The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1861-03-29
Foreign News and Gossip.


The Paris correspondent Of the New
York Times, announces great change 10
French sentiment, on the disunion troubles,
since the secession of Louisiana, and the
passage of the Morrill, tariff bill, by Con-
gress. The Paris Moniteur, Of February 70,
the official journal of the empire, contained
in its political bulletin, the following signi6-
cant words, which may be regarded as "a
sort of indication of the attitude of the
French Government in presence of the new
state of things: lga
Among the items of news which come from
the United States is one which does not dire6t-
ly concern the domestic crisis, but is no less
worthy Of attention, for it has an international
bearing which will escape no ones attention.
The Representatives of the Northern States,
taking advantage of the absence of the South
ern members have been in great haste to vote
new Custom House tariff. Now, then, the
North, tchich Is DESTROYS Of protecting its mann.
featuring, is very unfa,thfM to ideas of ibeyty
tchen It has to do scth taris and does not keep n
Uitlc the interests of the S0uth-a country essen
tally agricultural and very much in favor Of
free trade.
The tariff heretofore in force was very pr.
tective, since it imposed on foreign merchah.
disc al valorem duties varying from nineteen
to thirty per cent. The new tariff increases oil
the taxes either directly or by combinations,
which sub stitute specific for ad valorem d.
ties. This retrogrdde reform has been receiued
rery BADLY in England and ,oiN be no better khad
an France; for our silks, which used to ply
nineteen per cent, will pay tax varying from
twenty To thirty per cent, and our wines, taxed
at thirty per cent, will be assessed at 333 per
cent. 81 -rfrH
Ii q reconciliation should be effected in the
United States, which does not yet appear to be
beyond hope, it is proper to surmise that the
abolition OF this tariff will be one of the con-
promise clauses obtained by the South. 1.-The
Union be not re-established, the programme sf
free trade proclaimed By the South auu open to DIR
trade and agriculture a road to fruitful intp.
course and large returns.
In the foreign news published in our co.,
umns yesterday, it was announced that he
London Times denounces the new tariff, lin
severe terms, and considers it an almost
absolute prohibition of European Imports.
The New York Times correspondent. re-
ferred to above, in speaking of the Moai-
tours article, says further:
Although it was palpable enough that
change had taken place in French sentiment
on this subject, did not anticipate so speedy
confirmation of the sentiment, and especially
from so high source. Other papers have
taken up the discussion, and for the moment
it seems as if the sympathy of France, and
perhaps England, is to be estranged from the
North because of this tariff question. The
great question of slavery is to be ignored in
that OF commerce. fsuch were absolutely to
be the result, it would be source of regret
that the North should have chosen this parti.
cular moment for the increase of the custom
duties.
The 22nd of February was celebrated
with great spirit, by the residents of Berlin.
Gov. WRIGHT, in speech, referred to
home troubles, and urged his compatriots
to take warning of the disastrous conse.
quences of national division as .exempliied
in the condition of Germany. He offered
the following sentiment "The secret of our
success consists in our Union. When that
is gone, all is lost. At home or abroad we
are one people or we are nothing" The
Secretary of legation at Berlin, is Mr.. E.
G. W. BUTLER, of Louisiana, a grand.
nephew of WASHINGTON. He made speech
after Gov. WRIGHT, in which be stated that
he had served the Union for five years at
the Prussian court but added
Since ''the State of Louisiana had seeded
from the Union, sense of duty and true de-
ready my resignation as Secretary of the Uni
ted States Legation here, and to resolve to re-
turn home to assist in saving the Union, if pos.
sible, or in avoiding the horrors of civil war, if
l find my fate welded to that of confederacy
OF the Southern States.
NAPOLEON III is in trouble again with
the French clergy. The Bishop of Po1c-
TIERS, in late pastoral letter, which was
read in all the churches of bis diocese, COM
pares the European to PoNT1Us PLATE.
The London Times correspondent says of
the letter:
This address has produced the deepest SEN
satiOn. Even they who profess to make light
OF ecclesiastical censures avOw their fears of
the effect in the remote districts, when this
fierce denunciation is read in every place of
worship on the same day, at the same hour
during Divine service. There is not man, or
woman, or child who on leaving the church
will not suppose that the Emperor of the
French is proclaimed to all France as the Pom
thus Plate of the Nineteenth Century. 1t is
probable the Empress, with her str ong feeling
on this subject, has been much affected by the
illusions to her in the Bishops address-to the
Golden Rose blessed by the Pope at the High
Altar of st. Peters, and bestowed on her to
the prayers his holiness offered up for her at
the most critical moment of her life, &c. The
Bishop of Poictiers' address is denunciation
of purely religious character.
All this is produced by the publication
of the recent political pamphlet, endorsed
by the Emperor, in which the position was
assumed that the temporal power Of the
Pope is gone, beyond recovery. In the
French Senate, the subject had been dis.
cussed, and several members had spoken in
favor of maintaining the temporal power of
the Pontiff; but Senator P1ErR1, late I'm
perial Commissioner in Italy contended that