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QBTER & MOQBE,
OLUME 7.
“ THE SOUL’S last sigh.**
e of our Eastern exchanges has been fia
with the following, entitled as above,
i contains the melancholy history of a
' lady who became enamored of a cer
lohu Smith, who was faithful until he
of a certain former Down-East flame
in “York State,” when, it appears, he
the steamboat line to pay a visit before
ng himself up to engagements. Lucy,
:own by this apparent desertion, thus
vent to her feelinks :
He’s gone across the sudsy »*«;
He’s crost the lake; waiter,
To sea Jerushey Anjyline,
Ben Souther's oldest dawter.
II i heart it is broke! I soon shall ill,
Ob, cruel, cruel John!
And when I’m dead and berrayed,
1 hope you’ll look upon
The grass that grose upon my tume,
Down in the woods so dark, •
Where all is sad and silent glome,
And strecked skwirrels bark.
And when you’r out at nite as late
As eleven o’clock or later, ,
And heer the wind whine through the tail-topped
pine,
Oh!!! think nv Lucy Baker.
And ef you marry that Jerushey
You’ve crost the laix to git.
Bemember that your deeris l.ucy
Died in konseqwnse of it!
i HONORABLE Henry H Sibley.**
a New York Tribune of the 7th of Dec.
alluding to the facts that were being
*d here concerning the forgery of votes
ct Mr. Sibley, Governor, copies the
neut that a return of 35 votes for Sib
lad been filed in the Secretary’s office,
>rting to have been cast at Kandiyohi
net, Davis county, when there was proof
, that only nine persons pretended to
here, and none of those legal voters—
f them being a boy only 16 years old !
the facts, the Tribune makes these
remarks :
is by such votes—or rather, by such
is—that Mr. Sibley is to govern Minne
or the next two years. His title will be
Honorable Henry H. Sibley.”
en are wc called upon to admire the in
irony the New York Tribune contrives
ivey by a few well chosen words, in
r juxta-position ; but never has it be
ipplied its hot iron with such seething
,as ic the simple sentence—“ His title
>e the Honorable Henry H. Sibley! ,:
e words, in their application to Mr. Sib
have even a finer point than the Tri~
could possibly have been aware of.
ere is probably no person in the Union
sets up for the possession of so large a
tity of honor of the most honorable
ty as the aspiring gentleman in ques-
ng in the Indian trade, and one of the
called Indian traders noted for tricks
unscrupulous dealings, he has always
ed himself in being “not as other men”
claiming to be above the meanuesses and
tionablc practices of his craft in their pe
r dealings.
hatever his fellows might be, he was of
rent clay—an “honorable” man of the
. aristocratic water!
e breathed nothing but honor—he slept
othing but honor—-his meat and drink
honor.
) insinuate even, that he was not the very
and body too, of that imaginary clement
3 Antony eulogised so much, would at
time excite indignant wrath in his own
>rable bosom, besides cause simultane
v his friends and flunkeys to hold up their
Is and to turn up the white of their eyes
ducks in a thunder storm, in the holiest
liveliest of all holy horrors at so sacrile
s a doubt, and at the iniquitous, and nev
)-be-Bufficiently condemned doubters,
ut it so happens, that in these latter days,
lge as it may seem, both doubts and
bters, in this regard, have been multiply
in a singularly great degree !
he session of the Constitutional Conven
s enlightened many minds touching the
.ity—the elastic caoutchouc properties—of
Sibley’s honor!
ohn W. North’s speech in the regular
stitutional Convention, was a perfect eye
ncr on this point.
herein he shows Mr. Sibley up, as, a few
s before the Convention assembled, de
acing to him the idea of admitting dele
:s from Pembina; and then he exhibited the
:rse of the coin: Mr. Sibley only a few
s after the session of the Convention corn
iced, endorsing the admission of the Pctn
-1 Delegates as perfectly correct and prop
ind participating in disgraceful revolution
antics mainly because the Republican
nbers proposed resisting the very outrage
had before denounced !
iuch tergiversation convinced a goodly
nber of people, that Mr. Sibley’s honor
j’nt prime stuff, nor any above the usual
mocratic average!
Vor did his speech in reply to Mr. North
vhich he equivocated and quibbled out of
dilemma, add to his reputation for hon
ble high-mindedness and straightforward
egrity.
In truth, the few awkward speeches—he’s
a speech as a bear is dancing a
-npipe—made by him in the bogus Con
ition over which he presided, had the palm
meanness, unfairness, misrepresentation
i intolerance, awarded to them pre-emi
atly over any body else’s diatribes in that
autiful body of runaways from the regular
invention. To most people’s minds, “Hal
i Dakota” invariably showed himself up in
i own speeches, as possessed of about as
ich fairness, high-mindedness, veracity and
nor as Betsy Baker, the qnakeress, showed
rself imbued with real piety, according to
e old rhymes :
“Betty Baker
She was a qu&ker.
She woald’nt dance
Bat she would— ■ Jib /”
—Amongst other peculiarities of action in
>at Convention which rather damaged Mr.
ibley’s honorable reputation, was the man
sr he treated Judge Sherburne, a gentle
.au who c position and character and ability
lould have enforced from Mr. Sibley res
ect and consideration, instead of Contumely
od insult. Judge Sherburne originated, in
Air. Sibley’s bogus Convention, a series of
isolations for compromising the difficulties
between the two Conventions, and by unit
ig on one Constitution, through the interpo
ition of a joint Committee of Conference,
thus save the Territory from the inconven
ience of two governments, horrors of
'tonseqnent anarchy. After baffling off the
h.
l
adoption of the compromise proposition as
long as he could, when finally the outside
pressure from an earnest people in favor of
the measure, rendered further opposition to
it hopeless, and Judge Sherburne s proposi
tion was passed, Mr. Sibley then violated
parliamentary rule and common courtesy in
his appointment of the Conference Commit
tee, by putting the mover of the proposition,
Judge Sherbukne, at the tail of the commit
tee and Gov. Gorman, its violent enemy at
its head, as the Chairman ; and this low-flung
conduct was understood to be dictated by
Mr. Sibley’s intent of still, through Gokman,
battling otf the compromise, in the fear lest it
might become necessary for the sake of ef
fecting it, to abandon the organizations of
both Conventions, and thus Henry H. Sib
ley’s name might possibly not figure in
large capitals at the end of a dooument call
ed a Constitution, as “President of the Con
vention /”
To gratify such a miserable vanity
os this did the interests of the whole peo
ple of Minnesota come near being sacrificed!
