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The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1865-09-15
PRESIDENT JOHNSON.
1mportancSpeech 70 Delegations from
the South..-GaM and Wormvvood
for the Radicals.


New YORK, Sep. 12.-The following are the
main points of the very important speech made
yesterday by President johnson to delegations
from the Southern States:
GENTLEsIEN-We have passed through this
rebellion. ! say we, for it was us who were
responsible for it. The South made the issue,
and know the Southern people well enough
to know that when they have become con.
vinced of an error they frankly acknowledge
it in direct manner, and now In performance
of that duty they come to me. I understand
them az saying we made the issue, we set up
the union of States against the Institution of
slavery, we selected as the arbitrator the
sword. The issue was fairly and honorably
met. The issue has been settled against us,
and we are content to abide by it.
On all sides this spirit of candor and honesty
prevails. 1t is 0id by the South that the issue
the decision having been against Us, we feel
bound in honor to abide by arbitsment In
doing so we are doing ourselves no dishonor.
50 far as am concerned personally, 1 am
uninfuenced by any question, whether it eff
fects North or South, the East or the West.
stand where did of old, battling for the
Constitution and Union of the United States,
when the doctrine of secession was being
forced on the country. I stand to-day as J.
ever stood, firmly in the opinion that if arar-
chy contends against this country 1t Tiust srL.
down, and the country must go ur,. Yes, the
issue was made by the South against the Gov.
ernment and the Government has triumphed,
and the South has returned to her xncient
place. The South comes forth and expresses
its willingness to abide by the result of the de-
cision in good faith. While think the REBEL
ion has been arrested and subdued, and am
happy in the consciousness of duty well per
formed, want not only you. but the whole
country, TO aid in bringing settlement of the
pOuptrv - d. VIZ tsT ~
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Sousap ern Generals In the Union Army.

S0nfm
We sre apt 10 forget that in the late Wal
these were few Northern men who held
p,ominent commands in the armies of the
Contederacy, and that there were many South
srn men who faithfully adhered to the old flag.
A: the celebration of the Fourth of July last,
IN Buenos Ayres, this point was powerfully Il.
lustrated by speech Of Mr.. Helper, the an.
thor OF :. The Impending Crisis, who said:
Virginia has given Us twelve Generals, lap.
p!suse whose names are as follows: Thomas,
Terrell, Cooke Reno. Prentiss, Newton, Da-
wilson, Stevenson, Denver, Ammen, Hays.
Graham.
Maryland, MY Maryland" has given Us ten
Generals, namely: Ord, Cooper, Benton, En-.
Org, French, Henley, Vandeves, Sykes, Judah.
L2nman.
Delaware has given Us three generals,
namely: Lockwood, Torbet, Thomas.
Kentucky-the birth place of President
Lincoln, the martyred and immortal patriot
stands in great measure redeemed in the mum.
Der and efficiency of the soldiers whom she
has sent into the Geld for the defence of the
Union. She has given us twenty-ei gene.
erals, whose names are: Candy, Anderson,
Rosseau, Reynolds. Nelson, Hobson, Harrow,
Oglesby, Blair. Boyle, Crittenden, McCler-
nand, Mcmillan, Clay, Clay Smith, Morris,
Palmer, Pope, Burbridge. Fry, Shackelford,
German, jackson, Wood, Ward and two Bu-
forde.
Tennessee has given us i've generals.
namely: Carter, Harvey, Campbell, Aber-
crombie, Spears.
The District of Columbia has given US I've
Generals, viz: Hunter, Orme. Brannan, Getty,
Pleasanton.
Alabama has given US three Generals, viz
Two Birneys and one Crittenden.
North Carolina has given rs two Generals
Meredith and johnson.
South Carolina has given US TWO Generals
Igreat applause l-Hurlbut and Fremont.
Here we have list of seventy-three South
ern generals OF land forces, many of whom
have already, with their valor and blood, inter-
mingled with the valor and blood of their CON-
patriots from other sections of the country,
added strength and indssolubility to the IN
ion. Cheers.
five turn TO the navy we shall find from the
South four names at least which will be IA
nous in history so long as floating batteries or
men-of-war shall be found upon the water.
You know to whom / allude: Farragut, of
Tennessee great applause Porter, of Louis
lana Tapplausel Goldsborough, of the District
of Columbia applause and Winslow, of
North Carolina-that brave and dauntless old
coon who captured the pirate Albania Deaf
ening applause, and cries Of Hurrah for the
brave old COON.
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Cures for the ChOlera-A Multitude OF
Councillors.

