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Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1865-08-23

GEO. H. METCALF's BIG SHow.-The New
York Champ Elysees Circus will, according
to the large pictorial advertisement,in an
other column, exhibit in this city at and z
P. NJ. to-day and tomorrow. This show
presents attractions and novelties rarely
equaled, and wherever exhibited, It has
won general admiration and applause. Com
bining an array of talent from the most eel
ebrated European circuses, together with
the noted StickneY family and other dis
tinguished artists enumerated in the ad-
vertisement, 1t cannot fail to crafty and de-
light all who take pleasure in equestrian
and gymnastic feats and sports; The exhi-
bitionIwill take place on the grounds usu-
ally devoted to such entertainments, on
East Rich ! street east ofss Washington
avenues rorol7T nBg-byT u2Lretpn1h
Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1865-08-23

Wholesale & Retail Dealer in Sew'g Mach
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1865-03-17
Failing Off in Imports.

The New York Journal of Commerce
publishes summary of the foreign COM
merce of that port for the month OF Janu-
airy. The imports of this month were but
little more than half as large as the same
month of last year, being only $40, 629, 1T
against $19,977,394 in 1860. Since the
year 1850 only in one year following the
financial crisis of 1850 have the imports
in January fallen as low as during the cur
rent season. The merchandise imported
is reckoned in its specie value as purchas-
ed abroad; to ascertain its cost value in
our currency, there must be added the
freight, duty, and premium on gold. The
falling off in customs for the month Of JAN
uary, as compared with last year is nearly
two million dollars. The exports from
New York to foreign ports for the month
of January were valued in paper currency
at $16:561,59S against $12,156,69O in
1864 and $15,O7O,7S4 in 1868. These
statistics of the amount of imports for the
month of January, which is but sample
of the succeeding month, are Of interest,
as they afford an explanation of one ofthe
causes of the decline in gold.
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1865-03-17
From the Sixth Regiment.

A private letter dated New Orleans Feb.
22d says:
It is as warm here now as it is in st. Paul
in June. We are now quartered in building
formerly used as tobacco warehouse. 1t
makes very comfortable quarters. We relieve
the 9TH Vermont and are now engaged in
guarding Government property. Oysters are
plenty at fifteen cents dozen in the she'll
Oranges are growing in almost every yard, but
they are not yet ripe. The draft commenced
here on the 18th and after drawing for two
days it was ordered to be dropped. AS high as
81, 600 in greenbacks was paid for substitutes
for one year. There are about 500 cases of
small pox here, but there have been no cases
in the regiment.
Another letter from the same source,
one day later says:
We have Just received orders to proceed to
Chalmette, four miles from this place, and re-
port to Major General A. j. Smith, command
ing the 10th Army Corps. So we shall be with
the 9Th, 9TH, 9th and 10th Minnesota Regi-
ments, and we may now expect to see some
fighting, as Gen. Smith is a fighting man. The
reason that we leave is because that the color
ed troops are ordered to relieve all the white
troops now doing duty, in this city. The
men of company G are all we'll.
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1865-03-17
Death of Cardinal Wiseman.

NICHOLAS W1sEMAN, Cardinal Archbish-
op of Westminster, died at his residence
in London on the 18th of February, at the
age of sixty-three years. For nearly fiji
teen years he held the first ecclesiastical
rank of the Roman Catholic church in
England, having been raised to the dig
nifty of a cardinal in September, 1850.
Born in Seville, Spain, of English and
Irish parentage, he was educated in Ire
land, and studied theology in England.
In 1918 he went to Rome, and in 1927
was appointed professor of Oriental Ian
guages in the Roman University, but in
1885 he returned to England, where be
became celebrated as a preacher, lecturer
and polemical writer. Among his pub
lished works are three volumes of Essays
on Various Subjects" tale entitled
"Fabiola or, the Church of the Cata-
combs" ID" Recollections of the Last -Four
Popes and of Rome in ther Times, "The
Hidden GEN." play written for St Cuth-
bert's College, and numerous lectures and
addresses.
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1865-03-17

