The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1852-06-19
PIERCING THRUSTS.
The wit of the Presidential can

fIerce-prOnOunced III New Ehgiahu,
and by all strictly orthodox Yankees
wherever found, as if spelled PURSE.
with the sharp nasal twang upon the first
vowel--is catching it from the Wing
sharp-shooters in all quarters. Here is
one or two items from the Chicago Jour-
nal:
"QUIEruDE.-Since the finale Of the
Baltimore Convention was announced,
the Douglas men at home here, appear
to have turned their attention entirely
from political matters and taken to quiet
life. Last evening we called in, rather
unceremoniously upon one of them, soci-
ally, as personal friend, and found him
reading one of Cooper's novels, entitled
The Wept of Wish-ton- WISH"
"Senator Douglas pledged the Balti-
more Convention that Illinois would give
Pierce larger majority than any other
State in the Union. This reminds us of
certain parsonage promising to give
away all the Kingdoms of the earth ,Uhen
he didn't oum one of fhem."
| AHCH llc SIcNtldnu I1cGd1u anu ONO
State Journal come in:
"The Northwestern Democrat says
that the vessel run down off Manhattan
by the Northern Indiana was the Lewis
Cass. We think there is some mistake
in this, as the Lewis Cass was run down
on Saturday at Baltimore by the General
Pierce, small boat from New Hamp-
shire"
The Ohio Statesman says that Gen.
Pierce "was an officer in the war of
1872" He was only ten years old at
that time, and the Journal suggests that
he must have belonged to the "light in
fantry."
One little item from the Rochester
American is very good:
One of our citizens of New Hamp-
shire birth, on being told Of Pierce's
nomination, exclaimed, "My God! how
it will astonish his family -
A correspondent of one of our exchan-
ges relates the following most excellent
one. 1t is fine illustration of that spir-
it of liberal and generous good-hearted-
ness, SO characteristic of New Hamp-
shire, and New Hampshire politicians
particularly, which is bound SO strongly
TO recommend the "new man. to the no.
bic and whole-souled people of the West
and South. Gov. Steele, of his own
State, speaking at Concord, in response to
the nomination, developed this incident,
which he declared actually occurred in
the life Of the Democratic candidate for
the Presidency. AS a contemporary
truly observes, " it is one of the most
remarkable instances of benevolence on
record"
Sir" said Governor Steele, 81 have
known the whole career of Gen. Pierce,
from the day he first took his seut il, this
hall. | have admired his exploits in
Congress and in Mexico But have an
incident in my mind which l will relate,
which in my humble judgment, exhibits
the character of the man, in more illus
trious light than all his efforts in the TO-
rum Or the field.
cit was something more than twenty
years ago--Gen. Pierce was somewhat
younger then than he is now. He was
travelling through one of the wester.
towns in this State; and as he entered
the principal village, he beheld three
boys together eating candy. At brief
distance he beheld another boy sitting
alone. And that boy was not eating; but
he was crying. Gen. Pierce, feeling in
terested in SO strange circumstance, in
CURED into the cause, and ascertained
that he was crying because he had no
money to buy candy. No sooner had he
learned the facts in the case, than, with
that noble generosity which has ever dis
tinguished Pierce through his whole life,
he put his hand in his pocket, drew forth
a cent, bought a stick of candy and gaze
1t 10 the boy, although the boy was total
stranger to Gen. Pierce!'
CINcINNArI GAzErrE.-We are pleas
to see among the many new exchanges we
have received. the old g I.;borf, Iy,U mad