The reports of the mildness OF the present
visitation of cholera, which were so carefully
disseminated some weeks since, have all
proved incorrect, and Europe Is now under a
visitation of tn. epidemic. The usual alarm
is experienced-One class of persons accepting
its coming as dispensation to which we must
submit, and another class devising modes to
mitigate the severity OF the visitation and to
cure the disease.
One writer declares. very nationally that
cleanliness, good food. regular habits. will al
most secure person or place; and where
these are wanting there is no security.
Another assures Us that cholera, in its first
stage, can always DE successfully treated. un-
less the system is weakened by other diseases,
oy dissipation, or by some special cause. 4
Rev. DR. Hamlin suggests this cholera mix
tuye: Equal parts, by weight, OF liquid lauda-
nam. spirits OF camphor and tincture Of rhu-
oarb. which has been used here not only by
him. but by many others, with the greatest
success in meeting the nrst stages OF the dis
ease. If diarrhea is carefully kept Off by the
use of this mixture, the danger of cholera is
very slight"
clear brandy taken internally, mustard plas-
ters and other means OF keeping up. external
neat By friction, ETC., are very often used with
snccess, There is always hope in cholera until
the patient is actually dead, and IN severe
csses recovery often depends upon the persis-
tencv and energy with which the disease is
net and attacked at every stage.
M. Dane, an Eastern traveller ianc Orlen-
,aiist recommends this treatment tor cholera,
which he noticed while residing At Calro, was
very effectual, had been used IN SPAN, Con,
stantinople and India, and was never Followed
nv tyuus or typhoid fever, which proved fatal
in MANY cases when the cholera itself mad been
subdued by other means.
IF the patient have vonited the poisonous
r,o,ter which is characteristic OF the disease,
arS resembles rice.water, give tablespoon.
fnI of powdered mustard IN tumDier o.
LA uvafer as an emetic. After the vom'
;t;nc Ivhether produced by the disease
- tbe ahove means) in few minutes give
n vine glassfun OF brandy, WIN yen
rra;ns of capsicum Cayenne pepper) stirred
cnon il. This geneHslly produces almost I'M
,9eS;ate relief and, within an hour, rest, per-
.n;-at;on and sleep. In few cases itSWas
Spnnd necessary to take half dose OF brandy
. n1I osns;cum after half an hour or more. a
s.cord half dose was never required, ont,
s sSd Il he. It may be given. No other fluid
SS .,id he drank before recovering, to accele-
aaoa valeecence It has been suggested
. .as seen drops Of the spirit OF ammonia and
srinhnric ether, in equal parts. may be adVaa-
taceouslv given three or four times during me
sThe above quantity OF brandy and caps,-
ann, are for any patient, suffering severe AZ
s LIE In other cases two-thirds or hall OF that
ouantity might suffice
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1865-09-15

LACE SUPERIOR, Sept. 5, 1865. 90,
To the Editor Of the Pioneer:
The late discovery of iron in Northeastern
Minnesota is likely to be the precursor OF re-
volution in the iron trade of the Mississippi
Valley, of North America, and eventually of
the whole world.
This deposit of iron pervades what is called
by the Chippewas Ish-ko-na-bi Washu-some
of the geographers, Captain, now Gen. Pope,
Nicollet, and DR.. Owen, name it Missaba
Heights. These heights are the dividing ridge
between Lake Superior and Rainy Lake, with
spurs leading off in various directions, while
the main ridge is recognized as extending from
Pigeon River, or perhaps Isle Royale, to the
drift hills about the headwaters of the Missis-
sippi and Red River of the Red Lake branch
in extent probably over a hundred miles.
Where the exposure is denuded Of drift the
few yards to mile or more in breadth; it is
not ore, properly speaking, but iron stone. and
its specific gravity being little less than pig
iron, it must produce from seventy.fve to
eighty per cent. It can be as economically re-
duced to blooms and bars as pig iron, it being
readily broken to prepare it for the furnace.
The intervening country between this iron
and Lake Superior is generallya plane gradu.
ally sloping to the Lake; over which it can be
moved by railway upon direct routes, free
from up gradients, lakeward, and probably on
distances from twenty to forty miles. Some
of the spurs may be found Of equal richness
within ten miles of the Lake. sr
The metal can be raised and moved to the
Lake at cost Of one dollar and half per ton.
and thence by direct railway-say the Lake
Superior and Mississippi-to the latter river
for three dollars, costing four dollars and a
half Per ton where operatives can be fed
cheaper than at any other district in the
country.
Fuel GOALS on the Mississippi and this iron
may be brought together for fifty cents per ton
for each hundred miles either shall be trans
ported ton of iron stone requiring two or
two and half tons of coal to reduce it to COM
mercial iron.
These facts warrant the conclusion that iron
will be produced in the Upper Mississippiv Valley
at from eight to ten dollars per ton cash, and
not double that for blooms and bars, and of
the very best iron known TO commerce.
Why the Michigan-Marquette product has
not nor will not work the revolution which is
sure TO follow that of Missaba, is that the for.
mer is taken away from the West and put into
the hands of the Eastern tarif.protected iron
mongers. But the Missaba iron win 60 to new
district and be wrought by Q new set of cap.
italists, in such quantities and at minimum
cost which will no more need the Pennsylvania
protection than does the building of Connect
cut stone wall T. c.
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THE WIRZ CASE.

