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The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1860-08-03

WHAT SENATOR RICE PROPOSES TO DO 81
have secured portion of the Minnesota dele.
cation, in spite of the wishes Of nineteen TWEEN.
tieths of the Democracy Of the State who are
for Douglas and if l must fall, for my adher
ence to the administration and opposition to
Douglas, will drag down with me the Demo
cratic party Of the State. "-Senator Rtce at
Washington.
We find the above item going the rounds
of the papers, and copy it merely for the
purpose of asking "Did Senator Rice ever
use the language quoted therein" -Chatfeld
Democrat.
Senator RICE used the language above
quoted, or language equivalent to it in
meaning, in Washington City, short time
before the Democratic Convention met at
Charleston. 1t was addressed to promi.
nent politician of a neighboring State.
We would ask the Chatfeld Democrat
with whom we are glad to unite in the sup
port of sound principles and regular nomi-
nations--if Senator Rice is not no,U engaged
an carrying out his threat? The Senator
"spits upon" the platform adopted in three
successive State Conventions of the Democ.
racy of Minnesota, and upon which be was
elected to the United States Senate he
also repudiates the National Democratic
platform laid down at Charleston, and en-
dorses and upholds the Slave Code platform
of YANcEY, RHETr, SLIDELL & Co. In the
matter of nominations, the Senator is equal.
" open to the charge of treachery. He
supports the boiling Breckenridge ticket,
and is doing all in his power, by drawing
votes from DOUGLAS and JOHNSON, to throw
the electoral vote of Minnesota for ABE
LINCOLN.
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1860-08-03

HERscHEL V. JoHNsoN.-The Baltimore
Patriot, an opposition journal, refers to Mr..
johnson, the Democratic candidate for Vice
President, in the following terms ave
know the gentleman personally, and we are
free to say that, though not his political
friend, he has our most cordial sympathies
in the work of redeeming the South from
the tyranny of that intolerable public opin-
ion which few Hotspurs have managed to
impose upon as noble people as the sun
ever shone upon. And there is no man in
the whole South, politics apart, whom we
would sooner see, not only Vice President,
but President. He is one of our soundest
and most reliable statesmen"
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1860-08-03

The export of wheat and flour, as we'll as
of butter and cheese from New York to
England is quite large, but the supply is
ample and prices do not advance. Last
week there were exported 2l8 bushels of
wheat, $4,000 barrels of -four, 43, 900 bush
els of wheat to Liverpool; 900 barrels of
-four, $4,000 bushels of wheat to London !;
1890 bushels of wheat to Gloucester ;
IL 1000 barrels of -four, 10000 bushels of
wheat to Bristol 4,400 bushels of wheat
$500 barrels of -four to Glasgow; $4,000
bushels of wheat to Cork.
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1860-08-03

Gov. RAMSEY has at last had his ire
aroused, and has launched forth procla-
nation, Offering reward of $4,000 for
the apprehension and conviction of the per-
son or persons who abducted one HENRY
SPARKS, the servant of Mrs. PRINCE. The
circumstances of this case are so familiar to
our readers, as to require no explanation.
In so far as the Governor is animated by
a desire to vindicate the laws of the State,
we wish him success. But this move is
simply an attempt to continue the manufac-
ture of political capital, initiated. by the
Black Republicans, when they induced, by
false representations, the negro in question
to abandon his mistress. The proclamation
was agreed upon at Black Republican
caucus, held in St. Paul, on Friday.
A few weeks since, our columns contained
an account of the cowardly assassination of
citizen of Minnesota, in Brown county,
on our western frontier. No attempt has
been made by Gov. RAMSEY to bring the
murderers to justice. No reward has been
offered to stimulate the vigilance of the po-
lice. The assassins are at large, ready for
the commission of fresh crimes aud in fact,
encouraged thereto by the culpable negli-
gence of the Executive. The murdered
man, to be sure, was only white man.
there was not drop of negro blood in his
veins His wife is white woman, and bis
children are so unfortunate as to be of the
same obnoxious complexion. There is no
money in the Treasury to punish the scoun-
drels who made the wife widow, and the
children orphans. Alas, no! Executive
liberality and Executive vigilance is for the
sole benefit of the negro. No political
capital can be made out of the white mans
bones. 1t is only to be found in the curly
head and black skin of the runaway negro.
Huzza, then, for negro superiority! Strike!
STEAL MURDER! and if you would
elude the officers of justice, and escape
Executive proclamations, look to it, that
your victim is white man. Anglo-Saxon
blood is at discount.
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1860-08-03

