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The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1864-02-05

The London Times has displayed ell
itOrial announcement of &" the happy
event " in the royal family. 1t says, in
the course of is remarks:
For the moment, this loyal congratu-
lation will be the first feeling in The heart
of every Englishman, but the impulse will
be supported by the solid reflection of the
addition made by this happy event to the
stability of the royal succession Her
Majesty, indeed, is happy in numerous
and healthy family, ard her dynasty seems
to all human anticipations, established be-
yond all the usual chances of mortality
We are happily free, too, in England, from
the domestic troubles which seem now on
the verge of plunging Europe into war,
and have been one source of the dislrac-
ton of our immediate neighbOrs But it
is impossible TO be too secure. The mere
mention of the confusion which disputed
SUGGESTIONS still produce on the Continent,
is sufficient to make US thankful for any
additional pledge of the permaGence of
our royal house; and the existence of two
heirs to the throne in direct line is Wis
ible earnest of stability which will be as
welcome to the nation as to the royal fam
lily itself
Providence seems, indeed, while per-
hitting confusion and gloom to settle on
almost every other country in the world,
to have chosen to shower upon us every
blessing that a people can receive. In
whatever direction we look, we find no.
thing but subjects for gratitude, and the
only shadows of gloom or anxiety on our
prospect are cast by the quarrels and con-
fusion of others. A firm and equal adj
ministration of the law, freedom I'M
known in any country either of ancient or
modern times, security for life and prop
erty which appears incompatible with any
other form Of government, and unparal
leled public and private wealth, are estab-
lished and adorned by Throne which
rests as deeply in the heart of the nation
as it is rooted in its constitution. The
passions of national antagOnism or politi.
cal enmity which spread misery and blood
shed over the Old and New Worlds, are
checked at the narrow channel and at
the broad sea which separate US from En-
rope and America and we present e
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1864-02-05

heavy armies now organizing for purposes

heavy armies now organizing for purposes
CT invasion.
His Excellency President Davis gravely
tells Congress, in his message, that he has
means of enforcing the respect of ma
tiOns, particularly that of Great Britain,
and simply by declaring paper blockade
of the ports of the Northern States He
states, unhesitatingly, also, that paper
blockade exists along the three thousand
five hundred miles of the southern coast,
and expects the Southern Contederacy to
forget that only one month before, when
at Wilmington, North Carolina, lie had
assured the people the whole force OF the
COnfederacy would be given to protect
them, since theirs was the only port not
closed by the enemy. Had he extended
his presentations to tie mouth of the
river, he could have counted twenty
blockading vessels lying Off this Enclosed
port The rema' nder of the three thou
sand five hundred miles of southern coast
has been closed effectively by paper
blockade, and Wilmington alone remains
open to commerce, subject, it is true, to
the risks of capture incurred in passing
the twenty vessels of war lying in wal,
We will say to Congress and to PreSi
dent Davis that careful study of the last
census report of the United States will
correct or destroy many rerturbations in
their minds as well as our own. Let them
legislate SO as to increase the number of
cows, and think no more of the negro
The land, then, instead OF being desolated
by war, and the inhabitants gaunt with
privations and misery, will flow literally
with milk and honey, as in times Of yore.
a census taken now, as recommended
by his Exce!lency Mr. Davis, in the same
manner as that OF 1880, over the districts
that might be effected, would show plainly
the waste of war. How many men be-
tween the ages Of eighteen and fifty would
be found wanting? How many peaceful,
industrious inhabitants would be found
absent, having. through thousand chan
nels, found their way into the free States,
actually filing up the houses in every part
OF that land, 50 that none are untenanted?
How many OF the houses in the region
passed over hy the contenIing armies
would now be found occupied? How
many negroes would be found absent
ready to return with lnuskets in their
hands? How many horses, cattle, sheep,
hogs, &c, would be found remaining :?
What has been the produce Of our fields
last year in cotton, sugar, corn, -four,
peas, potatoes, cattle and bacon, and what
amount remains unconsumed?
Bnt above all, what progress have we
made? Is the slave power more secrre
than before we seeded? Are we III such
condition as to promise ourselves, even
with reputation of all debts, both at home
and abroad, exemption from duties and
high taxation? What have We to hope
for, both as regards slavery, or the pros
poets of a Southern Confederacy?
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1864-02-05
Sober Reflections on the State of the
Country.