WASHINGTON. Sept. 9-The trial of Captai,
WIZ continues to-day. w. L. Prebie. of
southwestern Georgia, who was clerk to a
reDel officer IN charge al AndersOnvile, ties I'll.
ned that while walking out he saw man In
the stocks. who he thought would drown, as
a heavy ram was falling on bis face. Witness
neld DIS umbrella over him for WHILE and
then went to Capt. Wirz to express his appre.
tensions: Capt: Wirz said Let the damned,
Yankee drown" Ina few minutes thereafter
however, an officer was sent from Capt. Virus
headquarters, who took the man from the
stocks and brought him within the stockade.
W. w. Crandell, Of the 4th Iowa. testified
that he had been bitten badly by dogs in the
prison, and had also ball and chain attached
to him, and kept in that condition for long
time. 49, ~ 57Ii
The crops of the South were not 80 cooa 4,
1854 a in the year before but the farmers had
! Another witness testified that he had bnr;ea
thirty or forty soldiers who had been shot !
During the time Of Gen. Sherman, sT rr.,,,,
from Atlanta to the coast, the prisoners we're
of course very anxious to bear the news A
report came one day that Sherman ara Ms s+sff
and 10, 600 prisoners had been captured Cant
Wirz said he hoped the report was true and
that Il the prisoners were sent there. he could
take care OF more Id Yankees than tour
regiments In the 'front.' -ZEaIG'5T
y - ~<SS~soAOn q UtiII6l Oh rOCtcn D0fk was
sent to the Commissarys Office, 70 be need 10
me Yankees The witness was employed In
tne ounce; next day he received orders to
weigh out the same number Of pounds of beef
and turn it over to Capt. Wirz, who wanted
the best. saying 1t was for his own eating. He
knew the pork was bad. Officers who bad
money. could procure food. aet
Cross examination by Mr.. Baker The dead
were buried by Union prisoners.
VIM. Van Buren,, Of I'd New York cavalry
testified Is to blankets and pants from the az
tary Commission having been approoriate5 10
he rebels Wfrz said TO him he cmId ~
ARE of more damned Yankees than - a. ~
font Wirz had threatened to shoot the VII
less for some trivial complrint, and ordsraTT ".
entinel to fire On . man who steuned ny
,ick up piece Of wood. He bastensd w 49,
9 ranks before the guard could shoot The
witness sa,c - s oiner thing. that prisoners
inks and pick up indigested particle Of fooS
de msnnon ga several s cases Of ahooting men,
-one W. w, ~ ~ twenty men to have been
Adjourned gee5-ss
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SUIC1DE-On the morning of the 31st of
August man named Asher Adams, of Belle
Prairie, left his house about five O'Clock, with
gun, and nothing further was heard of him
until about nine O'Clock, when his body was
found by the side of fence, about two HIM
dred yards from the house. The muzzle of
the gun was resting against his left side. the
charge having passed through his hears.
suicide rendered he had, at preyious times
manifested symptoms of insanity: but the I'M
mediate cause Of the rash act Is supposed tn he
the death of one Of his children which occnrreS
on the night previous. He was an ola real
dent of Morrison county, and q former mia.
sionary among the Chippewa Indian. he
leaves wife and several children.-S. Cloud
Democrat.
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A Town well Hcospiea.

