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Other Territorial Governors have invaria
bly paid the Joint Conventions of the Legis
lature the compliment of appearing and de
livering their messages in person.
Not so Samvei. Medaky.
We are glad the Republicans had no lot
nor part in, but protested against inviting
him to appear before the Convention ; so
that they take no share to themselves of
this lordly insult of a Federal official ot the
Representatives of the People.
—The Message itself is said to be unob
jectionable in most of its particulars. It was
in manuscript, and the official journal this
morning will doubtless appear red up to the
ears with the blushing honors of an exclu
sive copy of the document.
The only poiut of great consequence in it,
as we learn, is Gov. Medary’s position upon
Kansas Leeomptou Constitution.
lie takes the ground that Congress, when
ever a Constitution is presented from a State
applying for admission into the Union, may
only inquire in relation thereto, whether or
not that Constitution is ‘ Republican but
that Congress has no right to go behind the
document and see how it was made up, or
whether it really emanated from the people of
the proposed State or from an usurping oli
garchy !
In other words, Sam. Medary intends to
stand by his own bread and butter, aud
back up Mr. Buchanan in sustaining the Le
compton Constitution!
What did we tell the Pioneer at the start
of the rebellion ?
Did'nt we advise it to wait and see what
Mr. Buchanan said before it spoke too au-
The federal office holders will most assur
edly cling to their offices, aud let principle
go to perdition.
Sam. Medary having caved, we expect to
s-e the Democracy of Minnesota following
suit, one after the other ; and finally, lo and
behold the l-'ionccr itself will also “cave!”—
Mark the prediction.
Tlie Reaiton why Jo. Rolette is nervous
about Contesting Scats!
The action of the State Senate, in first
summarily tabling the petition of Mr. Jared
Benson, of Anoka, contesting Mr. Banfil’s
seat, and then subsequently thinking better
of it, and referring the case to a select com
mittee of five, has already been alluded to
iu our columns.
The original motion to stifle the investiga
tion called for in Mr. Benson’s petition, was,
as we have also stated, made by Jo. Rolktte,
the .Senator (Heaven save the mark !) from
Pembina, who has too long pestered oar
legislature, by his frauds and follies.
Ilis promptitude in trying to smother in
vestigation into the right of a sitting mem
ber to his place, was not without a special,
animus on his part.
lie doubtless must feel nervous on the .sub
ject of disputing seats in that body, and with
good reason.
He himself is tolerated in the State Sen
ate, through the concoction of a vile fraud—
a fraud which has been as good as conlessed
by himself to individuals in this town.
The seat that he holds should rightfully be
filled by J. X. Chase, of the House—though
we have doubts if the word right may be fit
ly applied to any election proceeding purport
ing to have come from “Cass, Todd and Pem
bina Counties !”
Ciov. Modary'e delivered.
The madness us well as the knavery of the
hour rules. Yesterday afternoon the two
Houses of the Stott Legislature met in joint
Convention, and recognized tho Territorial
Governor as Executive of the State ot Minne
sota.
The creature of the President, removable
by him at pleasure, is acknowledged b_\ the
Democratic majority in the Legislature, as
the head ot our State sovereighty that
should proudly acknowledge no man as mas
ter.
What a humiliating position for a young
and vigorous State, just assuming manhood !
Still tied to the mother’s apron string,
though past 21, and compelled to support
himself by his own exertions !
It would almost seem as if the very idol
that is thus bo.ved down to, despises the
crawling subserviency which gives him con
sequence !
Whether elated or not with being the doub
le Governor of Territory and State at one and
the same time, or for some other reason by
us not conjectured, he has violated preced
ent, and humiliates the Legislature by send
ing in his Clerk to read it to the assembled
wisdom of Minnesota !
thoritatively for “the Democracy of Minneso
ta.”
Prior to and at the time of the election, it
is well known, Chase and Rolette were rival
candidates for the Senate, in opposition to
each other!
That they ran against each other for that
office in the near districts of Todd and Cass,
is notorious ; while J. F. Perkins, of Todd
County, was the Democratic candidate in the
same district for the House.
Hut when the Agent of the Sunday Caucus
reached the Upper Country, with that de
mand from tbe St. Paul leaders for “TOO ma
jority for Sibley in Cass, Todd and Pembina
Counties,” J>. Rolette's help was necessary to
honor the draft —and at Crow Wing the St.
Vincent return was opened, the poll list in
creased from less than 40 up to over 200
votes, “all for the Democratic ticketand
on the face of this singular return, it singu
larly appeared, that 205 votes were cast for
Roi.KTTETor the Senate, and Mr. J. X. Chase
had 205 votes for the House ! —an office
which the latter did not run for at all, until
after the election !
The result of the arrangement is, that Ro
jktte is in the Senate to do the dirty work
the Democratic party, as its leader in that
oody ; and J. X. Chase is a member of the
House ; while poor Perkins is Hung high
and dry upon the rocks.
—ls’nt this a nice world we live in ? and
is'nt the Democratic party a nice party ?
Lake Navigation Re-Opening!
The Chicago Tribune of Dec. Ist, thinks
the recent mild, damp weather, is likely to
prolong the season of Lake Navigation,
which was thought to be over. It says there
is every indication of the breaking up of the
ice in the St. Clair Flats, and in the Welland
and Erie Canals. In the latter there has
been already a partial resumption of naviga
tion. It would be an immense advantage to
both East and IV est if such a state of things
turns out to exist. Two weeks more navi
gation would throw into New York fully two
millions of bushels of grain, and give great
relief to debtor and creditor in the East and
WT est.
John Owsley, Esq., of Springfield, 111., has
one prairie field which he broke and sowed Tu
fall wheat this season, containing two thou
sand five hundred acres.
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Inconsistent aud Absurd.
During tho debate iu the House on the
resolution to violate tho Constitution by rec
ognizing Gov. Medary, as Governor of the
State of Minnesota, J. C. Dow, the Demo
cratic loader in that body, was understood to
assert, that Gov. M. had already taken the
oath to supi>ort the State Constitution as
acting Governor under it!
If this is certainly the fact, we should like
to see it duly authenticated, for tho satisfac
tion of the public generally and tor amateurs
in queer tricks of government officials, in
particular.
Onlv a few months since, Gov. Medary
received troui Janiks Buchanan a commission
&s Governor of the territory ot MinucsotA*
llefore he entered upon his duties, he took
a solemn oath to support the Organic Act of
Minnesota!
This act is in many vital points the direct
ly contrary of the State Constitution. No
two documents could be more in conllict, or
more incompatible with each other.
