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GOAL AT FIRST COST-COST PRICE TO
- Stakeholder S71S per ton-Immedlate Deuyory-Cod
OF best QuAty-ShaTes each emitting to and hRn
cost every for twenty years and TO cash
obtained at $40 payable half subseribng and half
Jsnuary . next, OF the MUTUAL BEAR MOUNTAIN
FRANKLIN COAL COMPANY, Once No l2l 5 THIRD
Street oppOste the Girard Bank. Stock Capital bOO0O,
Subscription Of shares $3S; OF 10 shares, $50; ofO
shares Slb Of 20 shares 1925 OF 100 shares $50 OF $50
Each share entities the holder to receive every year
and half tons OF coal at cost for 20 years, aud Cash
Dividend every six months OF the prohts Eom the sale OF
all surplus coal.
proportion Of coal sold by the Company for their especial
benent profits being paid over 10 them independent
OF the regular cash dividends 70 which they arc also
Ihe Company possess &c and wsn built Coal Works
Donaldson (near TremOpD, with extensive Mining and
Timber RghS, excellent DOable Breaker Slope Works,
large steBm gines Railroads, and all other nachinery
and apparatus In u operation, capable OF mining DC 00
tons To be extended to lsO coo tons per year.
This Coal IL of the best quality chiooy Of the Black
Heath and Primrose Veins, which, with several other
valuable coal veins, extend within the lines Of the Com
pany for two miles In lei 9Th.
Abanch Cf the Reading Railroad extends TO the mues
of the Company, over which tho coal Is daily sent to
stockholders may order their Coal In any Of the usual
sizes Coal, Broken, Esq, Stove, or Nut Coal
all al the cost price OF 90 PER ton delivered az
the house within the usual distance of the Company's
coal yard the northern, middle and southern portions
The Company and all the mining works OF debt
all operations are conducted on tue caAh principle.
For circulars and subscriptions apply at the ONCE,
No no s. THIRD street, second door, opposite Grard
Bank.
Hoard " Directors William Ford, d. II. Wolte Robert
=. King. ii. Schmole' -. ,z,,., .
A. b. JAEDFS, Secretary. lI-2j-lm
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WASHINGTON GOSSIP.
Tue Snnreme COURT.


Ben Perley Poore the Washington correspond
ent Of the Boston journal, gives the following in
relation to the Supreme Court of the United
States The first Monday in December is not
only the appointed day for the opening of the
annual session of Congress, but for the COM
mencement of the term of the Supreme Court,
which now occupies the old Senate chamber.
Of late years not much has been said about this
supreme tribunal, which used not only to inter-
pret and to enforce both Federal and State laws,
but to annul them.
The acts of Congress and of State Legislatures,
the doiugs of Presidents and of Governors, the
charters Of banks and Of universities, interna-
tiUnal intercourse, and the law of maritime
przCS-in short, every feature of our system OF
Government has in turn been brought before the
bar Of the Supreme Court, and never have the
people Of the United Staies refused to submit 10
the majesty of the law, which has there exercised
such potent power. The Federal Judiciary has
been recognized as the sole exponent Of constitu-
tiona questions, although in late years its repu-
taliOn has been sadly tarnished by suspicious OF
partisan Partially.
Suictly speaking, the Supreme Court has ex-
elusive jurisdiction Of all controversies Of civil
| nature, where "a State is party, except between
a state and its citizens, and except also between
a State and citizens of other States, or aiens-in
which latter ease il has original and not exclusive
Jurisdiction of suits or proceedings against am-
tons, ano appellate jurisdiction from the Circuit
| and State Courts, in certain cases provided by
| law.
The Chief Justices.
John Jay, that honest HuRuenot, was the first
| Chief Justice serving from 1889 until he went as
| Minister 20 England in l705 John Rutledge, Of
| SOuh Caroiua, was next appointed, but the
| Seuaie refused 10 confirm his nomination. VIII
| ham Cushing, of Massachusetts,, Associate JUS
| ice, was appointed and confirmed Chief Justice
| in 1880 hut lie declined the promotion remaining
rU the bench us Associate until his death in 1911
Then cane Oliver Ellsworth, Of Connecticut, who
pres dcd from 1896 until ho went as Minister 70
France in 1893. John Jay was next reappoln,ed,
but CcciuCd.
IL February, 1901, John Marshall, Of virginia,
took his seat on the bench of the supreme Court
a. Chief Justice, and filled it unl his death, in
1898 - tbuty four years He was one OF the
patriots who fought in the Revolutionary war,
then representative in Congress, then foreign
minister, then a Secretary of ate and then a
magistrate, who, during one-third Of a century,
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CREAT BARGAINS, FROM AUCTION, IN