The Winchester (Vs.) Meas Of the 18th
publishes q showing the many times the
Federal and Confederate troops have OF
cupied Winchester since November 9th,
1861, until September 10, 1864, when
Gen. EARLY was driven up the valley by
SERBIAN:
Occupied by Union troops. .,...... AZ times.
Occupied by Confederate troops. %
Total. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. -. 75 times.
One day occupied by both sides in battle,
making rs times.
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Commission TO the Northwestern In.
dians..Arrival Of Comm fssiOners.

From the st. Louis Republican, Sept. a.
commission has been appointed by the
President to negotiate, under the Instructions
OF the Secretary of the Interior, treaty, or
treaties with the several tribes of Sioux and
Cheyenne Indians of the Upper Missouri, and
Gently been engaged in hOstilities with the
United States and who are now anxious to
make peace. The following distinguished
gentlemen are the members of this Commits
sion: r.,s 20 u
Newton Edwards, Governor and ec.oAcio
superintendent of Indian Affairs of Dacotah
Territory. -
Edward B. Taylor, Superintendent of Indian
Major General 8. r. Curtis.
Brigader General 81. II. Sibley.
Rev. Henry W. Reed, of Hepworth, Iowa.
Hon. Orrln Guernsey, of Wisconsin. t.e
General Curtis. who left this city few DAYS
ago for KeOkuk, has been busily engaged In
connection with various officers of the Int
rior Department, in making preparations for
the expedition. About ten thousand dollars
worth of presents for the Indians were Dur
chased in New York by him and Commission.
er Van Wakenberg, which are now at St. Jo-
seph, awaiting the arrival of the steamer
which will carry the party up the Missouri
river. The steamboat Calypso, Captain Bur.
ton, has been chartered for this purpose and
will start up the river to-day. A guard of sol
diers viii accompany the party, who are ex-
inst; thence proceeding up the river, reaching
Sioux City by the 18th, and Fort Rice. the
place designated for the negotiations by the
18th of October, the day on which the Indians
have been notified and are expected to be col.
lected. 4 supply of provisions, deemed album
dant, has been provided to subsist the Indians
during the negotiations.
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Morris Ketchum is reported to have
said to his creditors: eff could have
my SON back, with his good name, and
you were all paid in full, 1 would die con.
tent Such is the last ambition of one
of our great fnanciers. A lifetime of &C.
tivity, an ample fortune its reward; and
now al would be given for sons good
name,
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Representative Nominations In TIT
Sixth District.

CARVER, CARVER Co., MINN.,l
Sept, IL, 1866. J
Editor Of the 81. Paul Pioneer:
VIII you state that the nominees for Repre-
sentatives of the Sixth Senatorial District, in
pursuance of Convention held on the evening
Of the 9TH instant, at the Merchants Hosel' ~.
Paul, are as follows:
Carver Coxnty-Col. c. w. Grggs' Ell +.
Lewis.
Mcleod County-Danl. ". Johns
The Democracy are confident of the election
of this ticket, for it is led By the gallant
Colonel of the Third Minnesota, whose deeds
of ssllsnt-y have passed into history.
Yours truly, .,>,an
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he expressed the following sentiments: That
it is the duty of every citizen in the present
condition OF the country to do all in their
power to aid the restoration of peace and har-
mony. In no way to oppose the policy of
State nor general government directed to that
object, and that it is particularly incumbent on
those charged with the instruction of the
young to set all example of submission to au-
thority.
AMI Moss, the famous bushwhacker and
murderer, who was so long the terror of the
people of Jersey county, Illinois, was hanged
in Jerseyville, on the 1st instant. Moss had
been found guilty of murder by the Jersey
county circuit court some time since.
The BON. Bernhard Hem, for long time
prominent democratic politician, and in ear
~ times member Of Congress from Iowa, died
On the 30th ultimo. at his residence in Fair
field, Jefferson county.
Pierre Choteau died at St. Louis on the
9th at the age of 80 years. He was the princi-
pal owner Of the American Fur Company, and
son of one of the original French settlers He
has been blind for some years. His fortune
amounts to two or three million dollars, in.
Guiding large interest in the Illinois Central
Railroad.
The Rerales Fortress Monroe correspon-
dent states that JET Davis, who hitherto has
been denied permission to communicate with
lis family, ia now allowed to write to his wife.
With this new concession and the privilege Of
Smyrna times., 1865-10-18
DestitutIon in the sou,b

