Red Wing sentinel., 1860-06-20

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RED WING, MIMI. JUNE %, 1860.
W. w. PHELPS, Editor.
THE HENDERSON DEMOCRAT AND
ITS EDITORS.
Grrpy, srGvER, LyNp AND YOUNG.
Mr.. Joseph Il. Brown, one Of tho most
worthy and enterprising citizens Of our
young State some five years ago laid cut up
on the Banks Of the Minnesota river town
which he called Hcnderson-a name that
it is known by even unto this day. In or.
der to advance the interests and promote
the prosperity ofhis embryo city Mr.. Brown
like sensible nan established . pape.
there, which, for while, he edited himself
in his usual superior style Of doing things
Mr.. Brown being called upon to serve his
country in the capacity Of Indian agent--a
coll which he obeyed with all the prompt.
ness ofa genuine patriot-he had to engage
person to conduct his paper he was un-
fortunate in the selection Of an editor, and
in less than six months he had to change
him, process which he has had to repea,
twice each year since then, each succeeding
editor being infinitely worse than his predc
csssor, until, when at last he engaged the
present incumbent q friend ofours remarked
that "he verilv believed that the devil had
grudge against Joe Brown and was paying
him off in editors - and although we can
not for tho life Of US conceive why there
should be any i'll feeling between the Devil
and Buchanan man-an Indian agent at
that--we must say that his extraordinary
poor luck in selecting editors can be account
cd for on no other suppositicn.
The first of those editors of which we
have any distinct recollection was Guppy,
&C. c. Guppy Shaksperian Guppy--who
though he pretended to be down on the
genuine niggers, was very desirous that he
should be considered good imitation one
tie had an idea that he was great actor and
that in the role Of Othello he could not be
excelled and We have heard that his i'm.
personifcation Of the green eyed monster, !"
WAS sublime, especially when he was As
drunk as the maternal relative o: violinist,s
pups. He played once in St. Paul, and to
show their appreciation thereof the "Sover-
e'sns." passed bill confering upon him the
""mo Of "Othello;' but his great triumph
in the Thespian line was one night in Hen.
derson, wien. although so drunk that he
could neither hear nor see, ho still kept on
spouting, and the boys concluding that he
could not play tho part unless he appeared
IN costume, divested him of his apparel
blacked him all over and tied him to the
bed post with string, and invited up all
the citizens Of Henderson who had any de.
sire TO See the green eyed monster in all his
original deformity and we understand that
oil who witnessed the scene, were unani-
mous'y Of tho opinion that if old Shak-
spssre himself had risen from the grave, he
would have went back perfectly satisfied
with the manner in which his conceptions
were rendered to the admiring populace Of
that place. Guppy's virtues, if he had any
were never discovered. His chief failiogs
were proneness to rot- gut, theatricals and
1Ji"g-in tho latter especially ks was unri.
E ~ahed-and the stories which he used to
toll Of his connections with important per.
sonages and events, will exist in the minds
OF the old settlers Of this State for all time
to come. He never can be forgotten. His
memory is embalmed in winding sheet Of
bis folly and mendacity.
The next io this noble succession was a
red-headed. red. faced, rsd.mouthed individ.
ua' who rejoicod in the cognomsn Of Ste,er.
tie was continually troubled with the idea
that he had hand in making everybody.
and that he was consequently entitled to
the homage from them which tho creator
receives from the creature and unless such
homage was readily accorded, Why,
Kcddcr yet that hair would grow,
Ana redder still that face wsuid glow,
NMa every part from top to toe,
would reddcn with rapidi,y.
Till at last. finding that he could not get
red enough to scare anybody, he thought he
would try another game, and so he turned
black Republican.
A'ecr Stnver came j. W. Lind, who ~as
no Improvement upon his predecessors, and
who last fall also turned Republican, with
agrcat flourish Of trumpots, declaring that
no was going to reveal ever SO many frauds
co"cocscd by tho Democracy; but for some
reason or other, unknown, he never redeem.
ell his promise. r.y.
Last-and least is tho present incumbent.
u. II. Young, to whose merits We shall
endeavor TO do justice not that We mean
to attack him. "but just to prick him lit-
tie and lot tho wind out Of him :" and we
would merely premise our remarks by sta.
ting that he possesses all Of the bad and
none Of tue good qualities Of those who
travelled in the path Of iniquity before him
that he improves upon the men,l,citv and
folly Of TIE first tha esotism Of tn. sec.
ond and the treaclery OF the ,h;ri. That