The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1855-02-03

| MESSRS. EDITOKS :-lne llttle pleasures and
excitements of the holidays, are, at last, fairly
over the sth of January, with its parades and
balls, has passed by; and Congress has finally
and in good earnest gone to work. Little, il
is true. has yet been accomplished; but, in
my opinion it will be a hard working sess-
ion.A OC'Aif W I'll y r. l.
During the past and present week, there
has been good deal of attraction at the Cap.
itol. Several able=and Interesting speeches
have been delivered and, amongst the ablest
fews days ago, in reply to Mr.. Banks, of Mass
Mr.. Banks put himself forward, some time since
as the champion of the "Know Nothings -
and it would have been we'll for that Order
had it selected, lift did select, an ADLER and
more prudent man. His speech was mere dec.
lamation; nothing more and he left himself
pitiably vulnerable, at every point. Mr.. Chan.
dler, replied to but single position of Mr.. b.
as that was the foundation of the whole super.
structure ofhis remarks. He denounced the
Catholics; and said, that the Pope, by Divine
right, claimed temporal power over every
member the Church, and, therefore, no Cath.
Ollie, was trust worthy citizen. 1t was to this
portion of his speech Mr.. c. replied; and he used
him up entirely, and in a calm and gentleman
ly manner, though for that reason, none the
less severely. .rt.
On Monday, Mr.. Stephens, of GA. entertained
the House, in reply to Mr.. Campbell, of Ohio,
who spoke early in the session. Mr.. S. is one
Of the ablest, if not the very ablest man in that
body and yet he will ever find his hands full.
when he tackles Campbell. In their little pas
was generally conceded that Campbell came
off victor. N.t rvUr VIZ e-gG ..
Yesterday, there was quite crowd in the
galleries to hear sold Bullion" on the Pacific
Road question. He made q fine speech. but
many of his statements were not true in fact.
He ridiculed the idea of constructing a road,
either North or South of the line he proposes.
The northern route he stated, so l am inform
ed, would take grade of lGO feet to the mile,
which is an error of one half, at least. The
southern route, he said was uninhabitable and
the construction of the road totally impract-
cable for the reason, that great part of it
was through sandy DESERT where the Indians
who traversed it, and were obliged to spend a
night on it. were compelled to get up, at least,
half dozen times through the night, and
shake off the sand, lest by morning they would
be entirely buried beneath it.
| Douglas is pushing his scheme for three
roads to the Pacific. a northern, middle and
southern road, with might and main !; and
what is more, should not be surprised if he
got it through. He is really little giant"
There are numerous candidates in the field
for the next Presidency. Douglas, 1 think is
not in the ring; but Sam Houston is, and says
he possesses all the elements of success-that
he tcas black guard, ana noio IS q gentleman;
that will embrace these two classes that he
,cas a scorncr Of religion and n0,c is profess
or and member of the Babtst Church that
will secure these two classes-that he ,cas
drunkard, and notc is a temperance lecturer !;
that will take these two classes and other
parallels,no fit for ears polite. God us save from
Sam Houston Mr.. Fillmore will in all prob
ability receive the whig nominaton-such is
evidently the united feeling of the South.
In addition to these, there arc scores of 9TH
ers, amongst whom in particular quarters, very
conspcuously figures the name Of one of your
own citizens.
There was quite a scene, few mornings
since, in the Barber Shop of the National Ho-
tel, growing out ola discussion of the merits
of the several candidates. Several gentlemen
were present, being shaved. others were waiting
for their turn-all engaged in lauding the mcr-
its of their favorites. At this time, in came Mr..
Hugh Tyler, who, am informed, is known to
many of the people of your Territory, and an
intimate friend of the Hon. Henry Fl. Sibley.
He took his seat, and after listening some time
to the rivalry of clamor. joined, by Offering to
name his man against the field for reasonable
odds. Tyler is one of the knowing ones. and
there was a silence, to hear Sir Oracle but be-
fore he had time to declare the name of his
man, the head Barber interposed, by telling
him, he would bet him five to one, provided he
would not name particular individual. With
out knowing who the reserved man was, Tyler
expressed his willingness to come to terms
but when the name was announced by the bar
Der, to be that of Hon. Henry II. Sibley, of
Minnesota, Tyler backed out, declaring him to
be the man he intended to name against the
field. This singular coincidence so powerfully
affected the barber, that he threw down his ra-
zor, and left his belathered subject to cleanse
himself; swearing that if his nominee was sue
cessful, as he was now sure he would be, his
fortune was made, beyond all contingencies,
and he would lather and shave no more. 1t is
said he left by the next train for Mendoza.
Mr.. Soule has resigned and Mr.. Breckenridge |
of KY, goes to the Court of Madrid in his place.
Mr.. B. is an eloquent and accomplished gentle
man, of most decided ability. There must have
been some error committed by the Administra-
ton in his appointment, as it certainly could
not have meant this Government to be repre-
sented abroad by a gentleman of such high ia
lent and responsibility as Mr.. B. It is total
and fundamental departure from its whole for
mer policy. SIKH tII .TfW
1 believe it was mistake about the removal
of your U. S. District Attorney. l think no.
thing of the kind has occurred though certain
ly it is not the fault of Gov. German, Secre-
tary Rosser and H. H. Sibley, that he was not
1t was charged that both he and the
Judges ofyour Supreme Court were bought by
The r. R. Co. This must be pleasant to those
gentlemen. We will know here certainly and
definitely in few days who made those