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The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1864-03-25

No reliance is to be placed upon the nu-
merous reports sent from here of the
terms of the next tax bill. The fact is.
the members of the Committee of Ways
and Means are themselves still ignorant of
the rate OF tax that will be imposed on
some OF the most important articles.
Ihere is no doubt of the fact that Lee is
daily receiving accessions to his army and
is preparing for an early opening of the an
preaching campaign. His cavalry is be-
ing recognized, and although smaller
organization than last summer. is ennallv
formidable. Infantry are coming in from
various quarters, and in few weeks we
shall doubtless have in our front an army
not at all inferior to that which confronted
us last season.
The reorganization of the army of the
PatOmac has not yet commenced. All
CORPS remain intact as yet, though it was
generally understood last week that the
LIST and 9Th corps were to be merged into
the 3rd and 9th.
New YORK, March 22.-Specials state
that the tax bill is nearly completed, and
will be reported to Congress by the first of
next week.
Most of Gen. Grants staff arrived at
Washington this noon, and are making
preparations for the General to 20 to the
front.
The Secretary Of the Treasury has given
positive orders prohibiting the shipment of
American coal to Canada.
The jury to-day gave verdict of $500
damages against the Express paper for
libel.
The Commercials Washington special
says Gen. Hancock is summoned before
the War Committee to-day to testify as to
the management of the Army of the Po-
tOmac.
Indications now are that Meade will be
temporarily retained in command of the
army, which will be divided into three
divisions.
General Albert Pike has, it is averred,
made overtures for an amnesty.
The Posts special says the charge that
Government has paid transportation for
civilians to return home to vote is ascer-
tanned to be entirely false.
The Committee on Elections has taken
up the Kentucky contested election case.
1t is upon alleged military interference
WASHINGTON, March 22.-The following
is letter of instructions sent to-day to all
collectors of customs and special agents of
the Treasury Department
TREASURY DEPARTMENT !
WASHINGTON, March 81. {
The forty-second trade regulation, series of
September II, 1868, is hereby so far modified
that on and after the LIST day of April next
foo on oh opto
to and from the insurrectiOnary districts will
be three per cent instead of five as therein
prescribed.
(SigneD 8. p CHASE.
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1864-03-25
A Broad Threat.

A Kansas paper says that if, under
certain circumstances, the new Legis-
lature of Kansas does not go into an cleo
ton for Senator, the "carcasses" of men,
bers will be hung up to lamp posts That
threat is a la jeune Kansas. Says the pa
per referred to:
If the people at the next election decide
against this conspiracy and fraud, and cor
rupted State Senate interposes to thwart the
decision, the lamp posts of Topeka will groan
with the carcasses of recreant but defunct
Senators. There will be mass meeting held
in Topeka about the second Tuesday of Janua-
ny, 1865, and woe! woe to the traitor who
sets himself up against the rights Of the peo-
nle of Kansas
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1864-03-25
FROM EAST TENNESSEE.

CUMBERLAND GAP, March 22.-Lieuten-
ant Col. Davis of the 18th Tennessee Fed.
eral cavalry, wounded and taken prisoner
February 22d has escaped and reached our
lines safe. He was treated very inhuman-
~ while in rebel hands. Two companies
OF The 91st Indiana, scouting up the Vir-
gina ,li road came upon the enemy's pickets,
klillng one and wOunding another, and re-
turned to camp last evening with four
norses. wagons, arms and seven prisoners,
including the notorious rebel Guides. and
oushwhackers, Green and Easterler, who
nave long been terror to Union citizens.
The Louisville Journals Chattanooga spe-
cial, on the authority of deserters. saws
Morgan's command is still opposite Deca-
tur and cannot be mounted from scarcity
of horses. Deserters from Iongstreet's
army say he is doubtless moving to Lee.
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1864-03-25
Horrible Murder of Union SOldiers...
The Assassins Arrested and Sent to
Head0uartcrs.s
ecial Dispatch to the Sunday Chronicle.

