territory', and three District Attorneys
for their three Judicial Districts—every man
a Pro-Slavery r man Tup to the hub—did one
very consistent act in adopting the laws gen
erally of Missouri as laws for Kansas. The
Legislature being Missourians, elected by
armed gangs of Missourians, who seized up
on tbe polls and voted as much as they pleas
ed, and the Territory being thus temporarily
a subjugated colony of Missouri should be
formally extended over Kansas as ours were
over California after its conquest from Mexi
co. This code, adopted from Missouri, of
course includes the Slave LaWs generally.
But, in addition to these, the Missourians
legislating for Kansas saw fit to bind their
conquests by sundry special laws, including
the following, under which (Sec. 3) any em
igrant to Kansas who ventures to take with
him Jefferson’s Works or any' book of like
purport niay thereon be convicted of felony
and put to death!
—We have already published the sub
stance of this atrocious enactment; but we
desire every' reader to preserve a copy in due
form for reference, so we print it with all its
formalities from an official eppy “published
by authority: M. L. S., John T. Brady, Pub
lic Printer.” Here is the beautiful document;
let John Van Buren and other recreant Free
soilers of 1848 see their faces in it!
AN ACT TO PUNISH OFFENCES AGAINST SLAVE
property:
Section I'. Be it enacted by the Governor
and Legislative Assembly of the Territory of
Kansas: That every, person, bond or free,
who shall be convicted of actually raising a
rebellion or insurrection of slaves, free ne
groes or . mulattoes in this Territory', shall
suffer death.
Sec. 2. Every free person who shall aid
or assist in any rebellion or insurrection of
slaves, free negroes or mulattoesj or shall
furnish arms, or do any overt act in further
ance of such rebellion or insurrection, shall
suffer death.
Sec: 3. If any free person sliaii by speak
ing, writing or printing, advise, persuade or
induce any r slaves to rebel, conspire against
or murder any citizen of this Territory’, or
shall bring into, print, write, publish or cir
culate, or cause to be brought into, printed,
written, published or circulated, or shall
knowingly aid or Assist in the bringing into,
printing, writing, publishing or circulating
in this Territory any book, paper, magazine,
pamphlet or circular for the purpose of exci
ting insurrection, rebellion, revolt of conspir
acy on the part of slaves, free negroes or mu
lattoes against the citizens of the Territory
or any part of them, such person shall be
guilty of felony and suffer death.
Sec. 4. If any person shall ontiee, decoy,
or carry away out of this Territory, any slave
belonging to another, with intent to deprive
the owner thereof of the services of such
slave, or with intent to effect or procure the
freedom of such slave, he shall be adjudged
guilty' of Grand Larceny', and on conviction
thereof shall sutler death, or be imprisoned
at hard label" for not less than ten years.
Sec. 5. If any pefson aid or assist in en
ticing, decoying, or persuading, or carrying
away or sending out of this Territory, any
slave belonging to another, with intent to
procure or effect the freedom of such slave,
or with intent to deprive the owner thereof
of the service of such slave, he shall be ad
j ndged guilty' of Grand Larceny, and on con
viction thereof, shall suffer death, or be im
prisoned at hard labor for not less than ten
years.
Sec. 7. If any' person shall entice, decoy,
or carry away out of any State or other Ter
ritory of tbe United States any r slave be
longing to another, with intent to procure or
effect the freedom of such slave, or to de
prive the owner thereof of the services of
such slave, and shall bring such slave into
this Territory, lie shall be adjudged guilty of
Grand Larceny, in the same manner as if
such slave had been enticed, decoy'ed or car
ried away out of tills’ Territory' and in such
case the larceny may be charged to have
been committed in any County of this Ter
ritory, into or through which such slave
shall have been brought by such person and
on conviction thereof the person offending
shall suffer death, or be imprisoned at hard
labor for not less than ten rears.
