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The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1860-04-06

A majority of the joint committee of the
Mississippi Legislature, to which was re-
ferred the Governors message relating to
the Planters Bank bonds, reported against
the expediency of "agitating the question
OF the payment of these bonds at this session
of the Legislature" on the ground that it
"must result N division of the people OF
the State, and divert their attention from
much more important questions of State
policy DOW pending and soon to be acted
upon" The minority of the committee dis
sents from the report of the majority, and
maintains that these bonds are clearly due
by the State, have been too long withheld,
and should now be provided for in manner
satisfactory to the creditors. The original
amount of the bonds was 100000. The
interest amounts to upwards of 100000
more.
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1860-04-06
Swamp Lands.

Congress recently passed law, and it
has since been approved by the President,
extending to Minnesota and Oregon, the
provisions of " An act to enable the State
of Arkansas and other States to reclaim the
swamp lands within their limits" By the
provisions of the Arkansas act referred to,
now extended to this State, all the legal
subdivisions in which the greater part ofthe
land is =" wet and unfit for cultivation" is
granted to Minnesota. This would take
every forty" in which over twenty acres
were wet, &C." Those subdivisions, in
which the amount of wet land falls below
this proportion, are excluded from the
grant. The lands are granted for the pur>
pose of aiding the state in draining and re-
claiming the swamp lands therein, and the
acts provide that the proceeds on said
lands, whether from sale or by direct ap-
preparation in kind" shall be applied exclu-
sively, as far as necessary, to the purpose Of
retaining said lands by means of the levees
and drains aforesaid. The selection Of
the lands is to be made by the
Surveyor General or his deputies, or from
the field notes of the government SUR
veyors, taken in the general surveys.
The bill provides also "that the grant here
by made shall not include any lands which
the Government of the United States may
have reserved, sold or disposed of lin pursu-
ance of any law heretofore enacted) prior to
the confirmation of title to be made under
the authority of the said act"
1t further requires that the selection from
lands already surveyed "shall be made with
in two years from the adjournment of the
Legislature of each States at its next session
after the date of this act, and as to all lands
hereafter to be surveyed within two years
from such adjournment at the next session,
after notice by the Secretary of the Interior
to the Governor of the State that the sur
veys have been completed and confirmed"
After the selection has been made, the
Secretary of the Interior is instructed to
transmit list of the same to the Governor,
and at the request of the said Governor
the Secretary shall cause patent to be is
sued to the State therefor and on that
patent, the fee simple of said lands shall vest
in the State.
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1860-04-06
Great Excitement at Mankato.
zee Of the Pioneer and Democrat


Correspondence Of the Pioneer and Democrat
MANKATo, March %, 1860.
There has been an unusual excitement
pervadiDg our town to-day. Itappears that
the Governor of Massachusetts has made a
requisition on Minnesota for the arrest of
SAML M. FOLSOM, of Garden City, charged
with perjury, for which bill of indictment
was lately found by grand jury of Boston.
The crime is alleged to have been commit
ted six years ago. Mr.. FOLSOM is an early
settler, and an honorable and respected cti-
zen OF this county. He has been engaged
in litigation with E. p EVANS, of Garden
City, for several years, in regard to real
estate property, in that town, and valuable
Touring mill. One suit, having an impor-
tant bearing on the case, was tried last
court, and decided 10 FoLsoMs favor.
EVANS is his bitter personal enemy, and for
years has been unceasing in his efforts to
injure Mr.. F. personally and pecuniarily,
and through the efforts of his friends in
Massachusetts has had FOLSOM indicted as
above stated. Gov BANKS, not aware of
these circumstances, appointed EVANS an
officer to make the requisition and convey
FOLSOM to Boston. Gov. RAMSEY, in COM
piance with the requisition, issued a war
rant to the Sheriff for the arrest of FoIsoM.
and commanding his delivery to Evans
FoLsoN was arrested at Garden City yester-
day, and EVANS had made arrangements to
convey him across the country to La Crosse,
and had irons to confne his prisoner,
and provisions to feed him, cooked and
stored away in his trunk. EVANS was per-
suaded to change his route, and bring his
prisoner here to consult his attorneys After
arriving here and the facts becoming known
to our people, a feeling of indignation was
awakened, which resulted in public meet
ing, and an unanimous resolution on the
part OF our citizens, to prevent Mr. EVANS
from taking Mr.. FoLsoM out of town. They
are perfectly willing that Mr.. FoLsoM shall
be delivered to the authorities of Massa.
chusetts, but not through Mr.. EVANS, who,
as it is alleged, has threatened his life. A
petition is now in circulation, and will be
forwarded to the Governor, praying that
the authority of Mr.. EVANS be revoked and
some other and disinterested party APP
pointed.
The people are determined to resist Mr..
EVANS authority at all hazards, and it is to
be hoped that Governor RAMSEY will sustain
them. The charge against Mr.. FoLsoM is
believed to be unfounded, and that his in.
dictment and arrest is merely resort of
Mr.. EVANS to get rid of him. Mr.. FOLSOM
will remain here until the Governor reply
is received. Yours, in haste, jew.
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1860-04-06
New Territories.

