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The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1858-04-03

ONE important means for the origin and
promotion Of the revival now enjoyed in New
York city has been the district,ng and visit.
ing OF the whole city by christians of yarl-
Gus churches to invite children to the Sab
bath School and non attendants Of nnb,;c
worship to the house of God. The same
thing is now beng done in Boston.
The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1858-04-03

The Minnesota Valley Going Against
the Loan Bill.
A we'll informed citizen of ST. Peter writes
as follows:
ST.. PETER, March q, 1858.
DEAR SIR The people here are waking
up to their interest, and nearly every man
you meet is now openly opposing the Loan
Smlndle. Most of the citizens were favora-
BILE to the passage Of proper bill, but the
present one is too much of dose for them
to swallow. Yours truly, E. j. D.
The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1858-04-03
Slightly Personal.

The Adcertiser and its editor coming up incidentally
in a debate in the House on Wednesday,, Mr.. hutah'
among other amiabe illusions toward us, took oceaSo
TO say of that during the past six months, we hau
the Territory injury than all other
combined-more than could repair in year; II ts
the first time this statement had peer uaue III INC
legislature we should have passed II by without notce
The statement is either true or false. Ii true Mr. hu
tan, whose acquaintance We VIII De giao 10 ahe' VIII
be furnished with the files of the Advertiser during its
past and he will perhaps do us the FAVOR 10
show us when where and how the aege INJURY was IN
fcted and in what il consists. If false-and we are
inclined to believe it is fase-f false it is also necessa-
rily meant is also, from the mature OF the COW
ardy-it is Also of consequence, Is 10
say, It a mean, malicious, and cowardly faisehooo-
utter ed, mind you, Mr.. Rutan-uttered by mean ma
licious, and cowardly liar that sto saythat YOU Mr.
Rutan-come unequvocally under that graphic uesisha-
tion.-.N. Paul Advertiser.
The authority, upon which Mr.. RUrAN
nased his allegations against the .4drertiser,
was no doubt the Daily Times; and as these
two papers are Just now cheek by jcwl-the
former copying three or four columns OF mat
ter from the Times, and the latter stealing as
much from the .4arertiser IN. B. they are
printed in the same Office D-the members OF
the Legislature was certainly justified in
thinking they mutually recognized each 9th
er as good and creditable witnesses.
The assertion made by Mr.. RUTAN, that
the advertiser has done the Territory more
injury than all other influences comblned-
more than it could reprir for veal" is just
exactly what the Times said and often relter'
ated early in the winter I; and to prove whicn
it devoted day after day columns OF editorial
characterised by its usual Joint and strength
of argument
As supporter of the Five Million Loan
Mr.. RUrAN appears to have given more creo
it to the assertions of the daily than OF the
weekly organ of that Swindle and the lat
ter ought not to call Mr.. RUrAN "a mean, ma
iicious and comardly liar" when he but re-
peats the assertions of the .4drertiser' presen
Typographical partner and political alley !
With what face also, can the .idren'se'
object to the publication of " mean, malicious
and cowardly falsehoods" against itself wheI
its editor is himself guilty OF the same oil
fence, against the editor of the M'@"esof0'
in an another article published in the same
column of the same sheet in which he thus
utters his complaint and strong abuse OF Mr.
RUTAN
The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1858-04-03

ArQunent-The intruders then offer s'inducements' t.
the coy Directors: MOSES LAKELAND or KNEELAND in
Inmates to QUIRK of the old law frIa of QUIRK GAN
MON SNAP, in st. Paul. an individual TO nd of RICE
that they could not then put down the cash, but they
could drafts at ninety days." which would give
them time to raise the money on La Crosse q NIL
Waukee bonds. "GRAB," his companion, Ga certain
JONATHAN HADLEY) to give confidence, then asserts
that he has got the bonds aforesaid, in his trunk
ready to pledge East, as to get the money to re
deem the drafts Then Judge JENKINS carries on thu
confidence game still further by assuring everybody
that his companions were trustworthy and honorable
men, and they might swallow every statement mad
by them. Then QUIRK clinches the matter by saynl
that he WOO Id 'endorse them though what addition
al security there would be in that nobody could see
Like a shrieking snake-fed condor,
Smeared and gorged with Railroad plumber!
MOSES LAKELAND frem Wisconsin,
Spake to QUIRK (the head directory:
Cooked his head and spoke in this wise:
"Cash right doom cannot give you;
With our drafts Wen amply pay you;
only ninety days till payment!
Till we get back to Wisconsin
Where we soon can raise the money
On La Crosse bonds and Milwaukee,"
Then spake out old GRAB, the Vulture-
Reekng, filthy, Railroad vulture!
'In my trunk secure have them,
Bonds of La Crosse and Milwaukee,
At the Fuller House have them,
In my room, locked up securely"
Stretched his neck and this wise gobbled:
&C Good, the drafts are, assure you,
And VIII .tever LAKELAND tells you,
Or old GRAB the Vulture tells you:
Both my friends and very friendly:
Yes indeed, you may believe them:
Every statement they may make you
You may swallow-be not fearful"
Then old QUIRK, the head director,
Of the prime "incOrporators,"
Raised his voice and spake follows:
Gentlemen, the drafts-pray bring them,
will put my name upon them!
Bring them and l 1ciU endOrSe them :"
The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1858-04-03

