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The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1865-03-24
Compliment to a just Judge.

Hon. ISAAC P, CHR1sT1ANcY, Judge Of
the Supreme Court of Michigan, who de-
cided the Soldier Voting Law of that State
constitutional, has been renominated for
another term by both parties. At Dem
ocratic convention at Detroit on the 10th
inst, the committee on resolutions, through
its chairman, Hon. ROBERT MoCLR1LAND,
submitted the following resolutions, which
were adopted:
WHEREAS, The judiciary have better con.
troll than any other department of the govern
ment over the personal security and property
OF our citizens and everything valuable in So
cial life; and,
WHEREAS, The independence and integrity
of the judge are essential to the impartial ad-
ministration of Justice; and,
WHEREAS, In the recent action of the SUI
preme court of the State we have the most sat-
majority to disregard party and decide impair
WHEREAS, While we politically differ with
the Hon. Isaac P. Christiancy, who is candi-
date for reelection, we place confidence in his
ability, integrity, and experience therefore,
Resolued That this convention, with a view
of paying just tribute to the independence of
a majority of said court, and of preventing the
judiciary, as far as practicable, from being made
the subject OF mere partisan contest, will not
nominate candidate in opposition to him.
Resolved That we reaffirm the Democratic
doctrine of strict construction of const tutonal
provisions and that the final determination of
the courts OF last resort on questions arising
hereunder are equally binding on all.
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1865-03-24

MINNESOTA, AS A HOME FOR IMMIGRANTS. Be-
ing the First and Second Prize Essays award
ed by the Board of Examiners appointed
pursuant to an act of the Legislature of the
State of Minnesota, approved March 4, 1854.
st. Paul: 1865.
The above is the title of neat pamphlet
"setting forth the advantages which this
State offers to immigrants, and giving use
full information with regard to the State. -
Both essays appear to have been compiled
principally from the first and second An
nual Reports of the late Commissioner of
Statistics, interlarded with scraps from
newspapers. Neither contain anything
new or particularly interesting to our own
citizens, but will doubtless be of some SER
vice in directing the attention of immi-
grants to the State. The sums offered by
the legislature as prizes were not sufficient
for the purpose designed. For the produc-
ton of an immigration document worthy
of general circulation in our own and for
eign countries prize of one or two thou
sand dollars would have been no more than
just compensation. But the State appro-
priated two and one hundred dollars, and
has received only an equivalent for these
sums in the two essays embraced in its
pamphlet.
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Democratic Senators and Represen.
tatfVes.

The Hastings Conseroer, Republican
paper, pays the following well-deserved
compliment to Hon. D. F. LANGLEY:
With the expiration of the late session of
the legislature probably closes the official la
bors of his term of our Senator, Hon. D. F.
Langley. Elected as Democrat, he has
proven himself gentleman, and, we believe,
discharged the arduous and responsible duties
of the office to general satisfaction. If we
must have one Of that party to represent d.
kota county in the State Senate next winter,
we should much prefer his reelection. Al
though vastly differing with him in politics, we
are not blind to his character as a man and
citizen. - ta.a ''i -. w.. ..'...'
What is said of Mr.. LANGLEY might Just
ly be applied to all the Democratic mem
bers Of the last legislature They com
posed small minority in each body, but
their influence was felt in all important
matters of legislation. They labored earn
estly for the local interests of their consti-
tuents, but in doing so they never forgot
the paramount good of the State at large.
We trust the Democracy win send the
same men next winter, or men of the same
ability, and more of them.
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military Appointments.

The following commissions we're issued
yesterday for the First Battalion Mime
sofa Infantry:
First Lieutenant H. d. O'Brien to be Captain
Company A.
Second Lieutenant Thos. H. Presnell to be
First Lieutenant Company A. '.
Sergeant VIM. A. Joy to be Second Lieuten-
ant Company A. ... 10 ,.-s
Sergt James Bryant to be First Lieutenant
Company B.
sergt. VIM. w. Holden to be Second Lieu.
tenant CompanyB.
Company D of the same Battalion was
organized yesterday and the following Of
ficers commissioned -..gl bod a..-1
Sergt. Thomas N. MILESTONE to be Captain.
Ransom ]. Madison to be First Lieutenant
o. J. Gardner to be Second Lieutenant
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stanton Rebuked.

