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Saint Paul weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1858-1859, 1859-08-13

Our Democratic contemporaries in Mime
sofa, would fain cheat their readers into be-
lie ring that the horrible measure of barbarism
the revival Of the pirstical Slave Trade-is
not seriously entertained by any considera-
BILE body Of the Southland has not the re-
hottest chance of becoming a principle % of
the National Democratic Party. In reply,
We ask them to explain these facts-that
STEPHENS, YANcEY, RHETr, FooTE, JEFF. DA-
Wis, McRAE, FORSYTH, and almost all the
prominent Southern Democratic politicians,
have taken decided ground Gin favor of the
revival of the African Slave Trade" that the
Democratic State Convention of at least one
State-Mississippi-has pledged itself to the
scheme; and that if the newspaper organs
and leaders of the party may be taken as an
index, the Democracy of the extreme Southern
States are strongly in favor of legalizing that
species of piracy, or of embarking in it in de-
fiance of the law. Senator DOUGLAS, in his
recent letter, virtually acknowledged the pro-
Saint Paul weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1858-1859, 1859-08-13
/" Home from the Wars.o

Our troops returned last evening from their
Encampment, in good health and spirits
The battalion numbered about one hundred
and fifty men, and were conveyed in about
twenty wagons. They proceeded at once to
the Capitol, where they were drawn up in
line, and dismissed by Adj. Gen'l Jones, who
thanked them in the name of the State and
its citizens for their manly and prompt res
ponsc to the cali of the authorities, and their
good behavior during the five days of SER
vice.
The Saltwater Light Guards were then es-
corted to the armory Of the Pioneer Guards
by that Company, where preparations had
been made to entertain them handsomely
They will leave for Saltwater this morning
The troops certainly deserve great credit
for their prompt response to the orders ema-
mating from the Executive Chamber, no mat
ter what we may think of the orders. They
have indicated their claim to the title of
brave and honorable citizen soldiers, one and
all, and will receive the due need of praise
that belongs to men who have done their du-
ty. Many of them did so at sacrifice Of
time and means, but not one complaint did
we hear from any Of them. They have
shown us that we have among US organized
Companies of citizen soldiery who can be de-
pended on in time of emergency, should it
ever come. In camp they conducted them
selves like gentlemen molested no property,
but conformed to all orders strictly.
But the farce is ended. Like everything
that SHELLEY undertakes, the Wright County
Expedition has turned out fzzle-and a
costly one, too. 1t has accomplished moth
ing. Several persons, it is true, have been
arrested, and will probably be brought to tri,
al, when, Of course, they will be acquitted
But all this-nay merc-could have been &C.
compished, every one believes, without send.
ing one bayonet into Wright County.
The Saltwater Guards and their hosts, the
Pioneer Guards, partook Of fine supper a,
the Merchants Hotel last evening. 1t was O
gay time. .r'.sy 81. .. --.
Saint Paul weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1858-1859, 1859-08-13
4" NIerrimac,, a Sorry Jack.

The correspondent, "Merrimac," of the
Pioneer, who is Southerner and lame duck
named J. w. McCLUNG, has coarse article
in that paper Of Sunday morning, in which
he aims to establish that Mr.. DoNNELLY is GER
tainly an Irishman, and he "puts him down.
therefore, as such with the nickname Of
IMAGE" Terrible this!
The same elegant writer defends the Su-
preme Court, and in particular Judge EMMETT,
from the fact of being the bigotted, prejudic-
ed and incompetent partisan Court which they
are generally conceded to be. The vote OF
the latter for the VIGOROUSLY incompetent
HOWARD for Criminal Judge of the City,
when he knew his disgraceful unfitness for
the office, this correspondent Merrimac JUST
fies in an especial manner.
Of course, Merrimac is a Democrat of the
first water-and hence, all that Democracy
NAV do-from the revival of the African
Slave Piracy and the passage Of Territorial
Slave Code, and the burning of a Niger, dowr
to the putting of incompetent men in office
the extreme partisanship Of Supreme Court
and the issue of Democratic Railroad shin
plasters- right and proper measures
which it behooves him as a Southern-born
believer in the divine origin of human slavery
to defend and apologize for. Instead, how
ever, of signing himself Merri-mac, in futur
Mr.. MCCLURE had better style himself Sor
rv-,Jack
Saint Paul weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1858-1859, 1859-08-13
The Opposition i'm the SlayehOldiuS
States.