Is it surprising that the enlarged mentality,
and honorable dealing of a man who could
thus act, came to be more than doubted by
almost every person in and around both Con
ventions who did not also himself grovel low
in the depths of his own intense littleness ?
—But though these facts transpiring at
the Convention opened the eyes of a great
many to the fragil stuff of which Mr. Sib
ley’s reputation for intensely honorable con
duct was constructed, yet sufficient of the
old delusion in that respect still existed to
help secure his nomination as the Democrat
ic candidate for Governor; and during the
late canvass it also composed, together with
his personal beauty, the stock in trade upon
which he sought the suffrages of the people.
We pass over the mean advantages he took
when he and Gorman were travelling and
sleeping in the same bed together, on their
canvass of Southern Minnesota—when hav
ing the field to themselves, they indulged
freely in misrepresentations of his opponent,
and garbled and falsified Congressional docu
ments to injure him. On one occasion how
ever, Mr. Wilkinson unexpectedly appeared
to answer them ; and the way the “large and
beautiful,” if not very “ honorable ” man craw
fished on his slanders, was amusing to the
crowd !
—But compared with his recent honora
ble(!) conduct, in the State canvass of the
vote for Governor, all previous honorable
“meat on which this our Caesar feeds” was
but low and poor diet to an appetite like his,
whetted’up to an appreciation of trickery by
the select knavery of the Indian trade.
Whan the develop emeuts began some
time since to be made through the Minneso
tian, of the forgery of election returns in fa
vor of Sibley by the Democratic leaders and
their tools, it was really provoking to the
risibles of those who had found him out to see
how his “Ao/t&raWc” dodge still imposed
upon many people. Honest Democrats,
shocked at the bare-faced rascality of their
party that was being laid open to the public
gaze, were heard to say : “ Well, Mr. Sibley
is too honoraljle (!) a man to have anything
to do with an office so obtained—he would
not accept it if conferred by a technicality, or
procured through a fraud, with a majority of
the people’s votes fairly against him— he is
aJme any thing of that sort!” Even Repub
licans were green enough to express them
selves in a similar silly style; but our only
reply, when addressed with such balderdash,
was to laugh and say nothing more than
‘ Nous verrons —we shall see what we shall see.’
Even the senior editor of the Pioneer
Democrat, with a grave face, though doubt
less laughing in his sleeve, treated us to a
dish of the same absurdity. In the issue of
that journal of Sunday, Nov. '22, in the ar
ticle crying peccavi on the “fraud” controver
sy with the Minnesotian, the following talk
is given:
“We believe that Henry H. Sibley is
elected Governor of the State of Minnesota.
We mean by this, that he is elected by a
majority of the legal, legitimate votes cast at
the late general election. We therefore ex
pect that such will be the decision of the
Board of Canvassers, and that he will duly
aud rightfully take upon himself the responsi
bilities, aud enjoy the honors of that office.
We shall be rejoiced on personal as well as
political grounds, to see him fairly and hon
orably in that position. But we have no de
sire to see him there unjustly, and uebelie -x he
would not accept that or any position, unlaicf id
ly tendered. If the contrary should become
the fact—if the majority of the Board of
Canvassers prove recreant to their trust, and
second by their official sensation, any fraud
for the benefit of Mr. Sibley, or for any man
or party, we pledge ourself to denounce the
act as criminal, and its benificary as an usurp
er. We have no party ties which bind ei
ther our conscience or our patriotism; and
we shall seek from the latter rather than the
former, the light to guide us in this matter
to a just judgment, and to honorable action.”
The above contains wonderfully nice
words; and as words cost nothing, the edi
tor puts not only Mr. Sibley, but himself on
a very high and dangerous pinnacle for per
sous unused to dizzy heights, ou which pin
nacle he inscribes, also, such tall-sounding
verbiage as “honor,” and “conscience,” and
“patriotism,” using these words as freely as
though they were household words, instead
of being foreigners to the life and actions of
both. Mark 1 the lofty dodge of the sen
tence : “ We believe he (Sibley) would not ac
cept that or any other position unlawfully tender
ed' /*’ “ Fail ly and honorably,” the editor
tells us, he wants to see him Governor, or not
at all!
Extraordinary virtue ! Would anybody,
after noble declarations ol this kind from Mr.
'Sibley’s own organ and personal friend, ex
pect to see that “honorable” gentleman,
marching up to the Capitol, and into the
meeting room of the “honorable” Board of
Canvassers, and—having first ascertained by
comparing notes with the incomparable Sec
retary, that the several Registers’ returns of
the canvass of the votes cast respectively in
the counties of Chisago, Pine, Isanti, Meek
er, Chilton, Lake, Itasca and St. Louis, all of
which had given majorities for Ramsey—
were not on file in the office—or at least the
Secretary said they were not—then deliber
ately over his own signature loudly protesting
against the suffrages of the people of those
counties being counted at all by the canvass
ers, though the votes were all undeniably in
the offlee in the form of precinct returns ?
SAINT PAUL, MINNESOTA TERRITORY, SATURDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 26, 1857.
Such a protest, in manner and form as stat
ed, did the immaculate Mr. Sibley, actually
file, with the Board of Canvassers !!!
—Hera is a specimen of a nice, honora
ble (!) mao, one in whose month butter was
not supposed to melt, he was so “honorable 1”
This is the individual who “would not ac
cept” the position of Governor unless fairly
and honestly elected!
He would take advantage of no technicali
ties—oh no!
He wanted no illegal or bogus votes count
ed for him ! —he desired only what was just
and right, and was entirely above the trick
ery of getting into office in any other mode
than by the plain, straightforward old way,
in vogue before Democracy had “progressed”
so much, and that is, by obtaining more peo
ple to vote for you than your opponent could
for him!