A Senate proposition to muster out of
service non-commissioned officers and pri-
Yates who enlisted in old regiments with
the understanding that they enlisted only
for the unexpired term of those regiments,
was submitted by the Military Committee
to Mr.. STANTON for his opinion before be-
ing reported to the Senate. The Secretary
endorsed it as follows and returned it:
The passage of this bill will be- practical
disbanding of the army. Mr.. Justice Wayne
decided in case of habeas corpus before him,
that the muster roll is the legal evidence of the
contract of enlistment. To substitute parole
evidence and allow assurances and under
standings to govern the term of enlistment
is not only contrary to the laws of evidence,
but would be fatal to the military service, be-
sides being q temptation to mutiny and insub-
ordination. Shysters would undertake the job
of procuring every regiment out of service. 1t
would be better to disband the armies at once.
E. M. STANTON,
Secretary of War.
The committee, justly indignant at the
dictatorial and insulting tone Of the en-
dorsement, as well as at his usual and
habitual disrespect and contempt of Con-
gress as well as individuals, determined to
do what they thought right, and to disre-
gard the opinion. They therefore reported
the bill, and it has become law.
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The Issues of Peace.

The Eoening Post, in an article criti-
Ching the Presidents inaugural, and the
Presidents characteristic policy of follow
ing in the wake of bis party" the ex-
pectant method, Participates the issues
that will arise, when the war shall have
been closed, as follows:
But in the coming time, it must be obvious
to the least thoughtful person that this mode
of waiting upon events will not do. The
questions of recovery and reconstruction that
are to be settled, are questions involving great
and lasting principles, destined to be estab-
lished and to act for very long time. We
are not to provide for an emergency. but for
regular and continuous existence We are to
reconcile an embittered and prejudiced pop
ulation to the peaceful supremacy of the
law, without infringing our permanent prin-
ciples of free government or impairing the
rights of any locality or of any individual: we
are to let down our social and political system
from that feverish etherism, as the doctors say,
which is produced by the intoxication of paper
money; we are to disperse the dangerous con-
gestion of power in the federal head that enor-
nous and almost unlimited Capitalization of
functions and forces, which the vast operations
OF war require, but which would be fatal to
liberty in time of peace and we are to SIM
plify and reform the processes of taxation,
which in its present state is a vast, incoherent
and complicated network of distractions to
trade, endurable in an exigency, but not other
wise.
1t is evident that the Post is convinced
that on the restoration of peace the Re-
publican party must surrender the govern.
ment of the Union and of most of the
States into the custody of the Democratic
party, the only political organization
capable of setting Alright the great ques-
tions of recovery and reconstruction, the
rights Of localities and of individuals, the
intoxication of paper money, the dan
gerous congestion of power in the federal
head, that enormous and almost unlim-
tied ceHtralization of functions and forces,
taxation and distractions to trade"
Upon the questions involved in those
issues, the principles of the Democratic
party are firm, united, orthodox and po-
erful. r.h = .
This war extinguishes the slavery ques-
ton the only element of embarrassment
and weakness ever experienced by the
Democratic party, and at the same time
gives new birth to the great questions of
the distribution or Capitalization of power,
the currency, taxation, revenue, protective
tariffs, United States Banks and their Incl
dental issues from the substance of which,
the Republican party rose to the surface,
with anti-slavery agitation as its only
principle. The restoration of peace will
revive, with tenfold interest, the old polit-
ical controversies, in which the Democrat
ic party has always been, and ever will be
invincible.
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RECRUITS FOR ENGINEER CORPS.
><ESS 7------it1
Two Hundred will be Received
from Minnesota.
ORDER OF COLONEL tAvERlLL.

