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The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1863-09-04
Comm issfOners to take the Soldier
Vote.

The following gentlemen have b9en ap-
pointed take the vote of the Minnesota
soldiers in the service of the United States,
at the ensuing election:
EASTERN DISTRICT.
j. L. KIDDER, of Ramsey County.
SOLOMON Snow, of Mower County.
WESTERN DISTRICT.
j. &. DANIELS, of Olmsted County
JOHN II. STEVENS of Mcleod County.
FOR THE STATE.
q. B. SEE, of Mcleod County.
THOMAS SIMPSON, of Winona County.
The First Regiment and First and Sec
ond Companies of Sharpshcoters are in
the First District.
The Second, Third, Fourth and Fifth
Regiments, with the two Batteries and
three cavalry companies are in Middle
District.
The Sixth, Seventh, Eighth, Ninth and
Tenth Regiments, the Regiment of
Mounted Rangers, Hatch's Battalion and
Jones Battery are now in the State and
will probably be here when the vote is
taken.
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1863-09-04
An Instance Of Successful Engtneer-
ing.

Three gentlemen Of high aspirations in
the Democratic party, attended its State
Convention, lately held, for the purpose
of so engineering it that they could secure
nominations and elections to the Supreme
Bench, next year, These were Judge
WILDER, of Goodhue county, Judge CHAT
FIELD, of Scott county, and Judge HAMLIN,
of Benton county. They took the man
agement of affairs into their own hands,
placing the first in the chair, the second
on the committee on organization, and the
latter on the platform committee; and the
talent of the trio was concentrated on the
candidates.
The result of their combined wisdom is
before the people, in platform which is
tinctured with disloyalty, and in ticket
which, if its members be boiled down into
a single person, it would disgrace any
gentlemen to be found in familiar con-
tact with. Crediting these judicial aspir-
ants with the result attained through the
Democratic Convention, and it must be
admitted that they have made successful
strides towards the goal of their ambition.
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1863-09-04
Maj. WEIGH Declines the COpperhe ad
Nomination for Secretary of State.

Maj. WEIGH justi6es the estimate we
had formed of his high character and 10y
atty, in the prompt declination of the
place assigned him on the disgraceful Cop
perhead ticket. Mr.. WELLEs, who is re-
ally worthy man, ought to, and we pre-
sumo will, take the same course, and thus
leave the ticket in correspondence with the
principles it represents, and both unre-
lieved in their naked infamy by any pre-
tence of responsibility or patriotism. Maj.
WEIGHS letter of declination follows:
RED WING. Mimi, Aug. %, 1863.
j. B. BRIsBIN, ESQ.,, Chairman Democratic Gen.
trail Committee:
SIR have just learned of my nomination
by the late Democratic State Convention. as
its Candidate for the important position of Sec
rotary of State I take this, my earliest op-
portunity of informing the Honorable Central
Committee, that while deeply thankful to my
friends of the Convention for this high mark
Of their confidence and esteem, / am compelled
to decline the honor which they have extended
to me, as my services, while life and health are
spared, will be devoted to the work of crush
ing armed treason, and restoring our country
to its former glory. l am, at present. home
only few days, on account of sickness, and
trust soon to be able to return to active duty in
the field, leaving the political interests in the
hands of those who can take in them a more
active and an ADLER part. had no intimation
that my name would be brought before the
Convention, or would have explained my sit
uation.
Trusting that the principles of true Democ-
racy may triumph North as well as South,
have the honor to remain,
Yours truly, A. +. WEIGH
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1863-09-04

tended. Speeches were made by Parson
BRowNLow, Governor JOHNSON, Judge
BRIEN, and Colonel HANCOCK. The fol-
lowing resolution gives the spirit of the
meeting:
Resolced, That an experience of two years of
anarchy, confusion and misrule impresses us
with the inestimable value of the blessings we
have lost and the calamites of the past have
taught us wisdom for the future-and if posi-
Die increased our attachment and devotion to
our old Government and we therefore earnest
~ desire the restoration of the Federal and
State Governments over us as soon as possible
and pledge ourselves to make all honorable
eXertiOn to restore and maintain the supremacy
of the Government of the United States.
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1863-09-04
The Indian Expedition.