But 0 ! poor, weak, miserable human na
ture ! How little its professions square oft
en with its practice! How the lust of of
fice poisons the spirit as those of the flesh
the body! What meaner or more dishonor
able thing for any man pretending to exalted
mind, to practice, than thus trying after this
style of Mr. Sibley, to elevate himself into
public station on a contemptible and unten
able technicality, by cheating the people out of
their inestimable privilege of choosing their
own officers to fill the places in their gov
ernment—a right and privilege which is the
corner stone of our republican institutions !
Bnt Mr. Sibley’s itching for office would
not let him continue to keep up the old dodge
of being such an honorable man, at the risk
of loosing the Governorship by any fastidi
ousness in keeping as many votes from being
counted for Ramsey, as by hook or by crook
he possibly could; and of having counted
for himself the forgeries his friends had been
so busy contriving for him!
—And 60, for the present only, we take
leave of “The Honorable Henry H. Sibley!!!’’
By the mail last evening, we received the
news of the organization of the Kansas Leg
islature. The many friends of C. W. Bab
cock, Esq., in this place will learn with pleas
ure of his election Speaker of the Council.—
Secretary Stanton sent in a Message on the
extraordinary condition of the country, and
after reviewing the formation of the Lecomp
ton Constitution, he recommended the pas
sage of an act directing an election to be
held under different officers on the same day
and in the same place provided for by the
proclamation of the President, and authoriz
ing the people to vote for the Constitution in
either form presented by the Convention ; al
so against the Constitution in both forms. He
also recommends the passage of a law mak
ing a fraudulent return of votes, felony, with
suitable punishment.
Great excitement exists in the Territory.
General Lane is said to have raised a force
of 300 volunteers to drive Calhoun & Co.,
out of the Teri itory, and not let the scoun
drels go through the farcical motions of an
election on the 21st inst. Important dis
patches of a military character arc en route
for Washington. Whether they refer to af
fairs in Kansas or Utah or both is not known.
Secretary Stanton Removed,
It will be seen by our news this morning
that Buchanan has removed Secretary Stan
ton. of Kansas. The removal was, no doubt,
hastened by the fact of the Secretary’s call
ing together the Kansas Legislature to head
off the Lecompton Constitution and Dictator
Calhoun.
A curious kind of a resolution passed the
Legislative Convention of Saturday last, sub
sequent to the election of the United States
Senators. It discriminated between Mr.
Rice and Daddy Shields, in regard to the
long (4 years) and short (2 years) term of
service in the Senate, in favor of Rice for
the long Coming from Mr. Rick’s
friends, as it did, it bears the aspect of a
pretty gross insult to Shields !
The adoption of the resolution is as much
as saying to the latter, “we have elected you,
old fellow—it was a hard dcse—but we swal
lowed it, and now want this resolution to
settle our stomachs and take the bad taste
out of our mouths !”
There is force in the excuse, but it is not
the less an insult to Shields. Being an
Irishman, however, he can stand a pretty
coarse hint, that his company could have
been dispensed with!
Resumptiou of Specie Payments.
The Associated Banks of New York resumed
specie payments on the 12th ; the Albany
Banks followed their example, and we are
informed that those of Boston will resume
to-day. With respect to New York and
Boston, there has hardly been a suspension
of specie payments in the full sense of the
expression, as for some time time back gold
has been held at a very trifling premium
above paper in those cities, and has often been
paid out of the banks in exchange for their
notes without any premium. The transition
has been so easy from a state of suspension
to that of resumption, that it has been ac
complished by the banks without an effort,
and the change has been more formal than
real. Their example will no doubt soon be
followed by the other suspended banks of the
country which are in a solvent condition.
Descent upon a House of 111 Fame
On Sunday evening, Capt. Morton, with a
Private or two, beard a disturbance in a well
known house of ill-fame below the Court
House, known as “ Minnie Wells.” The
Capt. procured a scantling, and using the
same as a battering ram, made a masterly
entrance into the front door, after failing to
get in by usual methods. Several of the
riotous party fled, closely pursued by the
Capt. who overhauled them near the Fuller
House. One of the party was fined §25
and costs, this morning.
Mr. John Martin, of London, is being put
in possession of “ Jenning property,” which
for so very long a period has been without
recognized heir. The cash he inherits amounts
to the inconvenient sums oC §80,000,000
while his income will be §1,250,000 per an
num. The inheritor has been wretchedly
poor all his prece ding life.
Late from Kansas.
An Insult to Shields.
INTENTIONAL 0
(OFFICE ON THIRD ST., BELOW CEDAR.)
New and Direct Road from the Lower
Bt. Croix to the Ram River and Upper
Snake River Pineries.
To the Editor* of the Minneeotian
Gentlemen :—Allow me to avail myself
of the use of your columns to state that du
ring the past two months, I have surveyed,
located and made ready for travel a road con
necting the St. Paul and Kettle River road
with the extreme east bend of Rum River, at
Cambridge, Isanti county. The southern por
tion of this road has been somewhat used the
past year by the settlers on the north branch
of Surise River, and adjacent thereto; but it
has never been put in proper order for load
ed teams until now. It diverges from Star
key’s old survey of the St. Paul and Kettle
River road on the north shore of Fawn Lake,
near the south east corner of Isanti County,
and about a mile or a mile and a half north
west of Wyatt’s. It is proper to remark,
that the St Paul and Kettle River Road has
never been opened or at all traveled north ot
the point where the new road I refer to di
verges therefrom, and probably never will be,
owing to its impracticable location—crossing
as it does an almost interminable labyrinth
of swamps. It is thus altogether probable
that that portion of the new road just open
ed extending from this diverging point some
six miles north to my settlement on the north
branch of the Sunrise, will eventually be adop
ted as a section of the St. Paul and Kettle
River Road. I have located this road upon
the only dry ridge that divides the chain of
swamps lying between the middle and north
branches of the Sunrise for four or five miles
on either side of where said ridge passes; in
short, I happened to strike the only key to al
low a practicable passage through from the
St. Croix to the waters of Rum River at the
point designated in the law authorizing the
road to be constructedj and I defy any en
gineer in Minnesota to successfully disprove
the assertion I here make.
