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The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1860-10-05
vogue here, though long ago exploded in
the leading nation.

vogue here, though long ago exploded in
the leading nation.
The constructive genius of this people,
stimulated by sound legislation, teaches US
lessons at every turn. Look at their hotels
the wonder of the world ours are only
the terror. Look at their cities, reticulat-
ed with telegraphic wires, so that at the
first alarm of fire an engine is .rung for :
here it is run for, and that is why it often
finds the house on the ground floor, and
drenches the smoking ruins, which hiss it
for not managing better. 60 through the
docks at Liverpool and point out the big
gest and smartest ships, and ask a sailor
from what port they came. 1t is always
" Yankee, sir, Yankee. Yankee" We
had been sailing yachts many years more
than they had when they sent over the
America and beat our feet and observe,
the victory was achieved by mechanical
construction, not by an extra cloud of Can
vass.
The other day an American hydrauist
treated with Russia for wet goods bought
her ships under water at SebastopoI.
While he was getting ready his machinery
to raise them, and tow them away at his
TAIL he prepared his market. His adver-
tisement was to this effect " Any second.
rate power that wishes to subugate a third
rate country can have tidy little fleet for
the purpose, by treating with me, Jonathan
-, in Sebastopol." One can guage the
inteIlects of nations as we'll as of men, and
there is not another nation under the canopy
of heaven capable of that advertisement,
and also of acting in the spirit OF it.
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the Legislature together, to unite in action
with the other Southern States. 1t is
gravely debated by leading Republicans
here whether, in view of the disunion feel
ing at the South, the military preparations
that are being made in Alabama, Mississip-
pi, South Carolina and other States, prepa-
rations for calling the Legislatures of the
Northern States should not be made.
The fears of Lincoln's election is based
upon the theory that the Democratic party
in the North is as badly split up as it in the
South. These impressions have been made
upon the Southern mind by the false repre-
sensations of the Northern office-holders and
their press, that are continually deceiving
the Administration as regards the strength
of Breckenridge in the North.
Senator Hunter, who is naturally timid,
is using his best efforts to bring about re.
Cancellation between the Democracy of Vir-
ginia. He sees the approaching storm
that threatens darkness TO the political sky,
and render the pending events of the next
three months as the most important and
vital in their consequences that the country
ever passed through.
The most important movement of the
whole campaign will take place as soon as
the RESULT of the October elections shall be
known, provided the elections on that day
60 for the Democracy. Look out for a
startling denouement. CLEVELAND.
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The Prizes Of Virtue.

The French Academy, as it is well known
to our readers, distributes every year certain
prizes for what is called virtue. They are
twenty-four in number, and vary in amount
from 500 to 5000 francs. It is quite
feather in the cap of the women, this year,
that out of the twenty-four, seventeen have
been given to females. The chief prize,
however, was awarded to man, Jean Marc
Bost, Protestant pastor of La Force, near
Bergerac. The acts of virtue for which he
was compensated consist in the establish
ment of what is denominated the Evangelical
Family.
1t seems that without aid or patronage,
by his own personal exertions, beginning by
receiving into his house one or two Profess
tant orphan girls, he has been able to in
crease his establishment to the extent of
admitting eighty-seven of these destitute
children, on whom he bestows food, cloth.
ing, shelter and education. Mr.. Bost has
also become the discoverer of method of
cure for idiots, by admitting these poor
disinherited children of humanity to place
amongst their fellow-creatures. He has
discovered in music means of communica-
ton between the dark and hidden world of
the idiots brain and the enlightened intelli-
gence of his companions. In two years he
succeeds in bringing out all the germs OF
reason which lie hidden and undeveloped in
the sleeping brain OF the sufferer.
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down-only three voting in its favor all
the rest of the Senate saying that there is
no occasion yet for laws, but we must re>
serve the right, the case may arise in re-
spect to some territory. What territory {?
where is it q? Not soul can tell and yet
upon this contingency, that we may have a
territory into which some man may possibly
want to carry slaves, there arises great
dispute. AS remote as that-and we are
quarrelling about it to-day thing that
may not happen in twenty years-a thing
which 1 don't believe can happen in the
present state of the Union.
That is the great subject upon which the
Democratic party is broken up, and we are
now here, trying to save the country by in
augurating a party upon the Constitution
and the Union.
1t will be seen that Mr.. Crittenden occu-
pies practically the same position on the
slavery question, with that assumed by the
Democratic party. Whatever may be the
power of Congress under the constitution,
or the power Of the people OF the territories
under the same instrument, Mr.. Crittenden
thinks it wise that the slavery agitation
should be transferred from Congress to the
Territories. This is the doctrine of the
Bell and Everett party, as defined by all the
prominent speakers of the South. On this
question of slavery, the Douglas and Bell
men stand upon common ground.
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Struggle with a RattIesnake.

