The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1863-04-10
"a Washington dispatch of NJ arch OFT

4 Atousiy - aS MS rooms IN this city. AL
/ though hopes are cherished of hi, ultimate
i restoration, bis recovery is slow
j Military affairs in General Grants de-
partment are not turning out brilliantly.
\ There are great difficulties to contend with.
and we do not think there is great ability
on the part of the commanding General
to meet them. There are several unem-
| pioyed Generals, who are, in our judg-
ment, much better fitted tor the direction
OF operations on the Mississippi than Gen.
| Grant, concerning whom there is sort of
infatuation at Washington, that we hope
to see dispelled. Cincinnati ConanaerciaL
The Natchez, CMiss) Courier says
that when Admiral Farragut arrived there
with the Hartford and the Albatross, he
sent a boat on shore with a communication
to the Mayor, as follows:
t U. s. FLAG SHIP HARTFoRp.)
Off Natchez, March H. 1863.
To His Honor, the Mayor Of Natchez:-
SIR:-I trust it is unnecessary to remind Won
of my desire to avoid the necessity of punish
ing the innocent Tor the guilty, and express to
you the hope that the firing upon United States
Of Natchez, or guerilla forces. Otherwise 1
shall be compelled to do an act most repugnant
to my feelings by firing on your town in de-
fence of my people and for the honor of my
flag. .tH... n .ai3. ....t. b.. f"-.a5
shall be most happy to see his Honor, the
Mayor on board. ...H r'
Very respectfully, h-f
f-h D. G. FARRAGUT,
Rear Admiral Com. w. G. B. Squadron.
The Illinois Central Company has sold
over sixty thousand acres of land during
the last four months to upwards of one
thousand purchasers, for $677,715 3d.
The cash payments in the same period have
been $36O,12O 30.
1t is stated that General Franklin has
failed to attend upon the summons of the
Committee upon the conduct of the war.
1t is feared that the 4th of April, the limit
of the committees time, will be reached
without obtaining his important evidence.
David Wagner, of York, Pennsylva-
MIA, has accepted the position of Disbursing
Clerk Of the United States Senate, in place
of Sayles J. Bowen, resigned Mr. Wag-
oner was for many years editor of the Ian
caster Eco0ainer, journal of great politi-
cal influence, and besides was Cashier of
the York Bank for twenty-six years He
is regarded as admirably adapted for the
responsible position to which he has been
appointed.
In the examination of a paymas-
ters account in the office of the Second
Comptroller Of the Treasury, the following
declaration was set opposite the name of
James Kennedy, Farrier, Company B.,
Purnell Legion, Maryland volunteers, on
the pay roll as received at the Office
evil not receive his pay for his services,
having joined for the goode of the cause
and not for pay" Against which declara-
ton the paymaster had noted ''never paid"
The following card from John Van
Buren, appears in the N. Y. Ecening Post
of Monday last:
To the Editor Of the Ecening POST
The Times OF this morning publishes notice
of a meeting to be held at the Academy of Mu-
sic on Thursday evening next, to be address,
ed by myself and Others This is an error
cannot attend the meeting. Please publish
this in your paper, and add, to prevent misap-
prehensiOn, that am not a member of any
League of which Mr.. Charles King is chair
man.
Respectfully yours, IVAN BUREN,.
New York, March %, 1868.
It. G. Phelps, present Republican
member of Congress from California, offer
ed, through an agent, $4,000 vote for
votes enough to elect him United State
Senator from that place.
Wendell Phillips is out in the Lude-
pendent calling upon the Government to
stake one more step forward, which step
is the unconditional emancipation of all
the slaves in the border States.
A late Richmond E.camine,' has the fol-
lowing on the approaching campaign:
All reasonable men have come to the conclu-
sion that another year of war, at least. is be-
fore them, and perhaps more. The peace de-
fusion is blown away. Neither from foreign
Intervention, nor from the imperiOus DEGREES
of King Cotton, nor from the imagined friend
ship of the Northwest, nor from the stupid ru-
uOIS VI Vic DECENTRALIZATION OF Lne Yankee
armies, does any hope of peace dawn upon the
land We must fight or submit. What hallu-
cination soever may be cherished by some poll
ticians, the soldiers in the field want to know,
and ought to be told, the plain truth; and the
truth is that we are right in the middle of the
war, and during the spring and summer that
war is to be more fierce and unrelenting than
ever before. The Yankee enemy is only be-
ginning to fight. To buy provisions for the
army at current rates would call for the impO-
sitiOn of q great debt upon our pOsterity, such
as would make our children curse us in our
graves
The following is Washington dis
patch to the New York Tribune:
Adelegation of planters from Arkansas, claim
ing to be loyal, waited upon the President,
with the request that the operation of the eman-
cipation proclamation be suspended in a por-
ton of that State.
This request was courteOusly but firmly de-
clined by the President who reminded the pc
titioners that Peter once made strong protesta-
tions of fidelity to the Lord, but afterward an
nulled them by thrice denying Him whom he
had chosen to serve, and added that in this he
did not wish to initiate Peter.
The house of Mr.. George Tollard, of
York, in Dane county, Wisconsin, was
burned on Friday night last. Three per-