Saint Paul weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1858-1859, 1859-02-19
6 Unable to tell the Truth. >,

The Pioneer under the above polite head
ing: which we will.show before we are through
has boomerang back-action force, copies q
portion of our article describing the arrival Of,
and the ridiculous failure at getting up pop
ular reception" for, his Bogus Excellency
Mr.. SIBLEY. 1t characteristics our account as
fine specimen Of wholesale lying" 1tsays
that the only truth in it is the announce
ment that Gov. C) SIBLEY "arrived yester-
day." The following is the Pioneers &C
count:
"The Governor ri arrived in the stage, at half
past ten, unattended by any one and instead of be-
ing landed at the Fuller House, where he was
cheered, and in return treated the crowd to cham
payne. &c. he went quietly to the residence OF his
br0ther.in-law, and remained there until he was
ready to proceed home, which he did in the course
of the afternoon. Can't the Doctor get up another
lie one not so broad, and which will reflect credit
at least upon his ingenuity"
Isn't there somebody who will take in
terest enough in the Pioneer, during the alb
sence of Earl Goodrich, to exercise sufficient
supervisory care over The young men who
do its writing, to prevent their laundering
into so many gross absurdities and predica-
ments as they have lately? In the above
it once more "puts its foot in it very badly.
We can prove by the testimony of hundreds
that there aoas a vigorous effort to get up
reception" Mr.. WoLcorr, of the Fuller
House Livery Stable, will testify that his
eight-horse sleigh was duly engaged for this
purpose Any number will testify that they
were personally solicited and unavailingly
urged to embark on board of it for that pur
pose. Our information is, that Mr.. NEwsoN
of the Times was one of the six or eight
Heavy Dorgs who actually did embark in it:
while hundreds of others refused. The "only
truth " in the Pioneers counter statement is,
that SHELLEY did arrive alone; for the process
sion was SO difficult to get up, meagre as it
was, that the stage came in before they were
able to anticipate it on the road 1t is not
true that when at his brother-in-laws che re-
manned there" anytime; for the Heavy
Dorgs of the eight horse sleigh almost imme-
diately beat up his quarters and he got into
Mayor KrrrsoN's sleigh and went over to the
Fuller House, to meet his weak and hooking
triumph, exactly as we have stated. When he
got out at the hotel, he received those cracked
and limping cheers, just as we described them
before-except that we were misinformed as
to its being WV. c. GRAY, Esq, who proposed
them-the individual who had that honor be-
ing Mr.. REUBEN HAAS, the celebrated "Old
Banks County" of st. Paul politics. After
being thus greeted he went up stairs into the
hotel, and there to the assembled million,
made those clear-headed remarks on the won
derful success, "over the left" he had ex-
perienced in New York in negotiating the
bonds"
Why, we would inform the Pioneer it is the
common laugh of the city how noted lawyer
not belonging to any party, unless it be to
DOUGLAS own individual faction, came up to
SIBLEY through the small crowd in the hotel,
and openly quizzed him respecting his rumor-
ed employment in New York-inquired of him
about the state of the popcorn business p
how NED was getting along with the peanuts
and how he left his friend NoRTH?" To
which questions we must give SIBLEY the Gre
dit of having answered spontaneously, say
ing in reply to the last query, that "as the
weather was cold, he had told NORTH to keep
on sawing!'"
The Pioneer must be ground down in the
deafness Of double-distilled stupidity, if none
of this news has reached the ears of its edi-
tors, long as they are!
The champagne and cake part of the pro-
gramme was also correct; but our informant
erred slightly in locating the treat" That
part of the performance occurred at MIR. SIB-
LEY's own residence at Mendoza, to which
place the H. DIS escorted him, and as some of
them have boosted, the liquor and cake were
so bountifully dispensed that they considered
themselves we'll rewarded for their pains: which
is creditable to H. NJ. HIS hospitality
AS popular demonstration the whole affair
was ridiculous failure-and how great was
the failure, and how ridiculous it was also, the
public at distance can estimate by this UNI
blushing effort of the Pioneer to boldly falsify
out Of it, in declaring that there was nothing
Of the kind, when here in st. Paul it is notori-
Gus to everybody that it all occurred substan-
tally as we have related it!
The Pioneer certainly does need guardian !!
railing to make good its rash position about
the forgery" and the "Sixty" beaten out
completely in the argument about the Univer-
sity Bonds-ithas now again exhibited its pos
teror,al gymnosophism only to receive more
kicks than coppers. Unfortunate Pioueerl
why not Sell them as Auctions
The st. Anthony Ners copies our article
in reference to the negotiation of Bonds.