Yet, under that same commission, as Gov
ernor of the Territory, and holding his office
by virtue of it only, he now ignores the Or
ganic Act and sw’ears to support its opposite,
the State Constitution!
—Really, Gov. Medary may be honest iu
his course; but it is an inexpressibly absurd
and inconsistent one, nevertheless.
Our Beautiful Constitution !
In the Senate yesterday, the subject was
mooted of printing a number of copies of the
State Constitution, with the double purpose
of distribution by members of the Legisla
ture, and of alibr.iing a fat job for the Pio
neer, to be paid for out of the State Taxes,
when collected from the hard earnings of the
people!
With characteristic meanness, the Demo
cratic majority proposed to insult the Repub
lican Senators by attaching to the document
when so printed, tho names of the officers
and members of the absconding minority of
the Constitutional Convention, over which
Sibley presided !
Senator Lindsley, of Olmstead, took the
occasion to lash the majority in a style that
made the fur fly every time ; nor did he seem
imbued with a very profound respect, cither,
for the style, grammar, blunders and inconsis
tencies of the precious document which Mr.
Sibley and others of his party on the stump
were so disingenuously careful to claim the
credit of, as being entirely a Democratic
structure, with which the Black Republicans
had had nothing to do beyond agreeing to it
when reported from the Committee of Con
ference.
This credit, so claimed, Mr. Lindsley did
not deprive them of— particularly as the
whole amount of credit to be derived from
its parentage was so small that it would hard
ly hear division between two parties !
Amongst other beauties of tho Constitu
tion just discovered, it appears to contain no
limitation of the term of members of the
House. The Senators are restricted to two
years—hut the members of tho present
House of Representatives are in for life !
It must be a “Democratic Constitution” sure
enough, for such a provision is certainly not
Republican !
Wnbaftliaw County Items.
Tho Ilerchl published at Reed’s Landing,
says that “the body of Mr, McLean—oue of
the men lost in Lake Pepin week before last
—was found a few days since, in a cove at
the foot of the lake. The boat was also
found near the same place. It was bottom
side up, and the mail bag, which had been
placed uuder the seat iu the bow of the boat,
was recovered, but the mail was badly dam
aged. None of the other bodies have been
found.”
The Settlers ou the Half Breed Tract are
forming associations to protect themselves
from speculators at the sales of the uulocated
lands on the Reservation. These sales arc
advertised to take place at Faribault on the
Ist, and at Henderson on the Bth of March.
The Settlers have petitioned the President,
asking that the sales be made upon the tract.
Mineral has been found in the bluffs near
Reed’s Landing. The Herald says : “We
were recently shown specimens of remarka
bly pure lead and copper oar, picked up by
Mr. 11. H. Slayton. The piece of lead ore
weighed some five or six pounds, and was al
most entirely pure. The piece of copper was
smaller, but appeared also to be very free
from sediment. Future developments may
bring to light a wealth never yet dreamed
of.”
The only mammoth vegetable the Herald
says it has to report, is a turnip weighing 15
pounds left at the editor’s sanctum.
The Herald fakes strong ground in favor of
the Registry Law for Minnesota; and confi
dently looks to some action oil this subject
from our present State Legislature.
Nankalo Item*.
The German “Turners’’ h.»ve established
a Society at Mankato. The following are the
officers, for the current quarter :
President, Wm. Bierbaucr ; Vice President,
J. PfafF; Recording Secretary, E. Jacob
shagrn; Corresponding Secretary, S. Marks ;
Treasurer, M. 11. Bergholtz; Tiunwart , G. C.
Haupt; Zengwnrt , J. Bushman.
A reading room and Library, Lectures,
Debates, &c., is the programme marked out
for the mental part of their organization.
At their reading room, they design keeping
on file a selection of the best newspapers in
the Union.
There arc just ninety business houses,
such as stores, shops, offices, Ac., in Mankato.
The survey and plat of the new town
across the river—North Mankato—is com
pleted, and the lots will shortly be put in the
market.
“To any Pretty Girl who wants to
Marry,” is the address of an uncalled for let
ter in the St. Paul Post Office. We are re
quested to ask the Post Master down there
to send it up this way.— Mankato Independ
ent:
No go, the clerks here say there have been
a heap of beauties enquiring for it, but they
cau’t make up a unanimous verdict as to who
is entitled to it.
Rochester Items.
The Democrat refers to our complaint of
not receiving it by saying that they “can on
ly account for its non-reception from the fact
that M. O. Walker has the mail contract be
tween St. Poul and Rochester’’—a good rea-
The Weather.— This morning at suurise
the thermometer stood at 22J degrees below
zero. On Monday morning last it indicated
the same temperature. We have had fioe
sleighing for the past two weeks.
We regret to learn that a fine horse belong
ing to Mr. Covill, of the St. Nicholas Hotel,
was killed on Saturday last by striking his
head against a tree, while the team was run
ning away.
Tho header of the t " l oHtmn.
In all directions, the northor.’f Democratic
press within the influence of L'ougluss, are
breaking ground against tho ratification by
Congress of the Lecompton Com ’titutiou for
Kansas. The Dubuque Express if' Herald ol
Nov. 26, comes to us with a three column ar
ticle headed “The New and Strange Doc
trines of the Washington Union— its assault
on Democratic principles and State sover
eignty.” An article iu tho same press the
day previous possesses considerable signifi
cance. The following is an extract :
“But yet, it is necessary for the safety’ and
well-being of the Natioual Democracy that,
some mau should stand forth iu Congress as
the champion of State rights and popular
sovereignty, which have so recently and so
unqualifiedly been approved by the jieople,
and meet and hurl back the efforts of Southern
Fauaticism, whicL, to consummate its
scheme, would strike hands with abolition
ism, override tho Constitution and trample
upon the Democratic party'.
“We know no man in the Republic who
can do this but STEPHEN A. DOUGLAS,
of ILLINOIS. He has heretofore shown
the nerve and the back bone, requisite in
emergencies, aud now is the time for him to
stand forth in the broach again. Let him do
it and he will find himself at the head of a
column which shall be irresistable.”
A Development.— -Gen. Gadsden, our late
minister to Mexico, in a communication to
the Charleston Mercury, under date of Octo
ber 22d, introduces a letter to himself, dated
October 4, from an American correspondent
at the city of Mexico, who, he says, “enjoys
the most favorable opportunities of obtaining
information on the American diplomacy proc
eed in Mexico,” and is a discerning and it
most discreet” observer of events. This cor
respondent affirms that “the minister of (Mr.