GRRAT BARGAINS, FROM AUCTION, IN
" Dry Goods Carpets, on Cloths and Window shades
". y. ARCHAhBAULT. n. T.. corner Of ELEVENTH.
and hAkkET Streets, WIN open this morning, Ingraln
Carpets all WOOL 20, 81 TO $40; Ingrain Carpets
lng 80 to SIc Entry and stair Carpets. 6lc 10 $3.50
Rag and Hemp Carpets Je TO Ell Floor OH Cloths T5c to
Sl25i Gilt EOTderod window Shades Sl5O to S8 BUFF Al
Green Shading, JOo Bankets sS to S6; Comfartables
90 Muslns - 10 5O,. Delanes, t5c Popns and Reps
7bc 10 Sl5O Shaws 50 to $40; Scarfs 25c 10 ISL IA
cas- CO., 70 u 0Q Table Linens 81 20 70 s2 Canton Fsn
nes a. 70 1851 Plain and Fahey Casslmeres Go to %
New Style Chntzes, Is TO 40e white Grey and Scarlet
FAnnels 80 70 SIC Merno ShIrts and Drawers 81 50 Il
wholesale and Retail Store N +. corner OF ELEVENTH
and MARKET streets, ia.I-kE ).
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MARHSIEGb

RFE-CLAYTON.-At No. S6l Broad street ON the
18th OF october last by Rev. A. Manshp Mr. WILLIAM
II. FREE OF Delaware county, Pa, TO Miss LOUISA
CLANTON, of Wilmington, Del
JONES GAMBLE,ZDeeemher Isl, 1854, BY the Roy.
Reuben Jeliries, ID. D., Mr. VIM, X JONES 20 Miss
ELLA NJ. GAMBLE, daughter OF J. X. Gamble, Esq,
both of this city.
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The New school of SecessfOnists--
Mr.. Summers Resolution,

In reference TO the question of admitting
Mr.. FIsHBACK, the Arkansas claimant, to q
seat in the Senate, Mr. SUMNER has submitted
the following resolution
Resolced, That State pretending to secede
from the Union, and battling against the Ma
tional Government to maintain its position,
must be regarded as q rebel State subject to
military occupation, and without representa-.
ton on its floor until 1t has been readnlited 6y q
rOte Of both Houses of Congress-: and the Senate
will decline to entertain any application from
any such rebel State until after such vote of
both Houses.
The New York Times-President LIYCoLN's
organ-shows conclusively that Mr. SUMNER
has embraced the CALHOUN, or secession doc
trine, in opposition to the LINCOLN doctrine
:" that rebellion under our system of govern
ment can only be a personal crime-that the
National Government can take recognizance of
it only as committed by Individuals" The
theory upon which the war for the suppression
Of the rebellion is ostensibly prosecuted, is
that every State is legally in the Union,
and that the ordinances of secession are
nullity. a State cannot do disloyal
act-cannot commit treason, and con-
sequently cannot be punished for treason. If
the rebel States are in the Union, no formal act
ofre-admission is necessary. The Government
is waging war against an insurgent people, and
when they are prepared to return to their al
legiance to the constitution, war becomes a
crime. If Mr.. SUMMERS resolution should be
adopted, the Senate will recognize the right or
at least the power of secession, and the war be-
comes one for conquest, not for the restoration
of the Union.
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We occasionally indulge In the pleasures OF
anticipation, by reading the easy moving cam
paigns of certain editors whose wordy columns
.demolish LEE or JOHNSTON in advance OF the
fact, much easier than GRANTS or SHKRMAN's
columns of brave men can rout their oppo-
nents, and thus learned that sundry Eastern
chieftains of the quill and pencil were contem-
plating grand defeat of LEE and capture of
Richmond by a rapid movement of our army
city, a very easy way of gaining a bloodless
victory-only It's impracticable, without LEES
consent or defeat. Because we mentioned this
plan of the Eastern Editors-General, the Press
accuses US of flank movement upon it-an
attempt ito convey the impression that the
Press borrowed this theory of GRANTS purpose
from many Eastern journals" We certainly
do not desire to deny the Press the credit
of this theory, If it is entitled to it.
but, really, since its logical capture of Rich
mond year or two ago, even our fOndness for
light fighting and heavy reading does not in
duce us to follow the editor of the Press
through all his campaigns. We read far
enough to find that he is upon strategy intent
and no farther. Hence, probably, our igno-
rance that the Press was logically capturing
Richmond again by a theory that swings an
army of one hundred and fifty thousand, or
more, men, with trains and stores, around a
city the Notifications of which extend beyond
five miles on either side. and across large
river, in presence Of strong and vigilant foe.
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THE PIONEER.

