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WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 8, 1855.
Be Consistent! —Yc who have been pra
ting so loudly for a Republican Party and an
unexceptionable candidate, be consistent and
cotnc up to the work manfully. He who al
lows his prejudices in the present campaign to
outweigh his sense of duty—who sacrifices
principle! because lie was defeated in the selec
tion of bis candidate, is unfit for office, and
will most assuredly receive none at the hands
of the Republicans. We want men in our
ranks upon whom we can rely and who act
from a s-nsc of right, and not from the capri
ces of the hour. With such men, victory is
certain, but with men who exhibit little or no
interest, the cause will linger along and finally
die out. The great requisite in all political
movements, is bark-bone, and without this ele
ment in the Republican movement, it would lie
better for us to abandon the field, and retire to
the cloisters of private life. All, therefore,
who desire to see the Republican Party suc
cessful, should be upand doing—should lose no
opportunity to consult with each other and to
do what lays in his power, to advance the cause.
We are not fighting bold soldiers, but skulking
Indians, who fire from behind every bush, —
hence the necessity for vigilance—vigilance
and action !
Lit it he Remembered— That one of the
reasons assigned by the St. Croix Union for
supporting 11. M. Rice, is that “He is a firm
friend of Douglas, and ( Jen. Shields, and a sup
porter of the present Administration.”
Another reason is that “Those ichosupport
“.Mr. Hire may do so with the assurance, that
“anything he can do fur them, honorably and
“justly, will be done, should he be elected."
“1 cannot say anything against Mr. Rice, al
though I believe him to be a corrupt man,*’
wrote a friend of ours some time since, “because
be got me a claim at Lake Superior for nothing
and this is the man whom we are told must be
sent back to Congress in order that bis particu
lar friends may be rewarded. But all are not
so lucky as our friend was. That honest-heart
ed son of Erin did not get his lots piombed to
him last fall, in consideration of services ren
dered; nor did that young aspiring gentleman
get the office promised him. Nor will others
who are now promised innumerable lots and
“fixius,” realize one cent. Still, if in the face
and teeth of these tilings they are willing to
become the tools of others, they will be the los
ers—not us.
Minnesotians! —The eyes of every lover
of freedom in the States are upon you. Your
friends are waiting to know what course you
will pursue—whether by your vote this fall you
will proclaim in favor of the Rights of man, or
whether you will take sides with those who are
seeking to perpetuate and extend the area of
slavery, and thereby give countenance to the
originators and consummators of the Nebraska
fraud. What will you do l For whom will you
vote ?
Sir.xirir axt. — The St. Anthony Express
keeps at its head the motto—‘‘principles—not
men”—while just below it is the following—
“ Democratic Nomination for Delegate—Henry
M. Rice.” The Express used to advocate
Wh ig Principles,—it is bard to tell where it is
now. W ell, let it go,—it can't hurt anybody.
EOT The St. Anthony Express(Democrat!)
says that our articles on Henry M. Rice, are
“truthful and brilliant.” We knew that before
neighbor, but we are none the less under obli
gations to you for admitting what you cannot
deny. We ure well acquainted with the posi
tion occupied by Mr. Marshall, and so arc
the people, and we feel quite sure that you will
lie better acquainted with his position after the
election in October.
We learn, says the Galena Advertiser, that
Col. R. H. Mason has resigned the post of Su
perintendent of the Illinois and Central Rail
road, and that he is to take immediate charge
of the one contemplated running west from Du
buque.
The above is the Dubuque and Pacif
ic Railroad, und Mr. Mason takes the contract
on condition that SIOO,OOO will be raised by
the citizens and SIOO,OOO by the city. Thirty
miles are to be completed. If the money is
not raised, the contract will be thrown up.
Bi tter F.ykd To*. —A lady was passing home
ward alonj- sixth street, N. Y., one cvenirg Inst
week, with a bucket of butter. A gentleman ap
proached her in a rather ungcntlemanly manner.
Without hesitation she knocked off his hat and
overturned the contents of the bucket upon his
head. The night was warm, so was the butter,
and while the gay Lothario was wiping the oily
stream from his over running eyes, tho lady made
good her escape. Tho gentleman is expected to
reccivo the cognomen of “ butter-eyed Tom.”
Mr. Selby informed us yesterday, that
he had realized over s,‘loo on the sale of pota
toes which were raised on two acres of ground,
and they are not all dug yet. He had ripe toma
toes from his garden two weeks ago.
CST* Among the marriages recorded at the
City Register's office in Boston, Mass., within
a few weeks, is that of a colored man of forty
to a white girl of nineteen.
Chicken-Hearted. —We should judge that
the writing editor of the Democrat (Satanic,
we mean,) was a chicken-hearted chap, for
scarcely an article appears in the Times, with
out “ provoking him to tears.” We recom
mend a bottle of Nervous Cordial. He should
be careful, or like his illustrious leader, he may
faint before the campaign is over.