Forsyth), is instructed to offer to purchase
territory larger than the whole of the
Southern States.”
No doubt Mr. Forsyth is instructed to pur
chase more territory, but he would find it dif
ficult to buy an area larger thau the whole of
the Southern States, unless he took all Mexi
co. What he is after is probably Lower Cali
fornia, Sonora, aud Chihuahua. There is a
slight difficulty in the way just at present —
the prospective emptiness of the National
Treasury.
More Testimony.
The returns from Renville County as giv
en at St. Paul, are 116 Dem. to 3 Rep. Jo
seph R. Brown, (one of the State Canvass
ers) was a Judge of Election in Brown Coun
ty, but, the St. Peter Free Press says :
“We arc informed by officers who have the
means of knowing, that there are no such
precincts in Renvillo County, and that there
are not 30 legal voters in the county ! We
are further assured by one of the board of
canvassers that one of the poll lists returned
from the fictitious precinct, is, from begin
ning to end, in the hand writing of Joe
Brown !”
—We find the above in the St. Anthony
Falls Neics. It impeaches the integrity of
Joseph R. Brown —and should be looked to
Tlio Belleplaine Enquirer and the IJ. S.
Senate.
The “Enquirer ” is a neatly printed, aid
industriously edited paper, just started at
Belleplaine, in Scott county, with D. A.
Wright, formerly of the St. Anthony Ex
press, as the editor. It is “Democratic” in
politics. It takes ground in favor of Frank
lin Steele, for U. S. Senator.
In a long article, headed “That Bargain—
Is it binding on the Democracy ?”—the pub
lic are informed as follows :
“It is widely bruited and universally con
ceded that on the close of the Constitutional
Convention, arrangements were entered into
by the adherents of Gov. Gorman and the
adherents of Mr. Henry M. Rice, for a truce
between those belligerent gentlemen and their
still more belligerent partizans ; this truce to
continue in force from its date and till after
the election of United States Senators. And
in addition it is claimed, certainly by some of
the friends of Gov. Gorman, that there was
also a tacit understanding, if not a secret ar
ticle iu the truce itself, obligating each of the
high contracting parties to promote the Sen
atorial aspirations of the other.”
—We suspect somebody lias “sold” the
editor of the Enquirer, on this alleged bar
gain ; but its none of our business, anyhow.
The editor goes on to discuss the “contract”
at considerable length, and winds up as fol
lows :
“Not to weary by further extending tl is
article, the conclusion arrived at, is that while
Gov. Gorman and Mr. Rice have neither for
feited nor compromised any claims that they
may have had to an election to the United
States Senate, they have at the same time
acquired no new ones by auy truce, treaty or
condition that they may have made or caus
ed to be made, and that the field is open to
the candidacy of all capable and sound Dem
ocrats. ,f
—On inquiry, we suspect the Enquirer
would find out that Mr. Rice and his friends
at least, are not going to stick to the bar
gain, if any was made !
Col. Renton and the Albany Journal
on the Currency.
Col. Benton still cherishes his idea of an
exclusively hard money currency, and no
doubt conceiving the times auspicious, has
written a strong letter urging it once more
upon the public. The Albany Journal , for
merly an organ of the Whig party, but now
Republican, takes the letter very coolly ; and
does not appear to have strong antipathies at
“enlarging the specie basis.” It says:
There are many kernels of wheat in the
bushel of chaff of which Col. Benton’s letter
is composed. It is easy to excito preju
dices in favor of specie and against paper,
especially among those who have little or
none of either. To a degree, the doctrine is
sound. We need a large—larger, indeed, in
fusion of the precious metals into our curren
cy. But when Col. Benton and the Albany
Atlas talk about paper as “worthless” and
“vieious” they talk simple nonsense.
But our only purpose now, in alluding to
the matter, is to say that it is a purely na
tional one. If the cnrrcncy is to be reformed
it must be done by the General Government.
Should New r York, as she did in 183 C, sup
press our own small bills, it would make
room for the depreciated and less valuable
small bills of other States.
We are decidedly in favor of enlarging the
specie basis. More gold and silver should
be in circulation. But ueither one, nor two,
nor three, nor half a dozen States, can work
out this reform. It must be done by tbe
suppression of small bills in all States. And
it must be done by action. The Democracy,
whose organs talk up specie, are in possess
ion of the government, the Presidency, the
Departments, and Congress iucluded. All
the wheels are to be in motion soon. If it is
to be a gold and silver Administration, we
shall have the evidence of it in the Presi
dent’s Message, followed by relormatory
measures in Congress.
The Pioneer with characteristic mendacity
accuses us of inventing the facts in regard to
the temporary organization of the Senate.—
11 winds up its abuse, bv saying: “The Times
gets off the same ridiculous falsehood.” Is
it not a most extraordinary coincidence, that
two distinct editors of different papers should
simultaneously “invent” the same thing ?
The facts were as stated by us and the Times,
and the Pioneer seeks to save its party’s char
acter at the expense of its own by denying
them. Its partizanship is too self-denying.
maemmm.
Prepared Daily by J. Jay Knot* Co., Bankers,
St. Anthony Street, St. Paul.
Money still continues to accumulate aud
stocks are rapidly rising, aud even the disas
trous uews that has reached us from across
the water has not had sufficient effect to
check upward tendency. Still notwithstand
ing more gold has accumulated in New York
than ever before in its historj’, there is a very
general feeling there among cautious busi
ness men, that it will take a long time to
place financial matters on a safe aud perma
nent foundation. The approaching session of
Congress and the State Legislature arc looked
to with a good deal of interest, for is antici
pated that both those bodies will take some
action on tho question of cuirency, which
may have a very important bearing on val
ues. Until it is known what their action is, it
is thought that there will be a disposition
among capitalists to move very cautiously,
and money, although actually abundant will
be well guarded by those who have it, and
put out only ou the very best securities.
The Country Banks of New York, New
England and all of the banks in the east in
good standing, will make it their policy to
strengthen themselves for the general re
sumption of specie payments. They will all
care more to preserve their credit from fur
ther blemish, than by expanding to make
money at the risk of their good standing.—
It will be idle therefore for us in Miuncsota
to look to the bauks iu the East for any relief.
Their money will not be sent here, either di
rectly or indirectly for the purpose of loan
ing or investment until money matters both
iu this country and Europe have assumed a
position as firm aud substantial as before the
panic ; and the sight of any large amount of
Eastern currency amoug us, let it come from
wliat quarter it will, will be sure evidence
that it is a currency wanting in good credit
at home and sure in the eud to prove a fraud
to the holder.