A young man named Frederick Smith,
employed as teamster on the farm of Mr..
Chas. Stumcke, near the town of Bourbon,
in Crawford county, made most miracu-
lous escape few days since from horrible
death. He was engaged in putting wood
upon his wagon, when rattlesnake of the
largest dimensions sprang from its hiding
place under the pile of wood, and proceeded
to coil its Shiny body about his arm. The
young man grew deadly sick at the touch
and sight, and would probably have given
away under the shock but for the words of
encouragement that came just at the criti-
cal moment from a companion near by.
Smith became instantly inspired with new
hopes. Following the suggestion of his
companion, be seized the head of the Kissing
reptile in manner that prevented it from
using its faDgs, and held it of firmly from
the arm. The description given US Of the
appearance of the young man, at this time,
is most thrilling. The deathly paleness at
first observed in bis features had disappear
ed, to give place to flushed cheeks ard wild
determined eyes. His hold upon the mon.
ster was that of giant. Finally, the srake,
feeling that it was about getting the worst
of the battle, increased the pressure of its
folds upon the arm. This change of tao.
tics caused great pain, though it did not
induce young Smith to slacken his hold
upon the head. 1t was the struggle for
life, and to have loosened the grasp upon
the snakes head would have unquestiona5ly
resulted in death.
The young man, therefore, held on firmly,
until his companion came to the rescue and
aided in unfoldingathe snake from the arm.
Alter being released, reaction followed the
intense excitement under which Smith had
labored, causing him to fall with exhaustion.
The reptile was soon dispatched, when it was
found that be measured four feet and three
inches 10 length, and carried thirty-three
rattles, ~
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New York Gossip.

There is bit of gossip afoat to-day,
touching tremendous excitement in fash
ionable circles (every excitement there, you
know, is tremendous one) in consequence
of the reported elopement, yesterday, from
the dOmicil of her "stern PARENT" in
Blocker street, of a certain Miss B.,
with rich old fellow of some sixty-fve
years. The certain Miss B-is young,
handsome, and all that sort of thing. When
it is added that she is the sister OF the lady
who figured, not long since, in the famous
(Oviedo) Diamond Wedding, people out of
town, as well as in it, will have no difficulty
in guessing who she is. The Lothario is
we'll known in Wall street, and it is scarce
ly necessary to say his amatory performance
is exciting quite as much remark among the
bulls and bears there as " Harlem" or
Erie" or " Reading"
p. S.-Since this paragraph was writ en-
the story is that the fugitives have returned,
and that marriage took place this morn
ing, which will be duly published to.mor-
row. "All's well that ends WE'LL
On dit, that the Benicia Boy, with bis
trainer, Jack Mcdonald, who have recently
been giving the Brooklyn people taste of
their quality, called upon Rev. Henry Ward
Beecher few evenings since, to pay their
respects. Mr.. Beecher received the emf.
nent bruisers with his usual politeness. He
said be perfectly agreed with them as to
the necessity OF improving the American
physique by the development of the muscle,
but be had serious objections to the ring
. 4 i
of prize fighting either, but had no objec-
lions to fair and square round or two on
Christian principles, with a view to pro-
mote the digestive faculties. Heenan then
handed the pastor of Plymouth Church
pair of boxing gloves, and they do say the
use be made OF them fully persuaded his
visitors that Mr.. Beecher, with a little
practice, would be as excellent-a muscleman
as be is a preacher.-N. Y. Correspondence
Buffalo Commercial.
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An English Tribute TO American
Inventors.

