The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1853-10-22
LET HIM DO TT IF HE DARE-The New York

LET HIM DO TT IF HE DARE.-The New York
Day Book, told Hunker) has the following -
Neither Judge Bronson or Mr.. O'Connor care
a copper for their place. They did not apply
for office, they did not want office. and to such
men removal has no terrors. They feel kindly
towards'the President, and are regardful of the
public good otherwise they are disintcrested
spectators of the connections around them.
They can make more money. and are infiu-
entail out of Office as in Ii is the people, with
out distinction of name, that is the party to the
issue. We repeat it, we don't believe that
Franklin Pierce will remove Bronson and
O'Connor. But let him if he dare.
The Day Book further says:
Public officers, whose only offence is that they
will not suffer themselves to become the tools
of negro faction. nor prostitute official intu-
ence to a warfare upon the Institutions OF their
country, will not be decapitated. For let them
disguise it as they may. let them utter as many
lying protestations as the devil inspires them
to do the ultimate object Of the barnburners
and their "soft " allies is the destruction, at
whatever cost, of an institution upon which de-
ponds the safety and prosperity of one half of
the States Of the cOnfederacy. The faction is
the faction of lS4S, with only little more of
the livery of heaven upon their black bcaks.
Their complexion and their movements were
too patent. Hence deeper disguise, and more
unscrupulOus tongue.
A Man WITH TWENTY WIvEs-A man calling
himself DR.. William Hunter. but whose real
name is said to be Nathaniel J. Bird, is in Jail
at Camden \. j., on charge of bieamy and
other charges On Sunday. Elizabeth IIarring
a lady of Philadelphia, visited him in prison,
and ascertaincd that he was the man to whom
she was married on the 9th of July last. On
the same day he was visited by another lady
from kensington, named Mary Themes, to
whom he was married in May last. 1t is also
stated that he has a wife in Reading. another
to Wilmington, Del. another yet in phladel-
phia The prisoner is only about % years of
age, and it is stated, declares that he has TWEEN
ty wives, a statement which may be true, as
more than one-fourth of that number has been
found within a few days. 1t is alleged that he
abandoned each wife soon after marriage. and
that they never heard of him until his recent
arrest. The affair creates the greatest excite
mcnt in Camden, and has induced an immense
number of persons TO seek admission for the
purpose of seeing him.
To CHECK CouNTEErEITING.-Th North Amc-
rican proposes as a remedy for the almost I'M
checked career Of counterfeters, that all our
banks should adopt some system of preparing
their bills similar to that which has so long
been in use in the Bank of England. That in
stitutiOn manufactures its own bills. Every
step in the process of manufacture is conducted
within its own walls. The paper is made in the
bank the plates are engraved in the bank the
notes are printed as they are afterwards filled
up in the bank. Nothing is left to accident
there. If fraud is attempted, it must be at
tempted in the bank. How rare, iE consc
uucnce. are counterfeits upon it. They have
no counterfeit detectors in England-nOne are
required. Tradesmen are not called in to
waste a considerable portion of their time in
scrutinizing bills, to find whether they are gen
uine and poor persons are not tieeced who are
too ignorant to know good money from bad
There is no unnecessary encouragement there
offered to rogucs to enter the profitable trade
of connterfeiting. 1t trade surrounded by diff
cultes too grave to be overcome except by
combination of practical accomplishments and
facilities not often found united i'll the same ill.,
dividual or even III gang of adventurerS.
Reduce American counterfeitcrs to the neccssi-
ty of manufacturing their own paper and en-
craving their own plates and we shall find We
have adopted the most clicctual plan to reduce
their numbers, and to protect the community
from their depredations.
The estimated value of the Goods on exhibit
in all departments Of the New York Crystal
Palace, is set down at SjOO0,O0O.
The strict honesty of Bob Simpglass deserves
to be recorded as an example to his brethren OF
the Happy Good Fellow Society. The other
night, having walked over Cambridge Bridge
in Zig-zag course. curious and wonderful. he
hove up against the toil-housc, and giving the
toll-gatherer two cents, exclaimed:
Here, les my contribution to the support of
the bridge
''Ies and there is one cent over said the
tOll-man.
"Onc cent is the regular toll-hic--ain'
it,"
"Ycs, sir
=
have not walked every plank in this bridge
twice over. then-hic-Im a BARRIERS pole. So
keep the change, old fcllcr.'
He reeled away. aud the admiring toll-ga
therer lost sight of him in the darkness.