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The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1857-04-04
HOTELS.


CT. PAUL, MINNEsOTA.-Th proprietor Of the above
extensive and magnificent establishment has the sat
sfaction Of announcing to the citizens of st. Paul. and
the travelling community, that he has length compile
ted bis arrangements, and will throw open to the public
on the 18th nst of the most extensive and
Hotels now known in the whole West He begs to solicit
from his friends and the public continuation of that
patronage which was SO literally bestowed upon him
while proprietor of the American House. promising that
his constant and best shall be put forth render
every guest comfortable.
In the furnishing of the House alone an expense OF
over forty thousand Dollars has been gone into and in
the outlay of which, have secured every modern inn
provement for convenience and comfort.
The Parlors are furnished after the most approved
ste and arranged that parties wishing to be them
selves can be entirely private.
The Bed Rooms are large and airy and the bedding all
that the weary could wish for the most asdious de
sire. - ..s
The Gentlemen's Saloon is fitted up in the most mod
ern STYLE and the Bar stocked with the choicest Liquors.
OF old and favore brands and attended by expert.
enced and courteous gentlemen.
In the Culinary Department. neither pains expense
will be spared to render 1t the effective well
satisfying portion of the Hote-whe the artist who pre-
sides over 1t is of the most proficient and experience
ed the Eastern Cities can produce. 0s : n
The Office will have gentlemen of known ability to pre-
side over its affairs and who will make 1t their pleasure
at all times to attend and minister the wants of the
guests, while the Proprietor will be found at his post
striving to make every one comfortable.
Attached to the Hotel is large and magnificent Bill
Hard Saloon, fitted up at heavy expense and all the
modern improvements introduced. I'D,
The HOTEL throughout will be heated with steam, which
cannot fail to make it the most comfortable Winter quar-.
tiers in the whole of the North West.
BATHROOMS, and every convenience necessary for the
comfort of guests have been fitted up in Short the Pro-
pretor has spared in any of the varied de-
partments of his large establishment in order render
it the most desirable pleasant and magnificent Hotel in
the country. ;
In retiring from the management of the American
House, would inform the public that have not dspos
ed of my interest in it, but intend continuing it under
the able superintendent of Edgar Wetmore Esq., where
formerly, every attention will be paid to the comfort
of those who may favor the house with thei
oct 4-dawtf STEPHEN LONG. 4
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MORTGAGE SALE.

nEFAULT having been made In the payment Of the
~ sum of one thousand dollars, which is claimed TO
be due at the date of this notice as the first nstaent
certain mortgage bearing date the ODD day of No
vember, A. ID. 1885, executed by Firman Cazeau and
Eliza, his wife, of the county of Ramsey and Territory
of Minnesota, to Louis Bartlett, Senior of the county
and Territory aforesaid, and recorded the Office OF
Register of Deeds in and for the county Ramsey and
Territory of Minnesota, the 2Sth day of November
A. d.. 1856 at O'Clock L. NJ, of that day, in Book
" of Mortgages on pages 24l, 242, and 24S and
which mortgage was given to the payment of the
of three thousand dollars nstalments according to
the conditioner two certain promssory notes. to he paid
as follows to wit One for the of thousand dol
lars, before the 10Th day of February A. D. 1857
and one for the of two thousand dollars on before
the first day of May, A. D. 1857. The first instalment
aforementioned of one thousand dollars Became due or
the 18th day of February 1851 the same is now ua
and wholly unpaid and suit or proceeding Mt law
has been instituted to the said debt now due and
secured by the said mortgage, nor any part thereof
Now, therefore, notice is hereby given, that in pursu
ance of power OF sale, in said mortgage contained,
and OF the statute in such made and provided Tho
premises (Or much thereof rs viii paw
the aforesaid of one thousand dollars and
COSTS described in and covered by said mortgages 10
wit Lot numbered Ten Q0) Six (6), and One az in
ing to the plat thereof of in the Office OF
Register of Deeds in and for the County of Ramsey
q aforesaid" will be sold at Public Auction Mt the
Court House. in the city of ST. Paul. in the said County
of Ramsey on Monday, the 9Th day of April A. d. 1857
at 10 of the clock in the forenoon of that day.
Dated the 10Th day of February, A d. 1851
LOUIS BARTLETT, Senior, Mortgage
WILKINSON, BABCocK COTTON, Att'ys for MORTGAGES
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NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Sa1C

