The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1861-05-17

We learn from the Philadelphia papers
that select committee have introduced
into the Pennsylvania House of Represent
tatives an important bill, authorizing the
raising Of supplies; the appointment of a
Major General and two Brigadier Generals;
the organization of fifteen regiments of mil
itary for State service and in general to
place the militia of Pennsylvania in an
efficient condition for service. The first
section authorizes a loan of $3,OOO,OOO at
six per cent. for ten years, to be negotiated
at not less than par, in certificates not less
than $25 each.
THREE hundred and seventy-three COM
panies have been accepted by the Com
mander in. Chief of New York State up
to Friday last-a force equal to twenty
eight thousand eight hundred men. This is
independent of the fully equipped and uni
formed regiments of the State, which is
equal to thirty thousand. This does not
include the volunteers formed into regiments
in New York City and other portions of
the State, which would swell the present
military force of the State to seventy five
thousand men.
The New York Journal Of Commerce
learns upon authority which places the
statement beyond doubt, that an agent of
the New York State Government left by
the last English steamer, with five hundred
thousand dollars for the purchase of arms
and munitions of war. The funds are a
part of the 100000 appropriated by the
last Legislature for war purposes. It is the
intention of the State Military Board to
obtain the best varieties of arms, of all
sizes, that money can procure.
SEVERAL Mississippi and Louisiana pa.
pere, which are alarmed at the blockade of
the Mississippi river by the Illinois troops
at Cairo, suggest, as the best means of
routing them, that small force of "confed-
crates be sent secretly to cut the levee
above the city, and let in upon it the waters
of the river. These humane editors ought
to remember that they have themselves
several hundred miles of levee-and if thew
begin the game of drowning out, they may
find that two parties can play at that game.
SOME wonder has been expressed that in
this universal springing to arms nothing
should have been heard of Hon. A. G.
Brown, OF Mississippi, as foul>mouthed
an orator, by the way, as ever disgraced
stump or senatorial chair. By late
number of the Miss,sslpp,on we see that he
is at Terry, Eat the head of gallant com.
pany." Only company? And his rival,
Jefferson Davis, a sol distant President
Browns feelings must be unpleasant But
courage, Brown, you may be major.
The letter of our regular Pensacola cor
respondent contains the very latest news
from that important point. Matters there look
squally enough. The summons to surrender, it
appears, comes from the other side this time.
Savannah Republican, 22d.
Late Geographic dispatches between
Bragg and jeff:
BRAGG-I have caught Tartar.
JEFF-Fetch him in.
BRAGG-He won't come.
JEFF-Then come yourself.
BRAGG--He won't let me.
GEN. RUFUS KING, of Milwaukee, has
received the appointment as Brigadier
General of the first Brigade of the Wiscon-
sin Active Militia. General King is West
Pointer by education, and has not only the
gallantry and courage, but the skill and
experience necessary to fit him for the
position.
Six thirty-two Founders, from the Unit.
ed States Arsenal at Pittsburgh, with car
riages, balls, and powder, passed through
Chicago, on Tuesday. These are the very
things t hat were needed at Cairo.
The United States Court in New York
city has granted perpetual injunction in
the case of George Law and Gustayus A.
Conover against the United States, restrain
ing the Government from levying upon the
property of the sureties of ex-Postmaster
Fowler. So the Government will lose the
whole amount of the Fowler defalcation.
DAN RIcE's circus has been down South
on steamboat on the Mississippi He has
returned to the free States. His steamer
was armed with fifty musk cts and two can
non. Dan says it was "hard SHINING"
in southern waters, and he declines return-
ing there just yet. At one place he was
arrested, and escaped with some difficulty.
Off the Cumberland river he saw a steamer
stealing away from him. AS "good joke"
he fired shot across her bows, followed by
another. The clerk of the strange steamer
rushed up in his shirtsleevea, and waved
secession flag. Dan fred another shot,
Union tho clork dsannpara1 and another