I'hADohs suPr Vol. RECRUITING SERv1cE,l
ST. PAUL, March 16, 1866. :
special Orders No. 1s.l
BY orders from the Secretary of War the
Provost Malshals of the two districts of Min
nesota are hereby authorized to receive two
hundred (2oo) recruits for the LIST Regiment q.
8. veteran Volunteer Engineers, under com.
mand of Col. Wn. e. MerriR. stationed at
Chattanooga, Tenn.
The functions of the Engineers being oene.
rally confined to the most elevated branch of
military science, they are not subject to be or.
dered on any duty beyond the line of their Inn.
mediate profession, except by the special or.
ders Of the President of the United States.
The organization consists of twelve comma.
MES of $50 enlisted men each, a colonel, lieu
tenant colonel, and three majors.
A company of Engineers consists of GA pri.
Yates, "a artifcers Cor mechanics), 10 corporals.
10 sergeants, and line officers. r....--
Class I'd (privates) embraces men subject to
labor, and physically qualified for the duties of
pioneer or engineer. .,, ,,.+v.
Class LIST (meehanics) embraces men with the
necessary qualifications of the second class, but
who in addition possess some mechanical pro-
fession. .- ,esfv-
All those desiring to enlist in this desirable
branch of the service should make immediate
application to the headquarters of either Pro-
vost Marshal in the State. a...LI 4.
(signeO JOHN T. AVERILL.
Col. and Supt. Vol. Rec'g Service.
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JOhnsOnian.

A RRPUBLoAN caucus was held after
Andy Johnson's speech and a proposition
was made to ascribe that speech to the
effect Of its author being "drugged, but
old Chandler, true to his friend, said,
emo! give old Rye all the credit"
THAD. STEVENS declares that were the
House of Representatives in session, he
should move the impeachment of public
functionary for his extraordinary 4th of
March speech. ..... ..,. s-...
Woe PRESIDENT JOHNSON remains at
Silver Spring where he is gradually recov-
ering. A free use of soda water has been
prescribed. -..n 20.
A STORY that John B. Cough has en-
gagged Andy johnson to travel with him as
'tliving example" of the effects of drunk
enness, in illustration of the distinguished
orators temperance lectures, is without
foundation.
WHEN Republican political preachers
make Their, political prayers and declaim
their political sermons, it is to be hoped
that as it is written "No drunkard shall
inherit eternal life, " they will make devout
supplication for Vice President Andy
johnson, the pet of the "party Of moral
ideas" ..ra
IT was d subject of remark that Chief
Justice Chase, Secretary Stanton and Vice
President johnson did not attend the In
auguration Ball. Were the Chief Justice
and the Secretary like the Vice President,
in bad "health."
The telegraph announces that Secretary
Stanton is not in good ''health." The tel
egraph also states that Andy Johns on's
shealth" Is better than it was.
WHEN FoRNEY tried to hurry JOHNSON to
a close, JIM LANE said: "Let him go on !;
if he don't show his speed, he does bis
bottom"
ANOTHER name for it" incoherence.
IT is said that Senator Sumner, of Mas
sachusetts, is drawing up q process of inn
parchment against Vice President John
son, for conduct compromising the dignity
of his high position and the honor of the
country at the Inauguration ceremonies.
This ought to be and probably is true.
There is no other mode in which the dig
nifty and standing of the people can be
effectually INDICATED. Mr.. johnson might
show his own good sense by resigning, but
that would help the people little. They
have their reputation to vindicate, and Mr..
Sumner proposes the only mode by which
it can be done. -Nil,oaukee Sentinel { Re-
publScdn). .. ,..l .E.. I'D
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Fire at Wfnona..One Block and Three
Buildings Burned..LOss $4,000.

The Winona Republican of Monday
contains an account of a fire which occur
red in that place on Sunday, destroying
property to the amount Of $4,000. The
names of the sufferers, amount of their loss
and insurance are as follows: Mr.. G. F.
Hubbard, loss $4,000, insurance $4,000;
Mr.. s. Edwards, loss $4,000, insurance
$4,000; S. D. jackson & Co., loss from
$4,000 to $50, 600, insurance about $14,-
600; Thomas Ross, loss $500, insurance
$500; Smith, Anger'& Lind, loss $4,000,
insurance $4,000; George @. Benton, of
Wisconsin, loss $1,000, insurance $500 !;
Dr.. T. WEIGH, loss $1,000, insurance $3.50;
Mrs. Montgomery, millinery establish
ment, loss $1,000, no insurance. Among
other sufferers for small amounts were J.
D. Fleischer, K. Helgestein, Mr.. Wackes-
kie, Mr.. Carson, James Myers, F. A. HATH
orn, and Willis & Smith.
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Northern Branch Of the Union Pacific
... Railroad.

