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Civilian & telegraph. [volume] (Cumberland, Md.) 1859-1875, 1861-09-19
List of Letters

DEMAINING in the Cumberland Post
Ii Office, Sept. l, 1861. Persons calling
Tor these letters must say they were adver-
tised, otherwise they may not receive them.
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DOTATOEs.-l0o0bu bushels Mercer Potatoes
L $50 tons Windsor Plaster
$50 bills. Apples. per Schr. Rockingham
for sale low from the vessel, by
N. HARPER eco.
Alexandria, Va, March IS, 1861.
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Isaac JOHNSON and
wife In the Circuit Court
VS.. for Allegany county as
George Buoy and Court Of EQUITY.
othars
Civilian & telegraph. [volume] (Cumberland, Md.) 1859-1875, 1861-09-19
Thursday Morning, Sept. 10. 1861.

UNION NOMINATIONS.
For Governor,
Augustus w. Bradford,
OF BALTIMORE COUNTY.
For Comptroller,
Samuel S. MaMtt,
OF CECIL COUNTY.
For Commissioner of Public works,
Gen. Edward Shriver,
OF FREDERICK COUNTY.
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Estate of VIM. Keller.

Cumberland, Sept. 10, 1851.
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Order of Rattle ation.

Accident, Sept. 10, ls6l-3t.a
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1861-03-29

We have a number of Dakota ap-
pointments. WV. JAYNE, of Springfield,
Ills., a brother-in law of Senator TRux.
BULL, is appointed Governor Of the Terri
tory, and DR.. CHARLES LE1B, of Chicago,
Ills, Marshal. Pending the Kansas troubles,
LE1B was resident Of that Territory, and
high.priest among the border ruffians.
In 1858, he was one of the leaders
of the Buchanan. Dante movement in I'LL
nois. He has his reward. JOHN HUrcH1N.
SON, of Minneapolis, has been appointed
Secretary of Dakota. 8. P. Wilson, Of
Pennsylvania, is announced as Chief Justice,
and Mr.. HILL, Of Michigan, Surveyor Cen
eral of Dacota.
There must have been change in the
"slate." Judge GOODRICH, this morning, j.
gazetted as Secretary of Legation at Bel
GUM, the Office to which @. G.. RIPLEY was
appointed.
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1861-03-29

Senator DOUGLAS, in his speech in the
Senate, on the 18th instant, defined the
three lines of policy, from which the Repub.
licans must choose. They are
l. The Restoration and Preservation OF
the Union by such amendments to the Con.
stitution as will ensure the domestic tram
quillity, safety and equality of all the States
and thus restore peace, unity and fraternity
to the whole country.
2. A Peaceful Dissolution of the Union,
by recognizing the independence of such
States as refuse to remain in the Union
without such constitutional amendments,
and the establishment of liberal system of
commercial and social intercourse with
them by treaties of commerce and amity.
3. War, with view to the subjugation
and military occupancy of these States
which have seeded or may secede from the
Union.
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1861-03-29

MEx1co.--By way of New Orleans WI
are in possession of few additional items
of Mexican news. So far as determined by
the late Presidential election the Republic
is nearly equally divided between three par
ties. Eight States are thought to be fol
Juarez, representative Of the Puros eight
are for Lerdo de Tejada, candidate of the
extreme radicals, and six for General Or.
tega, representative of the army and more
moderate politicians. 1t is believed, there.
fore, that there will be no choice by the
people. The election then goes to the Con.
gress, where Juarez, it is thought, will have
a large majority. In the meantime, Gen.
ARrEAGA, the Governor of Queretaro, has
put himself at the head of movement
against the central government. The press,
however, very generally condemns it,
though it has advocates.
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1861-03-29

