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The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1863-02-20
The New California Senator.

From the New York Tribune, Feb 11th
The Hon. John CONFESS, just elected
United States Senator from California for
six years from the 4th of March next, in
place of Milton S. Latham, Oem.), has
for ten years been an active politician in
that State of the Northern Democratic
or Broderick school, and was the candi-
date for Governor on the Broderick or
anti-Lecompton ticket in 1859. Defeated
in the canvass, he was Immediately after
chosen SCate Senator from Ell Dorado
county by large majority, receiving the
Republican as we'll as the Broderick vote
He was a leading Douglas man in 1860,
was the Union Democratic candidate for
Governor in 1861, and has since been a
hearty supporter of the Union movement
and ticket. His election by a strongly
Republican Legislature of California is a
wise as well as liberal choice, and will
strengthen and consolidate the Unionists
of California. Mr.. CONFESS is small of
stature, about As years of age, has been
repeatedly chosen to the Legislature, is a
good debater, and will prove an upright
and useful Senator.
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1863-02-20
THE WAR FOR THE UNION.
What Gen. Roseorans Says Of it.
His Letter to Governor Tod, of Ohio
COLUMBUS, Ono. Feb. 10. 1884


The following letter from Gen. Rose
Grams, in response to the Resolutions of
the General Assembly, was sent in by
Gov. Tod, to-day:
HEADQUARTERS DEPT OF THE Cuurrp1,xn)
MurfreesbOro, Tenn, Feb 3.
10 the Honorable the General Assembly of the
State of Ohio:
Inc resolution OF thanks passed by your
honorable body, to the army of the Cum
berland, It's Commanding General and his
staff, has been duly received and published
to the troops of this command. On be-
halt OF all, | return you heartfelt thanks.
This is indeed a war for the maintenance
of the Constitution and the laws-nay. for
national existence-against those who have
despised our honest friendship, deceived
our just hopes, and driven US to defend orr
country and our homes. BY foul and
willful SANDERS on our motives and nten-
tons, persistently repeated, they have ar
rayed against US our own fellow-citizens.
bound to us by the triple ties of consan-
guinity, geographical position and COM
mercial interest.
A/OC Nv lIitiii diIOiSo 10 NC UtlSC cliOuSl
to forget this, or fool enough to trust an
oligarchy of traitors to their friends, to
civil liberty and human freedom. Volun-
tary exiles from home and friends, for the
defence and safety of all, we long for the
time when gentle Peace shall again spread
her wings over our land but we know no
such blessing is possible while the unjust
and arbitrary power of the rebel leaders
confrOnts and threatens us. Crafty as the
fox, cruel as the tiger, they cried ono CO.
ercion' while preparing to strike u.s.
Bully like, they proposed to fight Us be-
cause trey said they could whip us five to
one; and now, when driven back, they
whine out "no INVASION" and promise US
of the West permission to navigate the
Mississippi River, if we will be 'good
boys" and do as they bid us.
Whenever they have the power, they
drive before them into the ranks the
Southern people, and they would drive u.s.
Trust them not. Were they able, they
would invade and destroy US without
mercy. Absolutely assured of these things,
| am amazed that any one could think of
"peace on any terms" He who enter
tains the sentiment is fit only to be slave
he who utters it at this time, moreover,
is a traitor to his country, who deserves
the scOrn aud contempt of all honorable
men. When the power of the unscrupu-
lous rebel leaders is removed, and
the people are free to consider and
act for their own interests which are COM
mon with ours under this Government,
there will be no great difficulty in frater-
nization. Between our tastes and social
life there are fewer differences than be-
tween those OF the people of the northern
and southern provinces of England or
Ireland. Hoping the time may speedily
come when the power of the pertidiOus and
cruel tyrants of this rebellion having been
overthrown, peace may be laid on the
broad foundation of national unity and
equal justice to all, under the Constitution
and laws
| remain your felow-ctizen.
w. S. ROSECRANS Maj Gen.
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1863-02-20
Propositions for Peace.

