The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1853-07-09
MORE QrARREI1NG OVER THE BoSEs,-We con.

tinue our series of extracts from leading Demo-
cratic papers, showing the harmony existing in
the ranks of those who united upon seven GER
tain principles to elevate Gen. Pierce to the
Presidency. The New York Express (Whig)
recently made the following assertion -
"The Government advertisements, some of
which are valuable have now, we see, been Civ
Ell the same direction, Ito the barnburners)
The Albany Atlas has a nine column adver-
tisement calling for proposals for supplies, and
the Argus has little or nothing. The Republic.
in Buffalo, has like advertisements and the
Courier (hunkcr) has little or nothing. For
the edifcatiOn of the Southern Democracy it is
well for us to inform them that the Buffalo Re-
public and the Albany Atlas, to whom Mr.. Dob
bin, the North Carolina Secretary of the Navy,
has thus given the supplies, were bitter oppO-
nents of the Fugitive Slave Law, and would be
glad to vote for its repeal.
The National Democrat of New York city,
which: as its name indicates, is antagonistical
to the Barnburncrs, copies the above, and COM
ments at length upon the indisputable fact.
We make an extract from the Democrats ar
ticlc -
"The statement of the Express is true. and
the fact is creating natural surprise, not only
in the South, but through the whole independ-
ent press of the United States except the Abo-
liton organs, which seem to regard it as a CAPT
tai joke in their favor. But we do not believe
that Secretary Dobbin is by any means aware
that the greater part of the advertising from his
department has been distributed to the out
speaking and undisguised abolition organs of
the North. And We are confirmed in this i'm
preston by the fact that there is one instance
in this city in which a bitter and scurrlous
little Wing paper, with only about four hun
drcd subscribers. received a very large adver-
tiscment from the same department. We be-
licve that the Secretary of the Navy has not
been made aware of these abuscs-we believe
that if he intended to bcstow patronage upon
the Wing press, he would select some such re-
spectacle national organs as the Express and
the Courier and Enquirer. But surely it is not
for a moment to be supposed that Mr. DObbin
intends to give aid comfort and support to the
free soil and abolition organs of this State.
while he withhOlds the same from the tried and
faithful organs of the National Democratic par
ty. To say nothing about the injustice of the
thing. the evils Ofsuch policy cuts two ways,
it is premium offered to rebellion against the
principles of the party. and it is an insult and
a encouragement to the faithful and incorrupt-
IDLE defenders of the party faith The principle
OF buying up an enemy instead of rewarding
friends, is so manifcstly un just, that all mems
moral sense cries out against it, and no party
which follows 1T can long escape the contempt
of mankind. Corrupt ministers in monarchical
dcspOtic governments have sometimes obtain
ed mOmentary success by such stroke of
policy but in republic. where all the agents
of government are scanned and measured and
weighed in the workshops of millions of free
and independent craftsmen. every day. such I'M
prlncipled traf1ckers in corruption cannot cs-
cape for the shortest period. One of the papers
named by the Express, has. within two months,
openly declared that it will never cease to re-
pudiatc the fugitive law as unconstitutional
and wicked, and the other always did oppose
it, and has never yet intimated the remotest adj
hcsion to the platform of the present Admins
tratiOn."
SIS FRANKLIN PIERCE A MISTAKE, OR IS HE
MIsTAKEN?"- pointed query is the caption
of a long article in the Ashland Union, Loco
foco paper of Ohio, edited by Hon. H. s. Knapp.
one of the ablest writer's in that State. The
writer says he has looked in vain for those
qualities in the President that were promised
for him before election. The truth must be
confessed, he says, there has been a horde of
very bad men appointed to office by Pierce
The writer continues -" The number of rotten
men who have found favor with Gen. Pierce
leads me to believe that he is sadly deficient in
frmncss, and the fatal weakness which he has
hitherto evinced in portion of his public life.
is still upon him." &c. Abiding to this dccid-
ed language, the Ohio State Journal says =
''If this don't charge, very distinctly. that
the President has again taken to strong drink.
then we do not know what is meant Please
n1,or tbaf a. T
thorty of a very respectable character. This
writer also finds much fault because the Prcs
dent has been so particularly kind to Disunion-
lists and AbolitiOnSts, and has spurncd the
Mon men of the nation. There is more force
and truth in this charge. we think. than there
is in the first one. But as this is family affair
and is likely to prove interesting. VIC will look
on while and see how the battle RACES
- Abolish and perhaps personally malicious
rumor, on the part of those who originally set
it afloat, has been going the rounds of the press
to the effect that Thurlow Weed, Esq, of the
Albany Journal, was about to embark for Rome.
to embrace the Catholic faith. In the last num-
Der of the Journal we find the following denial
of the allegation -
"This item commenced its rounds three or
dlctcd then FIVE had supposed it possible that
so absurd a rumor could have gained crcdcnce
But we are assured that it is extensively be-
llevcd. Were we fit for or worthy of the com
munion of any church, there are temples, in
THIS Christian land, almost at the threshold of
every man s door. 1t is not necessary. there
fore, to go abroad for what, if sought in a pro-
per spirit, may be found at home. Nor did we.
while at Rome, where there is so much to awak-
en- sense of dependence and humility. discover
any reason for renouncing the faith of our IA
TIERS
The SNAKE CHARM.-Onc of the most STRIKING
Illustrations of the fatally fascinating power of
the rattlesnake is given in the following. which
we copy from the Galcna Advertiser. We pre-
sumo, at this late day, there are very few who
doubt this power of this venomous reptile over
its prey -
Mr.. EDroR,-It has frequently been asserted.
and as often denied, that snakes have the DOW
er of charming birds. An incident which oc