by virtue of License of the Probate Court of Ram
sey, this day issued to me- will sell at Public Auc
non, to the highest bidder at the front door the Court
House, in the City Of ST. Paul, Ramsey County Mime
soa on Monday, the 9th day of April next at eleven
o'clock, A. H., The following described real estate viz
of the southwest quarter Section numbered
five (25) in Township numbered twenty .nine 1901 North
of Range numbered twony three 23) West of The 4ti
principal MERIDIAN containing leo acres according To
Government surveys This land fronts one-eght Of a
mile on the City limits. Terms of sale one third of mr.
chase money to be paid on delivery of deed--the re-
mander to run three from day of sale with
per cent interest and to be secured by note and mort
gage on the premises sold The above will be sold as the
property of Henry l.. Tilden, deceased.
DANIEL ROHREa,
Administrator the Estate of Henry LTilder deceased
st. Paul, March 7, 1851. marie IA 20
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SHERIFF,S SALE.

T,ERRITORY OF MINNESOTA, County of Chisapo.
i District Court, First Judicial Distrct-William II
c. Folsom against James smh=-By virtue Of an Execu.
ton issued out of and under the Seal of the District
Court in and for the County of Chsago and Territory
aforesaid, upon judgment rendered and docketed in
said District Court on the 18th day of February 1851
in action wherein the above named William IT. q
Folsom is Plaintiff, and the above named James Smith is
Defendant in favor Of said Plaintiff and against said
Defendant, for the sum of Seven Hundred and Twenty
six Dollars and Seventy Cents, ($726 7O) damages and
costs have levied undivided half of the fol-
lowing described pieces or parcels of land to wit The
west half ofthe quarter the
of the northeast quarter the northeast quarter of the
southwest quarter and the north half of e south
quarter - Section twenty-five (s2) and the north
quarter Of the southwest quarter of Section twenty
three z3) in Township thirtysx, (36) North of Range
twenty-one (2D West.
Now therefore notice is hereby given, that will sell
the said above described real estate together with the
thereunto belonging to the highest bidder
for cash. at public auction, at the Chsago House. in the
Town of Taylors Falls in said County of Chisaco on
Saturday the ninth day of May, 1851 at two O'Clock in
with the interests and costs thereon
ANsELL SMITH, Sheriff of Chisago County
W, H. BERT, Attorney for Plaintiff
Dated March 10, 1851. mha1 -w6vs
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Territory of Minnesota, District Court,
Ramsey County I'd Judicial District

w LILLIAN B. LANGLEY against SAMUEL A. STUR-
w TEVANT.-Summons.- Samuel A. Sturtevant
You are hereby summoned and required to answer
the complaint in this action, which complaint has been
duly filed In the Office of the Clerk of the District Court
for the Second Judicial District and County aforesaid
and to serve copy Of your to the said com.
plant the subscriber at his Office In the City of Saint
Paul, in said County of Ramsey within twenty days
ter the service hereof exclusive of the day of such
vice and If you fail to answer the said complaint
within the time aforesaid, the plaintiff in this action
will take judgment against you for the sum of one hun
bred and dollars with the thereon from and
since the 18th day of January, A. d. 1885, the rate
of six per cent per annum besides the costs of this
action.
mh21.w6w HARVEY OFFICER Pl,G,s Att,v
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(From the Albany Evening Journal.)
THE OPINION OF CHIEF JUSTICE TANEY