THE PIONEER, by'an unanimous vote Of the
Council, has been designated as the official pa
per of the Cityfor the current year. A vote
of the Board of County Commissioners has
also made THE PIONEER the Official paper OF
the county. These marks of favor demand
our acknowledgment, and afford an opportu-
nifty of rendering to oil classessef our citizens
our grateful appreciation of the generous sup
port which has always been extended to this
paper, and which has suffered no diminution,
as our crowded advertising columns abundantly
evinee. In the matter of circulation, we can
say that at no time since the existence of the
paper have we printed so many copies as at the
present time. The publication of the letter list
in our columns, which by law is given to the
paper having the largest local circulation, is an
evidence of the truth of this statement. Other
branches of business carried on in the establish
ment have been equally favored.
These statements are made with no other de-
sign than to show the measure OF support that
has been accorded to us, and as evidence OF
public approval of the general course OF the
paper, 1t has been demonstrated, to our own
satisfaction at least, that newspaper will be
sustained in the honest, patriotic, and indepen-
dent expression of its opinions, upon all sub
iects affecting the public welfare.
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Symptoms of Dissolution.

1t is stated in recent letters from Washing
ton that reliable information has been received
from Richmond showing that the Wanted
Southern Confederacy is on its last legs, and
that, were it not for the bogus delegations in
their Congress from states really under the
Federal rule, the "peace men would make a
fair showing. Already twenty-five members
have placed themselves on record as in favor
Of peace at any price consistent with ''the hon
or, dignity and independence of the states -
not of the Confederacy. Letters received 60
so far as to say that at least sixteen of those
twenty-five members would transfer their al
iegiance and become members of the United
States Congress, could they be assured that
they would be cordially received.
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Grant and the Presidency.

The Cleveland Convention delegates seem TO
have had a great deal-to say about GRANT,
though they finally nominated FREMONT. A
correspondent of the World, writing before the
nomination, gives some of the gossip afoat
with regard to the Lieutenant General. He
writes:
A prominent New Yorker, delegate to the
Convention, made a statement to me to-day,
which I repeat as. if true, it is of considerable
importance, as showing the course the Lieu
come the nominee Of this convention. One of
General Grants friends, intimate with the
members of his family, in conversation with
Mrs. Grant, few days since, asked her what
she thought would be the Generals action if
he should be the choice Of the Cleveland Con-
vention as candidate for the Presidency. Mrs.
Grant is said to have replied that "the General
would neither accept nor decline the nOmina-
ton" The inference is, of course that he is
willing to let matters take their own course
while he attends to the taking of Richmond.
1t is hardly to be supposed, however, that he
would decline the Presidency should he be
elected.
The same correspondent tells how a member
of FREMoNr's staff argued the improbability
of General GRANTS accepting the nomination,
on the ground of his obligations to President
LINCOLN. This view is scarcely borne out
in the following. which we give for what it is
worth:
The class mainly supporting the Lieutenant
Generals interest" if such term may be
used, is the War Democracy, assisted of course
by delegation Of shoddyite office-holders and
contractors. l have heard it said that General
Grant has put upon paper, over his own sigma.
ture a statement that he considers that the in
terests of the country demand the reelection
of Mr.. Lincoln. This story, if accepted at all,
must be taken cum granO sails, and a large
grain at that. Hon. E. 3. Washburne of I'LL
nois, is said to have been the instigator of this
flank movement, and to have dictated to Gen.
Grant what it was proper to write and to have
also obtained from the Lieutenant General a
promise that Major General Frank Blair, NJ. c.
should have just such position in the army
as he wanted, ifhis (Grant's) word in the Mis-
souri, gent;eman's favor could have any effect
A queer story is also floating on the disturbed
current of political gossip, the substance of
which is that Grant was not able to advance
one step into Virginia or obtain either the men
or supplies necessary for the execution of his
plans until he had committed himself in the
manner described above
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THE WEEKLY PIONEER AND DEMOCRAT