OLD IRoNs1DEs.-The frigate Constitution
is now about to make her bow to the public.
Orders have been received at Portsmouth,
N. H., where she has been lying in ordinary,
to fit her out Immediately for sea. She is
to be armed with powerful battery, and to
proceed at once to Annapolis, there to take
on board the cadets from the Naval Acade.
my. Thence she is to proceed to some port
in the English channel, whence her cruise
will be extended to most of the interesting
points on the Atlantic and along the shores
of the Mediterranean.
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1860-08-03

GAR1BALD1 is to be made the recipient OF
a pleasing compliment. Dates from Turin
of July tell US that lady, coming direct
from Paris, has already left the place for
Genoa; and thence for Sicily, taking with
her present to Garibaldi from a French
armorer. The gift isa coat of mail, dagger
proof and bullet-proof. Its workmanship is
perfect, and it is valued at upwards OF i've
thousand francs. 1t may be worn under the
uniform like shirt, for it is extremely fiex-
ible, light and portable.
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1860-08-03

The Pioneer glories over the fact that the
Know Nothing Council of the State of New
York, has resolved to support short.legged
Stephen.-Mankato Independent.
Of course the PIONEER does: s'There
is more joy in Heaven over the return of one
sinner that repents, than over ninety-nine
just persons who need no repentance" The
Know Nothing Council of New York, in
supporting for President, STEPHEN A. DoUG-
LAT, give their suffrage to the first Ameri-
can Statesman who denounced the secret
order of Know Nothipgs. In speech made
on the 4th of July, 1854, in Independence
Square, Philadelphia, Mr.. DOUGLAS raised
his warning voice against this secret order.
At that time, or few months later, two
thirds of the Republicans in the United
States, including Senator WILKINSON, Rep
resentative WINDOW, Attorney General
Cole, and Secretary BAKER, were members
of the oath bound order.
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1860-08-03
Indian Depredations.

The following letter from the Acting
Commissioner of Indian Affairs, to G. G.
ANDREWS, ESQ.,, of st. Cloud, conveys the
gratifying intelligence that the officers of
the army at Forts Abercrombie, Ridgley,
and Ripley, have been instructed to prevent
in future the passage OF war parties of
Chippewas and Sioux through the SETTLE
ments
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
OFFICE INDIAN AFFAIRS,
WASHINGTON, July l8, 1860.
S1R-Your letter of the 10Th ultimo, the re-
ceipt of which is hereby acknowledged, enclos-
ing the affidavits of Samuel Holes and Oliver
Taylor, relative to q number of depredations
alleged to have been committed by Sioux In
dams, reporting other outrages, and express
ing the hope that some preventive measures
would be adopted, was referred by me, on the
18th inst, with other letters on the same sub
ject to the Secretary of the Interior for his in
formation, and with the recommendation that
the President of the United States be request
ed to exercise in behalf of the settlers in Min.
nesota the power conferred upon him in that
part of the nineteenth section of the act to reg
ulate trade and intercourse with the Indian
tribes, &C., approved June &c. 1884, which
authorizes him " to direct the military force of
the United States to be employed in the ap.
prehension of such Indians, and also in pre-.
venting or terminating hostilites between any
of the Indian tribes" and have now been
officially informed that the Secretary of War
has been requested to instruct the officers in
command at Forts Abercrombie, Ripley and
Ridgley to prevent in future the passage of
armed parties of Indians through the settle
ments. Very Respectfully,
Your Obedient Servant,
CHARLES. E. MIX,
Acting Commissioner.
C. G. ANDREWS, Esq, St. Cloud, MINI.
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1860-08-03

JOE Brown, Sioux Agent 1888 ,000), in
his letter to the Henderson Democrat, favors
Breckenridge organization. He says cit
is of little consequence who calls the con-
vention, provided the call apportions the
delegates and fixes the place of meeting"
We think so, too, JOSEPH. It's of very little
consequence. Yellow Medicine would be a
good place, or Washington City, when an
Indian treaty is under negotiation. A treaty
is to be fixed up next month with the Chip
pewas, at Red Lake. Call your convention
for Red Lake, JOSEPH, by all means.
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1860-08-03