In his recent singular but suggestive
work, "The Eighth Commandment" Charles
Reade, the we'll known English novelist,
thus justly compliments the inventive talent
of the American people:
American genius is at this moment at the
head of the nations for mechanical invention.
I learn from Coryton. the last English
writer on patents, that she took out her first
patent in 1890, in 1900 took out 80 patents;
in 1910, 222; in 1880, 55l; in 1910, 542; in
l849, 1,O76. At this last date she lead
Great Britain, and has maintained the lead
ever since.
Europe teens with the products Of her
mechanical genius. Her inventors draw
large percentages from England, and no
Englishman grudges them, for they leave
us still their debtor. The pre-eminence this
nation has attained in mechanical invention
rests on the rock of statistics, and my little
paltry experience can neither contradict nor
confirm statistics; still cannot help remark
ing that I am sitting in London at this mo-
ment in shirt which I happen to know was
sewed by Mr.. Singers patent; and that
three English newspapers on the table, two
of which, the Times and Loyd's, were printed
by Mr.. Hoes patent; the other was proba-
bly, worked off either by the Adams press
invented, think, at Boston, q. S.-or else
by the Columbian press, which, is still in
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1860-10-05
MIR. Yancey at Washington.

Mr.. Yancey arrived in Washington, Fri
day, and made speech before the Breckin-
ridge Club. The New York World has a
graphic report of the speech, from which we
make the following extracts:
He said that the South was for union.
and determined to maintain it, by minority
power, as the constitutional safeguard.
WHAT HE PROCESSES TO BELIEVE
He believed the North was now arming,
at midnight, millions of Wide Awakes to
march on the South they would find the
South wide awake. She is determined to
maintain her rights in the Union.
WHAT SHE WILL DO IF SHE CANNOT DO THAT.
If she cannot maintain her rights in the
Union she will entrench herself on the
mountains near Augusta, and make that
city the capital of Southern Confederacy.
WILL NOT ANSWER CIVIL QUESTION.
In reply to question by one of the
crowd, as to what he would do if Lincoln
was elected, he said that if the desolate
homes, the murder, rapine, and arson in the
South, and the strychnine distributed there
by the North, did not speak for itself, the
question need not be answered.
To which the crowd shouted-"Too many
'ifs.'"
He hoped New York would rally and
not let the North be the means of dissolv-
ing the Union. New York and Boston
were too much dependent on southern COM
merce to let the Union slide.
Mr.. Yancey had better return home and
look after the disunionists of the South
The present prospect is that they cannot
carry State, except South Carolina, for
their champion.
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Opening of SEES ion of Congress by
Washington.

