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The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1861-04-12
The Military Power of Spain.

The recent movement of Spain in Ameri-
can waters have rendered her military
strength question of interest and impor-
lance. Most of US will be surprised to learn
how large force she can muster. In 1860
her navy consisted of forty.nine ships-of-
war, twenty nine steamers for war purposes,
and ffty.nine other war vessels-making a
total of one hundred and thirty seven
Besides this she has many smaller vessels
for coast service, and had last year on the
stocks three ships of-the-line of eighty guns
and five steam frigates.
The extent of the Spanish regular army
organization is indicated by the fact that it
contains ten Captain Generals, sixty-six
Lieutenant Generals, one hundred and forty
eight Major Generals, and three hundred
and four Brigadier Generals. In Cuba,
Spain has eight regiments of veterans"
one regiment of artillery, brigade OF five
batteries, one company of workmen, two
regiments Of cavalry, and one battalion of
engineers, besides large torce of militia
distributed at the principal ports and towns.
In Porto Rico, there are one regiment of
infantry, one brigade of artillery, and one
section of cavalry, besides large force of
militia
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1861-04-12
Army Departments.

There are at present six geographical
army departments, as follows: 1. The
Department of the East, with its headquar
tiers at Troy, New York, which embraces
all the country lying east of the Mississippi
river, and it now contains near 10000 men,
stationed at various forts and barracks, and
at the city of Washington. 2. The DE.
partment of the West, embracing the
country west of the Mississippi river and
east of the Rocky Mountains, with the ex.
ception of such portions of it as are en-
braced in the Departments of Texas and
New Mexico. Its headquarters are at st.
Louis, Missouri, and it now contains about
1000 men. 8. The Department of Texas,
which embraces the State of Texas. 1t
contained about $500 men, who are now
being withdrawn in consequence of the sur
render of General Twiggs. About 1000
of them will reinforce the forts in Florida,
and the remainder will be at the disposal oil
the War Department for other points. 4.
The Department of New Mexico, which in,
cludes that territory, exclusive of Fort
Mouave. Its headquarters are at Santa
Fe, and it has about 1890 men. 5. The
Department of the Pacific, which includes
nearly all the country west of the Rocky
Mountains. Its headquarters are at San
Francisco, and it contains about 1900
men. 6. The Department of Utah, en-
bracing all of that territory east of the one
hundred and seventeenth degree of west lon
gitude. 1t contains about 1000 men.
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1861-04-12

GENERAL JACKSON ON COERCION
VOICE OF PATRIOT General jackson, in
his farewell address to the American people
in March, 1927, thus alluded to coercion.
He said:
If such struggle is ever begun, and the cit
liens of one section of the country are arrayed
in arms against those of another in doubtful
conflict, let the battle result as it may, there
will be an end of the Union, and with it an end
to the hopes of freemen. The victory of the
victors would not secure to them the blessings
of liberty. 1t would avenge their wrongs, but
they would themselves share in the common
ruin.
These words of the venerable patriot
ought to be inscribed in letters of gold, and
everywhere distributed. A civil war is the
end of the Union. Let then no Republican,
after this, presume to quote Andrew jack
son in favor of coercion.
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1861-04-12

TIE st. Peter Tribune says the Repub-
licans of Mankato are so much chagrined
at the recent appointments, that they have
sent on large petition asking the appoint
ment Of Winona man for postmaster Of
that town. They should have sent to ST.
Anthony, which is one ahead of Winona
now.
The officers of the town of Kasota are
@. T. Brown, j. L. Pettis, and Mamie Gro
yer, Supervisors; s. G.. Butman, Treasurer
e. r. Davis, Constable.
The town officers of st. Peter areJ. z
Darlington, M. B. Stone, H. g. Dewitt
Supervisors; W. G.. Hayden, Town Clerk
T. G.. Scott, Treasurer W. L. Couplin,
Assessor.
The Lake City Journal states positively
that Mr.. William Pfeander, presidential
elector of New Ulm, has been appointed
Receiver of the st. Peter Land Office.
The Hastings Independent says the Con
gressional delegation have recommended
William Skinner as postmaster of that place.
The same paper put the receipts of wheat
at Hastings at 100000 bushels of the crop
Of 1860.
The Faribault Republican says the wheat
in Rice county last season averaged over
twenty bushels per acre, and that one
half of the crop is still in the hands of the
farmers. The mills of w. 81. Dixie & Co.
are turning out one hundred barrels of flour
daily for shipment down the river.
OVER two hundred and fifty deer were
killed last winter on tract of land eight or
ten miles square near Anoka.
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1861-04-12
The Forts, the Revenue, and the Re.
cogntti0n OF the Southern COnfeder-

