The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1862-07-25
News and Other Items.

| state that they have procured . reduction
on the claims Of the parties to the amount
of seventeen million of dollars. These gen.;
tlemen are true patriots. What contrast
between them, and such plunderers Of the
treasury as Senator Simmons Of Rhode
Island. - sA
THE. Atlanta (Ga) Commonwealth says
that .sseyen bridge burners had been execus
ted near that place the day before, and the
same number were to be executed in few
days." We recorded the fact few days
since that fifty-fve of our soldiers had been
executed at Atlanta, and fourteen more have
followed.
"A gentleman who arrived at Nashville
on the 9th from Chattanooga brought the
intelligence that Beauregard and some fifty
or sixty thousand of his army was certainly
at the latter place, which was strongly gar
risoned. The Nashville Union, from
which we derive this information, hopes
"soon to hear that General Buell. and his
grand Union army will have Chattanooga
in their possession"
The shipment of Pennsylvania rock
oil, or petroleum, from this country to Eu'
rope, during the first six months of the
year, amounted to considerably more than
one million of dollars. This, for a trade
that is in its infancy, is a large business,
THE LOVE FOR THE NEGRO" Greater
down his life for his friend" In the face Of
this great exhibition of love, which one man
NAV owe another, ought not the American
| people to be relieved from the imputation of
| hating the negro? They are willing to lay
down their lives for him.-N. Y. Tribune.
We doubt the fact very much whether
any considerable portion of the people of
the United States are willing to lay down
their lives for the negro.
"A Washington letter to the New York
Eapress says: " Fremont, it seems, is again
to have command, He is to 60 to the
Germans in Texas, rally them around the
banner of the Union, and operate in that
State-after his fashion, of course. His
costly staff, is not, therefore, disbanded, but
retained to accompany him.
"A Paris writer INDUCES in the follow.
ing Speculative politicians at Paris an
ticipate the revindication of louisiana as
forming part of the Impelial programme
in the Western hemisphere, and the estab~
lishment of monarchical government in the
cotton States as the inevitable solution of
what is otherwise held incapable of adjust.
ment."
BY the explosion of two of the Orien-
tai Company's powder mills at Gorham,
Maine, a few days ago, Augustus Little, of
Windham, was instantly killed, and Alfred
Glidden, of Efingham, New Hampshire,
and Mark Varney, Of Wlndham, who we're
shockingly matilated, have since died.
The Republican State Convention of
Vermont was held at Montpelier on Wed.
nesday. The following nominations were
made--for Governor, Hon. Frederick Hol.
brook, of Brattleboro, the present incum-
bent; for Lieutenant Governor, Paul Dill.
bingham, of Waterbury; for Treasurer, J.
G. Page, Esq, of Rutland.
The following nominations were sent
to the Senate on Friday by the President,
under the act of the 9Th of July, reorgan"
iziug the Navy Department: Chief of Yards
and Docks, Commodore Joseph Smith;
Equipments and Recruiting, Commodore
Andrew H. Foote; Navigation, Captain
Charles H. Davis; Ordance, Captain John
A. Dahlgren; Construction and Repairs,
John Southal; Steam Engineer, Benjamin
F. sherwood; Provisions and Clothing,
Horatio Bridge; Medicine and Surgery,
DR.. William Wheelan. Schuyler Hamilton
has been nominated for Major General, and
j. H. Ward of New York, for Brigadier
General of Volunteers.
The Boston Post has the following
about the rich clergymen and churches OF
that city:
The clergymen of Boston are not all rigid
observers of the Catholic VOW of poverty,
Judging by the tax roll. Rev. N. l.. Frothing.
ham, DID,, is taxed upon $24S,O00; Rev. Thos.
Worcester, DID,, on $1,000; Right New. John
B. Fitzpatrick, DID,, Bishop of Boston, on
s72,7OO; Right Rev. Manton Eastburn, D. D.,
$50, 400; Rev. Cyrus A. Bartol, DID,. $4,000;
Rev. George G. Beckwith, $4,000; Rev::Thos.
B. Thayer, s22, 900; and half a dozen on from
$40, 900 to $l5, 900 each, And it is believed
that these persons are worth more than they
are taxed for. The Old South Church pays
taxes on a valuation of S299,5C0. The Brattle
street church. DIR. Lothrop's, is taxed on real
estate worth S25, 900. There are several other
churches that are taxed for $1,000 to sl2, COO
each, such as the Central and Park street
Congregational, the Second Methodist church.
es, &c. There are but few single millionaires
left and none are put down at two millions
The persons now taxed for about one million
dollars are Messrs. David Sears, John E. Thay-
err, Moses Williams, &c. There are scores Of
persons worth from 100000 to $3.50, 900 each.
The Chicago Journal says, since the
Both of June last, over 5000 Norwegian
emigrants have passed over the Galena
railroad, bound for Minnesota. Almost
without exception they have been hardy,