Minnesota weekly times. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1854-1859, 1855-09-25
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SATURDAY, SEPT. 90, 1855.
Lower ST. Paul Precinct Meeting


A meeting of the Inhabitants of the lower
St. Paul Precinct, was held on Thursday last,
for the purpose of choosing Delegates TO attend
the Republican Convention, to be held at the
Court House to-day, at 10 o'clock, for the pur-
pose of nominating candidates for the county
offices. Major Mclean being called to the
chair and Mr.. A. Stewart chosen as secretary.
1t was resolvedthat Mr.. Mclean, John Brain
ard, and Martin ID. Clark be chosen as Del
egates, and that they have the power to fill any
or all vacancies, and that they their utmost
endeavors to secure the triumphant return of
William II. Marshall the Republican candi-
date TO Congress, and all county officers nomi-
mated at the Republican Convention. This is
right. Unanmity of action, and determination
o, purpose is all that is wanted to secure apure
Republican triumph If we look at the course
OF the two parties, the Republican and Demo-
cratic, from the commencement Of the campaign
to the present time, VIC will see great differ
ence in the action Of the two parties. The
Republicans to single man, without solitary
exception, have come boldly forward and put
their shoulders to the wheel, thrown in their
every might, exerted every possible influence
to secure glorious victory in favor Of the par
ty. But the Democrats have been continually
quarelling. There has been one continual dis
sension among them from the first to the last.
There is no unanmi,y in their ranks; an igno-
mious defeat is staring them boldly in the face.
The house that is divided against itself canno,
standt The Democrats in this campaign must
fall. Their pet lamb II. NJ. Rice has exhausted
his fountain Of low tricks and political schemes
and must now 60 to the wall. The electors
OF Minnesota have had their eye teeth cut, and
are determined TO I've bamboozled no longer,
but are bound TO send to Congress man of
honor, in whom they have unbounded conf
dence, who when elected will have an eye to
the welfare Of the Territory and his consttu-
tants as we'll as his own purse, that man is
the Republican candidate, WIN. r. Marshall.
How TO AVON AccIDESTs.-All that is
necessary TO avoid nine ,enths of the Railroad
and Steamboat accidents that annually occur,
and causes the destruction Of SO many valuable
and useful lives, is just little care and proper
attention to business. The melancholy and heart
rendlng calamity that lately occurred on the
Camden and Amtoy Railroad, by which so
many OF our fellow beings were almost Instant
ly launched from time into eternity, might have
been prevented, merely by the repair of the
bell rope, that enables the conductor to warn
the engineer of approaching danger. He saw
the carriage on the track in abundant time to
have runs the bell and caused the engineer to
stop the train, before reaching the carriage, if
the rope had been in proper order, but it
had got broken and from the carelessness of the
conductor. had not been mendcd and although
he saw the danger and knew the consequences
must be awful, he had no means of ayerting it.
The cars struck the carriage, were knocked off
the track, the lives Of all the passengers on
board were endangered, and many of them ia
ken away, besides woundng and manning so
many others for life. When we consider that all
this might have been prevented, merely by the
splicing OF small rope, at an expense of few
shillings, how melancholy and yet how indig-
nant must all feel who have the slightest shade
of humanity about them. Had the conductor
been a careful attentive man, worthy of
his responsible post, that rope would have been
fixed at proper time, and all those dead men
would now be living. And ifthcy with all the
other dead men, who have been killed by the
carelessness Of railroad conductors could speak,
and all the manned and manglcd bodies ofthose
who have suffered SO severely by the same cause
could all come forth in one common mass, what
a docful and heart sickcning tale would be
told, what lesson of prudence would be taught
to railroad conductors while having under their
charge SO many valuable and useful lives.