The Press desires our views on certain
questions of state policy, arising out of the
Southern revolution. Had that journal
answered the same questions, and consistent
ly maintained its views, instead of simply
endorsing the Administration policy, what
ever it may be, in aduance, it might posi-
bly, claim the courtesy Of reply to its in
terrogatories and had Mr.. LINCOLN at
tempted to carry out any line of policy, it
would, before this, have learned our views
upon it. Whenever the President has
evinced desire to preserve peace, and avoid
bloodshed, and settle our national difficult
ties upon basis mutually satisfactory to
the moderate and conservative sentiment of
the North and South, we have uniformly
and earnestly commended him but when
it has appeared, as it does now, that the
ultraists control the councils of the nation,
and that programme has been determined
upon which will plunge the country into
civil war, to vindicate "the Constitution, as
interpreted by the Chicago Platform" we
have no terms in which to express our abb
horrence Of such fanatical folly. We ap-
preciate the fact that Republican Office
holders and Office seekers-the fanatics and
abolitionists-a atxions to precipitate
the country into war to force the border
Slave States to withdraw, and thus forever
prevent reconstruction of the Union but
such is not our policy. We believe in Peace,
Cancellation and Compromise.
And, thus promising, we quote the
Press interrogatOries-
l. As to the surrender of the federal proper
ty in the seeding States to the revolutionary
authorities.
2. AS to the collection of the revenue in the
seeding States.
8. As to the recognition of the Southern
Confederacy,
All-all of these-we claim, are preferable
to civil war, on the grounds both of expe-
diency and humanity. The North cannot
conquer united South, and the North can
never be united in an attempt to conquer
the South. The Republicans in Congress
rejected all propositions looking to peace
full settlement, and if they are Inundated
into recognition of the Southern Oonfed.
eracy, they can lay the blame at their own
door. The adoption of the CR1rTENDEN,
RICE, or DOUGLAS compromises, would have
preserved the Union, but they were scorn
fully repudiated, by the men who now ask
us TO engage in war of conquest or exter.
mination, against our Southern brethren.
1t cannot be done. You have not the
power, and never will have it. The million
and half of conservative men at the North
will never permit it; and we firmly believe,
if the attempt is made, which God forbid,
the struggle will not be confined to South
ern soil. If this be treason, make the
most of it."
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1861-04-12
GA Diplomatic Beauty"

The Buffalo Cou, Ter seems to take an
interest in the appointment of Judge AARON
Goodrich, as Secretary of Legation at
Brussels and thinks it is striking "exem-
plifcation of the habit of LINCOLN & Co.,
of putting square plugs into round holes"
The Courier favors the public with short
biographical sketch of the Judge, telling all
about his residence in Buffalo; his "morials,"
manners, etc.; it then traces him to Mich.
igan, where he engaged in Wild Cat bank
ing operations, and figured as defendant in
a suit in which the State of Michigan was
plaintiff from there it follows the Judge to
Tennessee, then to Washington, and then to
Minnesota, as our first Chief Justice. But
the best joke about this apo ntment is, that
HENRY S. SANFORD, the Minister to Brus-
sells, whose Secretary the Judge is appoint
ed to be, is Democrat, man of good
education and polish, and thorough and
experienced martinez on the subject of d.
plomacy, having been frequently abroad
We quote the Courier on this point, that
MIR. Sanford the Minister to Belgium, al
though Democrat and wholly unacceptable
to the Republicans of Come cticut, is gentle
man OF many accomplishments and much Eu.
ropean experience. In fact, he is bit of an
exquisite, martinez in diplomacy who had a
controversy with Mr.. Secretary Marcy on the
subject of court cOstume--a gentleman, in
short, who fulflls all the conditions imposed
by Jaques, "Look you, monsieur traveller,
you lisp and wear strange suits; disable ali
the benefits of your own country; be out Of
love with your nativity, and almost chide God
for making you that cOuntenance you are, or
will scarce think you have swan in a gondola.' y
Readers will easily imagine how person OF
this description will relish the society of an
uncouth back-woodsman, such as Aaron Good.
rich. This homogeneous association brings to
mind the old story of Beauty and the Beast.
The Judge in his letter, published the
other day, says that SEWARD told him
"when be gave me the position" that it is
the most pleasant one in all Europe"
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1861-04-12
Sanders Again Telegraphing.

