The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1861-05-10

Personal Items.
CALEB CUSHING has rendered his services
for any capacity in the defence of the Union.
DEsPArcHEs from Concord, New Hamp-
shire, say that ex.President Pierce, in ODE.
dience to telegraphic despatch from Hon.
Mr.. Ingersoll, of Pennsylvania, has gone to
Philadelphia and Baltimore on mission of
mediation between the rebels and the Gov,
eminent. a..
The following approval of Major Ander.
sons conduct at Fort Sumpter is pub
lished:
To Major anderson, late Commander of Fort
Sumpter:
/ am directed by the President to communi.
cate to you, and through you to the officers
and men under your command at Forts M0ul-
trie and Sumpter, the appreciation of the Gov.
eminent of your and their judicious and gal.
liant conduct there, and tender you and them
the thanks of the Government:
SIMON CAMERON,
Secretary of War;
GEN. SCOTT REsIGNED.-Our town is
again in furious state of excitement at the
news of General SCOTS resignation. Can
non are pouring forth their thunders, bells
are ringing, people are hugging each other
on the streets, and the joy and graduation
are unbounded. AS we 60 to press the ju.
bilee continues, and we don't know how late
it may be kept V,eksburg Wing.
On Friday, the 26th, President Lincoln
said to company of Kansas visitors who
waited upon him, that the last hope Of
peace may not have passed away, but if l
have to choose between the maintenance OF
the Union of these States, of the authority
of the Government, and of the liberties OF
this nation, on the one hand and the she'd
ding of fraternal blood on the other, you
need not be at loss which course l shall
take" In the Presidents proclamation he
gave the rebels twenty days to lay down
their arms and return to their allegiance.
"Time" will not be SCALED" until next Sun
day night at twelve o'clock and until it is,
good faith on the part of the Government
requires that operations should be confined
strictly to defence
PRIVATE Geographic dispatches from the
East convey the painful intelligence that
Judge Bates is lying seriously ill in Wash"
ington city.-&. Louis Democrat.
EFFORTS are making at Washington to
have Cassius M. Clay, j. @. Fremont, or
N. P. Banks appointed Major Generals in
the army. Speaking on this subject, the
Chicago Tribune says:
We ought at this hour to have man in the
Northwest entrusted with great power to COM
bine, to organize and direct. Possess him with
the policy of the Administration, but leave him
unfettered as to details. If his every act is re
gulated by q Cabinet Council thousand miles
off, the campaign will result in a series of
marchings and cOuntermarchDgs; but, on the
other hand if left free to make his own comb.
nations, there will be celebrity of movement
and promptness of execution. Every soldier
will be imbued with confidence, and the gov
erning mind will be felt in every department.
We must have a leader. Who is the man!
LIEUT.. SLEMMER visited General Bragg,
at Pensacola, on the 18th, to notify him
that Colonel Harvey Brown is now in COM
mand of Fort Pickens. Its garrison is
over 1000 men, including two batteries OF
flying artillery, for use Santa on Rosa
Island.
A DESPATCH from New York states that
Cadet Edward I. Buchanan, son of the Rev.
E. Y. Buchanan, of Philadelphia, and
nephew of Elk. President Buchanan, has
resigned his position in the United States
Military Academy, at West Point, and is
about to engage in the service of bis coun-
try, among the volunteers OF his native
State.