Minnesota weekly times. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1854-1859, 1857-01-31

er press, l0,400 newspapers weekly, or 200
more than both the other Offices in the city Tw
new presses will be on in the early spring, on
of which will be the FREELY Card Press, cut
ting, printing and counting 10000 cards an hour
Then we shall be "Dear Public," at your service
The Defender of Murderers and the Palliator Q
Crime!
Horse-racing and murders are all the 60 just nov
in St. Paul. Weare progressing truly, when ever
citizen is obliged to carry revolver to protec
himself from midnight assassins!
The above item of ne,cs, for it is certainl,
news to every man, woman and child in this city
is taken from the Daily Times. If this was th'
first instance in which the editor of that shee
had been known to openly and maliciously hbe
his fellow citizens, We would feel disposed tt
look upon the above with some degree of charity
but when it is remembered that his mind alons
finds food for reflection in gross Misrepresentation
of the character of our citizens and hypocritica
canting on questions of morality, and that nc
possible guarantee can be given for cessation
of these evils, it would be objectionable in US te
pass the matter longer in silence. So far, how.
ever, as this community is concerned, any refu-
tatiOn of this and all kindred statements emana.
ting from that quarter, would be altogether use-
less but inasmuch as such matter generally finds
u ready print in Eastern Exchanges, We deem
it duty we owe the people of st. Paul to deny.
in toto, its truthfulness by denouncing it as mere
ly the offspring of a corrupt heart and diseased
Imagination.
What object the editor of the Times can have
in almost daily giving publicity to falsehoods of
this character when there is not the least shadow
of foundation on which to base them, is beyond
our powers of comprehension, unless, out OF
charity for tie man, We attribute it to a total
want of that healthy balance of brain so neces.
sary in public journalist to avoid running into
all manner Of tomfoOleries and unmitigated
falsehoods.
The little whipper-snapper of the Pioneer, who
presides over the local columns Of that paper and
chronicles, or pretends to chronicle the events OF
the day, becomes exceedingly indignant at par
agraph in our paper few days since, and so in
dgnant that in this case as in others, he garbles
the article copied from u.s. Ceaving out " lectures.
concerts, balls," &c in order to give effect to the
terrible cassigation which follows. With the all
of great man, with great destiny, with grea'
responsibilities, great virtues and GREAT brains
he assumes to inform the public that we have
"openly and maliciously libelled our fellow citi-
zens,' and then, as if conscious of having dis
charged an important duty, struts about as any
other jackass would, and finally subsidies into the
belief that without his indispensable aid St. Pau
would 60 s'to pot!'' A great man is that little
vain whpper- napper!-that panderer to vice
that defender of murders-that palliatcr OF
crime THAT advocate of rum and ruin, horse.
racing and gambling Ia great man, who deal.
in moonlight and organ grinding, love and non.
sense, wind and bombast.
FOURTEEN MURDERS in this city crowded
into the space of six years libel is it?-
Where are the assassins Prowling about under
cover of night ready to make ne,D victims Car
the whipper- snapper tell US where they are p
how many of them have been brought to justice
Fourteen murders in six years Who does not
remember the brutal assault on Hull and CLARK
and their death ?-the deliberate murder Of a
Frenchman at the lower levee ?-the death oil
Mckenzie and Johnson. and Hitchkox and others
Where are the assassins :? Whose blood did not
curdle over the diabolical deed that laid low aI
honest and inoffensive German ?-who did moi
start to his feet with a shudder as the news came
that wife had fallen by the knife of her hus.
band? A libel is it
Fourteen murders in the city of st. Paul in the
space of six years and out of all these not ont
suffered the penalty of the law! Are these mis-
representations?- ?-these libels? It is not the mar
who REVEALS the depravity of a people who is thu
ibeller, but he who seeks to paliate their wrongs
1t is not the journal which covers up the errors o.
a community that is the friend of that communi
ty, but rather the journal that on all occasions
seeks to expose the that is eating into tn,
very vitals of the body polite.
Where are those eight young men who came t
tune? Can the Pioneer tell us? Go to yondel
burial l-ground and mark the graves of the drunk
ards In the vigor of their manhood they fell
victim to the delirium tremens! while the Pio
neer applauded the hell-6re that sent them to de-
struction. And yet when the Times tells the com
munity of these things in order to bring about .
reformation, it is denominated LIBEL!
Look at our fifty billiard and gambling saloon,
our one hundred grog- -shops-the robberies tha
have been committed during the last six months
the brutal assaults and murders which have trans
pred during the same PERIOD and then say if these
things do not demand the attention of the Press
and the citizens? Something must be done, o.
We shall become noted abroad as band of cut
throats, speculators and thieves, a reputation VI
do not by any means seek to cherish.
The Pioneer can manufacture and lay before
its Eastern readers, horrible Indian stories--th'
implement of the whites BY the savages-whicl
stories affect not only our city-but the who'll
territory, yet so soon as the Times gives utter
ance to truths, although not palatable yet start
ling in their effect, thep this Defender of Crime
denounces such truths Gas merely the offspring
of corrupt heart and diseased imagination, Pan,
simply for the reason that it deems such cours
best calculated to subserve its selfish end. Well
such course may win, but if so, we greatly mis-
take the virture and intelligence of our citizens.
From the Financial Advertiser.
TALK ABOUT TowN.-The talk is of ssmurde
most foul and unnaturai,' Murder under our yer,
ewes and in the very thick of the days outgoing
murder stalking the open streets-lurking in door
ways, in the thin skirts of twilight, and deepen
ing the gloom of dark alleys-dreadful, wicket
murder, stealing unawares upon its victim, with
out groan o. cry, or any sign OF It's coming or 60
ing. Coming-going-with an appalling stillnes
terrible ten fold on account of its stiffness, soft
footed and invisible like pestilence--sudde
like the lightning.
And who is the murderer Does he sit oppo
site us at dinner? Do we take his bloody hand
in ours in the familiar daily greeting? Where i
he? Was it the wind which shook the windoy
with such ghostly chatter? Was that a foot
fall at the threshold Are you sure you locke'
the door tight i?
Never before, for seven years. have you tro,
the streets of st. Paul with fear. But now th