The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1859-01-13

The style 10 the Man. ''--Bufon.
II there is anything we admire ourselves
for in this country-more than Mccormick 3
reaping machine and the battle Of New Or
leans-it is the freedom of the Press. II
the admiration is commensurate with the
freedom, we ought to be on good terms with
oursevcs--aud perhaps the extent to which
a newspaper up street INDUCES in the luxu-
ry Of this perfect unrestraint," may ac-
count in some degree for its unbounded ad.
miration OF itself.
Since the Minnesot,an, for that is the
newspaper we mean, has sunk from the pc.
sition OF public journal under its former
editorshp, into the mere driviling diary Of
the amiable weaknesses of one THoxAs Eos.
rER--that admirable person has amused his
elegant leisure by filling his columns with
some acres-for We really don't know how
else TO convey an idea Of the superficial
quantities involved-or perhaps we might
say square miles, Of not very picturesque
gossip concerning various individuals con-
nected with the PIONEER AND Democrat
with minute and curious observations, picked
with PROPULSION of salacious epithets-upon
their personal appearance, dress. meat,
drink, and numerous important particulars
relative to their private habits and domestic
arrangements-wh they take for colds
where they came from-how they cut hang.
nails--eat salad and pick their teeth--in all
which the public, Of course, must feel an in.
tense interest. SO well pleased was THOMAS
with bis first effort in this line some six
months ago, that after repeating the per-
Torrance some hundred and odd times he
has finally had it put into verse. AMI dedica-
ted TO posterity-in what is called a New
Years address. In the regular course OF
things We may expect it to be set to music
If We we're to find any fault with these
lucubrations-wh receive our attentions
now for the first tme-we should say they
wanted conciseness and the necessity
which the author has felt himself under Of
repeating the same story in nearly the same
words, about one hundred and fifty times,
without creating great public sensation,
involves painful suspicion Of want Of
perspicuity, force or something else, in the
original draft. II whiskey was quality Of
rhetoric, We should say there was. perhaps,
too much Of that in the draught in question.
The salien, ponts-the keynotes-the
fundamental propositious--or whatever you
choose TO call them--oi this multfarious
aud Protean efluson, are
/, That the PIoSEEa is very dull with
SIR editors, while the Mnnes0tian is very
brilliant with ono, who, we are given TO un-
ders,and, is tremendous FMsrAyF against
these eleven meu in buckram.
= These six editors. We are told. consist
Of three persons. whose names, So they are
not likely TO be immor,aIizel by the Mime
sot,Gr bard, are Of no consequence. The
discrepancy in the terms OF the above
proposition may be easily accounted for BIZ
considering that the Doctor frequently see,
double.
3. 1t is recorded Ia eject with consiie-
rable circamIocu'ion. ~ remarkable pecu
lisrity Of one OF these editors, that he keeps
his face clean-a phenomenon which excites
Fosrgss unbounjei stonishment-that he
wears clean linen-a luxury which FosrrR
Indignantly dsnounc,s "a NJ variance with
the genius OF Republican ins,i,utious-and
that he combs his hair which Fosrss re-
CARDS as piece Of extravacant co1combry
bordering on the ridiculous and gets his
clothes made by tailor clear case Of
fraud 90 the Jews He INDUCES too. in A
remarkable collection Of breaking
perfumes compiled from Boxp's adver.
tisements. 10 marble hearts" and similar
confectionery, and lives in in,olerable splen-
dor in fairy palace somewhere, being alto.
ge'her an unapprcachabIc. Mephis,opheIan
sort II individual, not TO be touched or re-
duosi to vulgar practice on auy accoant.
lie i tbs poodIedog editor
1 Then there il the Rotary Editor
20 whom a. 10 the classic Tan,alus. the iataI