From the point where this road strikes the
North Branch of the Sunrise to Cambridge,
the course is due west upon a section line
some six miles, and thence north-west abont
four miles to the designated point. It has been
cut through the timber and brush at least
twelve feet wide, and all the streams are well
and substantially bridged the entire length of
the road. In short, it is as good a winter
road as there is in the country, and a week’s
work next spring of two men and a yoke of
cattle, will make it fully ready for summer
travel.
It is proper to state in this connection, that
a road has just been opened by the authori
ties of Chisago County, some six miles long,
connecting Chisago City with the St. Paul
and Kettle River road, at Wyoming.* A
good road, I believe, has been some time
open to travel between Chisago City and
Stillwater ; so, that with what I have just
accomplished above Wyoming, and north
west from the St. Paul and Kettle River
Road, the lumbermen of Stillwater, Areola,
Marine, Ac., have nearly the whole chain of
their “near cut” to the Upper Snake River
Pineries completed. Brunswick, eighteen
miles due north of Cambridge, is in the heart
of these pineries, and to that point Mr. Sta
ples, of Stillwater, informs me he intends to
continue this road forthwith. If the coun
try through which he is to operate is as fa
vorable as I suppose it to be, he will not be
many days in doing his work. This route,
when fully opened, will shorten the present
traveled distance between Stillwater and the
scene of her heaviest lumbering operations at
least twenty miles. In the course of another
year, there will be as good accommodations
for travelers along this road as can now be
found on the old route.
In conclusion I would allude to the fact,
that no unsettled county ia Minnesota offers
at this time so grea t inducements to actual
settlers as does the county of Isanti. The
lands within her borders are subject only to
pre-emption. Her acres, generally speaking,
stand No. 1 for fertility; a large proportion
of her surface is covered with a dense growth
of hard-wood timber, comprising white and
bur oak, butter-nut, sugar maple, bass wood,
white and black ash, elm, See. Pure run
ning spring brooks, which never freeze in the
coldest weather known to our climate, are a
common characteristic of this county. Ex
tensive meadows of blue joint grass, growing
to the height of five feet, and from which
three or four ton of hay to the acre can be
cut, border these creeks, thus rendering stock
raising almost a laborless occupation in Isan
ti Plenty of that almost indispensible tim
ber for fencing and building—tamarack—is
also accessible from every quarter section, by
not going over two miles.
I have thoroughly explored the eastern
part ol the county, and state above strictly
the character of the land, without exagera
tion. The nearness of these lands to the
pineries, and to all the largest towns in
Minnesota, will make an everlasting market,
at high prices, directly at the door of those
who will open and cultivate them. I have
plenty of good claims picked out, and will
take pleasure in locating settlers upon them.
Yours, respectfully,
J. P. OWENS.
St. Paul, Dec. 18,1857.
Publishing Newspapers on Credit. —The
Rochester, N. Y., Democrat, whose office was
destroyed by fire last week, has re-appeared
on a handsome sheet. The editors state that
during the twenty years the Democrat has
been published, there was accumulated an
indebtedness of subscriptions of $50,000.
There are many old established papers in the
country which show an equal indebtedness of
subscribers to publishers. Is it any wonder
that the payment in advance system should
be insisted upon ?
Query ?—Did the Democratic members
run away from the Convention yesterday for
the purpose of defeating their own nominee,
or the nominee of the Republicans? We
pause f or a reply.
Who would’nt like to be a nominee of the
Democratic Caucus ? After the manner in
which they treated their nominee for Survey
or General yesterday, we chink that Mr. Al
bert Gowan of St. Anthony, will not be an
applicant very soon again.
There are 160 patients in the small pox
hospital at St. Louis.
MINNESOTA LEGISLATURE.
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1857.
Senate.— The Senate was called to order
at the usual hour, and opened with prayer by
the Chaplain.
Roll called, and Journal read.
notice of bills.
By Mr. BATES: A bill relative to the
disposing of the School Lands.
Also: A bill providing for the issue of
State Scrip.
By Mr. SKINNER: A bill to authorise
a road from Farribault to Wilton, in Waseca
Co.
By Mr. STREETER, for a state road from
Brownsville, on the Mississippi River, to Blue
Earth City, in Farribault Co.
Also : A bill relative to the election of
District Attorneys.
By Mr. RICHARDSON : A bill for the
location of a State Road from Lake Superior
to Grahem’s Point on Red River.
By Mr. HULL : A bill regulating the sale
of spirituous and malt liquors in the State of
Minnesota.
By Mr. MORELAND : A bill to author
ise the inhabitants of Farribault Co. to vote
to change the County Seat of said Co.
RESOLUTIONS.
By Mr. SKINNER : That the vote on
Mr. Moreland’s resolution of yesterday, be
reconsidered. Carried.
The resolution was then indefinitely post
poned.
On motion of Mr. COWAN, the Senate
went into
committee of the whole,
Mr. CAYE in the Chair, for the consider
ation of Bills No. 2 and 3, introduced by Mr.
Jones.
Bill No. 2, “authorizing the clerks of
Courts to grant orders of publication,” was
referred to the Committee on Judiciary.
Bill No. 3, extending the time for the col
lection of taxes for the year 1857, to April
1, 1858, was
On motion of Mr, LINDSLEY, amended
to read, July 1, 1858.
On motion of Mr. COWAN, the bill was
referred to- the Committee on Ways and
Means.
On motion of Mr. RICHARDSON, the
Committee rose, and reported the bills so
amended and referred back to the House.
The report was received, and the recom
mendations carried oqt.
Mr. COWAN then called np the resolu
tion of Mr. McKune, of yesterday.
Mr. McKUNE stated that the resolution
had already passed the Senate.
Several gentlemen spoke in regard to a
point of order, as to whether the passage was
valid.
Mr. JONES moved that the matter be re
ferred to the Committee on Printing. Lost.
Mr. CAVE moved a call of the House.
Messrs.’ VAN ETTEN and ROLETTE
absent.
Mr. DUNWELL moved that further pro
ceedings under the call be dispensed with.
Mr. LINDSLEY opposed. He thought
every one ought to be present during such an
important discussion. It was a move in
volving an expenditure during the session o
§SOOO nearly, and he wanted to see every
one in his place to express his opinion or
vote.