CoLE' who was charged with poisoning his
WIFE, has had his trial at Cleveland, Ohio
Thejury failed to agree. He will be tried
again in June. 1f'l
The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1858-04-03

four Wisconsin Gophers having bough
as many of the original incorporators of the "purely
Minnesota Road to resign at from 10000 to $50 0Ot
apiece; held until this 80 OO0 600 Plumber Scheme
was concoced, when to relieve it for the present
the bad order of the characters, of them made
mock designations; and then dummies or mock D
rectors took their places until the people have beer
rushed into the Decoy; and then the Wisconsin Go
pliers will take their cd places again!
Then the sinking Railroad Condor:
And the Buzzard and the Vulture:
And Guy FORKS or BYRON STlLLBoRN:
He that is nOn-conemittdJ!
And one "PIrTs" from "Old Wisconsin,
Put their nasty heads together,
Made the notes and drafts at ninety
only Ninety days till payment!
Then the august head Director,
Wrote his potent name upon them;
And unto his Observation-Disclosures
Gave the drafts-ten thousand dollars
With his own great name upon it!
One to each he gdUe-dismissng-
But, to make the farce more pleasing,
They just called the trdGs "Resigningn'
Surely they did ''love their country
Truly loved their lovely country
But they loved ten thousand BETTER
Then the Buzzard, vulture, Condor
And the other birds of plumber
Slipped into the vacant places
or the honest bartered Prin,os!
Further to deceive the people.
Thinking TO deceive the people
Till they get their plumber ready.
They struck up another 6drguin!
One called Highwind, one named Grey Goose,
One rel kn0tcn as Kitchee Nowdep,
hHchee NO,rdeR of the Great Lal;et
(Vugus ngo--big and qcindy y
This new trio stand dummies
They only mock Directors
For The honor they ~ere appointed
They did sign their designations,
And old QUIRK, the head Director,
Wo,ds those aoriten reSigndtiOns,
To be ussq Gt any moment
They can do without the dulN7,5ies,
Who pretend to hold the places
OF the bartered Railroad Condor,
OF the Buzzard and the Vulture:
Those three hawks of Railroad plumber,
Who have done for Old Wisconsin
What they'll do for Minnesota
When they get right good chance fort.
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Those destructive Httie Uermin,

Those destructive Httte Uernsin,
How they nimbly jumped and chartered,
How they whisked their tails about them,
How they seemed so tame and cunning
While the fever W as upon them
Who had drafts and who drank whisky {
While the fever wss upon them
Passed the Bill TO Kill the squirrels
But to feed the Railroad Gophers,
And to give to them their Charter !
The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1858-04-03

the Committee of Investigation 2
the late session of the legislature wouldn't invest
gate!
If You wonder. If you ask me
Why did Mey-Me late Committee
Hush and smother up the Hquest'
will boldly, truly tell you
That they dare notkdy bare open
A0Me THINGS that came before them
They had friepds, perchance had brothers,.
Members Of the Extra Session
Who had acices, were Observation-Disclosures
And who came with tears imploring,
Begged eciH tears, perhaps with dollars!
"From disgrace and ruin save us'
'Save us for our wives and children ~
There they plead with the Committee,
Those Mrge-hedrted, UhO1e -souLed fellows.
Whose great hearts and maybe pockets
Sweled with pty-and qoiM dollars:
Sympothising let them scomper!
The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1858-04-03