Special Dispatch to the Sunday Chronicle.
RAPPAHANNOCK, March 1I.-Three rebel
soldiers, who took the oath of allegiance
on the 9th, and were on their way North.
were arrested to-day by member of the
18th Pennsylvania cavalry, who charges
them with the murder of two of his com.
panions, few days ago, at Greenwich.
A party of the 18th Pennsylvania, doing
duty at Gen. Crawfords Headquarters.
were out on scout. Some of them fell
into the hands of guerilla band, with
whom they had brush, and it was de-
cided by the inhuman wretches that two
OF the prisoners should suffer death. The
doomed men were chosen by lot, and
third was forced to hold each of his COM
panlons in turn, while the assassins per-
formed their bloody work.
The Threats of these two men were cut
from ear to ear. The cavalryman who
captured the three murde: ers is the SAME
who was compelled to assist them in MUIR
dering his companions.
He saw them at Catlett's Station, after
his escape, recognized them, and effected
their arrest. They are now at the head
quarters Of the Fifth corps, and will be
sent at an early hour tomorrow to the
headquarters of the army.
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1864-03-25
FROM SAN FRANCISCO.

San Francisco, March 21.-Three Rus
sian war steamers sailed to-day.
Dates received from the Sandwich Is
lands of the 9Th of March, have no news
of Importance. Spring whales were be-
ginning to arrive at Honolulu. The sugar
crop is very promising.
The steamer Oregon has arrived from
the northern ports of Mexico with $780,
900 OF treasure and three hundred pack
ages of ore. Mining operations in Sonora
and Senlia are represented as in a promis.
ing condition.
The Mazatlan Times of March 9TH, SAYS
the French land forces left Guadalaiara on
the oath Of February, going towards Ca
liba. Probably ere this battle has been
fought with the national troops.
The same authority says the commerce
of Mazatlan is uninterrupted, but it seems
the purpose of the French to effectually
blockade all the ports south of Mazatlan.
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1864-03-25
The Draft.

1t is known that Connecticut and Indi-
ana, through their Representatives, have
protested against the decision of the Pro-
vost Marshal General that the draft under
the present call should be enforced in dis
tricts which had not filled their quotas, al
though the State might have done SO.
The matter was referred by the Secre-
tary of War to Mr.. Solicitor Whi.ing for
advisement. We learn that the opinion of
the Solicitor will reverse the decision of
the Provost Marshal General, ard that
therefore no draft will take place in States
which have filled their quotas IFashing-
ton Republic.
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1864-03-25
The Great Railroad Strike Ended.

In virtue of the sober second thought, or
for lack of understanding and organization,
the threatened strike of railroad engineers
was not so general as was anticipated
The Chicago Times says the Galena Su-
perintendent having refused to recede, and
refused also to accept the engineers after
the places tn ey abandoned had been filed
by others, the engineers of the Illinois
Central, the Michigan Southern, The Chi
cago and Rock Island and the Chicago and
st. Louis Railroads, abandoned their en-
gines. Those of the Pittsburg, Fort
Wayne and Chicago, Cincinnati and Chi.
cago Air Line, Michigan Central, Chicago
and Milwaukee, Chicago and Northwest
ern, and Burlington and Quincy roads, re-
considered their intentions and wisely con-
tinued in their employment. Thus the
suspension of business was confined to four
roads, and with them it has been partially
effective.
The Chicago Journal, of Thursday,
says: "The one O'Clock trains on the
Northwestern and Milwaukee Railroads
have gone out as usual, and that, too, with
the old engineers at the helm, who nobly
determined to let no personal feeling stand
between themselves and the duty they
owed their families, the railroad COM
panies and the public. A large crowd of
citizens and railroad employees collected
at the depots to see them Oft, and they
started, followed by round after round of
hearty cheers from hundreds, who thus
vented their admiration for men who
dared to do right
The Tribune intimates that the Gov
eminent will interfere if any delay to
mails or transportation is occasioned, and,
on the whole, the present prospect is that
the difficulty will be soon at an end
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1864-03-25
The Rebel Army--lts Power of Cons
centratiOn.

