Minnesota weekly times. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1854-1859, 1855-06-19

| their devotlng to their own use private carriag
reserved for Elk President Fillmore and his daueh
ter it was in vain that the stage drivers inform
ed them that their stages were engaged; it wa
in vain to request them to wait until carriage
could be procured "a general panic seemed t
have seized the whole crowd, and they piled them
selves promiscuousy into and on to &c grain carts
and apple carts, 'brick wagons and go-carts
giving as a reason, that the boats were to leav
in the evening and that they must see St. Anthem,
Falls. Transfers were stopped in the street ant
offered $40, $50 and even $50, to convey o com
pany to the Falls, and literary individual, no
satisfied with his accommodations, chartered
water cart, belonging to poor boy, and strad
ding the barrel, made conspicuous figure, hi
coat-tail flying in the wind, as he was driven rap
idly through the streets. If we mistake not, thi
gentleman immortalized his name by writing {
scurrilous article for the New York Times, il
which he stated he could not get even a glass Of
brandy. Now the committee had no control owe,
the brandy, nor the carriages which were chartered
by the company, nor had they time to send fol-
such as they had engaged for Saturday; moi
could they induce our guests to wait until arrange
ments could be made to convey them safely, qui-
city and comfortably to those scenes so finely de-
picted by the New Haven editor, but everything
which could be done under the circumstances, was
done and done expeditiously and cheerfully.--
Private carriages were placed at the disposal of
our guests, for which no charge was made, and
tickets issued for the Ball and reception in
the evening, and notice was given where such
tickets could be had, the object bong to extend
to all from abroad an opportunity to enjoy them
selves, and if any were over-lo looked, it was their
fault, not ours.
We do not deny but "thirty dollars" were
charged and paid for stage; we do not deny but
"twenty dollars" were paid for a pair of horses,
nor do we deny that this was an imposition,
but in view of all the c.rcumstances--the manner
in which our guests came upon us, two days in
advance of the timc-the absence Of almost every
thing which had been prepared to receive them
we ask. is it right that the citizens of St. Paul
and Minnesota should suffer the odium of all
this? 1t seems to US that no reasonable man will
ask tit seems to us that he who will persist in
asking it, is not only captious, but illberal-it
seems to us that the mitigating circumstances are
sufficient to convince ''eastern intellect, eastern
wealth and eastern beauty" that we are neither
cannibals, savagcs or robbers. No one regrets
more than we the m;shap, and could $500 repair
it, the sum would be cheerfully given, but as it
cannot, We feel in duty bound to protect our cti-
zens from the aspcrs;ons of those, who, uuwit-
tingly, give publicity to articles which tend in
jurc US as a city and as people. We feel very
confident that our friend would not knowingly do
us an injury, but smarting under the lash of
+" thirty drllars," he swcepincly dcnounccs all.
when in fact his sarcasm and irony should fall
upon the heads of those who deserve it and not
upon those who did everything in their power to
entertain eastern intellect, eastern wealth and
eastern beauty" among which VIC class our ami
able eastern contemporary.
"St Paul is hosritablc place, as the TINES
says" Yes sir; and the TiMEs repeats it, and
the TINES will prove it, if our friend will give US
an opportunity and inform us of his coming.
Can you point US to another city on the face of
the Globe California exceptcd) of six years.
growth. containing G00O NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
four daily and four weekly newspapcrs-erectins
screen churches and filling them and supporting
thcm-establishing schools and colleges by no
means inferior to those Of the East, and carving
on commercial trade equal to that of eastern
cities twenty years old? 1t strikes us that all
this requires money, and the natural inquiry is,
''whcre does it come from?' From The people
Very we'll, then, if the people of St. Paul furnish
money for these things, they cannot be so selfish
and niggardly, rs our friend would infer. No sir;
we will place tho people of St. Paul along side
of any people in the world for lbcrality and hos
ptality, and we hazlrl the assertion that they
will not be found wanting when the scale poises
on the lever which metcs out Justice.
We have devoted more space perhaps to this
subject than its merits demand, but we have been
influenced to do so, in hopes that those Presses
abroad which have given circulation to wholesale
condemnation of the want of hospitality of our
citizens, will be induced b. u full knowledge of
the facts to place us right before their own read
ers and right before the world. We ask nothing
morc-we will be content with nothing less.
PRoGREss OF THE WAR.-The three distinct