Saint Paul weekly Minnesotian., 1859-12-03

| ~ JACKSON lCouNTY.--We learn by rumor
| that the troops ordered to jackson county,
| after spending few days in accommodating
the country around Spirit Lake, have return-
ed to the Fort, no Indians having been seen
FLOUR continues at high figures, consider
ing the low prices paid for wheat but in
creased facilities for man featuring this arti-
Gle will soon reduce it to proper level s1Ja
| &c U. 5. SENATE.-The Iadspenleat officially
announces Hon. NJ. s., Wilkinson as candi.
date for the United States Senate, and says
that his name will be urged with the persist
ence and earneStness commensurate with the
business of the claim of this section.
THe river is partially covered with ice, af-
fordinng skating for the boys.
DURING the past week wehave experienced
yearly every variety of weather, in g small
From the Minneapolis Plain Dealer,
Nov. 22: .r..r ..r ~ :
TIE RAILROAD BoNDs-The Plaindsaler
is Democratic sheet that supported the
Democratic ticket at the late election, but
"spit upon the platform so far as the 18th
resolution. There is friendly controversy
going on between itself and the ST Anthony
Neaos. relative to the great question of State
policy, What shall We do about the Railroad
Bonds 2" 1t seems rather to argue, that the
people and State are not bound to make good
the Bonds issued, because the conditions of
the Loan Amendment had not been complied
with when they were issued by Mr.. Sibley /;
and therefore, they are an illegal and uncon-
stitutional issue, that need not be met. 1t
thus argues the question:
"We will suppose a case for the Nens, and
then, perhaps, it will understand us better.
"SuppOsing a tax were to be levied for pay
ment of the principal and interest of the Rail-
road Bonds, and supposing the editor of the
Ne,cs was to refuse to pay that tax because
the bonds were void, the condition in the Con-
stitution upon which they were issued not
having been complied with. The collector
proceeds against him and sells his property
Would there be no way of his testing the
question before the courts? We think there
would. The process is as plain and common
as any every day transaction can be. The
theory of legislative infallibi.ity has not yet
become an axiom, and the rights guaranteed
to the people by the Constitution are not mere
rush lights to be snuffed out by the legislative
will or at legislative pleasure.
Now we reiterate our former assertion, that
if those bonds are valid-if the conditions of
the Constitutional amendment under which
they were issued, has been complied with
the State is obligated to pay them to the last
cent. 1t is no excuse that it made bad bar
gain. The time for considering that has gone
by. On the contrary, if the conditions of the
loan under which those bonds were issued,
have not been complied with, and the issue of
the bonds thereby rendered fraudulent, the
State is not legally or morally bound to pay
one farthing of those bonds. This is the
point we wished to make before.
If the condition of the loan was, that each
company shoulr complete fifty miles of its
road, then the oonds are not get an obligation
against the State, because the condition under
which they were issued, has not yet been
complied with. A bond for deed given by
A to B upon the condition that B should per-
form certain things within given time, would
be no obligation against A until the required
service should be performed. If these bonds
stand in this relation-as only an evidence of
an obligation to be made available when the
companies perform certain things specified in
the loan-until those things are performed,
they are not obligations against the State.
Whether they do hold this relation or not,
is not for US to decide.
~ The Plaindealer thus curtly solves a
problem for US:
PLAIN ENoUGH.-Dr. Foster, of the MINNIE
soTIAN, says that he is in doubt as to what
disreputable act he has performed, that should
induce the Pioneer Dc Democrat to nominate
him for the United State Senate. 1t is plain
enough-he has supported the Republican
purity.
The P1aindealer seems greatly exercised
in mind on account of the Pioneer Dc Demo-
Gratis assault upon Judge Atwater.
The authorship of the 18th resolution of
the Democratic State platform is thus ventil
lated by the Plaindealer:
being the author of that part of the res
olution, the 18th in the Democratic platforml
it should be allowed that we speak advisedly
Nor had any railroad man, or money broker,
any more to do with it than Mr.. Huff-UI-
mona Dem.
1--WE have" says the editor of the Plain
dealer, "the original draft of the 9Th resolu-
ton as it came into the hands of the Commit
tee, with all the interlineations and amend
ments with which it was adopted.
at is in the hand scriting of prominent
Railroad manager, and one deeply interested
in the Railroad money operations of the State,
as well as being connected with prominent
banking house in St. Paul.
"We obtained it of a member of the Com
mittee, while the Convention was in session,
with an especial view to knowing who was its
author"
The author, we suppose, was Isaac Van
Etten, ex-senator and Attorney of the Tran.
sit Railroad Co.!
GRAIN.-Wheat, oats, and corn find ready
sales for cash at 50@55 for wheat, for oats
20, and 25@30 cents for corn, per bushel, ac-
cording to quality.
Negro Equality South.
William JoEo on old Ypo,nbor of 10,