Gen. SIBLEYs Expedition started on it's
homeward march from Fort Abercombie
on Tuesday morning last On its arrival
at Sank Centre, Col. BAKERS regiment
will be detached, and will be sent along
the frontier line, through the Kandiyohi
country, to Fort Ridgley. Another de-
tachment will be sent through the Chip
pewa country to the Mississippi. 1t is I'M
derstood the main body will come through
to Fort Smelling as rapidly as possible.
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1863-09-04
Affairs in Mexico.

The New York Erening Post, on the
authority of private letters, states that the
Liberals of Mexico Che Juarez party have
determined to give up the contest with
the French, and submit to the fortunes of
war; that Gen. CoMoNFoRT had taken the
oath of fidelity to the government estab-
lished by Gen. FoREY; and that it was
probable that the greater part of the Lib
erals will also make their peace. 1t seems
that they consider the struggle hopeless
and perhaps injurious to their country,
and prefer peace and the security of their
rights Of property to the risk of war.
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1863-09-04

Ramsey After the Indians, Again.

Senator RAMSEY goes to the Chippewa
country, in the course of this week, as
Commissioner to make treaty with the
Red Lake and Pembina bands. Report
says that his principal object is, to get
money enough to pay his taxes. If he
will confine his stealings to that sum, and
will so appropriate it, when stolen, the
people of this city and county, who have
been paying extra taxes for years on &C
count of his delnquencies, will not be
disposed to have him indicted for the theft
involved
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1863-09-04
OF the passion of patriotism to consign all
such cowardly traitors to the infamy they
deserve.
The Genuine Democracy Of the Coun.
try SlOughing Off Copperheadisrn.

Everywhere we notice movements in
progress for detaching from the Demo-
cratic organizations the semi-traitors of
the North, who, since the beginning of
this rebellion, have done so much to bring
the patriotic, time-honored party into dis
repute.
In Indiana, a State organization has
been formed, representing the War De-
mocracy OF that State. In Iowa the MA
HONEY influence has been cast overheard.
and patriotic Union soldier is now at the
head OF the State ticket. In Wisconsin.
the leading Democrats have repudlated
the platform adopted at the recent Dem
ocratic convention, by reason of its cop
perheadism, and have called State Mass
Convention, to faithfully represent the
loyal sentiment Of tie party.
This call we publish to-day, and we in
vlte attention to its positions. The Demo-
cracy of this State, who, as a mass, are
loyal to the backbone, have been misrep-
resented in like manner with the De-
mocracy of Wisconsin; and it should be-
come with them subject of serious con-
sideration, whether they will permit them
selves to be degraded, in point of disloyalty,
to level with the traitors of the South.
We again urge them to look over The pro-
ceedings and call of the War Democracy
of their sister State, and see whether there
is not matter there for thought and action.
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1863-09-04
Lake Superior Tourists.

Rt. Rev. Bishop GRACE and Father RAJ
voUx, whose departure for Bayfied We no.
ticed some days ago, returned by the
lakes, and arrived at home Friday morn
ing. They were charmed with the over
land route from St. Paul, which they per-
formed in four days and halt, without
night travel, and would have returned by
the same route, if they could have procur-
ed conveyance. Their stay at Bayfield,
was very agreeable, and they received
marked attention from the citizens of that
f1ourishing village.
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1863-09-04
Total

The above recapituIatiou shows that
there are several States that have not yet
adopted the national system, although it
is we'll adapted to the whole. The COM
munity require a national currency on
which they can a; all times rely, without
any risks of failure or depreciation.
The Merchants Bank of Boston, with a
capital of $4,OOO,O0O has under consider
alton the adoption of national system.
Measures are in progress in New York to
establish a National Bank there with
capital of $5,OOO,O00.
Others are in contemplation at Boston,
New York: Philadelphia, Chicago, and
other cities.
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1863-09-04
Resigned.