Sec. 7. If any person shall entice, per
suade, or induce any slave to escape from the
service of his master or owner in this Terri
tory, or shall aid or assist any slave in es
caping from the service of his master or
owner, or shall assist, harbor, or conceal any
slave who may have escaped from the service
of his master or owner, shall be deemed guil
ty of felony, and punished by imprisonment
at hard labor for a term of not loss than five
years.
Sr.c. 8. If any person in this Territory
shall aid or assist, harbor or conceal any
slave who has escaped from the service of his
master or owner in another State or Terri
tory, such person shall be punished in like
manner as if .such slave had escaped from
the service of his' master or owner in this
Territory.
Sec. 9. If any person shaft resist any
officer while attempting to arrest any slave
that may have escaped from the service of
his master or owner, or shall rescue such
slave when in custody of any officer or other
person, or shall entice, persuade, aid or assist
such slave to escape from the custody, of any
officer or other person who may have such
slave in custody, whether such slave have es
caped from the service of his master or own
er in this Territory or in any other State or
Territory, the person so offending shall be
guilty of felony and punished by" imprison
ment at hard labor for a term of not less
than two years.
Sgc. 10. If any Marshal, Sheriff or Con
stable, or the deputy of ally such officer shall,
when required by any person, refuse to aid
or assist in the arrest and capture of any
slave that may have escaped from the service
of his master or owner, whether such slave
shall hav£ escaped from his master or owner
in this Territory, or any State or other Ter
ritory, such officer shall be fined in a sum of
not less than one hundred, nor more than
five hundred dollars.
SAlft'f PAUL, MINNESOTA, SATURDAY JEPTEMM $, 18&
Sec. 11. If any person shall print, write, in
troduce into publish or circulate, or cause to
be brought into, printed, written, published,
or circulated, or shall knowingly' aid or assist
in bringing into, printing, publishing or cir
culating within this Territory, any book,
paper, pamphlet, magazine, handbill, or cir
cular, containing any statements, arguments,,
opinions, sentiment, doctrine, advice or inu
eudo, calculated to produce a disorderly,
dangerous, or rebellious disaffection among
the slaves in this Territory, or to itiduce
such slaves to escape from the service of their
masters, or to resist their authority, he shall
be guilty of felony, aud be punished by im
prisonment at hard labor for a term not less
than five years.
Sec. 12. If any free person, by spreading
or writing, assert or maintain that persons
have notithe right to hold slaves in this Ter
ritory, or shall introduce into this Territory,
print, publish, write, circulate, or cause to be
introduced into this Territory, written, print
ed, published, or circulated in this Territory,
any book, paper, magazine, pamphlet, or cir
cular, containing any denial of the right of
persons, to hold slaves in this Territory, such
person shaft be deemed guilty of felony, and
be punished by imprisonment at hard labor,
for a term of not less than two years.
Sec. 13. No person who is conscientious
ly opposed to holding slaves, or wlio does
not admit the right to hold slaves in this
Territory, shall sit as a juror on the trial of
any prosecution for any violation of any of
the sections of this act.
This aot to take effect 'dnd be in force from
and after the 15th day of September, 1855.
J. H. STRINGFELLOW,
Speaker of the House.
Attest: J. M. Lyle, Clerk.
THOMAS JOHNSON* ,
iPresident of Council.
Attest: J. A. llalderman, Clerk.
Second Council Diet. Republican Convention
Pursuant to notice of the Republican Cen
tral Committee of the 2d Council District,
the delegates of the respective Wards and
Precincts comprising said District assembled
at Market Hall, in St. Paui, on Saturday, the
22d of September.
On motion of Ex-Governor Ramsey, J. F.
MURRAY, Esq., of Little Canada, was ap
pointed temporary Chairman, and Geo. W.
Moore and M. Di Clark, temporary Secre
taries.
On motion, a Committee on Credentials
was appointed, consisting of Messrs. Furber,
Grdff, and Barnum.
