The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1864-12-23
FROM EUROPE.
Letter OF Earl Russell 70 the Con.
federates

PORTLAND, Me-, dec. l7.-Ihe Hlber-
MAN, from Liverpool on the LIST, by way of
Londonderry on the I'd, arrived this even
ing. Her dates are two days later.
Earl Russell had replied to the recent
manifesto of the Confederate Congress, ex-
pressing equal friendship for the North and
South, deploring the war, and pledging
England to strict neutrality. - -
The London Zfmss thinks that Mr.. Lin
coin will make some attempt to close the
war by negotiations.
The federal troops are to be Immediate
ly withdrawn from Holstein under a de-
mand from Prussia.
A meeting was held at Bristol to cele-
brate Mr.. Encoln's election, when cheers
were given for jeff Davis and Gen. Lee,
and groans for Grant, Butler and Lincoln,
until the police finally cleared the room.
GREAT BRITAIN.
Earl Russell has made the following re-
ply to the dispatch of the Confederate
commissioners and manifesto of the South
ern Congress:
FOREIGN OFFICE, Nov. Is, 1864.
have had the honor to receive the COPY
which you have sent me Of the manifesto is.
sued by the Congress of the so-called Confed-
crate States of America
Her Majestys government deeply laments
the prOtracted nature OF the struggle between
the northern and southern States of the for
merly united republic of North America
Great Britain has since 1883 remained, with
the exception of short period, connected by
friendly relations with both the northern and
southern States.
Since the commencement of the civil war
,sn1,1 ,vo1, -,
eminent have continued to maintain senti-
ments of friendship equally for the North and
for the South. For the causes of the rupture
Her Majestys Government have never pre-
sumed to judge They deplored the COM
mencement of this sanguinary struggle and
anxiously look forward to the period of it's
termination.
must consult the interests of peace, and espe-
cially the right of all parties by observing
strict and impartial neutrality, which Her
Majesty has faithfully maintained and will con.
tinue to maintain.
{ Ggasd} you S''''s~SD 70 aeei R5s Sci
TOD. SLrDELL and Dudley MANN.
The London Times fears that Earl Rus
sells letter will find no favor with either
the North or the South.
First he snubs the Oonfederates. They
are only associated Confederate States,
and have yet to establish their right to the
appellation. This, too, is compliment to
the Union States; but then follows coun-
ter snub to the United States. They are
the " formerly united Republic" To say
they were formerly united is to imply that
they are now disunited, and to acknowl-
edge, therefore, the existence of the Con-
federate States.
Earl Russell seems to be in danger of
forgetting that neuter does not mean both.
Therefore, if he would maintain, even in
words, strict neutrality, it is necessary
to avoid any demonstration of friendship
towards either of the belligerents.
NEW YORK, Dec. 20.-The steamer
Cuba, from Liverpool the Sd, arrived.
The political news is unimportant. Mr..
Dayton, the American minister, died at
Paris on the I'd, of apoplexy. No details
are stated.
There are apprehensions of wholesale
assertions from the frigate Niagara. In
Scheldt twenty-five seamen recently got
away and were pursued to the Dutch from
tier. Most of them escaped into Holland.
The London Express, in an article on
Russell's letter to Slidell and others, thinks
Russell, to be consistent, should not stop
short of a recognition of the Oonfederacy
The Post gives report of the partial
recognition of the Mexican empire by the
Washington government.