The Weekly Minnesotian

GREAT BORE AND CAPITAL SAW.-The Cincinnati Enquirer, one of the acknowledged organs of the dominant party, tells the following good one on the leaders congregated in the General Assembly:

The practice so common this winter at Columbus, of handing around memorials for the signatures of members of the Legislature, asking the Executive at Washington or his Cabinet Heads to confer this office upon this or that aspirant, from the highest position in the gift of the Government to the lowest in the gift of a subordinate, has become such an insufferable bore that it almost deserves to be reprobated as a nuisance!-

Every body signed for every body who asked for names. To refuse was not ventured.

To such an extent did this prevail that some wag of a Senator undertook to rebuke it a few days since, by running a deep-set saw upon the members, and capitally and laughably did he do it. Drawing up a paper, in its heading purporting to be a memorial to President Pierce to confer an office, he was successful in getting signatures of some eight or ten of the "grave and reverend" Senators, when some wide-awake chap looking over the shoulder of the last signer, asked him if he was aware of what he was putting his name to? Stimulated to read the paper over, for the first time, he discovered that he and his brother members had been giving their joint note for one thousand dollars! He didn't quite like the joke but still said, the note was well endorsed!

This being in character with very many memorials, which have been gotten up for uses in Washington, it is quite debatable whether the President wouldn't be on the safest side if he should pay least regard to those which have the greatest array of petitioners!