= We learn that GEORGE A. NoURsE, ESQ.,,
has resigned the office of United States
District Attorney for Minnesota, and will
leave in few days for Nevada, to accept
of more lucrative position rendered him
by his old friend, Hon. JOHN W. NORTH
We presume "the SUPPLEMENTARY of the
incumbency" vacated by Mr.: NoURsE, will
be readily filled.
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1863-09-04
ticket. His card, declining the nonina-

ticket. His card, declining the nominal
ton rendered, is printed elsewhere.
With this exception the list of candi-
dates is complete. A Democratic con-
vention, in nominating such set of men
for high positions, has put its party outside
the pale of support by any man who cher
ishes any sentiment of public duty or of
personal honor. Its action is deliberate
insult to the loyal, intelligent masses whom
its members represented. 1t has cast the
brave, grand old organization into the dirty
depths OF the gutter; and, since it has
fallen into such unworthy hands, there let
it lie, and rot
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1863-09-04

MEssRs. EDITORS My name appears in
the proceedings of the Democratic Convention
as candidate for State Auditor. The votes
were given after my name was withdrawn, but
my friends did not understand it. was not a
candidate before the convention.
Yours respectfully, P. MORRISON.
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1863-09-04
Union Meetings in Tennessee.

Another mass meeting in favor of Union
and restoration has been held in Tennes-
see, at Franklin, which was immensely at :
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1863-09-04
minnesota Apples.

DIR. CHUTE of St. Anthony, has given US
a fine apple which was grown in bis gar
den. 1t is of the cred Streak variety,
and no better specimen could be produced
anywhere. 1t is of large size-remarka-
bly, fair, with the richest tints of coloring
we ever saw on any apples. The Doctor
had about half bushel on this tree, which
was planted by JOHN W. NORTH, Esq,
10 years ago, and each year it grows more
hardy aud healthy.
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1863-09-04
National Ranks,

There have bee. elxty-six National
Banks estabi>! nder the act of Febru-
airy, 1868, ~
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1863-09-04

The New York Chamber of Commerce
has published statement of the Federal
vessels destroyed or bonded by Confeder-
ate cruisers-in all $50, measuring 81 ,429
tons, and valued at $11 100000.
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1863-09-04
A Card from Gen. German.

ST.. PAUL. August q. 1868
To the Editor Of the Pioneer:
see by the morning papers that | was
voted for by considerable number of
Delegates to the Democratic Convention
for nomination as candidate for Gov
ernor of the State
Iregret this action of my friends, as l
was not candidate nor could l have ac-
cepted it under any circumstances. This
was known to most if not all of the dele
gates from the city of St. Paul.
l thank my friends for their kind wish
es and Intentions, ard hope l shall ever
merit therrespect and confidence.
w. A. GORMAN.
Hugo Petzold, ESQ.,. Declines the
Democratic ominatiOn for Clerk
of the Supreme Court.
To the Editor of the Pioneer
desire permission to state through the
columns of your journal, that feel con-
strained by a sense of duty to withdraw
my name from the ticket nominated by
the late Democratic Convention.
My reason for doing so is that the Con-
vention deliberately excluded from it's
platform the broad plank of unconditional
loyalty, thus constructing it within the
small compass of, at least, doubtful pat
riotism, fact of which I was not in
formed until saw the published proceed
ings of the Convention in the city papers
of this morning.
Very respectfully, your ob't servant,
H. PETZOLD.
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1863-09-04
The HarbOr Defences of Charleston.

The following is furnished from an au-
thentic source as the rebel defences of
Charleston harbor:
St. Cloud Democrat. [volume] (Saint Cloud, Stearns County, Minn.) 1858-1866, 1863-12-31
PROCEEDINGS OF CONGRESS.

III Tie Senate, on the 18th, Mr..
Wilkinson asked, and by unanimous
consent obtained, leave to introduce u
bill IS. No. l6) to establish a pest
route from Mankato, in Minnesota, TO
the Winnebago agency, IN the Mis-
souri, river, in Dakota Territory which
was read twice by its title, and referred
to the Cniln,ittec on the Post Otfce
and Post Roads.
On the l7sa', :fFAr. Ramsey gave no.
tice Of his intention to ask leave to in.
troduce bill making an appropriation
Of the public lands to aid in the con
struction Of railroad from Lake Su
the way of St. Paul. to Sioux City il
the State Of Iowa. .
In the House, on the 2lst, Mr.. Don
nelly gave notice ola bill to provide
tor the establishment of a Bureau q
Emigration.
St. Cloud Democrat. [volume] (Saint Cloud, Stearns County, Minn.) 1858-1866, 1863-12-31
FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF ST.
PAUL.

