Saint Paul weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1858-1859, 1859-01-15

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So much for the third Vice President of the
Pugets Sound Meeting; a man of no ordinary
force, whatever his faults.
But the further notice of the officers and
leading men of the movement, our columns
compel us to defer to another number.
Neilrs History OF Minnesota Again Re-
viewed.
The work alluded to is decidedly the book
of the season.
Not many weeks ago, the timber-toes of the
Times, on his Inauguration into that paper,
selected it as subject upon which to
create a sensation" and showed pretty
clearly that his mother and all his early play
mates.aptly called him Jack! With pat
ronizing air, he spoke of Mr.. NEILL's personal
qualities, and then, with the positiveness be-
coming so ancient an editor" the oldest in
the State"-pointed out an alleged historical
error concerning the Scotchman DIXON, who
was the Superintendent of Indian Affairs for
British interests in Minnesota, during the war
of 1872
NE1LL,-on the authority of Pixies Journal
of his Travels; of Major LONG in his Narrative
of Explorations; of SMITH, the Historian Of
Wisconsin, and other accurate writer's
speaks of this person as possessing some good
traits.
At this, the patriarch of editors, waxeth
warm, and shaking his elderly dry-bones into
life again, charges the Historian of Minneso.
ia with taking British uiew in this regard
and to prove it tells us that good old grand.
mother, thousand miles off on the banks Of
the Ohio did not agree with the best Amseri
can authorities, but thought the above named
Dixon scoundrel without mitigating or pal
liative traits; and theretore-reasons our ED
erly John with sort of "Big-Eyed Turkey
logic-NEILL is wrong!
A second Jack-the JACK STEVENS, whom
we used to know as FRANK STEELE's boy be-
hind the counter in the store at Fort Smelling
in late number of his Glencoe (McLeod
County, Register, initiates the first Jack ir
his assumed gravity. Hear him:
We are ready to admit that sce are not assDeU in
formed on Ninnesota history ne should be, but
will ask the Pioneer the Times to reconcile the
discrepancy that exists between Father Hennepir
and the Rev. Z. d. Neilps History of Minnesota
in regard to the locality of the Imprisonment o.
the former. Father Hennepn informs US that he
was taken to lake west of the Mississippi, ano
Mr.. Neill says that lake Mile Lac. Now it il
hot I ..f g. l.
from being west of the Mississippi. We believe
that Mr.. Nell takes his authority from Dr. Will
hanson, but we think the Doctor has found out by
This time that there large lakes sixty leagues
west of the Falls of st. Anthony, such as Kandiy
Obi at the head of the south branch of Crow River
and that it was in the neighborhood of some Of
those lakes Hennepins sOjOurn occurred instead
of Mile Lac If Mile Lac was the place. we should
like to have the island pointed out in the center
the lake Hennepin describes as his prison.
The admission that friend STEVENS makes
of being an ignoramus is unnecessary; for the
nonsense which follows, in relation to an al
legged Discrepancy between Father HENNEPIN's
Travels and Father NE1LL's History, is con.
vincing proof on that head
No man who has ever seen HENNEPIN's
Book of Travels, with the dotted line of his
journey on the map, will ever be so foolish as
to suppose that the franciscan travelled much
north of the Minnesota, or any west of the
Mississippi.
But, sayeth our STEVENS: "Father Hen
nepin informs us that he was taken to a lake
aoest of the Mississippi"
All, Jack that information must have
been one of thy spiritual communication
from the Father, for in his book he sav
no such thing; but shows that he went uI
Rum River, and passed brief period on 9
small island in Mile Lac, near its outlet into
the spirituous stream aforesaid!
AS the 47th proposition in Euclid has evel
been to the school boys, so NEILL's History
proves to be "pons asinoruns," bridge 70,
the Jachs to exhibit themselves on, posteriori
ally and continually Go on boys; nobody
shall interfere with thy amusements!
AT the next annual meeting of the Histori
cal Society, it would be well to invite Fathe,
RIGGS to show in an essay that there art
deeper waters than the Ponds" of Mime
sofa, of which he seems so jealous and thai
NELL has made mistake in saying that the
lakes of Minnesota were clear instead of cloud,
and muddy, as they are up in the region o.
Lac-qui-parle; also to request Father OWENS
to present Mother HARRIsoN's views in full or
Dixon and the goose question; and likewise
to urge the juvenile SIcKLEs to prove the pre-.
else time of the origin of the Dakota and Glib.
way feud; and last, but not least, to unani
mously implOre STEVENS to show that Fathe,
HENNEPIN, when in Minnesota, did not know
where he was!
With such original papers, the Annals Of
the Society would pale the History of Mime.
sofa by the Rev. EDWARD D. NELL, and the
sale of the book be materially lessened!