The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1862-06-27
News and Other Items.


The Newburyport (Mass.) Herald, a
staunch Republican paper, speaks of the
new emancipation organization in New
York, of which VIC. Bryant, the editor of
the New York Evening Post, is President,
and which declares that "no State now in
rebellion shall be recognized as member
Of the Union, except on the condition of
emancipation" as follows:
This is based upon the false and pernicious
doctrine that State can take itself out of the
Union, and that those where the rebellion now
prevails are out. Nonsense no State has
gone out of the Union; and we are not attemp.
ting to bring any one into the Union. We on.
ly aim to suppress instruction in certain
States of the Union, that the laws may be ex-
ecuted and the loyal people hold control. If
Union, this would be a foreign war, war of
invasion, and to be justified on no good
grounds but not being out, we make no con-
ditionS for their return. There is the cOpsti.
tuition /; they must obey that, and we can i'm
pose upon them nothing different or beyond
that. Mr.. Bryant's League accepts the ground
on which jeff. Davis started, and it is no more
siOnists.
The correspondent of the Baltimore
Sun says: Nothing is more surprising to
fnanciers than the abundance of money,
and the high credit of the Government se-
curities. A redundant currency no longer
seems to produce its usual effects of the ex.
pansion of business and sudden ruinous re-
action. The Federal currency is to be doub.
led in volnme in course of another year,
aud it is believed that it will be absorbed
by the increasing amount of business"
"A correspondent of the New York
Express, abiding to the attacks upon Gen.
Mcclellan for the successful repulse OF
10000 rebels by much superior force,
says:
General McClellan's Grand Army of the Pc.
tomac, it ought to be understood, and report
ed for European, if not for American, infOrma-
ton, was not broken up into three or four
parts by his tactics, or programme, or con-
sent, but against all his remonstrances. He
resisted it, in conversation with the Secretary
of War, and with the President himself. His
trated, by authorities over him, he is bound
to respect and obey. They have taken from
him at least SO, 900 of his men, that he intend.
ed for the conquest of the Peninsula, and the
occup alton of Richmond. McDowell's corps,
Woofs for long time,) Banks, Benkers
Division, &c., were all taken from his COM
mand, and his programme for their move
ments all broken up. General McClellan's
military character requires the thorough I'm.
derst anding Of such facts as these, while he is
Indifferent as soldier to what the politicians
say respecting him.
There are now at West Point ia
Cadets, % of whom comprise the first class
26 the second class, 80 the third class, and
SO the fourth class. About 80 appoint.
ments have lately been made, but are not
included in the above figures.
The following incident at Memphis
shows what insults oar soldiers have thrust
upon them by devils in petticoats
On last Friday evening, a we'll dressed and
genteel looking woman-said to be the wife
of an officer in the confederate army-delib.
erately walked up to soldier of one of the
Indiana regiments, who was on duty at the
wharf here, and spat in his face. A number
of persons were present and witnessed the
disgraceful act. The soldier looked at the
"lady" for moment, and with the simple
remark, 'you are very polite, madam, in.
deed" removed to another part of his ''beat."
DE Quincy has an ingenious but re-
pulsive essay on what he terms murder as a
fine art; but what he treated with kind
of sardonic humor is discussed in certain
southern newspapers with cool deiberstion
and earnestness. A recent number of the
Richmond Dispatch, for instance. advises
the assassination of General Fremont, be.
cause be hung two guerilla men in Western
Virginia; and then it goes on to urge the
propriety of systematic murder. Here are
the horrible words:
Assassination in the abstract is a horrid
crime, and so is every kind of killing; but to
slay tyrant is no more assassination than
war is murder. Who speaks of Brutas as an
assassin! What Yankee ever condemned the
Roundhead crew who brought Charles l. to the
block, although it would be q cruel libel to
compare him politically or personally to the
When Fremont hangs Virginia citizens for de.
Tending their country, either singly or in bands
of ten or a dozen, either as guerillas, militia
or regular soldiers, not only should two Yam
KEGS be hing, but plan should be found by
which the life of Fremont itself should be made
the atonement, even if it require twenty years
to accomplish it. + Two or three cool.
sagacous and determined men-the fewer the
better-ought to be put upon the track of
every such villain, and under every disguise,
amidst every obstacle, and no matter how ma
ny months or years it may require, should fol
low him up till they have inflicted upon him
the same fate he has brought upon others.
The Cincinnati Times had a correspon-
dent who witnessed the gunboat and ram
fight opposite Memphis and the capture of
that city, who thus reports:
The negroes have been largely represented
on the levee and bluff to-day. They seem to
enjoy the change things have undergone, and
wear a self-satsfed and half.comical air that
convinces one they know the nature and source
of the present war. The darkies were vastly
amused over the gunboat fight, and enjoyed it
as much as they would have done corn husk.
ing.
"Look heah, Massa," said great, jolly,
ebony.faced fellow to me, this morning, in
front of the Gayoso. ''Did you see ole Uncle
Abrams boats 60 froo dem ere shell.boats of
ours? gosh, dey drapped 'em like egg-shelIs.
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