Major JOE Brown, Sioux Agent, is out
for BRECKENRIDGE: JOSEPH, have you got
that 500, 900 steal out of the Sioux Indians
yet, with the connivance of the Federal
Administration /; and if so, have you paid
honest i" GEORGE BECKER his twenty per
cent. as per power of attorney executed last
winter? Incorruptible JOSEPH! Sanity
GEORGE
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1860-08-03
Division OF tho Patent
Office

Congress having appropriated $6OOOeto
procure seeds to be distributed as heretofore
under the direction of the Commissioner
Patents, Hon. 4. G. CLEMSON, superinten-
dent of the agricultural division, has chosen
to 60 to Europe and make purchases. 1t is
his purpose to buy large amounts of Medi-
terranean wheat, Italian barley, rye, &c.
The Cork oak acorn, the Persian walnut,
madden, &C., will also form portion of the
importations. Some of these interesting
articles will not, however, be ready for
another year, and few varieties of difficult
termination will be sown in the propagating
house attached to the agricultural division,
and be distributed later in the form of
young plants. By this plan it is calculated
that large saving to the country will be
effected.
Few persons possess the means necessary
to insure the termination of various i'm
portant seeds, and many have not even a
knowledge how to prepare the soil and
plants for some of even our commonest seeds,
so as to insure good product. On these
accounts the Office is justified in taking
every measure in its power to meet the
complaints which frequently arise from
unskilfulness or inadequacy of means of
recipients of its bounty, and so give to
our people in more secure form many
valuable products, which ought to be more
generally known and cultivated.
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1860-08-03

Gov. RAMsEY's Infamous attempt to make
political capital out of runaway niger,
has excited feeling of contempt for the
Governor, among all classes of citizens. He
can spare hundreds out of the State Trea-
sury for such purpose, but not penny to
bring to justice the assassins of white citi-
zens. Shame on an Executive officer, who
permits q set of Abolitionists to drive him
into declaration of negro superiority!
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1860-08-03

A LABoR1NG MAN, who has q small sum
in State warrants, earned by honest indus
try, and wants his money, is solicitous to
know whether he has not prior claim on
the few hundreds Gov. RAMSEY proposes to
expend in making political capital out of a
runaway slave. Certainly not! White
labor and white blood are at discount,
just now. You will be paid, Mr.. Stone
Mason, after the settlement with Sambo.
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1860-08-03

DEATH OF JUDGE HAL1BURToN-Judg
Halliburton, of "Nova Scotia" we'll known
to the literary world by his authorship of
Sam Slick, very popular work, died in
Halifax on the 10th inst.
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1860-08-03

Our of the As Democratic papers in Mis-
souri,, 38 support Douglas and johnson, and
2 are undecided. The rest support Lane
and Breckenridge.
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1860-08-03

"LET us run separate ticket, from Con-
gressmen to Constables," says JOE BROWN.
For the last Office especially, Old $4,000
go per cent. off. Set thief to catch
a thief"
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1860-08-03

The LALIYER CAsE.-It will be seen. bv
a reference to our Supreme Court report,
that Lawrence Laliyer, convicted of murder
ing his wife, has been granted new trial.
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1860-08-03
A Five or Four Years. Course at
West Point.

NCIIHB
c. G. ANDREWS, Esq, St. Cloud, MINI.
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1860-12-12
"
THE LATEST NEWS.

Our latest news fron Washington, Is 10
the effect that everything Indicates a mp,
ture in the affairs of our country. E3er
effort is being made by Northern Union
men to bring about satisfactory under.
standing with their Southern friend.
They are laboring day and night in th,ir
work Of Peace. Prominent among then
we find Senator Bigler, of our State Pugh
Of Ohio Pearce Of Maryland; Brghlanl
Fitch of Indiana; all Of whom are in "a
vor of general convention OF al the
States, for the purpose of putting. an end
to the slavery question. The Southcta
members and Senatois favor an exclusive
Southern Contention only, in. which they
will attempt 10 set forth their grievances
and the principles upon which they in
tend to act in the future.
Secretary Cobb has written letter TO
the people Of Georgia. in which he ayow
the most ultra sentiments, and scouts tho
idea that anything definite can be expec
ted from the North. If this is true, be
wilLcertainly resign his seat in the Cobi'
net N
The proposition Of Senator Powell, d
Kent ucky, TO raise committed in The
Senate similar to the one appointed by The
House, meets with no 'dvor from Southcn
Senators, The great effort now seems 10
be TO get the South united upon secession,
which is likely to be done; and it the
harmonic upon thispoint, secession is in
eYitable. - III
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1860-12-12

