The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1861-06-28

Senator johnson estimates the Union
majority in Eastern Tennessee at nearly
$4,000, and for secession in Western and
Middle Tennessee urder $4,000. He be-
lieves, with fair canvass and more time,
the State could have been carried for the
Union. Arms are wanted, both in Tennes.
see and Kentucky, for the Unionists.
John Letcher, Esq, ex Governor of
Virginia, has issued an illegal proclamation
to the people Of the Northwestern counties
OF that State, exhorting them all to be
traitors. TIE most noticeable feature of
the proclamation is found in the first para
graph, which declares the right of all PEG.
pie to alter or abolish any form of Govern
ment which does not suit them, and--what
next? Why, that the Virginia bill of
rights prohibits the erection of any other
government within the limits of the State
than that which he Letcher) claims to rep.
resent +! Letcher is logical to the last.
Henry G. Burnett, OF the Columbus
District, is the only secessionist chosen to
Congress from Kentucky, and his majority
OF 1000 is no more than was expected from
a region that has been rampant with its
treason, almost to the extent of kicking the
beam of neutrality" His majority of
1000 is small figure, perhaps, for such
District; certainly it is no more than was
expected. All the other Districts give
Union majorities of from 1000 to 5000,
and the net majority in the State cannot be
less than 10000.
The news of the defeat of the rebels at
Boonvile and General Lyons energetic
pursuit, caused Missouri stocks to advance
~ per cent. between the first and second
Boards.
BY the arrival of the Bremen from
Europe, we learn that the British govern
ment has determined to send additional
troops to Canada, it being thought desira-
BILE to be in position to command respect
with any irregular bodies" which in mo-
ment of excitement might assault them.
The Paris Moniteur publishes declaration
of Napoleon, who intends the strictest neu-
trality in American affairs.
1t was reported some days since that
the rebels had taken possession of the im-
portant town of Piedmont, On the Balti-
more and Ohio Railroad, 26 miles west of
Cumberland. The following dispatch, which
we find in the New York papers OF Friday,
contradicts the report in its most essential
feature:
GRAFTON, June 20.-The reported taking
possession of Piedmont by the rebels was
false. After burning the bridge. and cutting
the telegraph wires, they returned into the
country. 1t is said that large force is still in
that neighborhood.
The guard at the bridge made their escape.
The New York Tribune of Friday last
says :-"Another steamer lett for Europe
yesterday, but we have reason to believe
that it did not take out the order for the
return to the United States of the cores
pendent of the Charleston secessionists,
who represents the United States in Portn-
gal"
Private letters received per steamship
Africa, say large number of privateers
are fitting out in England for the rebels.
1t is also reliably reported that several
have already left and are now on their way
to this country. Our minister's attention is
directed to this.
- We find in the latest New Orleans
papers received full accounts of four differ
ent battles, with an accurate" statement
of the loss in killed on both sides. AS
matter of news we give the numbers in tab