THE OPINION OF CHIEF JUSTICE TANEY.
We print to-day sophistical, dogmatic,
muddy, and extreme Pro-Slavery document,
which future historians will speak of as the
present age speaks of the edicts of Jeffries
and the Star Chamber. Unworthy of the
bench from which it was delivered, unwor-
thy even of the previous reputation of the
jurist who delivered it, unworthy of the
American people, and of the nineteenth CEN
fury, it will be blot upon our National
character abroad, and long-remembered
shame at home. 1t declares that the slave
holder may take his Slaves and hold them in
any Territory under Federal control, and that
neither Congress nor the Territorial Gov
eminent. nor the People, have now the pow
er or hereafter to forbid him. 1t declares
that the Constitution, though established "to
secure Liberty" nowhere protects the ex-
istence of Freedom, and though it never
mentions the word "Slave," everywhere le-
galizess Slavery! The monstrous absurdity
of the argument, is only equaled by the as
founding revolution it seeks to effect in our
jurisprudence. 1t falsifies the most reliable
history, abrogates the most solemn Law, be-
lies the dead and stultifies the iving-in or
der to make what has heretofore been a To-
cal evil, hereafter National Institution!
"a Judge fancy requests the American peo-
pie to believe that the frame of the Con-
stitution did not know their own minds
For the same statesmen who drew up the
Constitution, (which he says forbids Con-
gress to prohibit Slavery in the Territories
adopted the Ordinance of '87, which prohb
tied it in all the Territories we then had
The Ordinance was passed in July, 1881
the Constitution was framed in September
of the same year. The same States and the
same men ratified both. And one of the
first acts of the first Congress under the
Constitution was to reaffirm the Ordinance,
and to again prohibit Slavery! Which are
the best interpreters of the Constitution, the
opinions of Mr.. Chief Justice fancy, or the
ACTS of Jefferson, Madison, Hamilton, Mon
roe, Adams and Washington? They crea-
ted the Constitution, and the Constitution
created Chief Justice Taney-the clay which
now affects to despise the skill of the potter.
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- 81 (From the Chicago Tribune.) -~
SHOULD BE PRINTED IN PAMPHLET FORM
= The opinions of Judge fancy and Nelson,
On the one side, and those of Judge Mclean
and Curtis, on the other side of the famous
lished in pamphlet form, in clear type and
on good paper, marked and arranged so as to
present the leading points readily and clear
-ly to the eye.' 1t would form the most i'm
portant political document published since
the revival of the Slavery agitation by
Pierce, Douglas, and the Democratic party
1t is document that every judge and law
yer ought to have. Every politician would
possess himself with copy. Every clergy
man and steacher should have copy of it !;
and tens Of thousands If intelligent citizens
would purchase it. The matter is too. long
for general newspaper insertion, but will
make good sized pamphlet.
The opinion of Judge Mclean stand forth
a magnificent monument of sound legal ar
gument on the side of Freedom and Justice
that can never be overturned, and to which
the Free States will respond in grateful ad
miration. He utterly pulverizcs the mon
strous Pro-Slavery doctrine advanced by
Chief Justice fancy, that the slave laws Of
any Slave State extends beyond the limits
of that State or into the Territories of the
Union, and he demonstrates in the most con-
yincing manner that Congress has the con-
stitutional power to prohibit the introduce
ton or existence of human slavery in any
territory belonging to the United States
And in the special case of bred Scott, be
proves beyond all successful contradiction
that "a man once free is always free, under
our form of government, and can only be de-
prived of his freedom by brute force and il
legal coercion" Let any lawyer read care
fully the opinions adduced by Taney and
Mclean, and he must feel that the former is
a pigmy in the grippe of giant, crushed and
annihiated.
Judge Curtis followed Mclean with an
exposition of the whole subjeot, of wonder
full power and clearness. A contemporary re-
marks, "On the question of the citizenship
of the people of African descent, which
Judge fancy laboriously denied, Jude Cur
tis' argument was entirely exhaustive. He
has settled the question. He ground up the
very bones of the Chief Justices argument,
and has placed his case upon immutable
grounds. He has made the law on this SUBJ
ject, and the question will never be argued
again. He may be voted down by Legisla-
lures, Courts, and Executives, but the argu-
,nent will stand forever unimpeached. The
Chief Justice and his next door neighbor
Wayne evidently felt the crushing weight of
his exposition. And while Judge Curtis did
not tell his legal chief that he was guilty of
falsehood, he did say that his statements
would be received with gerry great surprise,
and proceeded to demonstrate his gross his
torical Misrepresentation, and showed that
his opinion under existing circumstances, de-
serve no more respect than any Pro-Slavery
stump speech made during the late Presi-
dental canvass" e,t..
% Let the opinions be published in pamphlet
form. It will constitute the best Republican
document ever published.
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Intervfew with the President.
WASHINGTON, March 20

