The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1852-12-18

THAT "CLINCHER. AFTER the Democrat had
finished all it thought it had to say in regard to
the "Galphinism" connected with the recent
Sioux disbursement, it happened to think of an
article which appeared in the Minnesotian dur
ing the absence of the senior editor, and at a
time wheu the junior editor was just getting up
from severe sickness of several weeks dura-
wise, with Gov. Ramsey, or any other person
connected with the receipt and disbursement Of
the money. The foundation of all the other
charges of the Democrat will eventually prove
equally as weak as this
WALK Up TO THE CAPTAINS OFFICE GENTLE
MEN, AND SETTLE. We do not wish to encour-
age the practice of betting, but as some of our
democratic" neghbors are given to that sin,
and are now 'fush' with funds belonging to the
Wings previous to the Presidential election. we
will offer the following: A friend will wa
ger the best suit of clothes that can be procured
in Whine Cooley's establshment-an they
do turn out as handsome rigs there as can
be found in the NOrthwest-that all the charges
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Ramsey, will end in smoke so soon as
all the facts connected with the late transac-
tions are fully known to the public and that for
more than year past, there has been deeply
laid scheme to get hold ofportions of the money
by men who had no right whatever to handle a
dollar of it. Come, gentlemen, back up your
charges.
1t must be a matter of great consolation to
themselves: as it is certainly one of deep hatred
and envy to some of their neighbors, that the
old Sioux traders succeeded in collecting con-
slderably less than one-holf of what was due
them by the Indians! Lucky dogs, these fell
lows! Jump on them every body, and give
them blue bldzes!
MASSACHUSETTS ELEcnoN.-The government
of the good old Bay State is to pass this winter
from the coalition which has ruled it for the
last two years. The election to fill vacancies
in the Legislature took place on the 22d. The
returns show that parties stand, l3S Wings, no
Coalition, and Is National Democrats. The
towns to hear from, it is said, will not vary the
result materially. This Wing victory is impor-
tant inasmuch as it not only secures the cleo
ton Of Wing Governor and other important
State officers. but also that of United States
Senator
REMOVAL OF THE CAPIrAL.-Thc Buffalo Ex-
press. in long article, favOrs the removal of
the Capital to st. Louis. Its arguments in be-
half of the proposition. are able and ingenious.
Its objections to Washington are. that the MEM
bers of Congress constitute society within
themscives,-that their influence is bad,-that
their habits are immoral-that the city has no
elevated standard of society by which the pre-
tensions Of the members can be measured, and
that by constant association with each other
they forget that they are servants of the peo-
pie. st. Louis is pitched upon near the geo.
graphical centre OF the country,-as having an
independent existence apart from the impor-
lance that would be given to it as the seat of
government. and as controlled by polite and
distinguished social influences. The sugges-
tons of the Express are admirable and they
should be earnestly seconded by the Vest
Galema JEFF.
Before the Capital is ever removed to the
West, perhaps most of the men now living will
be sleeping in their graves. The reasons urged
above for the removal are good and sufficient.
and the proposed location entirely unexcep-
'iVhaoie oul Until tuC hCSl HIS largely Inc
numerical power, concentrated action and NOR
al independence to carry the measure through,
the very social evils complained of will be a
controlling element in defeating it, There is
nothing lost. however. in agitating the question
even at this time; and we are pleased to see
the press of city so far east as Buffalo leading
of in the matter.
TOTAL DEPRAvITY.-We are believer in the
doctrine, after reading the following from the
. Cleveland Herald. May that boy" have
strength to hold out to the last!
"On Saturday-in the Lake Shore cars-wc
saw specimen whsky-seller. He looked like
a man who had drank up the profits of his own
bar. and whose brain, like that of Seer DAVIS.
was porous as SPONGE He lived in Evans.
and having been three days on visit, or a
bust in Buffalo. was discoursng to a neigh
Dor after thisfashiOn: I'm losing dollars every
day IN gone, that cussed boy of mine is cussed
crazy about cold water when I'm off dern me
If he don't pull the spigOts out of the whisky
barrels and the beer casks and let every drop
run out. That church has split my boy, and
I've kept him away from it for two years. If a
man comes into the tavern after glass of IL
quor that boy won't wait on him. but turns up
his nose and leaves him. When bring him up
to Buffalo have to cuss him to get him to cat
a meal of victuals in tavern where they sell
liquor. That boy S crazy about cold water ::
but his old dad knows how to deal out the
; liquor. I've been brought before the court
twenty-scven timcs-I always beat en- and
defy the town of Evans-It's a bold thing TO
dare the cOrporation-but dare EN-: want
to sell liquor, and dern me if I don't. The pco-
pie say I'm devil. but will sell liquor That
boy is only sixteen years old and he wants to
be lawyer he's such cusscd fool about cold
water. III send him to Connecticut to he a law
yer. I've whipped him almost to death to make
him drink liquor. but that pcsky meeting has
ruined him and he WON'T Reader the above
is literally true, Qhe oaths being omittcd) and
we doubt not the drunken brute of father sta
ted the truth in regard to the treatment Of his
boy who was so cusscd crazy about cold wa
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