upon the stockade, when, finding himself sur
rounded and opposed by tenfold odds. besides
artillery, (of which Lieut.. Moplton had none,
he directed his men to cut their way through
the enemy's lines and save themselves BY night
to our Notifications. They failed, IN great
measure, in their attempt, many OF them being
killed and Lieut.. Moulton captured. One OF
my men who escaped says that he saw Lieut.
Moulton fire four times ct his assailants and
then use his sword in defence, but was over
powered by numbers. He says that OF the
four shots fired by him, three at least were
effective, each one emptying rebel saddle.
The rebels Immediately retreated in great
haste, after his capture, and a force of our cav
airy have gone in pursuit and we hope he may
he rescued
M. D. WATERS,
LIST 1t. Co. E, 9th Reg't U. 8. l., Colored.
MAY Is, P. M.-Our cavalry have overtaken
the enemy and succeeded in recapturing oil
the prisoners excepting two. Lieut.. Moulton
is still in the enemy's hands, but treated as a
prisoner of war with the respect due his rank
The rebel commander of the attacking party is
prisoner in our hands, and held as hostage
for the safety of Lieut.. MOulton. I think you
need entertain no fears of his ultimate safety,
and we hope he may soon be exchanged TO:
the officer captured by our forces this after
noon. NJ. ID. w.
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Patrick Norton, Highland, Wabashaw county.
Edward Wise, West Albany. Wabashaw.
Ferdinand Scharf, Hay Creek, GOodhue.
Clamer Roff, Benton, Carver.
Hugh Burns, Eagan, Dakota.
Michael Burns, Eagan, Dakota.
George Egbert, Marshan, Dakota.
II. C. Lovejoy, Ravenna.
E. H. Henskin, Benton.
VIM. Freeman, White Bear.
John Fitzgerald, West st. Paul.
George Hickman, Hay Creek.
Virgila Paul., Baytown, Washington county.
Sylvester Heisler, Eagan, Dakota county.
William Freeman, White Bear.
H. G. LOvejOy, Ravenna, Dakota county.
David Bebs, White Bear.
Charles Premaux, West st. Paul.
August Gerardin, Bloomington, Hennepin
county.
Geo. Hickman, Hay Creek, Goodhue county.
E. H. Henskin, Benton, Carver county,
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capture OF Minnesota Officer near
Port Hudson.

Inc ioiiowmg particulars of the capture of
Lieut.. JOHN A. MoULroN, will be interesting to
his friends at home. Lieut.. Mou1roN for
merly belonged to Company F, Seventh Reg
iment' but subsequently passed an examine
tion at st. Louis and received commission in
a colored regiment, to which he belonged at
the time of his capture. The extracts are from
o letter to his mother:
PoRr HUDSON, La, May Is. 1864.
He was stationed with e;ubteon
men to hold stockade and protect mill ahont
two and one half miles south of our line of for
tifications,-a detail being sent from this req
iment each morning for that purpose. His
post was attacked at daybreak this morning nv
about two hundred rebel cavalry, with two
pieces Of artillery. He defended his post, fir.
ing upon the assailants anil driving them back,
until the enemy's artillery was brought to bear
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1864-06-10
The Baltimore Convention.
The following States and Territories
will be represented a! Baltimore

Making in all four hundred and eighty
Delegates, and requiring 241 votes to give
a majority nomination. Mr.. LrNooLN's
friends claim that 263 delegates have been
instructed to vote for his denomination,
and that only % Ghe Missouri delegation
have been instructed to vote against it.
Delegates from Arkansas, Louisiana and
South Carolina, will present themselves
for admission into the Convention, but
will probably be rejected, as Congress has
refused to admit members from these
States. The presence of Mr.. CARLISLE in
the Senate will insure the admission of the
ten delegates from Virginia, and West
Virginia, Of course, will have ten more.
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Loss OF Two GunbOats.