Repuhlicans! —Don’t be idle, Republicans!
—money is being freely circulated throughout
the Territory to defeat your candidate and your
cause. The most unscrupulous schemes are
being made, and unprincipled men are being
enlisted into the army to fight against Freedom.
British gold could not buy our forefathers, let
it not be said that Wall street gold can buy
their decendants.
St. Anthony Express. —This poor old
broken down, miserably conducted shipjlic sails
of which have been flapping in the wind for
some time past, and whose ruder has been man
aged by a dozen different hands, has finally
cleared the shoals and fogs that have surround
ed it, and entered the port of expectancy (as a
matter of course expecting something) bearing
on board one of its owners—H. M. Rice. The
old vessel is to be repaired, and will start on an
unknown cruize in search of the “ needful,” as
soon as a sufficient number of good seamen can
be shipped.
Magnificent Coacii. —Mr. Dorsey, of the
Winslow House, has just purchased and put in
running order, a magnificent coach, the cost of
which could not be far from SSOO to S6OO. It
is a large vehicle and will seat twelve persons
comfortably. It is unsurpassed by any we have
seen in New York city or elsewhere, and can
not fail to attract the attention and call forth the
admiration of both citizens and strangers. Mr.
Dorsey is determined to make the Winslow
House the House of the North-West.
Mr. Blanchard, an old and wealthy resi
dent of Illinois, is now in this city, and while
conversing with him yesterday, ho remarked that
although he had traveled a great deal through the
U. States, there was no part of tho Union which
had so many promising features in his estimation
as Minnesota.
According to the old saying, (that what every
body says, must be true.) Minnesota must be the
choicest limb of the whole Union, for almost ev
ery man who visits the Territory speaks as though
he would like to make it his future home.
Efyy' One of Wheeler’s Slaves, who disap
peared mysteriously in Philadelphia, is in N.
York city. She denies being taken from Mr.
Wheeler by force, but states that she was in
duced to make her escape by some of her own
people. It will be remembered that Mr. Wil
liamson was placed in prison by Judge Kane,
on the charge of having the Slaves in his cus
tody. This developcment proves that Mr.
Williamson was innocent.
Will de Exposed. —Grievous complaints
are made by the residents in St. Anthony-st.,
above the Winslow House, that the boards com
posing the side-walks are stolen almost every
night. It may be well for those who have been
in the habit of purloining this property, to know
that if they persist any longer in their thieving
propensities,They will be exposed.
New Buildings. —We learn that several
new and costly brick buildings are to be erect
ed in St. Anthony street, just above the resi
dence of Mr. Selby. That portion of our city
is becoming noted as a place for fine resi
dences.
££§“ The sufferers by the bombardment of
Grey town, have presented their claims at
Washington, which amount to the enormous
sum of $-3,000,000 ! Oh Grey town ! Mag
nanimous Administration! Brave General
Pierce.
First Locomotive. —The first locomotive
ever in the State of lowa, was received at Da
venport on the 19th. It is called “ Antoine
Lc Clair,” in honor of the gentleman by that
name who subscribed $25,000 to the stock of
the Missouri and Mississippi Railroad.
Substantial Buildings. —More substan
tial buildings are in course of erection in this
city this year, than at any period before. They
arc built mostly of brick and stone.
ftST’’ A large number of strangers continue
to i,rrive among us. Most of these are on
pleasure trips, or are recreating for their
health.
JfeiP* The London Times states that Sir
William Molesworth is to succeed Lord John
Russell.
Prostrated. —Twenty men were prostrated
by the heat of the Sun one day last week, while
at work on the Wabash Valley Railroad.
Tin shirt collars are manufactured in
Philadelphia. They are warranted not to wilt.
Fruit. —We were informed on Saturday, by a
gentleman from Bond Co. 111., that a farmer re
siding in that county, had realized an income of
two thousand dollars from his orchard numbering
two thousand six hundred trees, and that the es
timated value of the fruit raised in the whole Co.,
was fifty thousand dollars.
Theatre. —Mr. W. R. H. Scott, of Faris, Ky.,
soldo valuable farm in lndinnaf olis, a few days
since, for which he received several hundred dol
lars inpayment. He then visited N. Y.: went to
the Theatre ; —got into bad company ; —lost the
track of himself ; —wns knocked down, and rob
bed of $1,600. This comes of attending Thoatres.
The water was two feet deep in some of
the streets of Evansville, la., during the late
storm.
(£y The New York papers mention the death
of Major J. S. Brown, formerly of the U. States
Engineer Corps. He died at Naples, aged 59
years. He was selected by the Emperor Nicholas
to superintend an important railway work.
ty During the year ending the 30th of July,
1555, there were 15,068,366 acres of pnblie land
sold, realizing to the Government the sum of $lO,-
572,914.
Cy Ador A. Smith, clerk in the P. O. at Rich
mond, Pa., has been arrested on a charge of por
oining letters.
