The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1865-07-21
FROM WASHINGTON.


luSUou SpoclM doy0 exJu0g0 motifs was To-Day
appointed Provisional Governor of Florida
and win repair to that State early next week.
Contrary to the expectations Of nearly all f.
miliar with his past career, Mr.. Cowan, editor
and publisher OF the rebel Richmond Diepotck
has been pardoned by the President.
Returns TO the Office of Internal Revenue
show that nine and . half millions of dollars
have been received In that bureau since July
LIST. Previous to that date the expenses of col
lections were deducted and NET amounts re-
turned. Now the total collections have to be
returned, and the increase is therefore more
apparent than real. although the net receipts
are substantially enlarged.
Measures have been decided upon in the In
terror Department for putting into speedy ope.
ration the necessary machinery for the disposal
of the public lands In the late ineurgent States
applications and inquiries upon the subject
having been very freely made to the Depart
ment Registers and Receivers hive already
baen designated for this work In Arkansas, and
as soon as this can be done for the other States
these officers will be ordered to repair imme-
diately to their posts, and open offices for the
sale Of lands at such central points as viii best
suit the general convenience.
Geo. A Benedict, editor of the Cleveland
Herald, was to-day commissioned Postmaster
OF that city, vice the present incumbent, the
editor of the Leader.
The question of pardoning Col. Lee of Phil
adelphia, has finally been referred to the Dis.
trict Attorney who prosecuted him to convic-
ton. Mrs. Lee left last evening for home
without being able to obtain any conditional
pardon. Attorney Speed is known to have
used his influence to have the President recon.
slider his first determination to remit the pen.
! atty of Imprisonment
The Times Washington special says the story
that Mrs. Gurratts spiritual advisers were not
permitted to visit her till promising they would
nos proclaim their belief in her innocence from
the scaffold is untrue.
The government has sent an officer to An
Jacksonville, Ga, to make special investigs-
ton into the brutal and inhuman treatment of
Union prisoners during the war, with view
to bringing to trial before military commits
sion the rebels who had charge Of our SOL
diers when the barbarous treatment was pro-
duced. Some of the guilty parties are already
in the custody of the government
Up to O'Clock this evening, no onder had
been received BY Gen. .Hartrauf, commander
of the Military Prism for the removal of the
convicted assassins Mudd, OLaughlin, Arnold
and Spangler.
WAsHMaroa, July 14.-The following is
Gen TeTys order suppressing the Richmond
WHEREAS, In the issue of the Richmond
Wing of July IL, 1865. . certain clause of the
merciful amnesty Proclamation of the Presi.
dent of the United States, pardoning certain
traitors Is stigmatized a. heathenish, and o law
of this kind duly enacted by Congress and ap.
proved by the President Is characterised ss
mean, brutal and cowardly, revoltingly absurd
and atrociously unjust It Is ordered that the
Provost Marshal General OF this Department
seize and hold in his possession the Office,
press, type and other property belonging to
the pr0prietors OF said paper, and prevent
henceforward the publication thereof.
(Signed) Maj. Gen. TERRY.
WASHINGTON, July 14.-Among the recent
appointments and re-appointmenfs of Poetmas-
ters are w. w. Wing, Norfolk, Va, E. T.
jackson, Providence; Geo. A. Benedict Cleve.
land; Geo. Rowland, Sacramento; Geo. B.
lincoln, Brooklyn 8. w. Updyke, Rochester.
The Postmaster General has ordered tempo.
n!y contracts for the conveyance Of mails from
Edenton BY Hartford, Elisabeth City. Winton.
Vile, South Mllls, Lake Drummond. Va, Deep
Creek and Portsmouth to Norfolk, three times
week and back. Thus the postal service In
the South is being gradually restored.
The General Land Office had decided upon
measures with view of putting speedily into
operation in the late insurgent States the sale
Of public lands.
At the laying Of the corner stone of the
washington City Orphan Asylum yesterday,
the Secretary Of the Interior, Mr.. Harlan, In
his brief speech said:
when the French, not now so friendly to
our prosperity, sprung to arms in defense of
Turkish nationality, we all applauded, but
when they attempt to crush feeble Mexico, We
despise their want of generous gallantry and
wish 1t might be the will of God In order of
His providence that this great republic Of ours
should be called upon to protect her feeble els
ter republic"
This remark met with general applause from
the large auditory present
WASHINGTON, July IL Commercially spe-
Scial. THE evidence in the Harris murder trial
will be finished to-day.
All the troops around Washington will be
paid next week.