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The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1864-06-03
The Newspaper sslzures.

The tone of the press Of the country, ire
spective of party, regarding the suppression OF
the New York newspapers, is entirely healthy.
Scarcely an editor has been found, save the
sycophantic FAwNEY, who has not expressed
the right views upon this momentous subject.
The action of the administration IL universally
condemned, and by none more severely than
those who have been accustomed to defend it
heretofore, in all its acts. Wherein the gov
eminent was clearly wrong, is pointed out by
the New York Times of Monday:
It would have been perfectly reasonable for
the government to have arrested and held the
editors of the two journals which published
the proclamation in close custody for trial,
and punishment in case their guilt was
proved. But it does not follow from it
that the Government was justified in
summarily suspending the publication
of their papers, for this is the fnfiction of
punishment without trial or inquiry-a thing
abhorrent, not simply to the common law, but
thing condemned, not simply by the principles
of our jurisprudence, but BY the ordinary moral
sense of every community. Even drumhead
court-martial, the rudest of all tribunals, ad-
ministering the most SAVAGE of all codes, in
variably takes testimony and hears the culprit
IN his own defence before passing sentence.
To prohibit the publication of newspaper
is in reality to inf1ict a very heavy penalty on
the proprietors, amounting, in the case of sue.
cessful journal, to many thousand dollars for ev-
cry day that the order remains in force. And
the fault we find with the action of the Gov
eminent in its dealings with the World and
journal Of Commerce is that this penalty has
been inflicted by an order from Washington
without inquiry, without hearing the accused
in their own defence, without. in short, any
form of trial. There is no conceivable state of
things, short of the bombardment of the city
by an enemy, that will justify proceeding of
this sort. Granted that New York is under
martial law, the rules of common justice are as
binding in the administration of this code as
of any other, and it will hardly be alleged that
we are living in this city without the protec-
ton of any code whatever. What ought to
have been done was to arrest the editors, and
after trial and conviction, suspend the papers
as punishment. What was done was just the
converse of this. The editors were left at
large and the papers suspended.
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1864-06-03
rne Democratic State Convention.


1.-THE Convention which met on the 18th in
this city to select delegates to represent Min
nesota in the Democratic National Convention,
which is to meet at Chicago, July 4, to nomi-
nate candidates for President and Vice Presi-
dent was o full and creditable representation
of the party of the State. The proceedings
were harmonious and free from unnecessary or
inappropriate defamation, while the wisdom
of the Convention in refraining from platform
making, trusting to the National Convention
to set up national platform upon which the
Democracy of Minnesota may unite with the
party of the whole country, is deserving of
commentator.
A full report of the action of the Convention
is given in another column. The delegation
elect to Chicago is as follows:
J. H. Mckinney, of Fillmore. Ahesmate-B.
f. Tllotson.
M. Dorm, of LIE Sueur. Alternate-James
Shoemaker, of Blue Earth.
j. B. Brisbin, of Ramsey. Aherndte-J. A.
Peckham. of Ramsey.
II. T. Welles, of Hennepin. Alte,mate-W.
A. German, of Ramsey.
Charles Fl. Berry, of Winona. Aternate-
Samuel Cole, of Winona.
j. B. LIE Blond, of Houston. AAernate-H.
K. Belden, of Houston.
E. o. Hamlin, of Stearns. .Alterwate-Chris.
Graham, of Goodhue.
Charles H. Lienau, of Ramsey. -Ahernate--
Segrave Smith, of Hastings.
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Hatchss BattaliOn...Ltttle Six ana
Grey Iron at Fort Smelling.

Lieut.. CHAs W. NASH, of HAICH's Battal-
ion passed through St. Paul last evening on
his way to Hastings. He reports company C.,
in part stationed at Pomme de Terre and part
at Alexandria. The other three companies are
at Fort Abercrombie. The barracks, sufficient
for four hundred men, built by the battalion,
at Pembina, were left in charge of Hon. Jo-
sEpH LIE MAY, United States Collector of Gus
toms, who being about the only white man in
that neighborhood, it is thought has more rea-
son for feeling disturbed as to the safety of his
scalp than he had even last season.
Lieut. CHARLES Fl. MIX, of Co. A, in COM
mand of a detachment Of thirty men, and hav-
ing in custody the noted Sioux chiefs, Little
Six and Grey Iron, passed st. Cloud on Tues
day, and probably delivered his prisoners at
Fort Smelling last evening. The report that
these Indians were accidentally shot ut the time
the Battalion was leaving Pembina, or before,
had no foundation in fact.
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1864-06-03
Negro Suffrage.