The Convention then took a recess of
:liirty minutes.
The Convention hating again assembled,
The Committee on Credentials reported
the following riamed persons as entitled to
seats as Delegates in this Convention, which
on motion, was accepted and adopted:
St. Paul, (Ist Ward) —R. C; Knox, P. P,
Furber, and F. Knauft.
St. Paul, (2d Ward) —Geo. W. Moore, C,
D. Gilfillean, and J. W.
S f . Paid, (3d Ward) —Alex. Ramsey, M
Groff, and J. B. Sanborn.
Loicer St. Paul Precinct —N. M’Lean, M. D.
Clark, and IT. J. Brainerd.
Upper St. Paul Precinct— Thomas Barton,
Miles Pratt, and George Drew.
Little Canada —James F. Murray, Y. B.
Barnum, and George Simmons.
Rice Lake —B. T. Baldwin, R. McLagan,
and M. Buclion.
On motion, the Conveutiqn was then de
clared permanently organized.
On motion, it was ordered that the Con
vention now proceed to the nomination of a
suitable person to be supported by the Re
publicans of this District as a candidate for
Council.
On motion of R. McLagan, Morton S.
Wilkinson, of St. Paul, was nominated by
acclamation.
On motion of G. W. Moore, the following
persons were appointed as the Republican
Central Committee for the ensuing two years:
J. F. Murray, of Little Canada, and J. W.
Bass, J. B. Sanborn', C. D. Gilfillean, and
M. D. Clark, of St. Paul.
On motion, the Convention then adjourned
sine die.
J. F. MURRAY, President.
Geo. W. Moore, ) Secretaries
M. D. Clark, $ Secretaries.
tipper St. Fanl Representative Diet Convention.
The Delegates to the County and District
Republican Conventions from the different
Wards and Precincts, comprising the Upper
Representative District of the Second Coun
cil District, met at Market Hall on Saturday,
the 22d inst.
On motion, Y. B. BARNUM, of Little
Canada, was appointed Chairman, and J. W.
Stevenson, of St. Paul, appointed Secretary.
The object of the Convention was stated
to be the nomination of three persons to be
supported by the Republicans of this Dis
trict as candidates for Representatives.
On motion, HUGH I. VANCE, of Little
Canada, was unanimously nominated as one
of said candidates.
On motion, HENRY A. SWIFT, of St.
Paul was also unanimously nominated.
The Convention then adjourned to meet
on Tuesday evening, the 25th inst.
V. B. BARNUM, Chairman.
J. W. Stevenson, Secretary.
Lower St. Paul Representave Dist Convention.ft
- • ‘ 1.
Pursuant to the call of the Central Com
mittee, the Delegates to this Convention
convened at Market Hall on Saturday, imme
diately after the County Convention adjourn
ed. N. M’LEAN was chosen Chairman and
R. C. Knox, Secretary.
Upon balloting for two candidates for Re
presentatives, it was found that P. P. FUR
BER and FERDINAND KNAtJFT had the
highest number of votes.
They were therefore declared duly nomin
ated, and the Convention adjourned, sine die.
N. M’LEAN, Chairman.
R. C. Knox, Secretary.
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Office—Third Street, Below CedaK
Repabllcaa Conaiy CmtmUw.
Pursuant to a call of the Republican Cen
tral Committee of the 2d Council District,
and assented to by the Republicans of St.
Anthony, a Convention of Delegates from
the several Wards and Precincts of Ramsey
County was convened at Market Hall, in St.
Paul, on Saturday, the 22d of September, at
2 o’clock.
On motion of G. E. 11. Day, of St. An
thony, Ex-Gov. RAMSEY was called to the
Chair, and ( C., B. Chapman and Geo. W.
Moore, appointed. Secretaries.
It was moved and carried that tbe re
presentation in this Convention should be
three persons from each ward or election
precinct in the county, in accordance with
the recommendation of the Republican Cen
tral Committee.
