Minnesota weekly times., 1857-05-23

4 NuNE To ON6s'I--xu0 H AfAouuV S"ySf
sThe Free State party are probably nine to on
of the pro-Slavsry party" and yet the Tribune
and other Fusion prints advise the Free State mer
6 not to vote" at the coming election in Kansas
for delegates to form State Constitution Marl
! the admission! The Free State men are nine to
one, and yet according to the Tribune, they arr
so utterly devoid of manliness or the capacity to
maintain the principles they have avoWed, that
they suffer the Territory to be lost to free labor
and almost oowardly and shamefully abandon the
ground to small minority. IL is gross libs
upon the American character. The twenty thou.
| sand Free State men, women, and children, in
Kansas can never thus be dragooned and subJu-
gated BY three or four thousand ssBorder Ruff
fans."-- Pioneer. go a. rsa1 Gag
The first sentence of the above quotation is true;
the rest is mean and contemplate slander upon
all Free State men,. Look at it.! An election il
soon to be held in Kansas for delegates to Con-
stitutional Convention, in which the Ruf6ans have
every wire of the arrangements between their I'm
gers and can pull them as they will. They have
pretended to take census, but every body knows
that census to be an infamous fraud. They en-
rolled every Pro-Slavery man, and excluded the
voters from the Free States on the slightest pre-
text, or on none at all, except to compass their
ends. Every member Of the Blue Lodge in Mis-
souri is enrolled as q legal uoter, while the Re-
publicans from the East and North, petition in
vain to be put on the list So the census returns
have been finished, the books are closed, and the
Borderers boast openly thas they have " major
ity of the voters while the Free State men actat-
ally have nine to one of the real citizens of the
Territory This crime is SO open in its execu-
tion and infamous in its character, that the very
best of Kansas Governors, Geary, Democrat,
whom the Pioneer lauded and feted and feasted,
day after day, until he showed regard for, JUS
tice, has become alarmed and disgusted at the
desperate game, and has fed from the Territory
to save his life The Free State men have nine
tenths of the ciizens, while the Border Ruf6ans,
through the knavery of Atchinson, Stringfellow,
Woodson and Walker, four Democratic deities in
in the eyes of the Pioneer-have at least two
thirds of the priviledged voters. Now see the
trick "A If the other Free State men who really
have the right to vote by every law of Republi-
can Government, should insist on voting when
they are not in the census takers list-the Pio-
neer would set up a howl Of sstreason! treason !!
treason /" swung through its dirty columns till
the poor type were all out of breath-now, be-
cause they don't commit this very act which it
yesterday labelled treason !" it mocks their
timentalism, and calls them stewards" and q
lot of hirelings :" utterly devoid Of manhood p
Oh Consistency which horn of the dilemma
shall We take? Either of them will certainly
lacerate us. There is no go-between--we must
be either "traitors !" because we do defend our
rights, or |" towards " because we do not. Well,
we will hitch on to the Sc coward " horn. Let
every Free State man in Kansas, refuse to vote in
the coming criminally fraudulent election no
good can come Of it-much evil may and the
People will at least save themselves the humilia-
tion of lending theirvoluutary sanction TO batch
of such systematic scoundrelism. "a'a. ~ *.
ANOTHER YoUNG 'UN!--Another Juvenile steam
boat has made its appearance in our city that
beats the Nondescript, notice of which we have
already made. 1t is probably the smallest steam
or in existence that can ego alone." .s-fa"1 os
We refer to the Steamer s'America," built in
this city by Messrs. Spencer & Co., and now an
chored on the comfortable of Mr.. Lambert, back
of Marshall's bank. -r .a..eH oI .ra.ar br
The dimensions are as follows length over
all, #. inches; width of beam, 10 inches
depth of hold, inches draught, l inch. She
has perfect boiler, and beautiful little engine
with 8 inch cylinder. She is side-wheeler;
her wheels measuring nine inches in diameter,
and one and a half inch stroke. Two chim-
neys, very upright in their demeanor, give the
boat decidedly business-like appearance. Every
thing about this homeopathic craft is perfect,
cabins, hold, decks, wheel house and berths. -a
Two trial trips have been made on the slough
foot of Market-st, and the ssAmerica" steams
up with charcoaD and moves of on the river
with flags flying like thing of life.' The boat
is model Of Lake Erie tug-steamers, and the
following gentlemen are her architects: Nathan
Spicer, maohinist DR.. Sallers and Messrs. Ken
dali and Lambert ship carpenters and painters. -
She will be launched on the Lake as soon as clear
weather will permit. o.. ..-,,. g.T.sE I'D
eMAKING BRIcKs WITHOUT SrRAw!"-The Pio-
neer, in chronicling the " accidents " Of Thurs
day, divulges the following stupendous item.-
" One man in crossing st. Anthony street yester-
day, near the Post Office, had his hat blown from
his head, but it no sooner struck the street, than
it sunk in the water, standing in that neighbor-
hood" I've learn, in addition, that the man was
Pioneer and ss Democrat" and that the sudden
SC sinking in the water " Of the unfortunate hat,
is explained by its having had q brick in it. The
pool, "a cousin of Bill Poole), which was "stand-
ing in that neighborhood," )" has been summoned
as witness on the trial Of the bat for having
struck the street" but the defendant justify
the act on tne ground of self defsnse the hat hav
ing received the first blow" The above valu-
able item was not picked up by our reporter in
time for yesterdays issue, be being slightly OBJ
fusticated when the row commenced. The public
wait in hxeathless suspense the Pioneerlings in
vestigation. 7d aun ual bas1 7ss -. G2E
| q We invite attention to the debate on the
Indian matters, which took place in the House
| yesterday. Hon. Joseph R. Brown deserves the
thanks Of the settlers for the earnest manner in
which he has given this subject his attention.
Unlike the Advertiser, he thinks the affair of too
| serious nature for either ridicule or sneers.
Messrs. Adams, Bassen, Payne, King, Mcvey and
others, have also taken prominent part in the