ST. PAUL, MINNESOTA, TUESDAY, AUGUST 14, 1855.
Fur tlic Times.
THE PEOPLE’S DEMOCRACY.
It is time for the friends of liberty in Minnesota
to commcnco in earnest the dissemination of their
principles among the people. For the promotion
of a great cause, which involves the future wel
fare of Minnesota and the West, let us magnani
mously drop every minor difference and enlist un
der the broad banner of the Republican party ,
which, at this crisis, floats proudly and triumph
antly above the weak factions and political cor
ruptions of the hour. If we would servo success
fully the cause of universal liberty, we must uni*e
boldly, and irrespective of every old party consid
eration. The cause of freedom is the first cause.
It is democracy in its highest and most unadulter
ated condition. Freedom and Democracy belong
to each other. They are twins. Those who would
sever this sacred connection, are destitute of the
first elements of real democracy. A True Demo
crat, even though he be a southerner and a slave
holder, cannot consistently advocate the extension
of slavery into free Territory. There are thou
sands of southern men,who,if they dared to speak,
would unite with the north in their sacred endea
vours to aid the cause of liberty. Those who are
unselfish and honest, admit that slavery is an evil.
They desire to see it checked! Fanatical aboli
tionism we despise! We revere the American
Constitution and shall live and die in its support.
It concedes all that a reasonable slaveholder
should desire. It concedes for the sake of the
Union, a bare toleration of the institution of sla
very! Its spirit, however, is undeniably the
spirit of liberty. It is radically opposed to the
propagation or extension of Slavery! The man
who denies this is either a knave or a fool. He
surely is not a Democrat, according to the true
meaning of the term. The word “ Democrat ”
means a friend of the people. How is it possible
for an advocate of slavery and its extension to be
a sincere “ friend of the people ?” No—such a
man is the friend of his own insignificant self a
lone. He cares for the people, only so far as he
thinks they inay aid him in his aspirations after
office and power! The people love liberty—they
hate slavery—they have been bamboozled by de
magogues and hoodwinked bv obsequious office
vultures long enough. They have borne dictation
and insult, until forbearance has ceased to be one
of the virtues! They begin to sec through the
thin marks of mere names ; —they are beginning
to look at great principles in their naked light,
and to despise tho hypocritical devices of ambi
tious men! It matters not by what party epithets
men may call themselves—some men would pro
fane the name of the Almighty, or take upon them
selves the name of the prince of Darkness, if by
so doing, they could secure some lucrative posi
tion, at which they aim ! One thing is true—real
democracy cannot exist in the mind or heart of a
man, who seriously advocates tho extension of
slavery ! A love for tyranny and liberty cannot
at the same time find a dwelling house in man.—
We aro aware that tho present administration
makes great pretensions to democracy. It is all
shame —hypocricy —meanness —injustice and im
becility ! It is an administration, which prostit
uted the honour of the national government, at
the base shrine of selfish interest. It has neglect
ed the people—abused its authority and inflicted
the deepest insult upon every free citizen of the
great northwest. But justice, which has been so
wnnton'y tiodden under foot, will assume her
sway and terribly avenge the desecration of her
throne ! Retribution is sure to follow in the wake
of sin ! The time is near for Minnesota to strike
a glorious blow for liberty. Let us not be decei
ved ! our honour—our interests —our future arc
all at stake! Mr. Rice is identified with the Pierce
administration and with the passage of its most in
fernal act —the Nebraska Iniquity !--shall we vote
for him with this millstone about his neck V What,
can lie do for the Territory in an Anti Nebraska
Congress with such a medallion about him S’ —wnh
the abject form of slavery engraved upon one side,
while upon the other these words glitter forth in
bold relief:
“ The people of Minnesota swuliow Nebraska
—they love slavery—despise liberty- and worship
the immortal, the blessed names of Douglas and
Pierce?” llow much more potent and influential
would be the voice of Freedom's champion in the
national halls,of our Marshall—with modesty up
on his brow and the Spirit of Freedom radiating
from him—with no such motto as the above—but
with the principles of honor and liberty and truth,
inherent in his nature as a man, and stamped up
on him ns a delegate, by the friends of freedom in
the West! Common Sense.
St. Paul, August, 1855.
Wanted. —A young lady of fine personal ap
pearance, eighteen j ears of age, is in want of a
husband. She fullv understands the science of
Housekeeping, and feels confident by her amiable
disposition, supported by a well cultivated mind,
she is capable of rendering home happy. Pos
sesses an income of SISOO a year. None over 35
years of age need apply. Address, Jennie, Flat
tevillc Post office.
Come out to St. Paul, Jennie, we have quite
an overplus of bachelors in this city, with some
of whom you can probably form an alliance, such
ns you desire.
For further particulars apply at this office.