very general impression exists that the
destltutlOn of the South has been greatly ev-
| aggerated, and that there is much less suf& ,inc
ana want than was at first expected. This ;s
probably partially true In all those parts of
Ihe south which are easily accessible bv sea or
Tallroad and In those through which the army
mas SIMPLY. passed, without remaining for any
length OF time, the condition of affairs is better
IMAM mad been anticipated the croDs are good
and the prospect is, that with, perhaps some
assistance IN the way of clothing, seed and i'm
plementS, the people will get along. But in
the interior OF the South, where trade has not
yet penetrated, and especially in the track IF
Sherman army, there are regions where tba
dGSolatlon almost surpasses belief, and where
rcIie1 must be afforded either by government
or by the charities Of the North. or thousands
must dle OF hunger and exposure In an off
clal report OF Hon. +. Root, agent oftho Amor;
can Union Commission, he declares that nn
Trip from Chattanooga to Atlanta he did not
see as much food growing as would be f,nnd
on an ordinary Northern farm. And onotLer
correspondent from Savannah, writes of noEed
human DelngS In adjoining counties curlinr
down at the roots Of their chimney stacks GT1
shelter 'i0' o''oAs lol
The condition of the poor at Savannah (ofI
Wh0m there are over two thousand without
Iood or means OF employment is such that n
naUIiS vi 'hcIr cltlzens was not long since
called, to consider what could be done for them, |
and one of their citizens, Mr.. William King,
wa: appointed to come North, and set the facts
before ~ the people here. About the same time
aIeV. John ii. Caldwell, of the Methodist Con |
IGrence, who was elected from his pulnit hv
he Presiding Elder for an anti slavery and low.
Il sermon, and reinstated again by order oftfe
President, came North to set before them the
moral as well rs the physical, wants ofthe peo-
Die ot Northern Georgia. Both gentlemen are
strongly interested in the welfare of blacks as
veil as whites, and are vouched for by the high
st authorities
Smyrna times., 1865-10-18
White L.abor wan,e. :, -,

ne most intelligent and thoughtful men Of
:lle south are already taking steps to nron1ota
9Hamlgrdtion into the Southern States W.
nave already referred to several letters and
spseches made upon this subject and we nmh-
Nsneo IN yesterdays Times u careful and inter.
estl1g letter from j. d. DeBow, Esq, in re-
garo 70 IT, ale addresses it to Gov. Perry, of
ooutn carolina. he reminds him that lack
~ ene requisite supply of labor has long been
regarded in South Carolina as the nrincinal
reason OF her want OF progress in material de-
VG'opnent, and says it was conviction of this
%hlch led some of her public men to desire,
rom time to time, the reOpening of the slave
traue. 1he same evil is likely now TO be much
% Lnote severely felt, and he advocates resort to
mnlte Immigration as the proper means to
Lneet H. ne says the abolition of slavery will
u as nhal IN South Carolina, and the
Legislature will make laws as ranidlv 90 noSS;-
ble for the social, physical and noliticaI I'D.
Vancement' OF the freedmen. lie tbinrs -
experiment of emanci patton will worL Tn,,nL
better than many beieve,-still there m,,St Ia
a transition period, during which efforts must
be made to increase their supply of labor.
AS the result Of his reflections upon the sub
Ject he says the South must throw her i'm
mense uncultlvated domain into the market at
a low price; reduce the quantity of land held
by individual prOprietOrs, and resort to intelh-
- az IiAS HlO-
ment, to induce an influx of population and
capital from abroad ~ and proceeds to show at
some length, that this is entirely practicable.
lie urges the appointment Of emigrant agents
and commissioners, in the Northern cities and
abroad and generally the adoption of the same
modes OF operation which have enabled the
Northern and Western States to profit SO large
" by the access of emigrants from Europe.
This letter is but one of many significant in
dlcatiOns that complete reColutton has been
effected in the direction and tone of public
thought in the Southern States, The war has
put an end to their political sophisms and
dreams of an interest distinct and separate
from that Of the country at large; and they
are now turning their attention to the rebuild |
ing OF their industry and the promotion of their
material prosperity. And what is most signif- |
cant of all is, that they refer to New England
and the North now, not to denounce and abuse
them, but as afording habits Of thought and
of conduct worthy of their imitation. A very
short period Of perseverance in this direction.
will give US "a more perfect Union than we
have hitherto ever known-.N \. Times, Oc-
tOber l4th