Before the first of November, If we are not much
mistaken in the indications which present them
selves to US from week to week, the Opposition
will be furnished with convincing proof that it can
not carry a solitary slaveholding State in the
Presidential election of next year Washington
States.
So says the Douglas organ at the Federal
Capital, and it seems quite satisfied at the
prospect of ''united South" Of course the
States does not think there is anything "sec-
tional about this but only hint at the posi-
bility that the North may be "united" too, and
straightway the States becomes alarmed for
the safety of the Union. -.....
The reason why the States thinks that
the "South will be "united a" in the Presi-
dental election of next year, is as follows:
"The citizen must be blind to reason who can
fancy that there is to be any other contest in 1860
than the direct one between straight ONT Seward
ism and patriotic democracy"
In this view Of the case, the States quotes
approbatively what Senator Davis and Con-
gresham Barksdale said in the Mississippi
Democratic State Convention -"these gentle
men," says the States, ''did not express
themselves in whispers as to what they were
prepared to do in the event Of triumph of Black
Repubhcanism in 1860. They gioe utteranes
to the sentiment Of eUery true Southern, ohen
they declared that submission to its rule was
an impossibility. In well-born hearts honor
is dearer than interest, and a glorious death
preferable to an ignoble life" 5.. q.
The Statss is the same paper which recent.
Saint Paul weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1858-1859, 1859-08-13
The military for Wright County.


We witnessed yesterday the departure OF
the troops, in Burbank Co.'S open stages
fully armed and equipped, but in fatigue uni
form. bound for the "seat of war" in wright
county.
The will.makers and photograph'takers.i 1t
is said have had profitable time prior to our
Young troops going off to the perllous wars
with the musquetoes and mobocrats OF the up
per country. They are right enough In obey
ing orders, and no doubt will enjoy their froc;
hut it will cost the State some four or five
thousand dollars; cost which most people
think is unnecessarily incurred-which is
pity, in the present impoverished condition OF
the State Treasury, especially as it is deemed
q wiser course might have been pursued
Mr.. SIBLEY has, however, well-known pen
chant for warlike fame, and military display
and being in possession of magnificent uni
form, (cost $780, it is perhaps pardonable IN
him to wish to bring about an opportunity tor
its display in the tented field.
1t is thought by many, however, if common
sense "Bluff Alck" had occupied, on this oc
casion, the place usurped by His Indian Trad
ing Excellency, visit by him in person tt
Wright county, and plain talk with mo-
bad, though an excited people, would have
been all that was necessary to promptly re
store obedience to the laws, and that, too
without the display of this costly "fuss ant
feathers" Such are our notions-and tina
of many other people.
Saint Paul weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1858-1859, 1859-08-13
Military Rumors and Reports.

A rumor current in the City on Saturday
was, that Mr.. SIBLEY,..apprehensive he would
be unable in person to command the Wright
County "Army of Occupation" sent up as
his substitute the $3.50 uniform" with all
the stripes in due order, and the pants rolled
up to preserve the trowser legs from contain
nation by the rebellious Wright County mud!
This is important, if true.
1t has been queried why, amongst other
military forces, the " War Horse Of the Pral-
ries" has not also been ordered into the field
Charley Morgan thinks it is because, being
harvest time, the War Horse" would prob
ably have answered " Neigh" 1t was best,
therefore, not to risk refusal from so dlstin'
guished military character, as it might ex'
ercise depressing effect on the 'spirits" o.
the army at the outset of the campaign!
The cost of the Wright County war is nov
expected to reach we'll on to 100000 Wha
glorious fun it will be-but then the tax-pay
ers Of the State must pay the fiddler tor thu
| dance!
Saint Paul weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1858-1859, 1859-08-13
The Wright County Imbroglio.

The Pioneer of yesterday, labors through
couple of columns Of abuse to convince Its
readers that what we said in Mondays paper
in regard to the uselessness of the expedition
of two or three hundred men being sent to
Wright County, is SANDER on the State
officers, and untrue. Its correspondent Rus-
tic, in the next column, however, supports all
we say in reference to the uselessness OF the
expedition, in the assertion that the people
there expressed complete confidence in their
ability to bring the accused to trial without
help of several hundred troops" and that
''they would bring the criminals into Court
within 4s hours" This supports all we sald'
that the people were not all lawless or bad,
but few over-excited individuals had brought
them into trouble, and the abuses would, after
sober reflection, and demand on the part Oh
State authorities, be rectiied without any
trouble or rendering extreme measures neces,
Sarv
Saint Paul weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1858-1859, 1859-08-13
What il an ssInsurHectf0Q ~

