The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1861-07-26
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THE WEEKLY PIONEER AND DEMOCRAT.

Quite breeze was raised in the House
of Representatives on Wednesday, by Hol-
man 8 resolution, giving the army contract
investigating committee full powers to push
their researches into all kinds Of contracts
now made, or to be made, 10 any depart
ment connected with the war. This was
fought persistently by the Pennsy
members, and by Kellogg, of Illinois, who
declared he would vote for no investigation
which assumed at the start that there was
corruption in the War Department. Mr..
Van Wyck, chairman of the committee,
hoped the House would not shrink from in
vestigating matters which had already de-
veloped degree of wickedness and cor
rupton unparalleled. The House voted
two to one, to grant the fullest powers to
the com mittee.
Richmond advices say that the Execu-
tive Department of the Confederate Gov
eminent prohibits persons leaving the city
without passports.
The Raleigh North Carolina) Regis.
ter of the 10th, says the confederate steamer
Winslow captured off Cape Hatteras on
the Sd, the schooner Herbert Manton, Of
Barnstable, Massachusetts,, with cargo Of
sugar and molasses valued at 100000.
We learn that vote was taken at
Camp Utly, Racine, Wisconsin, last week,
which resulted as follows l2O Republicans
and $50 Democrats. All the field officers
are Republicans.
Dispatches received at st. Louis, state
that on the morning of the 18th, 800 fed
eral troops, on their way up the North
Missouri Railroad, found the track torn up
at Millyille, about thirty miles above ST..
Charles, and were fred into by a body of
rebels. An engagement ensued, resulting
in the loss of seven rebels killed and seve
raj taken prisoners. One man who was
caught with gun in his hand was immedi-
ately hung. Another, attempting to es-
cape, was riddled with balls. Federal loss,
three killed, seven wounded, and thirty
horses captured.
"A despatch from Grafton, dated the
10th, says that the rebels driven by General
Morris from Laurel Hill, still numbering
three thousand, escaped Gen. Hill near
West Uuion, passing within mile and a
half of his army. He returned to Oakland,
and started on the 10th, in pursuit.
ten. Lyon has reached Springfield,
Mo-, at the head of 1880 soldiers where he
formed junction with G oil. Sigel's force,
Gen. Sweeney's force, Col. Gratz Browns
regiment and the Home Guards OF that Sec
ton. These various troops when CONSOLE
dated constitute an army of eight to ten
thousand men. 1t was expected that he
would lose no time in marching in pursuit
of the rebels under jackson, Price and
McCulloch. 1t was doubted whether they
would give him battle. He intended to
pursue them into Arkansas and follow them
until found, or run them out of that State.
Since Gen. Scott has decided to have
more cavalry in the army, the new regi~
ments called for are being hurried up. Col.
Harian's regiment of 1900, rendezvoused
at Philadelphia, have been ordered on to
Washington, where their equipment is to be
completed. Col. McReynold's regiment at
New York is also called for. Another
regiment is nearly ready, at Philadelphia,
under Col. Friedland, and still another is
being formed at New York.
The trial of the Patterson family
against the Bonaparte family came on again
in Paris on the 25th ult, in the Imperial
Court, on the appeal of the Baltimore family
from the decision of the lower court, which
was against them. The plea of NJ. Berger
in favor of the American family, is said to
have been a magnificent legal effort, and
would have carried any case not prejudiced
by extraneous causes but the judgment of
the lower court will most probably be con-
firmed, and then the plaintiffs will carry the
case to the Court Of Cassation-the high
Court of Appeals.
| '-Thurlow Weed condemns the course of
the abolitionist, Lovejoy, for attempting to
drag the slavery question into Congress.
de says q The country will insist that the
halls of Congress are not the proper place
just now to trot out the negro"
l The BLoCKADING FLEET.-The blockad-.
ing feet now in Southern waters, consists
of thirty-four regular men.ol-war and three
| armed storeships, carving a total of 267