The Nashville correspondent OF the
Philadelphia Inquirer makes the following
important statement:
The rebels are advantageOusly situated
as regards the sending hither and thither
of reinfOrcements, and doubly so in the
safety Of their Ines Of communication.
The army under Gen. Beauregard is the
most serviceable corps in the COnfe1eracy.
Its numbers, counting in the cOnscripts
and new recruits, may be estimated at
1000 men, four-ffths of whom may be
spared at any time, moot especially at the
present, when neither our own folks nor
our enemies have any hopes or fears re-
garding the fall of Charleston. Twenty
thousand men can be dispatched to Rich.
mond, and will arrive, with the parapher-
MALTA of the force complete, at the capital
in three days. In two days that same
body Of men may reach Atlanta. There
fore whoever fights Lee in Virginia, or
North Carolina, or east Tennessee, or Joe
Johnston in Georgia, may expect to have
at least to fight Beauregard's army at the
same time. AS an instance of this, when
Gen. Stoneman made his raid upon Rich
mond last year, Beauregard and portions
of his forces turned up the next day.
The late affair in Georgia gives painful
evidence of the truth OF my assertions !;
and yet, since that battle, we hear OF Gen.
BeauregarL in Mobile. The correspon-
dence which you published few days ago
as passing between Jeff Davis and Joe
Johnston, exhibited the fact that the latter,
in his Vicksburg Campaign. received eight
thousand reinforcements from Beauregard.
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1864-03-25
NEWS FROM CAIRO.

CAIRO, March 21.-The steamer Olive
Branch from New Orleans 18th, arrived
with large cargo of groceries and tropi-
cal fruits, and ninety bales Of cotton for
St. Louis. The 142d Illinois re-enlisted
veterans; 9th regiment 4th division 18th
army corps under General Veach, en-
camped here. The steamer Darling from
Memphis passed for Cincinnati with near
1000 bales cotton. Memphis dates to
19;h, are devoid of news of general in
eres. Nothing doing in cotton receipts
trifing shipment North of 800 bales.
CA1Ro, March 2l.-Tbe 18th New York
infantry arrived from below to-day, en-
route for home.
Adjutant General Thomas is stationing
troops (mOstly colored) at the principal
points along the lower river, for the pro-
lection of plantations and trade depots.
Admiral Porter left Vicksburg last Sat-
1rday a week, with large number of gun
boats and transports Firing in the direc-
ton of the fleet was heard at Natchez on
Monday last.
The 35th New Jersey Regiment, it is
understood, is to encamp here when it ar
rives Part of Veach's division, now here.
has something to do with the contemplated
military movements from this point, about
which nothing definite is known. The re-
manning portion of Veach's division will
reach here soon.
CAIRO, March 21.-The steamer CITY of
Alton, from Memphis, has arrived here.
bound for St. Louis, with 377 bales Of cot
ton and 300 men of Gen. Veach's COM
mand The guerillas had warned the
planters in certain localities along the Mis-
s;ssippl River that they would not be al
loved to raise crops with contraband me-
groes. The 9th Iowa veterans have ar
rived, en- route for home on fuslough
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1864-03-25
FIRE IN CHICAGO.

CHICAGO, March 2O.-A fire in the base
ment OF the United States Exchange Asso-
citation, this forenoon, destroyed a large
amount of uncalled for goods, and GUAM
tity of stationery and records of the Coun-
tvs business for past years. Loss not as
certained, but it will reach several thou
sand dollars.
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1864-03-25
GEN. BANKS TAKES THE FIELD.

PHILADELPHIA, March 22.-The Inqui-
rer's New Orleans letter says Gen. Banks
took the field on the 9th, leaving for
Franklin to direct the operations. The
force is composed of $4,000 cavalry with
fourteen. light guns, in four brigades under
Gen. Lee, and will sweep across the coun-
try into Texas.
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road, and repairing is eoipe on rapidlv.

road, and repairing is going on rapidly.
Petersburg, March 14-Oapt. Eden.
brough and men of the signal corps board
ed and captured on Friday night, off
Nansemund river, the schooner Juda Ba-
ker, of Portland, loaded with valuable
stores. The captain and crew of three
negroes were brought off and the vessel
burned. She was valued at $4,000.
Several vessels and gunboats were close
10y, but they were not interfered with.
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1864-03-25

New YORK, March pa letter from
Japan in the Tribune reports the burning
of 1900 houses and twenty-five warehou-
SEES, in the city of Oxasca, with the loss of
500 to 1000 lives. The fire lasted three
days.
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1864-03-25
From Arizona.
KIT CARSON AND THE INDIAN WAR.