lie Secretary of the Interior has sub
mltted to the Governor the following an
swer to Joint resolution of the Leeisla-
ture of the State of Minnesota, requesting
the Senators and Representatives thereof.
to use their influence to secure the location
OF the North, or Sioux City branch of the
Pacific Railroad westwardly, as near as
may be along the parallel of forty-two and.
one-ha1f degrees of north latitude to q
point OF junction with the main trunk of
said road: -, ,-''','. '' "'~ ~
q r OEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR. e,' )L,.,
WASHINGTON, d. c., March 9. RI,
SIR: The President of the United States
having referred to this department cow If
tne JOINT Resolution of the Legislature of Min.
nesota, relative to the location of the Nor
thern Branch OF the Union Pacific Railroad.
l nave the honor to inform you that under the
authority conferred upon the President bv the
1 I sectlon OF the act of Congress approved
ouiy =, !So4, ne has designated the Sioux CITY
anu anu acme haliroad Company, organized IN.
u c. Lne laws Oh Iowa, as the Company to con-
strocI ana operate the line of Railroad and Tel.
egraph line from Sioux City to such point on.
the Union Pacific Railroad from Omaha N..t ~
Union facific Railroad, as said Comnanv mav
select" company lnay
am Sir. very respectfully.
Your obedient servant 2
,,;. j. P. USHER, Se,cv.
his EXcellency STEPHEN MILLER. Goveynor
OF Minnesota. nv
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IMPORTANT DEC1s1oN-LoUIs1ANA IN A
STATE OF Chaos Chief Justice Chase has
rendered the opinion of the Supreme Court
in the case of Elizabeth Alexander vs.. the
United States, to recover two million dol
lars worth Of cotton, captured by the navy
on the Mississippi. The decision of the
Circuit Court of Illinois, declaring the cot
ton aprize, is reversed, and the court holds
that it ought to have been delivered over
to the treasury agents, to be disposed Of
In the argument it was claimed that the
cotton was captured in the enemys coun-
try, and the court ruled that the govern
ment organized and the elections held in
Louisiana under Gen. Banks military
order are void.
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The Slaves Of Jonathan Edwards.

The following legal conveyance of two
negroes, once owned by the great New
England theologian, Jonathan Edwards,
will be read with interest:
Know all men by these presents that we,
Timothy Dwight, Jr., of Northampton, and
county of Hampshire and the province of the
Massachusetts Bay, in New England, executors
of the late will and testament of Sarah Ed.
wards, late of Stockbridge, in the county
aforesaid, deceased, who was executrix of the
last will and testament of Rev. Jonathan Ed
wards, late of Stockbridge aforesaid, deceased,
for and in consideration of the sum of twenty
three pounds lawful money to us in hand paid
by John Owen, of Simsbury, in the county of
England, the receipt whereof we hereby ac-
knowledge, have sold, conveyed, and in open
market delivered two negro slaves, viz: the
one negro man named Joseph, the other a
negro woman named Su, and is wife to the
said 10, which slaves were lately the proper
goods of the said Jonathan Edwards deceased.
and were by him bought of one Hezekiah
Grisweld, of Windsor, and we, the said limo.
thy Dwight, Jr., and Timothy Edwards, do
covenant to and with the said John Owens, his
heirs and assigns, that We have good right in
ourselves to sell and convey the said negroes,
10 and Su, to him as above and that he shall
and may hold them as his own proper goods
from and after the date hereof.
In witness whereof we have hereunto set
our hands and seals, this 4th day of August, in
the 33d year of His Majesty's reign, Ammo
Dom. 1862
T.. DWIGHT, Jr. Isl
T1MO. EDWARDS. r.. ST.
Signed, sealed and delivered in the presence
Of rs.
EBENEZER Hunt.
SETH P0s6ERoY
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Gen, Oscar Malmross.