Mr.. JAMES W. MoCUL1oCH, Of the United
States Treasury Department, who, from
the nature Of his dnties is styled the
"Comptroller of the Currency" has just
issued a pamphlet containing sugge tons,
and very wholesome ones too, to the man.
ayers and operators of the Irrational
banks - that have been organized under
the system of the present Secretary of the
Treasury. Mr.. MoCULLocm, undeterred
by any fear of having his "loyalty " i'm
peached, discusses in this pamphlet in a
practical manner the duties these banks
owe to their own and to the public inter
est, and as warning to them he unveils
the actual condition of the finances of the
United States lie says:
Bear constantly in mind, although the LOYAL
States appear specifically to be in a prosper
Gus condition. that such is not The fact That
while the government is engaged in the sup
preston of Il rebellion of uneXampled fierce
ness and magnitude, and is constantly d.aining
the country of IFS labOrin% and producing pop
ulatiOn. and diverting its mechanical industry
from works of permanent value to the con-
structiOn of implements of warfare: while
cities are crowded. and the country is to the
same extent depleted. and waste and
extravaganza prevail as they never be-
fore prevailed in the United States. the ma
ton, whatever may be the external indica-
tons. is not prospecting. The war in which
we are involved is a stern necessity. and must
he prosecuted for the preservation of the GOV
eminent. no matter what may be its cost but
the country will unquestionablv be the poorer
every day it is continued. The seeming pros
pcrity OF the loyal States is owing mainly to
the large expenditures Oh the government and
the redundant currency which these eXpendi-
lures seem to render necessary. Keep these
facts constantly in mind. and manage the ai-
fairs Of your respective banks with perfect
consciousness that the apparent prosperity of
the country will be proved to be unreal when
the war is closed. if not before: and be pre-
pared. by careful management of the trust
committed to YOU, to help to save the nation
from financial collapse. instead of lending
vOnr influence to make it more certain and
more severe.
The prediction that the apparent pros
peri;y OF the country will be proved to be
unreal when The war is closed, ifnot before, -
coming as it does from the Treasury De-
partment, should not fail to have its due
weight upon the public mind This is not
the time for extravaganza; it is the very
season for economy and thrift.
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1864-02-05
LOGEG OF THE CENSUS TABLE.
Unanswerable Arguments Against
the Ec9nomy Of Slavery.
DeB0W'S Review on Southern In,
austry.

Below We print entire the article published
in DE Bows Southern Reriem." "a publication
Ion@ and well known in the financial and COM
inercial world as one of sterling reliability and
Great value for which the Reriec was sup
pressed by order of JEFF. Davis, and its editor
thrown into prison.
It is true We have believed that cotton
is king it is undeniable that we possessed
a monopoly for its production, arising out
OF a variety OF causes, but it is not true
that it will grow nowhere else Indeed,
we find that the production Of it in vari
Gus countries is increasing in geometric
ratio, and that in a year or so the South
will no longer be needed to supply the
commerce Of the globe what we vainly
hoped would grow nowhere else
Shall We not learn from our enemies i?
What are the causes OF their prosperity?
Why do even the laborers of the North
live with a degree of comfort often I'M
known to the wealthy planters of the
South?
The statistical reports accompanying the
census OF 1860 establish fully the results
of material conditions; and, if we admit
that the people of the North have really
hardly felt the war up to this point, we
must look to and examine the material
conditions which surround them
They cannot be more prosperous because
there is no slavery; certainly it is cheap
er to have slave who labors for you than
to labor yourself; therefore slave labor is
the more economical, or rather, it was,
before the time of Henry A. Wise and
John Brown. Considering the present
condition of the country, and prospective
ly also, it may be well supposed, as it al
ready is by many in the slave States, that
it actually may be more economical to
labor for ourselves than to maintain ne
grces for that purpose.
We have taken to raising cereals, and
have succeeded SO badly as to make it q
matter of doubt whether we will not have
eaten everything before the time of greens,
which, when boiled with .jowl, are so priced
by the first families of Virginia.
In the meantime, the production of cot
ton is slipping away from us, and we have
already slipped away into unknown depths,
and are drifting to fearful and to an I'M
certain future. Let US turn, then, as ad-
vised by Gil Bias when he assumed the prac-
tice of medicine, "to see what other prac-
titioners are about"
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1864-02-05
NEW SERIES-NO. 53l.
A FINANCIAL RAID.
Forcible Levy OH New York Ban


