The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1865-06-16

has been invited to resign, and it "a h.,;s..s%'
will accept the invitation soon, Dole !. 49,. 10
the most corrupt men In any of the den.rt
ments. = 'f"'''
In the State Street Methodist Cbnrc, =
Mobile, on Sunday. Nav ri the nnes,;ns Hn, N
put by the Rev. Mr.. Taylor to the Wat . sa
dlence, OF returning to the old Church. North
as 1t Is sometimes called. and the vota ~,
MISUNDERSTANDING Wing. "~'
The Philadelphia papers annonnce tho
death OF Rev. DR.. Vaughan, Professor of Pas
toral Theology in the West Philadelnh;a nj
vinity School, and one of the Oldest Fn;.oo,,.,
clergymen of the diocese of Pennsylvania
Hon Green Clay Smith was, recently. 70,
nominated to Congress, by reclamation. bv tho
Union men Of the Sixth (Covington) District
OF Aentucky. There was no opposing candi.
date. The General has accepted the nomina.
ton. '"'
"A letter to the Nassau Guardian gives the
particulars of horrible crime perpetrated nv
the rebel pirate Parr, who captured the Chesa-
peake and Roanoke. He boarded the barones
Florida and Lizzie, from Cuba, off Nassau.
fired them and sailed away, abandoning the
crews to their fate, and making his boasts that
he would drown thousand men before the
war was over
The Worlds special says: 1.-THE President
is daily literally overwhelmed BY delegations of
ofice-seekers, &c. To-day number of Balti-
moreans were presented to him, who protested
against the removal of the present Federal Office
holders in that city.
The Heralds special says: information
has reached Washington that if our Govern.
ment will agree to it, streng effort will be
made in England to obtain for Canada, from
the Imperial Governm ent, entire neutrality in
all future foreign wars. There is precedent
for this in its previous history, and if carried
outit will end all danger il that quarter, be-
sides rendering Notifications and fleets on the
lakes wholly unnecessary.
General Ntz-Hugh Lee has returned to Al
exandria. He says he does not intend to recog.
nize any former friends who did not take part
with the South.
Mrs. Lincoln has notified the Monument
Association, OF Springfield, that, unless the
mains, and deed be given her of the lot
whereon it shall stand, she will accept pro.
position for the removal of the remains to
Washington. Gov. Oglesby and ex.Secretary
of State Hatch, have been deputized to consult
with Mrs. L. on the subject.
The indictment of jeff Davis in the Dis.
trict of Columbia was not at the instance of
the government; and, as he is equally liable to
indictment in Maryland or Pennsylvania. there
il as yet no certainty-even if his trial be be-
fore civil tribunal-as to the point whereat it
will take place.
In an interview of Georgia delegation
with the President, on Thursday, Mr.. john
son stated the policy of the administration
as to reconstruction of the rebel States,-
which was received with favor by the men,
bers of the deputation, who declared that it
would be met with acceptation by the loyal
people of their State.
The Nashville Dispatch of the Sd says We
are informed by gentleman who has just ar
rived in this city from Augusta, Ga, that q
force was sent to Washington, Ga, to arrest
Robert Tombs, and upon their approach to his
residence, he made his escape through the
back door, and succeeded in getting away.
Intelligence was received on the following
day by his pursuers that the unhappy man
had committed suicide by cutting his throat.
The Pittsburg Post says: President John
son, according to the Bedford Gazette, in q re-
cent conversation with a gentleman from that
locality, declared that the government could
not exist without the Democratic party" AS
Parson Beecher remarked in sermon, 'That's
what's the matter"
--Eben w. Frazier, convicted at Newcastle,
Delaware, lately, for the murder Of Mr.. Ella
son, his brother.in-law, was sentenced to pay
a fine of 81, 900 and the costs of the suit, stand
one hour in the pillory, and be whipped with
sixty lashes, and imprisoned for the remainder
Of his life.
Monuments have just been erected to the
memory Of Admiral Foote and General Sedg-
wick. The former is at New Haven, heavy
square column of Rhode Island granite, nine
feet high and four feet square at the base and
the latter at Cornwall Hollow, an obelisk of
white Rhode Island granite sixteen feet high
1t will be recollected that, year ago,
Lieut.. Colonel James NJ. Sanderson, of New
York, was summarily dismissed the service for
the alleged disclosure to the rebel authorities
of plan of escape devised by his fellow pris.
oners at Richmond. A general order has been
issued by the War Department, stating that q
Military Commission has reported that the
Colonels conduct when in Richmond deserves
rather praise than censure. Hence, by direc-
ton of the President, the order dismissing
him from the service is revoked and annulled,
to take effect On the 9th of May last.
1t is estimated that upward Of 5000 steam
engines, for oil wells and other purposes, have
passed over the Atlantic and Great Western
Railroad, into Pennsylvania Oildom. The en-
CINE builders have certainly "struck ile."
There are from 5000 to 5000 persons
claiming to be mediums, in the United States,
and if they can all be compelled to take out a
license at $40 each, as jugglers, the revenue
derived from this source will amount to some
thing worth having. A case involving this
question is now before United States COM
missioner in Poohaefar