Minnesota weekly times. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1854-1859, 1854-09-12

MATTERS AT THE EAsr.-A young friend, who
contemplates making st. Paul his future home,
writing from New Haven, Conn.,, under date of
the 9th of August, says:
Last night we had heavy shower, the first rain
we have had for weeks, and to-day it looks as
though we were going to have settled rain.
hopeso; for vegetation has suffered from the long
| drouth. Potatoes are very scarce; the late ones
will fall short, and those that are dug are very
small. We have to pay $l,75 per bushel for them
now, and the Lord only knows how much they
will be this winter,- probably 50 so or SIS before
next spring. Flour is up to $40 80 and $l3 per
barrel, and merchants seem to think it will be
SIS before it is any lower. All other things are
up in proportion.
The new Prohibitory Liquor Law is growing
more popular every day. 1t helps the poor and
likewise the rich it saves the poor Drunkard's
money and his senses. know of cases where
men who used to get their money every Saturday
night, go to rum shop, pour down the poison,
spend their money, and then go home penniess,
while their families were actually suffering for
the wants of nature, who now say that they never
felt so well in all their lives, never had such an
appetite, &C., &c. How much better than to go
home drunk, and abuse their wives and children !!
iIurrah for the Maine Law, say l. They have had
great times here in trying to get an Agent, but
have not got one yet Some want an Agent, and
some do not, the Anti's are the strongest. Tenn
perancc mostly the Anti's: they don't
approve of the Citys going into the Liquor bust
ness. The first town meeting they had for an APP
preparation, the Antps were the strongest, and
they appropriated IA cents, payable in 1869, so
that was a dead shave. The last one, they held
last week, and moved to dispose Of the subject
for one year, which was carried, by handsome
majority. What they will do now, cannot tell,
but they say they are going to call another meet
ing.
/ hear a great deal said about st. Paul and
Minnesota. Yours, IL. Z. Z.
THE MNNEsorIAN SUsTAINED.-A stranger pc
rusing the columns of the Minnesotian would sup
pose that there no other paper in the North
West-certainly no paper of responsibility. The
Minnesotian is right in everything always was
right is perfect paragon of perfection, and all
other concerns are mere fee-biteS in its estima-
ton. 1t speaks. and politicians tremble; it
points its finger and government officials quake
it sneezes and funny men laugh; it affects SEN
timentalism, and old women cry. That Minneso-
tian is great paper! The Democrat is of no
account the Times is ''obscure !" the Pioneer is
a squib and the Galena Advertiser is ''tooth-
less bag" Come down from your lofty egotism,
Mr.. Pedantry, and show some regard for the in
telligence of the people. When it becomes lit
tie more popular to oppose the Minnesota Land
Bill Fraud, we shall hear the immaculate Mime
sotian, sounding its trumpet, and crying aloud
sustained-sustained-w were always on that
| side--the Minnesotian is sustained.'' Keep from
undcr--we are coming! We are the 6 Senior,'
and when we have united our forces with the
Democrat (suppose we are, or desire to be, the
Wing organ) then won't we crush that rascally
Times and Pioneer. Well fix them! Suppose
we do turn traitor and sell The Wing party to the
Rice facton!- lis that anything bad? We have
done it before, and why can't we do it again p
Certainly; it's not honorable, honest, but it's
a stroke Of expcdiency, a matter in which we are
perfectly at home. Then, when the bargain is
consumAated and the friends of Mr.. Rice and
the friends Of Mr.. Ramsey are locked lovingly in
each others arms, won't we cry out Sustained
| sustained.' Clear the track, the Minnesoti is
coming, but mark the destruction it leaves in it's
path