Mr. GEORGE N. SANDERS, who may be
remembered as Mr.. BUoHANAN's Geographic
correspondent from Charleston, is now in
Montgomery, Alabama, writing special
dispatches to the New York Tribune.
Here are couple of his latest illusions
MONTGOMERY, Monday, April l, 1861.
The New York importing merchants will all
be ruined unless they promptly refuse to pay
duties under the new tariff. They must nuilify
the tariff act and plead in justification the dis
solution of the Uuion and the unconstitution.
atty of the Morrill, abomination. Otherwise
the cities of the Confederate States will be one
continuous warehouse of European goods.
G.. N. S.
MONTGOMERY, Wednesday, April 8, 1861.
The intelligence that the Government at
Washington means to blockade the Southern
ports and collect revenue from them, has
created a very warlike feeling here. Should
Lincoln attempt any such thing, President d.
Wis will issue letters of marque against Amer
lean commerce, and cover every sea with pri-
vateers, thus driving freights into European
bottoms. G. N. S.
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1861-04-12

GERMANY MANUFACTURING ARMS FOR
SOUTH CARoL1NA.-A private letter from a
Rhode Island Traveller, now in Europe has
just been received here, (says the Provi.
dence Journal of yesterday bringing some
interesting news about the manufacture of
weapons for the South. The writer visited
a large mandatory of arms in Western
Prussia, and was told by the Superintend.
ent that the company was then making So
900 rifles and $4,000 swords for the South,
and that the order came through a Paris
banker, who guaranteed the payment.
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1861-04-12

The NAVIGATION OF THE MISSISSIPPI
Mr.. Rosseau has introduced into the Ken
lucky Legislature resolutions regarding the
navigation of the Mississippi. They insist
that Kentucky has as much right to the
free and unobstructed navigation of the
Mississippi as any other State or govern
ment; they ask that the States bordering
on the Mississippi be invited to join in a
protest against any action by any power
that would at all trammel that navigation ;
Tennessee, Missouri and Arkansas are invi-
ted to join in electing delegates to conven.
ton to be held in December to adopt some
common action in regard to the matter.
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1861-04-12
Military Movements.

We understand that the steamer Fanny
Harris left this city Tuesday night for Fort
Ridgely, on the Upper Minnesota, to bring
down Capt. Sherman's flying artillery, en-
route for the Atlantic coast. The steamer
Favorite is expected from below the lake,
and when she arrives will be despatched to
Fort Ridgley to bring down a portion, if
not all, the other troops stationed there.
The agent of the government in this city
preserves commendable silence in relation
to army movements, but the above informa-
ton CLEANED from other sources, we believe
may be relied on as substantially correct.
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1861-04-12