We must not then, for the six iqontlis to
come, look with any confidence to the East
ern Banks for relief. Our only resource must
be among ourselves.
The Legislature now in session may do
something to help our own affairs. Above
all, they should be careful to pass no laws
which wiil increase the difficulty in the col
lection of debts, or that will in any other way
prevent capital from coming hither for in
vestment, for after all that is of the most
importance to the money borrower. No
Usury Laws should be passed, for that of all
things will increase the rate of money.
Under our Constitution, tho Legislature
have the power to pass a general Banking
Law. The Constitution provides abundant
security in U. S. and State Stocks as the ba
sis of all Banking. Let the Legislature then
be careful to make the currency safe to the
bill holder, and then create a law as liberal
as the Constitution will admit in other res
pects. Such a course may create a few banks
of issue here. If in the present state of
things, such banks will be a benefit to the
community and the State, let them be crea
ted without Usury Laws, and with provisions
more liberal (the bill holder being secured.)
than those of other States. As the times
grow better, they may be hemmed iu by res
trictions, which if now enacted would pre
vent a single Banking Institution from being
formed.
If such institutions are an injury to the
State, they should not be allowed to exist.—
But if as we are now situated, they would be
a benefit, then the consideration that private
individuals may derive benefit from a Gener
al Law, equally open to all, should not pre
vent the enactment of laws liberal in spirit
and attractive to capitalists elsewhere.
We are buying Exchange on New York
and Boston at from 2 to 2$ per cent, premi
um. VYc are buying Eastern Currency at
from 1 to 2 per cent, premium, and arc pay
ing for Gold 2to 3 per cent. We are buying
all kinds of uucurrent money, aud are paying
for all the Banks of New Jersey and Rhode
Island, except those in liquidation, ninety
cents on the dollar.
We are selling Gold for promiscuous cur
rency, at 5 per cent.
Exchange on Atlantic Bank. New York
City, at 5 per cent.
Exchange on Marine Bank, Chicago, at
per cent.
For Eastern Currency we can sell Gold
and Exchange for 2j per cent.
Wc have received a large lot of IGO acre
Land Warrants, which we are selling for 90
cents per acre, for gold and good currency.
The Board of Brokers do not receive the
currency of the following Banks on deposit.
The old Brokeu Banks are not in the list
and our readers should beware of them.
Maine.—Grocers Bank, Bangor; Canton Bank, South
China ; Elisworth Bank, Exchange Bank. Bangor; Mar
itime Bank, Bangor; Monsum River Bank, Sanford
Bank, Hancock Bank, Bank of Hallowdl.
New Hampshire.—Exeter Bank, and Lancaster Bank
Vermont. —Woodstock Bank, South Royalton Bank,
Stark Bank, Bennington, M ssisquoi Bank, Bank of Itoy
alton, St. Albans Bank, Dauby Batik.
M ASS .veil L'SKTTS.—Western Bank, Springfield.
Rhode Island.—All solvent Banks in Providence are
received.
Connecticut.—Pahquioque Bank, Danbury, East
ern Bank, West Kiilingly; Woodbury B,.nk, Mer
chants’ Exchange Bank, Bridgeport; Bridgeport City
Rank, Colchester Bank, Hatters’ Bank, Bethel; Farmers’
Bank, Bridgeport; Bank of North America, Pawcatuck
Bank, Quinebanp Bank, Wooster Bank, Danny : Wind
ham county Bank, Manufacturer’s Bank, Manchester.,
Granite Bank, Valentown.
New York. —Orleans Bank, Albion; Ontario Bank,
Utica; Yates County Bank, Penn Yan; Reciprocity
Bank, Budilin ; Sackctts Harbor Bank, Buffalo.
Delaware.—All solvent Banks are received.
North Carolina.—All except Farmers’ Bank are re
ceived.
Maryland.—All Baltimore and Annapolis Banks are
received.
Pennsylvania.—Bank of Pennsylvania, Warren Coun
ty Bank, Erie City Bank, New Castle Bank, Lancaster
Bank, Merchants & Mechanic’s Bank, Pittsburg.
Ohio.—Canal Bank, Cleveland; City Bank, Cin
cinnati; Sandusky City Bank, Dayton Bank, Dayton;
Clinton Bank, Columbus; Seneca County Bank, Tiffin;
Miami Valley Bank, Daytou; Union Bank, Sandusky;
Bank of Circleville, Bank of Massilon, Bank of Zanes
ville, City Bank, Columbus.
Indiana.—The follswing Banks are received. State
Bank of Indiana. Bank of State of Indiana, Bank of
Goshen, Bank of Mt. Vernon, Bank of Indiana, Bank of
Paoli, Bank of Rockville, Bank of Salem, New Albany;
Bank of Salem, Salem ; Bloomington Bank, Cambridge
City Bank, Canal Bank, Crescent City Bank, Exchange
Bank. Farmers’Bank, Westfield; Indiana Bank, Indi
ana Farmers’ Bank, Kentucky Stock Bank, La Grange
Bank, Parke County Bank, Prairie City Bank, Salem
Bank. Goshen ; Southern Bank of Indiana.
Illinois.—« All Stock secured Banks except Kushville
Bank, People’s Bank, Carmel; Stock security Bank,
Danv lie
Wisconsin.—All Stock secured Banks are received.
Kentucky.—All except Ashland Bank are received.
Virginia.—All except Bank of Kanawha, and Trans-
Allegheny Bank are received.
Louisiana.—All solvent Banks are received.
Missouri.—All.
New Jersey and Rhode Island buying at 90c.
Rather Taken in.— The figures upon
which the Sentinel based its charges of fraud
iu Zumbr; ta precinct were taken from the
census returns of Deputy Sheriff DeKay,
who took the census of but half the precinct,
the Sheriff having the returns of the rest;
but our neighbor was quite as correct and
sensible in his calculations in this particular
instance as in the remainder of the charges
made.— Red Wing Republican.
—The above is commended to the wisacres
of the Pioneer, who blew such a breeze
about Republican frauds in Zumbrota pre
cinct of Goodhue county, predicated upon
the census returns not justifying the amount
of vote returned as polled. Guns that go off
at half cock, are most dangerous to the own
ers !
Monetary Matter*.
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CITY ITEMS.
Thanksgiving Day was generally observ
ed throughout the City on Thursday. Ser
vice was held at nearly all the Churches in
the forenoon, when the population generally
went home, and resigned themselves to gus
tatory pleasures ior two or three hours, and
devoted the rest of the day to pleasure in va
rious ways.