On motion, a committee, consisting of
Messrs. Day, McLagan, and Knauft, were
appointed to examine and report upon cre
dentials.
The committee, after a brief interval, re
ported the names of the following persons as
constituting the County Convention, which
was accepted and adopted:
St. Anthony, (three precincts)—G. E. II»
Day, D. A. Secombe, V. Fell, Alonzo Lem
ming, Samuel Ross, C. B. Chapman, W. H.
Townsend, R. Ball, arid Chas. King.
St. Paid, (Ist Ward)—R. C. Knox, P. P.
Furber, and F. Knauft.
St. Paul, (2d Ward) —Geo. W. Moore, C.
D. Gilfillean, and J. W. Stevenson.
St. Paid, (3d Ward) —Alex. Ramsey, M.
Grpff, and J. B. Sanborn.
Lmcer St. Paid Precinct —N. M’Lean, M. D.
Clark, and H. J. Brainerd.
Upper St. Paid Precinct —Thorrias Barton,
fe. J. Way, and Dr. Boyd.
Little Canada —James F. Murray, Y. B!
Barnum, and George Simmons.
Rice Lake —B. T. Baldwin, R. McLagan,
and M. Bucliom
It was moved and carried that the Conven
tion now proceed to the nomination of suit
able persons to be supported by the Republi
cans as candidates for the several County
offices.
A ballot ffras had for candidate for Sheriff,
which resulted as follows :
A. W. Tullis,
W, 11. Townsend, - 9
A. W. Tullis, of St. Paul, having received
a majority of all the votes cast was declared
to be duly nominated as the Republican can
didate for Sheriff.
The Convention now proceeded to the uorii
ination of a candidate for Register of Deeds,
whicli resulted as follows:
Joseph E. Fullerton, 17
E; M. Patridge, 6
R. F. Slaughter, - - - 2
Sherwood Ilough, 2
Blank, - - 1
Joseph E. Fullerton, of St. Paul, having
received a majority of all the votes cast was
declared duly nominated.
A ballot for County Treasurer was now or
dered with the following result:
Robert C. Knox, - - 18
John C. McCane, 10
Robert C. Knox having received a majori
ty of all the votes, was declared to be duly
nominated as the candidate for the office of
Treasurer. . .
On motion, Nathaniel M’Leari, of St. Paul,
was nominated for Commissioner by acclam
ation.
L. M. Ford, of St. Anthony, was nomina
ted for Judge of Probate, by acclamation.
A ballot was now had for candidate for the
office of Prosecuting Attorney Vrith the fol
lowing result:
D. A. Seccombe, 22
J. B. Sanborn, - - - 4
L. A. Babcock, - 1
Whereupon, David A. ; Seccombe, of St. An
thony was declared duly nominated.
C. B. Chapman, of St. Anthony, was nom
inated for County Surveyor, by acclamation.
John C. McCain, of St. Anthony, was
nominated for Coroner by acclamation.
James C. Murray, of Little Canada, J. M.
Brewer, of St. Anthony, and H. J. Brainerd,
of Lower St. Paul Precinct, were nominated
for Assessors.
On motion of C. D. Gilfillean, a commit
tee, consisting of C. D. Gilfillean, of St. Paul,
R. Ball, of St. Anthony, and B. T. Baldwin
of Rice Lake, were appointed to report reso
lutions expressive of the sense of this Con
vention.
The committee on resolutions, through
their chairman, reported the following:
The Republicans of Ramsey county, fully
represented to-day in this Convention, do re
solve:
Ist. That the territories of the United
States were consecrated to Freedom and Free
Labor by the Republican framers of our Con
stitution.
2d. That while we are ever ready to pro
tect the Sovereign States in all their domes
tic rights and to uphold the Union of those
States to the last extremity, we will by all
legitimate means in our power, oppose the
extension of African Slavery into any Terri
tory which now forms a part of the soil of
the United States.
