The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1863-04-10

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FROM WASHINGTON.

WASHINGTON, April 6.-The I1.ibune,s
Washington dispatch says two expeditions
sent out by Gen. Stahl returned yesterday
evening. One proceeded to Warrenton
and vicinity, and the other explored be-
yond Bull Run mountains to Blue Ridge,
they encountered only few scattered par
ties of guerillas -took 81 prisoners and
brought in such horses as could be found.
A force of rebel cavalry is believed to be
in, the Shenandoh Valley. t0 81. e 1'.a ti''
There is no confirmation of the reports
which have been current here and in the
army of the Potomac as to the capture and
destruction OF Charleston. All that is
known has been published.
The Times dispatch says the mails by
British steamer which were expected here
with great anxiety did not arrive It is
needless to disguise the fact that, to most
prudent and intelligent statesmen connect
ed with the Government, our relations
with that OF Great Britain seem to be
more precarious than they have been at
any time since the Trent affair.
The President has issued the following
proclamation regarding that of August
10th, 1861:
Whereas, Experience has shown that the ex-
ceptions made in and by the said proclama-
ton embarrassed the due enforcement of said
act OF July 18th, 1861, and the proper regula-
tons of commercial intercourse authorized by
said act with loyal citizens of said States there
fore do hereby revoke said exceptions, and
declare the inhabitants of the States of Georgia.
South Carolina, North Carolina, Tennessee.
Alabama, Louisiana, Texas, Arkansas, Missis-
sippi,. Florida, Virginia, except forty-eight
counties, designated as Western Virginia, Port
Royal and Beaufort are in state of insurrec-
ton against the United States, and that all com
mercial intercourse not licensed and conducted
as provided in said act between said States and
the inhabitants, with the exceptions aforesaid
and the citizens of the United States, is unlaw-
full and will remain unlawful until the insur-
rection ceases, or has been suppressed, and no
tice thereof have been given; and all cotton
and other products from said States with afore-
said exceptions into other parts of the United
States on proceeding to any of said States with
the exceptions aforesaid, without the license
and permission OF the President through the
Secretary of the Treasury, will, together with
the vehicle conveying the same. be forfeited.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
VIM. H. SEWARD, Sec'y of State.
WASHINGTON, April IA dispatch re-
ceived at headquarters from Rosecrans,
dated Murfreesboro, April 6, states that
Gen. Stanley had returned from his expe-
dition, bringing number of cavalry from
the Peninsula, killing and wounding sew
eral.
Some of the judges of the territories are
proposing to test before the q. S. Court
of Claims, the question whether the Presi-
dent had the power to remove such off,
GERS at pleasure. Judge Coodlebaugh,
whose case is fully made up, and which is
included with the others, continued to act
on the Supreme Court bench of Utah for
eighteen months after President Buchanan
had appointed his successor. Judge Coo
dlebaugh's associates, however, acknowl-
edged him to the exclusion of the latter
RittenhOuse, FAINT 81 Co., of this city,
and their associates, have organized bank
under the recent act, to be called the "Na-
tional Bank of Commerce., and to be To-
Gated in Georgetown. twill go into ope-
ration as soon as the Government can
furnish the circulating notes.
The question as to what shall be done
with the convicted Minnesota Indians, still
remains undecided, the President having
the matter under consideration.
The President and the party who accom-
panied him to the Army of the Potomac
on Saturday, will return on Tuesday or
Wednesday,
Jay Cooke & Go. exchanged $4,000 of
the legal-tender notes for five-twenty bonds
in one day, last week, in this city, and such
exchanges are constantly being made in
Washington.