I. The Proclamation of Mr.. SHELLEY lies
when it says that the whole Of Wright Coun-
ty is in estate of insurrection." This is the
first point that we make in answer to the Pho
nser of yesterday. But a very small portion,
less than a hundred men, are reported to have
disregarded the law in that county-yet, all
of Wright County contains near 1000 voters
and nearly 5000 inhabitants! 1t is only at
the locality of Rockford, twenty miles inland,
that there is any trouble; and Mr.. SHELLEY,
when he penned that SANDER did not knoo
whether the mob of ninety (reported,) who
were disguised as Indians, belonged to Wright
County or to the adjoining county of Henne-
pin!
II. The word ''insurrection," according to
Webster's dictionary, comes from two Latin
words, in and surge, to rise; and means "a
rising against civil or political authority" =
"IasurrectiOn is, however, used with such lat
itude as to comprehend sedition or rebeItaon.'
Thus, Mr.. SlBLEY proclaims that the whole
people of Wright County are in estate Of
instruction that they have risen against
the civil and political authority-that they are
in a state of sediton or rebellion! We say,
this is all a gross .talsehood! That it is an
insult to the People of Wright County! And
we contend that though martial law" in the
technical sense, is not declared, the sending o.
troops and the stigmatizing whole people as
rebels and insurrectionists for the errors
less than tenth of their number, is an at
tempt to substitute the terror of military power
for the civil arm, which was all that the facts
justified the use of in this case. Mr.. Sibley''
course establishes martial law or the law
arms, defacto if not dejurS!
III. The proclamation being falsehood
as to facts-an insult to the peaceable peopl
+ of Wright County, in effect-the expenditur
of $4,000 of the money of the State in
humbug military campaign not demanded, Q
rendered necessary by events, is respons
bity which we fasten upon the Democrat
State Administration, and for which we hol
the Democratic Party responsible; because
is an unwise, if not reckless disregard of tn
impoverished condition of the overburdene
taxpayers of the State, who must foot tn
bills
Saint Paul weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1858-1859, 1859-08-13
The Democracy Have no Principles for
the Public Eye.

NC OClAOCH0Cy now INV AO-
the Public Eye.
For the second time within less than year,
a Democratic Delegate Convention has met
in Ramsey County, and adjourned without
passing single resolution, or utteripg single
word, to show the principles, if it has any,
which animate its organization. Last Fall,
the Democratic Convention which made the
Legislative nominations for Ramsey County
observed careful silence upon the politica
issues of the day. On Saturday last, the
Democratic Convention which appointed the
Delegates to the State Convention, pursued
an equally reserved course of conduct. Not
one word did it utter in favor or in condemna-
ton of any principle Of government Popu-
lar Sovereignty-the course of the National
Administration generally -the Homestead
Law-the Land Sales-the proposed Slave
Code for the Territories and Revival Of the
accursed Slave Trade-the plundering of gov
eminent officials-the course of Massachu-
sets and South Carolina on the Naturaliza-
ton Laws-the worthless Railroad Currency
issued by SIBLEY and DUNBAE-and the gen.
eral extravaganza and imbecility of our Dem
ocratic State Administration-all these polti-
cal points and political issues the Delegate
Convention of reat political Party, Sc
cond time in nine months, totally ignores and
passes by in rigid silence!
Is not this most cowardly policys A
political party, yet with no political principles
| which it dare enunciate!
How marked is the contrast to this sneak
ing course-this {" still hunt and moccasin
policy-with the open, bold, manly, out-spo-
ken and generous confidence in the peoples
judgment and intelligence, displayed by the
Republican County Convention, which met in
the same room only last month.
But we urge our foreign-born citizens not
to forget, when election day arrives, that the
Democratic County Convention of Ramsey
| County deliberately declined censuring the
| Democratic State of South Carolina for her
laws requiring an inhabitant of that State,
who is foreigner, to reside therein sepe,,
gears before being allowed to vote What
is wrong in Massachusetts,, the Democracy
deem right in Democratic South Carolina.
Saint Paul weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1858-1859, 1859-08-13