. 3c|. Inasmuch as the cause of the Re
publican party is the .cause of Freedom
and Free Labor, therefore, that cause is sub
mitted to the open and free investigation of
all men, and is opposed to all proscriptive or
secret political societies as inconsistent with
the -Republican faith.
Resolved further , That -the principles ex
pressed in the foregoing resolution, consti
tute the true basis of the Republican party,
and that the success of those principles and
the ultimate triumph of Freedom in this Gov
ernment, require that that party should not
be weakened or embarassed in its action by
the adoption of other or side issues, merely
local and temporary in their character.
On motion, the report of the committee
Monday afternoon about 3 o’clock, fed-
Ward Lundy and John. Willis, the two ball
and safe gentlemen, Who were committed
about three months ago, fur robbery in
snatching money from a farmer from Michi
gan, tlieir escape from jail by picking
the lock of the hall door. They had been,
for a few days, very much indisposed, and
were desirous of getting where they could
have more air, and the jailor gave thqm the
run of the hall, which they concluded to
evacuate on the first opportunity. They
were discovered to be gone in about five min
utes after they left, and the alarm was im
mediately given. Constable McNulty put in
pursuit of them, and found they had taken to
the brush on the hill back of the jail. They
were hunted until dark, discovered, aud
overheard to say they would cross near Bur
ton’s Bridge. Mr. McNulty left them for
the purpose of procuring assistance, and had
the promise of anolher constable to meet him
and proceed to the bridge and there aWait
their crossing. At the time appointed, no
one appearing to accompany McNulty, he
went alone, a? id 3<?pn after gel ting to the
bridge, the ball arid safe gentlemen inade
their appearance. McNulty immediately
took them, and they went along very peace
ably for about half a mile, when Lundy con
cluded he had gone about far enough, and
sprang frorii the constable and ran. McNul
ty drew a large pipe the only fire arms he
had with him, and ordered him to come
back, but he would not, and as he was alone,
in the dark, McNulty concluded one was
about as much as lie could well manage, and
brought him in and secured him in jail.—
Lundy is still at large.
Much credit is due to officer McNulty for
the faithful discharge of his duty on all occa
sions, arid especially on this. —Gedena Adv.
The steamer Baltic arrived at her pier
about twelve o’clock last night. She brings
Liverpool d(ites to .Sept. Bth.
Aritoiig her passengers is Senor Escwante,
the new Spanish Minister.
The war news is not cf striking import
ance. . - • > •
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was accepted, and the question recurring on
their adoptipn,
The resolutions were adopted unanimously.
On motion of G. W. Moore, Messrs. R.
Chute, of St. Anthony, 11. A. Swift, of St.
Paul, and Y. B. Barrium,, of Little panada,
were appointed as the Republican County
Committee for the ensuing"year.
The Convention then adjourned, sine die.
ALEX. RAMSEY, President.
C. B. Chapman, ) r, • .. .
G. W. Moore, £ Secretaries.
Broke Jail.
Arrival of the Baltic
New York, Sept. 20.
[Owing to the unfavorabfe state of the
weather, the telegraph refused to make any
further disclosures last evening on the above
subject] —Galena Adv. 21sf.