A motion to adjourn was lost.
Another dispute arose on a question of or
der in regard to adjourning.
On motion of Air. LINDSLEY, further
proceedings were dispensed with under the
call.
Mr. DUNWELL moved to adjourn unti
11 o’clock to-morrow.
The yeas and nays being called, the motion
prevailed, and the Senate adjourned.
Housf. —The House was called to order by
the Speaker.
Mr. BRADLEY, from the Committee on
Towns and Counties reported back the bill
in relation to extension of time in certain
Counties for the collection of Taxes and re
commended the bill to be engrossed. Report
adopted.
Mr. STARKEY from the Committee to
procure the translation of the Governor’s
Message reported that they had procured
the services of A. Chemidiin to translate in
to French, F. Orthwein into German, A. J.
Eckman in the|Swedish and S. Lunn in the
Norwegian. Report adopted.
Mr. DOW, from the Committee on Creden
tials reported that Mr. THOMPSON, had
presented a regular Certificate and was en
titled to a seat as a Member of this House.
Report accepted and Mr. THOMPSON was
sworn in.
The SPEAKER called Mr. KEITH to
the Chair.
RESOLUTIONS.
By Mr. STARKEY—That the Chief
Clerk be instructed to procure two maps of
Messrs. Holmes & Payte showing the loca
tion of County lines and Towns and Cities
and watercourses in the State, for the use
of this House. Adopted—ayes GO, nays, 10.
By Mr. STEVENS —That the Commit
tee on Ways and Means be instrncted to re
port to this House at an early day the pro
bable expense of the present Session of the
Legislature, and the probable amount of
money that will be necessary to defray the
expense of the Government for the ensuing
fiscal year. Adopted.
By Mr. STARKEY—That the Librarian
be instructed to procure copies of Statutes
of the different States as are not to be found
in the Library. Adopted—ayes 48, nays,
15.
By Mr. CHASE—That the Chief Clerk
be authorized to issue certificates of milage
to the several members of this House at the
rate $3 per every twenty miles travel in go
ing to and returning from the Capital, from
their several places of residence.
NOTICE OF BILLS.
By Mr. REHFELD—To incorporate the
Brown County Mutual Insurance Associa
tion.
By Mr. DOW—To allow the people of
Freeborn County to change their County
seat.
By Mr. STARKEY—To establish the
County of Stark.
By Mr. ATKINSON—A bill for the per
manent location of the Capital in some cen
tral location.
BILLS INTRODUCD.
By Mr. McGRORTY—To authorize the
Common Council of the City of St. Paul to
issue bonds for the completion of the Roberts
Street Sewer.
By Mr. ATKINSON—To act in relation
to Courts Judicial proceeding.
Also, an act in relation to the compilation
of the Statutes.
By Mr. BRADLY—An act to amend the
Charter and to legalize the acts of the Com
mon Council of the City of Shakapee.
By Mr. BUTTERS—A Joint Resolution
relative to the Winnebago Reservation.
SECOND READING OF BILLS.
To establish the County of Douglass re
ferred to Committee on Towns and Conn
ies.
To create Forwarding and -Commission
Merchants to Lien, Referred to Committee
on the Judiciary.
To establish the County of Monongalia.
Referred to Committee on Towns and Conn -
ties.
Adjournod to to-morrow at 11 A. M.
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 19,1857.
Senate. —The Senate was called to order
at 11 o’clock, and opened with prayer.
The roll called and Journal read.
By Mr. FOLSOM: That the Governor is
hereby required to lay before this Senate the
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returns, &c., of the official canvass, together
with the testimony on the returns, and the
record of the Board meetings.
Laid over, under the rules, one day.
Mr. VAN ETTEN, from committee on
Joint Rules, reported a code of rules for the
government in Joint Session.
The report was accepted and the commit
tee discharged.
On motion of Mr. SMITH, of Hennepin,
the report was laid on the table, and the
rules ordered to be printed.
Mr. NORTON gave notice of a resolution
to appoint additional members on some of
the committees. .
On motion of Mr. VAN ETTEN, the Sen
ate took a short recess.
Senate was again called to order, the roll
called,—when
Clerk CHAMBLIN, of the House, ap
peared with a message from that body, say
ing that they were now ready to meet the
Senate in joint session, for the election of
Senators and Lumber Surveyors.
On motion of Mr. VAN ETTEN, the
Senate went inso joint session.
House. —The House was called to order
by the Speaker pursuant to adjournment, and
then,
On motion of Mr. EAMES took a recess
till 12 o’clock AI., when they met with the
Senate in Joint Convention for the election of
United States Senators.
The members of the House rose in a body,
as the Senators appeared in the Hall. A
large number cf people were assembled in
the lobbies, and some ladies within the bar
of the House, drawn there by the unusual
interest of the occasion.
The SPEAKER of the House called the
Convention to order.
Mr. CHASE of the House moved that
its rules be the rules of the Convention.
Adopted.
Mr. STARKEY" offered the following res
olution :
Resolved, That the Convention proceed to
the election of U. S. Senators jn the follow
ing manner, viz: ‘t As each member’s name
is called, he shall vote for both Senators at
once, calling them by name ; if but one shall
be elected on the first vote, then the re
maining Senators shall be voted for.”
Air. BALCOMBE opposed the resolutton
for the reason thqt it was an unprecedented
method.
Mr. STARKEY said lie offered the resolu
tion merely to facilitate business.
The resolntion was lost by the following
vote:
Yeas —Alessrs. Adams, Banfill, Bailly,
Cave, Cowan, Day, Dnnwell, Hall, Hull,
Jones, Moreland, Skinner, Streeter, Air. Pres
ident, Bradley, Brqy, Butters, Crosby, Crut
tenden, Cummings, Davern, Decow, Dow,
E&mes, Foster, Frost, Fladland, Graham,
Hawkins, Kibler, Kinghorn, Le Blond, Locke,
Masters, Alackintire, M’Grorty, Alurphy,
O’Neill, Otis, Pierce, Poehler, Rauch, Reli
feld, Rutan, Scofield, Starkey, Stevens, AI.
Thompson, Tuttle, Vertress, Willson, and
Mr. Speaker.—sl.