innate sucha Islander upon body Of American
who will compare, as whole, with
any other in our State, in intelligence, moral
ity, virtue, and as law-abiding citizens.
Yet, the "fuss-and- feathers" head Of this
Democratic State Administration insults these
people as body, by announcing them to be in
a "state of instruction" having "risen"
AGAINST the government with arms in their
hands. And in order to perpetuate this whole
sale insult, he wantonly incurs q daily ex-
nense of thousands of dollars, to be paid by a
tax-ridden people from an already impover-
ished treasury! We are coming to pretty
pass, when an American community, for the
errors of few, ar, to be thus outlawed, and
have dragon sabres and infantry bayonets
flashed in.glttering terror before their peace
full eyes!
We repeat, that to have used "sutficien
means" to have arrested the rioters Of ROCK
ford. was well enough. But amongst tina
"sufficient means" we do not think bayonets
rifles, or sabres, were at all necessary-sti
less placing upon whole community of decen
American citizens, the lying opprobrium tina
thew were all in estate Of Insurrection !"
Saint Paul weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1858-1859, 1859-08-13
The Dakota County Democracy.

The County Convention of the Democracy
at Hastings on Saturday, was rich affair."
Four-fifths of the delegates were Irish. There
was great competition for the posts OF dele
gate to the State Convention. Mr.. SHELLEY was
one of the competitors. The Convention con-
sisted of 81 members. After ba!loting three
times, the Hero of a Uniform at length obtained
Is votes, and with characteristic persplculty
was declared elected, as having received a
majority of the whole convention! The con-
vention must have gone by Milesian arith-
metic. Mr.. SIBLEY is fortunate. A Demo-
cratic Governor (?) Of State, seeks nomi-
nation for Delegate to a convention in his own
county, and on third trial is Judged into an
election by straining of the ordinary rules OF
mathematics
A nice picture our State Government pre-
sents. Two of our Supreme Judges men,
bers of the Democratic Central Committee,
and the State Executive delegate to party
convention in the capitol, Immediately over
the Executive Chamber. There's dignity and
propriety for you
Saint Paul weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1858-1859, 1859-08-13
The Ramsey County Delegates to IN
Democratic Convention.

Inc ha"Sey OOuHty Dc1CSAGCs ~ WIG
Democratic Convention.
The following is the list Of Delegates to the
State Convention, selected by the Democratic
Comfy Convention on Saturday last:
Ross Wilkinson, Charles Schiller, Isaac Van
Etten, John Bell Thomas Grace, VIM. Sprigg
Hall, John B. Brisbin, John H. Grindall, and b.
Mueller.
Besides being Delegation Of most brilliant
talent and high political character, (BRIs. per-
haps excepted,) it is understood to be Anti
Rice and Anti-Becker. That is to say, Mr..
BKckER's friends desired the selection of a
Delegation that would go for him for the Con-
gressianal nomination, which is what he wants,
and for which he thinks there possibility of
an election but the Anti-Rice element are
determined he shall rather be nominated for
Governor, so that his inevitable defeat by
RAMSEY will lay him on the shelf forever
Cunning tactics and it may win! If they
succeed in putting BECKER in the cruel fix of
a Gubernatorial nomination, the door is then
left open the nomination of General SYLvANUs
B. Lowry, of St. Cloud-unless 4. N. FRID-
LEY-(the A. NJ. is generally understood to
mean Master Of Arts'' )-overpowerh him with
the delegation from Manomin and St. Antho-
ny. In the meantime, in all the arrangements,
what is to become of Hoor SHELLEY?
Saint Paul weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1858-1859, 1859-08-13
The Pioneer Caught In Another
FalsehOOd!

