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The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1865-03-24
Curious Mistake in Teiegraphing

From the New York Herald, 18th. I'LL
MARCH 1O.-D. Wharton Smith vs.. the In
dependent Telegraph Company. This was an.
action brought to recover two thousand dollars
damages for a mistake made in the transmits
sion of q telegram BY the defendants. The
plaintiff, it appears, was anxious to speculate
upon the action of Congress in reference to
gold, and sent the following dispatch to Messrs.
Drexel & Co., bis agents in this city: ..f
" If the gold bill is vetoed buy one hundred
thousand dollars" s.g l. II a.gaaL
Upon DreXel & Co. receiving the dispatch it
read: ''The Gold bill is passed buy one hun
dred thousand dollars :" and the plaintiff 3
agents, acting on the instructions implied on
the telegram, purchased the gold at 1921, and
informed the plaintiff of the fact Smith was
somewhat surprised at the news, and sent
word back that there was q mistake some.
where, and not to purchase any more. He also
requested Messrs. Drexel & Co. to call at
the Office Of the Telegraph Company and
see where the mistake occurred, Upon investi.
cation it was found that the word +" if" had
been omitted by the copyist, which completely
altered the sense of the dispatch, and induced
the agents to do the very opposite of what
they would have done had the message been
correctly delivered. The next day gold fell to
100 GIG, at which figure Drexel g. Co. were
obliged to sell the plaintiff 8 lot, and the re-
suit of the transaction was loss to Mr.. Smith
of $4,000. -,.
Judge Clerke reserved his decision.
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1865-03-24
THE PASSPORT ORDER.
It's Revocation ~ to CANADA.
DEPARTMENT OF STATE,
WASHINGTON. March & 1863

A. ~ +...ff DBfAhIAkNT OF STATB. \
Iss WASHINGTON, March 8, 1866. Z
WAereas, Pursuant TO the order of the Presi-
dent Of the United States, directions were
issued from this department. under date Of
the 18th of December; 1854, requiring pass
ports from all travellers entering the United
States, except immigrant passengers directly
entering an American port from foreign
country and ~
Whereas, Information has recently been re-
ceived, which affords reasonable grounds to ex.
pect that her Britannia majestys government,
and the executive and Legislative branches of
the government of Canada have taken and viii
continue to take such steps as may be looked
for from friendly neighbor, and will be effec-
tual toward preventing hostile invasions from
Canadian territory into the United States.
Ihe President directs, That from and after
TINS GATE the order above referred to, requiring
passports, shall be modified, and so much
thereof as relates to persons entering this
country from Canada shall be rescinded. saw
ing and reserving the order in all other re.
spects in full force.
WILLIAM H. SEWARD.
Secretary of State.
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1865-03-24

THE Tribune gives no endorsement to
the Presidents inaugural. It publishes
the inaugural address of 1861 in contrast
with the one delivered in 1866, and then
says:
We think fresh, unequivocal exhibition of
the spirit which impelled the former Inaugural
would have been polite as well as humane |;
that it would have quickened and deepened the
disintegration of the rebel forces and thus
fastened the re-establishment of the national
authority over every rood of the nations area.
Now is the fittest time for putting forth mani
festations of generosity, clemency. magnanim-
ity, which, however they may be spurned by
the rebel chiefs, are certain to exert a great
and salutary influence among their duped, dis
gusted, despairing followers.
1t is altogether useless to look for man
ifestations of generosity, clemency OF
magnanimity from Mr.. LINCOLN. The
war is not carried on with desire fol
the return of peace, but in the spirit o.
vengeance.
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1865-03-24

to the sOth inst. No news Of interest had
transpired west of the Savannah river. ~ a.
"The Georgia Senate had passed resolu-
ton declaring it does not concur In the recon-
mendation.o of Governor Brown for o convention,
by vote of 20 yeas against noes. ..,,-.
'"Several extensive fires had occurred in Au-
ta-supposed to be the work of an'incen-
diary. ..,.....' ssE -.,s.
"Four hundred Yankee prisoners viii leave
Richmond this morning, on their return home,
by flag of truce boat. Among them are
thirty-three officers, including Generals Kelly
and Crook, recently captured.
(SignedD u, 8. GRANT,
Lieutenant General
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1865-03-24
FROM WASHINGTON.

