Saint Paul weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1858-1859, 1858-05-08
CITY ITEMS.

Ward Polls, two lriShmen weIe detecteo III
illegal voting, and were taken in charge by
the special policemen stationed there, who
conveyed them oft t,wards the Jail, But
the measure Of outrage and defiance to law
was not vet full. They had been detected
and frustrated once, but law was yet to be
openly resisted, and trampled on. Near the
Second Ward Polls, the crew were reinorc-
ed. a rescue was attempted, which was resis-
ted by the three policemen in charge OF the
prisoners, but they We're overpowered, ana
one of them named Palmer, severely hurt
BY weapon in the hands Of the mob. 1t is
to be regretted that the officers were not in
some way reinforced, or supported, for the
attempt at rescue was too successful, and the
law thus openly and detiantly resisted. Some
gentlemen in buggy who had also incurred
the displeasure of the mob, were aSsaled by
o shower of stones, and hurt, and driven off.
After the rescue, one of the men impu-
IDENTITY went back to the FIRST Ward Polls
from which he had been taken. An effort
was again made to arrest him, but his Irish
friends put him in a wagon, an surrounding
it, defed his capture A melee ensued at
ter which sundry black eyes eyes were obsery
able,-but the wagon drove off.
A difficulty also occurred at the Second
Ward Polls, in which special policeman
was beaten.
With the exceptions Of the above mention
cd outrases, the day passed off unusually
quiet. The polls closed at o'clock in all
the Wards and at that hour at which time
We write this We observed no intoxicated
persons, and everything seemed to be Or
DERBY.
If such sckening spectacles of open de-
fancc to law and order, and resistance to civ
il authority in the support of crime, are to
be thus tolerated b, the people, and winked
at nay, actually encouraged by clique of
men for their own ends, until they are of
every day occurrences which is almost the
case Gow, it is time every citizen who loves law
and peace opens his eyes to the brink of an
archv, almost, on which we are Standing
w III uOt INC ItSpCCldole anu INV -doiuiuS DC-
come disguised and leave us, and strangers
who value order and security shun us,-and
will not the too frequent repetition of such
things inlure our good name and credit
abroad, and give us such reputation, that
to have all else, with it, will make the very
name of our city stink in the nostrils Of
decency, and a hy-word everywhere? Think
of it, men of all parties.
ASSAULT UPON F. ORrHwEIN.-Mr Ortiz
wen, publisher of the National Democrat,
(German) of this city. was assaulted at the
Lager Beer Saloon, on the corner of Wash
ington and St Anthony streets, on Monday
nisht, By German named Leopold Vonk,
aud seriously injured by being struck about |
the face and eyes. The cause Of the assault |
was the publication Of an article, on the |
demonstration made by Germans, the other |
evening by torch light procession. in honor ,
et Luivie, the imported German Republican |
from Baltimore. The nature of the article |
was not such as to call down the ire of Mr.. |
Ludwig friends but as he is the represent
ratve OF class Of Gerasqas, rho hare in 9TH
er Dtuces creqte1 riots oad disturbances, ii Is
NSSUWt
up his auteceleats ond PIT dozen all opposition
III Tie use of the Nudqevn.-Pioneer tf yesttg-
day.
Such is Mr.. Orthwcins version, and calcu
lated to lead the public to suppose that Mr..
Nonk was desperate rowdy, skilled in the |
Use Of the bludgeon,' aud Mr.. Orthwein a
meek and quiet martyr. Those who know |
that this account is false, can readily under
stand how the abusive attack of Mr.. Ortiz |,
vein on Mr.. Ludvlgh should excite the just
Indignation of his frends,-and added to
this the insulting abuse of Orthwein himself |
in conversation at the above place, should |
provoke an alteration in which Orthwein's |
fee was slapped two or three times. This
then. is that outrageous assault on one of the |
Pioneer editors, in which he was seriously |
injured" All who know Mr.. Eonck, can |
say that he is quiet and orderly citizen in
the extreme, and only the utmost provoca-
ton on Orthwein'S part would have induced
such a reply as he made to that PERSONS in
suits.
knows He figured awhile in ST. Paul as
the editor of German paper, turned coat
geveral times, and having disguised everybo- |
DIV and lost all his friends, left the city and
went to Chaska where he printed German
Democratic sheet for time. From this
S. here of usefulness he was recalled to st.
Paul, to become stool pigeon for the Pho
aeer to secure the German State Printing
and Advertising, by pretending to publish a
German paper, with no circulation.
From such source could have we'll cma-
uatea the contemplate and false Islander on
our German population, in the conclusion of
the above piece, accusing them of creating
riots and disturbances elsewhere and that
such will be the case here. The German
population of st. Paul are above such an i'm
prtaton, and the fact that they are altogeth
er as orderly, intelligent and indus
trious class as there is among US, is beyond
dispute The ISLANDERS Of the Pioneer,
oaeer paper to lecture that class to whom
the Democratic party have sold out
the lrlsh-about their turbulence, love of
bludgeon-rule, and riots and disturbances
1t would be richly merted every one knows
while their abuse of the quiet, orderly, in
telligent Germans who defeated the Irish
ticket on Tuesday, is mere malice and froth,
and will meet with with its proper rebuke.
NEARLY AN ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS RrNA-
wAY.-Yesterday morning about ten o'clock,
a team belonging to Mr.. Seager, became scared
and started off down Third Street on full run.