A YOUNG married woman, only seventeen
years of age and poor, was recently left to suffer
and die q shocking death at Monson, (Mass. }
for want of medical attendance, because it was
uncertain whether she belonged to Monson or
Palmer. The selectmen of Monson refused to
assist her, and the selectmen of Palmer, being
applied to, took no notice of the matter, and
after her decease the former buried her with
out funeral sermon.-SpringfeH Republican.
1t was an unfortunate circumstance that
the woman was white. If she had been
black or copper colored, or of a milk and
molasses hue, or even an A.bino, the Sc
lectmen of Monson and Palmer would have
quarrelled for the honor Of relieving Der
necessities, and the abolition parsons would
have exhausted their rhetoric in portray
ing the virtues of their "colored sister. I"
But the poor, young mother was white,
and therefore her shocking death" will
occasion little regret in the abolitionized
circles of old Massachusetts,.
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1865-03-17
From the Frontier.

Our readers will find an interesting let
ter from Fort Wadsworth, on the third
page. 1t is from a gentleman who pos
sesses good means of obtaining accurate
information Of the Indians.
General S1BLEY has also received ad-
vices from Fort Wadsworth to date of
February 2sth. There is nothing of much
Importance in the dispatches. A series
of heavy snow storms has driven the buff
falo in vast numbers to the low lands
along the James River. Previous advices
stating that the Indians in large numbers
were at or near James River are con-
firmed. They are peaceable and have en-
camped there for hunting purposes only.
A command had been sent out from Fort
Wadsworth to arrest certain traders for
illegal traffic with the Indian tribes, but
had not returned at the date of the des-
patch.
A despatch from Fort Abercrombie
states all quiet in that region.
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1865-03-17
Increase Of Capital I'm the Northwest.
A NEGRO IMAGE.BEARER.

The Chicago Tribune says capital is
rapidly increasing in all the States Dor
dering on the lakes and Upper Mississippi,
and predicts great prosperity for agricul-
ture and manufactures as follows:
The reason for this increase of capital must
be plain to every one who has studied the
extent and the vast agricultural resources of
the Mississippi Valley, and who knows how
rapidly it is filling up with an industrious, en-
terprising population. Whatever the prices
of our products may be, these States will al
ways have large surplus of farm products be-
yond what they can possibly consume. When
that surplus brings low price, the people
will economic so as to reduce their expenses
within their income; and when, as for the past
three or four years. it sells for large per Gen.
tage above the cost of production, old debts
are paid of, and capital rapidly accumulates.
1t is safe to say that of those farmers who were
in debt. some of them largely, in 1860, eight if
not nine out of ten are now above board, and
large numbers of them have very comfortable
sums invested in government bonds or other
interest bearing securities.
The high rate Of interest has heretofore been
the principal obstacle to manufacturing sue
cessfully at the West The accumulation of
capital IN banks and private hands will, within
the next decade, and even sooner, set thou
sands of wheels in motion all over the West.
Nearly every article of consumption can be
produced successfully here. and proitably, as
well, If the interest On capital should rule not
above or per cent. The accumulation of
capital, therefore, will supply the only remain.
ing element to make the West as rich in man
gfactures as it is in agricultural resources.
There Is, therefore, good time coming for
the manufacturing as well as for the agricul-
tural interests of the West
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1865-03-17
Tax OH Sgase Bank Notes.

During the p"ndency OF the amended
tax bill before tie House of Representa-
tives it was moved to tax State bank
notes ten per cens. after the LIST Of Janu-
airy, 1866. The vote was close, but the
motion prevailed, and the bill, as amended,
went to the Senate. On Thursday last
while the tax bill was being considered, a
motion was made to strike out the ten per
cent. taxation, which the Senate refused
to do by the following vote:
Yeas-Messrs. Anthony. Buckalew, Cola
mer, Davis, Doolittie, Foster, Henderson,
Hendricks, Howe, johnson, McDougall,
Powell, Ten Eyck, Van Wrinkle, Willey-15.
Nays-Messrs. Brown. Chandler. Clark, Con-
ness, Farwell, Grimes, Harlan, Harris. Lane.
Qnd.) Lane, (Kansas) Morgan, Morrill,, Mes
NTH. Nye, Ramsey, Sherman, Sprague, Sum-
ner, Stewart, Wade-20.
The tax bill con aiming this ten per cent.
clause has received the Presidents sigma
ture and is therefore law.
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1865-03-17
Removal of Provost Marshal See.