- .- nj WASHINGTON, March Is.
The President to-day appointed Brevet Brig.
Gen. B. w. Price, of Ohio, Paymaster General
of the United States Army, to date from No
vember 20, 1864. Since the retirement of Pay
master General Andrew, Gen. Price has had
charge of the Paymaster's Department. :.
Mr.. Harlan, the new Secretary of the Inte-
rior, recommends to the President the selec-
ton of some person from the Society OF Friends
as Commissioner of Indian Affairs. .
A large party of officers, Senators and Rep
resentatives, accompanied BY their ladies, went
down the Potomac to-day to visit the fortifca.
tons below Mount Vernon. e..
On Saturday, laborer in the Treasury De-.
partment. named j. A. Rives, whilst cleaning
out one OF the rooms in the building, picked
seventy thousand dollars With honesty as
tary McColloch, by whom he was handsomely
rewarded. .,s ..,.
..,..... CONTRIBUTIONS
The Senate has confirmed among others, the
following nominations; .t ...-.
Lieut.. Geo. w. Doty, to be commander in
the navy on the retired list; Lieutenant Com
manders II. N. T. Arnold, Thomas Patter-
son, William N. LETTERS, Edward Simpson,
and William G. Temple, to be command.
ers in the navy on the active list Ashael
G. Geer, TO be collector of internal
revenue for the fifteenth district New
York; Caleb Cooke, of Massachusetts,, to
be Consul at Mozambique: Edward D. Neil.
of Minnesota, to be secretary to the President
to sign patents; G. Victor de Land, of Michi.
gan, to be Consul at Cadiz, and Z. T. Sand
ford of Maine, to be Consul at Atchee, fol
China
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1865-03-24
Torpedo Explosion In Fort moultri

Torpedo Explosion In Fort Moultrie.
In letter written from the Mills House,
Charleston, on the 25th ult., a portion of
which is published in the Lowell Courier,
Judge Advocate General Oowley says:
went yesterday to Sullivan's Island to ex-
anime the defences more in detail than had
been previously able to do. While I was in
Fort Moultrie, q torpedo-wbich some rebel,
with spirit which the devil himself might en-
Wy, had concealed under the hearth of bis hut
before the evacuation-suddenly exploded
about three rods from where stood, and in
one second the hut and its occupants assembled
many feet in the air. The poor tenant was
terribly mangled, the iron pot in which his
wife was cooking dinner having been driven
into his abdomen. at once sent a boat to the
South Carolina-the nearest naval vessel-for
the surgeon, bat it was of no use. In less
than thirty minutes the unhappy man died.
Other explosions of similar kind have oc-
CURED.
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1865-03-24

