The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1861-07-05

Col. Abercrombie, late 10 command at
Fort Ripley, lie gazetted Brigadier Cen
eral. The regiments composing his brigade
will be the Eleventh Pennsylvania, and reg
iments from Wisconsin and Connecticut.
The Twenty fourth Pennsylvania replaces
the Eleventh in General Nagle's brigade.
&c neral Abercrombie has been the colonel
and commanding officer of the United States
Second infantry. He is graduate OF West
Point, entered the army as brevet second
lieutenant in the Fourth infantry, on the 1stl
of July, 1922, and in exactly thirty years
after was commissioned as lieutenantS
colonel.
AT a meeting of the City Council, of
st. Louis, Mayor Taylor sent in message
stating that the City revenue had diminishe
ed from last year, some 100000 in three
months, and advising suspension of pay
ment on July interest, and, on bonds falling
due in New York, deliberate reputation,
on the ground that the money belonged to
non-residents! When the Mayor was cleo
ted the richest secessionists declared that
the city credit had doubled its value. Now
st. Louis for the first time repudiates. The
county interest was provided for by Repub>
lican Commissioners, month ago.
Marshal Kane, of Baltimore, was ar.
rested on charge that he was cognizant of
an armed association liz that city, leagued
together to resist the Government at the
first favorable opportunity, and that be did
not attempt to prevent or discourage the
plan. For this he was arrested, it being
considered reasonable to have knowledge
of such organization and not reporting it to
the government.
At Union, Tennessee, two privates in
Pillows army were killed for insubordina-
ton. The Captain had them brought out
under guard, and on their refusal to do
duty he shot one, killing him instantly, and
ordered the company to charge on the other,
which they did. He threw six of their
bayonets off before they succeeded in killing
him. Such brutality will have its reward,
and the Southern army are certainly feeling
it ere this.
There is the very best authority for
stating that the Cabinet have never had be-
fore them any propositions for peace or for
an armistice from the leaders of the rebel
Confederacy, or from any one pretending to
represent them. Though such reports have
obtained some credence, it is now under
stood that they were got up to influence the
ensuing session of Congress, and to embar-
rass the administration.
An official list of the regiments and the
number of troops which have arrived in
Washington thus far was made up on the
25th. The total is about fifty thousand
men, to which may be added four thousand,
of the District militia. At least 5000
of these troops are out of the city on the
Potomac, near Harper's Ferry. Since
then probably ten thousand more have ar
rived.
The names of Captain Dabney II.
Maury, Assistant Adjutant General Garter
L. Stevenson, Fifth Infantry, and Second
Lieutenant Edward Dllin, Sixth Infantry
all of Virg inia, have beed stricken from the
roll of the army for entertaining and ex-
pressing reasonable designs against the
government of the United States.
The New York World, all over Repub-
lican, hits the Tribune the following hard
lick: "Had Washington's Farewell Ad-
dress appeared as an original document any
time during the last ten years, the Tribune
would have secuted its Union loving senti>
ments, and have made them the butt of its
jeers. 1t has attacked the Union with ar,
guments +; it has attacked it with statistics,
with jokes, with slang, with sneers, with
ribaldry, with inuendo, with every weapon,
in short, in its we'll stocked armory of
abuse"
"A special to the Memphis Appeal states
that Leonidas Polk, Episcopal Bishop of
Louisiana, has been commissioned by the
Montgomery Government as a Brigadier
General in the Southern army, and assigned
to the command of the Lower Mississippi.
--Sec'ry Chase estimates, and will 80 re-
port to the President, that two hundred and
twenty-five to two hundred and fifty mil
lions OF dollars will be wanted for prosecu-
ting the war. He confidently expects to
raise the larger amount by national pat
riotic subscription, aided by judicious tariff
legislation. 1t is said that be will favor
cutting off the free list except for such arti.
Giles as are needed for war purposes.
Hon. j. W. McDougall, the newly