Nays —Messrs. Bate 3, Beman, Carlton,
Chase, Cook, Folsom, Hodges, Hudson, IJpds
ley, M’Kune, Mixer, Nortkrup, Norton,
Phelps, Reiner, Ridpath, Richardson, Rolette,
Smith, Somers, Thomas, Van Etten, Watson,
Atkinson, Burgess, Carpenter, Chase, Cbow
en, Dunham, Gaskill, Gibson, Hanson, Heyd,
S. R. Johnson, Smith Johnson, Keith, Leon
ard, Libbey, Lord, Lyle, Parker, Peckham,
Pettie, Power, Randall, Seeley, Simpson,
Sheetz, Tattersall, Tefft, T. A. Thompson,
Townsend, Walker, Wakefield, Way, and
Young —6s.
Those whose names are in italics among
the nays are Democrats.
Air. VAN ETTEN moved a reconsidera
tion, and read the act directing the manner
of the election, which he contended required
that two Senators should be voted for at- th,e
same time, when that number was to be
elected.
Mr. BALCOMBE replied. He did not
see that either the language or the spirit of
the law would admit of that construction.
Other remarks were made by Messrs.
COWAN and NORTON.
The motion to reconsider was lost—ayes
55, noes 61.
The Convention then proceeded to the
election of one U. S. Senator.
Mr. VAN ETTEN placed in nomination
Henry M. Rice, of Ramsey county.
Mr. PIERCE nominated James Shields,
which created great excitement among the
Democrats, so much so that he withdrew his
name at the earnest solicitation of the friends
of Glen. S.
Mr. BATES nominated David Cooper, of
Ramsey county.
The Speaker announced that the clerk
would call the roll, and requested each mem
ber to rise in his own seat and announce his
choice. The following is the vote:
Those who voted for Mr. Rice, were
Messrs. Adams, Banfill, Bailley, Dunwell,
Carlton, Cave, Cowan, Day, Hall, Hull,
Jones, Mixer, Moreland, Northrup, Richard
son, Rolette. Skinner, Streeter, Van Etten,
Mr. President, Atkinson, Braoley, Bray, But
ters, Campbell , Carpenter, Chase, Crosby,
Cruttenden, Cummings, Davern, Decow, Dow,
Eames, Foster, Frost, Fladeland, Graham,
Hawkins, Kibler, Kinghorn, Le Blond, Locke,
Masters, Mackintire, McGrorty, Murphy,
O’Neill, Otis, Pierce, Poehler, Rauch, Rehfeld,
Rutan, Scofield, Starkey, Stevens, M. Thomp
son, Townsend , Tuttle, Vertress, Walker ,
Wakefield , Wilson, Young, Mr. Speaker.
Those who voted for Mr. Cooper, were,
Messrs. Bates, Beeman, Chase, Cook, Fol
som, Hodges, Hudson, Lindsley, McKune,
Norton, Phelps, Reiner, Ridpath, Smith,
Somers, Thomas, Watson, Bacon, Balcombe,
Bartlett, Bearce, Bevans, Burgess, Chowan,
Dunham, Gaskill, Gibson, Grover, Hanson,
Hinkley, Ileyd, S. R. Johnson, Smith John
son, Keith, Leonard, Libby, Lord, Lyle, Par
ker, Peckham, Pettie, Power, Randall, See
ley, Simpson, Sheetz, Tattersall, Tefft T. A.
Thompson, Way.
Number of votes cast 110
Henry M. Rice, received 66 votes.
David Coper “ 50 “
Mr. Rice having a majority of all the votes
cast, was delared elected United States Sena
tor from the State of Minnesota.
Those marked in italic, as voting for Mr.
Rice, are Republicans.
The Convention then proceeded to the
election of a second United States Senator.
Mr. STREETER nominated Gen. James
Shields, of Rice County.
Mr. BATES nominated Henry D. Efqff, of
Winona County.
The following named persons voted for Mr.
Shields:
Messrs. Adams, Banfill, Badly, Carlton,
Cave, Cowan, Day, Dunwell, Hall, Hull,
Jones, Mixer, Moreland, Richardson, Rolette,
Skinner, Streeter, Van Etten, Mr. President,
Atkinson, Bradley, Bray, Butters, Carpen
ter, Chase, Crosby, Cruttenden, Davern, De
cow, Dow, Eames, Foster, Frost, Fladeland,
Graham, Hawkins, Kibler, Kinghorn, Le
Blond, Locke, Masters, Mackintire, McGror
ty, Murphy, O’Neill, Otis, Pierce, Poehler,
Ranch, Rehfield, Rutan, Scofield, Starkey,
Stevens, M. Thompson, Tuttle, Yertress, Wil
son, Young, Mr. Speaker.
The following named persons voted for
Henry D. Huff:
Messrs. Bates, Beman, Chase, Cook, Fol
som, Hodges, Hudson, Lindsley, McKune,
Norton, Phelps, Reiner, Ridpath, Smith,
Somers, Thomas, Watson, Bacon, Balcombe,
Bartlett, Bearce, 'Bevans, Burgess, Campbell,
Chowcn, Dunham, Gaskill, Gibson, Grover,
Hanson, Hinkley, Heyd, S. R. Johnson,
Smith Johnson, Keith, Leonard, Libbey,
Lord, Lyle, Parker, Peckham, Pettie, Rowers,
Randall, Seeley, Simpson, Sheets, Tattersall,
EDITORS AND RUBDISHEBS.
Tefft, T. A. Thompson, Townsend, Walker,
Wakefield, Way.
Mr. Northrop voted for Air. Ramsey.
Whole number of vote* polled 11#
Mr. Shield* received ... 61 vote*.
Mr. Huff received ’ #4 «
The Convention then proceeded to the
election of a Surveyor General for the first
district, when Albert Stimpson, of Stillwa
water, received 109 votes and Mr. McKusick,
4. ’
Mr. CRUTTENDEN offered the following
resolution :
Resolved, That it is the wish of this Con
vention, that Henry M. Rice represent the
State of Minnesota in the Senate of the Uni
ted States foa the long term.
This resolution created some feeling among
the special friends of each. Several of the
anti-Rice Democrats objected to the Resolu
tion.