C 5?" The Boston Herald, of Wednesday, has ac
counts of two liquor cases, where the jury con
tinues out, and are never likoly to agree. Charles
Abbott, for selling liquor, was sent to jail for six
ty days; Alexander Long and Henry Harris, for
a similar offense, were fined SIOO each, and costa,
and required to give bonds to behave well in fu
ture. The coffee house keepers hare come to the
conclusion that they are safe in Cincinnati now,
let them look at Boston and we shall sec
what!
£-stT“ About thirty {ramblers were arrested
in St. Louis, on the 13th ult., together with some
distinguished gentlemen from Illinois and Mis
souri, whose names were surpressed on account
of their respectability. An exchange says—
and we agree with it—that “the custom of sur
passing the names of distinguished indi
viduals when detected in disreputable and un
lawful practices, is becoming too general, and
should be abolished. Let rogues in fact be
rogues in reputation; and many of the counter
feits now passing current in society, will be es
timated according to their metal.”
gy The proprietors of the London Times hav
ing offered a premium of £I,OOO for tbe discovery
of a new mrterial for making paper, a Mr. Watts
is about to claim the premium, he having produ
ced an admirable article from wood shavings and
bran, and obtained a patent for it.
is said, for playing two hundred nights in Amer-.
ica, $250,000, besides all her traveling expen
ses.
Years ago we often met the
man whose poetry has been read, sung and ad
mired throughout the Union. He wore a glaz
ed cap, which was usually drawn over his eyes,
and an old camblet cloak which hung loosely
on his rounded shoulders. He moved through
the streets slowly and thoughtfully, scarcely
ever raising his eyes, and then to gaze vacan
tly upon whatever object or person they fell.—
He studiously eschewed society, and rarely if
ever was seen walking with a companion. In
conversation he was as mild and as gentle as a
child. No one was permitted to enter his dom
icil. It was as sacred as the inner temple of his
heart, and it was as impossible to reach one as
the other. The door was invariably locked,
and he glided in and out of it like a spirit.—
The cause of the Poet’s eccentricities, is attrib
uted to disappointment in love, and doubtless
this is so, for the sudden change in his demeanor
on meeting a married lady in the city of New
Haven, tells the tale too plainly.
Many, in fact all, of Percival’s productions
breathe the true spirit of poetry, whether his
subject lie of the l>attle field or of the more
quiet walks of life. Who has not read his lines
on “Consumption,” without feeling that the poet
has the key of the human heart and can un
lock it at his pleasure ? Sweetly he sings:
Rachel is to receive, it
THURSDAY, AUGUST 9, 1855.
THE POET PERCIVAL.
The poet Jainea G. Percival holds the of
fice of State Geologist, (Wisconsin,) having
been appointed by Gov. Barstow, about a year
ago, since which he has resided there. Though
dressed shabbily, when you look at his face,
you forget his apparel. His nose is hooked
and thin, his eye is grey, his mouth closed, his
forehead high and broad, with the shade of un
happy years and torturing thought upon it.—
His timidity is unconquerable; he is now as
bashful as a child—he is frightened at his own
voice in a strange circle, never speaks until he
is addressed, shuns society, and seeks no friends.
Devoted to his duties, he spends his days in min
eral holes and quarries, and his evenings in re
cording his observations, and his nights in quiet
sleep. He is quite poor, depending upon his
profession as a geologist for his support. Mr.
Percival has a house in New Haven, where,
“when not employed abroad, he may enjoy,”
says the New Haven Journal,“all the solitude of
a recluse, and, shut up with his cherished books,
forget the world which so much regrets his own
seclusion from it. This is a queer looking ed
ifice, fronting on Park Place, below George st.
the design and object of which would sadly
puzzle the inquisitive stranger. It is a stuccoed
iiouse, of one story, apparently sixteen feet
between the joints, with three long windows on
the front, dead walls on each side, and no door
way visible. This queer structure is the resi
dence of the poet James G. Percival, whose
morbid dread of mortality, or rather the society
of his fellow men, has been gratified in the
style of his mansion. The entrance is in the
rear of the house, approachable by a path which
his unfrequent footsteps have hardly worn in the
turf. The comforts of a home are apparently in
cidental to the safety of his library', and are pro
vided in more restricted rooms in the rear of
the house.”
“Thor* Is asu-cetnoss In woman’* decay.
When the light of beauty Is lading away,
When the bright enchantment of youth Is g> no,
And the tint that glowed anti the eye that shone,
And darted around its glanecof power.
And the Up that vied with the sweetest flower
That ever In I’jestwn’o garden blew,
Or ever was steeped in fragrant dew,
When all that was bright and fair Is fled
Hut the loveliness lingering round the dead.*’
And then how affectionately he makes “The
Deserted Wife” watch for the coming of her
inebriate husband:
“ne conics not. I have watched the morn go down,
Hut yet he comes nol. Once It was not so.
He thinks not how these bitter tears do flow
The while he holds bis riot in that town.
Tet he will come, and chide, au.l I shall weep;
And he will wakeniy Infant from Its sleep,
To blend Its feeble wall.ng* with my tears.”