Quiet reigned throughout the city the
whole day, although labor and business was
generally suspended.
Sad Casualty —We learned on Sunday,
too late for insertion in yesterday’s paper,
that a young man named Wm. Edwards, fa
miliarly known as Capt. Edwards, in the
employ of Hon. D. W. C. Dunwell, of Brook
lyn, Dakota County, met with a sad and
mysterious end on Saturday, in that place.—
He was driving a hay wagon, when the lines
slipped out of his hands. He leaned forward
to grasp them, when the horses suddenly
stopped, and Edwards tumbled to the ground,
injuring himself internally in some way it i 6
supposed, as he died soon after at his resi
dence whither he was taken. No visible ef
fects of the fall were discernable, and no in
quest was held.
Another Heavy Assignment.— One of
the heaviest assignments of the day is being
made by Wm. J. Smith & Co., of the fa
mous Hat, Cap and Shoe store, on Third
street, of his whole stock of goods, to his nu
merous customers. A part of the assets
are: 200 pair of moccasins, a fine article—
do. oil tanned cowskin moccasins, &c., express
ly for Minnesota wear, and enough fur caps
to equip a regiment of grenadiers, all going
at wholesale prices! Any one wanting a win
ter rig of such articles will do well to call on
Smith, who is the nonpareil of the Smith
family.
Large Sale of Beal Estate. —On Sat
urday last, says thr. Times , R. M. Spencer,
Esq., of this city, sold a lot (90 by 100) on
the corner of Sibley and Third streets for
S2OO per foot, the terms being $8,200 in
cash—down, and the balance on time with
ten per cent, interest.
This does not look as if Real Estate oper
ations in Minnesota were all “gone under,”
as the Chicago and Eastern papers would
make out.
The Thanksgiving Ball at the Market
Hall promises to be a fine affair. The Hall
has been fitted up in the best style, and is the
best dancing room in the city. All who at
tend can anticipate a good time, and all who
don’t will miss a treat.
A Fight. —“ Dutch John,” formerly a Po
liceman, got into a game of fisti -cuffs with
an Irishman on Saturday, when both were
arrested and fined §lO. John appealed.—
His antagonist forked over.
A man was discovered yesterday who re
fused to take City Scrip ! A private airent
of Barnum’s immediately visited him.
Police Court. —A crowd of persons were
before this eourt yesterday morning, for
drunkenness, and disorderly conduct, arrest
ed in one batch. As “niver a cint ycr hon
or’’ could be found in the party, “yer honor”
discharged them all with a wholesome ad
monition.
llall.— Who does not know Ilall ? We
mean the Apollo Hall Hall, who is the most
popular llall in the Cjty, for wherever he
moves, the crowd follows. So they ought,
for llall always keeps the best and most styl
ish Restaraunt in the city, no matter where
it is. The Apollo Hall, under Mr. Hall’s
management, will soon be the place, and we
advise all who want to live like epicures to
board there, and all who want tip-top oyster
sappers, parties, &c., to call on him.
The Board of Education The Secre
tary of the Board was instructed at the meet
ing on Monday to establish a Primary School
in the Trout Brook neighborhood, as thirty
scholars are now reported in that vicinity.—
A good School room and a teacher is already
engaged.
The report of the different departments of
the First Ward school show that there are
altogether 186 scholars in attendance—and
that in all the departments the behavior of
the children is very good, and a desire to im
prove and learn generally manifest.
Sundry bills against the board were re
ported correct, amounting to $245,50.
The whole cost of the Stone School House
and fixtures, on the corner of Olive and
Eighth Streets, has been reported as $8433,-
47. The Building Committee were discharged,
their labors being completed.
The teachers are to be remunerated for
the depreciation in their salaries on account
of being paid in £ity scrip.
An additional female teacher is to be em
ployed for the First Ward School, two for
the Second Ward, and one for the Third.
There is to be an examination at the First
Ward School House on the 22d & 23d inst,
and Certificates of Approbation are to be
given to Scholars who may sc deemed worthy
by the Examining Committee.
St. Paul, with a population of 12,000, has
not a single fire-engine ! Wonder if they
have got a school .—incinnati Times.
Well we have, Mr. Times —several of
them, and good ones, too. The people of St.
Paul attended to schools, and the education
al interests of the youth of the city long be
fore it xeas a city,—and when these things
were placed on a sure footing, then began to
think about Fire Engines, and such less im
portant matters. And if you come up here
next season, you can visit our schools, and
find them well conducted, and well attended,
and find twq as good Fire Companies, also,
as you generally meet with. The inhabitants
of St. Paul are not all heathens.
Somewhat of a Hoax. —On Thursday af
ternoon, as the sun was lowering in the west,
the wind created a cloud of fine suow on the
roofs of some buildings at the head of Third
street, which, to those towards the
sunset, exactly resembled the smoke of a fire.
An alarm was thereupon created along down
Third street, and in the lower part of the
city, and in a few minutes hundreds of men
rushed up Third street towards the supposed
fire. Those who arrived first, saw the hoax,
and stopped to laugh with the others. Those
below still crowded up, and in a few minutes
the street in the vicinity of the conflagration
was filled with men. After a hearty laugh,
every one went about his usual Thanksgiving
pastimes in a good humor to think that it
wasn't a fire, after all.
The Board of State Canvassers on
Wednesday last, adjonrned over until Monday
newt
| From the H. Y. tribune .
From Washington.
Washington, Nov. 29.
The President is determined to sustain the
Kansas Constitution, regarding it as the most
practical mode of reaching the conclusion.—
He will make it a test in the party.
The forthcoming message will emphasize
these opinions, the President being encourag
ed thereto by the promise of the united
support of the South. He will not remove
Walker, being content with censuring his po
sition. Walker will not resign, but will re
main here to contest the point before Con
gress.
Senator Broderick of California, openly
avows his general opposition to the Admin
istration, and letters from Senator Douglas
look in the same direction, with qualifica
tions. He will reach here on Tuesday, and
speak for himself.
An attempt may be made to introduce
Kansas into Democratic caucus before pro
ceeding to nominations ifor Speaker and
Clerk, owing to the unexpected phase the
issue has now assumed. If so, a split is in
evitable. Powerful influences are being ex
erted to prevent such a movement, the lead
ers fearing the struggle and its consequen
ces.
Mr. Phelps of Missouri, will be Chairman
of the Committee on Ways and Means if
Mr. Orr is elected Speaker.