We learn from Washington, that the Com
mittee on Territories Of the Senate, will re-
port bills at this session organizing the Ter
ritories of Nevada on the western slope OF
the Rocky Mountains, and Dakota, on the
western border of Minnesota. 1t is also
proposed to wipe Utah from the maps, by or
ganizing a territory in the Pixies Peak
country, and annexing portion of Utah to
it, and giving the remainder to Nevada.
It is said that the line dividing the two
new territories will be about the one hun
dred and eighth parallel, and that all of
Utah east of the line shall be included in the
Pixies Peak Territory, and all west of that
line to the eastern line of California shall be
included in the Territory of Nevada. If
this plan is adopted, Pixies Peak Territory,
it is said, will be enlarged, not only with
portion of Utah, as indicated, but will also
embrace portion of Nebraska, and proba-
bly, that portion of New Mexico which pro-
jects into Kansas at the thirty-seventh de-
gree of latitude, the eastern line of the Ter
ritory being limited by the boundary Of the
proposed new State of Kansas, as laid down
in the Wyandot constitution, notwithstand
ing an effort will be made to destroy the
lines named in that instrument.
There seems to be considerable difficulty
about the selection of name for Pixies
Peak Territory. 1t has been called Jeffer-
son but those in authority assert that there
cannot be States enough to name after all
of the Presidents, that it will not be policy
to go beyond Washington, who stands
"alone in bis glory" Acting upon this de-
cision, the Senate Committee have before
them the following names: Tampa" in
terpreted Bear; Ida hoe" meaning Gem
of the Mountains )" Nemara," ," Colarado,"
"San JUAN" Lula" interpreted Mountain
Fairy q" Weapollah " Arrapahoe," the
name Of the Indian tribe inhabiting the
Pixies Peak region. The House Committee
seem to have hit upon the very appropriate
name of Tahosa," which means Dwellers
on the Mountain Tops. This or Idahoe,"
will probably be adopted.
The Senate has agreed to report bill for
the organization of Arizona, which embraces
about the lines contained in the billreport-
ed in the Senate last Congress. The House
will be opposed to this bill, on the ground
that the Territory is not sufficiently peopled
and developed for separate organization,
and will be in favor of extending the judicial
authority and giving Marshal to that por-
ton of New Mexico known as Arizona.
The bill organizing Dacotah will not be
reported at present, as there prevails
general desire to dispose of the two new
Territories which are to absorb Utah and
the Mormons.
An attempt will be made on the part of
the Democrats to exclude from the bills Or
ganizing the Territories all reference to the
question of slavery but the Republicans
will undoubtedly insist upon inserting a
proviso forbidding slavery to enter or exist
therein. This will bring the whole question
of slavery before Congress.
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1860-04-06
The Charleston Convention.

The following call has been published in
the Washington and New York papers,
signed by Judge SMALLEY, charm an of the
Democratic National Committee:
"WAsHINGroN, March 24th.-The members
of the Democratic National Committee, are re-.
quested to meet in Washington on Thursday,
April S, for consultation on important business
A full attendance is desired"
The New York Democratic Central
Committee, has announced that the best ar
rangement they could make at Charleston
for eighty persons, is five dollars per day, to
commence on the 18th of April, which is one
week before the convention. This is raising
the extortion to nearly ten dollars a day
each.
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1860-04-06
Read out Of the Party.