Tucson, Arizona, Feb Exit Carson
has arrived at Santa Fe after very sue
cessful campaign against the Navajo In
dams. He brought over $50 prisoners,
leaving over 500 with COL Candy, to be
removed as soon as their families could be
gathered. The Navajoes are virtually sub
jected, apd their principal chief has been
killed
Governor Goodman had temporarily
established his headquarters near the con-
fiuence of the Salinas and Rio Verde,
Were he was engaged in organizinga civil
government for Arizona. Nearly every
white man in the Territory was caDdi-
Gate for Congress Sixteen Mex'cans
were recently killed by the Apaches.
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1864-03-25
STEAMER SUNK.

ST. LOUIS, March 22.-The steamer
Spread Eagle was sunk near Miller's Land
ing, Missouri River, sixty miles above the
mouth, on Sunday. Valued at $4,000;
insured for $4,000. Will probably be
raised.
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1864-03-25

/ think the above instances strictly prove
that the army in South Carolina is really
an army Accommodation"
In conclusion, let me say that the pres
ent position of the two armies lis like a
couple of gentlemen at a stand-still over
game of chess. There are plenty OF
moves on the board, but they are all ex-
tremely risky.
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1864-03-25

ARMY OF THE PoroMAo, March 81.
(Herald special. )-Kichmond papers of
the 10th inst. have been received. The
following is all they contain:
Gov. Clarke has ordered meeting OF
the Legislature at Macon, Ga, on the
18th The telegraph is working as for
merly in Mississippi, all the damage done
to the line ty Yankees having been re-,
paired. A large force is at work on the
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1864-03-25

Increase in loans. 6, AL ,767
Increase in specie. ............ 800 ,137
Decrease in circulation. ........... 29,61O
Increase in deposits. ................ LAG. 998
John W. Hunter, Assistant Auditor of
the New York custom house, is under ar
rest for alleged frauds.
New YORK, March 21.-E. Merriam,
the celebrated Meteriologist of Brooklyn
Heights died at Brooklyn yesterday.
Mr.. Cook, the bounty broker, was convict
ed last week Of defrauding recruits, and
was to-day released under habeas corpus,
and bailed by Judge Barnard. Jersey
City has voted $1O5,OOO for recruiting.
Gen. Hays has issued orders against army
prisoners wearing army uniform unless
emitted to 90 so.
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FROM NEW YORK.
Bank Statement--Death Of Il. Mer-
RAM, &c.

New YORK, March 21.-The following
is the bank statement
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THE --LATEST
FROM WASHINGTON.
BY TELEGRAPH.

Supreme COurt...Sales of GOld...
Overland Mail...Milltary Inter.
ference In ElecttOns.-. General
Meade.- POmerOy's Colonization
Scheme.-Republican Caucus. Lees
Army.
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HIS ExoELlENoY Gov Stephen Miller,
has gone to St. Cloud to spend few days with
his old friends.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1864-11-17
Hand Writing.

Ariosto wrote in small, fine, pointed
character, and Tazzo large, free and flow
ing style, Goethe wrote neatly, and even
elegantly Person wrote Greek as plain as
type. Brougham writes with Grabbed ilIeg-
Utility Hawthorne wrote with stroke far
from neat, and somewhat confused Long
fellow writes with round, back handed, ele-
CANT fashion. Theodore Parker had cramp-
ed hieroglyphic STYLE that competed with
Choates famous scratches for absolute I'M
readableness. DIR. Chalmers kept an even
hand. Byron wrote an awkward, contorted
script; Scott wrote in regular, honest char
acters though he constantly failed to cross
his It's. Emerson writes with rushing air;
Willis with sharp even frmness Fanny
kemble with nervous stroke and woman
ly augularity Whittier with indecision,
without either strength or symmetry,
billiard precise, balanced and constrained:
Motley is minute and clipt and George
Ticknor is legibIe and light The scratch
of Halleck looks as if lie might have prac-
ticed the Morse alphabet and got crazy on
lit. The facts show that chir0graphy can
hardly be relied On as an indication Of char
acter The philopsophic theory of this mat
ter, put by Lavater and others, is stated to
be, that certain qualities of tie brain act
through the nervous organization, and thus
regulate the motion of the hand, by the de-
pendent muscles, SO that the form of tbs
letters taken upon the paper will show a
correspondence with those quaIitics as sure
ly as the lines in the spectrum will desie.
nate the nature of the body that enits the
raw sf
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1864-11-17
How they Live in New York.

