The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1861-04-05
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no little by his lectures, told his people that
if they would pay of the church debt by
the first of May he would stay another year
with them, and perhaps two years. AS
they have paid off $4,000 of debt during
the past ten months, and as there is but
about $4,000 more due, it is presumed that
he will not go back for the present to his
congregation in Boston, who paid $500
salary year."
THE Washington correspondent of the
N. Y. Journal of Commerce says it is very
evident that the Border Slave States have
reluctantly come to the conclusion that the
North will give them no hope of justice.
Almost every intelligent Virginian and
Kentuckian, thinks that the Border Slave
States will all withdraw from the Union
within year, even if the Lincoln Govern.
ment uses no coercion upon the seeded
States, and even if civil war, the danger of
which is imminent, be avoided.
GEO. N. SANDERS, the inevitable" and
impudent, writes that the Southern Con-
federacy is so fixed fact that it will pres.
emily invite the Free States to admission
within its charmed circle.
On the 10Th ult schooner hauling out
from San Francisco, California, hoisted the
Palmetto flag. A crowd instantly assem-.
hled on the wharf, and by awell directed
fire of potatoes, compelled the would be
secessionist not only to haul down the OBJ
noxiou8 colors, but to hoist the "Stars and
Stripes in their place.
UNDER the head of sterrible retribution,"
we find it chronicled that a young. unmar>
ried girl of st. Louis, who 'loved not
wisely, but two WE'LL" gave birth to three
children. All are doing well.
SENATOR WILSON, speaking of his belief
that Lincoln will stand firmly by the Chi.
cago platform, asks, "when ought man to
forsake his principles?" "When they are
bad," replies the New York Day Book.
Provisions are becoming scarce again at
Superior, says the Chronicle. "There is but
little, if any more of the above mentioned
articles on hand than will be required for
home consumption prior to the first of June.
A BREAK has occurred in the canal south
of Terre Haute, Ind, near the residence of
John G. Ross, by which the whole country
in that region has been overhowed. The
break is bad one, some forty feet of the
bank having been washed out. Wheat fields
in the vicinity are said to be ruined.
The Green Bay (Wis.) Advocate says
tn Clifford King, of Cooperstown, in
Brown county, informs us that Bohemian
woman in that town gave birth on Mon
day, the 4th inst, to child, boy, weighs
| ing % pounds. Brown county is ahead
MRS. CATHAR1NE BUTL1N, late resident
of Madison, Wis.,, and mother of Mr.. P.
B. Parsons, of the De Soto House, Galena
jumped from window of the latter house
last Sunday morning, and received such in
juries as to cause her death at little after
I'm.
The Richmond Wing says that "it is
melancholy fact that larger amount of
mob violence has been developed in Vir-
ginia since the secession movement began
than in the whole previous lifetime of the
State"
Rev. DE-. Bellows is the author of the
article Cities and Parks" in the April
number of the atlantic Monthly. Charles
Francis Adams, Jr., wrote the Reign Of
King Cotton" J. W. De Forest, of New
Haven, wrote " Charleston Under Arms"
Mr.. Higginson is the author of April
Days.; while the powerful story, Life in
the Iron Mills" which has already created
quite sensation, is attributed to lady of
Wheeling, Virginia.
JOHN j. CR1rrENDEN has declined an in>
vitation to visit Philadelphia and Boston,
on the ground that business requires bis
immediate presence in Kentucky.
Mr.. SMITH MowRY, Jr., an old and
highly esteemed merchant of Charleston,
S. c., died there last week. Mr.. Mowry
was native of Smithfeld, Rhode Island,
but has resided in his adopted city since
1918. He was widely known as factor,
of whom he was one of the Oldest and most
successful in Charleston. His decease ex-
cites much regret in that city.
! A LETTER in the st. Louis Republican.
from Utah states that rumors from Camp
Floyd that was, but Fort Urittenden that
now is, indicated the predominance of
| Southern sympathy among officers, and the
likelihood of some of them sending in their
designations and returning home; but /
learned from Col. --, last evening, that
onlu ona officer had rona that far and the