A Washington dispatch states that Gen.
MALMRoss has been appointed and con-
firmed United States Consul at Galatz, a
town of considerable commercial import
ance, in Moldavia, and situated on the left
bank of the Danube. 1t contains about
10000 people. Its exports and imports
amount to several millions annually. We
have not learned whether the General
accepts the appointment or not.
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Desertions from the Rebel ArHies.

~
The Herald re-prins. a large number of
extracts from the letters of its correspon-
dents to show the increasing prevalence
of desertions from the reoel armies. In
some of the corps Of GRANTS army, the
Provost Marshals have their time almost
wholly occupied in attending to rebel SOL
diers continually arriving within our lines.
Desertion has recently taken the charac-
ter of a stampede. This is attributed to a
feeling generally prevailing that the Con-
federacy has 'gone up" to their suffer-
ings from insufficient nations, and pasticu-
larly to the following order of Gen. GRANT,
which our pickets Aave freely distributed
among the rebel soldiers: -g. - am.
Headquarters ARMIES UNITED SrATEs,l
In THE FIELD, VIRGINIA, January 4, 1865. J
SPECIAL ORDERS, No. 8. as :
Hereafter deserters from the Confederate ar.
my, who deliver themselves up to the United
States forces, will, on taking an oath that they
will not again take up arms during the present
rebellion, be furnished subsistence and free
transportation to their homes, if the same are
within the lines of federal occupation. If their
homes are not within such lines, they will be
furnished subsistence and free transporta-
ton to any point in the Northern States.
All deserters who take the oath of allegiance
will, If they desire it, be given employment in
the Quartermaster's and other departments of
the army, and the same remuneration paid
them as is given to civilian employees for sim
liar services Military duty, or Service endan-
gering them to capture by the Confederate
forces, will not be exactcd from such as give
themselves up to United States military author
tiles. Deserters who bring arms, horses. mules
or other property into our lines with them, will.
on delivering the same to the Quartermaster's
Department, receive in money the highest
price such arms, horses, mules and other prop
erty are worth. Railroad employees. telegraph
operators. mechanics and other civilians, em.
ployed by the Confederate authorities, who de.
sert from their present employment and come
into the Federal lines, will be entitled to all
the benefits and immunities of this order.
By command of Lieut. Gen. Grant.
T. s. BOWERS,
E" Assistant Adjutant General.
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wisconsin Currency.

We do not suppose there is large
amount of Wisconsin currency in Minne-
sofa, but those who hold it may be induced
BY the action of the Milwaukee banks to
put it off at an unnecessary sacrifice. The
Milwaukee papers assure their readers that
there will be ample funds for its redemp-
ton at par, even supposing that the State
stocks do not sell for more than eighty
cents on the dollar.
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Mt UL.


Gold is falling rapidly and almost every
article of merchandise goes. with it. The
closing quotations Thursday in New York
were 175h and 1853, and the day previ-
GUS it went as low as 100. The tendency
is downward, and the recuperation was of
a temporary character. Those who have
large stocks Of goods on hand, that are not
paid for, and whose business is expended
beyond their capitol, are likely to come to
grief; the decline in prices will fall heavily
on such, as they will be called upon to
make heavy sacrifices. Certain it is that
it would be the height of folly for bust
ness man to contract engagements now
which are beyond his immediate ability to
meet, for every COLLAR which he, promises
to pay may, and probably will, require a
dollar and half to pay six months hence
measured by the standard of Anything pur-
chased now which he may then have to
sell. Now is the time to take in sail. The
day for making money on the rise OF goods
is past, and those who hold them tor such
q purpose, when they can be disposed OF
for what they cost, may have occasion 1or
regrets.
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From the Frontier.

Gen. SIBLEY has received advices from
Fort Wadsworth of date of March 4th,
and from Fort Abercrombie to the 10th.
They contain no news of Importance. The
heavy snow storms were still continuing
and driving in the buffalo in vast numbers.
Herds of these monarchs of the prairies
were within few piles of Fort Wads-
worth. No hostile demonstrations on the
part of the Indians were reported. Those
that followed the buffalo were peaceably
hunting. TN s