The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1859-02-10

ORIGINAL AND SELECTED PARAGRAPHS.

BRowx, OF Brownsville, proposes in his
next Issue TO discuss grea, principle. Ho
says Of this great principle:
Tho line OF iA investigation runs right
through two institutions, vulgsrly called snd''
eiduals. We propose 10 raise the question rs
to what position or rights are vested 10 an IN.
div iduAl who has been held "a bail by the
highest authority Of the state, for the high
crime Of robbery, who 10 now despite aud
| without answering 10 said bonds, protesting 10
act In On Official capacity. We viii predicate
as q premature conclusion. that every free step
Of such men treads upon oil law and the con.
atitution OF our common counlry--that every
free breath under such circumstances scatters
the sacred ashes Of tho worthless Of our nations
early history to the four winds and finally
that l.. D. Sclfrldrc can be no more BE- made n
legal fuDetoDary than could \ stick stone, OF
the Devil himself.
BRowS thinks "Browniana u very nice
name, especially the pathaiana part:'1
Our unsophsticated, unoollegiAisd imagIna-
lion is hugely impressed with the idea that our
brethren Of The Pioneer Nashssn have, Tin thsir
/ commeDts) very claasiCay, very IumnOusly,
and very extraordinarily exhibited their pom
pous -prcpondef0us gothian -------
We won't quote Baows any farther on
this subject, If BHowS expects his eila.
sions TO be spread abroad and bear fruit q
hundred fold, in the PIosEEn * DEMOCRAT,
be must not cast bis seed in stony places
The Chatheld papers in the Roo, River
Valley Railroad interest, and the Winops
papers in behalf Of the Transit are en-.
/ gagged in the elegant amusement Of tearing
each Others eyes out, on the comparative
advantages Of their respective roads, and
the probabilities that they will be built, and
when and how they will be built. In this
war all the resources OF invec,iye, and satire,
and statistics, and rhetoric In general, are
exhausted by the opposing journals In de-
prcciating their antagonists and eulogsiDg
their own roads-which are personiGed by
the contractors. The great Dx GEAFp on
the one side, and the magnificent but in.
scfulablc CmAangaLArs on the other---ars
the objects respectively Of an admiration
and confidence, which would satisfy the
ambition Of monarch, or Of denunciatiou
and contempt. which woud almost equal the
deserts Of the "Gymnos0phis."
These papers insist that DE- GaArs or
CuAsBgrLiAs ia bankrupt that the Transit
il humbag. the editors affecting 10 hold
mysterious conversations with people direct
from Rochester or Cha,Geid who represent
everything ns gone up and done for at the
an,sgonis'ic Iocality--while this IL sue.
ceeded bs several paragraphs dwelling upon
the wonlerfaI progress u The interchangeable,
mighty and all p.ficicnt contractor % the
iavori,e Tine. We consider II neo'ssary 10
ac,flsint our readers with tbis s'aie of feeling
befor, hand, as necesary TO qualify arg rail
road news from that quarter IN which hTri'
bI. ca,asiropbi@ Of rsltosd interests are
announced.
The Cha'Geld Dtmot,a says that the
work On the Transit bas suspended except
% the bluffs Desr Winona. and tina, lo'
u the con,ractors' implements on that road
lave b.sn attached for ,sbt OF the I.0o'
Kiyer road il ssys
We AZ. mpcs ylsssss 10 learn from q gen
,lsfaan rect from u T4ukse and la Crosse
nat she work on or Railroad ny I'oD, HyEl
valley. ia ~ b. Tetgmsd Immediately. OaI
informant received ~ a'DfH at.on from head
,g,r,.rs and may therefore he fniiy relied -
= fartsct lie HAa further informed by III.
D-..e'Isi sub contractor o. sAd road, NJ
gsg. thAt be hal bred 800 usv hands Tor BIZ
,grs, aud .biss9sd ~ pot them on mn.
t.i4ly. Hs vas 40 'hSn engaged IN rAhs
rartug tools hs.. ~ tbs Eds u the riteI v
l. ..sd On the rosG.
LIE Ia CrDs~e L,mergt ia enthusiastic