St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-11-30
By t. NJ. NEwsoN.
article XII.
OPENING OF THE YEAR 1852.

subsequently enacted by the legislature, and
endorsed by respectable majority of the
people, to whom 1t was submitted for their
rejection or approval. 1t was, later along,
pronounced unconstitutional, and from that
day to this whisky has been sold openly in this
city and in this state. From the records of
the past it is quite evident that the people
living in Minnesota in 1852, we're most de-
cidedly in favor of the abolition of the liquor
traffic, but Judge Haynes, of the supreme
court, pronounced the law null and void, and
the matter passed into oblivion.
THE THIRD LEGISLATURE.
On January 9TH, the legislature met for
the third time in the old Rice house, brick
building which stood on the corner
of Third and Washington streets,
where the Metropolitan now stands.
Nothing startling transpired at this
session, except the passage of the liquor law,
TO which allusion has already been made.
Gov. Ramsey read his message to both
houses, in the old Baptist church, which has
long since given place to large wholesale
warehouses, and the huge hill and the little
sacred ediice have passed into history, but
the Governor still lives. The first Agricultu-
raj Society of Ramsey County was organized
this year; Daniels new hotel burned; Gene
terry association formed; treaty of Sioux rati-
fed by Congress; Court House completed,
(now demolishedD Joseph R Brown bought
the Pioneer, and
JAMES NJ. GooDHUE DIED.
The death of Mr.. Goodhue, the pioneer
editor of this city and of this state, which
occurred on the 9th of August 1852, created
profound sensation, for Notwithstanding
his impetuous nature, he was a man Of power,
whose influence was always cast in the scale
of right. Joseph r. Brown, who succeeded
him in the Pioneer, thus pays a just and
manly tribute to his memory:
"CoL Goodhue was a man of warm tenn
permanent, which occasionally betrayed him
into an undue severity of comment
upon those who differed with him in opinion
upon political questions, and upon aspirants
for office whom he deemed unworthy of pub
lie confidence. Many of his editorials would
have done no discredit to the New York
Herald in Its most palmy days. They are re-
plete with satiric humor. Indeed, his pow
ers OF sarcasm were limited only by his sense
of propriety, and we can all testify to the eff
fective mode in which they were exercised.
In comparison with the ordinary con trover-
sial articles of the country press, his style
OF writing was as fine gold TO
lead. he will be numbered with the
small band Of sturdy men who labored con-
stantly, and with iron resolution, to establish
the pillars Of society in our Territory upon a
sound moral basis. His press was always
found on the side of law, order, temperance
and virtue, Minnesota may well lament his
death, and inscribe his name on the roll of
her benefactors."
Mr.. Goodhue died at his residence, corner
Of Third and st. Peter streets, just after
terrible spasm, having been sick only short
time. He was buried in among forest Of
trees, off to the right of Lake Como, in ground
which had been selected as burial place
for the dead, but which was finally aban-
doned because good title could not, at that
time, be obtained to the property. Judge
Goodrich, his faithful friend was the last TO
leave the grave, after the funeral, and for
years afterwards made many pilgrimages to
it, until, at last, some vandal hand destroyed
the trees, and then fires obiterated the place
where now repose the bones of the first and
talented editor of the state of Minnesota.
When the writer became assistant editor In
the Pioneer office in 1858, he gathered
up Mr. Goodhue's letters and
documents and passed them into
the hands of his widow, now Mrs. DR.. Mann.
A biographical sketch of Mr.. Goodhue's life,
appears in article No. nine.
ON FOOT TO SUPERIOR.
To get to Superior in 1852, one was obliged
TO 90 to Chicago OF foot it across the marshy
country, occupying near a week in the jour-
ney. We made the trip once on foot, and
then rode over it in the first wagon, land
what tripD then in the first stage; then in
the first railroad cars. At this time there
was no railroad west of Rockville, H., and
we came over in stage from that point to
Galena, and took the old steamer Nominee
for ST. Paul. Now look at the miles and
miles of railroad tracks, not only east but
west of st. Paul, and one can go to Lake
Superior in less than day. Why, even the
Pacific coast is now accessible, all ac-
complished inside of thirty years.
DOG STAGES.
The members of the Territorial Legislature
used to make their journeys from Pembina
to st. Paul on Dog Siedges, in about 25 DAYS.
The Pioneer of 1852, says:
zach had his cariole, drawn by three
fine dogs harnessed tastily, with iingling
bells and driven tandem fashion,
at 2:4O at least, when put to their speed.
Iney usually Travelled from thirty to forty
miles per day, and averaged about thirtv-five
miles. They fed the dogs but once a day, on
the trip, and that at night, a pound of penn
mlcan each. On this they drew a man and
baggage as fast as a good horse would travel.
and, on long journeys they tire horses out. -
VI course, in those early days no horses
could Withstand the trip across the prairies
IN the SHOWS, on the extreme frontier so
dogs took their places, and they became for
midable and valuable property. ST. Paul at
this time had population Of 1 500.
MURDERS.
Elijah s. Terry, brother of John G. Terry.
OF this city, was murdered by the Sisseton
Indians, near Pembina, where he had gone
to teach an Indian mission school. On the
21st of July, Chauncy Godfrey killed his wife
with pistol, when In fit of jealousy. He
escaped from the territory. A Sioux Indian
by the name OF Yu-ha-zee, killed a woman
by the title of Keener, who, with her husband
ana family were emigrating on to the land
then recently purchased of the Indians. Yu-ha-
zee was arrested, indicted by the grand jury,
tried and convicted and sentenced to death.
all inside of week. He was hung in a
little over year afterwards.
A BRUTAL SCENE.
To our personal knowledge. sly or e,obt
murderers had escaped punishment in the
then territory of Minnesota, when this poor.
friendless Indian was immediately seized
tried, convicted and sentenced to death in
hve days, and then treated in brutal manner
up to and including his death. The scene on
st. Anthony Hill where the er-
eeution took place, was sim
ply disgraceful to civilization hectic.