The telegraph brings news almost every
day of the indignation with which the eff.
forts of the radical Democrats are regard
ed by the patriotic soldiers in the field.
Addresses have been adopted by the SOL
diers and officers of the Illinois and Indi-
ana regiments on duty in the Southwest,
and forwarded to the authorities of their
respective States, protesting against any
attempted settlement of the rebellion ex-
cept at the mouth of the cannon and at
the point of the bayonet. Our special dis
patches, this morning, give news of SINH
lar action on the part of numerous regi-
ments of Ohio volunteers.
There is no installing the temper of the
army on this point, and especially at the
West 1t is right, manly and patriotic
Peace, on any terms which would be &C
ceptable to the Rebels, at this time, could
not fail to be dishonoring and destructive.
The events of every day strengthen the
conviction that the worst danger to be ap-
pretended is from the Radicals of both
sides. The Radical Republicans, like
GREELEY, who demand peace and recog-
milton of the Confederacy if we remain
unsuccessful for another three months, are
neither better nor worse than the Radical
Democrats who demand an instant cessa-
ton Of hostilities for the purpose of trying
to patch up an arrangement with the Reb-
els which will 7oid further fighting The
end and design of both programmes are
dissolution Of the Union, and both are
equally cowardly and reasonable. The
Conservative masses of the North spurn
both, and will be content with nothing less
than vigorous prosecution of the war to
the bitter end of the rebellion, and the
triumphant restoration of the Union.--
Daily Pioneer Of Monday,
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1863-02-20
JEFF. Davis as a Prophet.

On the 14th Of February, 1861, saint
Valentines Day. JEFF. DAVIS made a
speech at Stevenson, Alabama, which was
thus reported in one of the newspapers OF
Nashville:
STEVENSON, Ala, Feb. 15.-Jeff. Davis ar
rived here at 10 o'clock last night en- route for
Montgomery. He was saluted with guns and
fireworks, and the houses were Illuminated.
In his speech he said:
You border States will gladly come into the
Southern Confederacy within sixty days, as
we will be your only friends. England will
recognize us and a glorious future is before US.
Grass will grow in the Northern cities where
the pavements have been worn off by the tread
of commerce.
His speech was warlike. He would carry
the war where it is easy to advance-where
food for the sword and torch await the armies,
in the densely populated cities, and though
they might come to spoil our crops, we could
raise them as before, while they could not
rear their cities which took years of industry
and millions of money to build. He hoped for
peace, but was prepared for war.
Such was the programme which JEFF.
DAVIS exhibited to the southern people of
the drama of rebellion. Such was the
prophecy with which the arbitrator de-
lected his ardent listeners in February,
1861. Two years have rolled round, and
how stand the fulfillment of that prophesy
now? The border states which "gladly
came into the Southern Confederacy,"
have heen the great battlefield of the war
1t is only their cities which have furnished
food for the sword and the torch their
streets in which weeds have grown "where
pavements were worn by the tread of
commerce. y" The ruin, the destruction
and desolation of war have been theirs
And now, when it is too late to remedy
the evil done, they are just beginning to
learn the lesson which reason should have
taught them in the beginning. That les
son is this: The war cannot be moved
northward unless it is moved southwark,
it will continue in the border states 1t is
for those states themselves to decide whe-
ther they will continue the bloody cockpit
of America.
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1863-02-20
The Negro Soldiers.