Considerable excitement was rife among
the bankers in New York, last week, in
consequence of folcible levy on them for
city taxes. 1t seems that by virtue of a
law of Congress, exempting from taxation
the capital of banks which was invested in
United States stocks issued after February
%, 1862, several of the city banks re-
fused to pay the assessment of the Tax
Commissioners on such capital, and early
last year they got decision of the courts,
sustaining them in their refusal. In con-
sequence of this decision of the courts
the Board of Supervisors applied to the
Legislature, last winter, for law assess
ing the bank capital, the law was passed,
and the Commissioners again entered the
amount of capital of each banks upon the
books of personal estate. The banks con-
tinued to contest the point, twenty of them
associating together for that purpose, on
the ground that the State law was in con-
fiict with that passed by Congress. The
Supreme Court this time decided against
the banks.
Due notice was served on those banks
that neglected to pay, and after proper
time the Receiver issued his warrants in
due form for forcible collection of assess
ments. The warrants were placed in the
hands of Marshal D. S. Holden, who COM
menced serving them.
The Marshal, accompanied by Mr..
Hone, the Deputy Receiver of Taxes,
first set oct for the Bank of Commerce,
whose assessed capital was $S,S31, Jos,
for which Mr.. Holden demanded tax of
$179, 408 49, besides interest on the same
: for non-payment in due season, amount
ing to SCOTS IS more. A formal demand
was made for these sums and was refused.
The Marshal then went into the Enclosure
occupied by the clerks and officers, follow
ed by Mr.. Hone, and unceremoniOusly
helped himself from drawers and safes till
10 had obtained the exact sum total re-
quired by the county. The money-all
legal tender-he handed over to Mr.. Hone,
who again counted it, and on finding the
amount to be correct, they departed with
it to the Tax Receivers office. During
these summary proceedings the bank Off
GERS looked on with bitter feelings, char
acterizing Mr.. Holden's act as grand larce-
ny, and Willie they did not seek to prevent
him from taxing what money he wanted,
they called every one around them that
was in the bank, to witness that an agent
OF the city was robbing them. A receipt,
of course, was rendered for the sum taken,
but it was refused. This is the course of
the litigant banks, under advice of their
counsel
On the same day the National Bank
was visited, and a tax of $2S,702, with
$97l interest, collected in like manner.
Similar scenes occurred in ether banks,
and up to Saturday morning the following
amounts had been levied on by the Of
ficers:
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1864-02-05
VOL. XV.-NO. 81
MIS- rEkESS GLENARE:.
BI LIZZIE DOTES:

A vrtuous woman is Mistress Glenarc.
Or, at least, so the world in its judgment would say
With an orderly walk and circumspect air,
She never departs from the popular way.
Every word that she speaks is well measured and
weighed
Her friends selected with scrupulous care;
And in all that she does Is her prudence displayed,
For vlrtuous woman is Mistress Glenare!
Her youth has departed and with it has fled
The impulse which gives TO the blood start.
Which oftentimes turns from the reasoning head
TO trust to the wisdom OF God in the heart
Thus the robes OF her purity never are stained
And her feet are withheld from the pitfa and snare:
Where nothing is ventuicd there nothing is gained
U. Yrtuous woman is Mistress Glenare.
She makes distinction of sinners from sin;
Her words are like arrows. her tongue is "A rod:
She sees no excuse for the evil within,
But condemns with the zeal of Il partialist God
On background OF darkness. of sorrow and shame
Her own reputation looks stainles and fair;
so she builds up her fame through her neighbOrs'
bad name:
o, a virtuous woman is Mistress Glcnare.
She pc ps and she listens. she watches and waits,
Nor Satan himself is mere active than She
To expose in sinners the faults and bad traits
W mich she fears that the Lord nigh not happen
When the Father of Spirits looks down from above,
On the good and The evil the frail and the fair
How must he regard, with particular love
This vlrtuOus woman good Mistress Glenare.
o, Mistress flcnare in the drama of life
lou are acting Il rory respectable part:
You have known just enoggh of its enviOus strife
To deceive both the world and your own foolish
heart
But say. in some moment of clear common sense.
Did you never i'll truth and sincerity dare
70 ask the plain ques ion. aside from pretence
How You looked to the angels, dear Mistress
Glenare:
The glory of God has enlightened their eyes;
NO longer through darkness, III y see but in plr:.
And the robes of Sour righteousness do not suffice
10 cover the lack of true love in the heart
on iook shabby. and ilthv and ragged and mean
Lven with those you condemn you but poorly
compare.
&c. wash you in Charity till you aIe clean;
lou will change for the better. dear Mis- rcss
Glenarc.
our thoughts have been run in the popular IN mid.
Like wax that is plastic and easily met>:
ll:l now. like IA nOndescrip 10 and behold
You are neither yourself nor yet any Sc.
OF tender compassion forgiveness and love.
\ our nature has moi c>1,ect.tGie share:
ION are three parts of ent and of the dove
Nery badly propOrtOncd, dear Mistress t1leIiare,
our nObcst and pIrest affections have died:
Like sunner-drled roses your spirit within
our heart Is grown arid, and scarce is supplied
With sufficient vitality even 10 sin
l,lt, would you be true to your virttious name.
There Is one we commend TO your tenderest care:
To deal with her wisely will add TO your fame;
Thai poor s'n'II. woman is-hS resS Glcnarc,
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nearer approach to those happy ..s.es which
the ancients imagined in the Western Seas
than any one bnt poet would have antici-
pated century ago. Even the evils We
dreaded most are softened to u.s. What
threatened to be an inevitable famine to
three millions of our population is con-
verted into an additional evidence and
means OF prosperity: and now we are
gladdencd with new CLEAN Of happiness
on the brightest feature in our prospect. :"
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1864-02-05
HEADos ARMY OF NORTHERN VIRGINIA.
January %, 1864.
GENERAL ORDERS No. 20.

