The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1853-11-19

AaRtcuLrcRAL-By a communication in our
columns to-day. it will be seen that the Oldest
organization of the kind in the Territory, the
Benton County Agricultural Society, is to hold
its annual meeting at Sank Rapids, about the
middle Of next month. The occasion promises
German has agreed to be present and deliver
the annual address and other proceedings and
exercises will transpire which, we doubt not,
Will well repay all who may embrace the OPP
portuhity of being present. We have had &C.
caslon heretofore to commend the zeal with
which our Benton County neighbors have taken
hold Of this matter of forwarding the agricul-
tural interests of their new and fertile region,
and indirectly of the whole Territory. Other
portions of Minnesota should not be slow in
emulating them, and will not, if we are correct
Judges of the intelligence and enterprise of our
farmers. To the suggestion put forth in the
Benton County call, looking to the formation
OF Territorial Society, we hope that agricui-
turists Of every county will respond Let the
matter be taken hold of at once, and let us have
'~A'y ASpicocutcu vi IrOm
all parts of Minnesota, assembled here in Janu-
airy. Col. Kelly Secretary of the Benton
County Agricultural Society, requests us to
state that he officially acknowledges the re-
ceipt ola copy of Owens Geological Survey of
Iowa, Wisconsin. and Minnesota, from Hon. II.
IT, Sibley ; also thirty copies of the Patent or
flee Agricultural Report for 1851, from Gov.
W. A. German. for the Society's Library. A
quantity of various kinds of seeds, foreign to
this latitude have also been received these are
to be planted next year, aud if found profitable
and adapted to cultivation in our climate and
soil, will be distributed among the farmers
The Secretary is required to give his personal
attention to this part of his duties. and report
his success. AS he is both a theoretical and
practical farmer, we may soon expect to see the
beneficial result of his experiments, and also of
these Agricultural Societies generally upon
the frontier; and it is with feelings Of pride
that We chronicle their increase in numbers.
and the rapid spread of intelligence, which can
only be facilitated through such organizations
as County Societies and Farmers Clubs.
New YORK POIITICS.-We happened in the CT
ty of New York a day or two after the removal
of Collector Bronson. The outburst of indigna-
ton manifested by the city press-unanimously
with the exception Of the Evening Postal the
exercise of this unprecedented act of petty tyr
amy by an American Cabinet, gives those at
distance but a meagrc idea of the real state of
feeling then pervading all classes of citizens at
the great commercial centre. We have new
er seen anything to equal it. Que view, and
but one view of the case appeared to reign su-
premc in the minds of all intelligent men. not
the subservient tools of party, which was that
the President and his constitutional advisers
had, III the most unwarranted manner, under
taken to Interfere with questions of purely To-
cal politics now agitating the public mind of
New York We do not know to what extent
this public Indignation may have cooled off, or
how lar the potent power of the 'spoils' was
successfully brought to bear in whipping in ;
the refractory previous to the election, which
took place on the sth inst; but it was calcula-
leu ny knowing politicians at the time of Bron-
sons removal, that if the election were to take
place then, the Administration (soft-sheiD tick
ct would he beaten 10000 in tue city,
Judge Bronson, aside from his high standing as
Jurlst and prominent citizen of the State has
made hosts of friends among the merchants and
business men during his short career as Collec-
tor. lie is pronounced the most competent Of
hccr that ever filed the post aud it NAV he
said the mercantile classes join issue with the
President to a man. There was u full meeting
OF merchants at the Exchange the day Judge
Bronson left the Custom House, where some Sc
we're but high toned and digniiicd resolutions
were passed, which are to lie laid before the
President and Congress. Among other things.
they resolved that the removal of Bronson is a
direct Interference on the part of the Federal
administration with the canal policy of the State
of New ork. The eX-cullcctor has written All
other letter to Secretary Guthrie. more severe
and castigatng than the previous one. Alto
getler, the affair promises to be decidedly rich
in its developments, and must be regarded as
an important one Of the many political incl
dents which are tending to render the present
administration decidedly odious aud ridiculous
IN the eyes OF this nation and the whole world.
~-Slnce the preceding paragraph was in type,
news of the election has reached us. 1t will be
found elsewhere, and confirms considerably
more than above forcshadowed.
SECRETARY GUTHRIE IN WALL SrREEr.-The
Chicago Democratic Press of the 9th inst, in
concluding an editorial upon the late money
pressure East, gives the following item:
The course of the general Government is
depicting the Sub-Treasury of its boarded dol
lars AT latest advices the balance in New York
was s6.497.tll, which is nearly four millions
below the point reached early in October. The
remittance of the Government tor the payment
of the debts of Georgetown and Alexandria,
purchased by the Secretary of the Treasury,
went forward in sterling bills, the gold remain
ing in the New York banks"
However gratifying it may be to the business
interests of the country thus to know that ''the
course OF the general government is depicting
the Sub-Treasury of its boarded dollars we