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II QEMAINING in the Post Office, Westerly,
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The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1857-12-26
The Oregon State Constitution.

The election in Oregon Territory on the
acceptanceor rejection of the new State Con-
stitution tok place on the 9th of November.
The last California advices inform us that the
result is undoubtedly the adoption of the con-
stitution-the rejection of the Institution of
Slacery by six to one and the exclusion of
free negres from the State by nearly as de-
cisive vote
But if Slaves are property" under the
Constitution of the q. S. States, as decided
by the Supreme Court, endorsed by BUcHAN-
AN in his Silliman letter, how can this vote
of the people of Oregon, adverse to Slavery,
amount to anything ? A man may take and
hold his property anywhere
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disfranchisement of over 5000 of the free
electors of Minnesota.
Truly he is an honorable mrm!
Aye, and just man +! and withal, Demo-
crat!
With him, the majority shall rule
Shame upon the man
But why say shame to thee? thou hast
no blush thou pink of honesty
These are the facts; facts, which the ras-
Gals own record will prove to be true; un-
less, even that is suppressed las some returns
have BEEN or interpolated by those unblush-
ing knaves, who circulate about Capitol.
Fortunately, however, we have several
copies of some of these documents, and have
an honest man to whom to refer should the
balance even be missing.
Look again at the result of this canvass.
This bogus affair gives SIBLEY 24O major
ity over RAMSEY, who is really and honestly
elected by over 600 legal votes, as even the
returns in the Secretary's Office will show.
And even taking the construction which
BROWN and MEDARY, at the instance of their
masters, place upon the quoted resolution,
Governor RAMSEY is Governor elect by 3S3
majority!
Remember the language of JOE Browns
article in the Pioneer 1t is this 'The adop-
finn IF Mr. C.1Dp,1r,,3c c,,bct;tnto Gov Mr.
BRowN's more liberal proposition, confined the
Board, IN their canvassing, strictly to the re-
turns made by the various Registers Of Deeds. .
Mark JosEPH's o,On statement approved, Of
course, by his colleague, MEDARy, and the
rest of his knavish counsellors, who are in
the plot to defraud the people of their choice
and RAMSEY out of his certificate of election
We say mark it
This resolution "confned them strictly tt
the returns made by the various Registers o.
Deeds"
Did it? Then how came you to count the
forged returns from the counties of Cass, 1odo
and Pembina?
Have at the knaves Joseph thou art a
second Daniel, a Daniel, knave! Now ther
we have thee on the hip!
"Strictly' confined. or confined "strictly" tt
the Registers Of Deeds returns!
A Daniel, still say wa second Daniel
We thank thee, knaves, for teaching us thai
phrase See the result of their own show
ing, taking the Juggler at his word.'
Below we give tabular statement of the
bogus cote from Cass, Todd and Pembina, no
ore precinct of which was either canvasset
or returned by q Register Of Deeds of an,
county; nor is there any pretence even thai
they we're
Still, these scoundrels, JOSEPH R. Brow
and SAMUEL MEDARY, who are, we think, il
some way connected or related to the 'gen
uemam up country, a1ho is fond of his joke,
included them in the canvass The reason
why they did so will appear by the figures
The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1857-12-26

1t is not generally known, but should be,
that MEDARY, our criminal and usurping
Governor, on the 23d of September last but
a few days before the election, established
ever Forty Precincts in the Wilderness coun-
ties-the very precincts from whence all those
forgeries purport to come
1t should likewise be known that they
were established in violation of the plain letter
ofMe Ian, which requires preliminary pub1ica-
tion of the fact of their establishment to be
made in some newspaper at the time, before
they can legally constituted precincts.
The reason for this provision of the law,
was manifestly to ensure .fairplay all around :;
that both parties might have notice, and the
voters also
But fair play and publicity of the in
tended felony is what MEDARY and the
leaders of whom he was the old and supple
tool, did not want. Crime always shuns
the light The creation of these precincts,
in this sly and hidden manner, fully proves
MEDARY's participation in the Democratic
conspiracy organized even previous 10 the
election, to carry their whole State ticket by
fraud and forgery if necessary.
Isn't he pretty rascal to be at the head
of our government and won't he have fit
successor in SIBLEY2
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Sworn to, and Subscribed, &c.
Meeting of the Fire Department of tie
City of st. Paul.