eral governments altogether inadequate
10 protect the life and property OF the
people, who would proceed to resume the
powers delegated to them committees
of safety and vigilance would be estab-
lished military dic.ators would arise, and
the free States be separated into half d
dozen petty soversignties.
The South would suffer in q less degree,
as the people in ;hat section arc nnited
upon the principal point in The contro-
yorsy. There is a difference of opinion as
to the question OF secession; but, once
outside of the Union, the South would be
even more firmly united than were the
old Thirteen after the Declaration oi
Independence Compared TO ours their
task is an easy one.
Men and brethren, ponder well,uron
these things. We live in times when nc
steps should be taken without the mos'
serious, almost religious consideration
I ". f. Herald.
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1860-12-12
They Begin to ReCant.

The following, from the New York
World, is much TO The rolnt, and shows a
tendency on the part OF that journal to-
wards right aud justice. 1t is wonderful
how forcibly truths that were just as t,Re
and plain before The election should not
have been recognised by the World and
all the other anti-slOvery papers, until af-
ter the election. Speaking ofthe Person
al Liberty bills, the World says:
"Thc Northern States whcll have ress>
cd these bills have clearly put themselves
in the wrong. They are ret in u situa-
ton to complain of anything that South,
ern States may DO in the same nullitying
| line. They have no more right to nu!lify
one clause Of the Constitution, than South
ECarolinaEhas to nullify every clause. Fdlan
IN uno, .tdlsuS in omuiJuS As Mr. Webster
ssid:-"A compact that is broken on one
side is broken on all sides" The States
in fault cannot too soon abandon their
! false position. 'Phere shoald be no man
ner Of pride at all in The matter, except
the pride Of right-dolng. Firmness is n
good thing. provided be fraaess IN Hs r;qist
otherwise il 10 that despicoble thing, oh.
stinancy. There may ZEE those who mink
it discrediiablc to yield, when the South
is in threatening attitude. But no true
patriot hcstates to repair wrong, however
tie claim may be made upon him. The
conduct of Others cannot affect his own
duty to himself-tbe duty of doing
the thing which is right. The very
first concern of the North should be to
prove to the world that it recognises, and
intends to abide by, every requirement Of
the Constitution. That once done, then
and not till then, will our section be in a
position TO deal consistently and Loyalty
with unconstitutional action in any othe.
section"
How wonderfully sound, conservative
aid patriotic the Black Republicans are
all at once becoming. They "out HgRoD
HERoD." They have caught up our Dem
ocratic phrases and doctrines, and roll
them out with most astonishing Auency-
just as if they had all their lives been ac-
customed TO il. How the devils eat their
words Surely these cannot be the same
people who so lately talked fire and brim-
stone, and defied men and demons How.
ever, SO they do right, that is all we ask.
But what they do ought to be done with
a good grace, and not in mean, pitiful
sEeaking manner. Let them say in a
manly way, we lave done wrong, we arc
sorry for it, and intend now to do right
Pamsylcaniap.
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1860-12-12
Ho-o.r-a.h for Lincoln.

We are indeed in the midst of Lineolr
times. Secession, suspensions, banks
bursting, thousands of mechanics turnet
out of employment, the lumbermen cut
ting short their jobs, the Union aroused
from one end to the other, minute mer
arming and the elements of civil war all
in motion-lIoorah for Lincoln.
What If credit is ruined, and every
branch OF business checked, all owing tC
the election of sectional President, and
by an exclusively sectional party. Presi,
dent who breaches the "IrepressibC
Conflict, aud his hosts shout Amen
Where are the Wide Awakes? Bring
them out, and let us have general iubi-
lee. What If Banks do suspend, manu-.
facturies cease to operate, merchants fail
the price of stocks and grain 90 down,
and every branch Of trade completely rev.
olutioniaed, it Is all a Joke; then, uurrah
for Lincoln.
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1860-12-12
The Rer uhlic.

