The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1861-06-07


TIE ladies of Traverse des Sioux have
made beautiful flag about twelve by
eighteen feet in size, and last Saturday it
was raised on handsome pole in that town,
with speeches, cheers, &c. Thomas Cowan,
captain Of mounted company, made neat
speech, and also Judge Flandreau. We
quote paragraph from the latter:
American citizens look upon that flag! It is
the handiwork of your fair and patriotic towns
women. Its graceful folds, its beautifully con.
trasted stripes, its field of heavenly blue, stud
ded with brilliant stars, are pleasing to the eye
and satisfy in the mind the sense of the beauti-
full. Yet it is not in that flag alone as a work
of art, with all its superior excellence, that we
must look for the cause that inspires involun.
tarily those feelings that we'll up in the Ameri.
can heart whenever and wherever it is unfurled
to American eyes. What is its hidden power ?
its mystic infuence2 Why is it that the Amer
lean citizen will cheerfully sever the ties that
bind him to family, friends, home and all that
the human heart holds dear, and sacrifice them
all, aye, even to the shedding of his hearts
blood, when called upon to sustain and defend
that flag! l will tell you why. More than
eighty years ago, this people, then separate
and distinct dependencies of the British crown,
conceived themselves wronged and aggrieved
by measures of the government which violated
principles of natural justice, then unrecognized
it is true, but none the less sacred and rather
than submit to the tyranny they rebelled, and
after long and sanguinary struggle they vim
Dictated the political truths that all men are
born equal. That all power to govern emanates
from the governed that thought, speech, con-
science, religion, are and ought to be as free as
the winds of heaven.
JOHN K. HEzLEP of st. Peter has started
for the West Point Military Academy.
The Mankato Independent says that the
receipts of wheat during the past week, at
that place, were unprecedentedly large, and
the cry is, still it comes" The indications
are that there will be business for the
boats in the transportation of wheat from
that point throughout the season.
GEORGE EVANS, of Garden City, in Blue
Earth county, has the honor of being the
first Minnesotian in the army. He was on
visit to Massachusetts, at the time of the
first requisition for volunteers, and imme-
diately enlisted, and was with the first Mas
sachusetts regiment at Washington.
JUDGE BRONSON, of Mankato, expresses
the opinion that our State District Courts
have jurisdiction in the offence of selling
liquor to the Indians.
AT the term of the District Court held at
Caledonia, Houston county, last week, G..
F. Potter, La Crescent E. II. Kennedy,
Looneyvile /; and Messrs. Lindsey and ILL.,,
of Caledonia, were admitted as attorneys at
law.
The Wabashaw Herald thus sums up
the result of gopher hunt by some
citizens of Plainview, in that county !:
Striped gophers, 3,649 gray gophers,
1922; pocket gophers, 209, and eleven
rattlesnakes.'
The Treasurer of Houston county, Will
liams by name, has been mysteriously alb
sent from his home for some weeks, and it
is strongly suspected that he has absconded,
taking with him several thousand dollars in
money, which be had recently collected for
taxes. 1t is believed that he had about
$4,000 in gold. The matter may yet be
satisfactorily explained, but it is feared
otherwise by the bondsmen and other inter.
ested parties.
The Minneapolis atlas says Mrs. Walch,
a widow of that town, at the call for volun-
teers, sent to the pineries for her only son,
to come home from work, and enlist in the
great army of the Union to defend Democ-
racy against Anarchy, and Truth against
Treason, and to hold up the flag of our good
Republic that rebel hands no more may
touch it, nor rebel feet tread it down. Ver-
lily, the heroic women of '76, the Molly
Starks and Polly Carringtons, have left
brave representatives for this hour.
The Monticello Republican says, as the
whistle of the steamboat was heard, last
Monday, and the volunteers were hurrying
to the landing to get aboard, young man.,
D. Bryant, of that place, who was engaged
in Pickins blacksmith shop, could with>
stand his patriotic feelings no longer, and
dropping the sledge hammer, be put for the
boat, minus coat, carpet bag, or any prepa-
ration, and manfully resisting the entreaties
of his sisters and relatives, he embarked in
his country's cause.
The Anoka Republican says parties of
emigrants pass through that town almost
every day, on their way to make settle
ment in the fertile valley OF the Sank river.
We clip the following from the Belle
PLANE Enquirer:
A barge passed this point on Thursday, from
Mankato, loaded with wheat on its way to st.
Paul. 1t is astonishing to think of the enor-
NOUS amount of grain and other produce that
has been shipped along the valley since the
opening of navigation.
The PROSPECT. AT present the prospect for
an extensive crop of grain is of the most en-
couraging nature. The weather has been of
the most favorable kind for small grain within