49,
MONDAY EVENING, Dec Il, 1857.
The Fire Department of the city of St.
Paul met at the City Hall, in said city, pur-
suant to adjournment
The article in relation to the election of
officers, was read. On motion, it was adopt
ed that the rolls Of the respective companies
be taken as guide for tie department
Motion made and adopted that the fore
man of each company act as tellers in the
election Of the following officers One Pres
ident, one Vice President, one Treasurer, one
Secretary and one Collector.
The Secretaries of the different companies
then proceeded to call the rolls and the men,
bers to ballot for the officers separately,
which resulted as follows:
Presiden.-W. NJ Stees, of Pioneer H.
& L. Co.
Jice Presidem-E. Caldwell, of Mime
ha-ha Engine Co. No.2.
Secretary.-Jno. b. Oliver, of Mime -ha-ha
Enaine Go. No. 2.
I'reasurer-R. g. Sharp, of Minne-ha-ha
Engine Co. No. 2.
Colector.-Robert Mason, of Pioneer II. &
L. Co.
The following resolution was offered, which
on motion, was accepted.
Resoluea, That committee of three men,
bers be appointed by the Chair, to confer
with the committee of the Common Council
of this city, now revising the City Charter,
and urge the insertion therein of articles suit
able for the we'll being and progress of the
fire department of this City.
The Chair appointed Messrs. J. J. Will
liams, Jos. NJ. Marshall and Edwin Caldwell
such committee.
On motion, 800 copies of the Constitution
of the department were ordered to be print
ed for the use of the members of said de-
partnent-and that said Constitution be
brought before the fire department for sane
ton, before being printed.
On motion, the proceedings of the meeting
were ordered to be printed in daily news
paper of this city.
w. NJ. STEES, President.
JOAN B. OLIVER, Secretary.
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The Official Canvass i'm WISCONSIN.


The Madison Patriot, of the 18th furnishes
us with the result of the official canvass of
the recent election in Wisconsin. The whole
vote cast is about $4,000. The majorities
on each Office is as follows:
For Goreruor-RANDALLove over Cross, 11s majority.
Lieut. GoUernOr-Campbell over SEIZURE, 2O9.
Secretary Of Ssdte-Jones over THOMAS, 2,453.
Tredsurer-HAsTINGS over Habich, 65
attorney GenerdJ-Bouck over JACKSON 773
State observation-disclosures over McMYNN 1884,
Bank ComptrOUer-Squires over McGREGoR, 1,1S3.
State Prison OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES over McGar-
ry,561.
The Republicans are printed in SMALL CAPS.
The above is the real state of the vote, in
Guiding certain disputed supplementary re-
turns. 1t will be perceived, that the battle.
as politicalvictory, is slightly mixed, though
the Republicans haing secured the Governor,
may fairly claim the largest success.
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Now. let the people look at {.

-NUW. let TIC pSOpiS AVN
Here are 1926 of their votes, honestly poll
ed.-undisputed,-of which the evidence is
on file in the Secretary's Office-(or at least,
seas on file there you never can bet on that
Office long at a time) Jon file there by Pre-
cincts, duly certified from the election officers
of each precinct and forwarded in pursuance
of the requirements of the State Constitu-
ton.
Yet, SAN. MEDAR and JOE BROWN DELHI
erately refused to count these votes; and thus
committed the crime of DISTINGUISHING 1925
people, d both though the fact that
Ramsey had majority of 227 in this num-
Der of rotes, was doubtless the inducement
to perp.trate the rascality!
Next let it be remembered, that the fol-
lowing bogus and forged votes-which the
maJorit, of the Board admitted aoers forged,
and which they could not deny were forged,
if even so disposed, for the affidavits of the
facts were before them,-were counted by
them inwhat they give out as the official can
yass, as follows:
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genuine majority of COL, even counting the
Mel cod f,roer;oe for SIpIrvi

genuine majority of COL, even counting the
Mcleod .toryeries for S1BLEY
We say this is the vote, and the time is
not far distant when we hope to see it veri-
fed by the judgment of a Court of Justice.
We beg leave to say, that you shall hear
from us again ere long when we promise
you something else Of more substantial
kind
To you, JOSEPH, we say, write another
article for the Pioneer. We thank thee for
the last one. Do so again as we are con-
WINGED, your next expose will add still more
to convince all men that you and your tool,
Old SAM, tricked RAMSEY out out of his GER
tificate, and robbed the people out of their
votes
The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1857-12-26
The Facts Showing Ramsey Fairly
Elected Governor.

The honest vote, fairly polled, -duly filed,
and admitted by both parties to be correct
-iriith raS not counted BY the seoundrelly ma
j0rity !f the State CanpasserS-on bubble
"A pretence-a technicalUy of their own be-
getting-is as we learn from the Hon. THoM-
AS j. GALBRAlrH, the minority member OF
the Board, as follows:
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From the Utah Expedition.

