The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1864-07-01

me toronto Globe of June 22d says: "The
Ministerial Crisis is at an end, and the neoo,;o-
lions OF the past week have resn,tod 3, th.
adoption of scheme of constitutions, ros,rn,
acceptable to the Government and to the ,ibe-
raj party of Upper Canada, and lust to oil, COO
lions OF the country"
PRESIDENT Lincoln, it is reported, was con.
cerned in the cotton speculation which result-
cd so dlsastrously by the burning of the steam
er Progress near Natchez short time ago.
profit OF 100000 was involved in the adven-
ture.
"A meeting of the Democratic National
COMMITTEE Is to be held at Washington on the
sun inst, for the deliberate consideration of
important business"
The Conference Committee on the Tax
bill have decided to fix the tax on distilled snir
It's al SI'oo per gallon from July 1st 1864, till
February LIST, 1865, and $500 per gallon there
after.
"A large number of steamers have been tn.
ken up on the Mississippi by the military an.
thorities, for the purpose, it is reported of
moving 10000 of Gen. Canbys men, The des-
tination of the force is not ntimated.
The Constitutional Convention of Mary.
land, in session at Annapolis, passed, by vote
OF 80 yeas against q nays, the following article
of the Bill of Rights: Hereafter in this State.
there shall be neither slavery nor involuntary
servitude, except in punishment of crime
whereof the party shall have been duly con-
| victed; and all persons held to service or labor
as slaves are hereby declared free"
-Brigadier General Julius White has been
ordered to duty in the Army of the Potomac
He will probably be assigned to the command
of division in Burnside's corps.
The Mem Zeit, German Radical paper in
st. Louis, has the following:
Mr.. Lincoln has already let us know, through
q confidential agent that he is willing to make
peace with the pestilential radicals and to give
| them the whole government patronage in Mis-
souri, We speak automatically in publishing
| this offer.
AT the fair in Philadelphia they are voting
on ga love of bonnet,"-a leghorn bonnet
valued at $175-which is to be given to the
wife of one of the Generals. On Thursday
last Mrs. Meade had pa votes, Mrs. Grant 154,
! and Mrs. Burnside $50.
Judge Potter accepts the Canada Consul
ate recently rendered to him, and is at Wash
| ington receiving instructions. The salary is
"a 900, payable partly in gold, and the place in
all respects desirable one
| The House has passed resolution author
izing the President to give notice to Great
Britain of the wish and intention of the Uni
ted States government to terminate the treaty
of 1917 relative to our naval force upon the
| lakes, at the end of six months
| John L. Williams, Moses n Grinnell and
Others of the Hancock Recruiting Committee,
in letter to Gen. Hays say they understand
that from 800 to LOO gentlemen in that city,
many of whom are exempt from draft, pro-
pose to procure substitutes, ard desire to know
| if they can be mustered in Hancock's corps.
General Hays will proceed to Washington and
endeavor to secure permission to receive the
substitutes and exempt the principals for three
years.