The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1854-08-19

~ VII W graduate Tile price Oi puOllc lauuS De-
came law. We are, at present, unacquaint-
ed with its provisions. No State can receive
lands for railroad purposes under any act pas
sed
Coon ArPoINTMENT.-JOhn Esaias Warren,
Esq, of st. Paul, has been appointed U. S. Dis
trict Attorney for Minnesota, in place of Col
d. H. Dustin. deceased. Isaac Van Etten--we
beg pardon-Hon. General Isaac Van Etten
got tripped up" in the business of his trip to
Washington. We understand he has retired to
the secluded wales of the Shawangunk Noun
tains to rusticate, after his hard and disinter-
ested labors at the National Capital. We had
hoped that General Isaac *tuld have succeed
ed, so that st. Paul could have elected some
one, in his stead, to repres ent her in the Coun-
Gil next winter.
GooD!-The bill to allow prescriptions upon
unsurveyed lands in Minnesota, passed the SEN
ate on the 4th. 1t had passed the House some
time previously. We cannut, however, find it
among the list of acts approved by the Presi-
dent.
Coon AGAIN On the eve of the adjourn
ment, Mr.. Rice succeeded in getting through
an appropriation of S25OOO for the construc-
ton of the Mendoza and Big Sioux Road.
WHIG TRIUMPBs-The sweeping Wing victo
ry in Iowa is but a forerunner of what is coming
from all parts of the country at the approach
| ing fall elections. The New York Herald of
| the 9th is also confident that North Carolina
has gone Whig all over. Two U. S. Senators
is the result of the Wings carrying the old
North State. Verify the "Littlc Giant has
out-Samsoned Samson in the hour of his death.
| lie has thrown the pillars and walls of Dagon
upon his friends instead of his enemies.
The Minnesotian says of the [Forncy's] act
In effect it is virtually, if not legally for
gerry. and justice would require not only his
expulsion from the halls which he has disgraccd
but his incarceration in a penitentiary as more
than common felon. A private individual who
would thus alter the sense Of a private paper,
affecting the title to few acres, the right to
a small sum of money, would at once lie con-
signed to dungeon for felony."-Galena i'd
rerfiscr
| No, that's not what we said, Uncle Hough-
ton. That's some of neighbor Olmsted's thun-
der against his brother Democrat, Forney, and
we have no desire to steal it from him.
| Who guided and controlled the elements dur
ing the dark hours ofl776? Geo. Washington,
at the age of 2S years. commanderin-chief of
| the American forces. Who stood up in the
midst of loyalists and proclaimed those men,
morabie TOrds-"Is liberty SO sweet as to be
purchased by the price of slavery? Forbid,
Almighty God. 1care not what others may
think, but as for me give me liberty or give me
death?" Patrick Henry, at the age IA years.
| Who drew up that immortal instrument--the
Declaration of our independence? Thomas JEFF
fcrson, at the age of 2l. Who Influenced our
foreign relations and reflected honor upon our
infant country abroad? The young, ardent
philosophical thinker, Benjamin Franklin
And wherever we may point In the past VIC be-
hold the young men of the day guiding our
country to greatness and rencwn.-Iunes.
George Washington was born on the 22d Of
February, 1892, and was made "commander-in-
chief of the American forces in 1775--agc over
43. Patrick Henry was 80 when he made the
speech quoted from above; Thos. Jefferson
was considerably over 80 when he wrote the
Vi independence, duu
and ardent philosophical thinker, Benjamin
Franklin" was gouty "old fogy" beyond
60 when be for the first time "inhuenced our
foreign relations and reflected honor upon our
infant country abroad" Go back to school,
you miserable pretender OF a newspaper organ
st of the intelligent young men of Minnesota,
and take with You your "chum" ofthe Pioneer,
who appears to have studied history in the same
class with you The little school boys and girls
about the streets of St. Paul are laughing
at both of you. Why, the intelligent boy of
eight or ten, who ves the Times about the
streets of st. Paul, would have blushed TO
spread such heathenish ignorance before your
readers, had he known what he held under his
arm during his morning round of Saturday
You talk of becoming leading and successful
editor in Minnesota! Upon seeing the above
display of historical lore, we have no doubt the
chief of the 'Know-Nothings' will resign in your
favor and have you forthwith installed into his
office. You have fairly earned his place, and
we go in for giving "honor to whom honor is
due"
AN "AwFUL WHISPER."-FOr several days a
rumor under the above head has been floating
throughout exchanges that Madame Sontag and
Signor Pozzoliui came to their deaths by poi
son. The story was started by an Italian pa
per in New York, but it is Of SO monstrous a
nature that little or no attention has been paid
to it, The Saturday Evening Gazette speaks
of the matter in the following positive man
ner:
ave regret to say that we have the best o.
r authority to believe that the lawful whisper
relating to Sontag and Pozzolin which speaks
Of their deaths being caused by poison. is MOI
mere Italian invention, but bas foundation
lin fact. From friend who arrived in the city