In addition to the Federal appointments
heretofore published by Us, we learn that
our Congressional delegation has united in
recommending for appointments the follow
ing gentlemen -STEPHEN MILLER, Regis.
ter, and Rev. CHARLES MCCLURE, Receiver
of the Land Office at st. Cloud; S. W.
LUCE, Register, and LUKE MARVIN, Re-
ceiver of the Land Office at Portland, Lake
Superior L. K. STANNARD, Register, and
G. M. ST1cKNEY, Receiver at the Office at
Sunrise A. T1BBErTs, to position in the
st. Peter Land Office. DAVID HEAToN will
be Postmaster at st. Anthony; MORGAN at
Minneapolis; BLANCHARD at Winona; AR.
MOLD at Wabashaw SoR1N at Red Wing,
and VAN Worries atStillwater. All Of the
above gentlemen are hard working and eff.
Gent politicians.
JAMES II. BAKER, not receiving the COM
missionership of Indian Affairs, tried his
strength for Sioux Agent, and--failed. He
will have to come down to clerkship.
The struggle is very bitter at Washing-
ton, for Indian Superintendent, in this
State. CLARK THOMPSON has the delegation,
but the President is inclined to appoint
NORTH. Rumor has it that ABRAHAM and
Senator WILKINSON have used to each
other, very bitter and decided language on
the subject.
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1861-03-29
Another Oligarchy in the Senate.

New England with population little
greater than Ohio, has twelve United States
Senators to our two. Eleven of her twelve
Senators are chairmen of Senate Commit
tees. There are but twenty-one of these COM
tees; so the three millions of people in
New England have more chairmen than the
twenty-seven millions ofpeople in the remain
ing United States. This is the most odious
Sectionalism ever witnessed in the Ameri-
can Government, and it comes from those
who have been loudest in reproaching the
South for that quality! New England,
with her tremendous representation in the
Senate, is now practically controlling the
Government, leading it to suit her own Pc
culiar local interests, without regard to those
of the West or South. The Republican
majority in the Senate, by their arrange.
ment of these committees, seem to imagine
that New England is Of more Importance
than all the rest of the country. There will
be revolt in the West, ere long, against
this New England Senate oligarchy.
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1861-03-29
senator Rice and the Indian Bond

senator Rice and the Indian Bonds.
We take the following from the Globes
report of the Senate proceedings on the 10th
instant:
Mr.. Rice. l rise to privileged question.
have no remarks to make. | simply wish
the Secretary to read the first paragraph of
a report made by committee of the House
of Representatives. 1t will explain itself.
The Secretary read, as follows:
Mr.. 1. N. Morris, from the select committee,
made the following supplemental report:
1.-THE select committee, appointed by the
House to ascertain the facts in relation to the
fraudulent abstraction of certain bonds from
the Interior Department. submit supplement.
al report, embracing the testimony of Hon.
Henry NJ. Rice, of the Senate; Thomas W.
Pierce, of Boston, Massachusetts,; and Hon.
Thomas P. Akers.
In the first report submitted by your COM
mittee, Mr.. Rice was referred to a. not appear
ing before them in manner which somewhat
reflected upon him. Not the slightest suspicion
however, was entertained that he was in any
implicated in the fraudulent abstraction of the
bonds. Your committee are also gratifed in
being able to state further. that, at subse.
quent interview between them and Mr.. Rice,
the impression that he intended to treat
them and the House with discourtesy, by pro-
posing to submit his testimony in the form of
answers to nterrogatories, was wholly re-
moved, and his position left honorable and free
from just criticism. Any seeming reflection
that may appear to have been cast upon him,
was entirely the result of Misrepresentation.
When the facts came to be known, your com.
mittee were satisfied that Mr.. Rice labored
with energy and zeal to aid the Government,
and is entitled to the thanks of the House and
the country for it,"
Mr.. Rice. That is all, sir.
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1861-03-29

A SOUTHERN NAvY.-Alderman BoOLE,
of New York, has been awarded the con-
tract for the construction of forty gun>scows
for the Southern Confederacy. These boats
are to be seventy feet long by twenty-five
wide and five feet deep, double-planked and
with sides of the regular naval thickness.
Each scow is to mount one central ten-inch
pivot gun and two thirty>four pound CARO-
nades. They are to be anchored in the
mouths of the Mississippi and at various
exposed points up the river. The plan of
these boats, as cheap substitute for a
Southern Navy, is due to Commander HAIR
STEIN, and they are to be completed for
$4,000 each. Commander HARsTE1N be-
lieves that these vessels, almost wholly sub.
merged in the water, will prove of more use
and receive far less damage than Lieut..
HAMnroN's costly and dangerous iron
plated battery.
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1861-03-29

