The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1854-09-09
SATURDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER z, 1854
The Railroad Centroversy-the Seat Of War
Changed.

SATURDAY. MORNlNG, SER IEMbEh z, 1909.
The Railroad Conference.-The Seat Of War
Changed.
Our people, we are aware, have become sick
aud tired of the controversy growing out of the
repeal of the land grant and were it not that
We feel it duty to give the views Of those at
a distance, as they transpire, we should GER
tainly not allade to the subject again. Crimi-
nations and recriminations can now certainly
do no good. five ever get another grant Of
land. it will be accomplished only by united
action at home, and the securing of all the
strong interests We possibly can, outside OF the
Territory. 1t is foolish to put trust alone in
this or that man, or to believe that any one IN
dividual. or any dozen among us. can accom-
plish the end if we are not united as one man.
Seeing. however, that a determination exists
among some Of our editors to prevent harmony
If possible we have small hopes of ever secur-
ing another grant.
The war upon this question has now extend
ed itself beyond our borders. The Dubuque
papers, or at least some Of them, are charging
the whole blame Of the repeal upon Mr.. Wash
burne, Of Galena. and Messrs. Sibley, German
aud Rosser, Of Minnesota. The Express, the
oldest paper in Dubuque, and we believe the
oldest and most steadfast Democratic paper in
Iowa, is out upon all these gentlemen with bit
ter denunciations. The charges against Mr..
Washburne are of very serious character;
and we must say are not at all believed by us,
and will not be until we have more decided
proof of their truth than has yet reached us.
We believe Mr.. Washburne throughout, howe
yer much we may regret some of bis acts in the
premises, was faithfully and conscientiously
representing what he conceived to be the in
terests of his Galena constituents-just as Sen
ator Jones was doing for the Dubuque people.
We presume, then, that MIR. WIS friends at
home can attend to his case for him, so that we
of Minnesota need not trouble ourselves about
him one way or the other. 1t is not our pl -ce
TO take sides in this Galena and Dubuque quar-
rel, which has already, in this railroad affair,
involved us in not few perplexing difficulties,
aud tended much to the fatal termination of all
cur hopes of getting road. We should let
them fight it out between themselves.
But with our men here at home, who have f.
CURED in the matter, we haze something to do,
and in this view of the case, we copy below the
concluding portion of the article of the Du
buque Express. The editor processes to be
thoroughly posted in regard to the matter, and
has examined all the testimony taken before
the Committee. OF Messrs. German, Sibley
and Rosser, be says:
As to Messrs. German, Sibley and Rosser, we
do not think they desired the repeal of the bill,
but they certainly were instrumental in pro-
iucing it. Why? For two reasons-one po-
litical and the other pecuniary. In the first
place, the project was favorite with Hon. II.
II. Rice, the Delegate from Minnesota, and as
the above named gentlemen are antagOnistic to
him personally, the modification of the Mime
sofa Land Bill, to suit their purposes and dis
appoint his hopes, without killing the bill out
right, was favOrite project with them. In the
second place, it is asserted that these three
gentlemen are members of secret company
which desired to obtain the control of this
grant. Secretary ROsser, representing the ST.
Paul interest at Washington, was the first to
raise the wind about the little word and being
substituted for the still smaller word or, and
when this gentle breeze ripened into terrific
hurricane, sweeping down everything before it,
he was the most anxious to suppress the Storm
and was the most injured by its sudden and ter
rible effects. His ingenuity was put to the
test TO calm the troubled elements but it was
wholly inadequate to the task. Minnesota was
placed at the mercy of the tornado-was put
into the market as an article of merchandise to
be traded upon-by her own citizens, and she
has suffered for their cupidity on the one hand
aud their want of sagacity on the other.
And she is not alone the sufferer. The whole
Northwest feels the blow, as one of the most
unfortunate and destructive which could pos
slbly have been given. In the successful com
pletion Of such project. the West had every
thing to gain and nothing to lose. But the die
is cast. No railroad grant will probably ever
be made to Minnesota. The folly of her own
citizens. united to the treachery of Washburne,
ot Galena. has Frustrated a young and thriving
Territory beyond the hope of redemption.
In this transaction the Hon. Geo. w. Jones
has come out unscathed. Although assailed
by the hireiing correspondents OF the New
ork papers, as a corrupt man, who had re-
ceived bride, the evidence before the commit
tee OF investigation eXonerates him from even
the semblance of improper suspicion. We re-
Joice that this gen:lemans uniform action in
the discharge of his public duties, has paced it
out OF the power OF his enemies to visit faint
upon his character.
Col Forney, too, who has been traduced like
Pick-pocket. comes out from the investiga-
ton unsullied in reputation.
CONVERSATIONAL celebrated writer and OBJ
server has remarked, that a woman to main-
tain her influence, must either look we'll or talk
we'll. The good looks do not always depend
on herself, but to talk well certainly does.--
There should be much larger proportion of
time spent by school girls in writing and talk,
in learning to express their own thoughts and
:hose they acquire.
If a women's object is to gain admiration
merely. there is no way she can be sure of do
ing SO. as by an intelligent and animated con-
versation. There is no way that brilliant tai
ents and solid requirements may be exhibited
to more advantage, and most surely there is
no way in which good seed may be sown in the
heart to spring up and bear fruit hundred
and thousand fold as by word in season
which is "like apples of gold in pictures of sill
yer.'
Let every lady before going to tea-party
or sewing society or social gathering, decide
one or more interesting subjects which she will
endeavOr to introduce to those whom it may
become her duty to entertain, and obtain all
the information she can concerning them. Ii