The Black Republicans of Minnesota are
in trouble over the Speaker of their House,
Mr.. Ooggswell. A personal liberty bill was
introduced, making it penal offence for a
southern citizen to bring a slave into the
state. As Minnesota is favorite resort in
the summer months, some one offered an
amendment to the bill that Southerners be
allowed to visit the state during that time
with their slaves, and the Speaker not only
voted for it, but made speech in its favor
Thereupon ali the Black Republicans set
upon him and read him out of the party,
just as they read Mr.. Monroe and Mr.
Dickey out of the party in this state be-
cause they thought it was not right to i'm
prison southern gentleman ten years in the
penitentiary for bringing his colored SER
want into the state. Black Republicans
must 60 the whole figure or nothing.-De>
troit Free Press.
We have observed similar paragraphs to
the above, in number of our exchanges !;
but to vindicate the truth of history" we
feel bound to state that four-fifths of the
Republican papers of the state have refused
to join in the attacks on Mr.. CoGGswELL,
initiated by Mr.. SEcoMBE and the organ"
and that so completely have the tables been
turned, that the organ" itself has been
repudiated by its party in caucus and in
the Legislature. We would like very much
if Mr.. CoGGswELL could see the error of his
way, but we have no hopes of his CONVEX
sion to Democracy through the reading out
process adopted towards him.
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1860-04-06
Telegraphic Items.

The members of the City Council of
Pittsburgh, appeared before the Supreme
Court of Pennsylvania, at Philadelphia, on
the 26th, to answer peremptory mandamus
commanding them to make provision for the
payment of the interest upon certain Rail-
road bonds issued by the city. 1t was rep
resented, on behalf of one branch, that an
ordinance to levy the tax required had
passed that body; it was rejected, however,
in the Common Council, which body, there.
fore, is in contempt of the Supreme Court.
The answer of the latter branch, refusing to
levy the tax, was filed. but no action taken
by the Court. 1t is probable all the mem
bers will be imprisoned for contempt.
JOHN LArHRoP MOTLEY, historian of the
Dutch Republic, has been elected cores
ponding member of the French Institute, in
place of the late WIN. 81. PRESCOTT.
ADv1cEs from New Granada state that the
Cass-Herran treaty, as amended by the
United States, has been ratified by both
houses of the Granadian Congress.
We have California dates to March 5th.
The news is unimportant. From Oregon
we learn that Lieut.. MULLINS wagon road
expedition was in winter quarters. The
road is completed 800 miles from Fort
Walla Walla, and is expected to be finished
to Fort Benton the coming fall.
RAILROAD building has commenced in
Kansas. The first rail ever laid in the
Territory was put down on the Marysville
and St. Joseph Railroad with great cere.
mony, on the Goth March.
The Union party-the third party-the
Constitutional Union party-held grand
rally at New York, at the Cooper Institute,
on the Goth. The meeting was addressed
by Hon. THos. r. R. NELSON, Hon. Hor.
ACE MAYNARD, of Tennessee, and others.
Great enthusiasm prevailed.
A TERRIBLE accident occurred at Chit.
tenden's shaft, near Hyde Park, Penn, on
the 25th. The pumps broke while the
workmen were being hoisted up. An ex-
plos ion of fire damp following, some fifteen
or twenty of them were killed and many
seriously injured. The engine and boiler
house was blown to pieces.
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1860-04-06
"Almighty Mean Men get Office on,
Here.o

Somehow or other, we cannot tell exactly
how, this significant passage in letter
written by an observing son in the West, to
his father in the east, required to our mind
yesterday. 1t may have been produced by
hearing that GEORGE PLUNKETr, Esquire,
formerly of Delaware, afterwards of st. Paul,
more latterly Of Memphis, Tennessee, and
recently of Arkansas, has been appointed
United States Collector for the port of
Pembina, at a salary of $1,000 per annum,
in place of JAMES M'FErR1DGE, who now
fills the office with ability and integrity. If
Mr.. PLUNKErr was on the slate" to re-
ceive an Office in Minnesota, we have reason
to feel thankful that he has been stationed
at Pembina.
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1860-04-06
PIONEER DEMOCRAT
Not one man in q thousand knows how