GENERAL ORDERS No. 20.
The Commanding General considers it due
to state that the recent reduction of rations
has been caused by circumstances beyond the
control ofthose charged with its support. Its
welfare and comfort are objects of his con-
slant and earnest solicitude, and no efforts have
been spared to provide for its wants. 1t is
hoped exertions now being made will render
the necessity but of short duration, but the
history of the army has shown that the coun-
try can require no sacrifice too great for its
patriotic devotion. Soldiers. YOU tread with
no unequal steps the road by which your fathers
marched through suffering, privation and
blood to independence. Continue to emulate
the future as you have in the past their valor
in arms their patient endurance of hardships.
their high resolve to be free, which no trial
could shake, no bride seduce, no danger appaL
and be assured that,the just God who crowned
their efforts with success, will, in his own good
time send down his blessings upon you.
(Signsd K. E. LEE
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1864-02-05
Sic!I s'ickin@s of New York Lawyers.
We clip the following from late New

We clip the following from late New
York correspondence of the Poston Post !:
Some of our eminent limbs of the law are
fobbing immense fees nova days the incomes
Of the most favored advocates being almost
fabulous in amount. Twenty five thousand
dollars 4 year used to be considered well
worthy any lawyers while and the hope of en-
joymg even Il 1.-THE OF that sum has made many
an humble bar-tenders mouth water But in
these troublOus and litigous times the big-wi"
lawyers look upon twenty-five. thirty or even
forty thousand dollars as no great affair of an
income, and rctanerS OF one two and three
thousand dollars drop into their hands with as
little concern on their parts One-tenth the
sum was wont to inspire ten dozen years
ago. To prove that political prominence paws
| may instance the case of 4 leading Democrat
ic lawyer who last year received one hundred
and twenty-five thousand dollars for conduct.
ing two suits, and also the case of the most no.
torious OF our Radical Republican attorneys,
whose fee. i'll Il certain celebrated Mining Com
pany's law suit, was one hundred thousand dol
lars worth of the COmpanv's stOck-which he
realized on at siXtv-tive CENTS on the dollar
just think OF sXtv-five thousand dollars as a
single counsel fee. ] ought to add that most
of the p, ointment lawyers of New York are in
the enjoyment of incomes ranging from thirty
thousand to seventy thousand dollars Il year.
Talk about the uncertainties Of law Surely
the only doubtful or uncertain thing about it
so Tar as the lawyers are cOncerned-is
whether they couldn't get more if they had the
cheek to ask it! Their motto would seem to
be borrowed from SCOTS Marmion-'CHARGE,
Chester, CHARGE"
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About dozen or more banks still re.
main to be visited During the last two
or three days the managers OF the money
ed Institutions, deeming discretion the bet
ter part of valor, have saved the Marshal
considerable trouble by having the exact
amount carefully packed up and left with
apparent carelesSness upon some conveni-
ent desk within reach of the Office A re-
ceiat is invariably rendered and as invari-
ably refused by the banks, lest by receiv-
ing it they might acknowledged the legal
ity of the proceedings, and place them
selves beyond the pale of recovering the
amount, in case the Court of Appeals
should reverse the decision of the Supreme
Court.
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1864-02-05

Mr.. LINCOLN has had several thousand
copies of the Amnesty Proclamation
struck off. They are printed in large type,
and at the close is the following notice,
from which we gather that what were
called during General Washington's Adj
ministration Commissioners of Par
dons are to administer the oath and re-
cord the restoration to civil rights:
The book wherein to record the taking of
the above oath by such persons as may apply,
is in the custody Of, at, who is au
torized to administer the said oath to such
persons of that vicinity, and is required to give
every person requesting it certificate in form
below. until some other mode of proof shall
be authoritatively provided, sufficient evidence
of the facts certified to entitle the holder to
the benefits provided in said proclamation:
CERT1FICATE-I do hereby certify that on
day Of-186-, at the oath pre-
scented by the President of the United States
in his proclamation of December eighth. eigh-
teen hundred and sixty-three, was duly taken
subscribed and made matter of record by -