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The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1856-11-29


Col. VIM H.. Mobiles, the Commissioner
appointed by Government to locate the ROAD
from Fort Ridgcly in this Territory 10 inc
South Pass of the Rocky Mountains, arrived
in town yesterday. Col. N. and suite have
been absent from St. Paul about five weeks
and have located the road westerly from Fort
R,doelv about $50 miles to She-u-doka or
Holc-in-the-M Mountain. Here a depot, has
been established, and will be the starting
noint on the resuming of operations in the
spring. 81.
The route adopted by the party is repre-
sented as a much better one than was antlc-
mated for an emigrant route. The country
is almost entirely prairie. but plenty OF wa
ter was found as often as once IN flve miles,
also. reasonable amount of timber ior
prairie country, around the borders OF the
numerous lakes which everywhere dotted
the vast expanse spread out before them.
The whole country from the Missouri riv'
erto the Minnesota has been burnt over this
fall. which made it exceedingly difficult and
expensive to get supplies to the teams, al
they had to draw hay for more than hun
dred miles. This has stopped further oper
atious this winter. A portion of the party
has been left at Hole-in-the- Mounta'nto taxi
charge of the establishment there and tn'
res. have returned for the winter.
Ho;eiu>the- Mountain is SO called from
deep ravine through the high bluff made o'
the passage Of tributary OF the b's oiou&
The road will be located through this ravine
Not an accident has occurred to any
the mem erx of the party or the teams, no
sickness taken place; and they return in goo'
health, looking the better sor their recent ex
posure and fatigue. Col. Mobiles grateful!
Acknowledges the material service rendered
him by the principal assistant, 5. Medary
Jr., whose numerous friends in this city vii
be clad to hear that he ~ill return in shor
period.
The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1856-11-29
-zzlNN~Z

RussI> n CoRN TRADE-Adyices from Ga
latz, the Russian shipping port on the Blacl;
Sea, state that the Indian corn harvest had
commenced, and that the quality was excel
lent. In addition to large feet already in
port, two hundred vessels were reported in
t,a river
The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1856-11-29

We have no other kind, these days of mail
non-arrivals. Wepresume that IN such ca
SEES, news should be valued as winc-thc old
er the better. At least we intend to proceed
upon this hypothesis in making UP our paper
for this date.
Truman NJ. Smith, Esq, has presented us
with copy of "Spooner's Vermont Jour
nall" dated at Windsor, Vermont, Deem
Der l6, 1906; also copy of the "Tablet oil
the Times" published at Bennington in the
same State, by erasmus c. Merrill, and
bearing date August 18th, 1897. Both are
small dingy sheets, printed on inferior coarse
paper, and the mechanical work, to ou1
more modern eye, badly executed.
We make few extracts to show what was
going on in the world at that time, and al
nearly as possible, in their own style, leav
ing out the old-fashioned for s, of course
-, .. From the Tablet of the Times.
| NETWORK, August 3.
From the log-book Of the ship Fame, copt"f
81. Hilsoa, from Molaga.
Of Taragona was boarded by an Algerin
xebeck, with about 200 men, who requeste
me to send my boat on board, which wa
jcompled with. After examining the ship
papers, he politely treated the mate with col
fee, and sent US some oranges, Tha NlgeI
inc commander expressed wish for m
mates quadrant but could not be preyaiie
on to take it unless the mate would excer
his in return He also observed that ourpa1
ron and their patron was very good friend
(ailuding to the Ss1sill..sent the Dcy)-tha
as We had been rather taFdy i- sfndIn
the frigate, their good capt. O'Brirn lai go::
to hurry the business. e. ...e.
The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1856-11-29

SALT.-The Syracuse Journal says that
the anount of salt manufactured this year al
the Onondaga Salt Springs, exceeds by q
large sum that of last. The four principal
coarse fields alone have exceeded it at least
100000 lbs. The quantity sold, however, is
much less this year than last, up to the pre-
sent time. Last year tie amount sold up to
the Goth of October, was 5000 ,564; the
amount this year S4,9S4, 75l, showing de-
crease of $74, S43. 60 - ai 49,.
The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1856-11-29

