The weekly pioneer and Democrat., 1864-05-06
WEEALf SUMMARY OF TELE.
GRAPHIC NEWS.


taking his seat in Congress, and the character.
isuc letters of Mr. LINCOLN. BLAIRs congress
slonal career has not added to his reputation.
From Cairo we have the hitherto unheard
Oh achievement Of the capture of gunboat hy-
company of rebel cavalry.
-6cn. STONE, on the authority Of Gen.
i'NNSoM' Is completely exoncrated from the
charges made against him in connection with
tne oeieat OF Gen. BANKs. Gen. Stone is one
Oh The aoie5t officers in the service. but he has
oeeh reduced to a Colonelcy, while BANKS re-
mains a-Major General.
Inc Danes have suffered severe reverse
III the capture Of Duppc by the Prussians,
and the loss OF several thousand men.
-Thirty-fve thousand men in Ohio have re-
| ported for duty in the National Guard
The law levying an extra duty 13c sixty
days OF fifty per cent on imported Goods went
| into operation yesterday. the receipt at the
New York Custom House last week Of 80 600
900 for duties, shows the need orsome check
to our vast importations, Tor the payment Of
which coin must go out Of the country.
There seems to be no probability Of the
ventiOn. although it has been strcnuously urged
by some of the most prominent men of the
party.
-IHAp. STEVENS has introduced q bill into
Congress which carries out the SUMNER ideo,c
of reducing all the Southern States TO the con-
dition OF conquered provinces. Should this
bill pass, Tennessee. Louisiana and Texas.
which have been reconstructed" =" would have
no vote in Congress
--Nr. GOOCH, Of the Committee on the Con
duct of the War, writes from Cairo tdat the
butchcries at Fort Pillow are worse than at first
reported No action will be taken by the Pres
ident until the report Of the Committee is sub
mitted To Congress.
Orders for drafting have been issued III
Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Ohio
and Missouri, as well as in Minnesota.
Congress proposes to adjourn by the 7th
of June for which good news let us be truly
thankful.
A rebel dispatch states that Shreveport i;
well defended against attacks by land or river
and is provisioned for six months
There is great activity at New York and
elsewhere in naval preparations for the coming
contest.
Gen BUTLER says the rebel troops lave left
North Carolina and gone to Virginia. Very
likely
Forty of BANKS transports and gunboats
are caught On the bottom of Red River by the
sudden falling of the water. It is said there is
reason to believe that BANKS is again on the
way to Shreveport.
The House of Representatives Cn Tuesday
passed the Senate bill granting lands to the
Lake Superior and Mississippi Railroad Com
pany and bill granting lands to Minnesota
for railroad purposes also bill granting lant.s
to Wisconsin for railroad to Lake Superior.
Immense preparations are being made III
Washington for the wounded Of the forthconl
ing battles.
"A Maryland refugee or spy contributes
some details of BURSsIDE'> force at Annapolis.
which were doubtless correct at the time his
observations were made. \ Virginia paper
says the First Auditor Of rebel Finances had
received orders to remove his bureau from
Richmond to Montgomery.
There is a report from Georgia that sew.
eral of our men were killed after surrendering.
on the field
Admiral PoHrEE pronounccs BANKS re-
cent expedition as disastrous. IN addition to
the loss of over thirty pieces OF artillery, small
arms, hundreds of wagons, gunboats &c. we
now learn that the paymaSter'S safe was cap
turcd, which contained 81 900, 900 greenbacks.
\ writer in New Orleans to the Milwaukee
tl,ot t,n Of tl,ofc jS
pletely muzzled, and the accounts published
there cannot be relied on when there is any
disastrous news, and this is doubtless the rea-
son why these facts have not come out before.
An attempt is made to throw the blame on
FRANKLIN and STONE instead of on Gen. BANKS.
and the reason for this is simply because he is
Il political general, and must not be held ac-
cOuntable for his own blunders
The proceedings of Congress possess unu-
sual interest There are two messages from
the President; one in regard to railroad in
East Tennessee the other showing what dis
positions were, made 10y Gems. SclIEScK and
BLAIR of their commissions, on taking their
seats in Congress The memorial for improv-
ing the navigation of the Mississippi in low
water, and for other purposes, is q ''big
thing but we guess it will not be granted this
session.
The Worlds Baltimore correspondent says
that the rebels now have thirty iron clads
ready for service-ten at Richmond, five at
Mobile, seven at Charleston, one at Savannah,
three on the Neuse river, two on Tar river and
wo on Roanoke river. 1t is also said that
twenty iron clads will arrive from Europe by
the end of June.
The Register of the rebel Treasury reports
the whole amount of issues of non-interest
bearing notes since the formation OF the gov.
ernment at 1913, ,277. 1868, and the whole amount
now outstanding at $796, 1854, ,4O3.
1t is pleasantly stated that a Massachusetts
corporal who was before Gen. Casey's Board,
seeking a commission as Lieutenant, was asked
swho was the hero of Fair Oaks 2" "Generai
Casey"' emphatically responded the aspirant
for shoulder-straps. When ordered to report
the corporal found he had been appointed TO q
first-class captaincy.
The Oskaloosa Qowa) Herald mentions a
new dodge used by sharpers in that vicinity to
make money. They 60 around among farm.
ers pretending to be buying turkeys for the
Sanitary Commission, to be given to the SOL
diers The farmers sell them choo,> hooo,,,o oc