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

uCpICUosIouo COmWIttCu Wy tuo 0cEulau LII
vison have given new word to the LAM
guage. When an article is missed under
suspicious circumstances, it is said to be
"Blenkered." But the Yankees, it is said,
put their Own thefts upon the Teutons.
The French (Mexican) defeat, now ac-
knowledged by the French press, leads to
fresh comment upon the folly of Napoleon
in thus initiating the Russian fatal raid of
his great namesake. The Courier DIES Etats
Unis New York; sums up thus, the French
loss
General Lorencez, with only 2.0C0 men
strong, loaded with their wounded, and in
presence of the enemy, who had received re-
Inducements, had left no other resource than
to retreat in good order on Orizaba.
The following handsome tribute to
General Sherman, who commanded in Ken
lucky in the dark days, occurs in General
Rosseau's speech at banquet in Louis
vile:
l wish to say word of General Sherman.
You do not know him, though you may think
you DO. He stayed with us while Buckner was
most expected, but at last, in obedience to
commands, he left our State. He gave US our
first lessons in the field, in the face of an enc.
my, and of all the men l ever saw, he is the
most untiring, vigilant and patient. No man
that ever lived could surprise him. His enc.
mics say he was surprised at Shiloh. tell you
no. He was not surprised nor whipped, for ne
fights by the week. Devoid of ambition, inca.
pable of envy, he is brave, gallant and just
At Shiloh his old legion met him just as the
battle was ended, and at the sight of him,
placing their hats upon their bsyonets, gave
him three cheers. 1t was touching and fit
ting compliment to the gallant chieftain.
am thankful for this occasion to do justice to
brave, honest, and knightly gentleman.
English papers give an account of the
failure of the Armstrong gun at recent
trials, where the three hundred pound shot
were tried, as against sections of iron plates
and teak. The French boast of having
better artillery either for naval or field SER
vice than the English.
Hon. Thomas Darcy McGee, who,
by the late change of the ministry in Can
ada, has become President of the Execu-
tive Congress of the Province, came to this
country friendless and penniless, and began
life as a printer in the office of the Boston
Pilot; afterwards became editor of the pa
per returned 10 his native land and be-
came the editor of paper called the Dub.
lin Nation. The disturbance of 1940
caused him to flee to this country, where,
with j. ohm Mitchell, he started the Amaeri-
cam Celt, an organ of Irish feelings and
sentiments. Abandoning this on account
of financial difficulties, he went to Montre-
al, where be speedily attained position of
influence with the masses.
1t is an unmistakeabe and important
fact that JEFF. Davis is becoming very un.
popular in the South. The most outspoken
of the Southern papers do not scruple to
use every harsh language regarding him.
The Contsderacy, of Atlanta, is alarmed at
suggestions that the South must depose
JEFF. Davis and procure a Military Dicta.
tor, and says:
Allowing President Davis to be the most in
competent man in America, he had better be
borne with until his term expires than to get
rid of him, or attempt to do so, by revolution
or any unlawful means. THIS, every man Of
sense understands and no man who is a pat
riot and man of sense will undertake or
encourage such desperate measures as the one
alluded to. There is no safety in it. The peO.
pie will never give their consent to it. If they
ever do they are unworthy of the liberty we
ere fighting for, and could not be worsted by
anything Lincoln and the abolitionists would
or could inlfct upon it.
The New York Emancipation League
has struck out its article opposing the rec
ognitioo Of any rebel State as again in the
Union except on condition of emancipation,
and substituted this for it {: "The object
of this society is to bring about emancipa-
ton throughout the land" That is long
step backward, but it is in the right direc-
ton. II the individual members adopted
the same wise discretion in their language,
they will do less mischief than they other-
wise might.
The total reducible State debt of Ohio
is $14, 699, 426, an increase of $404,OO0
since the last report. The July interest on
the debt will be paid in coin.
The following is the vote in the Sena e
on the passage of the Pacific Railroad bill
YEAs-Messrs. Anthony, Browning, Clark,
Chandler, ColIamer, Cowan, Davis, Dixon.
Doolittle, Foot, Foster, Grimes. Hale. Harlan,
Harris, Henderson, Howard, Kennedy. Lane.
of Indiana, Lane, of Kansas, Latham, McDou-
gall, Morrill,, Nesmith, Pomeroy, Rice. Sher.
man, Starke, Sumner, Trumbull, Wade, Wiley,
Wilmot, Wilson, of Massachusetts. and Will
SOD, of Missouri.
NAYs-Messrs. Howe, King, Pearce, Viii.
kinson and Wright.
Mr.. Fessenden was present, but did not
vote, and Mr.. Powell paired with Mr.. Sim
mons. Mr.. Ten Eyck was excused from
voting, on the ground that he did not like
the bill as amended.
Dispatches have been received in
Washington that on the 18th instant the
rebels opened fire upon our ships of war in
James river, from the bluff of City Point,
I'm ortilIorv and small arms hrlt nnr cnno1