A dispatch brings intelligence to the 28th
october from the camp of the U. S. troops
on Hams Fork of Green River. A party of
Mormons had been encountered who declared
that 1t was by BRIGHAM YoUNes orders that
the government trains were burned.
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Deduct 5OOnore majority that was forged
for Sibley at Ottertail, and Ramsey's fair
and honest Minority would reach fully GOO
votes
Does the reality and scoundrelism of the
Board of Cavassers need stronger comment
than these fats present /?
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The Pioneer awhile back admitted that a
Democratic gentleman fond of his joke"
had forged returns in the upper country.
We have called repeatedly for his name,
but have received as yet no answer.
The Pioneer should remember that conceal
ment of a criminal is appreciation of the
crime!
Won't that paper let the public know 'cho
this facetitious gentleman is that perpetrates
such Jokes
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SibIey,s Completely in the f,

Sibley's Completely i'm the FOrgeries!
We learn from sure authority that three of
the Bogus Precinct returns with majorities
for SIBLEY, counted in the Ottertail Canvass,
are III one and the same hand writing!
We learn further, from the same unim-
peachable source, that the a6idarit which Mr..
SHELLEY sacore to, that is attached to his Pro-
test against the counting Of over 5000 legal
votes, is also in the identical hand aoriting of
the above named forged returnsH
1t looks little as if we were to have in
the first Governor of our new State a man
not only elected by crime, but criminal him
self! We hope this coincidence q can beck
planned.
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All vii remember the facts about Cedar
City Precinct, in Mcleod County. A paper,
in the hand pritiag Of a Democrat of Glencoe
was found, by the Democratic Register OF
the county as he says) one morning on the
floor of his office, having been slipped under
the door during the night. 1t was informal,
and bore very every evidence of fraud
nevertheless, it was counted by him and in
cluded in tie official canvass of Mcleod Coun-
ty, that vas sent by him to the Secretary's
Office The real return, however, was filled
in the sane office by the Judges of the cleo
ton at Cedar City, which return gave Ram
sey 10 majority. Atlidavits, also, have been
sent by them denouncing the return that
gave As majority for SHELLEY, as bogus and
falsity! This real return and these affidavits
SAM. MEDRY and JOE. BROWN saw, yet they,
nevertheless, counted in the forgery! Isn't
this scounTelism?
The Holmes City precinct is one of the
bogus forged returns-of which there are
several-cunted in the Pembina, Todd and
Cass canvas at Ottertail City. There were
several aflilavits laid before the Board of
State Canvlssers, fully establishing on the
oaths of respectable men, and some of them
Democrts, that no election aohatecer was held
at Holnes City, and that the return of GS
votes folSIBIEY was forgery!
Yet, the face of this evidence SAM
MEDARY and JOE BROWN counted in these 66
votes for rBLEY in their official canvass -
Would anybody but Unborn and desperate
scoundrel, do thing like this
Withou proceeding further with our inves-
tigation inc the wholesale fraud of the Of
tertail canass, returning GAL votes for SIBLEY
and Is for 1AMsEY-a palpable rascalty, of
which moranon-let us sum up the figures
ON all the fats above stated
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Sibley's majority.


The reason for including these returns in
Che canvass, although excluded by the Gal
braith Resolution according to JosEPH's
construction, it seems to US is sufficiently
manifest, without further comment. All for
SHELLEY and none for RAMSEY. The little
Mile Lac County forgery was done up with
more skill, by odds !
Then, from these improperly received
returns, and forged at that, amounting
to 623 as shown by table, deduct SIBLEY's
majority Of $40, and it leaves that model of
propriety just 383 in the vocative!
These returns, we repeat it, were neither
canrassed or returned by Register or Regis
tiers of Deeds of any county.
JOE Brown in the Pioneer says, under Mr..
GALBRAITH's resolutions none but those re-
turned by the Register could be received,
ergo these could not be received yet, like
the Justice who could not enter Judgment,
they did do ii, and that too, with proof before
them.- unimpeachable and uncontradcted
testimony, that the returns from Holmes
City and Reno were fraudulent and forged.
In such case, for the sake of justice, we
suppose the rule which confined them strictly
to the Registers returns, could not be re.
Taxed
Oh, villainy! uiUainy!
These forged returns, admitted to be so,
could oe canvassed but the Precinct returns
from other counties, unimpeached and unim-
peaachable, which gave RAMSEY an aggregate
majority of 227 were unhesitatingly thrown
out. To have counted these votes for RAM
sEY, and to have thrown out eli Their of the
Precinct returns, which were proved to be
forgerie,- Holmes City, Reno, or Cedar
Precincts, Mcleod County lave CIV
on p ,,,cry tho cortif1ceta
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JOB WORK! JOB WORK!
We would remind our frieuds that the
yuinuesotian job Office

For printing Cards, Circulars, Bill Heads, Hand Bills
Pamphlets and Books.-nfact everything in the print
ing line from \ druggists label up to quarto Bibe-is
in full operation; ana daily turning out the neatest
work. at the rery lolrest prices.
No credit On job Work. Our prices are put down to
the cash scGl6; and the ready John Davis" must
come In every instance.
The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1857-12-26

The WEATHER was decidedly nelly yester-
day, aud felt more like April than December.
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Or throw out. the whole 623, and give
RAMSEY his 227, and RAMSEY has clear
Oroville daily Butte record., 1857-12-22
ventr,Ioauism Extraordinary.