But notwithstanding all this, she cannot hate
him,and exclaims:
« I would, with kindness, all my wrong* repay,
Until the penitent should weep and say,
How Injured and bow failhlnl I bad been.”
Who does not recognize the picture as a
true one?
But it is not simply with the feelings that the
Poet plays. The wings of his muse are of al
most every hue. He loves “ New England,”
and hear what he says of those who died in
defending it:
*• Hail to the land whereon wc tread,
Our fondest boa«t;
The serulchre ul mighty dead,
The truest hearts that ever bled.
Who s'ecp on Glory’s brightest bed,
A fearless host;
No slave Is hero; our unchained feet
Walk freely as the waves that heat
Our coast.
Then* Is no other land like thee,
No d'-arcr shore J
Thou art th - shelter of the free;
Tbe home, the post of Liberty,
Tliou hast been, and shall ever be,
Till time Is o’er.
Ere 1 forget to think upon
My l tnd, shall mother curse the son
She bore.”
In a less bolder strain he says of “ Genius
Slumbering:”
“ lie sleeps forgetful of his once bright fame >
lie has no feeling of the glory pone;
lie has no eye to catch the mountain flame,
That once In transport drew his spirit on;
He lies In dull, oblivious dreams, Dor carvs
Who the wreathed lanrel bears.”
What a vivid picture he brings to view in his
lines “ To Seneca Lake:”
“On thy fair bosom, silver lake,
The white swan spreads his snowy sail,
And round his breast the ripples break.
As down he bears before tbe gale.
now sweet at set of sun *o view
Thy poMeu mirror spreading wide,
And sec the mist of maritime blue,
Float round the distant tnoun'ain side.”
We have room but for one more extract—
“ The Flight of Time,” and as beautifully and
sweetly does his versification flow along as
does the “ falling river,” to which he alludes:
Faintly Sow then falling river,
Like a dream that dies away;
Down to ocean gliding ever.
Keep thy calm, arrnffled way;
Time with ndt a silent motion
Floats along on wings of air,
Towtemlty’s dark ocean,
Burying all Ita treasures there.
Boses bloom and then they wither;
Cheeks are bright,th-n fade and die;
Shapes of light are waned hither—
Then like vtafons burry by ;
Quick ss clouds at evening drives
O’er the amuf-soWred west,
Tears ere hearts* ns So heaven ,
Borne oc happiness and rest.*
There are many other beautiful extracts from
the writings of Mr. Percival, which we should
be glad to quote, but space will not permit.—
He was born in 1795, and is now 60 years of
age. He entered Yale College in lSll,at
the age of 16 years, and began to write poetry
at an early period. It was during his colle
giate course, we believe, that he formed an ac
quaintance withal young lady, whose bestowal
of her hand upon another, caused him to lead
the life of the recluse. He is a learned man;
familiar with all the modern languages of Eu
rope, and writes them fluently. ‘
Strange! that one so gifted, so well qualified
to adorn the social circle; so pure from the
vices of the world, and so unassuming, should
allow a morbid feeling to take possession of his
bosom, and strew his pathway with bitter, burn
ing thoughts. But the heart-strings once snap
ped can never be mended though the Poet
should mingle with the gay crowd and laugh
with the gayest. We hope he may live long
to add more flowers to his present beautiful
rose-bed of Poesy.
The weather is cool and delightful.—
The fingers of Autumn are beginning to play
lightly o’er the foliage of the trees, and that
quietness which always makes this season of the
year so pleasing, is felt and appreciated by the
lovers of Nature. The fields are becoming
golden with the ripened grain and the husband
man rejoices in the hope of an abundant har
vest.
We were a little hasty in penning the above.
The wind yesterday was quite bosterous and
the dust flew in every direction.
St. Paul Insurance Company. —We are
glad to learn that this company is now on a sol
id foundation, and that the amount of policies
issued the past year, is upwards of SIOO,OOO,
on which there has not been a loss of SI,OOO.
Watermelons. —Good, fresh, ripe Water
melons were on the Winslow House table yes
terday. As a matter of course they were raised
in Minnesota.
The H. S. Allen artived yesterday,
from the Minnesota river. The Allen is a
regular packet boat on this river, and continues
to do a good business.
Insane. —Mrs. Robinson, the murderess, is
supposed to be insane. It was on this ground
that Gov. Clark commuted her sentence from
death to imprisonment for life. As soon as
made acquainted with the action of the Gov
ernor, she fell into a rage, and broke up all the
furniture in her room. It is the opinion of the
jailor and others that she really is and has been
insane for some time.
fSSr > The Wyoming N. Y. Times has an
account of the appearance in Silver Lake in
that vicinity, of the veritable Sea Serpent, to
the length of one hundred feet, and size of body
in proportion. The full particulars of his ad
vent, are given at great length, and it is sup
posed that he must have arrived there by the
“underground railroad.” The statement is not
to be doubted, as it is accompanied by the usu
al affidavits,“in such cases made and provided.”