\. must be distressing 10 every patriotic
heart, TO observe the temper ana spirit OF
number of Northern newspapers towards
the South. Instead of seeking TO calm
the tumult, and restore peace and good
feeling, they taunt and ridicule their
neghbors in the South, and assist in
preoiph0ting the coming catastrophe.
"U-g.h, we thought she was gone"
Wouldn't that be horrible ? y Journal.
History relates the fact that Nero fid,
died while Rome was on fire; and it is
strange, but nevertheless true, we have
number of little Neros even in this
happy country of ours.
The fact cannot be disguised, that this
class of community in the North, like
their fellow laborers in the South, are
working to accomplish the same object
the dissolution of this CoufederacY. II is
denounced in both sections as an Internal
league, and some 60 so far as TO say that
the CoEst tuition is q covenant with death
and an agreement with hell. These two
parties are as hostile to each other as they
are to the Union of these States, and arc
as distant in their viows as the East is
from the West, and are laboring both day
and night 10 accomplish Tie same object
the destruction of the American Union
In calculating the probabilities or inl-
probabilities of a rupture of our Govern
ment, we cannot shut our eyes to the
fact, that two powerful parties, hatin e
each other with malicious hatred, have.
like Plate and Herod, joined hands in O
common lot 10 murder and destroy the
Union Of these States.
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1860-12-12
Philadelphia Markets.

PHILApELAnrA, Monday, Dec. 10.
The Flour market is unusually dull to. day, an
the only sales to the trade not exceeding %
thousand barrels superfno 81 475@5, cxtrasjl
"a 90 fancy and family So 1906.
Rye Flour and Corn Meal, but little doing, %
ly TO the bakers the former SO 62 the lalleii
S3@3 25.
Wheat is heavy to-day; 5000 bushels at 81 !
al p Pennsylvania Red, and 81 81 for prini
Southern, and 81 ESQ l 81 fer good and pdu'
White.
Corn-SOOo bushels old yellow prime at 6ii ani
50 cents; some new at 5S cents.
oats-There was sold 5000 bushels Delawar,s d
S34o, and 3ic. for Pennsylvania.
Bark--Small sales at S26 por ton, but little u
market
Seed-ssles Of Cloverseed were made OF fOn
1924 and SIS, but dull.
Groceries-they are dull. Nothing doing .
Sugar 500 bags Rio Coffee sold at auction d
l Il and l35c per N.
Provisions-Notbing doing for the prcscri'
sales only to the trade. .....'.g j.
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1860-12-12
Will it be Done.

In about one month from this date, the
Goyernois of the following States will be
called upon TO transmit their annual mes
sRges to their respective Legislatures -
Pennsylvania, Now York, New Jersey,
and Ohio.
We hope to be able 10 state to our read
ers in time, the fact, that they will act in
concert by throwing oil upon the now
tempest tossed sea of politics. We have
no doubt that Governor Packer, OF our
State, will, in his forthcoming message,
strongly urge the repeal of every obnox-
ious enactment upon our statute books.
The same can be expected from Gov. Oh
den, of New Jersey; from the Governors
of New York and Ohio we expect but lit,
tie as they are both Helperites, and have
so far shown more respect for party than
patriotism.
Gov. Morgan, of New York, subscri-
bed 500 to assist in circulating the hell
ish sentiments contained in the Helper
book--acquiesced in calling his Southern
neighbors barSarians, assassins, and
h;ghwaymen. Being well aware of his
abolition pnocliyities, we still have a hope
that the commercial interests of the city
Of New York, which are now well nigh
prostraled by the acts of Abolitionsm,
will compel him to throw his weight into
the scale on the side of justice and hu>
mainly. IF the usual abolition ideas are
rehashed by our Northern Governors this
winter, we can expect nothing more than
q revolution, of which no one can at this
time, fathom the result. If it comes, we
can say we have done our duty to avert
such calamity, and defy roproach from
any source.
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1860-12-12
By Districts

TO understand the basis upon which
this tablets made ont, we will stat that
in every district in which a democratic
member Of Congress was elected, an anti
Lincoln Presidential eloctor would also
have been chosen had the vote been Civ
en- by districts. For'leyample, Lincoln
gets the whole thirty-iiye votes in New
York, whereas eleven. district elected
democrats to Congress, and he would
therefore have got only twenty four votes
instead of tlir.y-fve; and so it was in
Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana and the 9th
er States quoted above.