The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1863-06-12

Twenty thousand people rallied in
Chicago on Wednesday evening to express
their sympathy for the publishers of the
Chicago Times. At the same hour, the
Tribune, claimed to be the exclusive Or
gan of Northern loyalty in that city, was
forced to defend itself from destruction at
the hands of the indignant population.
Facts like these require no comment.
Items Heron and Vandever left St.
Louis on Friday evening last for the South
probably for Memphis.
-kev. DIR. and Professor Hitchcock, of
Amherst College, the eminent geologist. is
very i'll, and not expected to live. He has
been in falling health for some years, and
the recent death of his wife has greatly ac-
CELEBRATED his steps to the grave.
After George B. Cheever had made
long fanatical speech at the meeting of the
"Church Anti-Slavery Society,"" in Bos.
ton, he introduced to the audience Fred.
Douglass (black MANI, who, he (Cheever)
said, was the only Douglass that would live
in history. The negro, rising to speak,
said only few words, and those only by
way of introducing to the audience Henry
Wilson, United States Senator! There
was significant spectacle.
commissioner Dole has received the
following dispatch from Indian Agent
Mann, dated at Fort Bridger, Utah Terri
tory, June L:
Five hundred Shoshonee or Snake Indians
will visit this Agency to-day for the purpose of
delivering up the stolen stock in their posses
sion, and of pledging themselves to keep quiet
in future. They are entirety destitute of food
and clothing
These Indians inhabit the country ira
versed by the Overland Emigrant route to
the Pacific, and for years have been the
terror of travellers going by that route.
In the opinion of the Commissioner, the
voluntary surrender of the stolen property,
&C., is evidence of their penitence for
past crimes, and the determination to live
hereafter on amicable terms with the
whites travelling through their country.
The Agent has been ordered to relieve
their necessities
The Boston Irareler says, referring
to recent arrivals at that port: eve do
not have as many large ships and India
men as formerly, but our European, South
American, West Indian, African, Austria
liam, provincial and coastwise commerce is
nearly as large as ever, with the exception
of the trade to Southern ports
The Boston Courier illustrates the
cant which Identifies the administration
with the government, by referring to
conversation: 81 suppose, then," said our
friend, "you supported Mr.. Buchanan
when he was in office" "No, didn't"
said he; ado you think l would support
such an old traitor as hep" "Well, but
his administration was the government,
then, as you reason" "Ah, the case is
different" was the reply.
In consequence of the death of Chas
Carroll, of Carrollton, grandson of the last
of the signers of the Declaration of indie
pendence, the Carroll estate is now being
settled up. Of 800 slaves belonging to
the estate, all but 40 have run away.
The appraisers valued these at S. apiece,
while leading slave-dealer of Baltimore
declares he wouldn't give $500 for the
whole lot The slaves of that estate have
been valueless as property for half a GEN.
fury. During that time any of them might
have left who desired it. The fact is, the
estate has been kept up for tho benefit of
the slaves, the proprietors only drawing a
mere living from it.
In Jackson, Mississippi, our forces
found any quantity of mail matter, etc.
The following is copy of the hotel rates
"A deduction of fifty per cent. being al
lowed when paid in greenbacks
Board and lodging, per day. Sc 90
Single hieal. ........... .............. w
Board, per week, without lodging. u 90
Board, per week, two or more to room 80 90
Board, per week, single room. .......... 40 90
Joseph W. Grover, of Vermillion
county, Ohio, recently abandoned his own
wife and six children, and eloped with the
wife Of his brother, j. B. Grover. He took
with him 5000, and lett q like amount
to his wife The diffarenca hatween the