The following are the yeas and nays in the
Senate on the report Of the Committee of Con-
ference on the disagreeing votes of both houses
on the bill for erecting the territorial govern
ment of Montana, which recommends that the
Senate recede from its amendment striking out
the words ''every free white inhabitant, in re-
gard to voters, and inserting 'al citizens of the
United States and those who have declared
their intention to become SUCH"
YEAs-Messrs. Buckalew, Oarlile, Collamer,
Cowan, Davis. Doolittle, Foote, Foster, Hard
ing, Harris, Henderson, Hendricks. Howard,
johnson, Lane of Ind, Morrill,. Nesmith, Pow
ell, Ramsey, Salisbury, Ten Eyck, Trumbul.
Van Wrinkle, Wade, Wilkinson and Wiley.
NAYs-Messrs. Anthony, Chandler, Clark
Dixon, Grimes, Hale, Harlan, Lane of Kansas,
Morgan, Pomeroy, Sprague, Sumner and Will
son.
1t is pity the Press committed itself in ia
vor of negro suffrage until it was known how
RAMSEY and WILKINSON voted.
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Legal Tender Decision.

Hon s. P. JOHNSON. presiding at Erie, Pa,
has rendered an important decision in refer
ence to legal tender notes:
The plaintiff had deposited six hundred and
twenty dollars of gold with defendants and
taken a certificate of deposit payable in gold,
dated May 1, 1862 and claimed the market
value in gold at the same time the suit was
brought. By arrangement of the parties, the
premium on gold was fixed at fifty per centum.
The defendants claimed the right to pay the
certificate of deposit in legal tender Treasury
notes. under act of Congress of 25th of Feb
ruary, 1862, and rendered plaintiff notes for
the par value of the certificate of deposit not
payable in money, but expressly payable by
return of the deposit in kind, is not debt
within the act of Congress aforesaid, and there
fore the plaintiff was entitled to recover the
market value in gold. The Court also held
that the certificate of deposit containing the
express promise to pay gold was a waiver of
the right or privilege of paying in legal tender
notes; that although debts are payable in legal
tender notes, the right or privilege to pay with
such notes may be waived as we'll as the right
to exemption, stay of execution, trial by jury,
and many other statutory constitutional rights
which have long been held liable to be waived
by the acts or agreements of the parties inter-
ested.
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1uteFeetAnS Acttef Oh secretary Cha6es
The following letter has been addressed DO
the Secretary of the Treasury, to bank officer
under date of May 49, 1864:
SIR Your letter of the 18th, making in
quiries in regard to the kind of currency with
which the five-twenty years six per cent, and
three years seven-thirty per cent. notes are to
be redeemed, has been received. 1t has been
the constant usage of the department to re-
deem all coupon and registered bonds forming
part of the funded or permanent debt,
in coin, and this usage has not been depart
ed from during my administration of its affairs.
All treasury notes and other obligations FORM
ing part of the temporary loan are payable, and
will be redeemed, in lawful money-that is to
say, in United States notes-until after the re-
sumption of specie payments, when they also
will doubtless be redeemed In coin or equiva-
lent notes; the ive-twenty skies being payable
twenty years from date, though redeemable
after five years, are considered as belonging to
the funded or permanent debt. And so also are
the twenty years SKIES, into which the three
years seven-thirty notes are convertible These
bonds, therefore, according to the usage of the
government are payable in coin The three
years seven-thirty Treasury notes are part of
the temporary loan, and will be paid in United
States notes, unless holders prefer conversion
to payment. Very respectfully.
s. p. CHASE,
Secretary OF the Treasury
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KENTUCKY UNION CONVENTION