Not one man in q thousand knows how
to write letter. Commonly regarded the
easiest, simplest feat in the world, it is by
far the most difficult. Almost any man of
fair reading can pen an essay, or sermon !;
half the fools and two thirds of the foolesses
in the country perpetrate rhymes numer-
GUS and unqualified dolts have made COM
pilations which are called histories but the
odds are thousand to one that the first
reputedly intelligent man you meet is inca
pable of writing letter. The trouble con-
sists in an utter misapprehension of its
character and object. People produce mar
ratives, and disquisitions, and arguments,
enclose them in envelopes, pay the govern
ment its charge for transportation, and leave
the postofice in the foolish belief that they
have been writing and mailing letters
whereas, they have merely "gone through
the motions" The object of letter is to
convey information, and the merit of a letter
is its brevity. We have a specimen before
us, which, in our post-prandial judgment, is
model one in every respect. 1t reads as
follows:
1.-THE OAKS" March 30th, 1860.
Col. E. S. GOODRICH
Compliments of
SAM'L MITCHELL,
Gardener for Judge NELSON.
This letter rested lightly on basket. full
of radishes, crosses, and lettuce. Read in
its relation to these, it is eloquently sug-
gestive in every syllable. 1t comprises
within its few words practical tribute to
the genial climate and fertile soil of Mime.
sota-bears undersigned testimony in favor
of Judge NELSON, as our most success
full hOrticulturist- and establishes Mr..
MITCHELL reputation not only as the most
skillful Of gardeners, but as the most artistic
of letter-writers. And this letter, as we
have endeavored to indicate, is no mean
compliment. The fame of the great WAL
POLE rests more upon his letters than his
craftsmanship.
Letters such as that above given, belong
to the class that don't 60 " under our table, u
but on it, along with the delicacies which
they accompany. Radishes, plump, and
with delicate, open-air havor--cresses and
lettuce, crisp and savory-all on the Both Of
March, in this "hyperborean cline; isn't
that model letter which tells one of these
things, and tells one, too, without words?
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1860-04-06

WHEN you see Democratic paper en-
gagged continually in abusing Senator Doua-
LAS in its editorial column, and boosting up
the policy of President BUCHANAN in an.
other, just turn over to the next page, and
in nine cases out of ten you will find long
government advertisement
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1860-04-06

The late Legislature of Mississippi raised
the taxes to seventy five cents on each negro,
instead of forty, as heretofore; twenty cents
on each 800 worth of land, instead of six
teen cents-thus nearly doubling the tax on
slaves, and increasing that on lands Is per
cent.
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1860-04-06
Public Meeting at Crow Wing.

At meeting held at Crow Wing, on the
10th of March, 1860, on motion made bv
CLEMENT II. BEAULIEU, VIM B. FAIRBANKS
was appointed. Chairman of the meeting, and
CHAs. M. LA Rue Secretary.
The Chairman stated the object of the
meeting.
On motion made by DANIEL BURMAN, FIVE
persons were appointed to draft resolutions,
the following names THOMAS CATHCARr,
BENZ. Brown, JOSEPH FERRow, A Z.
CRossEr and HUGH MAsrERsoN.
Mr.. JOSEPH DUGAL addressed the meeting
in the absence of the Committee on Resolu-
tions, after which Mr.. CArHCARr, Chair
man of the Committee on Resolutions. made
the following report
WHEREAS, The Legislature have adjourned
without adjusting the Railroad difficulties
which was promised to us by the stump
speakers of last fall campaign by the two great
political parties in our State, therefore be it
RESOLVED, That the Governor of this State is
expected to call an extra session of the Legis-
lature to fulfil their pledges made to the nee
ties, and provide for an early completion of our
Railroads.
RESOLVED, That we do not look to the ey.
penses of holding an extra session. providing
that the Legislature will provide means for
building and completing Railroads to intersect
the Wisconsin and Iowa roads, also road to
Lake Superior on some point above ST. Paul.
RESOLVED, That we, the tax-paying people
of this State, do demand an extra session should
be called for the purpose. that the Legislature
may provide means of building and completing
Railroads in a certain time and also make
some provisions for payment of the outstand-
ing Minnesota State Railroad Bonds.
On motion made by DANID McARrnUR,
the report of the committee and the accom-
panying resolutions were adopted.
A motion was then made by BENJAMIN
Brown, that copy of the proceedings of
this meeting be sent to the PIONEER AND
DEMOCRAT to have them published. Carried.
On motion the meeting adjourned.
VIM. B. FAIRBANK~, Chairman.
CHAS. NJ. La RUE, Secretary.
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1860-04-06

