Saint Paul weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1858-1859, 1858-09-18
Postal Announcements.

We learn from Senator Rice of the follow
ing matters of postal interest in this State:
William p. Ankery has been appointed
Postmaster at Minneapolis, vice Samuel Hid
den, and Edward Walton at Carver in place
of j. \. Sargent. Jas. Nj. Finch has beer
appointed Postmaster ut Clinton Falls, vice
+. A. Bemis.
A new Post Office has been established al
Middle Branch, Chisago county, and James
X. Buchanan appointed Postmaster.-Pionfe'
Of SEPT. Ii.
But for such important bulletins as the
above, thrown out occasionally in the Pioneer,
the People of Minnesota might possibly forget
that they have for one of their Senators in
Congress man of the distinguished talents,
scholarly requirements, oratorical and writing
ability of Henry NJ Rice, who, however he
may have failed in his Ship of-State letter
TO convey to the public mind an exalted idea
of his mental qualities in these respects, yet,
by the manner in which he sees that Bung-
town is provided with Spiggot in the shape
of a new Postmaster, or the style in which
Sauashfield is endowed with post-office as
a safety valve to the literary warnings of its
neighborhood, indicates him to be in the pos
session Of qualifications for the position he
occupies which are quite useful if they do fail
little in the ornamt ntal.
There are some men, whom others call
great men, who would attend to these things
as matters of course, involving, as they
allege, no difficulty TO obtain, and who
would consider themselves deserving neither
public mention nor credit for attending to
their procurement.
Not so thinks Henry NJ. Rice. He wisely
believes the great things of life are built
upon attention to little tails. When an
Indian trader, he found that the selling Of rib
bons and beads, looking glasses, paint, &c.,
while it enlarged and strengthened his
mind for the subsequent pursuits of civil life,
always prepared the way likewise for the
all vance of big credit to him in the first
treaty the Indians made with the govern
ment Tor tie sale of their lands! Then it
was that he invariably experienced valuable
pecuniary advantages from the bead and rib
bon trade which before to some minds might
have appeared to be small and little souled
business. Since his elevation to the dignity
of Senator of the United States, except in
his Sell-out to Lecompton in the Ship of-Stste
Letter, and except in his vote for the English
Kansas bill, Mr.. Rice has troubled himself
very little with extraneous craftsmanship;
but We are proud to know that in the differ
ent Departments at Washington no man is so
well known in them-particularly in the de-
partment of Indian claims and at the Gener-
al Post-Office-as Mr.. Rice. There he is truly
g:eat He understan Is perfectly the art of
managing men. The clerks in the Offices
recognize him from afar and hold their breath
and breeches pockets with Impotence for his |
arrival TO attend to his wants. The results |
of his labors in this way he at once gives to
his admiring constituents through the col
umns of the Pioneer, either in letter for
publication directly over his own signature;
or in an ell torial announcement, in which
his name is made special mention of; and
on the day after tho appearance Of every
such announcement, his particular friends
are 50 eated and overjoyed at this ssgnal proof
of his Senatorial abilities. that it is DANGER
Gus talk with them lest they should quarrel
with one not as enthusiastic as themselves
or order up bottle of Heidsick aud
force You to drink to the toast of " our i'm
mortal Senator-the Rice plantation called
Mill ol, toll
other such ebulltion of their noisy devotion
to the white small grain vegetable
But there be carpers at all greatress-at
every species Of greatness. Mr.. RICE, do all
that he can-do everybody completely-has
enemies who if they do not directly sheer at
his Senatorial eXertions on our behalf among
the clerks in the Departmental Washington,
at all events implicitly depreciate those unob-
trusive official attentions to our postal wants,
by insnuatiny his ncompetency to perform
or else neglect OF what they consider, more
important duties on the floor of Congress
The Pioneer itself is not indisposed to stab
him occasionally under the fifth rib, notwith-
standing it is the official organ for his Squash
towu bulletins. But the Pioneer belongs to
the SIBLEY interest, and SIBLEY, it is we'll
known, still retains some portion of the old
grudge which was at its height few years
ago when SIBLEY s,Uore that RICE was dis
honest, and had fraudulently used property
not his own! Therefore, to dig RICE sl,ly,
but not so as to alarm his friends, is the cue
of the official organ. For instance. on
Wednesday, the 18th, long article appeared
in the Pioneer copied from JOE BRowN's pa
per- the Henderson Democrat, in reference to
cessation of work on Col. MOBILES great Paci-
fc Wagon Road. The two concluding para
graphs of the article are as follows:
"This, then, is the end of the great Pac-
fc Wagon Road. Had it succeeded, we
might have looked for more prosperous times
in our own State, and perpetual commuica-
ton with California and Oregon, which wo'd
have been of vast benefit to us but there is
little prospect that it will be again renewed
For the failure to obtain an appropra-
ton last winter to complete the road, we give
Messrs. Phelps, Cavanaugh and Rice credit,
and more particularly when we recolect that
not one Of the Mree raised word of objection
or amendment when the Albuquerque route
was being pushed through. But of this more
hereafter
The publication without comment, by the
Pioneer, of this censure on RICE, PHELPS and
CAvANAUGH, is a tacii endorsement of it.
But what, at anyrate, it may be inquired,
does this consure amount to so far as regards
Mr.. RICE? Nothing Suppose he knew it
was no use to try for an appropriation, would
you have him spend his strength in unavail.
inc efforts. when iudiciOuslv hrsbanded tho