Saint Paul weekly Minnesotian., 1859-12-03

by gentlemen who have been connected with
the river business for some years past, that
the business Of our city and valley, independ-
ent Of the lumber trade, has been at least one
third greater than it was last season. This is
an encouraging omen, and while all gre suffer,
ing from the general scarcity of money, would
seem to indicate asubstantial improvement
in confidence and credit, or in the improved
condition of the money market or both. .r
Mr.. Armstrong, of the Lower Levee, whose
statements can be relied upon as entirely cor
rect, assures us the number Of arrivals was at
least one-t third more than during the season
of 1868. Last year the number of arrivals
was 462. The number the present season
was probably not less than 600. ''-
1t appears by the following article in the
Messenger that the Saltwater Company is still
under arms:
| "GoNE AND Done 1T, AND PUT Hrs Foor
IN I'VE understand Brigadier General
Wagner has resigned his commission. Wheh-
er it was because the General would not hold
an office under Black Republican Admins
| tration, or whether he feared Rlack Repub
lican Administration would not permit him to
| do so, we are not informed.
By the way, the General ought to have dis
charged from actual service the w. L. Artil
Iery Company of this city before resigning-
Company ordered under arms to march to
the +" seat of war in Wright county," on the
9th of August last, by the authority of Gen.
Wagner and Gov. Sibley. The boys have
now had campaign of one huHdred'and nine
days duration, and they are entitled to little
respite.
| TELEGRAPH NEEDRD.-The Messenger in
sists on our need of a Telegraph to connect us
with the East. 1t thus argues
Our NEED OF Scarcely
day passes but we feel the necessity ofa Tel
egraphic connection with the East and South
not an hour passes but a line connecting
La Crosse with the leading cities of Minneso-
Ia would be actively employed. Ten days
ago we had every prospect Of an immediate
close of navigation; and every boat then des.
tined for the Upper Mississippi either dischar
ged their freight before coming through, or
hurried into port and hastened back, fearing
| they would be caught in the ice. A large
amount of freight has thus been left behind,
or discharged at ports along the river where
| it will have to remain until next spring, or be
| conveyed by teams to its destination. Since
the first indication of a close of the river ten
| days ago, there has been ample time for boats
to have loaded at st. Louis, reached this port,
and returned with perfect safety. And this
| would have been done if we only enjoyed the
! advantage of telegraph by which steamboat
men and shippers below could be kept con-
stantly advised of the state of the weather.
By the early and needless drawing off of
the boats the present season, the business
men alone of Minnesota have suffered far
greater loss than the cost of the construction
and equipment of firstclass telegraph from
| this city and ST. Paul to La Crosse When
will our people turn their attention to this not
expensive, but greatly needed enterprise
If the business men of Minnesota could enjoy
the advantages of such . connection long
enough to appreciate its real value, they
would not suffer themselves to be deprived
of it for ten times it's cost.
PIONEER GUARDS HALL, ST.. PAuL-While
in st. Paul few days since some of our
friends who knew that we are "some military"
showed us through the new and beautiful ar
mOry of the Pioneer Guards, IN Bernheimer's
block, Third street. The hall is perhaps the
largest, and certainly the most elegantly fur
nished in the State, and reflects much credit
upon the enterprise and excellent military
taste Of this crack Company. The hall was
appropriately inaugurated last Thursday eve.,
with a brilliant ball.
j. W. TAYLOR has been ventilating him
selfover at Saltwater. The Messenger says:
From gentlemen who were present, we learn
| that the gentleman did not advance any prop
| ositions calculated to encourage even those of
our citizens in the Railroad interest. From
what we can learn of the lecture, we are led
to conclude that Mr.. Taylor has abandoned
the immediate hope that the people of our
State will be enabled to build all the various
roads over which he and others were so en-
thusiastic few years ago, and that he holds
it the duty of the people to now concentrate
all their energies upon one great road-con-
Meeting st. Paul and the Saskatchewan in
general, and Mr.. Taylor, the late Secretary
of the Minnesota and Pacific Company, (who
is said to be the holder of quite large amount
of Railroad bonds,) in particular"
The Hoyt House, at Hudson, was sold last
Saturday under mortgage for $4,000. A very
low figure, we should think.
R- The Albert Lea (Minn.) Eagle, of
Nov -, has the following:
| MISUNDERSTANDING the past week sever
al emigrants have passed through our town.
One team was followed by quite number of
cows driven by lady. In answer to our in
quiry as to their place of destination, the lady
informed us that they oere going to Minneso-
ta. We sincerely hope that she will have a
good time when she gets ''to Minnesota"
From the Rochester City Post Of Nov.
democratic Harmony" this head
ing the Post has capital leader upon the rev
amongst the Democratic newspapers of this
State touching the causes of the late defeat of
that party in the State, especially as to wheth-
er Henry NJ. Rice, Senator Douglas, Mr.. Bu-
chanan, Squatter Sovereignty or Pro-Slavery
Intervention, "did it." 1t quotes the last dy-
ing confessions of the Hastings Ledger. The
Post says"
The Hastings Ledger goes so far as to init
mate, in pretty strong language, that the par
ty "lent themselves" 1--WE quote,) Ito the
most corrupt corporations that have ever dis
graced any one of the States of this confeder.
acy." 1t believes that ''the pretence of build
ing railroads was but the flimsiest veil to con-
ceal the robbery Of the donated land"
Further, it says:
| OuT OIate administration mas been charg-
ed, and we believe with truth, with the dis
trusts and vexations and hindrances growing
out of our currency system. The Auditor
has never satisfactorily explained why he took
the Minnesota State Bonds at ninety five cents
on the dollar. For that, he and his co-adju-
tors and abettors have been forever politically
damned in this State, and the Democratic
party has suffered for having made him Aud
| itor.
"Next-The Bank Amendment was intro
duced by Democrat. And in that most ben
Efficient measure, the gentleman out t-generaled
himself
Next-There are Administration Demo-
Gratis in this State, as well as Douglas schis-
matics, and the more the platform suited the
latter, the less it suited the former
| WAnd finally to bring the matter to a close