The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1853-02-19
FACTS AND FANCIES.


week many editorials and communications
OF the former class is an article upon the Wis
cOnsin system of railroads; of the latter, a let
ter from Sausage" to the new Superintendent
of Indian Affairs. Our neighbOrs OF the Demo-
crat need not suppose they have run him off
the track just yet. Another letter from our
sprightly Cincinnati correspondent is also
necessarily laid over.
MINNESOTA LEGIsIATuRE.-Thef following bills
have passed both branches An act to incorpO-
rate Hennepn Lodge, No.4 1. o. o. F. an act
for the relief OfJOs X. Brown an act to incor-
porate the Louisiana and Minnesota Railroad
Company an act to incorporate the St. Paul
and st. Anthony Railroad Company an act to
incorporate the st. Paul Mutual Insurance Com
pany; an act to incorporate the Hennepin Coun-
ty Agricultural Society an act to divorce Hen
ry Buel from his wife, Susan Buel; this bill
originated in the House, and after its passage
in the Council, and return to the House fer en-
rollment, was, by request of the former body,
returned thereto, and lies on the table in a very
precariOus state, with great doubts and uncer-
tainty as to what stage of legislative incubation
it has reached.1 The memorial for a military
post at Pembina has passed both branches;
also, joint resolution authorizing the Secretary
to purchase copies of the Annals of the Histor-
lcal Society for the present year. Mr.. Ames
has introduced a bill to incorporate the town
Of Mendoza. The House, on Tuesday, very
properly knocked the breath out of bill intro
duced by Mr.. Murray, the real design of which
was to allow all the world, and the rest of
mankind" to Interfere and vote at our cleo
tiOns. Verify, the leader has a sore time of
it'll Mr.. Harrington has introduced bill to
incorporate the Northwestern Railroad Com
pany, from Fond du Lac to Puget's Sound
Abbott Lawrence, Moses Ii. Grnnell, Simeon
Draper, and other Eastern capitalists are at the
head of it. The new County bill, leaving out
the county seats, has passed the House, and
is now before the Council The Territorial
Road bills have all gone to special committee
in the House.
THEY ARE COMING A merchant of st. Paul
who has an extensive acquaintance at the
South, and particularly in the city of New
Orleans, is in receipt, by every mall of let
tiers from persons who are anxious to pass
the summer months with us, provided they
can secure comfortable quarters for them
selves and families. Let our hotel keepers
and hotel builders look to it. If all the hotel
room in st. Paul and st. Anthony, finished
and unfinished, is properly appropriated, we
can comfortably accommodate three or four
hundred strangers We have no doubt it will
be so. The st. Charles, at st. Anthony, is in
process of enlargement, and will be ready for
the reception of company in due season. The
Sintomne House, st. Paul, will be thoroughly
finished by the first of June, and will go into
good hands. The enlargement of the Central
will also he completed and our uptown
friends will, as usual not be whit behind
any others in the way of accommodating any
reasonable number of guests that may arrive.
"THE HUNDRED DAYS. YESTERDAY the
slcigh-bells jinglcd merrily through the streets
of ST. Paul. celebrating the hundredh day, in
succession, of sleghing this season. This is,
we understand, an old Vermont and Canadian
custom, of which those o. us of more southern
blood know very little. The season has Ger
home in the hearts of our numerous citizens of
New England and Canadian birth ; and present
prospects are that old mother Earth will re-
main draped in her white. bridc-lke vesturc
yet another month at least. Well may the
'outsiders, residing amid the mud and winter
slush of the States below us, envy our good
fortunc-our substantial and recreative COM
forts-resuting from a continued frozen and
snow-clad terrestrial surface! The Cleveland
Herald, in copying paragraph we had some
weeks ago, descriptive of a magnificent sleigh
robe, has the following true picture of
SLEIGnNG AT ST.. PArL.-They have sleighing
in Minnesota that is sleighing, none of your
half-hub, half bare ground, with snow flake
here and there, of this section of Wintcr-dom-
Snow two feet deep, well packed track smooth
as an ice mirror, and mercury down to O, with
an atmosphere that initiates the lungs with
health as the blacksmith swells his bellows
They wrap the girls in nice robes, too. The
Minnesotian thus describes one.
HoN. MARTIN MCI4EOD, President of the Coun-
Gil, is assailcd in the last Democrat by the
anonymous traducer who now has charge of
that ish-market organ, but who has not the
common decency and manliness to allow the
public to know who he is. 1t is quite sufficient
that MIR. Mcleod opposed Sweetser in his grand
scheme of robbery, to bring down upon him the
hreling anonymous scribblers in the employ of
that notorious individual. This man of the
Democrat is one of Them He carries his stilet-
to Spanish fashion, beneath his cloak, and stabs
in the dark. By this game of stealth he mana
ges to pass where he is not known as clever
gentleman. To publicly own himself the au-
thor of the slanderous productions which COM
mon report attributes to his villainous pen
would be equivalent to .felo de Sc. The
well earned reputation of Mr.. Mcleod for high
souled honor and unimpeachable integrity,
Doth as public and private man, has nothing
to fear from the assaults of such creature.
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