The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1862-12-05
The New York World. the ablest and

appended:
First then, 81 900 honest and loyal voters
of this State and the conservative majorities of
other States of the North have declared their.
will to be that in asserting the authority of the
Constitution we shall not abandon the Consti-
tuition in defending the Union we shall not
make Union impossible They have declared
their.will to be that in saving our liberties we
shall not lose them. They have pronounced
their condemnation of all save civilized modes
of warfare and of every variety of fecbleness in
the prosecution, or extravaganccfin the eX-
penditures, of the war; but first and foremost
was their solemn reaffirmation of the fund
amental principles Ofpoltical liberty, and their
avowal of steadfast adherence to the institu-
lions in which those principles are enshrined.
"A Federal force is pushing towards
Knoxville, Tennessee, to obtain control, if
possible, of the railroad at that point.
General Mcclellan has declined the
proffer of a public reception in New York.
General Buell. is to be tried at Indian
apolis. General Lew. Wallace will preside
over the Court
Mrs. Philip Kearney is SO incensed at
g Pete" Halsted's publishing her late hus-
bands letters, that she has rejected his
further acquaintance. She repeatedly pro-
tested against the use that has been made
of the documents Brave Phil. will be out
of his grave with horsewhip yet, for the
ghouls who have maligned his memory.
t General Halleck is too much inclined
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best Generals say. He does not concen-
trate sufficiently re-echo the newspaper
correspondents. f.' t.'a
MIR. Phillips, an engineer OF New York,
talks as follows about the Monitors:
And now let me say word about the Moni-
tors. more futile effort to build up an iron
clad navy could not be made by great govern
ment like the United States. The Monitor
could not make the passage from New York to
Fortress Monroe without great distress, proving
her utter unftness as a sea boat. Her crew
were nearly smothered in the action with the
Merrimac, and an unwritten page of disasters |
am assured, occurred at that time. But short
time afloat she requires to be towed up to
Washington, and | noticed at Fortress Monroe
two thicknesses of her plating entirely pierced
by a large ball. The speed Of the last built of
this class does not appear to exceed seven miles
an hour if it reaches that low figure.
The Worlds Washington special says:
"The c0uleur lie rose which was attempt
ed to be put upon the aspect of affairs in
Virginia after the removal of Mcclellan
has vanished already. Burnside finds it
impossible to advance, and the probability
of his going into winter quarters at Fred
ericksburg is discussed--the radicals hay
ing gone so far as to say that if Burnside
wills it they will be content. s
2. General, said one visitor from New
York to Mcclellan at Trenton, latter all,
you do not know how many friends you
have, nor will you know until you come to
New York" 81 am deeply gratiied," he
answered, with slight smile, "by the con-
fidence of my kind friends here and there,
at a period when some seem to have mis-
understood my efforts 7" That was all,
but there was conscious strength in these
few words.
The Albany Statesman, one Of the
most ardent Republican papers in the coun-
try, in speaking of the lately detected
frauds in the New York Custom House,
asks and answers a question as follows -
"Where rests the responsibility? Pre-
cisely where it ought to rest-upon the
shoulders of the Administration and the
Republican purity"
Out of the 700 men drafted in Mil
waukee, only about $50 will pass examin-
alton, and another draft will be immediate
ly made to fill the deficiency.
The trial of Gen. McKinstry, at St
Louis, will be finished in about two weeks.
The impression is that it will result in a
verdict of acquittal. Its cost to the gov
eminent will be somewhere in the vicinity
of hundred thousand dollars.
Government offered liberty to DR..
Odds Of Ohio, imprisoned at Fort Lafayette
if he would take the oath of allegiance.
He declined his freedom on such terms,
and demanded speedy trial
The President has given Brig. Gen.
Edwin r. Price, son of Major General
Sterling Price, both of the rebel army, a
free and full pardon Of reasonable felo-
NOUS, and other crimes and misdemean-
ors whatever against the United States,
committed up to the 18th of November.
Gen. Price was taken prisoner some time
since, paroled by Gen. Hallsck, and after
wards exchanged for Gen. Prentiss. Sub
sequently he resigned his commission in
the rebel army, and his friends appealed
for his pardon. While on his parole and
residing in Charlton county, Missouri, he
is said to have exerted himself to main
tain peace and order by driving off the
guerillas, and it is thought by some of the
Union men of Missouri that his pardon will
have a beneficial effect in Missouri. l'iR
Financial men seem to be generally
Of the opinion that Secretary Chase will