Capt. CHARLES II. SEE, Provost Mar
shall of the First Enrolment District, has
been removed and Capt. OMAHA ALLEN, a
citizen of Austin, Mower county, appoint
ed in his place. We do not know that
any reasons have been assigned for Capt.
SEES removal Certain it is that not a
particle of evidence has been ELECTED in
the investigations concerning the granting
of exemptions in that district. which
eliminates him in the least degree. If
there were any charges against him, an
opportunity should have been afforded for
their refutation. But under the present
management of the Department, the rule
is, chang a man and try him afterwards. :"
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1865-03-17
Good from Sumner.

Senator SUMNER, With all his radical
crotchets, occasionally does something that
EFFORTS praise from his opponents. He as
tonished the Senate and the public by
offering proviso to the joint resolution
authorizing contract with POWELL for
painting a national picture at a cost OF
5000, STIMULATING that Gin the national
Capitol, devoted to the national Union,
there shall be no picture representing any
victory in battle with our own fellow
citizens 5" and majority of the Senate
concurred in the sentiments of the amend
ment. If the motion had come from a
Democrat, sympath! with the rebels would
have been imputed 10 the mover by every
radical press in the country.
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1865-03-17
The Vice President.

ANDY JOHNSON, he Vice President, has
commenced bis career most unauspiciously.
At Cincinnati, on his way to Washington,
it Is reported that he was intoxicated and
disgraced himself n attempting to make a
speech in that condition. On assuming
the chair of the Senate, after the oath had
been administered by Vice President
HAML1N, accordingto the Chicago Tribune,
he took "the Bibe in hand, and elevating
it before the audience exclaimed, I kiss
this book before ny nation of the United
States The address of Vice President
JOHNSON, on being sworn in, is very Sc
verely criticised On all hands. His friends
allege that he must have been laboring
under serious indisposition." Serious
indisposition means simply that he was
drunk.
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1865-03-17
Drafted Men who have Pa1d TUG S'OO'

The law enacted over year ago Oh sn's
subject is that the payment OF the $500
exempts for a period not over one year, in
the discretion of the Provost Marshal Gen.
eral Persons who paid therefore when
drafted in July last, and were drafted
again in September, were not required to
report-the discretion" of Gen. Fry being
embodied in a general order to this effect
In this draft many of those same persons
have again been drafted.
The Provost Marshal here has an order
not to muster in such persons at present,
but to await further orders on the subject.
The only disposition therefore which
will be made of such persons until further
orders will be to furleugh them. The i'm
preston at the Provost Marshal's office
here is that they will not be required to
serve under this draft, nor during the year
from the payment of the $500.
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1865-03-17
Enrolment of Minnesota,
LETTER FROM ID. BLAKELY, Sc.
CRETARY OF STATE.
WARRINGTON, D. c., Feb. %.

WARRINGTON, D. c., Feb. 20.
Hon. Stephen HITLER, Governor Of Minnesota:
DEAR SIR have the honor to report that
the mission upon which I was sent has been
accomplished, although the benefits arising
therefrom will apply only in the case of f1-
ture call.
My arguments in favor of basing the quota
of Minnesota upon the corrected enrolment
of February were first addressed to Provost
Marshall General Fry, who declined to make
any concession whatever. then appealed to
the President, who directed that another in
terview should be had with General Fry, and
if no compromise could be effected, both
parties would appear before him, when decis-
ion would be rendered in accordance with the
merits Of the case.
Accordingly Gen. Fry was again visited, but
no different result was obtained. We then re-
ported to the President a second time, who
sent for Gen. Fry, and upon his acknowledge
ment that the representations made in the case
of Minnesota were correct, he ordered that the
quota as at present assigned, upon the enroll
ment of January 81 must be filled, but that the
excess furnished over the quota which would
have been ours had the corrected enrolment
of February 10th been adopted as basis,
should be credited upon The neat cali.
No application on the part of any State for
a reduction of the present quota has been or
will be granted. That is decision which the
President will under no circumstances modify.
Besides our State, only Illinois has succeeded
in getting the concession granted us in this in
stance, and this has been achieved only by the
most persistant and persevering effort While
our demand is therefore fully granted, the
benefits accruing from the reduction secured,
will apply only on future call.
The delegation in Congress from Minnesota
have rendered efficient assistance in accom-
plishing this result, Senators Ramsey and Nor
ton having visited the War Department and
Presidents house many times in order to Sc
cure an audience for me.
I am, Sir, yours very respectfully,
d. BLAKELY.
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1865-03-17

