The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1855-04-28

The Ti,hes and the Spy
The Times was in pious fit yesterda,
morning. The whites Of lis eyes were turned VI
ii.-- I'ic-u of a duck in a thunderstorm. 1
mourns. it fairly groans, over the bitterness
the falsehoods, the tricks which, it remarks, ar,
engendered by that "conglomeration of tn,
most incongruous elements to be found in th
West" viz: Minnesota politics! Dew tell
This is all wrong" it says A vermillio,
edict. we presume. The Times is on the stoo
ofrepentance. Its conductors have been look
ing over its files for the last half year. The,
lind where they have abused public men with
out stint, simply because they differed from lht
Times clique in sustaining measures for the ben
eft OF the Territory and St. Paul-brandne
some with being "bribed, "-others as evil
lains and "rascals, "-others as panderers to
fraud, ''-others as low, miserable, contempta.
BILE dogs" or blackguards" or liars" with
like choice epithets, too numerous to mention
as auctioneers say. But it's all wrong" il
now tells us, and it don't intend to do so any
Amen.
One sentence of its pharisaical article lets us
into the purpose Of ]. Ross Brownies Spy mis-
sion here:
During last winter worst state OF politics
never existed than held sway over our Legisla-
ture. and this fact became so nOtoroIsly known
that Secret Agent OF the Government was sent
here to investigate METER and report forth
with
The state Of Minnesota politics became so
VIGOROUSLY known" that is, so VIGOROUSLY
notorious that the administration sent Secret
Agent here to Investigate and report upon
them!
Such is the English Of that sentence, as near
as we can make it out.
This confession from an organ Of the Terri
torial Administration, is important.
Browne, then ,cas Secret political Spy -
that base thing who tramples on all the propr-
cites OF life, to abuse a whole people and ser,.
his masters who affect to be their rulers Will,
they are only their servants
But a new light breaks in upon us The in
quiry has been mooted. ,cho is the traitor whu
booked Browne up in the garbled statement,
of his keL1-t-the traitor to Western laws and
Western customs, to the honor and interests o
the community in which be resides! Perhaps
W. have found him-we think we almost Sc.
the whites of his eyes!
Let our readers follow us for moment and
help us unearth the fox. Some of them will
recolcct the Times of the 9th Of March, in
which it is announced that u. Ross Browne
the Secret Agent of the government who has
been in our midst the past two weeks I'M formed
Us, previous to his departure, that not single
'critten charge had been brought against either
Gov. German or Secretary Rosser." Yes
The organ of Gov. German becomes the organ
Communication for the Secret Spy--and when
TO this significant event. is added the fact, that
Browne was VIGOROUSLY KNOWN while here
TO be lowering around the Times Office, and
amongst its clique and we have combination
of circumstances alone. sufficient to give a
strong suspicion of the traitors! To confirm this
suspicion. we have an article in the Times of
April 25th, which endorses Brownies false re-
port as in the main cO,rect" This is follow
ed up yesterday by the article We are more inn
mediately commenting upon. evidently intended
to let its friend BrLwne down easy, and ward
off the castigation he richly deserved. No 9TH
err paper has ventured to put in word for the
Spy. The Times stands alone his defender and
apologist 1t tries to break Brownies fall in
this wise:
THAT report has called forth new edition
of epthets. and it is to be presumed, from pre-
sent appearances that the warfare will be kept
up for some time to come. When
these things will cease, there is no telling-cer-
tainly not until some of those who are the cause
of the disturbance shall learn to respect them
selves by retaining from words and d ,eds
which well beft the purleus of the great cties.''
"The cause of the disturbance!" Will the
Times please inform us who else than its friend
Browne s the cause of the disturbance ?-whc
else but him, and those who crammed him with
the items Of his report which you say " is in the
main correct?" To find parents jealous of the
credit of their own offspring. is not surprising
1t is most natural. Perhaps the Times knows
who helped Browne to thus draw on his i'm.
agination for his facts" 1t looks very like as
if it did. II Browne and his associates while
here. had RETAINED from words and deeds
which well beft the purlieus of our great
cities;" had he and they been less false, less
base. less dishOnorablc, less disregardful of the
prophecies OF life. and more regardful of the
rights Of a free community. there would have
been no personal invectives." because none
then would have been deserved. though all tina,
has been said and more besides are certainly
his due, asibe case stands. For our part we
intend to "cry aloud and spare not" let the
Times whine and shuttle, and cry prccavi ever
so much. s.U
THE SANDWICH IsLANDs.-We note by late
intelligence from the Sandwich Islands thai
the Hon. Elisha H. Allen formerly the able and