Saint Paul weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1858-1859, 1859-08-27

See rising 10 Zenltn It's Star-
And down with Democracy's Becker
We're 6eggarsd enough as we are. r.F.
Lowry, the Old Winnebago 1nterpre.
ter, and His sStrlking Contrast'' to
"Nace, the Irishman."
There was a good deal of amusement
amongst the "old settlers'' on Saturday, at
the Pioneers notice of Mr.. LOWRY, the Dem
ocratic candidate for Lieutenant GOVERNOR
According to that organ, Mr.. LOWRY is high.
falutin sort of an Individual high stepping
gentleman. 1t says he is an old pioneer
a gentleman of culture and fne ability-a
thorough and uncomprolnising Democrat
and he presents a striking contrast to his op-
opponent" Mr.. DoNNELLY! The Pioneer
goes on to say;
"Gen. Lowry formerly took an active part in
territorial politics, and possessed great personal
pOpuarity-the latter he still retains in his own
locality, but with majority of the present voters
of Minnesota his is a new name. He resides in
ST. Cloud, in the neighbOrhood of which place he
has of the largest and best farms in tho State
Gen. l.. will add great strength to the ticket in the
NORTH"
Now, being an old settler ourseif, and hav=
ing lived quite near Mr.. Lowry during a por'
ton of our career, we can give the Pioneer
some more correct information respecting the
Democratic candidate for Lieutenant Govern
or, than it seems now to be in possession Of
SYLvANUs 3. LOWRY was born in the State
of Tennessee. His father was the Rev. DA-
vID LOWRY, q minister of the Cumberland
Presbyterian denomination, stern kind of
sectarys, numerous in Tennessee and Ken
lucky, The father, under the incentive Of
government aid as an Indian teacher, and
doubtless from his own Christian zeal to save
souls, removed into the Winnebago tribe of
Indians, then settled in Iowa, as missiona-
ry to convert them to Christianity and civili-
zation. SYLvANUs, then child of seven
years of age, accompanied the family amongst
the tribe; and grew up to manhood as an ad-
opted Winnebago, assuming to great extent
their peculiar habits of dress and action, and
acquiring their language more perfectly, per-
haps, than any other white person ever has
done.
While the father was with the Winneba-
goes in Iowa, as their teacher and missionary,
being also something of Democratic politi-
clan, he succeeded in obtaining the appoint
ment of U. S. Indian Agent for the tribe ;
and he then duly designated his son, SYLVIA
NUS, to fill the office of u. S. Interpreter for
the Winnebagoes.
1t was about this time that the late Catho-
lie Bishop CRETIN came amongst the Whine.
bagoes, and made an effort to Christianize
them according to his creed. In this, Of
course, he received nothing but the sternest
kind of opposition from the Reverend Indian
Agent of the tribe. Great, indeed, was the
war of words, and of letters and documents
which ensued between the belligerents-a
war in which the Reverend Indian Agent OBJ
tanned the advantage over his Catholic oppo
nent, from the peculiar influence exercised
upon the minds of the Indians themselves
through the superior requirements of his sor
SYLvANUs, in the Winnebago language-the
son naturally aiding his father to illustrate
Mr.. CRErIN's we'll meant exertions.
The Rev. DAVID LOWRY, the father, was fl
nally displaced as Agent of the tribe, but
still managed to retain the post of Superin
tendent of the Manual Labor Schools of the
Nation.
When the tribe was removed up to Long
Prairie, in Minnesota, into what is now TodG
County, Bishop CRETIN abandoned contest
in which the odds were too great against him
and did not remove with the Indians to theil
new location.
But some time before their removal, SYL
vANUs B. LOWRY had obtained such an infu
ence over the Indians, that HENRY NJ. RIcI
| secured him as one of his Indian Traders
| When RICE was turned out of the American
Fur Company ,SYLvANUs followed his fortunes
and continued to act as his Indian Trader
and occasionally as Interpreter amongst the
Winnebagoes, until RICE's financial failure
and total abandonment of the Trade" fol
the trade Of politics, when Mr.. LOWRY also
retired, with, however, comfortable amount
of "spoils of the heathen' in his pocket
He next became land and town site specu
lator, and acquired an interest in the town
site of St. Cloud, where he now resides
His most distinguishing public action du
ring his residence at St. Cloud, is his well
known mobocratic destruction of Mrs. SwIs.
BELMs press, which was accomplished under
his direction, and partly by him in person.
The real reason for this outrage was the An
ti-Slavery views promulgated through the col.
umns of the paper. Mr.. LOWRY is an ex.
IRENE Pro-Slavery mana believer in the
bred Scott decision-in the Lecomptonism Of
JAMES BUCHANAN and II. NJ. RICE. He is al
so determined opponent of Mr. DOUGLAS, a
friend of the extension of Slavery, and favor
APPLE generally to the ACKNOWLEDGEMENT of the
Slave Power. Hence, his indignation at Mrs.
SIS presumption in expressing Anti-Slavery
sentiments under his lordly, aristocratic nose,
as the Seignor of St. Cloud, and his conse-
quent prompt suppression of her paper by
violence-usine, however, another pretext to
justify his conduct.
The Pioneer speaks of him in the past tense
as having once possessed popularity" He
never possessed it. Even when he was one
of the notorious "Monks, Of Monks Hail." in
the early days of St. Paul, ne never was lik-
ed, except amongsta set of boon companions
whom people generally avoided as they would
moccasin snakes. There is about this old
Winnebago Interpreter and Trader great