The following is the provision in the en-
rollment act under which the recent ar
rests in the First District were made:
Sec. %. And be 1t further enacted, That the
fees of agents ard attorneys for making out
and causing to be executed any papers in
support of o claim for exemption from draft
or for any services that may be rendered to the
claimant, shall not in any case, exceed five
dollars, and physicians or surgeons furnishing
certificates of disability to any claimant for
exemption from draft shall not be entitled to
any fees or compensation therefor. And any
agent or attorney who shall, directly or indi-
rectly, demand or receive any greater compen-
sation for his services under this act, and any
physician or surgeon who shall, directly or in
directly, demand or receive any compensation
for furnishing said certificates OF disability, and
any officer, clerk or deputy, connected with
the board of enrolment who shall receive
compensation from any drafted man for any
services, or obtaining the performance of such
service required from any member OF said
board by the provisions of this act, shall be
deemed guilty of . high misdemeanor. and,
upon conviction, shall, for every such offence,
be fined not exceeding $500. to be recovered
upon information or indictment before any
court of competent jurisdiction, one-half for
the use OF any informer who may prosecute
for the same in the name of the United States,
and the other half for the use of the United
States, and shall also be subject to imprison-
ment for term not exceeding one year, at the
discretion Of the court
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1865-03-17
The Last Legislature.

The Winona Republican, pays the fol-
lowing mild compliment to the last legis-
lature:
We are inclined to the opinion that it has
not been excelled by any Of its predecessors IN
in a constant regard for the public interests,
and for hard work. The members have been
very generally practical business men, and have
not distinguished themselves by useless talking.
There are many subjects coming before the
Legislature of young and growing State
which demand serious consideration, and not
unfrequently thorough discussion. We do not
remember Of any such measures which have
not been well presented to the two branches,
and are disposed to congratulate the State upon
the character of the Legislature, and also OF us
acts.
It was common remark here during
the session that, on the whole, the last
Legislature was the weakest that ever as
sembled since the organization of the ter
ritory. There were men of much ability
in it, but mediocrity was the rule. The
members worked hard, and were doubtless
as honest as the average of legislators /;
but when this is said nothing more re-
mains in their favor. Various reasons are
assigned for the lack of talent in the last
Legislature, or rather the Republican por-
ton of it. A Federal office-holder assures
Us that all the smart men of the party are
Office holders, while a military friend says
they are all in the army. 1t does not be-
come US to dissent from these reasons we
may grant that they are well.founded, but
in doing so must appeal to the people to
elect a larger number of Democrats to
the next Legislature. The Democratic
members of the last Legislature, though
few in number, were gentlemen of &C
knowledged ability, and exercised an in
fuence much greater than their relative
strength, upon the deliberations Of both
bodies. There are hundreds of such men
in the State, and as long as our Republican
friends have run cut of material, they
ought to be taken up and elected. They
will serve the State quite as well as the
mediocre men of the other side.
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1865-03-17
Promotions.

The following commissions were issued
by the Governor for 90. B, 1st Regiment
Heavy Artillery:
Senior LIST Lieutenant Levi ]. Alldred to
be Captain, vice W. NJ. Leyda, resigned.
Junior 1st Lieut.. ]. J. Eagan, to be Sen
Tor 1st Lieutenant.
Senior I'd Lieut. Daniel G. Harkners, to
be Junior 1st Lieutenant.
Junior I'd Lent. Alexander NJ. Postman
to be Senior I'd Lieutenant.
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1865-03-17
A Huge Joke.