Mr. STARKEY moved that the resolu
tion lie on the table. Lost—Ayes 38, noes
71. }
Mr. STREETER moved an indefinite post
ponement of the resolution. Lost—ayes 39,
noes 66.
Mr. STREETER moved toadjonrn. Lost.
The question was then taken on the reso
tion, and decided in the affirmative. Ayes
64, noes 31.
The Convention then adjourned till 10
o’clock on Monday.
MONOAT, DECEMBER 91, 1397.
Senate. —The Senate was called to order,
Mr. COWAN, of Nicollet, in the Chair.
NOTICE OF BILLS.
Mr. ADAAIS : A bill to amend the laws
of the Extra Session of this year.
Mr. NORTHRUP : To locate the county
seat of Mille Lac Co. at Alille Lac.
REPORTS.
Air. VAN ETTEN, from a select commit
tee, presented a report on the resolutions in
troduced by in reference to the
qualifications of Territorial officers to hold
their offices under a State government, pre
sented a report which was,
On motion of Air. JONES, ordered print
ed. v
Mr. FOLSOM gave notico of a minority
report.
RESOLUTION'S.
By Mr. SOAIERS: That the Senate, with
the consent of the House, adjourn sine die,
on the 23d inst. at 12 M.
Air. FOLSOM moved that Mr. AlcKune’s
resolntion in relation to dispensing with the
Printing be taken from the table, pending
which,
On motion of Air. HALL, of Ramsey,
The Senater adjourned to go into Joint
Session with the House.
House.—The House met pursuant to ad
journment.
Air. CRUTTENDEN, from the committee
on credentials, reported that J. H. Talbert
had presented a regular certificate and was
entitled to Ins seat as a member of this
House. Report accepted, and Air. Talbert
sworn in.
I’liO House theu took a recess for a few
moments, when tne Senators appeared in the
hall, and the two Houses went into
JOINT CONVENTION,
For the purpose of electing Surveyors of
Lumber for the 2d, 3d and 4th districts.
Air, A”AN ETTEN moved the Convention
&djourq till the 7th of January. Lost.
Two other motions for adjournment to a
specified time were also made and lost.
Air. BATES moved that the Convention
now go into the election of a Surveyor Gen
eral for the 2d district.
\ T arious other motions were made when
Mr. FOLSOM moved the previous question
on Mr. Bates’ motion.
A call of the Convention was made, and
but $7 members answered to their names.
The Sergcant-at-Arms was directed to no
tify the absentees to appear in their seats.
Two hours having passed and the Ser
geant-at-Arms not having made any report,
the roll was again called and 62 persons an
swered to their name?.
Further proceedings under the call were
then dispensed with, and the Convention then
proceeded to the elect joa of a Surveyor Gen
eral.
Mr. BATES nominated Geo. A. Camp.
Mr. BRAY nominated Albert Gow&n.
Th< se who voted for Mr. Camp were,
Messrs. Bates, Beman, Chase, Cook, Fol
som, Hodges, Hudson, McKune, Northrup,
Phelps, Reiner, Redpath, Smith, Somers,
Thomas, Watson, Bacon, Balcombe, Bartlett,
Bevans, Burgess, Campbell, Chowan, Dun
ham, Gaskill, Gibsqu, Grover, Hanson, Hink
ley, Heyd, S. R. Johnson, Smith Johnson,
Keith, Leonard, Libbey, Lord, Lyle, Parker,
Peckham, Pettie, Power, Randall, Seeley,
Simpson, oheetz, Tattersall, Stevens, Tefft, S.
A. Thompson, Townsend, Walker and Way
—52.
Those who voted for Mr. Gowan were,
Messrs. Cowan, Richardson, Bray, Chase,
Otis, Talbert and tbp Speaker 7.
Mr. Camp was theu declared duly elected.
Mr. CHASE, of the House, moved that the
Convention do now proceed to the election
of a Surveyor for the 4th district. Carried.
Mr. NORTHRUP nominated J. R. Per
kins.
The vote was taken, when Mr- Perkins re
ceived 56 votes and J. B. Dixon I.
A quorum not having voted, it was declar
ed no election.
A call of the Convention was again called,
but the Convention soon after adjourned.
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1857.
Senate.-— Senate met, President in the
Chair.
Journal read and corrected.
Mr. FOLSOM, from a minority of the
Committee on Mr. Norton’s resolution, pre
sented a report which was ordered to be
printed.
Several members asked for leave of ab
sence, which wus granted.
BILLS INTRODUCED.
The bill of Mr. ADAMS’, relative to
amending the Statutes of the extra session
of 1857, was read once.
RESOLUTIONS,
By Mr. JONES of Fillmore : That the
Secretary issue certificates of per diem
and mileage to the members. Carried.
On motion of Mr. II ALU the resolution
of Mr. McKune was taken from the table.
Mr, PAY moved that the resolution be
indefinitely postponed. Carried.
A motion to reconsider was lost.
notice or BILL.
By Mr. RICHARDSON : A bill to Es
tablish the County of Jefferson. •
On motion of Mr. JONES of Fillmore, the
Senate adjourned for three days.
House —The House was called to order by
the Speaker.
The SPEAKER appointed the following
committees:
On State Affairs— Messrs. Young, Lyle,
Cruttenden, Wakefield and McGrorty.
On Internal Improvements— Messrs. Atkin
son, Smith, Joimson, Frost, Hinkley and
Crosby.
LEAVE OF ABSENCE.
The SPEAKER obtained leave of absence
for three weeks.
Mr. OTIS from the committee on the Ju
diciaiy to whom was referred the bill creat
ing a Forwarding and Commission Merchant’s
Lien reported a substitute for the bill refer
red to them.
On motion of Mr. DOW the report was laid
ou the table and ordered printed.
Mr. TEFFT introduced a memorial to the
KUMBEBIS.
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President for the indefinite postponement of
the sale of the Half-breed tract of Liks Pe
pin.
Mr. STARKEY introduced a Memorial to
Congress for an appropriation for ttte con
struction of a Wagon Road from Lake Supe
rior to the South Pass of the Rocky Moun
tains. . try.