CONSTITUTION IN AUsTR1A.-The En-
peror Of Austria has yielded to the pressure,
and has granted constitution. There are
to be two legislative assemblies, under the
name of the "Reichsrath." The upper
house is to be elected by Provincial Legis-
lures. The Reichsrath can originate meas.
ures, and its discussions are to be public.
The right to regulate taxation, the currency,
revenue and expenditures of the Empire, is
recognized. Then restoration is promised
Of the former constitutions of Hungary,
Croatia, Sclavonia, and Pennsylvania, with
in the limits Of the diploma of the 10th Of
October, 1850" G Autonomy" is also
granted to the Provincial Diets. ii4l
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1861-03-29
The Boundaries Of Dakotas..Tyhe Or.
ganic Act OF tho New Territory,

We have received copy of the law or.
ganizing the new Territory of Dakota, from
which it appears, that we were greatly in
error in giving the boundaries of the
Territory, in an article published short
time since. The boundaries, set forth in
the law, are as follows IL Commencing at
Red River, on the British line, and follow
ing the western boundary of Minnesota to
the northern line Of Iowa; thence along
said line to the Big Sioux river, and down
said river to its mouth thence up the Mis-
souri, to the mouth of the Niobrara, or
Running Water river, and up said river to
the mouth of the Keha. Paha, or Turtle
river thence up Turtle river to its inter-
section with the forty third parallel of north
latitude, and westward along said line, to
the eastern boundary Of Washington Ter
ritory; thence north to the British line, and
then east to the place of beginning. It
will be seen that this change of boundary,
adds to Dakota all that part of Nebraska
lying north of the forty-third parallel of
latitude, and extends its western boundary
to the eastern line of Washington Terrific
ry. The Territory as now constituted, is
magnificent in its proportions, for it cannot
contain less than 100000 square miles.
By the organic act, the Governor Of the
Territory is directed to cause census to
be taken, and apportion, according to pop
pulation, the representation in the first ter
ritorial Legislature, which will consist Of
nine members of the Council, and thirteen
members of the House. The first session Of
the Legislature is to be held at such time and
place as the Governor may appoint, and then
the Governor and Legislature are authorized
to locate the capital of the Territory. The
Governor is also made Superintendent Of
Indian Affairs in the Territory. A Sur
veyor General is also provided for, and a
land district established, comprising all
territory north of Running Water river, to
be called the Yancton district. By the
organic act, the name of the James river is
changed to Dakota.
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1861-03-29

The New York Herald, commenting upon
the above statement, predicts that the great
bulk Of the imports from Europe will be
entered in the Southern ports, and that
there will be hardly any duties to be COL
lected at the North to sustain the govern
ment, though its expenses will be greatly
increased. The greed which suggested the
MORRILL, tariff will defeat its own purpose,
and it will be necessary to inaict upon the
Northern people direct taxation to keep the
machinery of government in motion.
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1861-03-29

The season is all of two weeks later than
last spring. If there is not soon change
in the weather for the better, farmers will
bevery much behind with their spring work.
Talk of winter lingering in the lap of
spring." it's worse than that. Winter has
returned and kicked spring out into the
cold, and it stands moaning and shivering,
like disappointed ofice.seeker. o}
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1861-03-29
The Northern and Southern Tariff
~ ldg Compared

Subjoined is table, copied from the
commercial papers of the East, exhibiting
the rates Of duties levied by the Northern
and Southern Tariffs, upon the principal
articles of import. 1t will be seen that in
most cases the duty is double, or 100 per
cent greater, at the North than at the
South:
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1861-03-29

The government expenditures OF Great
Britain are 4l5O 100000, more than mil
lion of dollars per day. The people consume
seven hundred thousand dollars of food per
day, and more than their own soil produces.
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1861-03-29

The alpacas are increasing rapidly in
Australia, introduced there only year
since by Mr.. Ledger.
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1861-03-29

The power confded
to me will be used to
hold, occupy and pos.
secs the property and
places belonging to the
government, and col.
lect the duties and i'm
posts.
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1861-03-29
inaugural

