The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1861-01-25


furnished sketches of the life. character, and
public services of Major JOSEPH R. Brown,
which, aggregated, would form a full and
authentic biography of the man. We have
exhibited him before the public in all his
Protean shapes and chameleon colors; now
footing fife in front of the rank and file of
the regular army on the frontier, and then
blowing his horn in the ear OF the
COMMANDMENT Chief at Washington now
representing this Northwestern region in the
Wisconsin Legislature, and then running q
Legislature out here on his own account /;
now padding birch canoes on the Mississippi,
and then sailing full-rigged schooners on
prairies forty miles from water; now
traversing mountainous regions with oxen
and carts, and then skimming bottomless
marshes with twenty-ton steam wagons ;
now building up towns on the top of airy
bluffs, and then laying out towns on the
beds of muddy rivers now counting Red
Republicans, and then damning the Blacks ;
now munching pemmican with Cree half
breed, and then discussing canvass.backs
with a Cabinet Minister now personating
sweet, romantic womanhood on the stage,
and then playing Big Indian at a dog.
feast /; representing, in turn, all conditions
of life and manners, and engaging in all sorts
of enterprises, regular, irregular, and mixed;
and through all as imperturbable as an oys-
ter, and as mysterious as clam; an abste-
mious roysterer, solemn joker, and a sanity
sinner; in all these aspects we have had
occasion to portray the unsanguinary Major,
and have shown him to be at once the cutest
and the clumsiest, the most modest, auda-
cious, versatile, peculiar, incomprehensible,
funny specimen of genial old rascal, that
wears moccasins in all Minnesota.
We'll, the Major, at last, concluded to
have his dig at us. So, be addressed us an
epistle. 1t has been long while coming,
but it is worth the waiting for. The char
acteristic impudence of the man is shown in
his ordering our paper without enclosing
the subscription price; circumstance
which we shall overlook, so far as sending
this number is concerned, in deferenue to
that Virtue, which should always be the
companion Of Age.
YELLOW MEDICINE, Jan. 4, 1861.
E. S. GooDR1cH, Esq.-Taking it for granted
that the Times is correct in CHASING you with
the Republican party, and the PIONEER as be-
coming the organ of that party in Minnesota
l presume your paper will become readable !;
and want you to set me down for one copy,
to be directed to this place.
took the Minnesot,an short time, under
the impression that could thereby get the
grindings of the organ, but that was failure.
1 then tried the Times, with a similar result.
When the two joined, felt confident would
have the organ then; but "a want of conf
dence" on the part of one of the high con-
tracing parties to that amalgamation, knocked
that arrangement into pi; and I have failed to
get the organ. Now, however, have hope !;
the PIONEER AND DEMo0RAT-the unworthy of.
spring of noble parents-I think is just the
thing. It has been grinding out Douglasism in
such horrid strains for so long time, that it is
in . prime condition to shriek Republicanism
effectually.r pa ..tf.3 ,,.g az ...,t.t. :
Send it along, and let its notes be in harmony
with the disoordant elements it proposes (vids
tie 1yMss) to grind for. 100 fal dH !
. = l.5-o Respectfully,
a....g 81, 479a se, JOSEPH r. BROWN.