The Rev Col. T. W. HIGGINsoN, of the
First South Carolina volunteers, furnishes
an official report Of the exploits of his
black regiment in Florida. He seems to
think it necessary to put bis case strongly,
and in rather exalted language, as well as
in such way as to convince the public
that negroes will fight. On the expedition,
his battalion was repeatedly under fire
had rebel cavalry, infantry, and, says he,
"even artillery arranged against them;
yet in every instance came off with I'M
blemished honor and undisputed triumph.
His men made the most urgent appeals to
him to be allowed to press the flying enc
my. They exhibited the most fiery ener-
gy, beyond any thing of which COL HIG-
GINsON ever read, unless it was in the case
of the French Zouaves. He even says
that sit would have been madness to at
tempt with the bravest white troops what
he successfully accomplished with black
ones"
The Norfolk correspondent of the ".
7. Tribune says there are now in the three
cities of Norfolk, Portsmouth and Cos
port, and at the cOntraband station at
Craney Island, no less than ten thousand
able-bodied negroes, which the Govern
ment is now indirectly, and in some cases
directly supporting, being unable to find
employmentafor them. The Tribune says,
let US make food for powder of them"
10 show their disposition to fight, the fol-
lowing conversation is detailed:
"Jim," said yesterday to contraband,
Congress is about to pass law to arm
all you people, and to set you in the front
of the Rebels Will you fght?"
The eyes of the contraband flashed out
a spark of delight. "Massa," said he,
sis dat de truf? I've bin prayin' for dat
ar on my Bonded knees. Yes, indeed,
we'll fight. Use gettin $15 a month heah,
but I'll go fight for half that pay. Give
us a chance, Massa, only you just once
give us chance. Well show you if we
won't fight. When the Secesh was heah
my Missus axed me if 1 wouldn't fight for
her, and kill Yankee for her. told her
dat I'D bin raised never to lift my hand
against white man, and dat couldnt 40
it. OATS de way we talk to dem and fool
'em. We had to do it. But you just tell
us to fight; glib us de guns, and wen hight.
We would be too mean not TO 20 IL. You
is doin all you kin for us-let us 90 all we
kin for you"
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1863-02-20
Exports.

The last weeks exports from the port of
New York of domestic produce and miscella-
neous goods, Exclusive of specie, } reached
the extraordinary amount of S., 154, 1862,
of which to the single port of Liverpool
there were exported $1,s93, 1856; and to
London, 1888, 1862. Included in the ex-
ports to Liverpool were nearly %, 900 bar
rels of -four, 100000 bushels of wheat,
100000 bushels of corn, and a very large
quantity of provisions; to London, %, 1000
barrels of flour, $50, 900 bushels of wheat,
and provisions to the value Of nearly
$146,000.
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1863-02-20
minnesota Cavalry at Donelson.

According to an account of the late fight
at Donelson, published in the Milwaukee
Wisconsin,, Capt. Won M1NDENs company
of cavalry has been for a second time cap
tured by the rebels, and paroled, the Cap
tain remaining a prisoner. Capt. Shell
LEY's company, under command of Lieut..
NEELEY, is well spoken of, having been the
first to arrive to the assistance of the COM
mand from Fort Henry or Fort lehman.
Major BRACKET was in command of the
battalion.
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1863-02-20
yVinOna and st. Peter Railroad.

We are informed, says the Winona Re
publican, that the Winona and St. Peter
Company have effected purchase of iron
sufficient to lay the track for an additional
distance of fifteen miles on their road, and
that the iron will be delivered at Winona
Immediately after the opening of river
navigation. This will complete the road
to St. Charles, twenty-five miles from Wi
mona, whereupon trains will run regularly
between this city and the point named.
Should the present prospects and intentions
of the Company be realized, the road will
be completed and in running order to Ro-
chester by the first of next October.
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1863-02-20
The change made by Mr.. Washburne

The change made by Mr.. Washburne,
in debate, that in appointing the leading
Committee of Ways and Means, the
Speaker forgot the existence of the North
west, has caused good deal of comment.
That eight millions of people should have
been unrepresented on that committee is
indeed strange, when it turns out that
New England has two members, New
York two, and Pennsylvania and New
Jersey each one member. When l heard
Illinois boasting that, unlike Pennsylvania,
she had not swindled the government out
of untold millions and had not been COM
PEELED to resort to draft, to increase the
army, it struck me that such treatment
was unkind. We should remember that
disappointment is the lot of man, and that
even sovereign States do not always have
their own way Washington Correspon-
dence.
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1863-02-20
The Causes OF IStir.rsiI;ess Failure.


