The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1864-05-06
WBEKLY SUMMARY OF TELE.
GRAPHIC NEWS.

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| The correspondence regarding the statu,
OF FRANK BLAIR in the army is only inter.
resting as showing the arrangement made
by him with the President in regard to the sur.
render of his commission as Major General ON
taking his seat in Congress, and the character.
istic letters of Mr. LINCOLN BLA1R's congress
sional career has not added to his reputation.
From Cairo we have the hitherto unheard
OF achievement of the capture of gunboat by
company of rebel cavalry.
-den. STONE, on the authority of Gen.
HANSON, is completely exonerated from the
charges made against him in connection with
'he deieat OF Gen. BANKS. Gen. Stone is one
Oh the ablest officers in the service, but he has
oeen reduced to Coonelcy, while BANKS re-
mains a-Major General
The Danes have suffered severe reverse
in the capture of Dupple by the Prussians
and the loss of several thousand men.
-Thlrty-five thousand men in Ohio have re-
ported for duty in the National Guard.
The law levying an extra duty for sixty
days OF fifty per cent on imported goods went
into operation yesterday. The receipt at the
New York Custom House last week of ST.. OOO.-
900 for duties, shows the need of some 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
postponement of the Republican National Con-
vention, although it has been strenuously urged
by some of the most prominent men of the
party
| -THAD. STEVENS has introduced bill into
Congress which carries out the SUMNER ideo,o
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.
| Mr. GooCH, of the Committee on the Con-
duct of the War, writes from Cairo that the
butcheries 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 in
Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Ohio
and Missouri, as well as in Minnesota.
Congress proposes to adjourn by the eth
of June, for which good news let us be truly
thankful.
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 have 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 1t is said there is
reason to believe that BANKS is again on the
way to Shreveport.
The House of Representatives on 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 lands
to Wisconsin for railroad to Lake Superior.
Immense preparations are being made in
Washington for the wounded of the forthcom-
ing battles.
"A Maryland refugee or spy contributes
some details of BURNsIDE's force at Annapolis.
which were doubtless correct at the time his
observations were made. A Virginia paper
says the First Auditor of rebel Finances had
received orders to remove his bureau from
Richmond to Montgomery.
|, There is report from Georgia that sew.
eral of our men were killed after surrendering
and the wounded were butchered as they lay
ON the field.
Admiral PORTER 1pronounces 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
tured, which contained 81, 100000 greenbacks.
| writer in New Orleans to the Milwaukee
Sentinel says that the press of that city is COM
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
| 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 by Gems. ScHENcK 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 "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
hearing notes since the formation of the gov.
eminent at 8978. 277. 1868, and the whole amount
now outstanding at $7s6, 254, 403.
| 1t is pleasantly stated that Massachusetts,
| cornoral who was before Gen. Casey's Board
| seeking commission as Lieutenant, was asked.
sswho was the hero of Fair Oaks ?" General
Casey" emphatically responded the aspirant
| for Memberships When ordered to report
the corporal found he had been appointed to
| tsr,< claaa caDt0iuCv.