80. WASHINGTON, March TO- :
|. A large delegation from MARYLAND had an
interview with the President this morning,
relative to the appointments for that State.
At their caucus last night, twas agreed to
recommend Judge ]. Mason for collector,
though it is understood the President had
previously designated him for the Office
The delegation are not agreed as to the rota-
ton policy. ~ ~ ..il.a.r7g.5, b r,,-rg.ssg
VIM. R. Dunkard,, Of Va, has been APP
pointed Chief Clerk of the War. Depart
ment. 49,, =
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OF MINNESOTA. DIS
i TRICT COURT. COUNTY OLE r AMSEY SEGQNn

judicial Dstrict-John Eason against Edward H. Hawke
SunaanOns.-To Edward ii. Hawke, Defendant: In the
name OF the United States, you hereby summoned
and required to answer the complaint in this action,
which complaint has been filed in the Office of the Clerk
OF the District Court in the County of Ramsey, the
Second Judicial District aforesaid and serve copy
of your to the said complaint u.s. the subscri
bers at our Office in the City of Saint Paul, in said
County and Territory within twenty days after
vice of this summons you exclusive of the day of
such service; and if you fail to answer the said
plant within the time aforesaid the Plaintiff in this
action will take judgment against you for the sum of
Five Hundred and One Dollars principal, together with
interest thereon from the twelfth 2th day of Novem
Der, A. D. 1885, at the rate of thirty per cent per an
mum, besides the costs of this action
AMRs, VAN ErTEN OFFICER Plaintiffs Attorneys
Dated at St. Paul, March 90, 1851. mb2S WOW
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~ (Erom the New York Evening Post1

THE NEW FEDERAL CONSTITUTION.
Some of the journalists who support the
cause of the administration are pleasing
themselves with the fancy that tho decision
Of the Supreme Bench of the United States
in the bred Scott case will put an end to
the agitation of the Slavery question. They
will soon find their mistake. The feeling in
favor Of liberty is not so easily smothered !;
discussion is net so easily silenced. One
specific after another has been tried, with
the same view and with the same success
The Fugitive Slave law, we were told, was
to quiet all agitation but it did not; the Ne
braska bill was to stop all controversy on
the.slayery question, but it proved to be oil
poured onthei hames.; The usurpation of
the government of Kansas by the inroad
from Missouri, was thought for time to be
a blow to the friends of liberty which they
could not survive, but it only reused to
greater activity. The election, of Mr.. Blu
chanan as President in November was to
put an end to the dispute, but since No
yember the dispute has waxed warmer and
warmer. 1t will never end till the cause of
liberty has finally triumphed. Heap statute
upon statute, follow up the one act of Exec
utive interference with another, and usurpa-
ton to usurpation, and judicial decision to
decision, the spirit against which they are
levelled is ihdestructible. As long as the
press and speech are free, tho warfare will
be continued, and every attempt to suppress
it by directing any branch of the machinery
of the government will only cause it to rage
more fiercely. 4
This has been the case hitherto. The
more our Presidents have meddled with the
master the more the majority in Congress
have sought to stiae the discussion0the
more force has been employed on the side of
slavery, whether under the pretext of legal
authority, as when Mr.. Pierce called out the
United States troops to enforce the prtended
laws of Kansas, or, without the pretext, as
when armed men crossed the border of that
Territory to make laws for the Inhabitants,
the more determined is the zeal by which
the rights of freemen are asserted and IN
held against the oligarchy. 1t will not cool !
the fiery temper of this zeal to know that
slavery has enlisted the bench on its side: il
viii rather blow. it into a stronger and more
y Here are five slayeholding judges on the
bench, disciples of this neologsm of slavery
men, who, have esponsed the doctrines
lately invented by the southern politicians,
and who seek to engraft them upon cur code |
of Constitutional law men Who alter our
Constitution for us who find init what mol
man Of comhon sense reading II for himself;
- sf1sDg ilras 70 s.4es y ~ 1, : t5t,f5 80 80
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could ever find, what its trainers never
thought of putting into it, what no man
discerned in itSfp \ very few years since it
was seen with the aid Of optics sharpened
by the eager desire 70 preserve the political
ascendency of the Slave States. We feel,
in reading the opinions Of these men that
local political prejadices have gained the mas
terry Of that bench and tainted beyond re-
covery the minds of the. majority of the
judges. The Constitution which they now
profess to administer, is not the Constitu-
ton under which this country has lived for
seventy years; it is not the Constitution
which Washington, Franklin and Jefferson,
and the able jurists who filled seats of JUS
tice in the calmer days of our Republic re-
cognizcd this is not the Constitution which
we have so long looked upon with great
reverence and admiration; it is a new Con-
stitution, of which we never heard till it
was invented by Mr.. Calhoun, and which
we cannot see adopted by the Judges of our
Federal Courts without shame and indigna-
ton.
Hereafter, if this decision shall stand for
law, slavery instead of being what the peo-
pie of the Slave States have hitherto called
it, their peculiar institution, is federal in
stitution, the common patrimony and shame
of all the States, those which haunt with
the title of free, as well, as those which &C.
cept the stigma of being the Land of Bond
age hereafter, wherever our jurisdiction ex-
tends, it carries with it the chain and the
scourge-wherever our flag floats, it is the
flag of slavery. If so, that flag should have
the light of the stars and the streaks of run
ming red erased from it; it should be dyed
black, and its device should be the whip and
the fetter. .,
Are VIC to accept, without question these
new readings Of the constitution-to sit
down contentedly under the disgrace-to
admit that the constitution was never before
rightly understood, even by those who framed
ito, consent that hereafter it shall be the
shareholders instead of the freemen's con-
stituton? Never! Never! We hold that
the provisions of the constitution, SO far as
they regard slavery, are now just what they
were when it was framed, and that no trick
Of Interpretation, can change them. The
people of the free states will insist on the
old impartial construction of the constitu-
ton, adopted in calmer times--the construc-
ton given it by Washington and his cotem-
poraries, instead Of that invented by mod
ern politicians in Congress and adopted by
modern politicians on the bench.
d What results will grow out of this decis-
ion-to what conflicts of legislation between
the States and the Federal Government it
may lead-with what difficulty these clash
ing views may be composed, OF. how this last
attempt to sustain the cause of slavery, to
spread it as widely and keep it'in being as
long as possible, may be overruled and rem
dered futile by causes now in operation, We
do not undertake to conjecture.
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United States District Court, second Ju.
diciaI District, 0amsey Conn.x