The Washington correspondent of the
Philadelphia Inquirer, writes under date
of February sth, that Gen. Burnside has
been before the Committee On the Conduct
Of the War, to testify in response to the
resolution OF the Senate inquring of his
having been interfered with in his plan for
the taking of Richmond. The correspond
ent says:-
His testimony revealed some startling facts ::
none OF the committee doubted his word, and
yet they were slow to believe that more than
one General had been guilty of treason
Charges now hang over the heads of several
officers, in consequence of which, if true, any
other government save our own would order
them to military execution forthwith. His
testimony will probably not all he reported to
the Senate at present. Perhaps it will not be
published to the world until after the war is
over.
The difficulties that General Burnside has had
thrown in his way since his taking command
from the day the pOntOOns were not forthcOm-
ing as per agreement with General Halleck and
Meigs, to the day he esigned, were of all kinds
Imbecility. cOWardice, apathy and treason met
him at every turn. His orders were not always
OUcycu JUST NucIl tllcy SLOulu Dc Officers from
whom more should have been expected, shirked
their duty; treason in our own camps, exposed
his plans to the enemy as rapidly as they were
formed, and jealous officers succeeded more
than once in preventing forward movement
at the OppOrtune moment.
1t is believed that the courtmartal of Gen.
Franklin will bring many facts to light, and
sQow the country why we have again failed to
take Richmond and destroy the rebel army of
the Potomac.
Now is the time for the Administration
to show the stuff it is made of. If there
be word of truth in these charges, it is
due to the army and the country that they
be Immediately proven and the heaviest
penalties of the military code visited on
the heads of the guilty parties. If there
is no truth in the averments, then viii
famous wrong is done to the officers of the
Potomac army by the delay to proclaim
the facts of the case. In any event,
postponement of the trial of the alleged
traitors will demonstrate a weakness on
the part of the authorities which cannot
but entail disaster on the cause under their
superintendent.
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1863-02-20

FURs.-The finest lot Of furs that has
been brought to St. Paul the present win
ter, has been purchased by Messrs. J. & G.
M. Daily. They were brought down by
NJ F. Gingras, fur dealer for Messrs. Gull
yer & harrington, and comprise the best
assortment we have seen this season. The
firm of Messrs. Daily has long been known
as one of the most enterprising in the
Northwest, and the amount of furs just
purchased by them, amounting to over
$4,000 is but small per centage OF the
business transacted by them in this branch
of commerce during the year.
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1863-02-20

WE learn from Capt. COATES, Of the
death of OLE NELSON, private in his
company, which occurred several months
ago. Mr.. Nelson was printer, and was
formerly employed in this Office, and sub
sequently edited and published Norwe-
gian paper in this city. He was an intel
ligent young man, of excellent character,
and was a member of the masonic frater-
nity
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1863-02-20

SPEAKING of the brilliant feat of the
Queen of the West in running the block
ade at Vicksburg, Prentice says: "As a
Queen she has won the crown, and as a
ram he bears off the horns"
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1863-02-20

The New York Tribune strongly
commends the late speech OF John Van
Buren,.
, 1863-09-19

FINE PLACE TO WINTER.-The Dales
MOuntaineer calls the attention of miners
who have made their "pile'' to the town of
Dalles as a superior place to winter in. We
presume that only those are wanted who
have made ''pile." The Dalles certainly
offers superior inducements TO flush per-
sons as wintering place. Those who
60 there to winter will doubtless find their
piles very small in the spring; but then
these miners don't care at all about being
encumbered with such trashy stuff as money
any way And then, at Dalles, man can
get as much winter as he desires. He
can't find another place in the upper coun-
try where he can get any more winter
than he can there; and once "snowed in,'
he can't possibly get outside of the place
to squander his pile. He must "bide his
time" within the corporate limits of the
City. On the whole we think the Dalles
a pretty good "hole" to winter in; and not
only for miners, but also for 'disinterested'
business men.
, 1863-09-19

