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

"A Washington dispatch of NJ rcb OFT
says: +" Owen Lovejoy is still lying 60
| riously i'll at his rooms in this city. AL
though hopes are cherished of his ultimate
restoration, his recovery is slow
| 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-
| ployed Generals, who are, in our iudg-
| ment, much better fitted for the direction
OF operations on the Mississippi than Gen.
Grant, concerning whom there is a sort of
infatuatlon at Washington, that we hope
to see dispelled. -Cinctnnmi CommerciM
The Natchez, (Miss.) Courier says
that when Admiral Farragut arrived there
with the Hartford and the Albatross, he
sent a boat on shore with communication
to the Mayor, as follows:
u. s. FLAG SHIP HARTFORD)
Off Natchez March Il. 1863.
To HIS Honor, tie Mayor Of Notchez:-
SIR:-I trust it is unnecessary to remind YOU
of my desire to avoid the necessity Of punish
inc the innocent for the guilty, and EXPRESS to
you the hope that the firing upon United States
boats will not be repeated by the lawless people
of Natchcz, or guerilla forces. Otherwise
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.
Sl,o1l no To y;
Mayor, on board.
Very respectfully,
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 S677,715 81
The cash payments in the same period have
been $36O,12 80.
1t is stated that General Franklin has
failed to attend upon the summons of the
Committee upon the conduct of the war.
1t is feared that the 4th of April, the limit
OF the committees time, will be reached
without obtaining his important evidence.
David Wagner, of York, Pennsylva-
MIA, has accepted the position of Disbursing
Clerk Of the United States Senate, in place
OF Sayles J. Bowen, resigned. Mr.. Wag-
oner was tor many years editor of the Lar
caster E,comineT, q journal of great politi-
cal influence, and besides was Cashier Of
the York Bank for twenty-six years. He
is regarded as admirably adapted for the
responsible position to which he has been
appointed,
In the examination of paymas-
ter$ 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 gooda 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. Ereuiug Post
Of Monday last:
To Tie Editor Of tie Ereninq Post: -
The Times OF this morning publishes a notice
of Il 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 i'll your paper. and add to prevent misap-
prehensOn, that | am not a member of any
League Of which Mr.. Charles King is chair
man.
Respectfully yours, j. VAN buren,.
New York, March 2S 1868.
II. 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 Lide-
pendent calling upon the Government to
"take one more step forward, which step
is the unconditional emancipation of all
the slaves in the border States
A late Richmond Ecumai,se,' 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 impcrious DEGREES
of King Cotton nor from the imagined friend
ship of the Northwest nor from the stupid rll-
mOrs of the generalization of the Yankee
armies, does any hope of peace dawn upon the
land? We must fight or submit. What hallI-
cnation 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-
stiOn of a great debt upon our posterity, such
as would make our children curse us in our
graves
The following is a Washington dis
patch to the New York Tribune:
A delegation 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 por-
ton of that State.
This request was cOurteOusly but firmly de-
clined by the President who reminded the De
titioners that Peter once made strong protesta-
tions of fidelity to the Lord, but afterward an
nullod them by thrice CenyinU Him whom he