The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1861-04-12


The organization of the City Govern
ment was completed yesterday for the cur
rent municipal year. It is composed as
follows:
Mayor-JoHN s. PRINCE.
Comptroller Won HAMM.
Treasurer. --CHARLEs A. MORGAN.
City Clerk.-L p. CorrER.
Street Commissions. Thurman.
City Attorney.-S. M. FLINT.
City Engineer.-O. A. F. MORRIS.
Wharf Master.-JAMEs HILL.
Market Mdster.--JAcoB HECK.
CITY COUNCIL.
President.-WM. P, MURRAY.
Vice President.--JAMEs E. THOMPSON.
ALDERMEN.
First Wasd-Wm. Branch, R. F. Fitz, and
James E. Thompson.
Second Ward-M. J. O'Connor, w. Il. Grant
aud VIM. P. Murray.
Third Ward-R. G. Wylie, c. NJ. Daley and
Nicholas Gross.
Fourth Ward-Peter Berkey, NJ. M. Corco.
ran and Luther II. Eddy.
The following is the inaugural address of
Mayor Prince delivered to the Council on
the 9th:
To she Honorable the President and Common c0uneileftas
City of st. Paul.
In again assuming the responsibilities of the
chief executive officer of the city, l take this
opportunity of returning my sincere thanks to
the citizens of st. Paul for the honor thus con-
ferred upon me, and which carries with it an
endorsement of my past years administration.
l shall, therefore, continue that course which,
in my judgment, will be for the best interests
of the city.
Our prosperity has never been greater than
during the past year. The number of fine and
costly structures erected last season by our cit
liens, shows the confidence they have in the flu
ture of our young city, and already excava.
lions are to be seen in almost every portion OF
the city, preparatory to the erection OF costly
and permanent improvements. Work, as we
have good reason to believe, will soon be re-
sumed upon several of our projected railroads,
and ere summer has gone we shall hear the
whistle of the locomotive on its way to the
Northwest. We are also encouraged to believe
that the company having in charge the con.
struction of water works for our city, will COM
mence operations during the coming summer,
These things will give new life and energy to
every branch of our trade and industry.
The strict and rigid system of economy insti.
last year, has done much to redeem the credit
of our city at home and abroad, and it must be
continued with strict vigilance until we are en-
tirely relieved from all our financial burthens.
The full and ample report of the City Treasu-
rer, made to the Council few days since, will
furnish you with all information in regard to
the financial affairs of the city, which, l am
happy to state, are in most excellent condi-
ton.
There are a few things to which I wonld call
your attention. It has occurred to me that the
term Of office of City Attorney and City Engi-
neer is altogether too short. In al important
suit against the city the City Attorney has little
more than familiarized himself with its merits,
when his term of Office expires, and the Coun-
Gil finds itself under the necessity of retaining
to the city. Your City Engineer, also, just be-
gins to understand the grades of our streets,
and to know where to find the monuments,
when he is replaced by new appointee, who
has all the work to do over before he can give
you the grade of a street, or the corner of a
lot. l would suggest for your consideration the
propriety of applying to the next Legislature
for the passage of a law extending the term of
these offices to at least three years.
The large amount of property that has been
saved from fire, since the construction of the
city cisterns, will of itself, recommend to you
the propriety of continuing in the enterprise.
would suggest the building of at least six
more cisterns during the present season, locat-
ing them at such points in the city as may be
selected by the Council.
would also recommend that you take mea.
sures to supply the fire department with some
four or five hundred feet more of hose. They
frequently find their services greatly embar-
raised for the want of it, and particularly so
where fire occurs either in the first or fourth
wards. Also the Hook and Ladder Company
should be better supplied with rope and hooks.
With these additions the efficiency of our ex.
cellent fire department would be greatly in.
creased.
Better facilities for giving the alarm when
fires occur, should also receive your attention.
Some arrangements should be made by which
the bells upon the school houses could be used
for that purpose. Many of our citizens do not
seem to understand, and no doubt are in igno-
rance of what is their duty at fires, and what
can be required of them by the proper officers.
For their information, would recommend the
publishing of sections Is, IA and Is of Ordi-
nance No. "a, in all our city papers, and that
hand bills OF the same be posted throughout
the city. In fact, it would be well to have all
the Ordinances of the city re-published in
cheap form for general distribution as there
are but very few copies of them in existence,
and many of our citizens have come among US
since their adoption and publication, and have
no means of ascertaining what they are.
These, Gentlemen of the Council, are the prin-
cipal subjects that suggest themselves to me at
this time as worthy of your consideration.
Other matters will undoubtedly come before
you, and hope they will receive such atten.
ton as their merits require.
I will only add, gentlemen, that it will be my
earnest effort to cooperate with you in all
matters relating to or affecting our city to an
efficient and economical administration of it's
affairs.
The body found near Kaposia on Mon.
day, is supposed to be that of Thomas
Norris, an Englishman, about forty years
of age, five feet eleven inches in height, dark
complexion and black eyes, who left his
home in Scott county, near Belle Plaine,
in October last, to work as a deck hand on
the Mississippi river boats. He intended
to be absent until the close Of navigation
only, but has not been heard of by his family
| since his departure, It was feared that he