The startling events that have sue.
ceeded each other with such wonderful
rapidity in the great revolution through
which our country is passing, pale into
insignifcance when the dread arbitrament
of arms is rendered and accepted by the
conflicting sections.
= The tenor of the news from Washing.
ton and Charleston shows clearly that
Sumpter is not to be given up without a
fight, and that the Palmettos are not back.
ward in accepting the issue.
= Pennsylvania is virtually called upon
by letter from the President to Governor
CURTIN, to prepare for war, and being the
nearest Northern State to the seat of action,
will be first to bear its hrunt.
Seven ships of war are reported out
side Charleston harbor, and Major AMBER
SON burned signal lights during Monday
night.
The long and exciting contest for the
two seats in the Senate of the United States
belonging to Kansas, is terminated by the
election of s. G. PoMERoY and JAMES 81.
LANE.
1T is rumored that the Government
agents who were sent to England and
France, have returned, and report that both
will set their faces against the Southern
Confederacy, and in no manner recognize
or assist it, and that the President and
Cabinet are determined to take immediate
and vigorous measures to enforce existing
laws at all hazards.
The Virginia convention before ad-
journment adopted the following resolu,
ton
Resolved, Deeply deploring the distracted
condition of the country, and lamenting wrongs
that have compelled some States to dissolve
their connection with the Federal Government,
but sensible of the blessings of Union, and i'm.
pressed with its importance to the peace and
prosperity of the people. we earnestly de-
sire an adjustment by which the Union may
be re-established in its integrity, and that
peace and prosperity be restored throughout
the land.
The steamboatmen's parade on the 4th
at st. Louis, in honor of the election of
DANIEL e. TAYLOR, Mayor, was the most
brilliant and imposing ever seen in st.
Louis. About thirty yawls mounted on
wheels, profusely decorated, with large
number Of omnibuses, carriages, horsemen,
and citizens on foot, were in the procession.
The streets were densely thronged with
enthusiastic spectators. The Republican
and Herald printing offices and a great
many private dwellings, were brilliantly
illuminated, and the display of torches,
pyrotechnics and bon6res was very fine.
A salute of $50 guns was fred in the eve
ming.
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1861-04-12
Mr., CRITTENDEN. at Frankfort the other

Mr.. CR1rTENDEN, at Frankfort the other
day, in speaking of his resolutions of COM
promise, said: II believe if these measures,
thus offered, had been at suitable time
promptly adopted by the Congress of the
United States, it would have checked the
progress of the rebellion and revolution.
and saved the Union" We believe truer
words were never spoken. The folly, igno-
rance and recklessness of the Republican
leaders in Congress would neither accept
them nor allow the people chance to say
whether they would accept them.
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1861-04-12
Enforcement Of the Fugitive Slave
Law in Chicago.

Speaking of the recent slave case in Chi
chago, in which Marshal JONES arrested,
and remanded to slavery, family of fugi-
tives, WENrwoRTHs Democrat says it was
" the first successful enforcement of the fug-
tive slave law In Chicago for years, and the
first case of the kind that has happened
under Mr.. L1NcoLN's administration" The
Chicago Tribune denounces the Marshal
because of his success in performing his
duty. 1t says:
The brutalites that were inflicted upon the
family, dragged bound and gagged and half
naked down stairs, the Oaths and curses and
show ofrevolvers with which the tools of Mar
shall Jones did his bidding, and the shocking
features of a capture that would have become
Dahomey, we would we could forget that they
occurred in Christian city, that they were
done at the bidding Of a Republican office
The city is overrun with slave.owners and
man hunters. The most extraordinary excite
ment prevails among our colOred people, and
within the past two days, hundreds of fugitives,
some of them long residents here, have found
safety in the British dOminions. Some of these
have left their homes here, under circum
stances of peculiar hardship, but the hunter of
human flesh was upon them. In some cases
most narrowly was capture escaped. On
Thursday mother and her four children were
concealed under heap of manure, in the rear
of barn on Buffalo street, in this city, when
the master of the mother was turning over the
hay in the loft hoping to find them there.
A Republican meeting has been held in
Chicago, at which Marshal JONES was bit.
terly denounced, and the President called
on to remove him from office-and for
what Why merely performing his sworn
duty.
The Democrat, in giving an account of
the proceedings of the meeting, says:
It was stated that Marshal Jones came here
with orders in his pocket, direct from the Pres
ident, to get up case to show that the people
of the North were willing to succumb to the
South if they would only stay in the Union.
We cannot believe this, as it would place the
Old Line Abolitionists in Congress in direct Oh.
position to the Administration, and leave it in
the minority. Such men as Sumner, Hale,
Lovejoy, Wilson, &c. &C., will never consent to
see the Lincoln Administration Tylerized or
Fillmoreized, they not believing it the mission
of the Republican Party to catch runaway ne.
QrOe6.
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1861-04-12

The SLAVERY QUESTION IN THE M. E,
CHuRcH.-The slavery question agitates the
Church almost as much as the State in
these troublous times. 1t came up for con-
sideration in the Methodist Conference,
in session in Philadelphia, on the 29th ult..
and resolution was adopted requesting the
General Conference, at its next session, to
repeal its new chapter on slavery, and to
permit each important section of the Church,
within which the institution exist, to adopt
such regulations on the subject of slavery as
it desires.
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1861-04-12
John w. NOrth...HOv the Wool wa
Pulled over His Eyes.