1t was, think, in 1894 or '95, that as a
boy was among the spectators congregated
at that corner and parts close by, to witness
a great public spectacle. Washington was
to open the session Of Congress by going in
person, as was his custom, to deliver a
speech to both Houses assembled in the
chamber of the House of Representatives.
The crowd was immense, considering the
size of our city, for although then the
largest in the country, its population was
barely more than forty-6ve thousand. 1t
filled the whole area in Chestnut street, be-
fore the State House, extending along the
line of Chestnut street, and spread north
and south some distance along Sixth street.
A way kept open for carriages in the middle
of the street, was the only place not closely
packed with people. l had stand on the
steps of one of the houses in Chestnut street,
which, raising me above the mass of human
heads, enabled me to see to advantage. Al
ter waiting long hours, as it seemed to a
boys Impotence, the carriage of the Presi-
dent slowly drove up, drawn by four beauti-
full horses. 1t was white with medallion
ornaments on the panels, and the livery of
the servants, as well as l remember, white
turned up with red at any rate glowing
livery; the entire display in equipages at
that era, in our country generally, and in
Philadelphia, in particular, while the seat
of government, being more rich and varied
than now, though fewer in number.
Washington got out of bis carriage, and,
slowly crossing the pavement, assembled the
steps of the edifce, upon the upper one of
which be paused, and, turning half around,
looked in the direction of carriage which
had followed in the lead of his own. Thus
he stood for a minute, distinctly seen by
everybody. He stood in all his civic digni-
ty. His costume was full suit of black
velvet his hair, in itself blanched by time,
powdered to snow whiteness, a dress sword
at his side, and bis hat held in his hand.
Thus be stood in silence and what mo-
ments these were Throughout the dense
crowd, profound stiffness reigned. Not a
word was heard. 1t was feeling beyond
that which vents itself in shouts. Every
heart was full. In vain would any tongue
have spoken. All were at gaze in mute
admiration. Every eye was riveted on bis
majestic form. 1t might have seemed as if
he stood in that position to crafty the as
sembled thousands with full view of the
fathers of their country. Not so. He had
paused for his secretary, then l believe, Mr.:
cambridge or Colonel Lear, who got out OF
the other carriage-a chariot-decorated
like his own. His secretary, ascending the
steps, handed him paper probably a copy
of the speech be was to deliver-when both
entered the building. Then it was, and not
until then, that the crowd set up huzzas,
loud, long, and enthusiastic.-Rushs Occa.
s;Onnl Products.
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Lord ByrOn's Heir.

The London correspondent of the Man.
chester Guardian writes as follows respect.
ing Lord Byron's heir:
I happened in recent letter to mention
the curious fact that the son and heir Of
Lord Lovelace, now by Lady Byron's death
Baron Wentworth, and heir to the very
large landed property beqdeathed by the
poets widow, is now working at Woolwich
Arsenal, as smith, at weekly wages. My
friend of the Independent Beige, in an almost
textual translation of the whole letter which
contained this paragraph, hightens the in
terest of this statement about the grandson
of Lord Byron, by adding: His pay is
thirty shillings per week. I have seen him
at work in the shop with as much pluck
and industry as any of his mates. Between
ourselves, there is at the bottom-or rather
at the top-of this eccentric proceeding, a
young and pretty girl of the lower orders,
whom his lordship is unwilling to abandon,
even to live in the highest and most envied
spheres of society"
l need hardly say that this is pure inven
ton on the part Of my indefatigable trans
lator. There is no "young and pretty CIR
of the lower orders" in the affair at ali. TIL
young nobleman in question ran away from
school at an early age, was missing for sew
eral years, in spite Of large rewards offered
for the discovery of him, bound himself ap-
prentice to coaster, underwent much hard
ship in this miserable position of cabin boy
aboard a north country collier, was even at
one time reduced to the work house at a lit.
tie town in Yorkshire and finally, when
discovered by his relations, preferred to win
his bread by the work of his hands as q
boltmaker at Woolwich Arsenal, where he
is still, or was very recently, working. He
often, while in this employment, walked up
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Schemes to Dissolve the Union.
ndence Cincinnati Enquirer.

