The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1863-04-24
The Albany Argus Of the 18th, gives
the following account Of the overwhelming

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democratic sentiment of that city:
The result of the election in this city is an
emphatic illustration of the great CONSERVATIVE
reaction which is in progress througnouI the
country, and which turns the tnougnts Oh t sle
the salvation of the nation. Such complete
and overwhelming democratic victory has never
before been achieved in this city. 1t Is nearly
a clean sweep,-every ward being democratic,
except the 4th, and that is only IS against us.
The democratic city ticket has 1929 MAORI
ty on Justice, and 2, 403 on Assessor.
Of eleven Aldermen chosen Zone to ill va
ten.
Of ten Supervisors elected, the democrats
choose eight, all but the 4th and 9th Wards.
"A New York letter writer thinks, "if
the sale of ships goes on for a few weeks
as it has for the five weeks past, we shall
have no commerce at our wharves flying
the American flag. No ship-master can
get cargo, and all importations are made
under a neutral flag. The Alabama is
sweeping our commerce from the ocean.
The British are buying our ships, and no
American has chance now"
"A Charleston correspondent of the
Mobile Adceytiser, mentions report that
Mr.. Wagner, of the house of John Frazer
& Co., gave Mr.. Pettigru, few days be-
fore the death of the latter, a check for
$4,000 as a testimonial of esteem.
The New York Times has an appre-
ciative correspondent. We sincerely hope
he is not copperhead, but read and in
wardly digest
THE OLD SroRY.-A correspondent calls our
attention to the fact that when the national
troops held Fort Sumter, we waited until the
rebels had (by their own accounD AZ guns and
5000 men against so men, or enough to work
nine guns. Now, again, at the second battle
in Charleston harbor, we have waited until the
rebels had 800 guns, against which we brought
thirty-twO.
At Arlington, Pa, on the 18th inst,
Mrs. Harper, and Miss Ellis Morgan, daugh-
ter of Mr.. Thomas Morgan of this city,
were killed in the mill of Mr.. Smith Har-
per. The were in the upper story of the
building, and it is supposed that one of
them was caught by her dress and whirled
around the shafting, and the other, in at
tempting to rescue her, was also caught
and shared the fate of her friend. One of
the workmen observing something unusual
in the noise of the machinery, at once
stopped the mill, and on searching, found
the two unfortunate ladies both dead.
Mrs. Harper was niece of Hon. John
Robins.
The New York Metropolitan Record,
the repudiated organ of Archbishop
Hughes, is on "a new lay" 1t calls up
on the newly elected members of Con-
gress "to meet in council and demand
that the President shall abandon his pres
ent mad, fanatical course, and insist that
he must not transcend the power and au-
thority invested in him by the supreme
law of the land" As the Record now
speaks for nobody but it itself, it is Of
precious little consequence what it "de-
mands" or "insists."
"A letter from the Collector at Macki
nae, does not give hopes of an immedi-
ate opening of the Straits. 1t is dated
March 31st and says:
Since the 18th inst. the weather has been
steadily cold. At the present moment the
thermometer shows 16 deg. above zero. The
ice is better than at the date Of my last letter.
with no evident prospect of an early change
Teams are going and coming upon it, hauling
wood. The parts between Mackinac and Bots
Blanc Straits, that were unsafe week back,
have again become firm and strong.