The Weekly Minnesotian

True as Steel.

We seldom copy, says the Galena Advertiser, a more agreeable paragraph than the following from the Washington editorial correspondence of the New York Tribune, of the 22d ult.:

"The Republicans are all alive with their victory in the House to-day. There has seldom been a more clean and thorough day's work. Every question was put in its order and every vote went just right. There was no man who ought to have been expected to vote on our side who did not; and there was never a mistake made by our friends from first to last."

The same writer remarks in a letter two days later:

It is a fact that every man in Washington, no matter whether for Freedom or Slavery, considers the chances of Kansas coming into the Union as a Free State immeasurably increased by this investigation. Mr. Sherman, who is appointed on the Investigating Committee in place of Mr. Campbell, who declined, is from Ohio, and is pronounced fully competent for the place.— There will be no flinching in this investigation. Crimes, such as have been committed in relation to these Kansas settlers, cannot be covered up for the sake of propagating Slavery much longer. The report of this Committee will spread them before the world in all their shameful hideousness.

The following is the passage in Mr. Damrell's speech, which has excited the ire of Mr. Bennett, of Mississippi.

"But, Mr. Speaker, Massachusetts has been arraigned before this House and the country, as setting at defiance the laws of the General Government; and the gentleman from Mississippi, (Mr. Bennett,) the other day. paid particular attention to her shortcomings in duty to the Union. Let me inform that gentleman, that the State he represents will not be permitted 'to cast the first stone,' without being reminded that Massachusetts has never repudiated her honest debts."