We take pleasure, says the Press, in
announcing the organization of the
"First National Bank of st. Paul."
with capital of two hundred and Fl.
ty thousand dollars. One half of this
capital has been paid up and the re-
:lainder will be within the next sixty
days
The Messrs. Thompson and Burbank
Of this city, and the Messrs. Harrison,
Of Minneapolis, are among the prinei-
pal stockholders. The bank will be
ready to commence business in a short
time, and will be located in one of the
finest buildings in the city.
The. advantages of having such an
institution located in this city are ap-
parent, and the fact that we have ci,i-
zens with the enterprise and capital for
such an undertaking. The bank will,
probably, be under the immediate man.
agement Of the Messrs. Thompson, and
this will be sufficient guarantee that
it will be satisfactorily and successfully
conducted.
St. Cloud Democrat. [volume] (Saint Cloud, Stearns County, Minn.) 1858-1866, 1863-12-31

CHARLESTON Merccesry thus
describes the jolly effects Of the she'll
ing in the city:
4 It is curious, as we'll as gratifying, to
see how :coolly our citizens take the
Yankee Smelling Of the city. The pco=
pie go to and fro in the streets very
much as usual. The ladies do not
forego their usual promenades; and
when shell falls, the crowds gather
about the sullen monster, or watch its
fragments, with curiosity which is not
in any whit lessened by their sense Of
danger. The young girls and boys, as
they hear the whizzing, look up and
cry "There it goes" or "Here it
comes r: with superb feeling of conf
dence in Fate, if not with an absolute
sense Of superiority and contempt
When a house IS struck, which is rath-
er a rare thing, they examine the hole
and measure its dimensions, and. even
calculate the rate Of progress which
the enemy will make i t.. Smelling down
our'ancien'to 4eeiity: They say, ;'at this
rate it will require; Thirty guns, con-.
stantly in play for three years, to bat
ter US into a cooked hat
St. Cloud Democrat. [volume] (Saint Cloud, Stearns County, Minn.) 1858-1866, 1863-12-31
&SSh For the St. Cloud Democrat.
ANOTHER YEAR HAS PASSED AWAY. 4
y M

ANOTHER year Of measured time Is now forever hed.s
twelvemonth gone into the astsdark CLINE,
Another y arl ah how many such have sped
On the silent, aeeting wings Of nnknelled Aale
Unknellod ~ yet; but Time is not immortal; %./
Time the Destroyer, clfvaunting he is must yet,
Like other things created, pass Deaths portal,
And, with generations yet unborn pay natures last
great debit
And with tho Old year gone, what scenes have We -
Az natoi-once united anu a happy ore
Witnessed with sorrow my healtl Gun tho minds eye
The bloody conflicts we've passed. thro'; the mighty
battles Won;
The sorrow fratcrna war has made; tho widows heart
Crushed with new -doubly SO since he
Her only son, hope Of her declining years, was forced
to part - ..:
noble lifc that his loved country might still be free.
Can we ever realize how many lonely ones
Are now he,rtbrokcn and with grief forccr bowed
down, - az" 49, y -
Because Of fathers, husbands, brothers and Of SONS
Who for their countrys sake, untin,cy graves have
found:
All, no; we ne'cr can measure half the sorrows
ihls useless, cruel war hath brought, OF know
The length or cen the breadth of its deep fnrrows
Save only where VIC have been witness tOits wUe
And ye.thc favored ones who now are far removed,
From the dreadful scenes Of bloody battle fields
Think, this New Year morn, think Of the loved
And daring ones whose breasts are but as Shields
Protecting YOU and yours from wars dread dosoaton
Shields 'gainst oppression, tyranny and wrong;
Battling for the Right, and to preserve nation
Once proud in history and to be ever SO in song.
Think Of them, and o. pray yc the God of Heaven
In His omniposence, Justice and mercy to descend
And to declare our nations sins at last forgiven
And bling this unholy, bloody couhict to speed,
end;
Pray that the whitc-wingcd messenger Of Love ant
Peace
May bring the glad tings of wrongs forever rightc
That brothers warning with broth forever cease
And our divided country be in love more united
St. Cloud Democrat. [volume] (Saint Cloud, Stearns County, Minn.) 1858-1866, 1863-12-31
SKETCH Of MRS. j. e.. sVvIssI1ELM.