Mr.. NJ. II. Barker, of Fayette coun-
ty, Kentucky, lost forty-two mules and four
fine horses on Tuesday night, tie l4th ult,
from poison administered by some contempt
ible miscreapt. sr~ s...ot...isa,, 4o
The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1856-11-29

A CoDFIsH HoG.-A ''stuck up' kind of
animal, of the hard-to-please genus, entered
store in Philadelphia, and turning up his
nose at some apples which he saw in the
window: insolently asked hie
care those apples fit for o hog to, eat ?''
aShouldn't wonder-you had better take
one and try" said The .storekeeper, quite
cool e.. 10 81 b.ra-y ~ dor.s 49,.
The gentleman slid.
The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1856-11-29
INTERIOR ITEMs.-We copy the following
from the Shakopee Advocate of the cd:

from the Snakopee Advocate OF the I'D:
A visit to our up-the-river neighbor, the
county seat Of Carver county, on Wednesday
last, gave occasion foF some large surprise on
our part, in witnessing the growth in which
the place has attained during its brief EXIST
ence. Chaska contains already some TWEEN
ty-six buildings completed or nearly so,
many of them very fair sort Of houses-one
saw mill-four stores=-and several shops.
A fine three story hotel is being erected by
Messrs. Williams & Kempton, and will pros
badly be finished in two or three weeks. It
is much needed there, and will, of course,
prove a paying Investment. There is no
doubt but that Chassa possesses many ele-
ments of substantial prosperity.
a good ferry is established here, by MFR:
Philip Reynolds, who will be found very
prompt in putting travellers safely across. -
The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1856-11-29
APPOINTMENTS

The Hon. Jonathan Freemen. Esq, is cho-
sen by the people at large, the 4th member
for the representation of New Hampshire.
We hear that Mr.. Patrick Henry is elect
ed Governor Of Virginia.
The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1856-11-29

gs- The President has appointed Thomas
S. Cunningham, Esq, of Beaver, Penn, AS
sociate Judge of the Supreme Court of Kan
sas, to fill the vacancy occasioned by the
death of Judge Burrell.
The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1856-11-29
Railroad Meeting.

A meeting of those of our citizens interes-
ted in the construction of the ST. Paul and
ST. Anthony Railroad was held pursuant to
previous notice at the Office Of Sanborn &
FRENCH in this city, Nov: 25th, at two o'clock
P. NJ. The meeting was well attended by
our business men, Daniel 5. Balch, Presi-
dent Of the BOARD of Directors, called the
meeting to order, and on motion of A. Vance
Brown, William r. Marshall was chosen
President of the meeting, and John B. San
born was chosen Secretary.
On motion Of Mr.. McComb, it was voted
that committee consisting of three persons
be appointed in st. Paul to solicit subscrip-
tons to stock in said road.
On motion of Mr.. Winslow, the above mo-
ton was so modified as to call for the ap-
pointment Of committee of three persons
in St Paul, also like committee in St. An
thony, and one in Minneapolis to solicit sub
scriptions to stock.
The President announced the following
persons as members of said Committee:
Commitee for 81. Pcm-J, NJ. Winslow,
Theodore FreAch. an Alex. Ramsey.
For s. Aattony.-Robert Cummings, D.
Morrison, and l.. &. johnson.
For Minneapolis.-Mr. Wells, Mr. Snyder,
and Charles G. Ames.
Daniel S. Ba!ch, Esq, submitted profile
of the road as already surveyed, from which
1t Appeals that fhe EcaYest grade on the road
would be sixty-six feet to the mile: This
grade is for the first two milea going out o.
st, Paul, afr, taieh also laid before the Di-
rectors and those present the following state
ments and estimates of the cost of the con-
struction of the road:
ST. ANTHoaY, Nov. Goth, 1856.
To the Directors Of the 81. Pail cad 81. Aathony
RailTond:
GENTLEMEN:-I lay before you plan and
profile of the road, surveyed for the St. Paul
and st. Anthony Railroad, and estimates OF
its construction and furnishing. The line
commences at {. point near the Congregation
al Meeting House in st. Anthony; passes
south-easterly to St. Paul. Tie line and
grades may be seen by Plan and Profile
The distance is about nine and one half miles
to the south part of the city of st. Paul, and
! from that point the road NAV take such di-
rection as the Directors may select
The assumed width of Road Bed is fifteen
feet on embankmen,s, and twenty feet in ex-
cavation. The amount of earth work to the
point designated, according to survey is
27t,8S4 yards, at 20 cents Observation-Disclosures. 365 70
800 yards Bridge Masonry, at $4......... 2000 on
500 yards Cattle Guard Masonry, at 3d. 600 OG
/ 900 yards CulTeft alasonry, at 81 30 1,2s0 Oh
Bridge, % feet, at 800 per foot. 800 c0
sSS7T5 20
The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1856-11-29

