The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1863-07-31
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Yesterday morning about seven O'CLOCK
as a man named Joseph Cooking was en-
tering the Erie railway cars at Jersey Olty,
some person picked his pocket Of about
$4,000 in bills. he felt the person in
the act, and dropped his carpet bag, con-
tanning $4,000 in gold, made his way
through the crowd after the thief, and
upon his return the carpet bag and gold
were missing. One of the parties was ar
rested and committed to the city prison.
One of the most gratifying facts con-
nected with the enforcement of the con-
scription law is, that quite number of
the famous Nine Hundred Thousand Men
promised by Mr.. II. Greeley, have been
drafted, and good many more of the
same sort will be. Among those drafted
in Boston, is the now notorious Moncure
D. Conway, the abolition envoy sent to
negotiate with the rebel envoy, Mason, for
dissolution Of the Union.
The New York Herald says great
National Bank is about to be started there,
with a capital of $5,O0O,OOO, which may
be increased to $4,000. Three millions
of the capital have been subscribed in that
city, and two millions have been reserved
for bankers in the interior of the State.
The papers have been filed in the Depart
ment at Washington
The sermons in the principal Catholic
churches of New York on Sunday last, de-
nounced the recent action of the rioters
one pastor asserting that if such men came
to him for the sacrament or dying conso-
lations with such guilt on their souls, it
would be refused Father Mooney took
the eighth commandment as his text, and
denounced plundering.
The Supreme Court of Maine has rem
dered decision on two questions submit
ted by the Governor of the State: "First,
Has city or town any legal right to
pledge its credit to raise money for the
purpose of paying the communication of
such of its citizens as may be drafted into
the military service of the United States
under the act passed at the last Congress?
Second, Has city or town any legal
right to raise money by taxation to pro-
vide communication for such citizens as may
thus be drafted? The Court decides both
questions unanimously in the negative
This is what Mayor got by COM
planning at Washington that allowance had
not been made in the draft for the surplus
soldiers sent to the war from that city:
WASHINGTON, D. G., June IL 1868.
H. Hosford Mayor of Lowell 1T is not
practicable at this time to consider the excess
or the deficiency of particular towns in making
up quotas, nor does the law require it.
JAMES B. FRY,
Provost Marshal General
"A force of 10000 to $4,000 hostile
Indians is reported to be within short dis
lance of Fort Kearney, Nebraska. 1t is
made up of several tribes, the whole being
under the command of the chief of the
Arrapahoes. There are 1,7OO Federal
troops at the post, and two regiments of
cavalry are on the way to reinforce the
garrison.
The Union troops are now in possess
sion of four rebel State capitals, and their
respective governments are being carried
about in carpet-bags and band boxes by
their Inherent Executives The following
are their names:
States. Capitois. Governors.
Louisiana. Baton Rouge. Thomas Q. Moore.
Tennessee Nashville -. Isham G. Harris.
Mississippi. Jackson ...... John j. Pettus.
Arkansas. Little Rock. IF. Flanagan.
Hon. William Whiting, solicitor of the
War Department, left Boston in Wednes-
days steamer as the accredited agent of
the United States to the Courts of Europe,
and as the commissioned legal adviser of
our Ministers in England and France, in
reference to matters Of great importance.
A fleet of powerful iron-clad steamers is
now being fitted out at Buttonwood, in
Great Britain, supposed to be intended for
the rebel navy; and his visit probably
has direct reference to that
Rev Charles Beecher, brother OF
Henry Ward Beecher, is on trial before an
ecclesiastical council in Massachusetts, for
heresy. He is charged with teaching the
pre-existence of man, that belief in the
divinity of Christ is not essential to saliva
ton, and some peculiar views of the Di-
vine sorrow.
General Meade's mother, Margaret
Butler, was from Chester County Penn
sylvania, some twenty-five miles west Of
Philadelphia, and was neighbor and &C.
ouaintance of Miss Brinton, afterward
mother of General Mcclellan. Genera
Meade's father was a valued and usefu
public officer, having been the means O
our acquiring Florida from Spain.
The Reverend Colonel Higginson has
been on another rampage with his negro
regiment up the Edisto river. de gives
the following account Of his strict observ'