George WiXTWORTn. —A fellow passing him
self off by the name of George Wentworth, form
ed the acquaintance of a Miss Eliza Ellen Hunter,
of St. Louis, a short time ago, married her and
removed to Philadelphia and subsequently to Bos
ton, where after living a short time, he took up
with another woman and left his young and un
suspecting wife in a strange place far from home
or friends. The fact coming to the knowledge of
her mother, she immediately made an effort to ro
store her daughter to her home, but before the
witness reached Mrs. Wentworth, she left the
city, and cannot now be found. He had a wife
and two children at the timo he married her.—
He is now therefore living with the third woman
to two of whom he is married.
£3?” The Legislature of Connecticut has passed
an act authorizing the New York snd New Haven
Railroad Company to settle the difficulties grow
ing out of the Schuyler fraud. An increase of
the capital stock is allowed, if deemed the best
mode of adjusting tho claims of the so-called
Schuyler stockholders. The act contemplates a
vote of approval of acceptance of the act by the
original shareholders.
We see it stated that Sir Moses Mortefiorr,
who lately passed through Vienna on his way to
Palestine, goes there to purchase a large district
in the country, to settle upon it the Jewish pau
pers of Jerusalem. Eventually his purpose is
to settle there also all those Jews who feel in
clined to return to the country of their ancestors.
This is, perhaps, the first practical effort yet
made at procuring a return of that widely scat
tered race.
* #
The Cine in not Profitarls. —The Louisville
Courier says that for a long series of years there
has been no season so disastrous to the circus
managers as the present. Amusements of the
ring have been below par during the spring and
summer, and, as a consequence, many of the tra
velling troupes have disbanded.
It is worthy of remark that there has been
no explosion or collapse of flue of any boiler,
manufactured since the passage of the law by
Congress, of August 30th, 1852, and coming un
der the reduction of steam pressure.
py The Richmond (Va.) Dispatch, says there
is a negro man in that city, who, for the last
twenty years, has never failed to walk four miles
at night to visit his wife, and to return to bis
employment.
Why is the editor of the St. Paul Demo
crat like a young buffalo ealf ? Because be is a
tucker.
(jy The editor of the Satanic is teething, and
like any other fretful child, whines awfully for
the soothing influence of his “maternal progeni
tor.** Poor child. ** Doctor, bring the “ Ner
vous Cordial.**
Death or Horace Grey let’s Mother.
The mother of Horace Greeley died at Wayne,
Krie County, Penn., on the 27th of July.—
The father of Mr. Greeley is still living.
Cy Mrs. Catharine Clinton, widow of the lat#
Governor De Witt Clintoa, died at Poughkeepsie
» Moods; last, aged 72 years.
£9“ The crops in Europe are m a flourish*
ing condition—particularly m Ireland. No
appearance of the potatoe rot a* yet.
CENSUS OF miXNESOTA.
We inadvertently omitted yesterday to give
the figures of the census returns of this Ter
ritory. It seems the Apportionment Commit
tee have received official information from only
nineteen counties, which foot up as follows:
Lc Sueur, ... 707
Sibley, - 732
Cans, - 142
Blue Earth, ... 837
Wabashaw, ... 963
Carver, - - - -112 L
Stearns, ... 533
Washington, - 3567
Rice,.... 1393
Dodge, .... 879
Winona, ... 2422
Wright, - 503
Dakota, ... 3099
Nicolctt,.... 955
Brown, ... 272
Steele, - 386
Hennepin, ... 4082
Goodhue, ... 2122
Ramsey, ... 9495
Total, - - -
The ten counties from which returns have
been received, although not official, give the
following vote, which is deemed very nearly
correct:
Itasca, ... 358
Chisago,.... 1000
Superior, ... 493
Doty, - - - 397
Benton, - - 1200
Scott, .... 2442
Houston, ... 2400
Fillmore, ... 3600
Mower, - 1000
Olmsted,- ... 2300
Total, -
Out of the thirty-six counties in the Territo
ry, seven have not been heard from, viz.:—
Freeborn, Todd, Pembina, Farribanlt, Pierce,
Renville and Davis. These counties cannot
contain less than 6000 inhabitants, making the
grand total:
Official returns,nineteen counties, - 34,2T0
Unofficial returns, ten eounties, - - 15,390
Counties not beard from, 7,(estimated) 6,000
Total, - -- -- -- - 55,600
We think St. Paul has a larger population
than is estimated, by from 1000 to 1500. This
would make the whole population of the Ter
ritory about 56,000. But even putting it at
52,000, that is doing much better than some of
our coteinporaries claimed would be the case.
The TiMrs claimed near 60,000 —the St. An
thony Republican near 40,000.
The two Council Districts of Ramsey Coun
ty are divided as follows:
second council district.
St. Paul, city limits, ..... 3,716
“ Outside, 738
Little Canada, 338
Total, 5,792
TUIRD COUNCIL DISTRICT.