LOUISVILLE, KY, May 26.-The Democratic
Union State Convention at their last nights
session passed resolutions affirm ing the prin-
cipies affirmed by the Union Democratic State
Convention at Louisville March 18th, 1863 ex-
pressing their adherence for all attempts to
pervert the war from lis legitimate purposes
as declared by Congress at the beginning of
the rebellion, and to use the power of the ma
ton, under fanatic bidding, to infiict fanatic
vengeance; that its re establishment and en-
forcement of the Constitution as it is would be
the greatest triumph of self government that
any people has ever given to the world that the
doctrine that the States in which an armed in
surrection has existed. against the Federal
Government have ceased to be States and shall
be held in the ultimate defeat of that insurrec-
ton as territories or suHugated provinces
ought to be rebuked and condemned; that
the only object of war ought to be to subjugate
the armed Instruction SC. This Convention
expressed its preference for Geo. b. Mcclellan
for President, and Gov. Bramlette for Vice
President
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1864-06-03

General HUNTER has been sent on visit to
the Lower Mississippi with view to report to
the President his opinion of how matters are
working there. On the subject of leasing
plantations he was very free in condemning the
system. He said the negroes were cheated,
and were badly provided for. He stated that
they were defrauded Of half their wages, one
mode being to palm off brass trinkets upon
them as rich jewelry. This is exactly what
might have been expected under such sys-
tenn, which can never be kept from abuse, until
t is put into the keeping of the civil law and
its ministers in time of peace. No matter
whether the blacks remain slaves or become
freemen, they will for years require to have
applied to their relations with the whites pc.
culiar code, well administered by local ma
gistracy.
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1864-06-03
The Drafs-.How it IL Conducted.

At II o'clock on the 26th inst, the draft
was commenced at Capt. KE1rH's Office in this
city, and JULIUS HANSEN, Of Glasgow in Waba-
shaw county, was the. first man actually draft
Cd for soldier in the Second Congressional
and Enrolment District of this State. The
hrst five towns given in our list of names in
another column were drawn in the forenoon,
and in the afternoon the county of Wabashaw
was finished. The drawing will commence
again this morning at 10 o'clock, and Good
hue and Dakota counties 1t is thought will be
finished today.
In the morning Mr.. G. NJ. SEY-
xouR, of Saltwater, blindfolded, drew the bal
lots from the box, but in the afternoon his
place was filed by Mr.. henry A. STEWART,
blind man who has resided near st. Paul for
the last two years, who was also blindfolded
in accordance with the instructions OF the FRO
vost Marshal General. In drafting, the bundle
Of ballots inscribed with the names OF those
liable in the town to be drafted from, is open
ed. and counted, and is then placed in the
box and thoroughly shaken up, till there can
he no doubt that the ballots are so mixed
that the drawing will be work OF chance.
The blind man blindfolded, is then led forward,
inserts his hand through an aperture in the in
ner cover of the box, which is barely large
enough to admit his hand, draws out "a single
ballot and waits till it is disposed of before
drawing again.
The ballot, when drawn, is handed to one OF
Capt. KEITHs assistants, who reads aloud the
name drawn, which is recorded by the clerks,
and marks upon the reverse of the ballot the
order or number in which it was drawn. When
the requisite number have been drawn, the
drawn ballots are enclosed in o new wrapper,
Endorsed with the fact of their being drafted
and the number enclosed, and are placed aside
for future examination, if needed. The ballots
remaining in the box are then taken out, the
names read off and recorded on new enroll
ment in readiness for another draft, COMPARE
son is had to see if the right number remains,
and these ballots are then put up in package
and laid away for the next draft. TIE next
sub-district in order is then taken up, and the
draft begun and ended in the same manner.
The whole number drafted yesterday, being
all from Wabashaw county, was one hundred
and forty.
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1864-06-03
Ben Wade Oh WflkinsOn's Amend.
ments

BEN WADE, one of the most ultra Republic
cans of the country, made the following re-
marks on Senator WILKINsoN's amendment
giving negroes the right of suffrage in Mon
tana
Mr.. Wade said that while he held as settled
principle that the black man, in republican
government like ours, had the same infallible
right to vote as the white man, he considered
the original Senate amendment the mere shad-
ow of shade, and miserable abstraction. He
could not be deluded by the mere shadow OF
things. There we're no negroes in this Terri
tory and there were never likely to be any
Whenever the question should be raised to at
feet any mans rights, white or black, he should
stand where he always had stood.
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Arrest Of GreathOuse.