It is understood that Senator Bates of
Delaware, will resign, and that Mr. Comegys
the former incumbent, will be appointed by
the Governor, with the approval of Mr. Bay
ard. No Legislature is to be elected in that
State for two years. It is now thought that
the new Hall of the Representatives will be
ready when Congress opens. The carpet is
ready, and the seats and desks. The chairs
cost seventy dollars each, and the desks nine
ty dollars. Rather pretty prices for times
like these.
The Kansas Question-Secretary Stanton
Speaks.
Washington, Dec. 2.
A letter has been received from Secretary
Stanton by the President, recalling his resig
nation as Secretary of Kansas ; and assigning
as a reason for this course, his intention of
standing or falling by Governor Walker,
whose course he approved. The Governor
has gone to New York on private business,
for four or five days, leaving here with an in
clination not to resign, though advised to
the contrary by some friends.
He will probably be removed before his
return, which event the government will be
temporarily fall into Secretary Stantons’
hands, unles the President refuses to receive
the recall of his previous resignation.
Senator Douglas and the President.
Washington, Dec. 3.
Judge Douglas and the President had to
day a full and free interchange of opinion on
the Kansas question, without, it is under
stood, being able to arrive at the same con
clusion, in regard to the line of policy which
justice and duty require each to pursue. The
interview it is further stated, was courteous,
and they parted as they met, friends, regret
ting they could not view the Lccompton
movement in the same light.
Senator Douglas, in conversation with his
friends, freely defines hi 3 position, lie stands,
he says, on the principle of the Nebraska-
Kausas bill, which guarantees to each State
and Territory the right to regulate their do
mestic institutions to suit themselves, and he
will follow and advocate the principle wher
ever the logical conscquenees curry him, de
fending it against all assaults, from whatever
quarter they may come. In its application
to Kansas, he insists on Ignoring both the
Lccompton and Topeka movements, and re
turning to the people the right to form a Con
stitution for themselves.
LATER.
The Constitution framed by the recent
Kansas Constitutional Convention is warmly
approved by Senator Bigler and other prom
inent democrats, although Senator Douglas
has freely expressed himself against the Le
compton movement. The opinion is that he
will not place himself in direct antagonism
to the Administration.
Important from Washington.
New York Dec. 3
The Washington correspondent of the
Times says that the Administration had a
secret agent in Kansas daring the settling
of tiie Constitutional Convention, engaged in
advising the members on their behalf, and
through whom the Executive dictated por
tions, if not the whole, of the schedule.
The Courier 4* Enquirer's Washington cor
respondent states that Major General Smith,
iu command of the Western Division, but
now iu temporary duty at the East, has been
directed to repair from Philadelphia to
Washington to consult with the Secretary’
of War on the expediency cf equipping an
expedition in California to relieve the com
mands of Col. Johnson in case of necessity.
This relieving force, if organized, will neces
sarily consist for the most part of volun
teers.
The appearances are that the House will
effect an organization on Monday, without
trouble. The contest is particularly warm
for the post of Door Keeper and Printer.
It is now contemplated to send the Presi
dent’s Message in advance to New York,
INiiladelphia and Richmond. A decision in
the matter will probably bo arrived at to
morrow.
Washington, Dec. 1
At the Cabinet meeting to-day the Kansas
question was discussed. A number of lead
ing Southern Democrats have arrived with
in a day or two, and their influence upon the
counsels of the Administration is always
very manifest. The Lecompton Constitution
is to be forced upon Kansas if it can be got
through Congress by the most stringent par
ty drill. The South insists upon it, and the
Administration acquiesces. Personal as wcl
as party considerations have tended to pro
duce this decision. It is considered a good
opportunity to check the aspirations of Gov.
Walker and Seuator Douglas, and to purify
the party from the remnants of Free-State
sentiments. Governor Walker, if not remov
ed, will have a policy in Kansas prescribed
to him which lie cannot follow, and which
will coni])el his resignation. It is thought
that the Free State men of Kansas can be
induced to vote on the 21st of December,
and if they do vote, the calculation is that
Congress will admit Kansas as a nominally
Free State, the South being satisfied with
the recognition of perpetual property in
slaves.
Gov. Walker has gone to New York on
private business for four or five days, leaving
here with an inclination not to resign,though
advised to the contrary by some friends, lie
will probably be removed before bis return,
in which event the Government will tempor
arily fall into Secretary Stanton’s hands, un
less the President refuses to receive his re
all of his previous resignation.
Not only the President’s Message, but the
Reports of the Heads of Departments will
be supplied to the press in the principal At
lantic cities, and to newspapers elsewhere,
when the reading of the Message shall have
been commenced in Congress. The same will
be previously sent to postmasmasters, who
will be telegraphed at the proper time with
that view. The propriety of such an arrange
ment is apparent from the fact that it will
avoid telegraphic blunders, and secure cor
rect publication in newspapers distant from
the Capitol at the earliest practicable time.
Although the utmost care has been taken to
prevent redundant language, the Message is
unavoidably long, owing to the prominent
subjects of Kansas, Utah, Central America,
and the currency.
Sailin'; of the Atlantic-Trouble on the
Erie Railroad.
New York, Dec. 4.
The Atlantic, to-morrow for Liverpool, will
take over 70 passengers and over a million in
specie.
Trouble is rumored among the Erie Rail
road workmen. It is not about pay. A
posse of police has gone up to protect the
Railroad property, and other workmen have
been sent to supply the place of those who
are making the disturbance.
Another Fugitive Slave Case.
Indianapolis, Dec. 4.
Eight days since the agents of Dr. Vallan
dingham, of Frankfort, Ky., captured a fugi
tive slave at Naples, 111., when en route for
Kentucky. The negro was taken by a writ
of habeas corpus, before Judge Wallace, who
liberated him. He was immediately arrested
and taken before L'. S. Commissioner Rea,
who, after hearing the case, decided that the
negro should go back to slavery. He was
again ai rested, on a writ L-sued by Judge
Wallace, before whom some questions of
State Sovereignty are now being discussed.
It is claimed by the negro’s council that he
is free under the fuguive slave law, and Dred
Scott decision, as well as under the State
Constitution.
Meantime Vullandingkam has been arrest
ed on affidavit of the negro, for kidnapping.
His case is now iu progress before Major
Wallace.
The Brooklyn Fugitive Slave Case.
New York, Dec. 4.