St. Anthony, city limits, .... 2 195
“ Outside, 901
Manomin, ------ 152
Rnra River, - -- -- -- - 455
Total, 3,708
That gives St. Paul, including the “out
side,” which we lake it means, out-side of the
city limits, 5,454. We are still of the impres
sion that 6000 would lie nearer correct.
Emphatic. —James B. Clay, of Ashland, replied
to tho attack made upon him in the Louisville
Journal, on account of his opposition to the Know
Nothings, and concludes by saying :
“ The inan who says I have sold one particle
of the older timber of my father’s house, is a
liar and a villain, and I, before God, pronounee
him to be so.”
(£y The Fayetteville, (N. O.) Observer says r
“We learn that Henry K. Iturgwin, on the Roan
oke, in North Cnrolina, has a field of 900 acres of
wheat, which good judges estimate will yield 20
bushels to the acre, or 18,000 bushels in all, worth
at present prices about $50,000. It i« said to be a
most beautiful sight. Mr. Thomas Burgwin has
a field of 900 acres in wheat, almost as good.—
These gentlemen raise, besides, large quantities
of corn, oats, &c.”
(£y “We understand,** says the Albany Eve
ning Journal, “ that Governor Clark has associa
ted Joseph Blunt, Esq., of New York, with the
Attorney General, as counsel in the Lemmon slave
case, which is being prosecuted by the State of
Virginia.”
Cy The Norfolk, (Va.) Herald says; It is sta
ted as an ascertained fact, that Mr. William A 1
len, of Claremont, on James River, will raise for
sale this year fifty thousand bushels of wheat;
and,without some unforseen occurrence,five thou
sand barrels of corn.
(jy General Shields says, in a late letter to a
friend which wc have been permitted to see, that
lie is forming a settlement about fifty miles from
St. Paul. or. the highway to St. Peters, where 1m
expects soon to have one of the best settlements
in the territory. He writes that this location
presents splendid chances to get good land and
make money by the operation.— Ex.
The Carney Island Catastrophe— Funeral at Mr. and
Miss Elliott.
The funeral of the Rev. John Elliott and his
daughter, Mary Ann, who lost their lives at Con
ey Island last week, took place yesterday after
noon at the Methodist Mission Church in South
Third-st., corner of Union-av., Brooklyn. Their
untimely death had awakened si deep interest in
the community, and an immense concourse of peo
ple were present to join in the last sad rites to the
dead. The funeral did not take place until near
ly 4 o'clock, but as early as 1 o’clock every avail
able place in the church was occupied ; in fact,
nearly all of the congregation of tho morning re
mained io their scats, for fear they would not be
able to gain admittance. People came from all
parts of the city, and the streets in the vicinity of
the church were blocked, and probably not less
than 8,000 persons were present. The fatter ul
procession arrived from Bowronville about 3>l-2
o’clock.
The church, thongh densely crowded, could not
hold a tithe of the vast number of people that
flocked to the funeral, so the ministers concluded
to perform the ceremonies in the open air. Tho
coffins containing the remains of the deceased mi
nister and bis child were borne to n vacant spot
opposite the church and placed upon benches.—
The inscription upon the coffin of the father told
that his name was John IT. Elliot, and that be de
parted this life in the 37th year of his age; that
upon the coffin of his daogter road : “ Mary Ann
“ Elliott, died July, 25, 1855, aged 17 years and
“8 months.” Some kind friend brought fair
white flowers— Young rose-buds twined with sweet
jessamine—and laid them upon the lid of poor
Mary’s coffin, and then the heart-stricken wife and
mother came and eat down by the coffins of her
dead husband and child, her double grief Coding
utterance is low wailings for her loved ones.—
Her remaining children gathered around her, and
he who wee soon to have been her eon stood near
by, weeping as only men weep. The scene was
truly solemn and impressive, sod few, however,
stout-hearted in that great looked on
it unmoved-—A'. Y. Tribune.
FRIDAY, AUGUST 10, 1865.
We know not what representations bars been
made to tbo Government that should induce it to
offer the public lands in Minnesota for sale, but
wo do know that if these lands are sold, (embra
cing some five millions- acres,) that Minnesota
will l>e retarded in her growth, and materially in
jured in other respects. The actual settler who
derelopes the resources and adds to the wealth of
the Terrritory, dot* not desire that Government
should throw the land open to the greedy maw of
the speculator, and the natural inquiry is—why ?
