The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1853-03-12
FACTS AND FANCIEs.

route but it runs, in part, through the British
possessions, it is regarded as impracticable and
much more hazardous than the usually travel
ed route. A party went over it two years since.
. and experienced the most extreme suffering. If
any acquainted with the facts were going from
Minnesota to Oregon, they would be very apt
to take different direction.-We are sorry
We cannot accommodate our friend at Fort Rip
ley to the extent be desires. We will, never
theless, do the best We can.
WHEw-BIoop AND THUNDER The fidgety,
scoldng old chambermaid who does the clean
ing up and sweeping about the hospital build
ings at the corner of Wabasha and Third, has
dashed herself into terrible fury at deduction
we drew from one of the ::old critters, articles.
sneering at Gov. Ramsey because in early life
he followed the honorable occupation of a car
penter. Although we did the best we could in
the premises-cOpied the Democrats entire ar
ticle SO that readers could judge for themselves,
it hasn't saved us in the least. We have "ca-
lumnatcd"-we have ''falsified'-by putting a
construction upon the language in which we
are borne out by nine-tenths of those who read
it. Here is the difficulty People who are con-
tinually raving, and writing at random, just
to try their hand at invective and malicious
outpouriugs of personal spleen, are very apt to
say something not very pleasant to stand up to.
This is the case in the present instance. At
ter two weeks hard cudgcling of an obtuse in
tellect, subsequent to our publication of the
article from the Frankfort Commonwealth, the
reply we quoted last week from the Democrat
came forth-the Respondent effort of all the
intervening hours of toll and drudgery. This
was the best that could be done, and it has
proved a miserable piece of workmanship No
wonder we are called hard names for tissecting
and exposing it so thoroughly.
One of the three or four Democrats about
st. Paul who wish Robertson appointed Gov
ernOr, admits that he has made a very poor
editor for his party, but thinks he must be good
foS something, and perhaps that something is
Governor. A friend suggests that he acts up
on the principle of the fellow who sold worth
less dog to neighbor for a first-rate coon dog.
In a few days the purchaser brought him back,
having tried him and found him entirely use
less for the purpose indicated. "Well" repli-
ed the vender of dogs, 81 tried him for erery
thing else, and found he was not worth CONT
mental curse so thought he must be good for
coons!''
No! Dr. TEII!!-The Democrat lets the world
know that Madame de Stael was ''the most
spirited female writer France ever produced y
There, boys, yc great Minnesota green horns
you, see what a rich store of useful information
your good old aunt has brought you all the
way from the East! You might have lived and
died in ignorance of this fact, had she not con-
descended to come out and live with you. Some
of these days, we presume the kind old lady
will shove her "specs" up over her forehead
and inform you that American independence
was declared on the Fourth of July, 1776, and
that George Washington was Commander-in-
Chief of the American forces during the Rcvo-
lutionary War. Shouldn't wonder PARTICLE
| 1CE-liOw YANKEES SAVE IT-The Boston
Transcript of Feb. I'd, says the ice harvest had
just commenced there. Ice is about ten inches
in thickness. The work of cutting and housing
is done by steam power, driven day and night
and upwards of one thousand tons day arc
thus put up on Spy Pond, and seven thousand
tons day on Fresh Pond, West Cambridge
The labor-saving machinery of Massachusetts
with the disposition among the people there to
put to some profitable use what others consider
useless, adds yearly to the wealth of that State
many millions of dollars. When others use
their ingenuity and adopt their economy, like
results will follow. We have mt got so far
along in the ice business yet as to pack it by
steam, but in the quality of ice we can beat the
Yankees "a feet and more. Mr.. Bass is put
ting up ice from the river at least twenty-three
inches in thickness after the snow-crust is re-
moved. 1t is sufficiently transparent to allow
the reading of newspaper through it. We
have often wondered why ice is not packed
here for the Southern market
We are now living under Democratic
Administration, whercat the Minnesota Demo-
crat ''rcjoiceth with exceeding great joy" Sup
pose Robertson is not appointed Governor or
anything else, then how? We "guess" it will be
a ho,D with tail to it-a bowling. I'VE shall
see vat we shall see" as the Frcnchman said
when his wife ran away with the blind fiddler.
We have been puzzled to ascertain who
wrote that poetry published in the Mime
sotian two weeks since, wishing some pretty
girl to marry the author, and all that sort of
nice thing. The mystery is now solved. Just
read the two lines Of doggerel near the head of
the third editorial column of the last Democrat,
and you have him certain. Then there are
other reasons which will readily strike any one
upon moments reflection and comparison of
the two ''efforts," going strongly to prove that
the writer of the ''soliloquy" and the present
editor OF the Democrat are one and the same
person.
| we congratulate the friends of sound NOR
ais and wholesome legislation upon the fact
that no divorces or ferry charters were grant
Gu during the late session. We recollect that
curing the session of last year, we "came out
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