The Issue Fairly Mad*:. —Gen. White
field has received the nomination of Dele
gate for Congress from Kansas —in the ac
ceptance of which he employs the following
terms:
I accept the nomination, gentlemen.' I
am, sirs, ready to make the battle for you
I am ready to enter this contest; to enter it
sir and defend those principles, sir, that I
advocated in this territory, sir, more than
two years ago. Without any egotism, per
mit me to inform you, that I made the first
pro-slavery speech in the territory of Kan
sas; and perhaps sirs, there is no man in the
territory of Kansas that feels more interest
in establishing slavery in this, territory per
manently than I do; arid believe me, sirs,
that nothing shall be left undone on my part
to secure a triumph for that ( party whose ob
ject is to plant sGufherri institutions in Kan
sas. When announced as a candidate on a
previous occasion, I asked for a platform to
be made for me, and I wpuld have done so
now, if I had any opportunity. Circumstan
ces and times have changed some since my
last election. •
If you place nj on me the responsibility of
the formation of a platform gentlemen, you
may rest assured that the enemy will be met
on the square —with only two issues—“sla
very” and “no slavery;” and that I will al
low no other thing whatever to distract the
settlement of this question. I cannot, how
ever, denounce every man from the North as
an abolitionist.; . , ,
We can recognize but two parties in the
territory—the pro-slavery and the anti-sla
very' parties. If the citizens of Kansas want
to live in this community in peace and feel at
home, they must become pro-slavery men;
but if they' want to live with gangs of thieves
and robbers they' must go with the abolition
party'. There can be no third party —no
more tlian two issues—slavery and ho sla
very—in Kansas territory*.
This is outspoken. It makes the issue
fairly, boldly, openly*. Gen. Whitefteld is
just the kind of enemy whom the friends of
freedom desire to meet. lie stands upon
his own merits.
Maine Ejection*. —The returns are near
ly all in from this State, and the Anti-Ne
braska majority for Morrill and Reed figure
up larger than at first stated. Though Wells,
. the democratic candidate, everywhere said
he Was opposed to the Nebraska bill and
would have voted against it, y*et he is in a
minority of 13,756 votes! Ten to fifteen thou
sand Anti-Nebraska majority in Vermont,
and fourteen thousand in Maine! That Will do
this fall for New England. The anti-lipuor
law party are largely in the majority in the
Legislature,'and as that ope of the prin
cipal issues, Wells may be Cycled Governor
by the Legislature.— Galeno.i Akv.
Third Ticket.— The leading Olmsted
men of St. Paul informed us yesterday, that
they intended certainly to run' a third ticket
for county and legislative officers in Ramsey
county. If so, the Rice people may as well
commence figuring at once upon a
prehensive scale than the one already adopt
ed. ■> ‘
Jest LikE Him.— The Winona Express
states that Mr. Rice, personaDy, a few days
since, offered a Mr. Dutcber of that County,
twenty dollars , and plenty of spending money
if he would electioneer and vote for him.—
Mr. D. declined.
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TUESDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 25, 1855.
Financial Affairs of Ramsey County.
. D .is generally admjtted by all parties,
that the financial condition of Ramsey Coun
ty is most horribly unhealthy. The pesti
lent fever qt Norfolk and Portsmouth has
not swayed its death dealing power with
more rigid violence, thaii have the Commis
sioners of Ramsey County put forth their
edicts to crush ,ou[ all vestiges, ,of health at
our great Receptacle of the people’s revenue
—the County Treasury. Before Captain
Bennett came into the Board, things for a
year had all gone the wrong way. He has
done what he could to effect a reform; but
with negligence to contend with on one
hand, and open dishonesty on the other, he
has had allott ed him a very poor show to
accomplish anything substantially beneficial-
Finally, matters arrived at such an un
bearable pass, that the Grand Jury which
was in session week before last, felt it its du
t r
ty to present the whole. management of the
County affairs in an able and concise report
to the District Court. We shall give the
Grand Jury an opportunity of being heard
through our columns to-morrow.
Only Two Weeks!
It is only two weeks from this day till the
day of election. Keep in mind, fellow Re
publicans, that if you expect to triumph, a
thorrouyh organization is absolutely necessary.
See that all your nominations are made in
time, and that your nominees are the very
best men you can find in your several local
ities. Then, When this is accomplished, all
hands should go to Work with coats off and
sleeves rolled up.