DERSlA B.THOMPSQN against MARY JANE THOMP-
l. son, Sunpans for relief.-To the above named de
fendantfoa are hereby summoned and required to an
swer the complaint in this action, of which copy is
herewith MED IN the office of the Clerk Of this Court for
said county of Ramsey and to serve copv of vonr an
swer to the said complaint the subscribers their Of
fee, at ST. Paul. in said County, within twenty DAYS az
ter the service hereof, exclusive of the day Of sue
service and if you fail to the said Complain
within the time aforesaid the plaintiff in ,h sctio will
apply to the Court for the relief demanded in the come
plant. HALE & PALMER, PLAINTIFFS kttorners
Dated st. Paul, 10Th March, 1851. mb2l.ws,v
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AMERICAN HOUSE.

CtORNER OF ST. ANTHONY, EXCHANGE AND
~ FOURTH STREET, st. Paul, Minnesota. S. LONG,
Proprietor. The Proprietor of the American House
spectfuy their old patrons and strangers
visiting ST. Paul. that this popular hotel has been thorl
oughly renovated and fitted up with new and elegant
furnure and that they are prepared to entertain those
who may favor them with their patronage in manner
to fully sustain the former reputation of the house Con-
neced with the American is Livery Stable, prepared
to furnish pleasure parties and Others with elegant
turn outs. Oct4-daw1y
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G.. MEYER.

CIVIL ENGINEER. Will attend to the Surveying and
Dividing of Land, Drawing of Maps, Charts, Archi-
tectural plans and designs of Buildings. Specimens
of work to be seen in my Office. AS am in pos
session of the best instruments, with all the latest i'm
provements, am prepared to do all business correct
and with despatch, ian15-dawy
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)ENsMoRE. J. BRADFORD
DENSMORE & BRADFORD.

REAL ESTATE OFFICE, Stone Block West of the Post
Office, ST. Paul Minnesota. Lands bought and Sold In
vestments made and Money loaned on Real Estate
curity. Choice and desirable Government Lands
lected for those wishing to purchase Land Warrants
located. Il. Densmore will attend in person to
veying in all it's branches, furnishing Maps and Plans.
Draughng and Mapping executed in good style and to