In your hands, my
dissatisfied fellow
countrymen, and not
in mine, is the mo.
mentous question of
civil war. The gov
eminent will not as
sail You. 13
, 1861-09-24

The plates for the gun boats building 1t St.
Louis we're tested with rifled cannon q few
days sines, with very gratifying results. The
plates for the experiment (211z inches thick,
were placed and firmly bolted to oak blocks
shout sixteen inches thick, and stationed in
firm position at an angie Of forty-tive degrees,
and inclination the same as the gun boats. Al
q distance OF 500 yards, quite ~ far = the
I kunner could see the target the ball struck the
from uuder one Of the bolts, tearing it ont
without irjuIy to the lron, only making its
! mark In rskiDg way. The next shot that hit
the iron, was fired at distance Of five hundred
yards. This made serY decided mark, indeat-
irg the iron enc inch The pext shot at
| FIVE hundred yards hit fair, and also made
deat about o1e inch fdeep, starting all the
bolts. Next they came up to three hundred
yards distance, and the eject on the iron was
the same each time, deep indentatioa being
| made, but not a crack cr sign OF breaking.
Nov the party said they would see If q bali
could be put through, so the iron target was
set up straight, OF little leaning towards the
Gun, which Nas placed only one hundred yards
hit fair In the centre, knocking the target
arcnnd out OF its place and 8hattering bali IN
. thousand fraenlen nts, many pieces flying back
to the gun. It WAS now determined unsafe tC
:1y it at shorter range. It being decided by
Capt Rodgera and all hands present that the
iron ret1Sted Ge5ohd aA eApectatlons, ana
proved to be Of a very superior quality, TIC
gave it up that we could not put bal
through it, and 1t was pronounced perfectly
satisfactory. Trials OF iron have been made II
England oa frsm four to ten inch plates, anl
balls have pen. trated through, but it must b.
remembered that the Eaglish iron mostly, i
net all Of it, is "storec,E1 irou," rLIle II:
iror new beil G used for the gun boats build
ing by Capt. Jas B. Eaaa, is Of the Very BIS
American 81 'ch4rcoa1 iron" This accounts, t:
great extent, for the wonderful resistance 0
two and halt inch thick plates
This sreas6 well for the reputation of Gay
Lord, Sen & Co.'s iron. They have Ylacsi
themselves under & forfeiture Of 500 per da,
fer every 6ry's de1ay beyond the time the
J ~ere to deliver the iron They had the frs
lot here one day ahead OF the specified tlIne
ind will be " on time" With a!l GIFT.
, 1861-09-24

lFrou the n. T. Commercial Advertiser, 18Th
Fort Lafayette contains egEty-ene prison.
ers. who are guarded by eiglty-t7o soldiers,
This proportion OF soldiers to prisosers is &C
cideltal /; still It is intended that the former
shall not greatly exceed the latter. The inl-
preston generally prevails that the For. cAa
accommodate large number Of pr1soneTe-
Gne tbouEa1d even las been considered by
somc allow estimate. This Is not tact, how
evtr. The Fort will contain large number
Of mtn, but not that proportion Of prisoners.
LIE fosmcr can be aclomnoda IL their reg
u:ar qEarters, while the latter must be secured
u sucn manner as to reuder escape impossi.
bic. lie caEemhtes are Used for this purpose
roTr. apd Ecnle Of them are very much GRO I'd.
ed Tbs guE itfGlf occupies large space, and
areu1d II the beds must be disposed, 80 that
ten pIiEoLeIs are quite eGouah to placs in
c1e caeeEate If these prisoners ara
deiaiLed at Fort Lafayette all winter
they Ejn find the situation OF theis
Irison very much exposed. The cssenates
must be kept open IN order to work the guns,
ard the free circulation OF the air through
this orifice will not greatIy tend to the com
fort af the inmates. Mr. Ber-ett, Of Wishing
ton, Was rele2eed from custody on Satu1 da1,
hayiLe complied With tho requirements of the
| Gayernnert, by tskirg The cath Of all.gianca
| and rteispfrg his Office CT Msyer cf WaShI3g-
| ton. The speedy release of Mr. BENZ. F, Cor.
lies, Of this city, Is looked FIR hy his frieads,
/. e. It is believed that a1 examination iato the
| cts1ees sg.Iss Ein riu ta', ~ saos c.imi
re; eoBplci'y III b Niieer IL 'ha tv-rEs:,,2s
| 2he rir.t:e, which Eerc sent t. L.f,52:.:s:
, 1861-09-24
Clippings from Vanity Fair,