| How do the mass of the inhabitants live Z
Let fact and figures show. Three-quarters
OF million live in tenement houses. OF l.
10000 families in this city, only 10000
have an independent home by themselves,
IA, 1862 families live in two houses, 4, 416 live
three in a house. In the II, 964 houses moi
included above, 71,388 families live, or rath.
er stay seven families, of thirty-five souls,
in each house. This is the average while
in the Eleventh Ward, 113 rear houses, o,
the back ends Of lots reached through alleys,
contain 1868 families, 10 to. house
Others have eighty and some ninety-five Der
sons living in them. In one ward twenty
nine houses hold 5,449 souls-187 persons
in single house. In one house there are
112 families. In another there are 500 low
Irish and Germans persons huddled toget her.
Tackled into a single block are in seine, ca
ses people enough to make city of the size
of Utica, n. Y. To call these barracks by
the name of houses has been well described
as follows "A structure of rough brick,
standing upon lot twenty-five by one
hundred feet, fromsfour to six stories high.
and so divided internally as to contain foul
ia miles on each fioor-each family eating
drinking, sleeping, cooking, washing anc
fighting in room eight feet by ten unless
indeed the family renting these two room.
takes in another family to board, or sub lets
one room to one or even two other families.
Of course, most of the rooms are SO. darL
you can scarcely see in them of a, cloudy
day and as specialization, water and othe
closet, or any of the comforts and convent
ence OF home, they are not to be though
Of Stencil, indeeency, gloom, domoraIiza
tion-these are the attendants. Il il strang,
that children and adults cannot live Will,
crowded into such places? And is it strang,
that vice and brutality rage rampant /?
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1864-11-17
New York Dry Goods Market

lFrom the New York Independent, Thursday.l
New YORK, Nov. g
| The activity of demand is much reduced =
Dealers prefer small dealings and are evidently
afraid of overstucking themselves with goods at
what are still high prices, though lower than
they have BEEN Several mills have stopped
working, and production is very much curtailed.
There is no further change in price of prints.
which are in fair demand, with a rapidly dmin~
ishing stock so that goods seem likely 20 be
scarce. Brown and bleached shirtings are in
moderate supply, with fair demand and steady
prices. Canton hanneis are active. Denims
slow of sale, but IN limited supply. w oelen
goods are more active. Delaines are wanted and
are low in stock. Fancy cassimeres are very &C.
tive at unchanged prices. Scotch plaids are the
favorites. Beavers active Ginghams s
quiet. Satinets still dull. Broadcloths steady
and in request. Blankets active. Cloakngs are
firm and active. Tweeds more called for
Flannels very ready of sale. The shawl trade
is hardly so active. New and desirable styles
are the only description wanted. Foreign goods
are decidedly more active regards staple
goods, which are selling at reduction Impor-
tiers seem willing to res uce their stocks. They
have been freely selling at auction and prices
are acceptable to the trade, British dresssgoods
are getting scarce. Alpacas and Coburgs are
much wanted. Saxony dress-goods also more
freely. Low and medium goods cell readily
The more costly fabrics are dull. Staple silks,
mostly blacks, are selling in small quantities :
prices steady. The Presidential election ex-
citement this week prevents any great activity,
if other circuust stances were favorable. Next
week we may be able to report more active
state of the market; as the business transact.
usual amount. Prices are considered to have
seen their lowest this season, as gold is higher
and stocks are low, while the usual demand is
unsatisfed.