The San Francisco Bulletin, of the 18th, no
man named GREATHoUsE, who was party
to privateering enterprise against the CON-
MERGE of the United States. He went heavily
ironed and strongly guarded; and is, we sup
pose, now in Fort Lafayette, close prisoner.
This is the same person who was released by
decision of Judge HOFFMAN, under the am
nesty act. Notwithstanding that decision,
Secretary STANTON sent to California the fol-
lowing order:
The Secretary of War directs that You will
Immediately arrest the pirate Greenhouse. re-
Gently discharged by Judge Hoffman, and send
him In irons to Fort Lafayette, New York har-
Dor, using such military force to effect the ar
rest as may be necessary.
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1864-06-03

The Warrington correspondent Of the Chi
oAgo Tribune says that on Monday last the SEN
ate passed the Pacific Railroad bill by %
ayes to nays-Buckalow, Hendricks, Pow.
ell, Salisbury and Ten Eyck. There was q
lengthy debate over the diverse interests Of
half dozen different Kansas towns. A prop.
osition was adopted that the Leavenworth and
Pawnee branch must run by Lawrence and To-
peka. An amendment was made that soldiers
shall travel on the road at half rates. The
proposition to st. Paul and Lake Superior pas
decidedly defeated. The clause giving the COM
pany power to annul contracts at pleasure was
stricken out by II to 10. Tho main feature of
the bill is that it repeats the provisions of the
old law for the issue of coupon bonds in aid
of tho road, but authorizes the company to
issue bonds, of which government guarantees
interest for twenty years.
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Military Promotions. =.

Among the recent combinations by the Sen
ate we find the following Minnesotians:
John H. Brown, of Shakopee, Scott county,
to be Assistant Quartermaster with the rank OF
Captain.
Lieut.. Cyrene M. Blakely, of Rochester,
Olmsted county, to be Commissary of Subsis-
tence with the rank of Captain.
The following commissions have been issued
by the Governor:
DR.. John H. Murphy, of st. Paul, has been
commissioned Surgeon of the Eighth Regl-
ment, vice Reiger, resigned.
Sergeant L. w. Tiffney, of Co. II. Ninth
Regiment, has been promoted to "a Lieu
tenancy, vice Paulson, resigned.
Alexander Kinkaid has been promoted TO
LIST Lieutenant of the Second Minnesota Bat
terry, vice Richard Dawley, resigned.
John Ball, Qate Captain in the First Mime
sofa, has been commissioned as I'd Lieutenant
in the same battery, vice Kinkaid.
L. w. Aver, 1st Sergeant of same, has been
promoted to I'd Lieutenancy in same battery.
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The Superior Land Grant.

We print at the request of friend, the
communication of "CIvIs ON the project of
calling an extra session of the Legislature to
dispose of the land granted by Congress to a
railroad from st. Paul to Lake Superior; but
at the same time take the liberty of expressing
our decided disapprobation of the project, and
the opinion that an extra session will not be
called, owing to the strong marks of disfavor
bestowed upon the proposition in every quar-
ter of the State.
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1864-06-03

Since the commencement of the late bat
ties in Virginia, the Government has made
several acquisitions upon the Sprinfeld armory,
to make good the drain upon the Washington
arsenal. Orders have been received and filled
for la boxes of artillery harness, each box con-
tanning two complete sets, and 500 extra col
lars and traces. They have also been forward
ed 1000 sets of cavalry, and as many infantry
announcements, besides twenty four caissons.
These orders have about exhausted the supply
of Announcements on hand, but more win soon
come in from the manufactures Meanwhile,
the accumulation of guns goes on, and has
reached 240,0 900.
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TRIAL OF ANDREWS.

