The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1861-07-19
In the Second Congressional District,

cratic parties nominated distinctive party
candidates for Congress. Charles O'Neill,
ESQ.,, was the Republican candidate, and
Col. Charles j. Biddle the Democratic can.
didate. The former was for sacrificing "a
hundred thousand lives and thousands Of
millions of dollars" rather than compro.
mise. Col. Biddle was elected in prefer
ence to no-compromise Republican, with
every paper in the city opposed to him.
The authorities of Rhode Island adver-
tised short time for loan of 100000
for war purposes. Bids were put in for
1897 900, none of which were above per
cent. interest. The whole amount was
awarded to jackson & Butts, of Providence,
at 24-1O0 interest. Probably no State
in the Union could secure better terms than
this.
Mr.. John Ewart, we'll known and
prominent citizen of Toronto, Canada, de-
liberately shot himself through the heart
last week. He went into gunsmith's shop,
purchased breech- loading revolving pistol,
loaded it, turned his back toward the coun-
ter, and discharged it at his breast. Mr..
Ewart was about thirty-eght years of age,
was brother-in.law of the Hon. Oliver
Mowatt, M. P. P. In the absence of any
reasonable motive for the act, it is supposed
that the deceased was laboring under tenn.
porary fit of insanity.
The Boston Courier says Brigadier
General E. w. Pierce will return to Free
town about the 18th inst. He was appoint
ed to serve out the unexpired portion of
the commission of General Butler, which
was three months service. II is not
likely that the State will again send him to
the field.
Robert Wilson, only son of the late
Capt. John Wilson, of Lady Elgin memory,
was drowned while bathing in the vicinity
of Cleveland, on last Monday. Mrs. Will
son, the measure of whose Affections is thus
filled so overhowipgy, was stopping with
friends in Buffalo when the melancholy &C.
cident happened. The deceased son was in
his fourteenth year, and is said to have
been a worthy son of his noble hearted
father.
Hon. F. P. Stanton of Kansas, passed
through Cincinnati on the 10th, en- route for
Washington. He has been appointed by
the Governor of Kansas to fill the vacancy
in the Senate which Gov. Robinson as
sumes to have been caused by Gen. Lanes
acceptance of Brigadier Generalship in
the service of the United States.
Judge Catron of Tennessee, is one of
the Justices of the Supreme Court of the
United States, and his district includes st.
Louis. On the 10th, his charge to the
Grand Jury of the Circuit Court was read.
1t treats the question of treason at great
length, and fully proves that the Judge has
not followed the example of Tennessee, but
remains true to the United States Govern
ment. The ground was taken that OBJ.
stru citing the passage of United States
troops through any State, is treason, and
under this Ciaib. jackson must be indicted.
Application was made to the Judge for a
writ of habeas corpus in the case of ex-Sen-
ator Greene detained at Canton, Missouri,
by United States troops.
One of the gallant gentlemen the
French Lady"-who was engaged in steal
ing the steamer st. Nicholas has been ar
rested by Gen. Banks, at Baltimore. He
was found secreted with three Others on the
steamer Mary Washington. His name is
Richard Thomas, and he was formerly ca
| Diet at West Point. When arrested, he
| gave an alias, but commission was found
| on him giving him Colonels command in
the rebel army. This was dated July l,
and was doubtless conferred 10 payment of
his services in stealing the ST. Nicholas.
EDWARD EVERETT, delivered atremen.
dous long grafton, in New York on the 4th
of July, at least the Boston Courier has
eteven long, broad columns, purporting to
be such an grafton, though we have our
| doubts whether any mortal people, in New
| York or elsewhere, listened to such an out.
pouring. We have only room for the Pc
roration:
Such, fellow citizens, as contemplate them,
are the great issues before the country, MOTH
ing less, in word than whether the work of
our noble fathers OF the revolutionary and con-
stitutial age shall perish or endure; whether
this great experiment in national polity, which
binds family OF free republics in one united
government-the most hopeful plan for COM
bining the homebred blessings of a small state
with the stability and power of great en-
pire-shall be treacherously and shamefully
stricken down, in the moment of its most sue.
cessful operation, or whether it shall be brave
ly, periodically, triuInphatly maintained. We
wage no war of conquest and subjugatOn /; we
aim at nothing but to protect our loyal fellow
citizens, who against fearful odds are fighting
the battles of the Union in the disahected
States, and to re.establsh, not for ourselves
alone, but for our misguided brethren, the mild