John Kelly, the renowned fiddler and
e3unciator of the lamentable fact that f'my
child is stole away" went over 10 Bangor
the other day, to give a concert, which, hav-
ing done. and hence lecome the admired of
all admirers, he ANNOUNCED that on the fol
lowing day he would give an exhibition of
his ventriloquial powers, stating that he
would throw his voice down into one OF
the deepest shafts in that neighborhood,
and 30 carry on an imaginary conversation
with miners in the bowels CT the earth, all
by the powers etc. Kelly having secured
the services Of "cappcr' 10 station himself
at the bottom of certain very deep sbaft,
/ there TO play the part of "the voice at
the appointed time the performer and his
auditors repaired to the spot where the mir
acle was to be performed, and after a short
discourse upon the nderful scierce Of ven
/ triloquism, he stepped to the mouth Of the
! sbaft-wh,ch was about "A hundred and fifty
! feet deep-and raiplng upon the windlass
/ bawled our in Il steutorian voice, "hello,
down thers. ''heIlo, hello" cried "a voice
from the ''vasty deep greatly % the amaze
ment aud delight of the Bangorites. "What
are you doing down there)" cried Kelly.
'Runnin' drift" was the response, which
was accompanied by very audible chuckle
''That's Tim Murplsy's voice you can't fool
me he owes me for board said sheptical
outsider, "shet up, you muSonhead," re-
piled one of Kelly's friends. and then the
audience all listened again GLOW is the
diggins :" quoth the MISUNDERSTANDING
worth DAM" responded the voice. "Thats
lie" said Tim Murphy's landlord, but he
was booted FOR his insolence and ncont-
nently dried up. Several more questions
anu answers were given and received, all Of
which more and more astonished the won
dering natives and convinced them and even
the doubling landlord of Kelly's singular
powers, when all at once, as John was
turning to leave the scene of his triumph,
the voice in the shaft cried out, louder than
ever before, " Kelly, you damned humbug,
let me out of this % THAT lets me out"
shouted the disconnected ventrioeuist, and
down the hill he put followed by a shower
of curses and dornicks.
Kelly left Bangor by the first stage, and
left there forever Henceforth, let no pre-
tender to ventriloquial powers ever show his
head in Bangor, on peril of his life.
Oroville daily Butte record., 1857-12-22
COURT OF SESSIONS.

SATURDAY, December 70.
Court met pursuant to adjournment.
People vs. Procupio Crispne. Robbery.
Jury bring in a verdict of guilty.
People VS. Charles Smith. Grand LARGE
ny. Arraigned and plead guilty. TO be
sentenced on Tuesday.
People vs.. James Gorrel. Grand Larceny,
(horse stealing Tried and found guilty
To be sentenced on Thursday.
People VS.. VIM. Compton. Obstructing
an officer. Arraigned and plead not guilty
People vs.. G. d. Vaughan. Cause ig-
nored.
MONDAY, Dec. 81.
Court met pursuant to adjournment
People VS.. James Phelan. Grand LARGE
ny. Arraigned and plead not guilty. Jury
disagreed and were discharged.
People VS.. VIM. Marshal Grand Larceny
Arraigned and plead not guilty. Trial had
and cause submitted to jury. This case is
still undecided as we finish up our report.
Court meets this morning at the usual
hour.
Oroville daily Butte record., 1857-12-22

WE ARE IN DANGER.--If our Town Trus-
tees do not speedily adopt some efficient
measures to rid Montgomery street OF its
superabundance of mud and mire, that
street will most undoubtedly be claimed by
the State as swamp and overfowed land,
and perhaps Eureka will fence it in and
sell it to the Cinnamon for rice garden.
Snch plan for such lands has been wisely
conceived of, and there are strong reasons
to apprehenl that the incoming legislature
will adopt it,. We repeat the warning, let
Montgomery street be reclaimed from its
present miry condition. Teamsters and rea-
son demand it.
Oroville daily Butte record., 1857-12-22

MAN vs.. WOMAN The Inquirer men
witnessed fight which took place on Satur-
day night, between man and a woman,
which resulted in the woman's making a
scratch and the mans being booted for his
lack Of manliness. The Teller that lays his
corn grabber upon female in a spirit of
meanness, 'were n base misapplication of a
chivalric expression to call ga clever gen.
tleman"