The Brooklyn fugitive slave case was
brought to a close yesterday, and resulted in
the holding to bail the following persons for
conspiracy and kidnapping: John Jackson,
John Cowcn, Timothy It. Mason and Thomas
Sawyer and special policeman Thomas Mc-
Nulty, whose house was made aprison. On
the first charge the accused was held to bail
in the sum of $1,500, and on the second $3,-
000. Thomas Dobson and Samuel Wild,
are the bondsmen. The fugitive is safe in
Canada.
The New York Canale*
• Albany, Dec. 4.
The Commissioners have this day decided
to close the New York canals on Thursday,
the 10th inst., unless sooner closed by ice.
From the N. Y. Herald, Xov. 21th.
European Convulsion—The Suspension
of the Bank of England,
That terrible event, which has been darkly
foreshadowed in these columns on various
occasions "during the past three weeks, has
come to pass at last; the Bank of England
has virtually suspended specie payments.—
True, it is not literally a suspension. The
batik continues to redeem all its notesincoin,
for the present. But it has been authorized
not to issue notes beyond the point of possible
redemption, and it has therefore proximately
or constructively suspended. Should busi
ness suddenly revive and confidence return,
it might not be found necessary for the bank
to issue a larger amount of notes than it
could conveniently carry ; in 1847, when
Lord John Russell,like Lord Palmerston now
took the responsibility of authorizing the
bank to break t!io law and overissue notes in
deed were issued, and the bank took care of
them without difficulty. But should the
present crisis last lor any great period of
time, should disasters of still greater magni
tude than those wh ch have yet occurred be
fall the straitened commercial world, it might
become necessary for the bank to issue such
an amount of notes as it could by no common
possibility hope to be able to redeem in coin.
That contingency, which would be nothing
less than the utter ruin of the bank, is now
rendered possible,
Of the attitude of the other European
banks we have but few details. All are rais
ing their rates of interest to the neighbor
hood of ten per cent. But can they stay
the storm with appliances of that kind ? We
tliiuk not. The panic which caused the stop
page of the Bank of England must spread a
cross the Channel ; and it will lie a piece of
uncommon good fortune if the banks of
France, Prussia, Hamburg and Frankfort do
not find themselves under apositive necessity
of suspending specie payments. The shrew
dest financiers foretold the speedy suspension
of the Bank of France by last mail.
We are thus in the same boat, and the Lon
don Times will probably revise the strictures
it contained some days since on the uncom
monly mercurial temperament of the Ameri
can poeple, and their liability to be led away
by gusts and flaws of panic. Even solid John
Bull, it seems, went roaring to his bank for
his guineas, jf the truth were known, indeed
wo suspect that all the commercial and cor
porate rottenness is not on this side the water;
queer stories about frauds and breakdowns
in England are being whispered already; the
Royal British Bank, it is (eared, was not an
unique specimen.
At all events, whatever change the virtual
suspension of the bank may cause, it is quite
evident that nothing can for the present re
store to England the control of the commer
cial affairs of tho world. That control has
been vested in the United States by force of
circumstances. The priority of our revulsion
here, and the suspension of our New York
Banks ; the sudden aggregation of specie
here, and the stagnation of trade, have placed
the United States in a position to command
the world in a commercial point of view. AVe
can exact specie for our cotton, and Europe
cannot do without it ; we can keep all our
gold, and England cannot take it from us.—
If our banks play t heir cards with ordinary
discretion this crisis will crown the commerce
of the United States as the controlling power
of the AVorld’s trade.
From Kansaa,
Sr. Louis, Dec. 2.
At a meeting at Lawrence, Kansas, on the
19th ult., for considering the action of the
late Constitutional Convention, resolutions
were adopted declaring the Lecompton Con
stitution to be a gross violation of tho ex
pressed wishes of the people 6f Kansas, a
fraud begotten of fraud, and solemnly pledg
ing themselves to resist to the last, all at
tempts to thrust it upon them ; repudiating
the election proposed to be held on the 21st
December; suggesting that if the Territorial
Executive does not immediately call a special
session of the Territorial Legislature that
Gov. Robinson call a special session of the
State Legislature at the earliest moment.
A resolution to recommend the appoint
ment of local Vigilance Committees, and sus
tain the action of those committees, was also
adopted. Whitman presided. Sjieeches were
made by Lane. Robinson and others. Seve
ral Pro-Slavery papers in the Territory take
strong grounds against the Constitution.
The Santa Fe mail has arrived. News un
important
Lieut. Wright, of New York, died sudden
ly at Alherquerqiic on the 20th of October.
The Democrat of this city, published the
Kansas Constitution. It contains nothing
ou the subject of slavery not heretofore pub
lished.
V. S. Seuator front South Carolina.
Columbia, S. C., Nov. 30.
Ex-Governor Hammond was to-day elect
ed by the State Legislature to fill the seat in
the United States Senate, made vacant by the
death of Mr. Duller.
Permanent Investment. —A “capitalist”
iu the country, s-ijs tho New York Independ
ent, some months ago, sent twenty thousand
dollars to a friend in the city, to invest iu
“good endorsed business paper.’’ It was
done. The whole amount matured during
the month of October. In all, there were
about twenty notes, and every single one was
protested. All the names, as makers or en
dorsers, save one, (an endorser) have cither
failed or suspended. One note out of the
whole batch, after going to protest, was tak
en up by the endorser.
Much wind has been expended by the
eastern press upon the unsubstantiality of
investments in Western lands and cities.
defy anybody to put his finger upon an in
vestment by eastern men in Minnesota land
which will show depreciation to compare with
the above. It is already beginning to dawn
upon eastern capitalists, and time will fur
ther vindicate the facts, that their surest and
safest investments will turn out to have been
their land “speculations” in the west 1
Minnehaha Engine Co., No. 2 have been
recognized by the City Council as a regularly
organized Fire Company, and admitted into
the Department, and their petition for one of
the new Engines have been granted.
Minnesota and Pacific Railroad.
I “Minnesota and Pacific!” This is rather
vague, as the designation of a railroad route;
but we understand that it is the corporate
name of the system of roads projected in
Northern Minnesota, from Stillwater to St.
Paul, and St. Anthony, and thence northwest
to the head of navigation, on the Red River
of the North, in the general direction of
Stevens’ route to the Pacific, with one branch,
even longer than the main route, from St. An
thony to Crow Wing, and thence to the Brit
ish line at Pembina. The destiny of these
600 miles of road, is clearly connected with
a future extension to the Pacific, since the
first route directly communicates with Ste
vens’ well known survey ; while the branch
route up the Mississippi, and to the Red Riv
er settlements between Pembina and Lake
. inne P e g, may prove even more important,
inasmuch as it will divert, in a southeast di
rection, and make tributary fo the Wisconsin
roads, the future commerce of the Saskat
chewan Basin of British America—a fertile
and inhabitable district 360,000 square miles
in extent, and beyond which practicable pass
es, are said to communicate with Vancouver’s
Island, and the Pacific coast.
