Minnesota weekly times. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1854-1859, 1856-01-19
BETWEEN HEAVEN AND EARTH.

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BETWEEN HEAVEN AND EARTH.
The humbug Railroad has at last gone by
the board. We saw pamphlet yesterday ;af-
ternoon containing letter from Mr.. Lowber,
acting President of the M. g. N. w. r. r.
Co., wherein that gentleman addresses the
Secretary of the Interior, Mr.. McClelland, re.
qucsting him to rerie,r his decision to withdraw
the railroad suit now pending in the U. S. Su-
preme Court, and setting forth how much the
Company have already lost. 1t seems that the
Attorney-General addressed letter to the
counsel of the Company, Mr.. Barbour, in
forming him that the Secretary Of the Interior,
"for public policy and administrative expedien-
cy," had decided that the suit should be with
drawn, and if so, then Minnesota is deprived
of her land, and the Company are hanging
between heaven and EARTH We are of opin.
ion that "there is God in Israeli" What
think those who illuminated their houses some
time since! We shall a.lude to this matter
again shortly.
The REWARD OF INpUsrRY.-In the Fall
OF 1850, two young men came to our city and
commenced business. They were poor, but
trusting to their own industry and straight-for-
ward, honest course, they opened an exclusive
Hardware business in our then infant city. Du.
ring their early struggles they encountered
many hardships, but persevering and pursuing
an upright, homo able career, each year found
them better off, and to-day they rank among the
first and most esteemed of our many merchants.
Not like other young men, they did not neglect
their business for the frvolties of life, nor did
they violate their word in order to make good
bargain. but ever the same and always at their
posts, they have at last realized wha, industry
and fair-dealing invariably bring, good name
and a competency for life. s.-
On the corner of Third and Cedar streets,
stands one of the best finished buildings in this
city or Territory. 1t is built of stone. three
stories high, and its modern and we'll proper
toned appearance at once attracts the eye of
the stranger. The main building is sixty feet
deep by twenty-five in width. The store is
eighty feet deep, including commodious and
excellent Office, and is very high between josts;
the wood work outside and in is grained, and
the windows and showcases are of plated glass;
Everything about it has the appearance of taste
and neatness and we learn its cost was not far
from $4,000. The owners of this building are
the Messrs McCLouD, the young men alluded
to in the fore-part Of this article, and their
present prosperity is only the step-stone to their
future wealth and usefulness. Let other young
men initiate their example and like them, be-
come valuable members of society.
Esg The mouth-pece of the Corruption
Party takes to itself considerable credit for not
abiding to the dirty work performed by the
Committee on contested seats, and now that the
work is done, it smiles as compacently over the
act as the midnight murderer smiles over his
deeds of death and carnage. We pass over
much the Corruption Organ says till we come to
the following.
" The alnplest opportunity has been given
both parties Interested, and the opposition to
substantiate these charges by proofs
OH, you utter fdlSely. Wnen the testimony
introduced by Mr.. Howell, under solemn oath,
was brought before the Committee, it was claim.
ed that that testimony was erparte When the
Committee made their report, Mr.. Balcombe
moved that the resolution admitting Mr. Tillot-
son TO his seat. be referred back to the Com
mittee who should have power 10 send to Fill
more county and procure tertimony that was not
exparte. but that pas denied, and yet the Cor
ruption organ says that ample opportunity was
afforded all parties to furnish proof. So much
for this lie.
Again--.The Organ says: In the remain
ing case of Howell VS.. Tillotson, the report of
the majority of the Committee was sustained
by more than party vote in the Council"
This the editor must have known was false
when he penned it, for proof of which consult
the monument. Two of the members voting
against the resolution were Messrs Rollins and
Baily, Democrats.
Resolred, That Benjamin F. Tlotson is en-
titled to the seat he nov occupies in the Ceun-
Gil Of the Territory of Minnesota.