BY FIvE-MILIIoN- BILL.
T..
Ar0ument-A bird in the hand not worth two In the
bushnothing certain but death an the tax
An invitation to the Taxpayers to think.
Ponder well upon this story
Full Of strange fantastic capers; ..I
Acts and deeds of deep conceament,
Smothered up and covered over
Things meier meant to the daylight:
Never meant to be uncovered
To the gaze of all the people:
To the reading, thinking peopleI
To the men whe pay the 7aees:
To the who daily labor,
And support the heavy burden 900.
That's ALREADY Taced upon us!
Argument.-Uncle Samuel gave Minnesota a rich land
grant to build Railroads, to the State from
ming any risks that way.
Minnesota had a land grant,
Given by kind old Uncle
To help build our needful railways,
That no longer in the winter,
We should signing wish for summer,
That when chained, in icy letters,
Is great and noble river,
We could have communication
With our old and distant neighbors
That our forests and our praires
And our mountains and our great lakes,
Might their Weddings send to market,
That our commerce still might prosper,
Growing larger, ever larger!-
Dear old Uncle Sam, he told US
When at first to US he gave it,
We must rightly try to use it:
1t was ample-all sufficient
Quite enough to build the Railroads.
AU the needtuI, useful Railroads!
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But o/eed the Railroad Gophers,
And to give to them their Charter
Arguanent.-The immortal sixty-the Secretary-t
15mes-the medicine.
To our present Legislature,
This gregation of wise .Soions,
This embodiment of sweetness
Il Linked-lOng drawn out--such sweetness
Found in that Immortal .Sirty,
(They who signed the windy protest
That they would resist q Tas Blu y
As is known to be but second
To the Jdrtered Ectra Session.
Came the thirst greedy harpies!
Greedy for some extra ptunder,
Thirsty to get back the doUars
That already they had giye,s co..
To Luyup tile E1trd Session.
Not contented with their Charter
And the lands as it provided
They, these rdcenOus ltunder seekers,
Headed by their first Director
And the little Secretary,
Yes, the little Secretary
Talks and writes of the Great Valley
OF the mighty MississppAH!
And he hopes to share the plumber
OF the spoils he sees before him
In the Sas-katch- wanian country,
On those boundless plains around it.
OF which he's forever talking
About which he's always writing
About which he tried TO lecture!
And that homo HgneOus caput
OF the "IimeS' the perpetratOr,
Daily vomits forth has sheet full
To assist this Giant MieUiny.
How they threatened, bultied, tattered,
Fawned and promised-plied aoitt otdrd
and sciM aChisky-strichnine achisky!
Till they got them slightly muddted!
Mixed a little in their ideas
AS to honesty and honor,
(For they borrowed Healy's pistol,
Stock and barrel, lock and trigger,
And forgot again to bring it
But what odds at aoiU be paid for
Paid for with the peoples money!
And that other little ITEM
Medicine, SEVERAL gallons!
Bought at Day and jerks Drug StO"e)
While the medicine working
While the charm was still upon them,
Headed by the First Director,
He who heads the magnify crushing-
And the little Secretary
And the homo HgnOus capm
"TIM" who plays the part of wet nurse
Wet nurse to the Railroad corpo!
He who does the dirty washing
Blacks their boots and wipes their-fingers
So they'll look clean to the people
Come the ravenous plumber seekers,
For to filch US of Five Millions
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rgument.-Security over the left-Taxes over
right!
They pretend they will secure us
Mortgage to US aCtdt Is OF RS d.
While for 'dny ten miles section'
That they choose to sag is grdded
We must pay them down the dolkdrS-
Pay Hundred Thousand Dollars.
They will skip the hills and rolleys!
Skip the slOughs and mdrshesl
Working Just to get the money
Safely stored inside their pockets-
Then they coolly will inform
That unless raise more millions
They cannot complete the Railroads
Leaving the low entertainments
Scattered only on the 2'rdiries,
And our credit minus millions!
Burdened dozen aciM hedpy Tdres,
The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1858-04-03

