St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-02-16

On D.c. l6. 1859, less than three
rs editor aud proprietor. Perhaps there
could be no m ,rs elol lent description
of ths trials and triDulations of the
early journalists than those frequ ent
changes. As rapidly a one man, or one
set men, had exhausted his or their
credit mo one had money in those days.,
he or they gave way t.. Others wnD
basked In thu Elysian field OF a tvarSlty
as long as they could endure the trials.
and then in turn Succumbsd. On the
surface. however, the Pioneer se5mad
to thrive mach better. At all events,
one man remained at tn, helm, and on
the 4th OF October, 1919, when les; than
six moaths old, it was enlarged to Il
sever-column paper. The ISSUE OF Sept.
contained the first report of the first
session of thu territorial legislature
which met in ST. Paul on Sept. 2. Isalc
n. Go0Lhue then became asso ciatsd
with his brother James. but nothing
was said Oh the subject. All in few
months Isaac was starved out or the
concern.
MINES oTA ATTACKED.
AS Indicating how Minnesota was con-
sidered in those days. AMI also how
rapid Eews was transmitted, the Pio-
neer of April %. 1850, contained an ac-
cOu mt of an attack made on this territory
by Congressman Root. of Ohio. on tine
18th of February. and reply made by
Delegate II. IL. Sibley. who, being ua
able to get the floor. responded in a
letter To Washington paper. This is
the word p painting of Mr.. Root:
AT this season of tho year travelling
is done the lin Minnesota) Oh snow
shoes. 1t is lumber country, and
line Country in many respects, AMI IL
will DE peoplea when our Northern
people have nowhere else to co.
Gea. Sibley could not get the fl ,,r to
reply, bat he vindic1ted Mime sofa in
the Washington papers.
a VOICE FROM TIE GRAVE.
Asalditioaale evidences of the editorial
trials OF these early days, L am able TO
quote frAm al original letter written by
Mr.. Co hue to Gen. Ii. H. Sibley, who
was then in Washington as territorial
delegate. 1t is datel st. Paul, Sept. II ).
1850. and.after speaking of til, difficulty
he has in collecting his pay from the
government for the be.garly amount of
lanl Office advertising given him. he
adds:
81 am deeply in debt, wholly by the
expense of printing. Must poor devil
be male a bankrupt by printing here,
while printers at Washington get rich by
printing? Can man keep q tavern on
the top of the Sierra Nevada at % cents
meal? | have explained the fact in
relation to my expenses here as fully as
| could in the letter l before sent for
you to show the department. There is
nothing which | know of to add Winter
is before me-my debts TO pay
paper to buy for winter seven or eight
hun ired miles from here, which 1 must
go myself to purchase, and six hands of
us to be kept here waiting from the
close of navigation to the meeting of
the legislature on the first Of January
next to commence again the public
printing, which is so reluctantly paid
for, in a territory where money now
commands All interests of 4 per cent a
month on nine months loan. and
W here our cheapest article of food is
the potato, seldom worth less than S1.Oo
buShel. and where log shanties such
As these two above me on Bench street.
ana the one under the bluff OF Bench
street are rented at $500 per annum,
where the little house | now live in
rents for more money than it would
aka To buy such on3 in Washin gton.
$3.50 cord is as low as You can buy
wool, and then it costs good deal to
cutanl split it. As for water, ", have
TO buy it by the bIrrel. Except my own
little garden, there is not one the whole
length Of Bench street down to r ooert.
As before told you. so dshearteang
are my prospects that my brother has
gone out of the concern"
GRIT AND PISTOLS.
In the face Of tn.ss dis ,ters, how
ever, Mr.. Goodhue appears to have been
full of grit. for a little more than two
months later, Nov. %, 1859, he an
nounced that he would on the 1st of
May, 1851. issue daily, charging ST per
anDum in aiyance. Discretion, how
ever. was the better part of valor, for |
can iind no record that any attempt was
made to start at that time the daily that
was advertised.
On Jan. %. 1851. the. Pioneer demon
strated the additional perils of early
journalism, aside from hunger and
cold. Mr.. Goodhue Was attacked Oh the
street by Joseph Cooper, brother OF the
associate justice of the territory.
read some of the comments which led to
the attack, and must coucede that they
were reasonably lively. They were OF
| a character evidently Inclined to make
a man mad if they were not true, and
| ii they were true TO make him mad that
they were told to the public. This
| latter was probably tile situation OF
| Cooper, but it left poor Goodhue be-
| tween the devil auI the deep sea.
Both parties produced their pistols.
| Cooper first getting in a stroke with his
right on GooIhuo's forehead Good
| hue's was only Il oue-barrel affair, while
| Cooper had the more modern improve
ment of a Six-Shooter. Fortunately, G..
| Z. V. Lull, who was sheriff of the
| opportune moment, and arrested boil
| parties. and thus had the honor of stop
ping the ARRAY. The editor was lucky
enough to live to fight another day, with
out either party having to run away.
A little later another alteration took
| place, in which Goolhue was again as
saulted by Cooper, assisted by two o,
three roughs, and quite seriously in-
! jnred. receiving severe sta in the alb
domen, but it was to his credit that he
never finched nor showe;i the white
feather, either personally Or in his
paper.
The fact that he had the pluck to pub
llsh the first paper in Minnesota shows
that such things as pistols anu bowie
| knives could have no terrors for him
He had, in eSsaying to become a news
| paper publisher in Minnesota at tina,