The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1863-12-18
The Wfnona Republican VS.. Saint
Paul Press.

The WinOna Republican of Tuesday
reprints from the Press the card of Mr..
NORTON, and adds the following remarks
In reply to this card, the Press. whose editor
is thus nailed to the pillory of public opinion
as "a willful deliberate and malicious liar"
deyOteS hall column, more or less i'm which
there are several nOnsensical things said cor.
corning what La Place thought with reference
to the true vOlupte"-and vague illusions to
the metaphysical disputations of Emanuel
kant-but not Il sing lie syllable to support the
unfounded charges which that false and malig-
nant journal preferred against Mr.. Norton. and
which, according to all the rules of logic and
of common sense it is bound to prove beyond
a question, or else stand convicted before the
world in the unenviable character which the
foregoing card shows it to possess. An ieno-
rant fool is Il being who may be tolerated: but
our true pedantic fOOl-one who is governed
by malice rather than honor or generosity. and
prides himself on his snlattering of book
learning to compensate for his lack of sense
and manhood-caps the climax OF all disgust
ing specimens of unsecmly selt:conceit, and is
pronounced despicable wherever he obtrudes
either ms opinions or presence.
The following brief comment of the St. Paul
Pioneer upon the reply of the Press to Mr. Nor.
tons card Is All appropriate appendix to this
whole discussion, and with it we renauish the
subject, probably forever, satisfied that in de-
Tending fellow citizen (whose wrong-doings,
whatever they may have been. we do neither
sanction nor palliate) from unjust aspersions,
cast upon him for the most selfish purposes,
we have at least exposed the folly and the base
ness OF one who has permitted himself to be-
come the mOuth-piece of clique OF secret de
famers, and thus renders himself unworthy the
position he holds. The Pioneer says:
. The Press reiterates the charge previously
made, but fails to adduce the slightest evidence
to subsantiate it. In the minds of those ac-
qualnted with the Press and with MIR. Norton
no issue of veracity will hereafter be entertain
ed for a moment. The letter of Mr. Norton
settles the question at once.
A Charitable Bequest.-A New Hospi-
tai to be Founded.
From the New York Evening Post.
Mr.. James H. Roosevelt, whose death
was announced in the Eveninq Post of
Tuesday last, has, we understand, left an
estate of nearly a million of dollars: the
whole of which, subject to a temporary
charge of about fifteen thousand dollars
per annum, which will terminate with the
death OF two persons now living, is to be
devoted to the erection and endowment of
hospital in our city. The residuary es-
tate OF Mr.. Roosevelt, including the prop
erty set aside during these two lives, is
divided by his will as follows:
TO The several and successive Presidents er-
0b.c'O Tor the time being of the respective man.
aging Boards of those five certain incorpora-
lions in the City of New York, known as THE
New York Hospital" The College of Phy-
slclans and Surgeons in the City of New York.
The New York Eye Infirmary,' 1.-The Dental
Dispehsary," and 1.-THE New York Institution
for the Blind" and to his friends the Hon.
James j. Roosevelt, Edwin Clark, ESQ. John
W. Knox, Esq, and Adrian II. Muller, ESQ.
all of this city, for the establishment in the
city OF New York of an hospital for the recep.
ton and relief of sick and diseased persons. and
for its permanent endowment"
Death OF Brigadier General Posev.
From the Richmond Examiner, Nov. a.
We grieve to have to annOunne this mornino
the loss of another star from that bright galaxy
OF Generals, made immortal by the MANY plO.
rious conflicts for the redemption of VirSinia's
SOIL
Brigadier General Posey, of Mississinn; and
commander of Poseys brigade. attached TO
General Lees army, died at Charlottesville On
Sunday, from wound received at Gettvsbnrr
His wound was esteemed slight at first and
since its reception he had been under the care
OF several surgeons, among them DR. Davis
who occupies the chair of surgery at the Mill
tary Institute. An unexpected turn in the con.
dition of his wound produced the fatal result
when m the Confectionery will so much deplore.
Inc remains were inferred at Charlottesville
on Sunday, with military honors.