A Washington correspondent Of The
Chicago Tribune, in series of pen por-
traits on the floor of the House, thus
sketches Mrs. Jane G. Swisshelm, for
mot editor Of this p'per: w. w.
There, in the ladies' gallery, is wo-.
mnn who will not finch under my pen
cil-or anybody's. Mrs. Jane G.
Swisshclm, of Minnesota, one Of the
;sharpcst' politicians among American
women, think and, for all that, a
good housekeeper / know, for ~l~have
eaten Ter biscuits. She has a very
large head, high over 6rmness and self
esteem, wide at combativcness, massive
in the intellectual moral regions, and
forehead as square as marble block
causality juttihg out in the most def
ant manner. Added to this, face full
of self-asscrtion, controversial mouth.
which plainly says, "No compromise
an inquisitiva nose, sharp almost to
6erccness, and eyes four times as sharp
as her nose. Fifteen years ago she
was editor of the Pittsburg Saturday
Visitor, and the most widely read and
popular female writer in, this country
tier recent miscellaneous articles show
the same Observation-Disclosures and genial
style, but party warfare has wearied
and worried her, and on political topics,
the ink flows acrid from her pen. AS
an opponent she is disagreeably witty,
and in debate as unrelenting as Parson
BrownloW. She leads off the applause
in the ladies' gallery to-day, and when
the mild Coppelhead Clerk utters his
mild reproof, she looks as if she would
deli ght III tweaking his nose. In re-
Zig Oh she maintains the doctrines of
the old Scotch Covenanters, and as she
makes zealous champion, 1 am GER
tain she would make az admirable mar
tyr-for she would risk the stake any
time for the privilege of the last word.
She is positive, progressive and aggress-
| i've, and usually on "the other side. "
Her decision, courage and selt-rellance,
the availability of~her knowledge and
the power of her personal magnetism,
| endow her with the qualities Of lead
err; and if she, with Eve hundred othe,
American women, should be wrecked
some fine morning, on any desolate ISL
aud in the Pacific, Mrs. Swissheln
would be elected Queen in fifteen min
utcs, and have provisional govern
ment organized before dinner.
St. Cloud Democrat. [volume] (Saint Cloud, Stearns County, Minn.) 1858-1866, 1863-12-31

Of direct communicated with tho grea'
markets; develop ioh.raots Of country
that would gro.n under tho burdens OF
grain and make, the road Of profit to
its builders as well as the State. The
terminus ut ST: Paul would add to the
wealth Of that city, nothing more :;
and to St. Anthony tim hit serve to
impart some appeara ce Of life
Tho routes proposed to both these
latter plaees are uhimerioal-that to
ST. loud is real. Tl.oy, have no CAPT.
tai save a bundle of worthless bonds
this has munificcut grant Of land
from Congress. They may be built
this certainly will.
St. Cloud Democrat. [volume] (Saint Cloud, Stearns County, Minn.) 1858-1866, 1863-12-31
VOLUNTEERING.

By our exchanges we see that v"lun-
tecring is going on briskly i" different
portions of the State, and there seems
no doubt but that the Second Cavalry
regiment will be filed before the lr1ft
takes place. In addition, many are en-
listing in the old regiments.
1t is probable that enlistments will be
stimulated somewhat by the dispatch
from the War Office announcing that
after the 9Th of January the present
large bountles will no longer be paid
Those who intend volunteering will d.
so at once, in order to secure the $500
aud $500 bounties.