The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1861-04-26

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the morning board the heaviest decline was in
Illinois Central. which dropped four per cent.
without; Reading also fell four per cent.
The war feeling was even more apparent to-
day in financial and commercial circles than
on Saturday. A hearty unanimity pervades
kinde to the fighting point. Every one
Democrat and Republican, conservative and
radical-agrees that the government must be
supported with men and money, and the old
Union of thirty-four States must be preserved
at all hazards, and at any expense of life or
means: And, the closer the subject is ex.
amined, the clearer people can see that the
evils of war which is now forced upon the
North will fall, not upon this section, but upon
the rebel States. 1t ia not New York and Bos.
t0n-but Charleston, Savannah, Apalachicola,
Mobile, New Orleans and Galveston which
will lose their trade in consequence of the war.
1t is not in our streets, but in theirs, that the
grass will grow this summer. 1t is not here,
but there, that crowds of idle, hungry men are
likely to besiege the government with menaces
and riots. For while here at the North abund.
ant supplies Of food will pour regularly every
day from the great productive region of the
Northwest, and the military and naval prepar-
atoms Of the government will afford employ
ment to all the idle mechanics and laborers of
this section of the country, in the South the
closing of the ports will necessarily throw out
of employment hundreds of thousands of men,
and the interruption of commercial intercourse
with the West will deprive the Gulf States of
the supplies of food which are necessary for
their subsistence. 1t is fast becoming appa-
rent to the more farsighted among our inan-
ciers that, so far as New York city is con-
cerned, the business produced by the war will
be greater in amount than the business de-
stroyed by it; that the progress of hostilities
employment; and that, Notwithstanding the
loss OF the Southern market, New York will
do better business this summer and next
fall than any one has anticipated. 1t is hoped
that the President will lose no time in closing
the Southern ports. If we must have war.
let it be vigorously prosecuted. and let its
evils be made SO palbably felt that the value
of loyalty and peace shall hereafter be appre-
ciated.
SEIZURE OF VESSELS FROM yHE CONFEDERATE
STATES.
Vessels from Southern ports having South.
ern clearanceS find themselves in hot water on
arriving here. Under the 18th section of the
act OF February 10, 1888, vessels arriving
without a proper clearance are subject to a
fine of SlOO. and forfeiture of all foreign mer.
chandise contained on board in excess of $500.
All vessels arriving from the rebellious States,
having clearances signed by the Confederate
officers, are amenable to this act. Yesterday
the ship Andover, from New Orleans, was
seized under this act, the master fined 500,
anu tAe meICHanuIse \pelng III excess OF the
amount stipulated by the law forfeited. In
addition to the Andover, the following vessels
were yesterday fined 500 each:
Schooner Is. W. Brown, Charleston, S. G.
Schooner H. r. Coggshall, Jacksonville, Fla.
Ship T. S. DeSoto, Savannah, Ga.
Schooner W. A. Ellis, Charleston, S. c.
Brig VIM. NJ. GrOton, Fernandina, Fla.
Brig Herald, New Orleans, La.
Schooner Laura Gertrude, Fernandina, Fla.
Schooner l.. V. Myers, Jacksonville, Fla.
Schooner X. j. Mercer, Jacksonville, Fla.
Schooner Ned, Charleston, S. G.
Schooner Pearl, Jacksonville, Fla.
Schooner F. F. Randolph. Georgetown, s. G.
Schooner Mary Stedman, Charleston, S. c.
Schooner Virginia. Mobile, Ala.
Schooner j. NJ. Vance. New Smyrna, Fla.
Schooner NJ. A. Wood, Mobile, Ala.
Sixteen in all. Some of these are still held,
to ascertain if they are liable to forfeiture.
The determination in regard to them will pro
badly be arrived at tO.day.-N. Y. World, OF
the 18Th,
CORRESPONDENCE FOR SOUTHERN NEwsPAPE
MIR. KENNEDY, Superintendent of the
New York Police, has stated that be will
hereafter order the arrest of all persons
who, as correspondents for newspapers in
the seeding States, send on information
exposing the plans of the government, OF
giving information likely to prove of service
to rebels. The superintendent will also
seize all munitions Of war exported from
this port, which he has any reason to think
is going to be used by the secessionists
SOUTHERN PR1vATEERING.
President JEFF. Davis, on the 18th, is.
sued a proclamation inviting privateers to
make war on Northern commerce with let.
tiers of marque and reprisal. He speaks oil
the wrongs of the past, and those now
threatened by men whose enmity is more
implacable because unprovoked, and con-
cludes by saying that, under the blessings
of Divine Providence, we may hope for a
speedy, just and honorable peace. The
Charleston Mercury, of the llth, has an
advertisement for first class, strongly.
built, clipper steamer, capable of being fit
ted out as privateer."
THE BOMBARDMENT OF sUNPTER.
The reporter for the Associated Press,
under date of the 18th, telegraphs to the
New York papers the following description
OF the pyrotechnics in Charleston barbor
on Friday night, the 18th:
The terrific firing reached an awful cli-
max at ten O'Clock at night. The heavens
were obscured by rain clouds, and it was
as dark as Erebus. The guns were heard
distinctly, the wind blowing in shore.
Sometimes shell would burst in mid air,
directly over Fort Sumpter. Nearly all
night long all the streets were thronged
with people full of excitement and enthusi.
asm The housetops, the battery, the
wharves, the shipping in fact, every avail
able place was taken possession of by the
multitude. The discharges of cannon grad
ually diminished as the sun rose. Ali the
clouds, which rendered the night so dark
and dismal, disappeared as the day began
to break, while the air became most beau.
tiful, balmy and refreshing. The streets
were filled again with persons male and
female, old and young, white and black;
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