Sharpers from La Crosse and Milwau
kee gather to ST. Paul, and in order to get slice
the grant, try to obtain the resignation Of certain in
viduals originally placed on the Directory of thai
"DureLy Minnesota Road" the NJ. & P. K. K. Co., blu
the Directors at first, affected coyness
AS a carcass draws the eagles:
AS a carrion draws the buzzards:
So the Land Grant drew the Sharpers,
From La Cross and from Milwaukee:
From the State of ptWndered Badgers::
For the Land Grant came the Sharpers!
Fawning, pryimg, snedked around us!
Trying how to work their fingers
In among, and steal our acres!
But the ':.frst incorporators,
Matched up by the Legislators
OF that noble Extra Session,
More of whom we'll speak hereafter)
Shook their heads and would not do it:
Would not let them have their places,
AS beforehand they had promised
Mildly looked their disapproval,
Whispering said they loved their country
Dsdrly loved their lovely country
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protested drafts given to the Elk
members.
Shonld you ask or should you wonder
How know these things I've spoken,
shall answer, truly, plainly,
There are notes of Moses LAKELAND,
There are drafts of GRAB the Vulture,
Papers with great names upon them
II a.. 49, d. -..ioiiiJ cushing
Crushing all who dare oppose him!
lie who has the Giant with him,
And Saint Ball come from Winona,
For to crush all who oppose him,
Or to daylight bring their doings-
Drafts have came back here protested
From the House of DUNCAN SHERMAN,
Given to the Extra members-
Menbers of the Extra Session
They who sold them to the Bankers
For to raise the Ready needful-
Bonds of La Crosse and Milwaukee
Fdpers with great names upon them
His who said he ecOuid endorse them,
Quite secure and ever ready
For q ne1C inrestigdti0n
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For the MinpesOtian.
HAWAIIAN SONG.

FOR THOSE WHO GO FOR GOPHERs.
BY FIvEMILLIoN-BILL.
The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1858-04-03

George w. Bell was nominated for Mayor.
A. Il. French, for City justice.
William Wright, for Marshal.
j. Vanderhorck, for Treasurer.
William Thomson, for Assessor.
Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1858-07-23

LOST STARs.-They who study the heavens
say that often star drops out of the frma-
'ment, or dies there, and is lost to sight for
ever after. 1t may have been the bright star
OF hope of many mariner on the uncertain
sea of life. Its calm, gentle radiance may
have shed good cheer and comfort upon many
dark path, with doubt, and sorrow, and
dread. One and another of the earth born
may have looked up to it, from the lower
night, for sweet love and promise of good
things. Star of how many destinies, though,
it goes out, and is no more
Like these dropping, dying stars, our loved
ones go away from our sight. The stars of
our hopes, our ambitions, our prayers, whose
light shines ever before us, leading on and up,
they suddenly fade from the ornament of our
hearts, and their place is empty and dark. A
mothers steady. soft, and earnest light, that
beamed through all our wants and sorrows !;
fathers strong, quick light, that kept our
feet from stumbling on the dark and treacher-
Gus ways; sisters light, 50 mild, so pure,
50 constant, and firm, shining upon us from
gentle, loving eyes, and persuading us to
grace and goodness; brothers. light, forever
sleeping in our souls and illnmining all our
goings and our comings; friends light, true
and trusty i-gone out, forever; No, no
The light has not gone out 1t is shining be-
yond the stars, where there is no night and
no darkness, forever and forever htLadeI-
phiG EUening Journal.
Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1858-07-23

LOVE AFFAIR AT SARAToeA.-The Troy
Times says "rhe deaouensent of a love affair
took place at Union Hall, Saratoga Springs.
last Thursday. A.young lawyer from New
York, met there dashing young lady from
the same city, to whom he had been having
his attentions until forbidden TO do so by her
parents. Regardless of hotel prophecies, he
fell upon has knees before her in the parlor,
and then and there, popped. the question.
Overcome by his'warmth, or the circumstan-
ces in which she unexpectedly.found herself
placed, the young lady consented, and to
gether they rushed out, sprang into carriage
and were driven to the house Of clergyman.
by whom their fates Sere speedily united
There was good deal of storming on the
part Of the old people, when they found out
what had been done. hut they concluded to
submit, after they had made up their minds
that they could do no better. The Young
lady viii be fortunate if she does not live to
repent her folly.
Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1858-07-23

AFFAIRS IN MISUNDERSTANDING FALL OF
ZULoAGA.-By private lettess from the City of
Mexico to the I'd inst, we are. advised Of
movement which had nearly come to head
at the capital, for the overthrow of the Zoa.
loaga government. At the head of it was
Miguel Lerdo de- Tejada, the most distin-
guished and able leader of the liberal party,
and decidedly the ablest man in the republic.
The gentleman was pursued by Zuloagas
police, but had found refuge where he was
safe from his pursuers. The movement re.
ferred to was rapidly ripening to an explosion
and had doubtless ere this developed itself and
succeeded in expelling the Zuloaga govern
ment.
Our minister, Mr.. Forsyth. is on the best
terms with the liberals, and particularly with
Their chief, Lerdo de Tejade, and upon the
accession of that party to power. viii occupy
position Of greater influence than he has
ever had before with the Mexican government,
and Tar superior to that Of any ether repre-
sentative Of foreign government there.
The Zu.eaga government ia addiction TO its
revefses egeFywhors, has lost it's main de-
pendence in the death Of Osolc. The bold and
Efficient eommsndsr-in-ehief Of is forces.
His successor, Miramon, ia reported to be in
ga sight place" pursued, as he IL, from point
to point, by the armies Of Zuszus, Dsgollado,
and Pueblito. and must soon Es1ccurab. We
may expect every day to hear of the complete
overthrow and expulsion Of the Zuloaga gov
eminent. Mobile Register.
Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1858-07-23

