The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1854-03-18

| Of Q letter from Washington, received several
weeks since, we then marked for publication
but Il has slumbered in the drawer to give
place to other matters Of interest. 1t would
have been read with much greater interest at a
certain particular time during the winter than
now but as our Dutchman would say, 1T ish
peter ash goot now ash never"
A most dsgraeeful hoax has been played of
on the Indian Department. Some shameless
scribbler wrote burlesque report, p1rpOrting
to emanate from the Minnesota Superintendent
cy of Indian affairs, and actually succeeded in
having it printed in the annual report from the
Indian Department.
That the Commissioner, Col. Manypenny, was
aware of this disreputable trick is of course
not supposable; he stands too high as gentle
man to be liable to any such suspicion /; but it
is difficult to believe that anything so exceed
ingly stupid and ridiculous as this pretended
report, could be published in the official report
of the Commissioner. without the connivance
of some one in the Department. give you a
few specimens of this precious production, from
which you may judge of the whole.
1t says, "These men making complaints
against the treaty arc residing Oh the Mississip-
pi, ,rhere they can go On the west side and
make what they call claims, and thus cut the
good timber off government lands and convert
them (,rho?) to purposes of commerce &c,
without being actual settlers" / have often
heard of people making claims, but did not
know before, that cutting good timber off gov
eminent lands was the way they did it,
This exchange was made without the disin-
terested interference o. traders and specula-
tors, some of whom have no other care for the
red man than to .tatten on his ignorance and
,traHy." Do they get re,y fat Oh that kind o!
dict?'
sThe HON. in his report to me on this
subject says, the Winnebagoe Indians cannot
be kept of the Mississippi river without the
government uses force to keep them back to
use force, would lead to far worse consequen-
ces. than any possible event, he feared, by let
ting them have smll strip on that river" Will
you amuse yourself for day or two, and oblge
me by trying to find out the meaning, If there
is any, in that sentence?
Therefore, should the government refuse to
confirm the exchange, here say, the Winneba-
goes are disintegrdfed forever, and must be-
come shortly mere wandering trcspasscrs, with,
out hope for all future time On consulting
, Webster, 1 find that "disintegrated means
separated into integrant parts without chemi-
cal action.' If this deplorable result is to fol
low the new confirmation of the exchange; il
the poor Winnebagoes are to be left forever
without " chemical action. every friend of hui
mainly will at once say, let the exchange be
confirmed, let the chemical action" 60 on
, From these specimens, think you will coin
eide in the opinion that this document should
not have been received without some evidence
of its being genuine. hope the Infamous hoax
err will be discovered and severely punished
, If you could catch him in Minnesota, doub
not that some of you would hang him will
your own hands" His object. undoubtedl.
was to make your worthy Superintendent of In
, dian affairs, appear contemplate and ridicu
, lous and regret that he should have met will
such complete success.
ILLINOIS CENTRAL RAHRoAD.-The editor o
the Democrat in noticing the opening of thu
Rock Island Railroad, cannot resist being
= tempted into his wontcd propensity of steppin,
+ aside to give the Illinois Central fling. TIL
company is now abused for not completing thei
+ road through to the Mississippi in as short tim
, as the Rock Island. Our neighbor is well awar
that the Central Company would have been car
rying freight and passengers to Duneath thi
day, had it not been for perplexing obstacle
thrown in their way BY people in and about Ga
lena. While the energy with which the Roc
Island Road has been pushed to completion i
in the highest degree commendable, it must b
remembered that it had none of the obstacle
to contend with, which have besct the Central
And although, as the Democrat says, the forme
had no lands granted it, he..appears unwilling
to take into consideration the fact. that it ha
from the start, been pushed by all that RailrOa'
. influence cast of it, which comprises the lin
from Chicago to New York city by way Of 70
tedo, Cleveland, Dunkirk, &c. We have fire
!. quently been accused of undue part.ality 70
, the Illinois Central Company over other Com
. panies in reference to giving them privilege
- in Minnesota. We own to a Partially in jus
so far as We know the men of this company ar
more competent, able and willing, and it
u more to their interest, to take hold of our road.
build them and, manage them, than any othc
combination of capitalists in this wide world
We are partial to them because we have see
: their great and good works in Illinois, an
II know that what they say they mean, and wha
) they undertake to do, they do. We are partia
to them just as we would be to employing a
ii educated and experienced regular physical
IS instead Of quack "root DOCTOR; (no allusio
: to the gentleman from Hennepin,) or pract
g cal ana thorough going architect, instead of
{ miserably ignorant "botch,'' merely becaus
the services OF the latter class of professed doc
l. tors and builders could be obtained for half tn
r expense incident to the employment of comp,
= tent men. The magnitude of the work done o
n the Illinois Central, and the rapidity wit
g which it has been carried on, is without pal
/. allcl in ancient or modern times and the Der
If eits the people Of that State are already dery
C ing from it, are far beyond the calculation
c its most sanguine friends at the outset "
copy the following from late number of tn
J.. Wall Street, n. Y, Journal
: I'VE understand thai the whole rcmainn
portion of the Sl7, Oo0, 900 Construction Bond
' which the Illinois Central Railroad is author
l. zed to issue, has been negotiated through tn
l. house Of Messrs. Ketchum. Rogers 4 Bemen
! The entire amount necessary to put the Who'll
road in running order is thus supplied. TIL
vigor and success with which this great wor
hoo1 h1,l