Because land adjoining bis own, which is pur
chased by the gold of the rich man, is scarcely if
ever cultivated—it lies in a dormant state, and
is advanced in value only by the sweat of the
brow of the tiller of the soil. For proof of our as
sertion the reader need only take a trip up the
Mississippi River, and view the land on the east
side of said river, which haa been in market for
several years. For miles and miles the land is
held by speculators, and it is only occasionally
that the eye is relieved by a well-cultivated field,
the result of the industry of some worthy
who had- a few hundred dollars with which to
commence life- The great curse to the settlements
on the east side of the Mississippi river , has been
that the band was brought into market too soon—
it was seized by speculator*, and there it lies*
and it will continue to lie there until the Govern*-
ment land in other portions of the Territory is
all taken up and- then it will be offered at $lO and
sls per acre, which-originally cost the purchaser
$1 25 per acre. Had this land not been offered
for sale until the presenbtime, where now is-bar
renness would be thriving farms, and instead of
“ one-horse” towns would be good-sized cities.—
Does any body gain-say this ?— can • they gain*-
say it? IT, then, snch has been the effect in
throwing the land on the Upper Mississippi, into
market, what will be the effect in throwing the*
land in other portions of the Territory into mar
ket ? Precisely the same results will follow.—
Worthy but poor mom will be driven further and
further from a market for their produee, and in
stead of a concentration of the forces of our
ritory, they will be diffused and- misdirected.—
We should strive to avert this blow to the-pros
perity of our Territory, and it can only be done
by the voice of the People, requesting the Govern
ment to withdraw its noticeof the sale of the pah'
lie lands.
- 34,210
- 15,390
But there is another reason why these .ands
should not be thrown into market, at the present
time. A majority of those who have settled up
on them are poor—they have been enabled by
strict economy and industry, to purchase the seed
to-put into-the ground and the implements to ouL
tivatc it. They may have built them rude through’
comfortable habitations, and r.re looking forward
to the incoming of their crops, upon - which they
hope to realize a sufficient sum to pay for the
land which is still in the hands of the Government..
Now, suppose their crops fail—suppose sickness
or some unforeseen accident prevents them from
-1 aying by the necessary sum-to purchase the land*.
—what follows ? The speculator steps in—takes
the land with all its improvements, and the poor,
hard-working laborer, is once more sent adrift
in search of a homestead'.
There is still another reason why the landk
should not be brought into market. For the ul
timate success and prosperity of our Territory it
is absolutely necessary that our agricultural re
sources should be developed, but how can thej be>
if the land falls into the hands of speculators?—
Not one acre of ground in this Territory or any
othev should be thrown into market until actual
settlers have chosen their claims and havs had
sufficient time to cultivate them. Then,, ill they
are prepared to pay for the land, let it come into
market, and after it is paid for and put under good
cultivation by the owners, i£ speculators desire to
purclutse it well and good—but we do protest a
gainstr the effort which is now being made te drive
off the actual settler in order to furnish the spe
culator with means to retard the growth and-pros
perity of our Territory. Let the people look to
this matter.
It is useless for the Slavery Journals
northern doughfaces in this Territory, to waste
their exertions in vaiu efforts ta oast odium on
the Republican Party, and tHereby seelivto dam
up the little rill, which just'now mores along
quietly and nnoeteniaekwiely. We teH'you. geitr
tlemen, that this Republican movement has a
deeper hold on the hearts of tho people than
mere party. It spring's from & sense of wrong
heaped upon the Neath, and though you may
sneer and sniAr and treat the movemeßd in. a
trivial mannes, yet as true as there is a God
the present “insignificant and Disunion cliqiic,"
as you are pleased to-term the originators, wiM
grow into a nighty array, which will over
whelm and drive you into your dark dungeons
of Slavery and Rum. Do not “lay the flatter
ing unction to your sods,” that the Republican
movement is the offspring of crazy basins, for
you will be doomed to disappointment. The
tide is gathering in full and strong, and ere yon
are-aware, and those who now give die cause
the cold shoulder, the waves will sweep the
shores, and leave you high and Ary upon the
hot sands of Despair. Politically and socially
it is a movement of great importance to our
Territory, and cannot be any longer made to
take a secondary place. The issur is—Slavery
or Freedom—and when that issue is made, it
must be met and trill be met fearlessly by the
hardy Yeomanry of this Territory. Don’t then
any longer “hug the delusive phantom of hope”
that the Republican Party can to put down—
don’t indulge iu the erroneous idea that because
there aie some political doughfaces in our city
who can be bought, that therefore the field will
be forsaken—Car from it—from every aide the
cheering news comes that the Republicans are
rallying, and each day and each week they will
gather strength until their ranks are Ml and
their armors on, ready for battte. Then, when
the decisive blow is struck, if we £sfl in achiev
ing victory, it will ooly give us renewed
strength for another campaign, and if we are
victorious that victory wilt be hailed through
out the length and breadth of the land ,n* a cheer
ing omen of die future destiny of our Territo
ries. Republicans! —stand firm—keep your
banner to the breeze— s you mutt to successful.
ttST The Lady Franklin arrived Wednes
day night at 10 o’clock, with 100 passengers
and 60 tons of freight She left Dunletth with
400 passengers andOOO tons of freight Left
yesterday morning. Reported water rising*
VOL. IL, NO. 13.
aan-K or the public lands.
CAST BE rUT BOWS.
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