The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1862-11-21

ghany arsenal, Pittsburg, on the 18th Of
September, has reported:
We find that the cause of the explosion could
not be satisfactorily asccrtained, but that DOS
sibly the young man, Smith, deceased, may
have caused it by jumping upon the powder
barrels which may have had powder dust under
their heads That Col Symlngton, command
ant at the arsenal, took every care and preca,l-
ton suggested by experience and prudence to
guard against accidents of every kind That in
the administration of his duties he has exhib-
tied every evidence of zeal and integrity, and
that he has exerted his whole ability in the dis
charge Of his duties for public interests, al
though occasionally confined by sickness.
--Beedery's gin distillery, in Hartford,
Conn.,, was destroyed by fire on Monday
Loss about $4,000 No insurance.
"A strange rumor has currency in Lou
isville, to wit : that Jeff. Davis and his
cabinet seriously contemplate the enamel
patton of all the slaves before the LIST of
January, to anticipate President Lincoln s
proclamation and secure recognition from
foreign powers, which is promised when
that extraordinary action is had. 1t is
further said that the slaves thus freed will
Immediately be pressed into military SER
vice as the consideration for their freedom
The report has considerable circulation in
Kentucky.
The death of Robert J. Ward, an old
merchant of Louisville, and late wealthy
southern planter, is announced as having
occurred at Helena recently.
The republican State and Congress
ional ticket in Kansas is elected by a ma
jcrity of 1900 Or 5000 The Legislature
is also republican.
Prince de Joinville has just published,
in the Paris Recue des Demr- Mopdes, an
interesting as well as very remarkable pa
per on the subject of the campaign he re-
Gently made, with his two Royal nephews,
by the side of Gen. Mcclellan At the
close of the Princes narrative, occurs the
following striking passage, which is trans
lated for the edifcation of those who
thought the Proclamation of the 22d of
September would "help us abroad -
If the struggle between the two sections now
in arms should be prolonged, if the solution OF
their great conflict should be much further
postponed then evils ofanother character may
spring from it. Urged on by the passions and
the necessities of the struggle, the Federal
Government may proclaim the abolition of sia-
very, and may even be impelled to employ a
terrible means of carrying Oh the war. bv arm,
| ing the slaves against their masters. But such
| measure, apart from its features of violence
and barbarity would be of no profit to those who
should adopt it. 1t would lead to irrepressible
divisions in tue bosom OF the Northern States
far more beneficial than injurious to the seces
sion cause.
President Lincoln will do a GOOD
thing if he will recall Cassius Micawbcr
Clay's commission as major general in that
army o. soldiers which he is never likely
to be allowed to join, and then arrange TO
send him as minister pIenipotentiary and
envoy extraordinary to the Hottentot
kingdom of South Africa Us soon as the
present abolition congress, in its next SEES
sion, finds time to enactits recognition as a
nation. That place Cassi,,s conld fill and
doubtless honor C2eaceiclnd Pluindeoler..
Some time ago when the T.ibnae and
Posi- were denouncing Mr. Seymour and
his followers as traitors, the Repub!inan
of Washington city had the sagacity to re-
monstrate with its ADLER brethren, but was
told by them to let New York politics
alone and to mind its own business. It
obeys orders by reminding the New York
radicals that they have placed themselves
in a bad fix by their venonous assaults
upon man whom they know to be guilt
less of the charges brought against him.
At the recent sales Of school lands in
Winona county, the aggregate price of the
lands sold was $4,000. Of this sum,
there was $4,000 paid in cash. We doubt
il there is another county in the State that
will beat this.
John W. Forney has sharp retort on
the radical papers, for their attacks on tie
Administration since the late election. He
says:
This is the lesson learned in the DAYS when
to be 4 Democrat was to confide in the heads Of
the Government in times OF trial and trouble
This was the practice Of the Democracy during
the Mexican war; and the Opposition profit by
q neglect of this lesson now on the part of GER
tain Journals in the interest OF The party of the
war; The allegation that any Republican voted
with the opposition to the war, because the Adj
mnistratiOn was not sufficiently vigorous, is, on
tie face of it, monstrOus. The best way, how
ever, to secure unity in the new Congress, is to
quiet discussions in the coming short session of
Congress. II this is not done the new Con-
gress viii meet under the ncss disheartening
circumstances.
An ukase of the Emperor Of Russia,
issued in connection with the great national
celebration Of Novogorod, stays the action
of all sentences of confscation pronounced
against Poles from 1881 to the present
time; but the decree is only applicable in
cases where the government has neglected
or forgotten to sell property confscated
for 80 years. \ decree orders a partial
CONSUMPTION in Poland for 1868.
Hon. l. W. Beard, formerly of New
Hampshire, died at his residence in Lowell
last week ared AZ wears