The rules were suspended and the memo
rials read a third time and passed. Yew 62
Nays 0. .
SECOND HEADING OF BILLS.
Joint Resolution relative to
the title on the Sioux and Winnebijo In
dian Reservation.
A bill to authorize the Common Council of
the city of St Paul to issue bonds for the
completion of the Roberts’ street sewer. Re
ferred to committee on the Judiciary.
A bill in relation to courts and judicial
proceedings.
Also, a bill in relation to the compilation
of the Statutes. Both referred to the Com
mittee on the Judiciary.
A bill to amend the charter and legalize
the acts of the Common Council of the City
of Shakopee.
EXTENSION OF TIME FOE COLLECTION OF TAXES
The bill for the extension of the time to:
the collection of taxes m certain counties
coming op for its final passage,
Mr. DOW said he was opposed to the man
ner in which the bill proposed to extend the
time. He did not think it was right or con
stitutional to extend the time in a few instan
ces and deny it in others. He advocated the
passage of a general law for the extension of
the time for the collection of taxes through
out the state.
Mr. BALCOMBE moved that tho bill be
re-committed to the committee on Towns an >
Counties.
Mr. DOW opposed the re-commitaoentand
Mr. RUTAN advocated it.
The motion to re-commit was lost.
Mr. BRADLEY advocated the passagv of
the bill. If he were satisfied that a general
law could be passed he would be willing to
see this bill fail; bat the vote taken the o ti
er day convinced him that no such law cod i
be passed. As to its entire constitutionally
be had no doubt.
Mr. BRAY and Mr.. EAMES advocated
the passage of the bill.
Mr. LORD was opposed to the bill fcr
special reasons. He was opposed to the siig
ling out of a few counties and denying the ex
tension to others. He was opposed also br
the reason that it would allow the tax colla
tors to retain what money they had alretdy
collected in their own hands till the Ist of
June, when the State needed the money.
Mr. T. A. THOMPSON was in fevor of
the bill if it was constitutional. He knew it
was the wish of his constituency.
Mr. KEITH was opposed to the bill bdh
on principle and expediency. He didiot
think the formers would be any better pre
pared to paay their taxes next J une than
they are at present. We might as w<!]pa&*
a law far the staying of all debts as t) stay
the collection of taxes. The third seaion ot
the bill w&s then stricken out by unsiimoua
consent.
The vote was then taken and the l>3 pass
ed. Ayes 41, nays 16.
The following are counties in whih the
time for the collection of taxes is exteided i
Scott, Fillmore, McLeod, Houston, Olnsted,
LeSueur, Blue Earth, Meeker, Morisor.,
Dodge, Rice, Anoka, Brown and Wabafcaw.
COMMITTEE OF THE WHOLE.
On motion of Mr. RUTAN, the Hw*cr
went into Committee of the Whole, Mr.
Pierce in the Chair, for the considerttion of
the House file of bills.
The Joint Resolution relative to the Indi
an Reservation, and
The bill to amend the charter and le;aiizo
the acts of the Common Council of tin city
of Shakopee, were considered.
When the Committee s of the Wholerose r
the joint resolution was referred to theCo’U-'
mittee on Indian Affairs, and the bill to the
Committee of the Judiciary.
NOTICE OF BILLS.
By Mr. OTIS : An act to authorise the
business of Banking.
Mr. McGrorty moved to lay the res>lutioni
on the table. Lost—ayes 18, noes 41
The House then adjourned.
Hamllne University.
This institution, under the control ofthe
Methodist Denomination, is the only qd in
successful operation, as yet, in Minnesot.—•
We have received a circular issued ly ita
trustees, calling on its friends for help. .The
circular says:
“The course of study is practical am com
plete. Christianity is the basis of k mor
als. The whole Course is intended to be
thoroughly Christian, as well as ClassndamJ
Scientific. Sectarian prejudice and Igotry
will not be tolerated. Our plan is-; x> raise
an ample endowment first of all. Qc build
ing is respectable, and will do for sole time
yet. We intend to deserve patronap by the
character we maintain, rather thanby mag
nificent buildings. We confident! throw
this whole enterprize, with all its a told con
sequences, into the benevolent ana of the
Church. We most sincerely andearnestly
ask the good people of Minnesota ir a suui
not less than $200,000. The sirring age,
the growing West, the untaught troths, the
cause of Jesus, demand that we ball go on
with this work. Hamlioe Univerety must be
the object of our prayers, laborstnd bene li
cence, until it shall pass its youb, and out
live its perils. We expect to rea: here, min
isters, teachers, statesmen, enginera and in
telligent workmen in all honoraria avoca
tions, for our Young State; who females,
educated equally, shall go from or to
bless the happy homes of our childen’s chil
dren. We need now, and most hav soon, at
least $200,000. We ask oar friend to seed
us all the students they can, and gre us ;A*
the laud and money they can.”
Young America.— A youth, whoe fether
had been complained to by the techer of
the tricks of his son at school in Ina—w<. 11,
we shan’t say where. But the father took
his son to tack upon his uDtractable bdttvior
at school, and urged upon him the nehisity
of better conduct.
The teacher had overheard the cdlequy
between father and son, so next dav when
the lad appeared at school, the teacher, by *
way of “nailiDg home” the good advice given
by the father, addressed his pupil thus:
“I overheard your father, last night, rec
ommending you to behave better, and—
«Ob ! you did, eh F said the pupil; «won
derful how some things come to fight-i-fatk
er missed some meat this.moraine!”
The teacher fainted.
A dun was somewhat taken aback Hie othl
er dap by the coolness with which the debt
or said, “Call next Thursday, my dear sir,
exactly at 10 o’clock, and I’ll tell you when
to call again 1” Cool—was’nt it ? The fact
was, he bad in view the changing bis lire of
business in to one more profitable, called the
“suspension line,” by which fortunes are
made with the dash of a pen 1 It is a great
business nowadays.
Keep your best foot foremost” says the
adage. But if there is any difference be
tween a man’s feet, and ho keeps tbs best
foremost all the time, be must either sta r .d
still for ever or move very awkardfy.
Rev. Mr. Finney, the revivalist, hah been
engaged to hold a series of meetings at Boa
ton this winter.
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