The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1862-05-09

majority. The Holman resolutions from
the same Committee rejecting censure on
Cameron for the employment of Commings,
we're adopted by 70 to As; and the resolu.
ton censuring WeIles for the employment
of Morgan was rejected by 45 to Y.
Burnside has succeeded in reducing
Fort Macon, after bombardment of eleven
hours. At the rate we are now progress.
ing, the time will soon come when we shall
"retake, occupy and possess" the last
stronghold of the rebels.
The President has sent message to the
Senate to the effect that General Stone had
been arrested at his 1.-THE Presidents) int
stance, and by his order, and that he should
have as speedy trial as is consistent with
the public interest but that now too many
officers would be needed for court, and too
many witnesses to admit of the trial being
called on.
1t has been determined to reconstitute
the department OF Kansas, separating it
from the department of Missouri, and put.
ting it under General directly responsible
to the War Department. The commander
has not yet been selected, but General
Blunt is for the present put in charge, Gen.
Sturgis having been ordered to Washington
to give an account of his doings. Gen.
Denver is sent to New Mexico and General
mitchell Is ordered out Of the State.
The wife Of Z. III. Sherman, Postmas>
ter at Fort Dodge, Iowa, with the wife of
Capt. Chas. A. Sherman, U. S. Commits
sary at Fortress Monroe, and the child of
the latter-were all three drowned 10 Boone
river, Iowa, while being ferried across to
Connect from one stage to another. They
were returning home after visit East.
-Messrs. Mason and Slidell will have
the comfort Of rejecting, that while they
are engaged in representing the Southern
Confederacy abroad, their homes are in
possession OF the United States Government.
Mason's residence is near Winchester, and
Sidell'S is in New Orleans.
"A Union soldier died the other day at
St. Louis OF wounds received at Fort Don.
e!son. He was from Iowa. and his funeral
was held in the capitol OF that State His
dying Djun ton was, that no eaeny 0fhiS
country, secesSionist or 0bolijonast Should
be permitted to touch his body.
A correspondent of the New York
World, writing from our lines il front of
Yorktown, says:
Let not our friends at home be too anxious
for the grad battle day to come off The
cool and steady preparations cf our Generals
can not be partlcularized Our friends need
have no fear of the general result. 1t is well
enough for politicians and carpet knights to
lightly speak of the loss of life in battle; but he
who does so never saw the ground strewn
with COrpseS and wounded bodies or realized
the anguish of surviving friends.
The effect of the war in curtaiing the
public demand for foreign luxuries is very
marked feature in the custom house entrees
of New York from week to week. a let.
Ter from New York, Goth ult., says:
The value of the importations for the week
ending today was considerably over three mil.
lions, the following may be said to comprise
everything that can properly be classed under
the head Of luXuries:
Fancy Goods. .Sl1 OPT
JeWeiry. .................... 5,3t4
atches Observation-Disclosures. $3.50
Patent Leather. .................... SOS
nSIiuinei '.''''''''..'''... '....... Zto
Wines and Liquors. Observation-Disclosures. 1884
slO3, sos
The time was-in the flush days of lS59-'6O
when our bills for such items as these would
of mil Of
dollars; but the exigencies of the war have
taught, and are teaching our people, valu-
able lesson in domestic economy. When the
nation is engaged in death struggle for exis.
tence, and when taxes are looming up in the
near perspective to defray the expenses. per-
fumery, patent leather, and other such things
must go to the wall.
The correspondent OF TIE Cincinnati
Commercial. who has heretofore not been
very friendly to General Mcclellan, writes
from Yorktown as follows:
Here permit me to say that my observation
atisfes me that General Mcclellan is really
the pet of the army. There is no doubt Of
their confidence in him. | have heretofore
criticised his administration | as frankly and
as boldly state my belief that the army relies
upon him confidently. Success or defeat will
confirm or destroy his reputation.
The Nashville Union reports that Ten
nessee cotton is also fast finding its way to
market. The Union says:
There is great briskness in the cotton mar
kat at present at this point, Loads are con-
stantly passing though the city on their way
to the river. One boat, day before Yesterday,
left with some two hundred bales. Buyers are
securing the country in all directions as far as
the protection of the Federal lines extend, and
sometimes even further. The planters are
acting like men of practical sense, and are
quick to trade. Good middling readily brings
sixteen and seventeen cents in specie or Unit
ed States Treasury notes, and twenty-five and
twenty-five in current Tennessee paper. There
is no holding back on the part Of the..planters.
They all fully appreciate the immense benefits
which reviving trade will scatter over an al.
most bankrupt country. One thing has forced
upon the minds OF those even who were un.
willing at first to admit The act-interference
with private property which has not been in
cluded in the rebellion will not be made by
Federal troops. All parties now feel secure
in this respect.
"A novel shooting machine has been
brought into use by the National army be.
fore Yorktown. A correspondent of the