MGssouRI.-Two Senators from Missouri
are to be elected this winter. It is thought
that Geyer, renegade Buchanan wing, will
stand fair chance.
The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1856-11-29

Who ELECTED RUCHANAN.-The St.Louis
Inteligencer claims that the Fillmoreites
elected Buchanan, and puts in plea for
share of the spoils.
The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1856-11-29

Missouri Observation-Disclosures from St.
Louis dated Nov. 18th, state that forty-fiye
counties in Missouri are heard from. Ru-
chanan's majority 300.
The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1856-11-29

PHILADELPHIA, November 90.
A dreadful accident happened to Mr.. George
Holland and his wife, at North Bend, near
Cincinnati. They were suddenly buried I'M
der the rains of their own house, the beams
having given way ut midnight, owing to a
too prevalent practice Of slowing large
quantity of corn in the upper chamber. The
unfortunate couple had been only a short time
married sister of Mrs. Hollands was al
SO much bruised by the accident and Gno,h-
err sister had died that day by sickness. Such
are the vicissitudes of lie! Mortal, the
present moment is thy own-the next is in
the womb Of Futurity. t.. -".
The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1856-11-29

MIcHIGAN.-The very latest returns from
Michigan, as published in the Detroit papers,
gives Fremont a majority of q, l62 in that
State. .7aeis1 01cl ss.f e. sci
The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1856-11-29
THE PRINTER


Is necessitated to call upon all persons who
are indebted to him, to make immediate pay
ment l.- r+e e-..
The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1856-11-29

IL They are making visiting cards
wherein besides the name, the portrait Of
the party is engraved. -6 'f2sAa 80 II
The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1856-11-29

- IMMIcaArIoN.-The New York Times
computes the falling off of emigration, this
year, at about 10000 from last year.
The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1856-11-29


The assumed weight of Rail is 50 lbs. per
yard; Sleepers, 6 by : inches, feet long,
I IN number to one length of Is feet Rail :;
wrought iron Chairs. 6lbs. each. ..|
The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1856-11-29
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PHILADELPHIA, November %

From spooDer's Vermont Journal.
The true Democrat., 1856-03-18

the south as we'll off as the free negroes of the north, (save the markD would ruin their coun- try and massacre the citizens of our southern States, giving in select abolition phrase " theiI children to the slaughter and their roofs to the l flames"
 With cool atrocity he gloats over the scenes pictured by his prurlent fancy, and follows with delighted eyes the imaginary track of invading armies, smoking with the blood of conHagra- tions of the south. But one stroke more o demoniac pencil was needed to perfect the pie ture; and we supply it for him. In the blind ness of his rage 1t was doubtless overlook ed - We pray that this his only omission may be excused.
 | Whilst evincing what an evident qualification 1t would be, were 1t in his power to stir up the southern slaves to incendiarism and midnight assassination, he neglected to show how fit a side scene in this tragedy might be played by | the tomahawks and scalping knives of the h. dians of the southwest. The Choctaws, the Greeks, and the Cherokees are now too culti- vated and refined for such base purposes, it i> true; but with the Cumanches he may, perad. venture, succeed in due season. Try 1t. Gree ley; try 1t. Procure an interpreter instanter and start him at once for the wildS of the south west, with the recent files of the Tribune on his back. Breath is cheap, and ink is not dear and even should the experiment fail, it will be worthy your head and your heart, and prove yon perfect man-n atrocity.
 Blow on, then, your brazen trumpet-the Tribune. You may, perhaps, escape the fate of your windy brother of the fable. Let il give forth no doubtful note, but rally around you all of your kidney. The south would fail know, without delay, those whom she may have to declare, even in peace, enemies; in war, friends and American patriots and true philanthropists everywhere would like an opportunity of count ing the number of those who delight in treason 10 the high prestige of their country and theil race, and thus estimating the chances of hap py solution of the great problem of the possi blllty Of self-government, nor yet fully demon strated by the favored citizens of the American republic SOUTnRON.
The true Democrat., 1856-03-18
Tribute oi Respect to the Memory of
 Geo. c. Brooke. Esq

