The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1861-02-01
The PROGRESS OF THE REVOLUTION,

moval of the Postmaster at Pensacola, Fla.
and the ordering Of that officer to return all
the property in his possession, belonging to
the United States, to the Department at
Washington. This act of Mr.. HOLT was in
consequence Of the fact that all the govern
ment dispatches to that Office were allowed
to be intercepted. Pensacola is the main
distribution Office for the mail matter of the
State of Florida. All Postmasters have
been notified to send letters mailed for Pen>
sacola, to the dead letter Office at Washing
ton. .ug
In speech in Boston, on Sunday, the
Goth inst, WENDELL PHILLIPS charged Mr..
SEWARD with having attempted to gain by
conservatism what he failed to secure by
abolition-the next Presidency. His chief
argument was, that disunion was desirable
because it will abolish slavery. He called
upon the North to tell the South what they
really mean, namely: abolition" Any
compromise made by Congress would not
affect the northern heart and conscience.
He argued the North would gain by dis
union, and used the following language:
Sacrifice everything to keep South Carolina
in it? Rather build bridge of gold and pay
her toll over it. Let her march off with ban
ners and trumpets, and we will speed the part
ing guests. Let her not stand upon the order
n OOiO0 hQr
forts and arsenals and sub-treasuries, and lend
her jewels of silver and gold, and Egypt will
rejoice that she has departed"
The Washington correspondent of the
New York Post, Republican paper, says:
The South will accept nothing short of the
Crittenden Amendments. These would proba-
bly, hold back Virginia and all the border
States; but the Republicans seem inclined to
risk disunion and civil war before they will &C.
cept them. Doubtless, if the question depend
ed on themselves alone, compromise might
be made; but their constituencies outside the
great cities blow but one strain, and that is
mo compromise"
This attempt to throw the responsibility
upon their constituents will not answer.
They are for compromise, but the leaders
are not.
We learn from the Herald, that by the
action of the secession states the usual
channels of trade have been choked up in
the southern seaboard, and the result is that
the commerce is diverted to the city of New
York from the interior by the railroads,
which are now doing thriving business.
The Herald continues:
The harvest never was so abundant, and the
prosperity of the country never rose to so high
pitch, as during the last year. The demand
for its breadstufs in Europe is unusually great.
Money is puring into New York from abroad.
Ten millions of dollars have arrived within
very short time, and capital is daily accumula-
ting here in an unprecedented manner. 1t can
not long remain inactive when there are pro.
ducts in the interior for sale. Those who want
to sell will find purchasers in New York, and
trade will become unusually brisk.
The revolutionary condition of the South is
driving the trade to this market, while it is
impoverishing the southern ports in the same
proportion. From this cause, and from the
extraordinary abundance of the crops in the
West, and the extraordinary demand for them
in England, great commercial revival is tax.
ing place here, and an amount of business will
soon be done which will astonish those who
imagined that. by their insane proceedings,
they were inf1icting deadly blow upon the
commerce of New York, which will ever be the
free city of America-free not merely in po-
litical, but in commercial sense--the entrepot
of the trade of the Old World and the New.
AT the recent railroad convention in
New Y ork, which was attended by the Lead
ing railroad men of the North and West,
the fact was developed that freight from
the South and Southwest, with the excep~
ton of cotton, has greatly decreased, while
the movements Of produce from the North.
west and Central West, north of the Ohio
river, was unusually large. All the roads
report increased receipts over January,
1860 /; some of them very heavy, and, as an
instance, it was mentioned that the Balti-
more and Ohio, the most southern of the
five great lines, and the increase of which is
less than the others, shows an enlargement
in revenue on eastern freight of $75 5000 for
the first twenty-five days of the present
month over the similar period of last year.
A general falling off was reported in pas
scnger receipts and western bound freights.
Much OF the produce movement is for Eu-
rope. All the five lines are deriving in
creased business from diversion of the cot
ton of the Southwestern States from the
Southern Atlantic and Gulf ports.
:, The following resolution, written by
ALEX H. STEPHENS, was introduced into
the Georgia Convention by his brother,
Judge STEPHENS, and adopted: r.F
| Resolved, That all the members of this Con.
ventioR, including those who voted against the
ordinance, as well as those who voted for it.
will sign the same, as pledge of the unani.
nous determination of this Convention to sus
tain and defend the State in this, her cause of
remedy, with all its responsibilities and conse-
quences, without regard to individual approval
or disapproval of its adoption.
All but doz, n delegates then signed the
ordinance, although the vote against it was
50, on its final passage. ALEX. q. STEPHENS
and HERsoHEL V. JOHNSON, both signed it.
The United States District Judges in
| Mississippi. Georgia. Florida and Alabama.