The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1862-03-28
THE WEEKLY PIONEER AND DEMOCRAT.

The Wisconsin Supreme Court has
decided void all taxes from eighteen hum
dred and fifty.f Q855) to eighteen hun.
dred and filty-nine 1850, as not uniform.
Railroads not having been assessed, re-as-
sessment is necessary and the Farm Mort
gage Relief Law of 1861, has been decided
unconstitutional.
Memphis will soon be ours. Since the
victory at New Madrid and (which is an
inevitable sequence) at Island No. 10, we
may mention that Gen. Smith left Fort
Henry several days ago with a large army
up the Tennessee river, most probably to
march against Memphis, and it is certain
that within few days we must have very
important news from that quarter.
--Parson Brownlow and his son arrived
at Nashville on the 18th. He says he was
imprisoned in the common Jail at Knoxville,
December 10th, in violation of an agree.
ment with the rebel Government. He was
confined in small damp room, and was
attacked By the typhoid fever He was
moved to his residence and laid up eight
weeks under strict guard, and having
partly recovered, he got pass from the re-
bel Government and left Knoxville about
two weeks ago, but was detained, by order
of Gen. Hardee, at Shelbyville, ten days
He reached the Federal lines this morning
Esquire Burdett, living near Decatur
Illinois, was run over by train of cars on
the Central Railroad, on the 9th instant
and instantly killed. The deceased was a
school teacher by profession.
Hon. Joseph Holt and Robert Dale
Owen have been appointed Special Com
missiouers to audit and adjust contracts, Or
ders and claims on the War Department in
respect to arms, ammunition and stores
They will proceed at once to an investiga-
ton and examination. Evidence of interest
On the part of any government agent or
servant will vitiate all contracts with which
such agent has to do.
The North Carolina Standard has an
important rumor that the seat of govern.
ment is to be removed from Richmond to
Raleigh"
1t is said that Andy johnson will i'm.
mediately enter upon his duties as pre-.
visional Governor of Tennessee. Hon. G.
F. Trigg, of Knoxville, will receive the of.
fee of District Judge; Hon. Alvin Haw.
kins, of Carroll county, will become Dis
trict Attorney for West Tennessee Hon.
w. T. Wilson is to be United States Mar
shall for the same district and Mr.. John
Lelyett, of Nashville, fervent Union man,
will be appointed Postmaster at that place.
Other appointments are to be made, which
are not yet decided upon.
The policy of the United States is set
forth in few golden sentences, which Sec
rotary Seward writes to MIR. Harper
Twelvetree, who lately presided at Lon-
don meeting of congratulation over the set
Element OF the dispute between the two
countries {:
The policy of the American people. Sir, is a
policy of peace at home, peace abroad, peace
with all nations-a policy of freedom for
| themselves, of freedom for their extending
| empire, and policy hopeful of and conducive
to, the ultimate freedom of all classes and
conditions of men. Whoever shall wage war
against the American people will find them
| selves obliged, not only to commit the first
wrong, but to become, when they enter the
contest, the enemies not only of order, peace
and progress on this Continent, but of human
nature itself.
General Halleck issued general Or
der at st. Louis on Thursday, stating that
the rebel is so nearly crushed out in Mis-
souri, that the time will soon come when the
partial and temporary military restraint
which has been exercised in particular
places, will be withdrawn. He directs,
therefore, that the military shall not inter-
fere with the lawful process of any loyal
civil court, except where the peace of the
country and the success of the Union cause
absolutely require it.
Much has been said about the failure
of the British ron.plated ship, the Warrior
which was said to have broken under its
own weight-hogged--on its first trip.
This is officially contradicted. In reply to
an interrogatory on the subject in the
House of Commons, on the 18th ultimo,
Lord Clarence Paget read part of private
letter from Captain Cochrane, commanding
the Warrior, to the Comptroller of the
Navy:
You will be glad to hear we have had con-
tinuance of gales of wind. { taught The
ship behaved very well-nothing strained, no
accident. We found the mainyard slightly
sprung. We fshed it at sea with iron fishes,
and it is as strong as ever. The springing of
the yard do not consider had anything to do
with the straining or working of the ship.
Hear, hear.]
This evidence is sustained by that of 9th
er officers on board, who claim that, in as
bad weather and in as rough sea as could