The weekly Minnesotian., 1854-02-11

INfIDEIs BEFORE HERETICs-One of the recent
appointment of the Administration is that Of
Thomas Rainey, of Ohio, as U. S. Consul to Bo-
lvia. The New York Tribune which has kent
quiet unit this nomination was confirmed Nv
the Senate. remarks complacently that:
MI Rainey was an active Wing in the late
PRESIDENTIAL canvass, and with the assistance of
funds from the National Scott Committee, pub
ilshed campaign paper at Cincinnati. in aid of
the election Of Gen. Scott. We are anite snre
that Mr. Rainey is as much Of a Whig now as he
ever was" NV" 80 "'
Has the tally Of the Softs and Abolitionists
gwen out, that the administration has been
compelled to commence "buying up'' Wbips +.
with Rainey and Peter G. Washington it has
made good beginning in that direction When
tne Prime Minister Of a French Monarch urged
the appointment Of certain candidate for Of
nee, His Most Christian Majesty Replied Ne
yer! the man is a Jansenist" The Minister re-
piled, No, sire; he is an atheist" THAT is
another matter" quoth the king-and the COM
mission was signed. So at Washington to-day
even Whig has claim to Office, but never a
National Democrat.-.aD. .qrgus.
The fellow alluded to above was, we are sor.
ry to admit, a Scott Wing, or pretended to be
with us in the late Presidential campaipn and
did wheedle out of the National Scott Commit
tee liberal subscription to aid. as was sum-
posed, IN the publication Of a campaign paper,
called the Cincinnati Republican. Raincy used
60 De connected in some way with the Cincn-
natl Gazette, but was. we believe, when last in
tnat establishment, kicked out by the Pressman.
for this service, performed in most dexterous
ana accomplished manner, the Gazette Compa-
ny presented their Pressman with new suit
OF clothes. Prof. Rainey next turned his at
tention to caloric, and many of our citizens will
remember the lecture he delivered in this city
last spring. explaining as clear as mud the
principie OF Ericsson IS caloric engine. He gaze
out one lecture, hO,ceuer, here. After exhaust
ing himself In calOric. Rainey turned his atten-
tion to most anything that offered relief, and
nnally-we use the word finally in its most ex-
PresslVe sense, became, as we are informed, q
correspondent or attache ofthe New York Her
sid. This last step was going rather low, even
Ior MIN, but there remained a deeper degrada-
slon, reached only by accepting an appoint
ment from the present Administration. Consul
halney! Truth is stranger than fiction. Old
line Democrats" hurra for Pierce and the Bo-
ivian Consul !-Chicago Jour-
WAsHrNFTON CITY.-The Intelligencer says
here have been erected the past year in Wash
ington City, $50 houses with other improve
ments. 1t further says:
"In the city are forty-cight places of worship
viz: Ten for Methodist and Methodist PrOte-
stants, Presbyterian seven, EpiscOpalens six
Baptists five, Roman Catholic five, Lutheran
two, Friends Unitarans, COngregationalists,
and Swedenborgians, one each, and also nine
Tor cOlored congregations"
Mike Walsh and F. B. Cutting of New York
made some very adamantine remarks concern
ing Gen. Pierce and his administration in the
House Of Representatives on the 18th.
"Mike" characterized the friends of the Adj
ministratiOn as a ''mOst dsputable and hollow
hearted set which fraternzcd, with an assump-
tion Orwell dssembled sincerity. with the des-
perate and dislOyal Wings, the spur-heeled ne
groes and Abolitionists, and dcmagogues whose
hearts and purposes were as black as the faces
OF the negroes they were deluding.'
ANTI-RENT CASE DECIDED-The New York
Court of Appeals has decided the suit brought
by the Attorney General, to test the title to the
Manor OF Rensselaerwyck. in favor of the Van
Rensselaer, landlords and against the ant-rent
paying tenants.