The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1861-02-15
THE PROGRESS OF THE REVOLUTION.

LIE IhUunCNN Ut I1E hEVULUIlUNs
According to the monthly statement OF
the Treasury Department, the amount Of
money in the Mint at New Orleans, on the
2lst of January, was $389,267. This sum
is, therefore, in possession of the traitors of
that city. The following table shows the
balances now subject to draft in the seces-
zion States:
Charleston. S 1905 Little Rock. 1868
New Orleans. III, 238 DshlOnga (m'D 27950
Mobile. ...... 1899 N.Orleans (m't)3s9,267
S:: e,ss S $751;, 976
The Montgomery Congress Of the
seeding States, on Friday, adopted Con.
stitution, and agreed upon strong and
vigorous provisional government, to 60 into
immediate operation, with full powers and
ample funds. We judge from Washington
dispatch, that the Congress has also opened
the Southern ports free to foreign commerce.
On Saturday, JEFFERSON DAVIS was
elected President, and ALEXANDER h. STE
PHENs, Vice President of the Southern Con-
federacy.
United States Arsenal at Little Rock,
Arkansas, has been seized by the State au>
thorities, and the famous battery of Capt.
Bragg has surrendered. Probably all the
forts in the State have been captured.
Gov. BROWN, of Georgia, on Friday,
seized five vessels lying in the harbor of
Savannah, aud owned in New York, as
retaliation for the seizure of arms belonging
to the State of Georgia, awaiting shipment
to Savannah, in New York.
We have summary of the correspond
ence between Col. HAYNB, the South Caro-
lima Commissioner, and the President. Col.
HAYNE demanded the surrender of Fort
Sumpter to South Carolina. He claimed to
appear at Washington, not as military
man demanding the surrender of the Fort.
but as the Attorney General of South Caro-
lima, to claim for the State the exercise of
it's legal right of eminent domain, and to
pledge the State to make good all injury to
rights of property, arising from the exercise
of its claim. The President through
Secretary HOLT, responds to the legal
questions presented, and adds if he was
convinced of the justice of the claim, he has
not the power to surrender the Fort. In
respect to the reinforcement of Sumpter, be
states that whenever Major ANDERsoN's
safety requires the reinforcement of that
post, every effort will be made to aid him.
Col. HAYNE left Washington, for home,
on the 18th, accompanied by Lieutenant
HALL of Fort Sumpter. 1t is thought
that the Fort will be Immediately at
tackled by the southern troops. Several
eminent Virginians, in Washington, tele-
graphed to Governor P1cKENs requesting
him to still forbear from assaulting the
Fort, and the Governor responded that he
could not give a definite answer until he
received the Presidents final reply to Col.
HAYNE, and ascertain the grounds of his
refusal to surrender the Fort.
EFF war comes, we shall first take care
of northern traitors" So spoke JNo. p.
HALE, in the Senate, on Monday last.
Northern traitors will be first taken care of,
undoubtedly, and they will be just such
traitors as the Abolitionist HALE, who have
been mainly instrumental in bringing about
the dissolution of the Union. When civil
war thus come, the people will ask them
selves, "who and what have brought this
upon us?" And when they learn, as learn
they will, that it all originated in misera-
bic political philanthropy for the negro, and
by men who preferred the dissolution of the
Union to any compromise with the South
on the subject of slavery, they will take
vengeance on the leaders, like HALE, who
are directly responsible for the mischief 1t
is one thing to raise storm, and another
and very different thing to direct it, after
it is in motion and Mr. Hale and his Abo-
lition friends will find that out. Something
else than the negro will then be IN the wood
pile.
The Virginia Convention assembled
on the 18th; Tennessee elected delegates
to Convention on Saturday which meets
on the 25th; the Arkansas election takes
place on the 18th, and if called by the PEG.
pie, the Convention will assemble on March
4th /; the Missouri election is on the 18th,
and the Convention meets on the 18th, and
in North Carolina the election takes place
on the 18th, and the Convention meets
March 18th. No action has yet been TAX
en- in the States of Kentucky, Maryland
and Delaware. In the elections in Tennes-
see, Arkansas and North Carolina, the peo-
pie will vote for delegates, and at the same
time designate whether or not it is their
will that convention shall be holden. II
majority vote "aye," the conventions will