The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1865-01-20

government was slightly in exces of $780,
600. # N
In the ancient city of Salem, contain.
ing some 10000 inhabitants, are seventy
names returning the amount of their in
comes at 100000, SOS, 600, $4,000, and
so on down to less than $4,000.
The first iron plated vessel for the
Brazilian navy has just been launched at
the Seine building yard, near Toulon.
She is corvette, and named the Don Pc
dro II.
The defences of Boston from the as
saults of foreign enemy have been con-
slderably augmented during the past year.
Forts Warren and Independence have been
strengthened by heavy ornaments, and
the new fort, Winthrop, on Governors
Island, is approaching completion. When
finished and properly garrisoned, it will
prove one of the most impregnable for
tresses on the Atlantic coast.
The great Vincennes mail robber,
Tucker, has been convicted in the United
States Circuit Court in Indiana on thirteen
out of fifteen counts in the Indictment,
All the years left of his mortal life will not
suffice to fill the bill in the penitentiary the
jury brought against him. He is the heayi-
est robber on record. il Ihe,z
George D. Prentice, of the Louisville
Journal, has returned to Washington from
a five weeks residence in Richmond, where
he went to avert justice from his son,
Major in the Confederate army, who has
been on trial for murder. Prentice states
that the public men in that city are unani-
nous as to the policy of freeing and arm
ing the slaves re.li ...,..r..xiF
An army correspondent Of the Hart
ford Courant thinks it may interest de-
serters to know that those who are con-
victed Of this offence are hung in the Army
of the Potomac and shot in the Army of
the James, as it gives them an opportunity
OF selecting their mode of exit.
The report of the superintendent of
the Onondaga Salt Springs shows the
amount of duties received during the year
to have been $50, 9S9Os. The expenses
were $40, 652.6o. .-aa ~.
Heretofore the tax paid by the banks
OF Massachusetts, has formed no incon-
siderable part Of the revenue of that State.
This tax, last year, amounted to 1916 .Ooo.g
The source of income to the State will be
entirely destroyed within the
coming year by the State banks adopting
National characters. .aa ~ y ,.r1.l.a n
The Rev. Mr.. Beecher said in one OF his re-
cent sermons The nation in voting for Ahra-
ham Lincoln, voted to double it's taxes" -
This is the reverse of the argument
used before the election. Then it was,
that the war would soon end, and taxes
would then be no more. If, as Mr.. Beech.
er says. the nation was voting to double
its taxes, We think q smaller vote, would,
have been polled. o,i ~ 4a..iGrn 7ett
Some one with q close knowledge of
human nature says that great many per-
sons wish to live their lives over again
because they see were they might have
sinned-and did'nt., 1.araa ei-s,'t asorYs
An eccentric individual, named VIM
Cilley, died recently at Lockport, N. r.
he lived alone, kept grocercy, and w;illed
his property, valued at SIS. 900, to his re-
latives in England. He kept his specie
buried in the cellar in an, old boiler,
Among the deposits in this private vault
were over fifty thousand three cent pieces.
The Washington correspondent s,u dent Of the
New York Commercial asks these sionifi-.
cant questions: .Did the Navy Depart
ment suggest that Gen. Gilmore. whose
experience as besieging engineer officer
Is well known, be placed in charge of the
military cooperating forceP If so, vhy
was Gen. Butler, destitute of experience
or military education, sent ?" j .5
The citizens of Philadelphia have pur.
chased finely furnished house for csc. 600. to
be presented to rMrs. Gen. Grant as a nerma.
nent residence. They have also subscribed
CSC. 600 for the widow of Gen. Birney. buyinp
q house for s1pg, 500, and investing the balance
in .. s. bonds.
- Henry M. Flint, Druid" correspondent
OF the N. Y. World, has been arrested in Balu.
more by military authority on charges of dis
loyalty; he is now in custody. 10
The Richmond Enquirer of the 18th. savs
" Louis Napoleon might be startled with an
other phenomenon upon peace between the
North and South /: it might not be impossible
that portion Of the troops now engaged in
conflict might unite under some banner and
march upon Mexico. This suggestion Is borne
out by the history of almost all nations who
have fought with each other. Soldiers will
fraternize In q common enterprise.