The Paris Union publishes leng letter
from the Pope, dated at the Vatican, Octo-
Der 49, 1854, and addressed to the En-
peror Maximilisn Of Mexico, pointing out
the course of conduct the new monarch
ought to follow with respect to the church.
The Union observes that it makes the
Pope's letter known for the purpose of
showing how Numerically opposed it is to
the principles set forth by the Mexican
Emperor id bis letter to M. Escudero, on
the church question After abiding to the
anarchy which had prevailed in Mexico for
some years, the Pope says: '!''-' a.
,sAso~ I'd We looked from day to day
for the first acts of the new empire, per-
suaded that the church, which had been
outraged with 80 much impiety BY the
revolution, would receive prompt and just
PREPARATION, whether in revoking the laws
which had reduced it to such "a state of
oppression and servitude, or in promulgs-
ting, others adapted to- the suppression of
the disastrous effects of an impious admin
istration. Hitherto thwarted In our hopes
caused, perhaps, by the difficulties which
attend the reorganization of a society long
overturned-we cannot help addressing
your Majesty, and appealing to the up
rightness Of your intentions. ,-:,,.,,, :,
Your Majesty is well aware that, in or
der effeotually to repair the evils ooca-
stoned by the revolution, and to bring
back as soon as possible happy days for
the church, the Catholic religion must
above all things to be the glory and the
mainstay, of the Mexican nation, to the
exclusion of every. other dissenting wor-
ship; that the bishops must be perfectly
free in the exercise of their pastoral minis
try; that the religious orders should be
re-established or recognized, conformably
with the instructions and the powers which
we have given that the patrimony of the
church and the religious rights which at
tach to it may be maintained and pro-
tected; that no person may obtain the
faculty of teaching and publishing false
and subversive tenets; that instruction,
whether public or private, should be di-
rected and watched over by the eclesias-
teal authority; and that, in short, the
chains may be broken which, up to the
present time, have held down the church
, in state of dependence and subject to the
arbitrary rule of the civil government.
If the religious edi6ce should be re-estab-
lished on, such basis-and we will not
doubt that such will be the case-your
Majesty will satisfy one of the greatest
requirements and one of the most lively
aspirations of people so religious as that
of Mexico; your Majesty will calm our
anxieties and those of the illustrious epis-
copacy of that country; you will open the
way to the education of learned and
Jealous clergy, as well as the moral re-
form Of your subjects and besides you
will give striking example to the other
governments in the republics of America
in which similar very lamentable vicissi-
tudes have tried the church and lastly,
you will no doubt labor effectually to con-
solidate your own throne, to the glory and
prosperity of the imperial family.
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1865-03-24

"A correspondent Of the Times writes
from Grants army: "The Signal Tele-
graph Corps, an organization hitherto com
prised OF enlisted men detailed from va
rious reglments and attached to general
headquarters OF the army, has recently
been dlsbanded or remodelled-the en-
listed men having been returned to their
Respective regiments and their places sup
pied 6y civilians. This corps has per-
Gus duty"
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1865-03-24
FROM NEW YORK.
Bounty Jumpers and Brokers-COr.
respondence between sherman and
Wade Hampton-Shermap ans Letter.

Bounty Jumpers and Br0kefs-COrs
respondence between Sherman and
Wade Hampton-Sherman' Letter.
age New YoRk, March ~.
Seven hundred bounty jumpers and sew
enteen substitute brokers were arrested
yesterday at Hoboken, after having enlist
ed at q bogus recruiting station. They
were all put in irons and sent to Govern
oris Island. ".", 't4' =
To-day the Herald prints . letter from
Sherman to Wade Hampton, stating that,
in consequence of foraging parties having
been murdered by the rebels after being
captured and labels attached to their bodies
of :" Death to all foragers," he has ordered
similar number ofprisoners in our hands
to be disposed of in like manner; that he
holds 1000 rebel prisoners and can stand
it as long as Hampton. The rebel Gener-
al responded that be knew nothing ofsuoh
murders and that, for every soldier exc.
cuted by Sherman, he will execute two
federals, picking out officers as the first
victims. He makes long story about the
barbarities alleged to be practiced by
Sherman's army, and concludes by stating
he shall hold fifty-six prisoners as hostages
for those ordered to be executed by Sher-
man.
NEW YORK, March l2.-The following
is General Sherman's letter to Wade
Hampton:
HEADQUARTERS &C., IN THE FIELD,l
I Feb. "a, 1866.
Lsem.-Gen Wade Hampton, commanding Cavalry
Forces c. s. A.:
GENERAL: 1t is officially reported to me
that our foraging parties are murdered after
capture and labelled Death to all foragers,"-
one instance of lieutenant and seven men
near Chesterville, and another of twenty near
a ravine, eighty rods from the main road,
about three miles from baskerville. l have
number of prisoners in our hands to be dis
posed of in like manner. I hold about ], 600
prisoners captured in various ways, and can
stand it as long as you, but hardly think
these murders are committed with your knowl-
edge, and would suggest that You give notice
to the people at large that every life taken BY
them simply results in the death OF one OF
your Confederates.
Of course, you cannot question my right to
forage in the country. 1t Is q war right as old
as history. The manner of exercising 1t varies
with circumstances, and If the civil authori-
ties will supply my acquisitions will forbid all
foraging, but find no civil authorities who
can respond to calls for forage or provisions,
and therefore must collect directly from the
people I have no doubt this is the occasion
OF much misbehavior on the part Of our men,
but cannot permit, an enemy to judge or
punish with wholesale murder. Personally,
regret the bitter feelings engendered by this
war, but they were to be expected, and SIM
ply allege that those who struck the 6rst blow
and made war inevitable ought not In fairness
to reprOach us for the natural consequences.
merely assert our war right to forage, and my
resolve to protect my foragers to the extent of
life for life
1 am, with respect, your obi serv't,
(Signed) w. 7. SHERMAN,
Major General U. 8. Army.
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1865-03-24
Presentation Of Gold Medal to Grant

