Saint Paul weekly Minnesotian., 1858-06-12
Our Shak OPee Correspondence.

To the Editors Of the Mnnesotian:
During these quiet times of general de-
preston of business and oppression of out
standing obligations, we are turning our at
tention first, to our vitality and internal re-
sources to recuperate, and second, to our abil-
ity to retrench and economise and amongst
our "Bills payable" we find the item of gene
raj and special taxes of considerable conse-
quence. While you are groaning, scolding
and storming at the discovery of the manner
in which your blood and strength has been
sucked and sapped from you by set of re-
morseless, irresponsible, Unsuitable leeches of
cormorant appetites, who have had the man.
agement of your municipal affairs, piling load
upon load on your breaking backs, until the
last feathers weight is only required to frac.
ture the spinal column-we are taking q re-
Prospective view of our City affairs, and this
is the result of our backward glance of OBJ.
servation.
About year ago our City election under
our Charter took place, and party lines being
strictly drawn, the Democratic ticket was
elected. We regard the policy of making
such local questions party test in such new,
small communities, as very unwise, but we
would state, (and now remember this is in
the strictest confidence, for if it ever comes
to the ears of those to whom we allude, it
will give great offense and raise thunder about
your head there are certain politicians liv-
ing among us who have some doubts of their
own respectability and integrity, but of which
those who have the misfortune to know them
longest and best, have none; and there are
Others who feel outraged if any one should
suggest that they lacked the ability to fill
any office in the gift of the nation, although
a minority of their neighbors distrust their
competency to perform the functions of some
Insignificant County office. This disparity of
opinion is caused by the aspirants looking at
themselves through microscope, while they
are regarded by others through an inverted
telescope. Their estimation of themselves
and the value placed upon them by others
makes all this wide difference. Well, these
are the ones who are continually thrusting
themselves before the industrious community
and clamor for office, always insisting upon
strict party lines being drawn, knowing that
with strong party and hard work, the bit
ter will 60 down with the sweet-and if not
"well shaken before taken" such ingredients
would not be swallowed by any throat that
had palate. As we were saying, the Dem
ocratic ticket was elected, the City organized,
and among the first appointments was tall,
raw-bored gambler from the State of Ban
gor, by the name of Kelly. Tom Kelly, who
kept saloon, doing the party eminent SER
vice in his line, at probable expense of ten
dollars, for which he was appointed City
Marshal. His duties being to collect licen-
ses, he went at it diligently, obtaining some
seven hundred dollars: left town, was ar
rested in St. Paul, liberated on a writ of ha-
beas corpus, came back, shook hands all
round and offered to treat - stalked through
our streets like an old Shanghai, then grace
fully retired from sight and the business of
collecting license fees.
A defect discovered in our charter at
cost of about one thousand dollars, was rec
tilted by the recent Legislature, after which
another election took place. Democratic
ticket ahead again. with much more effective
list, including one liberal, who, with the wis
dom of past experience and present hard
times, guiding the others, have commenced
vigorous action to enforce ordinances.
Simultaneously with the command to take
out licenses or close shops To-day, is present.
ed numerously signed petition to repeal the
city charter, by tall son of Esculapius, fa-
miliarly known among the Dacotahs as Pay
atabwichasta-tcnkas," who has acquired the
amiable habit of frequently "smiling." The
ARGUMENT advanced in support of this move
ment is, prematurity of city organization,
and prospect Of unnecessary taxation for it's
support
1t is thought essential by some who have
refrained from signing it, that it were as we'll
if not better for The city to pay off its debts,
Or secure their payment before it died, and
by others, that the township and statute
laws are not sufficiently full and complete to
take the place of our charter and ordinances,
while others declare that it looks too much
like retrograde movement, and they so dis
like to 60 backward that they will oppose
such repeal any how; so you may expect
remonstrance to accompany the petition to
your city, "Opposition is the life of trade"
We had tie pleasure of conversing with
man slxty-four years of age, who rode on
horseback from Massachusetts, to Illinois,
then bought top buggy to get out of the
wet of that rain-soaked country, and drove to
our city yesterday, having consumed six
weeks on his journey-visiting relatives and
friends along the route, and viewing the
country at his leisure. Old America six
weeks on horseback and by buggy-Young
America four days by railroad and telegraph.
One sees heap of country. while the other
sees a streak of country. Sixty-four and
twenty-four-one horse team and sixty horse
steam-so we so. GEORGIUs.
MIR. Dallas OH Visitation and Search.
On Monday the President sent to the SEN
ate in response to the resolution. the docu-
ments in the Panchita case. Among the let