There is Tribune rumor that ex-Sen-
ator WILKINSON will take the place of Mr..
DOLE, as Commissioner of Indian Affairs.
This rumor will be deemed one OF the
richest jokes of the season by those who
know something Of the way in which
these gentlemen have "played into each
others hands," in the management OF In
dian Affairs during four years past. 1t
seems scarcely possible that our rulers can
be ignorant of matters that are OF COM
mon notoriety in this section. We must
regard the rumor merely as q feeler
thrown out at the instigation of WILKIN-
soN, until otherwise advised.
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1865-03-17
The Right Of Suffrage.

The Tribune denies the right of any
man to rote merely because he is man. :"
eff he is 80 ignorant and vicious that his
vote can add nothing to the sum of intel
ligence and virtue embodied in the popu-
lar verdict pronounced through the ballot
boxes, he has no right to vote. Upon
these principles, unless all that has been
said by the Tribune and its friends about
the degrading influences of Southern slav-
cry, is admitted to be false, the negro will
be excluded from the ballot-box for many
long year to come. Is that what the
Tribune means?
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1865-03-17
The Hyena and Jackal.

the New York Tribune. Its delectable
correspondent from Charleston thus
belches forth bis fanatical spite:
A NEGRO IMAGE.BEARER.
We found the Mercury Office deserted-a
negro family already quartered in the room
which had been the editorial sanctum! In
the front room there were four busts of emf
nent Americans-one of them Calhoun. l
have no respect whatever for mere intellect,
unless it be employed for the benefit of the
race, and when it is perverted and made an
engine for the oppression of the poor, have a
cordial detestation oft These human Internal
machines, these torpedoes in trowsers, should
be treated just as their mechanical images are
treated-destrOyed or put out of harms way
Now, Calhoun did more than any one man to
make slavery respectable-he used all his great
powers 10 crush the negro. So hate him.
said to the negress who showed us into the
room:
That man was your great enemy-he did
all he could to keep you slaves-you ought to
break his bust"
She said nothing, and did not notice that
she left the ROOM After a WHILE having fin
ished my search, thought that the bust of
Calhoun would be good trophy for the
Tribune office, and made up my mind to "spoil
the Egyptians to that extent.
The negro woman was there, and saw that
the bust had disappeared. ! asked where it
was.
She had "gone done and broke it!
So perish all Queen Liberty's enemies
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1865-03-17
A correspondent of the Herald from
the Army of the Potomac saws.

John Kent of St. Louis, brother-in.law to
Gen; Grant, has just been exchanged, and ar.
rived at headquarters yesterday. BE was cap
tured on the Mississippi river over q wear ago.
was taken to Canton, Miss. and thence to
DemoPoiis. After rhort stay at the latter
pace ne was conveyed to Mobile, and thence
whom he was ordered into the hands Of the
Sheriff in Columbia, and was ten months con-
fined In . corridor Eve feet wide which runs
around the prison cells. During all this time
he was never once outside of his prison walls,
with one or two exceptions His treatment
was courteous, and all was done for his COM
tort that bis jailors could afford on the INSULT
Gent supplies permitted by the rebel govern
ment. He was robbed of 81, 600 at the time
OF his capture, and afterwards forced to e1-
change his clothes for poorer suit
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1865-03-17

they viii be very much disturbed BY his
contempt. If Mr.. WINDOWS correspond
ent correctly represented to him the tone
of legislative and public sentiment, after
the election was over, he would not feel
particularly flattered While there was
some sympathy for Mr.. WILKINSON, and
some regrets that Mr.. SWIFT or Mr.. RICE
did not receive the nomination, the fate Of
Mr.. WINDOW was not commiserated IN the
least; on the contrary, it was regarded as
a just retribution, wrought almost proVl-
dentially.
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1865-03-17

FRRsHRT AT CNClNNAu.-A dispatch
from Cincinnati of the 9Th says "within
the last few days the Ohio River at this
city has risen to an unprecedented height.
1t has already reached the second story
of houses at the foot of Main and SYRIA
cuse streets, and is still rising elowly.
Such freshet is unequaled in the mem.
ory of the oldest inhabitants.