The Weekly Minnesotian

The Hartford Times seems disposed to take the recent decomposition of its party pretty complacently, though inclined to hold on to any small fragment of hope that may present itself. Speaking of present prospects, the Times says:

The Democrats may possible carry four Senators—probably, only three, however, possibly only two." Did the editor ever hear of the blacksmith who undertook to make an axe and burnt down his iron till he concluded to make a hatchet—found he only had iron enough left to make a horse shoe nail, and not succeeding in saving material enough for that, threw what he had left into the water trough—exclaiming, "I don't care there's enough of you for a darned siss!"