The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1864-04-22

elected to Parliament for the East and
West Districts of Montreal, last week, by
reclamation. Hon. A. 7. Gait, Finance
Commissioner, was elected by acclama-
tion for the town of Sherbrooke. ,s
Judge Niles of Belleville, an old DEM
ocrat, formerly Colonel of one Of the Iii
nois regiments, announces himself as a
candidate for Congress in the 18th district
of Illinois. He defines his position thus !:
81 am in favor of an unremitting, unfag-
ging, vigorous prosecution of the war, for
the attainment of peace and permanent re-
union. For this end, and to establish JUS
tice, Igo for the abolition of slavery and
the grant of absolute freedom before the
law to every human being in the United
States, so far as to mako slavery impos-
sible in the reconstructed Union"
MIR. A. A. Lovett, Superintendent Of
the peoples Line of Telegraph, died in
New York on Wednesday.
Some months ago, negro servant
was charged in New Orleans, by Paymas-
Ter 81 r. Lawrence, of Wisconsin, with
robbing him of $4,000. The negro was
first numerically fogged, and subsequent
ly sentenced to hard labor at the Dry Tor
tugas for life. Facts have recently come
to the knowledge of the War Department
fixing the guilt upon Lawrence himself.
Secretary Stanton arrested him few
days ago, and placed him in the Cd Cap
itOl Prison.
Tho Senate Committee on Public
Lands have reported back the substitute
for Doolittle's bill, granting lands to Wis
cOnsin for railroad purposes. 1t gives al
tsrnate sections for ten sections in width
TO the St. Croix AMI Lake Superior Rail-
road, from Lake St. Croix to Bayfield, /; the
same amount to the Tomah and Lake St.
Croix Railroad, from Tomah, Monroe
county, to Lake St Oroix; and the same
amount for railroad from Berlin to Bay
field.
"A New York paper asks, why not
borrow brilliant idea from Secretary
Chase, and Issue butter certificates? If
gold certificates can cure speculation in
gold, butter certificates can surely cure
speculation 10 butter.
The National InteNigeace,' devotes an
IN ha Ia
duct of the Secretary Of war, in refusing
to comply with resolution of Congress
directing him to submit all the Mcclellan
correspondence connected with the opera
tiors Of the Army of the Potomac. eve
have never" says the editor, sheen able
to understand what useful or honest pur-
pose could be subserved by their suppress
sion. The country wants to read those
papers 10 an official shape and in their en-.
tirety, without suppression and without
notes or comments to make them mean
what somebody or anybody may desire to
make them mean"
-Parson Brownlow's paper says that at
the recent election in East Tennessee the
"people did pretty much as they pleased,
except to violate the constitution and
laws of the State. In several places where
the Union sentiment was overwhelming,
the judges and people required and took
no oath but that prescribed by the old
code of Tennessee. The people have an
idea, somehow or other, that the Union
men Of East Tennessee have given suffi-
Client evidence of loyalty, without the adj
ditional sanction of test oath, no matter
by what military officer prescribed"
Prince Maximilian-or Emperor rath-
er-will he the guest Of August Belmont,
Esq, in New York ......
The Chicago journal says that seven
batteries of artillery and a PORTION of the
cavalry and infantry of the 18th Army
Corps have arrived from Vicksburg and
are encamped in Cairo, awaiting the ar
rival of the rest of the Corps and the fur
Laughed veterans now at home. 1t is not
known whittier the Corps is to be sent,
but the supposition is that the 18th and
18th Corps are both to be transferred
either to Chattanooga or Virginia.
From the estimates sent to the Senate
by the Secretary of the Interior, it ap-
pears, in consequence Of the removal of
the Sioux and Winnebago Indians from
Minnesota, that $4,000 is required for
their support up to July and $lo7, 200 for
the next fiscal year.
On the 9TH instant General Steele was
on the Little Missouri River, about TWEEN
ty-fve miles from Camden, where he ex-
pected to be joined by Gen. Thayers force
from Fort Smith. He had been attacked
on the I'd and 4th by Shelby and Marina
duke, repulsing the rebels in both in
stances. There was a large rebel force in
his vicinity at the latest accounts, but Q
stand on their part was not anticipated.
The rebels having entirely abandoned,
East Tennessee, Gen. SchOfield has sent