Minnesota weekly times., 1855-02-20
sMONDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1866.
A Fixzle |!

The Railrcad meeting at the Court House, on
Saturday evening, was perfect 6zsle. IA large
bonfire Of tar illumined the surrounding objects
and cast q death-like appearance over the whole
scene livery ominous of what is to follow the rail-
road swindle,) while band of music within en-
de"vored to keep up the dropping spirits of those
who had gathered. "Father Randall" was called
TO the chair=-a few gsssy speeches werc msde,s
in which it was demonstrated that &C there is a
God in Israel, J" and 1.-THE meeting fzzled. =
........ News by the Mail.
Hon. Lyman Trumbull, strong Republican,
has been chosen U. s. Senator from Illinois, for
ak years, from the 4th Of March next. He re-
ceived 81 votes and Matteson 48.--A Prohibit
ory Liquor Law has passed the Senate Of Illinois
Ayes 17--nays I. The same bill, with a few
amendments, passed the House.---A dispatch
from st. Louis states that the ice at that place
broke up on the evening of the 9th, and injured
the Badger State by crushing her, breaking the
guards of the Arabia, knocking hole in the
hull of the Martha No. 2, and sinking the Alham-
bra.-A gang of counterfeiters have been ar
rested at Cleveland. $4,000 of spurious bills
were found in their possession "A copy of the
Treaty with the Chippewa Indians was brought be-
fore the U. S. House Of Representatives on the
9th, with recommendation of an appropriation
to carry out its object. Laid on the table,
From the seat Of war we find nothing startling.
In the British Parliament the Government has
been severely denounced, Lord John Russell has
resigned his seat and it is thought the Ministry
will dissolve. Three or four very heavy failures
have taken place in liverpool. Sevastopol re-
mains thc'same. The four points agreed to are
as follows: /. The revision of the treaties be-
tween Turkey and Russia. 2. A joint protecto-
rate of all the great powers over the Christians
in Turkey. 3. The navigation of the Danube
4. France and England to have respectively the
right to maintain on the Black Sea the same ma
val forcc as Russia. No battles have taken place.
Hon Judge Mecker was at Richmond, Ken
lucky, on the I'd inst. = Hla
WHAT WILL BE THE RESULT:
Every citizen of Minnesota may we'll pause and
inquire-sswhat will be the result of the acts of
our Legislature on Congress?" Will they not
tend to irritate the members ?-to cause them to
turn away with disgust, and to prevent us from
procuring any thing from the National Legsla-
ture? Others may think differently, but we can
didly believe that our present Legislature has
donc more to curse Minnesota and to render her
odious in the eyes of thinking men, than even the
great railroad fraud itself. What can people
think of Minnesota abroad when they take up the
public prints and read the acts of her Delegate,
the tergiversation of her District Attorney, the
decision of her Judges, and to crown all, the de-
termined spirit of her Legislators to override the
Governor of the Territory by bribery, and sneer
at the acts of Congress? They must think, and
not without cause, that all that has been said in
the New York Times, is true that Minnesota is
one of the most corrupt places on Gods carth.-
In the heat of excitement about the railroad mat
ter, we beseech men to stop-and- -think-and
inquire-sswhat will be the result?" A fraud
was committed-Congress repealed the bill in
consequence of that fraud-annuled the charter
for the same reasons; spurnod the acts of forg-
ers, supposing that the people of Minnesota,
through their Legislature, would cooperate with
them, and yet, here We are-The Congress of
the United States VS.. The Legislature of Minneso-
ta-the latter branch Of the Government dicta-
ting to the former. BY these means VIC shall
gain an unenviable reputation abroad-emigra-
ton Will take another chuHIel, ana mlll-uew
will settle upon the prospects of fair territory
The report will 60 abroad, has gone abroad that
the people of Minnesota are favorable to fraud
and this once fully established in the public
mind, will keep good men away and induce bad
ones to come among us,--will make our territory
the rendesvouz of rascals from all parts Of the
world, instead Of one of the most beautiful coun-
tries in the Union. We ask again" what will
be the result 30 .tlr ., .
THE REASONS.
The reasons assigned by Hon. Joseph
R. Brown, of the Council, for striking out