KANSAS CoNsERvATIvEs.-Most of the
Free State men who were sent into
Kansas by Horace Greeley g. Co., during
the trouble there few years ago, were un-
compromising abolitionists. Some of
those (then radically fellows are now edit
ing conservative" papers there. The edi-
tor of the Leavenworth Eveaing Bulletin
appears to be one of those fine spun radl-
Gals, who spins his editorials all around
'freedom" but never INDUCES in elevating
his 'colored brethren" to level with him
self; but his neighbor, the editor of the
Conservative gets down to radicalism with
out any refined notions whatever He
don't attempt to smooth over his editorials
with an artificial covering, as many Of the
abolition editors throughout the country
do. He is simply plain, square-toed,
fiat 70 oted abolitionist, and advocates plain
abolition doctrine Not long since he
made a speech in Leavenworth and it was
rather too plain for the Bulletin mans
taste SO he attempts to smooth it over by
intimating that the speaker was somewhat
under spiritual influence at the time of
his delivery. But here is what the Con-
sergatire man said, as quoted from, and
vouched for by the Bulletin;
The negro is my equal, and is entitled
to all the rights and privileges of the white
man. this war is for the equality Of the
Black with the White man, but Lincoln
and his followers have not yet found it
out, only few f''us radical S-s-of- BIS
have found it out yet"
The Bulletin, in commenting on the
speech, says 'lt was full Of energy and
pathos, and will long be remembered by
those who listened to it, as among Mr..
Wilder's most brilliant efforts"
Immediately above this "Conservative"
mans speech is the Bulletins leader We
extract only sentence or two to show its
conservatism, as follows:
"There can be no lasting peace till sla-
very be abolished; and we believe the fat
has gone forth that all men shall be free.
The war has been reduced to this one prop
osition: a ar for the abolition of slavery
The great principle for which mankind mas
contended since the formation of Govern
ments-the principle of personal freedom,
is about to triumph"
All abolitionists take the ground that
there can be no peace until slavery is abol-
ished. They know their own disposition
to meddle with the institution in States
where it exists by the express will of the
people, and seem to think that every
body else is as meddlesome as they are
But in this view they are greatly mista-
ken. If compromise should be effected.
the law abiding, and better part of the peo-
pie of the North States would rot modest
the Slave States in the right of regulating
their domestic affairs iD their own way.
To say that compromise cannot stand,
and all radicals contend that one cannot,
is the equivalent to telling us that they
would not let it stand But the people
hsve precedent; they can see the destroy
ing effects of tearing down national COM
promises, and neither radicals North or
South would ever again be able to repeal
one if it was made.
, 1863-09-19


Inasmuch as W. W. BANCROFT has placed his nan5
at the head Of the Morning State 0uraGl Of Dalles
City, Oregon as publisher and proprietor, and gives
notice to those to whom it may that Messrs
Snyder & Allison are not authorized to collect re
cept for any moneys now due, or that may hereafter
be due, desire to state to the public and those con
cerned, that Snyder g. Allison have not dissolved CO.
partnership or ever gave w. W. BANCROFT the pro
pretorship authority to his name as publisher
of that journal, but merely left by Mir. Allison as
agent until one Of us returned from the mines.
have in manner whatever either by lease other
wise disposed of my interest in the Journal editor
publisher or proprietor, which the aforesaid BAN
CROFT will find out on my return next week to the
Dalles to resume my duties there
ALBERT NJ. SNYDER.
Oregonian and Times please copy.
, 1863-09-19

PERsoNAL.-Dr. James A. Mullan re-
turned to Walla Walla this week, having
come across the mountains in the position
Of Surgeon to the Fl. Benton Emigration.
The Doctor left here last fall on visit to
his friends in Maryland, and has returned
to establish himsel permanently here in the
practice of his profession.
Dr. A. J. Thibodo, who has been on a
visit to his friends in Canada also returned
this week.
, 1863-09-19
Administrators sale.

IN pursuance Of an order from the Probate Court of
L Wala Walla county Washington Territory, kwiu
sell at Public Auction at the late residence of John
Colclasure, on Dry Creek in said county and Terri
tory, on
Saturday, the 26th day Of September, 1868,
P. NJ. of said day the following personal property,
belonging to the estate Of said john COlclasure de-
ceased
Onions, Potatoes, Corn, Oats, Chickens, l Fan
nmg Mil, 1 Plow / Saddle and Bride lot Of
Shingles, shaving tools, Clothing, Bedding House
hold and Kitchen Furniture, Garden vegetables, and
a half interest in one iron-toothed Harrow.
The corn, oats and potatoes viii be sold in small
lots. Terms of sale cash in hand.
j. W. WILEY, Administrator,
Sept. u, 1868. 89w3