At meeting of the members of the bar held at Springfield, Conway county Arkansas, on the llth day of March, A. D. 1856 the fol lowing proceedings were had:
 On motion of Saml w. Williams eso Pleasant Jordan, esq, attorney general, was called to the chair, and on motion of Thos R. Turner, esq, Walter c. Dent, esq, was appoint ed secretary. Whereupon, the president ex- planned the object of the meeting to be to pay tribute of respect to the memory of our de- ceased brother, George c. Brooke, esq. Whereupon, on motion of J. L. Hollowell, esq, the chair appointed a committee consist ing of Messrs. Holowell, McSpedden. Hicks. and Edwards, to draft suitable resolutions who reported the following, which, on motion. were unanimously adOpted:
 WHEREAS, information hos been received by the members of this bar, that our bigblv es teemed and much beloved brother. Georre c. Brooke, esq, of Lewisburg, Conway county. Arkansas, has been suddenly removed from our midst, by the unseen hand of the fell destroy CT death, therefore,
 Resofued, That we deeply deplore the loss of 50 promising and amia ble a member of this bar, who, by his courteous department and gentle manly bearing had endeared himself to all who knew him.
 ResolUed That we tenGer to the relatives and friends of the deceased, our sincere condolence and heartfelt ltsympathy for this sad bereavement with which an inscrutible Providence has af- 1icted them.
 Res0l0ed, That the proceedings of this meet ing be communicated to the court by the chair man, with request that they may be entered upon the records; and further, that they be communicated to the relatives and friends of the deceased, by the secretary of this meeting, and be published in the True Democrat and Gazette and Democrat, by request.
 Whereupon, on motion, the meeting djourn- ed sine de.
 P. JORDAN, Chairman,
 WALTER c. DENT, Secretary.
The true Democrat., 1856-03-18

But 1t is useless to comment upon the pros- poets of a party, whose rottenness is universally acknowledged, and whose constant attempts to patch upa " nationality" have produced the heartest disgust with the people. The Phila- delphia News, leading organ and advocate of the order, has but confessed the truth when it said last week:
 " In common candor and frankness, we must admit that we look no longer for any good to result from the deliberations of Know Nothing councils, nor the organization of the Ameri- can party. The fact is-and it would be worse than folly to disguise it-Know Nottingham is effete. It has lost the respect and confidence of the mass of the people, and is now only the foot bail of corrupt and unprincipled political demagogues, who seek place and power by means If its secret machinery but in whom the people have no confidence, and never will SUD- port in any movement they undertake.'
The true Democrat., 1856-03-18
The Philadelphia Convention.