Mr.. JOHN w. NORTH was induced to
withdraw from the contest for Superinten-
dent of Indian Affairs, in this State, by a
promise, on the part of our delegation, that
he should be suitably provided for. They
fulfilled it as faithfully as their other pledges.
He was appointed Surveyor General of
NEVADA first chop ofice-but for which,
unfortunately Congress had provided no
salary, no appropriation having been made
for the expenses of the Office So MIR.
Surveyor General NORTH is left out in the
cold for another year.
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1861-04-12

The official career OF Gen. Lewis Cass
commenced when he was member of the
first State Legislature of Ohio, in 1903,
and he has been in high public position ever
since--a period of fifty-eight years. Within
that time be has been Governor of Ter
ritory, Indian Superintendent, Secretary of
War, Minister to France, United States
Senator for twelve years, candidate for
President, and Secretary of State. He is
the patriarch Of American statesmen, so far
as length of official service is concerned.
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1861-04-12
Union for the Sake Of the Union.


The Press in noting the result of some of
the recent municipal elections, which have
resulted so favorably for the Democracy,
seeks to draw consolation from the fact that
the Republicans we're in minority last fall,
in the same localities, and only succeeded in
electipg their candidates, by division of
the opposition vote, on Democratic, Ameri-
can, or Union nominees. The Press is par
TALLY correct in its statement; but we draw
from the recent Union victories, in St..
Louis, Cincinnati, Rhode Island and else
where, the happy augury that henceforth
the conservatives of the north will be found
acting and laboring as unit for the over
throw of sectional black Republicansm.
We believe that past differences on imma-
terial points will be forgotten, as they were
at the recent elections in Missouri, Ohio,
and New England, and thorough union of
all shades OF opposition to the party now in
power, will follow. Topromote and perfect
such union in Minnesota and elsewhere,
we propose TO labor earnestly and stead
lastly. To drive the black Republicans
from power in every northern State, and at
Washington, should be the sole political aim
of all national and Union loving citizens.
The election of Republican President, and
one month of Republican rule, has already
entailed more misery upon the American
people at home, and disgraced the Ameri.
can name more abroad, than all the govern
mental misdeeds, blunders, and crimes COM
bined of the past seventy years.
By the union of the conservative voters
of the north, much good has already been
achieved New England Abalitionized
and Negroized New England--by such
means, will have in the next Congress al
least five representatives who will vote te
offer the South the CR1rTENDEN compromise
as measure of peace and adjustment. And
this is one of the results which our contem.
porary thinks does not indicate any "reac
tion."
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1861-04-12
Postmaster Of st. Paul.

We learn that Mr.. CHARLES N1HcoLs was
yesterday appointed by the President,
Postmaster Of this city, vice WIN. M. Coz
eoRAN. Mr.. NICHOLS possesses the nee
essary business qualifications for the post.
He is gentleman of integrity, and court
eous and obliging in manner. No better
selection could have been made from among
the list of applicants.
We also learn, on the same authority,
that Mr.. Excl, of very uncertain politics,
will be appointed Deputy Collector at St..
Paul. He is connected with the Zeitung.
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1861-04-12

GooD.-The Sioux City Register of the
9th, says that large quantity of whiskey
had been destroyed at a place called
Browns Ranch, in Dakota, by order of
Colonel Redield, Agent of the Yankton
Sioux. The whiskey was being sold in
large quantities to the Indians, hence the
course of Colonel Redfeld. To the viola
ton of the United States liquor laws by
unprincipled white men may be traced nine
tenths of the depredations committed by the
Indians.