The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1854-06-17

Ess- We are glad to perceive that the side
of the city, as will be perceived by the numer-
Gus notices of the street commissioners in our
advertising columns. The work being done in
the Third Ward is of q character that would be
a credit to any city. We hope this substan-
tiai style will be adopted throughout.
Gs~ Such men as Geo. Bancroft, Chs. Sedg-
wick, Chas Hudson. and others of Massachu-
sets, and Preston King, of New York, "gave
up" when they saw Lake Calhoun, that they
have no such sheet Of water and surrounding
scenery East. 1t was voted by the company
that some enterprising Yankee should be i'm
pressed with the duty of buying the claim of
Mr.. Brisette, and erecting thcreupon q COM
modiOus resort for summer visitors. Who will
be the lucky man!
Gs- Among the distinguished visitors of the
party on Thursday, not heretofore named, were
DIR. Robinson. the celebrated linguist and phi
lologist of New York City. and his lady, who
is the authoress Of several popular romances of
high moral tone.
MURDER OF SHERTFF-We learn from the
Galena Advertiser that on Monday last de-
plorable affair occurred at McGregor Iowa,
which resulted in the murder of the Sheriff OF
Clayton county. We hear the following par
tculars: When the steamer Henrietta landed
there, on her way down from st. Paul, the Sher-
| if wen on board and served a writ of attach
ment on the boat, and while in the act of stoop-
ing down to throw off the chain cable with
which to tie her up. he received blow on the
back Of the head that rendered him senselcss.
The boat then left with the Sheriff, but landed
him in the above condition, in lone place,
between McGregor and Clay ton City, where he
was found he died soon after. Two men i'm
mediatcly started in pursuit of the boat with
skiff. They rowed gallantly all of Monday
night. but were impeded by head wind, and
reached Galena, almost exhausted, in about one
hour after the boat left that port for below.
One of the men followed on another boat, the
first opportunity, and will no doubt ovcrtake
the Henrietta somewhere. Telegraph des-
patches were also sent to the Rock Island DO
lioe, it is hoped in season to arrest the authors
Of the peculiarly aggravated outrage.
"a FUNNY PAPER.'-We believe it was the
Times that few days since, denominated the
Pioneer funny paper" The Times was
much more than half right ; and as the ,criting
editor of the Times was for some months during
the past year connected with the Pioneer in
the same capacity no one has had better op-
portunity of witnessing the funny antics played
off by the managers of that farcical concern
than he. Not to go back to tircsome period in
the Pioneers chronology, we believe it is some
thing less than year since its editor, Jos. R.
Brown-recorded on the Journals of the last
Legislature as "Joseph the Juggler"-preach-
ed as part of the creed of his political tactics
that the Democracy" Of Minnesota must run
Mr.. Rice and elect him to Congress, in order to
kill Gorman." Rice was elected by the people,
the great body of whom voted for him for high
er and more useful purposes; and fortunate it
has proved for the interests of the Territory
that such was the result. The next thing we
discovered, was fraternai union between Gov.
German and the Pioneer folks-Gorman mean
time fighting Mr.. Rice to the bitter end"
The Pioneer. still in the hands of the expert
ground -and-lofty tumbler, Joseph, having be-
come convinced in its own mind that his Excel
lency was still alive and kicking, and deeming
it for the interests Of its Democracy" that
somebody must die i'll order to bring things
around fright side up" the editor came to the
| couclus sion that II wonld rerbans no ea ,,oIl IN
change the programme. and try the work of
killing off Mr.. Rice with the aid of the Cover
nor. Soon after this arrangement" had been
perfected, the Pioneer got hold Of new editor;
and in the mutation Of all earthly things it bids
fair to get "kilt' first itself-lcaving his Ex-
cellency with about the same degree of vitality
in him that tarried there before il became his
organ, and Mr.. Rice still flourishing in all the
exhuberance Of healthy and promising vigor.
After exhausting itself to help the Governor
out of one or two dilcmmas, the Pioneer got
uery funny on Friday morning, and cracked the
following ridiculous joke athis Excellency's ex-
pense, in sort of quack- k-medicine advertise
ment, inserted in the editorial columns, and
headed american Eloquence":-
"From Patrick Henry to Daniel Webster, is
found every element of Oratory known Oh Earth
The impetuOus defamation and fiery sarcasm
of Henry,-the solid augmentation of Adams
the pleasing numbers Of Wirt-the master
delineations Of Ames, the classic beauty Of Ev-
erett, the impassiOned power of Clay, the ma
tive strength and invective of ofGORMAN--the
logical disquisitiOns ofCalhOun, and the ma
jestic flights of Webster, give conclusive evil
dence that this is the Augustan age OF elo-
quence, to be made the classical study OF all
future men,"
The town came near "dying laffin," but the
laugh was on the wrong side; it was at the
expense of the joker-not the joked. So the ar
ticle was revised, rehashed and republished on
Saturday, with the name Of RANDOLPH. inserted
instead of German At the editorial head OF
the Saturday issue stood the following explana-
tion:
sour office, Thursday, like oil the rest Of
st. Paul, was in a state Of confusion and, by
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