The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1864-03-11
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.
From Our Regular COrrespOndeI


MRS. SWISSHEL.M AFTER OUR COR
RESPONDEN7!-C ALDRIC,H 1BOUT
TO CONTEST GOV. DONNELLY'S SEAT
Josh CARRIERS GREET PATENT
MURRAY AND TIE PRESIDENT
MARROW ESCA Pc or THE PRESIDENT
or TIE COMMON COUNCIL TIE
WASHBURN IA JlILY-JUDGE DAYS
SCHOOL-CAPT. FYSK'S LNTERVIEW
WITH THE SIDENT-JUDGEG GOOD
RiCW on the PYRA MIDS, ETC.
WASHINGTON, Feb %, 1864.
To the Editor Of the Pioneer:
am sorry my last letter kicked up such a
Robbery here as it did. The consequences of
speaking the truth are sometimes very un-
pleasant. Mrs. SwIssHELM says she has stood
my abuse long enough, and that patience has
ceased to be virtue. She has been after me for
the past ten days, with a revolver in one hand
and q lecture on "WOman's Rights " in the
other. 1t is her intention to acing me with the
first, and to extcrminate me with the latter.
The law preserve me from the savage little
woman. When hard pressed by her. | have
hitherto escaped by making for contraband
camp. The little women could never get past
Mdt!
"Uncle CYRUS, our eX-member ripped and
swore at terrible rate. and took nineteen con-
secutive drinks of 'opedildoc and pennyroyal
tea" before he could calm himself Sufficiently to
declare that the whole thing was COMPOUNDED
lie, especially that part of it which insinuates
that anybody was going to make anything out
of the Indian traders claims, and that purer.
more benevolent, or more righteous and God
fearing set of men never lived Bishop WHIP-
PIE to the contrary Notwithstanding than
these same Indian traders. And that the idea
that LOUIS Roberts would impose upon the
Government, was q cruel outrage upon the fair
reputation of that illustrious gentleman.
MURRAY mildly declares that,-by sir.
the whole charge was q SANDER; and that,
by - sir, LOUIS ROBERTS didn't get half as
much as he was entitled to; and by sir,
the next time he slept with Old ABE he would
make Old ABE put LOUIS ROBERTS through.
and suppress that - PIONEER ION grounds
of military necessity; or if he didn't Old ABE
might take the consequences.
1t is supposed that MURRAY is about to join
Bishop WILLOUGHBY's EoIian Church. This
fact may account for Old ABE's refusal to sleep
with him again.
By the way, talking of that affair, it is but
fair to state that MURRAY swears in his usually
mild style, that the refusal was altogether on
his part. His explanation is as follows: He
says that upon retiring for the night, the Presi-
dent and himself had been discussing the effect
upon the rebellion of the passage of the Saint
Paul and Lake Superior Land Grant, and in
dulging in "suthin' warm none of your
''opedildoc and pennyroyal tea, for, as MUIR
RAY says, "by- sir, that kind of stuff is
only fit for rctchy old women and broken down
political hacks, spawned, ring-bOned and with
the poll-evil mot the stuff, sir, by Cd, sir,
for men, high minded men. and Second Ward
abolitionists. MURRAY says himself that the
President got very sociable, and just before re-
firing they sung, with their arms around
each others necks, a beautiful concerted piece,
the President singing, days of Absence;
while MURRAY came in heavy with, "We
won't go Home till Morning. MURRAY says
that this condition OF affairs must have affected
the Presidents nerves, for in the middle of the
night, MURRAY awakened to find the President
clutching him by the throat and dealing him
rail-splitting blows between wind and water.
MURRAY soon discovered that the President
had mistaken him for SALMON p CHASE, and
was determined to put an end to his Presiden-
tial aspirations. For moment MURRAY says
he felt that the st. Paul and Superior Land
Grant was in danger. 1t was but for a mo-
ment. Rallying all his gigantic energies, he
gave one prodigious scream for Mrs. LINCOLN,
and instantly the dumpy little woman waddled
into the room, seized FATHER ABRAHAM by
the shirt-tail, boxed his ears, jerked him out
of bed and saved the PROSTATE aud terrified
President Of the Common Council of the City
of st. Paul from an ignominious death
He says it was dreadful trial and that old
ABE tried to make the amende honorable by
sending him the next day copy of his proc
lamation and rendering him Major Generals
commission, with a condition precedent, how
ever, that his pay was not to commence until
the completion of the st. Paul and Lake Su.
perior Railroad.
BILLY WAsHBuRNE has been here for two
weeks past, stopping at the National, and
giving evening receptions. These WAsHBURNEs
are q great family. They have a wonderful
faculty of popping up in the world, and drop
ping down again. BILLY, a couple of years
since, was saving logs at Minneapolis-to-day
he is self-constituted member of the Union
National Committee. Where he will be next
year, the Lord-if he keeps any account of the
WAsHBURNEs-Only knows. Go in, young man,
vital force is better than brains, any time.
We understand that convention of the
WAsHBURNE family is now in session in this
city, in which BILLY represents Minnesota,
the object being t. have clause inserted
in the organic act of the new States hereafter
to be admitted, providing that no man shall
hold any Office therein so long as there Is
WAslIBURNE ready to fill it.
The great unsolved problem now is, now
our Revolutionary fathers got along without
the MASSACHUSETTS?
JOSH CARTER has called to see me, and says
that it is an unfounded SANDER that his presence
in Washington was not generally known, as he
had called in person on every member, Senator
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