The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1864-03-11
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seymour, anu uPou oil investigation and
hearing by the commissioners appointed
by the State and the United States, by
$4,000. This is a vindicaton of the posi-
ton taken by Gov. Seymour in the first
stage of the draft.
General DANA's late proclamation in
Texas is severely criticised and ridiculed
In some of the Eastern papers. Here is
what one journal says of it:
1t seems inconccivabc that auy man thought
by anybody fit to command AN imnortant eyne-
uition, could be such a fool as to issue a prO
ciaination like the following Gen. Danais first
christian name is Napoleon - the other two
ietters may stand, for aught we know. for Iu-
Gltee lrenenosous. At any rate, he seems to
LINK niiiisel the appointed agent for bringing
about the one, and to make IN ADEQUATE inn,
preston like that signified by the other enithet
The first NapOlcOn's bulletins and manifestoes
were often very lofty and pOetical in tone. Int
they were also calculated to produce the effect
desired. Gen. Dana's are only highfalutin and
blasphcmous.
Charles W. March died at Alexandria
egypt on the oath of last January, aged
AZ years. Mr.. March was native of New
Hampshire. He was, many years since,
associate editor of the New York Tribune,
afterwards WASHINGTON correspondent of
the New York Ece"ing Posi-, and then
"Pequot" of the Boston Courier. In
the literary world he contributed a lively
and pleasant journal of his travels in the
Andalusa and Madeira, and his Reminis-
cences OF Congress, in which he gives an
interesting sketch of Daniel Webster, who
was an intimate friend of Mr.. March and
his family.
Judge Origen S. Seymour, in accept
ing the opposition nomination for Gov
ernor of Connecticut, says:
am for the restoration of the Union as ii
was, under the Constitution as it is. and be-
lieve that such restoration is the earnest de-
sire of the peacc-loving and law-abiding citi-
zens of the republic. To the Union thus re-
stored, allegiance is due from all and NAV
be cXacted of all. We NAV rightullv and bv
force of arms compel obedience to the Con-
stitutlon as it is: but not constructed and
altered government, without violating the
first principle of civil liberty, that govern
ments derive the just powers from the con-
ScHI ol Tue governed.
The wife of Thomas Corwin, Minister
to Mexico, is lying seriously i'll at Lebanon,
Ohio.
Gen. Fitzpatrick and Gen. Custer,
whose exploits are to-day the leading
theme OF newspaper comment and of So
cial remark, are both of them in the hey
day OF youth. Fitzpatrick is twenty-eight
years old, and has been a widower for
about year. Custer, the youngest gen.
eral in our service, is but twenty-four
years OF age, and was married only three
or four weeks ago. Both of these brave
young men are West Pointers, and were
graduated in the same class-that of 1861.
Eight tons of greenbacks were carried
over the New Jersey Railroad to Wash
ington one day last. week The money is
said to he the collections of different in
ternal revenue officers
Young Cromwell, the Treasury clerk
at Washington, who lately stole one thou
sand dollars from the public treasury, and
has confessed the crime, excuses himself
on the ground that robbery Oh every
hand was going on upon large scale, and
he thought it no harm to rush in and get
his share:
-Erastus Corning & Co., of Albany,
which for fifty years has had reputation
co-extensive with the country, and which
indeed has done the largest business of
any firm in the United States or Canada,
has relinquished the hardware store, pass
ing it into the hands of Edward Wilson,
Jas. Byrne and Philip Fitzimmons, young
gentlemen who have been brought up
from early boyhood in the store. Mr..
Corning retains, of course his mills and
factories, and his other large business out.
side the sSore-a business extensive enough
to absorb the attention, as well as crafty
the ambition of ordinary men.
james D. Clark, the Pay Clerk oft
Denver Mint, who robbed it of $37, 900 be-
longing to the United States, and a bar of
gold worth $500, it turns out was addicted
to gambling, wine and women, and was
an exceedingly fast'young man generally.
He passed at Denver, however, with those
not intimate with him, as very exempla-
ry individual. He had the key of the
safe and took the money on Saturday
evening, the theft not being discovered
until Monday morning.
"A married lady in Boston has been
one of the largest army contractors of the
war. The total amount Of her contracts
is SAID to be about two millions of dollars.
She has made good deal of money.
John W. Andrews, the copperbead
leader of the draft-riots in New York had
on Saturday, three indictments presented
against him in the United States Circuit
Court, Judge Shipman presiding ;-one for
melting and setting on foot and envae;no
in rebellion and insurrection against ,Le
United States the second for treason and
for melting and aiding a resistance - 49,