In it's extreme anxiety to make out as bad
case as possible against the people of Wright
County in order to justify Mr. SIBLEY's false
hood in declaring them all in estate OF In
surrection," and to excuse his foolish expen-
diture of thousands Of dollars of the Peoples
money in an unnecessary military campaign
in the midst of people nine-tenths of whom
are peaceable and law-abiding-the Pioneer
of yesterday boldly alters the record, as fol-
lows:
"And they did hang him [Jackson] after first
obtaining possession of his person, by procuring
the warrant of magistrate against him on a sham
accusation"
The above is an entire Misrepresentation
The real facts are, that JACKSON was arrest
ed on warrant for robbery, charging him
with having in his possession portion of the
goods of the man he had murdered. On this
warrant, he was taken as far as st. Anthony,
where writ Of habeas corpus was sued out
before Judge ATwATER, and after hearing
he was then and there released He then
came down to St. Paul and was in our Office
and gave his statement of the facts to our re-
porter A subscription was next raised
around town to enable him to leave the State
which he was earnestly urged to do, and not
to return amongst the exasperated people o.
Rockford, as he proposed doing. But dis
regarding all advice or listening to unwist
'counsels, he voluntarily went back to the
iscene of his crime; there INDUCED in foolish
ibravadoes and threats in regard to individuals
of the vicinity, who had been active in his ar
rest for the murder; and finally provoked the
.deplorable catastrophe and violation of law
which ensued.
These are the facts, and we dare the Pho
,1eer to controvert them. What it means by
the course of systematic falsehood in which
latterly it seems so freely to indulge, we can
not comprehend. Its deliberate Justification
of the records Of South Carolina the othe
tiay, followed up by this falsehood about tn
Wright County case, seems to indicate al
utter recklessness of the truth, whenever tn
utterance of a lie is required to serve its pur
Doses
Saint Paul weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1858-1859, 1859-08-13
Incompetent Census superintendent.

Incompetent Census superintendent.
The Washington correspondent of the Phil
adelphia North american is very severe upon
the Administration for re-appointing Jos. G.
G. Kennedy to superintend the publication of
the next census statistics. 1t considers him
incompetent and unworthy, and from the
manner in which the last census were COM
piled, we think he is right. The publication
was delayed four or five years, and when the
report made its appearance twas full of blum
ders, and wholly unreliable. If the progress
of the country during the five years Mr.. Ken
nedy was "Superintending' had not rendered
his statistics quite worthless, the errors would
The census tables ought to be published with
in year, at furthest, after the returns are
made. But as the superintendant's salary
continues only till the work is printed, it is ju
diciously deferred to the very last moment.
Saint Paul weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1858-1859, 1859-08-13
Editorial Correspondence.
Munger Wien Plated Size And Statistics
Generally.
NININGER, Aug. 5.

Miningr- Wien Platted-iSize- And Statistics
Generally.
NIN1NGER, Aug. 5.
This village of Nipinger is doubtless famil-
lar to most three year old readers of Mime
sofa items, as its proprietors, Messrs. John
Munger of st. Paul, and Ignatius Donnelly,
were not of those who hid their light under
bushel, but published to all mankind and the
people in particular, all the beauties and nat
ural advantages Of the place.
1t is on the west bank of the Mississippi,
In Dakota County, twenty-five miles below
St. Paul, by river, and five miles above Has
tings, by river, 1t is on pretty site-yea,
the word pretty may be extended into "beau-
tifup' without doing violence to truth on o
prairie plateau about sixty feet above the wa
ter of the river, with excellent grade to ge
down. There is good landing, and the
country back of it is as beautiful and rich a.
any in the State,
The village was plated in the Fall of 1856
There are now here one hundred and twenty
buildings, a dozen of which may be termed
first class, costing from three thousand to
eight thousand dollars each, two dozen second
class, costing from five hundred to fifteer
J hundred dollars each and the others of cheap
er character.
THERE'S an excellent steam grist mill, owned
by Mr.. Samuel S. Eaton. 1t is forty -eigh
feet by sixty feet, three stories high, of sixty
horse power, and two runs of stones. A
steam saw mill, owned by James r. Case, o
seventy five horse power, and seventy feet BY
seventy feet in size, containing one rotary, on
"mulley," one cut off, one shingle, and on
set of lath saws, and q planning machine
And, also, a steam saw mill, owned by d. W
Truax, of twenty horse power.
There are two hotels, two stores, and sevt
raj artizan shops. But like all the small town
Minnesota it is feeling the pressure of the har
times pretty severely.
Saint Paul weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1858-1859, 1859-08-13
How the Specie Goes Without . Tariff.

How the Specie Goes Without Tariff.
The exports of Specie from New York to
foreign ports for the week ending the .23rd
inst. were $1,000, 22O-making total since
January l, of $4O,s3s,o same time in
1858, $14,736,660; same time in 1857, $685.
677,779 same time in 1856, $ls,475, O62 !;
same time in 1856, SIS, 636,562 same time
il 1854, 1892 62; same time in 1858,
$1,000, S1S same time in 1862, $14,411,-
$40.
The increase for this year is enormous, and
taken in connection with the excessive i'm
ports Of foreign goods, and the comparatively
small shipments of domestic produce, threat
ems disastrous consequences. Under proper
tariff our imports would lessen, our exports
increase and this heavy drain Of specie be
speedily checked.