Recollect, all the while, that the election
of HENR Y M. RICE is an endorsement of the
repeal of the Missouri Compromise, and conse
quently an endorsement of the outrages which
have resulted front that wicked act iri the Ter
ritory of Kansas.
j^STßecollect that STEPHEN A. DOUG
LAS will rejoice when he hears of Rice’s
election, and that the administration organs
all over the country will claim it as a victory
for STRING FELLO and ATCHISON.
Recollect, that two weeks from this
day, Minnesota must decide whether she is
in favor of Freedom or Slavery.
Ferries. —Two steam ferry .-boats now ply
between Rock Island and Davenport every
fifteen minutes.
Land Sales Postponed. —Joseph R. Brown
of the Democrat, has just returned from
Washington, Snd reports that all the lands,
with the exception of about 700,000 acres in
the Brownsville and Winoria Districts, will
certainly be withdrawn from sale, and that
these maj'aloO be withdrawn for the present.
Accounts from other sources confirm this in
telligence. This is about the best news we
have heard during the past year.
DiAHoxns.—The New York Daily Tri
bune says Rachel’s diamonds nro valued at
#245,800.
A private letter giving an account
of the recent bombardment of Sweaborg says
that the men employed on the gnfi boats had,
as is usual, their cars padded with* cotton,
and few cases of deafness arc reported, but
all employed experienced severe pains in the
chest and in two days some of the men had
not recovered their voices. The mortar boats
threw one thousand tons of shells!
jjTST’Com. Charles Stewart has been re
stored to the command of the Philadelphia
Navy Yard, by the President.
Baltimore, Sept. 19.
We have this A. M. tidings of increased
mortality at Norfolk and Portsmouth.
Deaths Monday, Norfolk 45. Tuesday up
to noon 20. At Portsmouth from Monday
evening to Tuesday noon 17, also a large
nuinl>er of new cases.
the Rue Miehodierc, Paris, which
may* be translated Half Kettle street, is a
modest cafe, more than simple in its furni
ture, very moderate in its prices, yet famed
for its good cookery. In the window is a
Pumpkin' pie.” , This speciality* has been es
tablished in compliment to the Americans
who have long patronized the cafe, and
where some very agreeable gentlemen fre
quently meet.
Storm on the Lake.— The storm which
commenced on the 18th, was severe at the
eastward. All the passengers of the Sebas
topol, wrecked near Milwaukee, were saved
with the exception of four or five. They
were in a life-boat, which was swamped in
the endeavor to get a line from the steamer
to the shore. The steamer was laden with
merchandise, mostly for Chicago. She had
on board about sixty passengers, about for
ty* of whom were women and children. At
Chicago the brig Tuscarora, from Cleveland,
loaded with coal, dragged her anchor, and
‘was fast drifting oh the railroad break-water.
Two life-boats, gallantly manned, Went to her
and rescued her crew, eleven in number,
from the imminent peril. >
Silver a Drug. —Tlie’New York Evening
Pest saysthat silver is in great superabuhd
ance, new issues as 1 well as old, It can be
furnished is large amounts at par, but Hie
New York banks will not receive it on de
posit, and it caiinot be sold to a large extent
better than one to one and a half per cent,
discount.
editors and publishers.
The relatives of Henry K. Ramsey, Esq.,
late of Manomin, learned yesterday the sad
news that he had fallen a victim to that dread
ful scourge, the yellow fever, at New Orleans
on the 9tb hist. Mr. Ramsey was a brother
of Ex-Governor and J. C. Ramsey of our
city, aged at the time of his death about 35
years. He emigrated to Minnesota about fif
teen months since, and interested himself in
the milling business at Manomin in our coun
ty. lie served as a subaltern officer in the
Mexican War wilh high honors, and was a
young gentleman possessed of great iqoral
attainments and social virtues. He was on
a visit of pleasure to his old friends at the
South when the Dread Destroyer summoned
him to his final home. The many friends
and acquaintances whom he had called around
him during his brief residence in our midst,
deeply sympathise with his relatives in their
sad bereavement.