The Heralds army of the Potomac spe-
cial gives an account of the presentation
of the gold medal voted by Con-
gress to General Grant. The presenta-
ton speech was made by E. B. Wash
burne, of Illinois. Gen. Grant said in re-
spouse: accept the medal and joint re-
solution of Congress, which the President
has commissioned you to deliver to me.
/ will do myself the honor, at an early
day, to acknowledge the RECEIPT of the let
ter of the President accompanying them,
and to communicate in orders to the Off
GERS and soldiers who have served under
my command, prior to its passage, the re-
solution of thanks SO generously rendered
them by the Congress of the United States.
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1865-03-24

"A dispatch from Washington to the New
York Evening Post, states that 1t Is doubtful
whether Mr.. Harlan accepts the position of
Secretary of the Interior, to which he has been
appointed by the President and confirmed BY
the Senate.
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1865-03-24

President Lincoln has been suffering with
severe attack of infuenzs for several days.
He is confined to his bed, and not receiving
visitora
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1865-03-24
Tax on Omcer,s Salaries.

ury has made the following decision:
TREASURY DEPARTAENr, 4
% CONTROLLERS OFFICE, March ], r65.
The salary of an officer which is prescribed
by law is the basis of taxation, exempting $50
per month. Pay and commutation of allow
ance constitute salary. Crediting these, the
tax on any excess beyond the fifty dollars ex.
empted should be deducted. If there are pen
alties or stoppages they should be deducted
from the sum thus ascertained.
- j. N. BRODHEAD, I'd Comptroller.
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1865-03-24

John. D. Fox, father of the spirit.
rapping Fox girls, lately died in Wayne
county, New York.
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1865-05-03

PUNISHMENT OS THE lNSTANE-By
one OF oar Illinois exchanges we learn
that a few days since Il soldiers wife,
living in the south part of Macon county,
came TO Decatur TO receive at the
express office a package of S400 sent her
by her husband in the army. Being I'M
able to furnish proof of her identity, she
was Obliged to return without the money;
and was subsequently accompanied by
her brother-in-lIw, who furnished the re-
quired proof. On returning home She
placed the money under her pillow
Some time during the plight man, whom
she supposed TO be negro, broke open
the door and demanded the money. -
There being fire i'll the fireplace sufii-
Client TO light the room, the woman threw
the money on the floor, and as the rui-
fan stopped to pick it up, dealt him a
blow with poker that broke his neck.
The neighborS were aroused and on wash
ing the dead mans face the robber prov
ed TO be her brother-in-law.
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1865-05-03