The U. S. SENATE CHAMBER TO BE
CHANGED.-Sqpator HALE, at Washington,
is tired of the Senate Hall in its present
shape, and has moved resolution to inquire
into the expediency of extending the half
north to the outer wall of the building, but
either east or west ditto. He objects to the
"exhausted receiver in which the Sena,
tors now sit, and wants old fashioned win.
dows on two sides of the apartment, that
the fresh out door air may come in. 1t an.
pears that his proposition has many friends
in the Senate, and very likely will be
adopted. The same is true of the House
Hall. The members generally dislike it,
and wish it could be improved and amended
by less gaudiness of color, and an extension
to the outer walls of the building.
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1860-04-06

RICHARD TAYLOR, son of President TAY-
IoR, is one of the delegates to the Charleston
convention from Louisiana. A letter writer
says that he is wealthy, looks very much
like his father, and is very strongly opposed
to DOUGLAS.
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1860-04-06
st. Paul and Lake Superior Railroad.

Sts run una Lake superior Railroad
The corporators of this road are actively
engaged in having it Immediately surveyed,
and the report of their engineers will be
placed before capitalists at an early day
TO commend the project for consideration
at present, we append a schedule of the
leading articles of agricultural products i'm
ported from Cleveland, Detroit, and other
northern lake ports for the miners of Lake
Superior, in 1859:
10000 tons merchandise, 10000 bbls. -four,
A, 900 bags corn and meal, SO, 600 bags oats
400 bbls beef, $500 bbls. pork, 345 bbls.
hams, 100000 lbs. butter, GIL kegs of lard,
$4,000 lbs. cheese, l24,000 lbs. candles, 1900
fee, 500 chests tea, 800 bbls. vineger, q, 900
lbs. tobacco, 354 tons powder.
The following, from the miners official
reports, shows the products of the mines in
1859:
1000 tons copper, value $500. So, 500 900
10000 tous iron, value 500. 200, 900
The Ice BoAr.-The N. Y. Ne,os, of the
10th, says that Mr.. WARDS ice boat which
has been constructed in Jersey City to nav
igate the Western rivers over ice, snow and
water during the winter season, in connec-
ton with the Prairie du Chen and St.
Paul and Milwaukee and Mississippi Rail-
road lines has been completed. The Nevs
adds it was to have been shipped west, with
! in week, and in time for trial trip this
season. Scarcely. Mr.. WIZARD can try the
ampbibous qualities of the boat, but will
have to wait few months for ice.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1860-01-06


We did no. fear them onoe--the duh gray morn
No cherries burden on our spirits laid;
The long night watches did not bring us warnings
That we were tenants Of n house decayed;
The early SHOWS like drea ms to us descended;
The frost did fairy work pave and Dough:
Beauty, and power, and wonder have not ended
How IL 1t that we fear the Winters now2
Their house ares fall a. bright ON hearth and
chamber;
Their northern starlight shines Ms coldly clear
The woods till keep thcir holly for December;
The world welcome yet for the new year,
And far away in old remembered places
The snow drop rises and the robin sings;
The sun and moon look out wi th loving faces
Why hare our days forgot such goodly things !.
Why is IL new the north winds ind us shaken
BY tempests fercer than its bitter blast,
Which fair beliefs and friendships, too, have
Away like summer foliage AZ they passed,
And made life leafess In les pleasant valleys,
Waning the light Of promise from day?
Fell mists meet even Ia the inward palace
dimness not like theirs to pass away.
1t was not thus when dreams Of love and iaurels
Gave sunshine to the winters Of our youth,
Before Its hopes had fallen in fortunes Quarrcs,
Or Time had bowed them with its heavy truth
Ere yet the twilight found as strange and lonely,
With shadows coming when tho ares burn low,
To tell of distant graves and losses only
The past that cannot change and win not 90.
Alas dear friends, the winter is within M,
Hard is the ice that grows about the heart
For petty cares and vain regrets have won
From lfe's true heritage and better part.
Seasons and skies rejoice, yea, worship rather;
But nations toll and tremble even rs We,
Hoping for harvests they will never gather
Fearing the Winter which they may not see.