Indeed, there is much reason to believe
that the British Government are now taking
measures for a railroad connection with the
Pacific, of which three sections—Sarnia to
Grand Haven, Milwaukee to St. Paul, and
St. Paul to Pembina or St. Vincent’s—will be
over Territory of the United States ; and it
is not improbable, that our own Congression
u on this vital question, may lay far
behind the secret, but resolute policy of Can
ada, and the Northern country.
~ readers will perceive at a glance, that
the Minnesota enterprise has an international
importance. We are informed that Edward
Rice, Esq., of St. Paul; the President of the
company, is now at the Newhall House, in
thi3 city, en route for Washington, with the
Maps of Definite Location of the entire main
route, and of the branch line from St. An
thony to Crow Wing. The surveys have
been satisfactorily effected, under the direc
tion of D. C. Shepard, Esq., Chief Engineer,
since July last, and the right of the Company
to the magnificent grant of lands by the last
Congress, will speedily be consummated.—
Such energy and celerity are remarkable,
even in a country so ‘‘fast” as Minnesota is
reputed.
We are informed that the western half of
the main route from Stillwater to the head
of navigation on the Red River, developes a
region of great beauty, hitherto unknown to
government explorers. Doubtless the Com
pany will publish the observations of their
surveying parties ; but it is a novelty in rail
road history that the stakes of a railroad line
should be the evidences of a First Discovery, >
for a district of country as large a 3 an aver
age Atlantic State.
We are encouraged to hope for further
particulars, expressly prepared for the col
umns of the Sentinel, of those unique Sum
mer Campaign’s of Mr. Shepard and his as
sociates in the Engineering Department of
the Minnesota and Pacific Railroad Compa
ny.—Milwaukee Sentinel.
What a St. Louis Man thinks of
St. Paul and Lake Como.
A St. Louis correspondent of the Madison
(Louisiana) Journal, writes thus :
Mr. Editor :—I am just from St. Paul, iu
Minnesota Territory, and cannot resist the
inclination to speak to you of what I have
seen. St. Paul is the largest, busiest and
most lively place, I venture to say, in the
world, of its age. There are five or six hun
dred men at work in the streets, and the
main thoroughfares 6eem almost impassible
from these and their works, to say nothing
of the great numbers of mechanics engaged
in building; yet, notwithstanding the exca
vations, embankments, ditches, and the piles
of mortar, brick and lumber that entirely
choak up the streets, men and women man
age to get aloug, and the main streets are
literally alive with people, all seeming to bo
in a great hurry. And then the elections
are approaching, and two rostrums or public
forums, as I believe they describe them, are
erected, from which public speeches are
nightly made. All in all, if the confusion at
the Tower of Babel excelled St. Paul as it is
at this time, history has not done justice to
the spectacle exhibited at that ancient edi
fice. Last Saturday night the gas works
were to go into operation, and the whole
city to be illuminated.
But the most pleasing thing I saw about 1
fet. Paul is Lake Como, two miles from the
city. The lake is a most beautiful body of
pure, underground spring water, covering
one hundred and forty acres cf land. Col.
Henry McKenty, the great land dealer of tho
M est, who owns a large quantity of laud on
the lake, has laid a portion of it off iu lots, '
to meet the demands of those wishing resi
dences there, and a village is rapidly spring
ing up. And as an instance of western spir
it, Col. McKenty has, at his own expense,
budt a turnpike road from St. Paul to Como,
(tho name of the village on the lake) at an
expense of over four thousand dollars. Many
other wealthyjmen are greatly benefitted by
this road, to say nothing of the public con
venience, yet he asked no one to contribute
a dollar, but paid the hands out of his own
funds every Saturday night. But to show
the discriminating character of the people up
there, the Colonel, before the road was fin
ished, sold lots enough at Como, at high
prices, to pay for a dozen such roads. If
there is a place in the world that approaches
to the beauties of Paradise, that place is
Como, near St. Paul. There is a beautiful
and costly yacht on the lake, belonging to
Col. McKenty, which is always at the ser
vice of his friends, besides other smaller sail
ing craft,
Come to St. Louis next spring, and I will
go with you to St. Paul, and then to Como,
where I am determined to buy a lot and
build me a cottage.
Fresh Irish Voting Material.
The New York “Irish American ” newspa
per thus lately closed an article on the May
oralty election, which took place ou the Ist
inst.:
There is not now a reasonable doubt that
May or Wood’s majority will be tho largest •
ever polled for the same office. Iu addition
to the large number of adopted citizens who,
almost without exception, voted for him last
year, over 2,000 have been naturalized since
the canvass commenced, and of these it is
not too much to say he will receive the sup
port of ninety-nino out of every hundred.
Counterfeiters Arrested.— Four young
men from somewhere on the Root River, in
Houston county, were arrested in this place
on Friday evening, for passing and attempt
ing to pass on several of our merchants and
bankers counterfeit bills of the denomination
of tens, on the Bank of Commerce, Cleve
land, Ohio. Two of them were tried before
Justice Simpson, on Saturday, and held to
bail in tho sum of §BOO each, to appear be
fore the next District Court. A man named
Carpenter, from La Crosse, gave the necessa
ry bail bonds, and one of the prisoners, nam
ed Gillett, subsequently fled, and cannot bo
found, which gives rise to the suspicion that
Carpenter is but the employer of tho others,
and connected with them in passing counter
feit bills, which ho receives by tho quantity
at some headquarters of manufacture. The
others were to have had their trial yesterday
afternoon, the result of which we have not
learned. —Winona Republican.
The San Francisco Vigilance Committee
has issued a proclamation revoking the sen
tence of death passed on persons banished if
they return. The proclamation expresses
confidence in the present city government,
and earnestly advise all the banished, that
though sentence of death is revoked it would
be much more healthy for them to remain
abroad than to return.
Careful Wife.— “ Charles, don’t go to
Boston with that hole in tho elbow of your
shirt” t
“Why not, my dfcar ?”
“Bc-cauae if the cars should run off the
track, and you should get killed, people ft
would think me a very negligent wife.”
Charles (buttoning up his overcoat)-,
“Ahem, yes, I dare say they would.”