New YORK, May 25 The trial of John w.
andrews, the leader OF the rioters in July last,
was concluded last evening. He was convicted
and sentenced to Sing Sing for three years. he
made a speech. in which he said that instead of
melting the rioters to violence, he did ali he
could to deter them but he admitted that he
sympathized with those opposing the draft. and
claimed that he had perfect right to express
his opinion.
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From Fort Garry.

Mr.. WILLIAM INKsrER arrived in this city
yesterday, direct from Fort Garry. reports that
the Red River cart train was to start from that
place to-day. Gov. DALLAS is on his way to
St. Paul, en- route to England, and will be here
within week. There was no Indian excite
ment in the Red River country.
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CowARDLY OFFICERs.-A letter from Wash.
ington says The officers who lately ran
away from the battlefield in Virginia, and
came to Washington under the mere pretence
of being wounded, are being treated by the
Government with deserved severity. A court
martial is in session here by which eleven Of
these coward men have been ordered back to
their regiments and to be reduced to the ranks.
Eleven Of them went off yesterday and four OF
them were in chains. This looks like earnest
work on the part Of the government and is
cheering"
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Drafting in the First District.

Drafting in the First Congressional District
was commenced on Monday by Capt. SEE. lie
has also appointed all his enrolling officers to
revise the enrolment. As this is the third
time Capt. SEE has drafted, it is to be hoped
that he will hold all he gets.
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Major Nelson.

Major ANDERSON D. NELSON, OF the Tenth
Regulars, has left this city to join his regiment,
at Vicksburg, and is to be succeeded as mus
tering officer by Capt. RossRLL, who was
Lieutenant under Major, then Capt. NELSON,
at Fort Smelling in 1856.
Major NELSON, during his long residence In
Minnesota, has won the entire respect of our
citizens, and their best wishes will follow him
10 the field of active service.
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SS~A Al viz oSl tlSC
MAINE.
Gen. Berry, killed.
Gen. Jameson, died.
) MASSACHUSETTS.
Gen. Whipple, killed.
Gen. Strong, killed.
Gen. Stevenson, killed
Gen. Lander, died g
wounds and eXhaus.
ton.
Gen. Plummer died.
RHODE ISLAND.
Gen. Rodman, killed.
CONNECTICUT.
Gen. Lyon, killed.
Gen: Mansfield, killed
Gen. Sedgwick, killed
Gen. Totten died.
NEW JERSEY.
Gen. Taylor, killed.
Gen. Kearney, killed.
Gen. Bayard, killed.
NEW YORK.
Gen. Mitchell, died.
Gen. Sumner, died.
Gen. Weed, killed.
Gen. Blenker, died.
Gen. Oorcoran, died.
Gen. Chaplin, killed.
Gen. Zook, killed.
Gen. Kirby, killed.
Gen. Wadsworth, kille
Gen. Rice, killed.
PENNSYLVANIA.
Gen. Smith, died.
Gen. Reno, killed.
Gen. REYNOLDS. killed.
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WASHINGTON, May 24.-Chas. e. Mix, Chief
Clerk OF the Indian Bureau, has returned from
bis mission to the Six Nations Indians. He
was unsuccessful in making treaty for their
surrender of certain lands in Kansas, owing to
dissensions among their leading men.
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STEALINGs.

NEW YORK, May 26.-The win OF John But
Ter, brother to Ma. Gen. Butler. has been of.
fered for probate in the Surrogate Office in this
city. He left an estate, the Express saws. worth
81, 00O, 600, of which one-half is beoueathed to
the Major General.
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1864-06-03

The CNrERpRIsE.-The overland voyage
of the steamer Enterprise, around st Anthony
Falls, is nearly completed. She lay yesterday
at the waters edge below the Falls, and will
soon be afoat again.
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Another effort is being made in Congress
to repeal $500 the clause in the CONSUMPTION
act It will have to be done before great
while, if it be soldiers ana not money the gov
eminent wants.
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1864-06-03

The large car shop of the New York Cen
trail Railroad at Albany was destroyed by fire
last Monday morning. Loss estimated at one
hundred thousand dollars.
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A letter from Colonel WILkIN states that the
Ninth Regiment was ordered to leave st. Louis
on Thursday last for Little Rock.