FENcE--Were / the proprietor of five,
fifteen, fifty, or five hundred acres of
wooden, Western territory, where burn
ing up in the field good saw logs and
capiatl fencing timber is the rule, would
never build single length Of the hcathon-
ish abominaIioiI, known as ''worn." "Vir-
gnia," or ral ieEce. Let us play at
"practlcles " a few moments.
We lay up a Virginia worm fence in
new countries, on the score of economy.
Let us look into that cconomy-rails, say
thirteen feet long, laid at an angle of 35
deg. One foot OFF at either end for lap.
Draw Il line from corner 10 corner, mea-
sure down into the angle, and we have II
depth of five and n half feet nearly. II
the " stake and rider rule is observed,
which is almost always necessary, two and
"a half feet more is surrendered TO the
stakes, making a breadth Of II good eight
feet, cleared, TO be given up in the first
fencing to worse than absolute waste-tc
become the vantage ground 10 briars,
brambles, and noxious weeds, which dis
figure our boundaries, and scatter annually
their millions OF pesiilenI;l seeds, serious
ly interfering with our husbandIy and the
growth of legitimate crops, necessitating
at some time a second clearing of the
ground at an expense equal to the first.
BESIDES these disadvantages, we have
absolutely thrown away, in forty acre
farm, divided into ten acre fields, very
nearly seven acres OF arabic land, cleared
at an average expense of ST. per acre,
and which in cultivation would net us
yearly sixty mcre-$77 per acre-in the
aggregate, S539, "A sum sufficient to fence
our forty acres, once in every eleven
months, with neat, efficient, post and
rail fence, TO which wo can cultivate
within eighteen inches besides saving
ourselves eighty per cent. of labor in ex-
terminating weeds, sown annually from
our propagatiDg fence corners.
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1865-05-03
One Word at tic Right Moment.

"You are looking for some one" | said
"lndecd | am, then, it's for Ellen
Ellen Moore, my own child--and better
no mother need have, only she's took tt
gay company, poor girl. You see hcl
father, it's no patience at all he had will
her, along Of his fear of her going bad,
and he said the hard word, God forgive
him. She didn't come home for three
days. I'm just roamin' the streets from
mornin' till night, AMI that faint am
that I'd lay down and die, think, did
find her..
My heart achcd for that woman ]
took her home with me- She was coarse :
l am afraid not over clean, but in her
pitiful face, out Other swollen eyes looked
that haggard moth love, crossed by a
thousand frightful fears.
"Ah she was II jewel indeed" she
cried, after she had satisfied her hunger.
"Hcr wages were two dollars and she
kept hut the fifty cents. Neat and pretty,
too; O. Ellen, Ellen, come back to Inc,
my heart is broken
was standing by the open window
Had God chosen me to be an instrument
OF salvation that day Two girls came
slowly by, one sh.', pale, AMI | tancicd
fearful the other one tricked out gaudily.
Just then harsh voice smote my ear
'Ellen Moore, you're fool
turned to the mother, who still crouch
cd and moaned, bidding her stay till
came back Down the street | fed.
breathlcss, trcmbli 9, til, l came up with
the illmaiched couple
"Ellen Moore" sand.
The girl turned round. White as
death was the childish face, and her ewes
had glare in them.
Il have something 10 tell you. Your
mother is breaking her heart over your
loss"
Her lips quivered, she burst into tears,
while the face Of the other grew black.
LET them alone" she said algrily
"l'll give you better than they can. I'd
not 90 to be bulIiod.'
ELLEN Moore" | said, calmly, "you
can come with me and be saved, or 20
with her and be lost. think you are
yirtuous girl"
She caught my hand in both of hers
Her grasp was like iron; her hands were
cold and clammyi she shook from head
to foot, and her pitiful, imploring gaze
shall never forget, as she said, in lloarse,
strained voice:
"l'll 90 TO my mother"
"Al' God be praised that lie gave
that brand from the burning into my
keeping. Ellen Moore told me, long
years after, Of her fearful temptations;
hcT resistance. She told me in her own
home, where her widowed mother sat
like lady, with hands folded, if she
woald. She told me, pressing the soft
pink check of her little girl against hers,
while ON her knee slept beautiful babe.
adjust come to that point" she said,
and the tears were streaming, "when the
one uU,1, either way, would have saved
or ruined lie. ., how | have blessed
Won on my knees in prayer to God, that
YOU came to me lust then ="
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1865-05-03

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