The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1853-02-12

the new county bill passes, in any shape, the
times Of holding courts therein will be placed
upon days sufficiently remote to allow the incom-
ing administration an opportunity Of appoint
ing Judges. inasmuch as we have no judge
here at present, save the Chief Justice, and his
hands are full with his present district. The
miserable apology for judicial brains in the
shape of a peck measure of boiled maccaroni,
will scarcely be tolerated by the intelligent
citizens Of Hennepin and other new counties.
SINGULAR SPEcrAcIE-The Assembly Cham
Der presented a spectacle Yesterday morning
Of an unprecedented character in the history
of New York Legislation. BY courtesy of the
House, the rules were suspended, and a commit
tee of the women from the Temperance Mass
Convention, sitting in the State street Baptist
Church. were admitted upon the floor, and
granted the privilege of personally presenting
the Address which will be found in another
part of our paper this morning. 1t was read
in firm tone by the chairman of the commit
tee, Miss EMILY CLARK, of LIE Roy.-.4ibany
Register.
We are not quite sure that spectacle" of
this kind would not be exactly to the taste
of the popular branch of our Legislature, when
we come to make note of" the fact that about
one-half of that honorable body is composed of
bachclors-all young and handsome erpectants
at that. What sensation it would create in
deed! There's the the honorable'Speaker,h him
self q bachelor and gladys man, de facto ;
he would of course be compelled to do the
honors, assisted by the graceful and digniied
politeness of those two models of ''single bles-
al 81, 1ofy
from Marine and Saltwater. The gentleman
from Fort Smelling, already a rigid advocate
of the rights of the sex in matters matrimonial.
would almost be tempted to go for the 'fullest
extent" of "womans rights" and vote the fair
petitioners a seat in the house the remainder
of the session; while the St, Paul bachelor I'M
mediately behind him would desire ''tmc,n in
order to ascertain what bearing such result
would have upon the Little Canada vote
next year, or the price of oysters at the corner
of Wabasha and Third. The little hairy gen.
tleman from ST. Paul would move the ':privi-
legged questions" as they stand in order; and
this brings US to the "wall flowers from Saint
Paul and Benton, placed midway in the hall
upon the right and left. We hardly know what
they would do. Excessive difidence and mod
esty leads bashful young men into strange an
tics sometimes
The Democrat had better put on its
specs" and find out from the Congressional
GIo6e-acknowledgedly the very best authori-
ty extant in regard to Congressional debates
what Senator Gwinn said when he introduced
the Investigating Resolution. To say that
"Owens lcd' in relation thereto. cannot alter
the record at Washington any more than the
Democrat can force the people to believe all
the black-hearted ISLANDERS and villainous lies
itspreads before its readers from week to week.
"A few days since, Dr. Ames asked leave,
without previous notice, to introduce a bill to
incorporate the Hennepin County Agricultural
Society. Leave was refused by the whlom
Spartan Band, which at the time we thought
an act of discourtesy and an ebullition of per-
sonal spite. Perhaps we were mistaken. If
the Doctor intends to follow up his new County
bill by bill to provide for the holding of
Courts therein, and expects to foist upon his
constituents as judge Of "blooded Stock and
the ser Of horned cattle, the brainless nonen-
tity which We understand wishes to be enacted
into the Judge of the Hennepin County Court,
we consider the members of the "band" did a
righteous act in preventing the introduction OF
the bill.
ALL SET The Pioneer contains the ridicu-
lous doings had at an assemblage, which came
off at the residence of the editor of the Demo-
crat the evening previous to his leaving for
Washington. About twenty of the 'faithful'-
including all the members of the Legislature of
the Robertson stripe then in town-got togeth-
er over Otard and oysters, and parcelcd out
among themselves the Offices of the Territory
to be filled by the President. AS an outside
looker-on we can say in all truth. that this is
just about the most ridiculous burlesque in the
way of a political movement we ever heard of:
and we have been in places which the fool-kil-
Ter had not visited for a generation previous
I There were some fifteen Offices filed, and only
twenty men present at the caucus which filled
them, including, we believe, with one or two
exceptions, all the persons named for the ap-
pointmcnts This is Democracy" with ven
gcance! We think we see the editor of the
Democrat presenting his list to Frank Pierce.
We can imagine the cute leer of the good-na-
turcd Yankee President as he asks him what
portion of the Democratic people of Minnesota
asks that the places be given to these disinter-
esfed gentry-some of whom have boxed the
political compass time and again, and voted all
shades and characters of tickets, and for all
castles and compilations of men, from Geo. W.
Julian, Of Indiana, to the rankest and most un-
compromising Wing in Minnesota.
| -"Tke times have been,
That when the brains out, the man would die.
| And there end 20
The following is the cast made out at this
purely Democratic" caucus:
Supert of Indian Affairs-David Olmsted ::
Secretary of Terrtory-Becker;
marshall Larned;
Y. S. District Attorney-W. P. MURRAY;
Sioux Indian Apent-R Russell