BEAR WITH Us,-The one Of Russia.
GROUNDS FOR CoNPLANT.-QuarIerm AS
ter's ecf1ee.
SOMETHING OF a RUsu.-Wh;eh suum.r
retreat Has the most crowded this Eeason:
That from Manassas to Washington.
The DE11cAcr OF TIE SEAsos.-The Can
vas-eack shee.
The Government has bought seventeen hun
dred horses in Massachusetts. Now let it sell
sn equal number OF asses, and Nc 6aals See tie
besinniEg of stable ref7rm.
ADVICE TO PEAcEAoSGERs.-We have done
everyIh:ng to bring Jon over to our Federal
won't C.me Over, you have got to Come Vn'
de-.
LooK oUT FOR THH!-When the White
Father party talk about the Peacefm soIu
lion If tie present question, depend upon Il
they oply mean Peaceful Dissolution!
Two VAls or GETTING TILE Co1ros Our
Either by letting IL ent On Bale or by bag
girg it.
FULL OF WHITE FEATHERa.-Ge6. ta,..s".
| ALONE WE DIE IT.-V. F. demanded :ha
! Gen. Wool Ehuuli be employed. Ger. Woo
! is employed. We are meaest; and admit .lsa
| the pruverb should b. reva1zed, and tha! her.
Is an ii,ustfat;oI OF "Little cry and Grea
| Wool"
/ AT Ills OLD TR1cKs.-The irrepress;b1'
j F!tyd los t1cken out again. Like traa F
! 7. v. le disjained to dght the IL HLiIcoln hire
| 1jGgG," std SO, under coSer Of the night, tind
| i1g be could not steal march upon Ger
Koeecrarf, h6 stole aFay from hlM.
| THREE PHASES OF TIE CASE OF DAVIS -
| l. Hard Case. Gone Gusa.-5 Burial Csse
A NEW REGULATION IN THE AgNr-{Q5
c;al Aotitr )-1st. On and sitter Sept LIST, ISL
eT,ry regiment will 80 into action witt an l. /
boz ahcroF. to Ei:Ch al officers Of said regl
1ncnt viii be ma2e fsat Ehan in eight Of til
enemy 10 eusure hist they shall s!icz to thei
| duties.
By order OF GEO B. McCLK11Ks,
Major General Commanding, Sc,
, 1861-09-24

1n& AHEE&G CDuC1kAAE10H 1xAHWuEa
The childish attempt Of the Past Grand Mas
ters Of the Masonic Order in Kentucky, Ohio,
aid other States, to bring about an era OF
good feeling in the country through the me-
diaticn Of that venerable Order, has met the
repulee which it deserved, and less than
which could not have been expected, at the
hands Of the eouthern Lodges. The Grand
Loege Of Mississippi replies:
Your wellmeant attempt to make Free Ma
sonry the means OF reconsolidating the tenn
PIE Of the political Union could only result,
even if the meeting to which you invite US Was
y1actcab1e, iu introducing " confusion into
that Temple where We may stall meet as free
aid accepted Masors. The Grand Lodges o1
tie United States are hencaforth to us just
what the Grand Lodges Of England and Hol
land are; nor can we, as Masons, too much
congratulate ourselves that our relations tc
the former are not Complicated by the exist
tence Of any genera Jurisdiction, such as has
been sometimes pro. 1:-ed Under tie f5rm O.
Grand Lodge Of ali tbs States.
| we f.tl all the horrors Of war as senslbly q
Cur Northern brethren, and IS oil Masons All
led ty their principles 70 do. Bat believing
that our ceuntrymen are in no wise responsl
BILE for them, and fearing that even an etfor
for peace might at this time be regarded as {
movement towards an impossible recon5tf1c
tscD Of the American Union, we respectful,
decline your request that We should NEE
with you Ut Louisville, KY. to consult 4pol
pan 1or adjustment OF the present dl1hcu'