The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1862-05-30

(k1lSto swallow up all thoughts of the
/ nhslIiQp, and to resolve itself into anothe,
border rufian contest, with this single diff.
ference, that the present trouble is entirely
between the free soil men themselves. The
/ Democrats and Conservatives are quietly
looking on.
Last Sunday the Delta House and a
long list of buildings in the business por-
tion of Alexandra, Mo-, IA town adjoining
Keokuk) were destroyed by fire which be-
gan in the hotel. The losses foot up about
$4,000, and are principally as follows !;
Delta House $1,000; Sweets hotel $4,000;
WARMERS drug store $4,000; Goodwin's
drug store $4,000; etc. The post office
was among the buildings destroyed.
Professor E. A. Holyoke, late Princi-
pal of the Female High School at Louis
vile Ky, and native of Salem, Massachu.
sets, died at Louisville on the 9th of
consumption-uniyersaly lamented.
The New York Times says the con-
current testimony Of gentlemen who have
just arrived here from tie Peninsula in that
the Galena is failure. The fact that egh.
teen out Of the twenty eight shots from Fort
Darling which struck her penetrated her ar.
NOR, is evidence at least of the necessity of
material alterations and improvements be-
fore she can be considered safe.
Gen. Kelly, who was wounded at Phil.
lippi. has again taken the field 10 Western
Virginia, and is at present engaged in hunt
iDg Gov. Letcher's bushwackers.
The absurdity of Gen Hunters emanci-
patton proclamation is exposed by sentence
10 Senator Wade's speech, May 2-one of
the rankest Emancipationists. He said
The belligerent rights of your General,
your Commander-in-Chiet in the field, never
did and never will go one inch beyond the
boundary OF his camp, where he holds martial
law. There he must prescribe rules while he
does hold it; but the moment he moves his
camp, that moment all his rules and refiula-
tons are gone with his removal. That is ali
there is of it,
The Troy Times says that Mr.. R. L.
Stuart, the celebrated New York sugar re-
finer, ha. made the generous offer to the trus-
tees OF the Sixth street church to rebuild
their house OF worship, lately destroyed by
FIRE, entirely at his own expense. This is
an extraordinary instance fmunifcence.
Washington letters say that although
the enemies OF General Mcclellan in Con-
gress have been constrained to vote him
public thanks for his bravery and his mar
tial ability, they DO not discontinue their
secret assaults on him.
1t is reported that President Lincoln
has said that he would raise fresh army
OF million of men rather than submit to
any forcible foreign Intervention. If be did
say so, he only anticipated the universal
sentiment of the people.
"A Paris correspondent says, in expla.
nation of the present attitude of France -
eff the truth must be told, the decided i'll
will of large and powerful party in
France towards the Union cause dates from
the admission of the Orleans Princes into
the federal service"
PEARSON Brownlow ought to know from
his long intercourse with Southern men, and
as no one questions his loyalty the testimony
of this man is entitled to some credit In
describing personal interview with Brown.
low, correspondent of the Boston Courier
signing himself Ringbolt" ian old ship.
master from Dorchester, Mass.), writes as
follows:
Now when it is so difficult to know the true
feeling of the South, whatever falls from the
lips of an honest man like Brownlow is of val.
ue. He said the other day that there is great
deal of ignorance at the North as well as at the
South, and instanced the common idea enter
tanned among US that the rebellion is the work
of shareholders. That, he says, is in no sense
true. The Shareholders were conservatives
generally-they feared the loss of property
which disunion would bring upon them; where
as thUse who had nothing to lose, were easily
Influenced by the demagogues who persuaded
them that abolition lists would free the negroes
and let them loose among them.
This view perfectly comedies with that of
Secretary Blair and many other OF our most
intelligent men.
The jewels in this years London Exhi-
bition are said to be inconceivably splen-
did. The Koh-i-Noor is there, but not
alone in its glory, for great rival said to
be worth a million sterling has come in
from Amsterdam. This is the Star of
the South" a single brilliant of immense
size and weighing no less than l25 carrots.
1t is set in the centre OF magnificent stsr
of brilliants each of which, though large
and valuable, is mere foil to the glittering
centre stone. Around the stand on which
the Star of the South" is shown is a
most interesting collection of diamonds
from various mines in every state of pro.
gress, from the rough stone to the finished
brilliant. Emanuel shows an enormous eme.
raid set in diamonds, noble cross cut from
solid topaz mounted in gold and enamel
With other costly Jewels. But the great