Joseph Armstrong, one of the oldest and
respected pilots bn our river, was taken
suddenly ill at the wheel of the Luella while
on her way up on Friday last, and died at
Prescott on Sunday morning. His symptoms
were a violent vomiting of blood and also a
discharge of the same from his bowels. It is
presumed lie ruptured a blood-vessel. Mr.
Armstrong was a laithful steamboat officer,
and a man universally esteemed by all his ac-:
quaintances. His remains will be conveyed
to St. Louis, where his family resides.
The Whole Story In A Few Words.
It is a part of the tactics of those who re
pealed, and who justify the repeal of the
Missouri Compromise, to mislead the pmVUb
mind as to the matter, at issue between them
and the People, and it is necessary to often
recur to first principles and the history of the
past, to keep the issue clear aud definite be
fore the public. The following three para
graphs from the Albany Evening Journal, is
as good for this purpose as a five column
speech could be:
“In 1820, when Missouri asked admission
as a State into the Union, it was found that
her boiistitution extended Slavery over vir
gin Territory, whereupon Freedom inter
posed objection. After long and solemn de
liberation the question was settled by an
equitable and amicable division, the Southern
portion of the Territory being yielded to
Slavery on the express condition that the
Northern portion remain forever Free. In
that division Slavery obtained, if not the Li
en’s share, that most available and most de
sired. In other words the South had its pay
down, while the North gave a long-credit.—•
Slavery had productive land. The North was
content with a wilderness. Missouri came
with her Slavery directly info the Union.—
Arkansas soon followed. That “peculiar in
stitution” hits had the benefit, in Congress,
of the votes and power of two Skive States,
upon all questions affecting the South favor
ably, or the North unfavorably, for thirty
years. During that long period Kansas and
Nebraska were practically barren and worth
ier. ,
“But uoyr, whpp the tide of emigration
sets in the direction of these Territories,
opening up a prospect for Freedom, the Com
promise which we, have been instructed to
regard by the South as sacred, has been de
liberately violated! And brute force backed
by a doughface administration, is exerted to
forge fetters for Kansas.
“The people, indignant, first at the perfidy
of an enslaved Congress, and then at the out
rages committed in Kansas, have determined
to resist the aggressions and extension of
Slavery. An act of dishonesty which would
forever disgrace individuals, perpetrated by
a Government, has awakened universal exe
cration.”
Republicanism up the Minnesota. —Mr.
Newson, of the Times, has just returned from
the Minnesota Valley, and reports the cause
of Republicanism in that quarter as in a high
ly flourishing condition. Fine meetings were
had at LeSueur, Traverse and Mankato last
week—particularly at the latter point. The
people are down on Mr. Rice for his Winne
bago treaty and other flagrant transgression?
and it is impossible now for him to get one
third of the vote of the Valley. This has
been considered one of his strong-holds; and
if he fails there, his chances of election are
certainly gone beyond hope.
ex* An organization of “moderate tem
perance men” lias been formed in New York
who propose to urge upon the. Legislature
the enactment of a “wholesome excise law,
providing for licenses to be issued to respon
sible. persons, and guarding against the adul
teration of liquor's, with deleterious substan
ces.”
Parkville Democrat tells a story
of a new stone four-story hotel being finish
ed at Lawrence, calckted for defence against
the “border ruffians,” as well as for comfort.
The walls rising ~omc distance above the roof,
are pierced with a regular tier of port holes.
This story needs confirmation.
JKST A son' of Mr. Henry Schoonover, in
Muscatine county, lowa, was thrown from
a horse a few days Bince, and his foot being
caught in the stkrup, he was dragged eighty
rods upon the ground before he was released
and so injured that he died shortly after.
K3T Our county ticket fakes well with
the people; ditto our Legislative ticket. We
shall have something more to say of both of
them when the latter is fully filled up.
DUMBER 2.
Painful Intelligence.