The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1861-03-08

the mails from the South for the past three
days have been teeming with orders to forward
so as to arrive within the Confederacy before
the 4th of March, for all goods which arrive
after that date will be subject to duties; there
fore goods for New Orleans are ordered via
Savannah. The steamers to depart to day and
tomorrow and the LIST of March are the only
ones which will arrive South in time to avoid
paying the tariff, and, therefore, the Southern
people will feel at once the effect of the tariff
in the advance of prices on Northern manu-
features. The merchant there who pays the
tariff of a dollar on hat or pair of boots will
of course charge his customer the excess.
The collector at Charleston gave notice
on the 22d, that {" all vessels from States not
members of the Confederate States of Amer.
lea, except Texas, will be regarded as for
eign vessels, and must enter, clear, pay fees
and comply with all laws and regulations
in force lin the United States) on the 1st
of November, 1860, in relation to foreign
vessels"
The United States military force in
the State of Texas consists of thirty-seven
companies-twenty-two infantry, five artil-
lery and ten cavalry. Twenty companies
are on the Rio Grandchildren infantry
and five artillery. The other seventeen
companies, cavalry and infantry, are
stationed in the interior, from Camp Cooper,
Phantom Hill, in the northern part of the
State, down south as far as San Antonio,
and Fort Inge, near Fort Duncan on the
Rio Grande. At the post at Brownsville
there are two companies of artillery. The
numerical strength of this force is about
$500 men, and the Stale has about 500 of
her own men in the field, making about an
aggregate of 5000.
The Arkansas Convention met on the
4th of March, the returns. indicating that
the people voted to hold State Convention.
The returns also indicate that there will be
a majority ia the convention in favor of CO..
operation with the border States. The west
and northwest, as far as heard from, have
gone largely against immediate secession.
In the southern portion OF the State, 80
immediate secessionists, "a conditional seces
sionists, and between Is and 20 Union men
have been elected. Arkansas will likely
occupy the same position as Virginia.
The Democracy of Pennsylvania at
their State Convention held on the 22d,
adopted among others, the following reso,
lutions
Resolved, That we will, by all proper and
legitimate means, oppose, dlscOuntenance and
prevent any attempt, on the part of the Re-
publicans in power, to make any armed agrees
sion upon the Southern States, especially so
long as laws contravening their rights shall re-
main unrepealed on the statute books of
Northern States, and so long as the Just de-
mands of the South shall continue to be un-
recognized by the Republican majorities in
those States, and unsecured by proper amend
atory explanations of the Constitution.
Resolved, That in he dignfied and prudent
reserve of the Southern Border States, and in
their conciliatory oveItures, we recognize the
same patriotic purposes which animated the
fathers of the Republic, and that an appeal to
the people OF Pennsylvania will manifest their
hearty concurrence in all reasonable and con.
stitutional measures for the preservation of the
Union, consistently with the rights of all the
States.
Resolved, That the conduct of the present
Governor of Pennsylvania in combining eXclu.
sively his selection of Commissioner to the
Peace Conference to the Republican party, and
excluding 100000 freemen of Pennsylvania
from any representation in that body, was the
act of partizan and not a patriot.
1t is amusing how few months
have turned the tables as between MIR.
SEWARD and Mr.. GREELEY. Before the
Chicago Convention the one was deemed
sufficiently radical for the most radical pur-
poses for the most radical aboitionists !;
the other professed to see the necessity of
the pursuit OF a conservative policy. The
one sought the Presidential nomination,
and probably thought radicalism the surest
way to obtain it; the other sought to de-
feat thut nomination and took conserva-
tive tack as promising best to subserve his
purpose. Conservatism won so far as to
defeat the nomination of Mr.. SEWARD,
though it did not win so far as to nomin-
ate conservative candidate. AS showing
just how GREELEY then stood we quote from
The Tribune of the 9Th of August last :
The developments of public sentiment. and
the fruits Of agitation in the Territories them.
selves, appeared concurrently almost certain
to secure the nOn.extenson of slavery thereto,
even in the absence of any congressional pro-
hibition. Our opinion of the propriety of the
WilmOt proviso has not changed one hair, but
the necessity for it has been, while the practi-
cability of enacting it appears to have receded
into vague future. N0aU, therefore, WE ARE
WILLING TO COMPROMISE, AND TO TAKE HALF
OUR RIGHT, rather than to continue cOntrO-
versy from which we can anticipate no good,
but apprehend much evil.
MIR. SEWARD proposes to do now no more
than GREELEY was willing to do then.
And it is for this that The Tribune ar
raigns him as "false to human freedom
and demands that he shall be excluded from
the councils of the new administration.
Under the lead of Mrs. WILLARD, of
Troy, and other noted women, mammoth
petition, signed exclusively by the gentler