The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1853-01-15

GARRISON THEATRrcArs.-This is the heading
of bill we see posted about the streets the
boys up at the fort. in.order to while away these
long winter evenings, have gotten up theatre,
and the first entertainment will come off week
T from tonight, when Bulwer's admired play of
" The Lady of the Lyons" with other entertain
ments, will be presented. This is better than
coming to town and getting on a spree"' By
the way, note to the commanding officer
would have been more proper and effectual
way of checking any improprieties on the part
of the soldiers while in St Paul, than the course
adopted by the editor of the Democrat But
his propensity to be down on somebody will
never let him rest until he gets himself COM
pletely down.
i RESIGNATION OF JUDGE MATTHEws.--This gen.
tleman some weeks ago sent to the Governor
his resignation, to take effect on the LIST of jan
uary, 1858. This step, we are informed Judge
J Matthews found it absolutely necessary to take.
on account of his inability to support his family
and educate his children out Of the salary at
tached to the office. He returns to his profess
sion, which pays much better than judgeship.
t--Cincinnati Enquirer.
If the leading spirits of the great party now
in power in the State of Ohio, and which was
in power at the time the new Constitution was
formed, wish to know the opinion of very
humble native thereof who is, nevertheless, an
embodiment Of q considerable share Of State
pride; and who was, while in the State last
fall, after three years absence, during which
time the new Constitution had gone into force,
brought to reflect upon the miserable parsimo-
ny, in the way of officers salaries, manifested
by its trainers, they will please read what we
are now about to write. We believe, however,
the Constitution leaves with the Legislature
the power of fixing the salaries of Judges. &C. :;
but as the same men who ruled in making the
new organic law were entrusted by the people
with the duty of setting it in motion, they, and
they alone, are responsible for the act which We
see by the above paragraph has driven one of
the first young men of the State from the bench,
and will drive others into the same necessity,
provided the disgraccful stipend as pay for the
most incessant and arduous public duties, is
continued to be doled out from the full Golfers
State in the Union. We are ashamed almost
to own that we hail from State so eminently
great in littleness. There is set of dema-
gOgues who control w-making tbereaway,
who ride into power by appeals to the jealous
les and baser feelings of the ignorant, and by
prejudicing their minds against professional men
against lawyers partcularly-and contend
ing that the first talent in the State should not
command, upon the bench, any better pay than
the day laborer, or the country pedagogue.-
Yet, we notice that last winter these very wor-
thes who ask lawyers with practice worth
four or five thousand dollars per annum to sit
upon the bench, with the highest responsible
ties attached to their position, for fifteen hun
bred, were sufficiently honest and disinterested
concerning their own salaries, to vote them
selves four dollars per day, which is just one
dollar more than was allowed under the old
dispensation, and that amount over and above
the per diem fixed by any other Western State.
, There is not right minded Ohioan TO be found
, anywhere in the broad world, who would not
blush to have this paragraph from the Enquirer
read aloud in presence of company, did he
know. as we do, the man who is thus victim
lied, and shut out from official honors bv
mean and contemplate act of State parsmony
on the part of the lawgivcrs of two millions of
people. We're there no requirements in the
Judcal affairs of so great a State--were it not
absolutely essential, particularly in so large a
commercial and general business community as
the city of Cincinnati, to call to the bench the
highest order Of professional talent--coud JUS
tice be dispensed by men of the class of profes-
sional vagabonds and leather heads that fixed
the Judges salaries, the case would he different
But here is gentleman whose talents. cduca-
cation and standing in the community-social
and professional--mark him as an ornament To
the bench and an honor to any people who
would sustain him there, absolutely barred
from holding the place for which he is so emf
nently qualified, and which we know nne-tenths
OF those most directly interested wish him to
retain. Old mother Ohio this is most damn
ing disgrace, and kcenly felt Ivy every true son
of yours, at home or abroad
The SCHOOL GIRL OrFERING-We have seen
nothing more touchingly and del;cately beauti-
full than the following lines, addressed by the
young misses of the st. Louis Female Institute
to their teacher. 1t was written by one of them
"a young lady of seventeen-and presented in
connection with an elegant bible, at a recent
soirce given by the teachers:
Loved teachers! round girlish hearts
Your love has thrown q spell,
And all your kind and genie woris
| VIII there forever dwell
AT morn we bow each youthful head,
| To hear thine earnest prayer
mat Sorrows gloom NIGH come
To dim smiles with care;
That God would draw wayward hearts
i To give the plresi love,
| To Him whose Spirit came down.
| meek-eyed, snow-white dove.
| To you we bring precious gift
| The book You love the best;
The ONLY one whose words can give
! Our spirits peace and rest.
Dear teachers, guard and guide us still,
Still let your prayers be given,
That we may learn to lift our hearts
In grateful prayer to Heaven