The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1863-04-17
THE WEEKLY PIONEER AND, DEMOCRAT

and full, and admitted of no doubt of the
country Of Mons. Sylvain's birth, and the
drink was taken at once.
The New York Tribune says defal-
cation of $4,000 or $50, 900 has been dis
covered in one of the city banks, and the
guilty parties discharged without prosecu-
ton. The defalcation was affected by the
substitution of greenbacks for gold the
profit on the transaction being the premi-
UNI on the gold. ad . t' ...
The Missouri Republican presents the
following concise criticism upon the Con-
gressional War Committee:
The Committee on the Conduct of the War
is an unmitigated nuisance, as it has been ever
since it was created. 1t appears to be ma
chine for manufacturing jealOusies, and for de-
priving honorable, patriotic, able and deserv-
ing men of the hOnOrs they have earned, sim
ply because they are not favorites with the
members of the committee. We are likely to
have better one hereafter, or none at all,
which is the same thing.
-"I was amused" writes the London
correspondent of the Manchester Guar
dian, cat the judgment on the Price of
Wales pronounced by that eminent au-
thority on the value of man, the hunts
man of the Pytchley Hunt, after the
Princes first appearance in Northampton
shire, few days since. He rides hard,
and he rides straight; he'll make a good
king"
"A woman was brought before the Re-
corder of Albany, not long ago, charged
with some misdemeanor. She assured
His Honor she was respectable woman,
and not at all capable of the offence i'm
puted. "Where do you reside? /" inquired
the Judge. "In New York;" said the
lady. "Whom do you know there?-
mention some respectable person of your
acquaintance. The lady gave the names
of nearly all the eminent criminal lawyers
of Gotham. "Very respectable gentle
men," said His Honor, smiling, but
not very respectable associates for a lady,"
The N. Y. Herald thinks an excellent
exemplificatiOn of the suavitey in anodo,
fortiter in re, is to be found in the mes
sage of Admiral Farragut to the Mayor of
Natchez. Indeed, it is fair specimen of
that kind of literature which one might
expect from the gallant Admiral. 1t is in
substance about this-'If your Honor
does not cause the firing Of your people on
my fleet to cease, will blow you and
your city to atoms. Meantime, 1 shall be
most happy to see your Honor on board
my ship" In this terse message we have
all the brusque firmness of the sailor COM
bined most delightfully."- with the charac-
teristic hospitality of that class.
The immaculate Forney is blood
thirsty. He says
g In time of war, faction is treason, and the
the unrelenting justice of men has never
yet failed to punish it with DEATH"
The Richmond papers report common
whisky there at $25, good article at $50
per gallon. A contemporary thinks the
time is near at hand when the suffering
people of the South will be brought to
"the sober second thought
The Albany Argus says eff there
are any whose minds revert to other than
peaceful modes of redressing the wrongs
inflicted upon the country at this time, let
them be adjured to take counsel of wisdom,
and to exercise that patient forbearance
and true patriotism which looks alone to
the ballot-box as the arbiter of our desti-
MES. If this mode of relief is slow, it is,
nevertheless, sure, and it has the virtue of
requiring no sacrifice of life or principle,
for the accomplishment Of the most mo-
meatOus reforms"