The New Orleans correspondence of the
New York Herald gives some interesting parti
culars OF the capture of the two Federal gun.
boats, Granite City and Wave, at Sabine Pass.
According to this statement, which purports
to come from naval officer, the gunboats in
question were sent to Sabine Pass for the pur.
pose of capturing five schooners laden with
cotton. Instead of surprising the schooncrs,
the gunboats were themselves surprised nea,
Mud Bayou, and after brief but sharp action
were forced to surrender TO the enemy. The
steam tug Ella Morse came very near being
taken also, bnt escaped. A boat sent up the
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1864-06-10

We learn from the Eastern Argus that
Frederick 8. Bradbury, of the goth Pennsylva-
mia volunteers brother Of Bion Bradbury, OF
Maine, after having been in twenty-five bat
ties without receiving q scratch, was taken
prisoner at Spottsylvania, and while on the
way to Richmond was recaptured by General
Sheridan. He proceeded with Sheridan's
command to City Point, Immediately embark
ed on board steamer for Washington, and is
now back again with his regiment under Gen.
Grant.
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More .Railroad Consolidation...The
Northwestern and Galena United.

The annual meeting Of the stockholders of
the Galena and Chicago Union Railroad was
held in Chicago Wednesday morning last. It
resulted In an election of an entirely new
Board of Directors and total change of manage
ment The following is list of gentlemen ap-
pointed for the year 1864 John B. Turner, A.
c. Coventry, Mahlon D. Ogden, Edwin II.
Sheldon, Francis B. Peabody, Ira Y. Mupn,
VIM. H. Ferry, Of Chicago; James u: Fish,
VIM. B. Scott, VIM. P. Sands, James w. FL
well, of New York Thomas D. Robertson, OF
Rockford and Edwin P. Bancroft OF Boston.
meeting of the newly elected Board of d.
rectors was held in the afternoon of that day,
when the following officers were elected -
President-John B. Turner; Vice President
A. c. Coventry Secretary-Wm. NJ. Larrabee
A proposition from the Directors of the
Chicago and Northwestern railway company
for the consolidation of the two roads was
presented and was unanimously accepted. The
consolidated company will be called the GO Chi
cago and Northwestern Railway Company
The terms of the consolidation will be made
known at an early date.
One of the results of the consolidation is to
be Union depot for the two roads in Chicago
on the north side. The Northwestern is now
the most gigantic railroad corporation in eX-
istence. 1t comprises and controls no less
than four grand trunk lines, three of them ex-
tending from the Mississippi river to Lake
Michigan, and one of them reaching from
Lake Superior to Chicago. The entire extent
of its lines in actual operation falls but little
short of one thousand miles-a distance equal
to that from Milwaukee to New York city.
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Important Decision.

Our readers will recollect that we have had
occasion to refer to certain suits brought
against the st. Paul and Pacific Railroad Com
pany, by certain property-holders on the line,
for permanent injunctions to restrain the CON-
pany from the erection of the trestle-wOrk and
track, and from running their cars on the
levee, in front of the square between Sibley and
WacOuta streets.
There were three suits brought-one by c. Fl.
the District Court for Ramsey county; and the
third by HUMPHREYS & TERRY, in the United
States Circuit Court-all being prosecuted by
Mr.. ALLIs on behalf of the plaintiffs, and de-
Tended by Mr.. MAsTERsoN for the railroad
company.
We announced some weeks ago the decision
of Judge MILLER, of the United States Circuit
Court, on the demurrer interposed by the de-
PENDANT to the plaintiffs bill of complaint in
that Court, which was in favor of the plaintiffs.
1t is understood that this case will come up for
trial on the facts at the next term of the United
States Circuit Court, commencing on the third
Monday of this month.
1uS CoSO VI 0O1okshEAn llbt LIlc SOIupd-
ny, was tried on its merits in February last
before Judge CuATF1ELD, acting as Referee
the trial occupying some ten days.
In all these cases the Railroad Company
have raised very serious question OF title to
the property on which their track runs, aside
from the mere question Of the right of the
plaintiffs to injunctions in the premises The
Company claim that the original patent from
the Government only conveyed the land north
ola line running some feet north of the front
of ScITRA1E1R's warehouse, and in fact north
of the front of this whole square; and that
hence all the land south of that line, drawn to
the river bed, embracing the whole street and
levee in front of that square, was unconveyed
by the Government, and consequently subject
to location by the Company under the railroad
grant of Congress; and that acting under this
grant the Company had perfected their title in
this land and were the absolute owners of it. ~
Judge CHATF1ELD has, after long cOnsidera-
ton, just made his report, which is said to be
very elaborate and able. He finds in favor of
the plaintiff and against the Company on all the
points, and orders judgment accordingly.
We presume the case will be taken to the
Supreme Court of the State, and may yet even
go to the Supreme Court of the United States
1or final determination.