Last weeks mails furnished us with the full proceedings of the recent Know Nothing con- vention From the secessons, protests and clustering we formed no exalted opinion of its dignity or harmony. Its tout ensemble, to judge from the minutes, presents such ridiculous picture that il is with difficulty we preserve our gravity in contemplating it.
 The "great lights of the order'' have found it a vain undertaking to harmonize the antaSo- nlsm of factions, and to assimllate Tn happy concord the principles of right with the soph- isms of wrong. The platform found enemies in the bosom of the very convention that ori- ginated it, and by ignoring all vital and agitated questions, can, at best, but prove unsatisfactory to the American people. With the great ma jority, the only question that was seemingly considered, was, "hoao far eoould tue so.ah submit to retusal of aH acknowledgment of its coastitu- tiona1 rlghts2''
 The spirit of black republicanism ruled the hour, and that much lauded guarantee, the pre- teymittts1g twelfth section, to which Capt. Pike alone looked for any safety for the south one year ago, was stricken out, and southern men were found degraded enough to submit to the outrage.
 The preponderating element in this conven- ton, we repeat, was abolitionism, and the south had no voice in it. In this assumption we are sustained by testimony unexceptonable even to the Know Nothings of this Stae-testimony that must be conclusive, for it is the evidence of their own representative Albert Pike The spirit of injustice to the south, according to his protest forced Capt. Pike to sever his conncc- ton with the convention.
 The many ridiculous farces enacted by its conventions have made ''he Order'' the laugh ing stock of the nation. We have never be- fore witnessed "such getting down stars''-- such base desertion of principles upon which they heretofore contended hinged the fate of the Republic The l2th section has been ig- nored, and the catholic disqualification hidden under vague generaties, intended to deceive the unsuspecting. Upon these two sections depended all the law and the prophets" and when they abolished them, they destroyed the living prlncple ot the midnight order, and, to use an expressive figure it has thereby become |" lame of both feet'
 The effort to yoke SAM and SAMBo together will prove most signal failure; the commonest or-driver in the land would value them poor match. The people of the south, though often betrayed and wronged, are not yet prepared to look for their only safety to a party who are too much abolitionized to recognize their consttu- tional rights If they have not the spirit to assert the rights of the south, assuredly the "American party" has not the intention to pro- feet them
The true Democrat., 1856-03-18
FIVln tHe " WasNlnHtOn Unlt Horace Pecksniif Greeley.

For years past the nteeh non c0mbatant of the l New York Tribune has successfully enacted all the parts of the Pecksnifian character before the American people. So perfect has been the performance that few detected the now palpa- ble traits of his great prototype.
 The creduous multitude imagined bim- what his fulsome fatterers represented him-a phlanthropist, generous soul, great heart full of kindly and genial sympathies. Many fsoutherners, even, were disposed to accord him much that is elevating and honorable to our humanity, and to think him only a little crotchety on the subject of slavery But noth- ing earthly is perfect-not even the hypocrisy of Horace P. Greeley.
 | As soon as the acerbities of the present sec tional contest, produced and fomented chiefly by his own paper, began to approach their eli max, the veil that had previously draped his as no longer to hide the real man.
 Amid the storm of indignant denunciation which his cold d-blooded and atrocious sentiments had produced, there stood forth the veritable Pecksniff with elongated, martyr face, down. castde, precating eyes, and non-combatant hands, meekly crossed upon his breastl
 But unavailing as both mask and drapery had become, they were not entirely dropped until the supervention of the fit of rage, consequent upon his recent personal rencontre in Washing. ton. Then the malignity of his nature openly manifested itself. and his miserable incongrui- ties and ptiful evasions of the proper respons- bilities of his position became palpable to al
 o, thou potent disenchanter, Rust of Arkan- sas! Thou Wizard of the West! One touch of thy magic Oand, and this abolition saint stands revealed a criminal whom felons might scom. But single touch and this pseudo phianthropist stands before the world convict. ed out of his own mouth of murder and arson "a traitor to the rights of the south and the true interests of his country-a recreant to his very race.
 But one wave of thy mystic baton, Rust of Arkansas, and, To! the scribe of the Tribune like those rebuked of old time, stands forth "a raving wolf''
 Another wave, and it may be confessed that he, and many of his kindred tribe of abolition agitators male and female, are fed by the gold of their British brethren--a fact now more than suspected by thousands of our citizens; or de- velopments even more astounding may result
 The last and closing scene of this Pecksnif- fan drama was enacted in a late article of the New York Tribune, protesting to give the req sons "why the south fear war" In it Greeley proves himself in full sympathy with those miserable recreants to humanity who, for the paltry consideration of rendering the slaves of
The true Democrat., 1856-03-18

0FT The New York National Democrat says, the nomination of Fillmore insures the de- feat of the Know Nothing party in New York its utter and lasting overthrow. The vote o! New York now lies between the demo- cratic and black republican candidates"
 "Mr. Fillmore's nomination is a triumph of the old federal whig element in the Know Nothing ranks. It revves the Clay and Web ster party in politics under new name. It puts the old dynasty at the head of the new movement. It will drive away such democrats as are yet members of the secret, proscriptive order, or, at least, induce them to stand aloof from the strife till it be seen whether the de- mocratic convention at Cincinnati will be guid- ed by wise and discreet counses."