ASSASSIN IDENTIFIED. - The Newburyport
Herald states that ex-Marshal Brown Of that city
has returned from Maine, where he FUZZY identi-
fed Charles H. Rundlett, Of Mount Vernon, as
the villain who assaulted ]. W. Randall on the
Newburyport Turnpike in 1856. 1t appears that
Rundlett, after that offence escaped to Giouces-
ter and was taken thence in a vessel and landed
at the Eastward. A year later he married re-
spectacle lady in the town of Readfield, Me-, and
sooneiter robbed the store of her father to the ex
tent Of $1,000. He is the son Of wealthy father,
and being the son-in-law of the person robbed,
the matter was compromised and he vent to the
West. He returned to Maine last May, and in
June committed murderous assault upon two
brothers, Charles and Uriah WEIGH, Of Mount
Vernon, an account Of which was published at
the time. Que Of the WeIches is not expected
long to survive the wounds he received on that
occasion When arrested for this crime, Rund.
lett's father offered to bail HIM at $4,000, but
was refused. There is such an excitement con.
corning his crimes that the people, fearing his es.
cape, keep constant guard over the jail, and
also about the residence Of the Welches, appre-
-hending that his accomplices may attempt TO
make with them TO get rid Of their evidence. As
the crime committed at NewburypOrt is no more
aggravated than those in Maine, it is not prob4-
bic that he will be delivered up on the requisition
Of Gov. Banks.
Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1858-07-23

FUNGUS FLOWER GROWING FROM Boy
LEG.-A letter in the Lancaster (Pa.) Times
gives an authentic account of the singular
phenomenon which has been alluded to i'll the
newspapers-that Of flower growing from
human flesh. Itappears that certain child
in Lancaster, at two years of age, became af-
hcted with the hip disease, and fingered on
and grew, having attained the age of four
teen years at the period OF his death, fewa
weeks since-DurIng period of nine months
previous to. his death, numerous assesses
were formed, and the lad was nearlyreduced
to skeleton. A day or twe previous to his
death, during the night, double stem and
two howefs grew from the calf of one of his
legs. little below the knee joint, the limb
being apparently much swollen. The writer
states that "hundreds of seeds were found iu
the room after the boys death. similar to
those of the passion flower" and that ''all
say the flower resembles the passion rose.''
The attending physician, DR.. Hawley, deem
ed it so wonderful as to require other wit
nesses 10 testify to the fact, and he according
ly called in DIR. Stevens, the Rev, DR.. Walk
er, and others. This flower (fungus) grew
in one night to the height of three and q half
inches, and has since been sent on to New
York, where it is undergoing thorough in
vestigation, and will be no doubt Autographed
and described by those having good opportu-
nifty to enter into the minuti9.
Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1858-07-23

RELIC OF MuNeo PARK.-A relic Of Mungo
Parks travels in Africa has been discovered BY
Lieutenant Glover, Of Baikie's West Coast expe-
dition.' The incident is related by the Cape Lit
eragy Magazine:
" Lieutenant Glover, one Of the officers under
the command Of Captain Bsikie, has stumbled
upon valuable relic Of Mungo Park, and has,
Of course, secured it. Passing through native
village near the scene Of Parks melancholy
DEATH an old man accosted the lieutenant and
showed him book which had for years been in
his possession. 1t was volume of ogarithms,
with Mungo Park S name and autographs notes
and memorandum The possessor offered it to
Mr.. Glover for 100000 cowries. Inestimable as
the prize was, the price demanded was enormous,
and ID was impossible to pay it. After some con-
sideration the lieutenant took from his pocket
clasp knife, and asked the native what he thought
OF that This was too tempting bait to be re-
fused the native joyfully took the knife, and
the lieutenant still more joyfully secured his val
liable memento of the distinguished African