Correspondence Cincinnati Enquirer.
WASHINGTON, Sept. %.
The leading Disunionists all over the
South are vigorously engaged in perfecting
their plans to rule or ruin the Government
l have recently learned from one of the best
informed gentlemen of the South, that the
President fully sympathizes with the Dis
unionists, and countenances the contempla-
ted attempt to precipitate the cotton States
into revolution in case they fail to elect
Breckenridge and Lane. This plan will be
matured and carried before the fourth oil
March.
Alabama last winter by a unanimous vote
OF her Legislature, made it the duty Of the
Governor, upon the receipt of the intelli-
gence of the election of Republican Pres
ident, to issue his proclamation, directing
the election of delegates to convention,
which shall take immediate steps to with
draw Alabama from the Union before the
fourth of March. The duty of Governor
Moore in the premises is imperative, no dis
erection being allowed him. Two hundred
thousand dollars was appropriated by the
same Legislature to arm the militia. Sim
liar resolutions have also passed the Legis-
lature of South Carolina and Mississippi,
and the latter also appropriated two hun.
dred thousand dollars for arms. The con-
servative men, who have heretofore been a
check upon the Disunionists of South Car
DINA, have yielded to the prevailing pres
sure, and are now the most jealous for dis
union in case Lincoln should be elected.
You will thus see that these movements
are being made in earnest. The people OF
the Northwest have no idea OF the extent
of this disunion feeling.
The Southern League has an active Or
ganization in every Southern State. Even
Kentucky has branches located in her
midst. Mark my word, Mr.. Breckenridge
will never say he is not for disunion in case
Lincoln is elected. Let not the people of
the North think for one moment that the
whole of the disunion coterie, from Yancey
down, are not anxious for the election of
Lincoln, having given up entirely all hope
of electing Breckenridge and Lane, however
much they may howl against him. All
their future hopes now hang on bis election.
If either Douglas or Bell should be elected
they are crushed out forever. 4s
Be prepared to see the greatest military
preparations in the South that have occur
red there since the revolution. Virginia,
even, will not be laggard. Measures are
now on foot to induce Gov. Letcher to call
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Ms. MoFFAT, of CastIeton, once noto-
rions as Rosina Townsend, the keeper of
the house of ill-fame in Thomas street, New
York, where Helen Jewett was murdered,
nearly a quarter of century since, died at
Castleton, below Albany, on Saturday last.
She had resided in that village for nearly
twenty years, and was a very exemplary
member of the Methodist Church. She
was woman of active benev6lence, and
was foremost in every movement to anchor
ate the condition Of the poor.
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to Lord Byron's seat, near Ham, and re-
NAMED over Sunday, his day of leisure, as a
guest, but always was careful to return to
Woolwich in time to begin his work on
Monday morning. I may add that though
I have not seen him at work in the Arsenal,
a near relative of mine has seen him on the
trudge from Woolwich to Hama fine,
stout, handsome young man-in blue pea
jacket, long boots, and a wide-awake, with
short pipe stuck through the band.
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be dimmed and widowed by his treacbery
to the party that has stood around him and
done him honor. Applause.J He and his
Administration are awfully mistaken if they
suppose that the people of the South do not
understand the thing. They do understand it,
and it shall be my purpose, without fear,
favor, affection, reward, or hope there to
expose it wherever my poor voice shall be
heard. Applause. I intend, if by his
persistent course he shall succeed in electing
Lincoln to the Presidency of the United
States, that the public Indignation, North
and South, shall be, hurled in one volcanic
stream upon his devoted head. Applause.
Have you ever before witnessed such a
spectacle. As general proposition, l be-
lieve that to the victors belong the spoils-
that when a new Administration comes
into power it has the right to select its poll
tical friends to carry out its policy; but l
repudiate and deny the doctrine that any
one of the party that has elevated the Pres
ident into the White House shall be decapi-
tated merely because he refuses to yield to
Executive dictation on matters of principle.
Tremendous applause.
If MIR. Buchanan and his Cabinet were
to assure their officeholders, in the different
States of the Union, that if they choose to
vote for Stephen A. Douglas they may do
so without losing their positions, there
would not be left more than corporals
guard to support Breckenridge and Lane.
[Applause. l call upon you, men of Penn
sylvania, as intend to call upon freemen
everywhere, to rise up in the majesty of
your strength, and say now, once and forev-
er, that you will never tolerate the doctrine
that a President shall dictate his successor.
Here the audience rose upon their feet and
shook the building with their shouts of ap-
plause.