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The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1865-06-02
Frost I'm Indiana.

The Terre Haute Express of Tuesday
says gentleman, we'll posted in such mat
tiers, informs Us that the severe frost of
Thursday night last, has reduced the crop
of strawberries at least one-hale. Berries
as large as filbert were turned black.
Cherries were also injured; the crop will
not be large one. The grape crop is but
little injured especially the Catawba.
The prospect for fine crop of grapes is
very promising. Currants, gooseberries
and Lswton blackberries, with the rasp-
berry, passed untouched. The severe
frosts Of last week have played cad havoc
with some of the smaller fruits. Mr.. VIM.
H. Loomis, fruit man, informs us that
nearly all his grapes have been slaughtered,
the clusters which hang nearest the ground
suffering most. Strawberries have been
roughly handled. Peaches, apples and
other fruits have been but little injured.
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Trials by Court Martial.

The Springfield Republican, alluding to
the charge Of Judge BOND, OF Baltimore,
which We printed few days ago, that
persons sitting in military commissions for
the trial of citizens of Maryland not con-
nected with the army or navy are liable to
indictment, says:
It 10 to be hoped that the grand Jury will find
such indictments. and that the question may be
carried to the United States Supreme Court for
final decision. If the court martial may be
substituted for the legally established tribunals
at the discretion of o cabinet officer, it should
be amended at once In q matter 30 vital to the
liberty and rights of the citizen. The bench
and bar are undoubtedly unanimous on the
subject.
jhe Euening Post of the latest date
received is loud in its condemnation and
warnings. In speaking of the trial OF the
confederates of CArAL1SE by tribunal I'M
known to the Roman Law, the Post says:
TWAS the reaction upon that very crime
which precipitated the public affairs OF the Re-
man republic into rapid and terrible decline,
and finally led to its convulsive and awful over
throw BY the blood stained hands of despot.
violates law and constitution, it is not by oaths
of allegiance or oaths of any kind that consti-
tuition and laws can be kept eacred.
Bot what do the radicals care for his
torical precedents, Roman or English law,
or anything else, but to carry out their
own destructive plans?
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The Discharge of Minnesota Troops
Gov. MILLER has been making efforts for
the early discharge of all our Minnesota
troops. While in Washington he filed, in
person, with tie Adjutant General of the
United States Army, the following paper,
setting forth the circumstances OF the State
and the peculiar situation of the five regi-
ments raised in 1862:
WASHINGTON, D. c.. May IL, 1865
Ad;uttmt General U. s. H.:
SIR: AS numerous volunteer ORGANIZATIONS
are about to lie discharged, respectfully AK
that as many of the Minnesota volunteers as
can be spared be promptly sent to Fort Smell
ing and disbapded
The great sacrcity of labor, the approaching
harvest, the exposure of our lengthy frontier
TO savage marauders, and The peculiar demand
for ,mtn in . new and growing State, are nv
reasons ior this application.
II Is represented in the New York Tribune of
yesterday that an order was read on the 9th
lest TO the troops stationed at Fairfax announc-
ing that the names II all one YEAR men are 10
be repurted wi hin ten days TO be returned To
iLeir Safe Capitals and mustered out of ser.
vice II This order be gel erul il will relieve
many men from all our organ z ,siops. includ-
ing neSiv Nil ~. Ut rryt Mum. inf AIN of
The 11A MINI. Inf. now at Gallatin, Tenn,
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The Condition Of the South... ZAP.
peal Of an Ex.Rebel.

A clergyman of the Episcopal Church in the
South writes to the Church Journal In an up.
peal for ''magnanimity" as fellows:
No logic, though II reason with the irresisti-
bic force of muiiitudinous executions and con.
fscatiOns, can convince the Southern people
that they have been guilty Of any crime. In
poverty and ruin, aid universal mourning.
they know that they have failed. You bavo
successfully displayed and exer.ed your mate
rial mastery; il is yet 10 be seen whether You
are % generous In victory a. you IRE irresisti.
BILE In arms. We accept our destiny. Whether
right or wrong, We are p0werless to resist
Our agriculture 10 utterly broken up;
our estates are ruined many hum
dreds of our Oldest and proudest mansions are
In ashes; our people are homeless in the land
OF their birth; bundreds Of our rural churches
have been burned the same has been the late
OF great number Of school houses and court
house. There Is no description that can fully
convey to you an idea OF the destruction 10 our
mills, fOundries, railroads and canals. Our
forests have been levelled and consumed; our
fields are without laborere; CIR towns and
cities are without trade; our people are without
employ ment or the m ans OF support; our
Children are growing up without educaii0n;
cur wives and maidens arc sick With watch.
ings by the bedside Of the dying and with
mourning BY the graves Of the dead and
Thousands Of our young men are either b rx.
Lie or prison.
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Political "Reminiscences.

The New York Tribune has sly way of pok-
ing disagreeable "reminiscences at those for
whom it has no fancy. Under cover of a review
of Mr.. BucHANAN's Administration, it gets in
left-hander as follows:
Mr.. Buchanan says that Black, above refer.
red to, died fighting secession at Gaines Mill,
in June, 1862. True but how does that prove
that ne ola not make the speech reported in
trau six years. Mr.. Stanton, for example was
Mr.: Buchanan's Attorney General, from Dec.
10th, 1860, to the close of bis Administration,
and is not recorded to have then dissented from
the policy that was letting the country drift to
destruction. In fact he has been charged in the
Senate by Mr.. Salisbury with having sympa-
s S rather with the oppressed and indignant
However that may BE- his attitude and bearing
in the Cabinet of Mr.. Lincoln and his success.
sor have been quite other than could have
been anticipated from an official counsellor of
Mr.. Buchanan in bis last evil days of unfulflled
responsibility. No one among US stands pre-
more than Col Black at Gaines Mill stood
square on the platform he built for himself and
his candidate at Cincinnati in 1856.
And here is another of the same sort on
ANDY JOHNSON. In giving reasons to THUR.
Low WEED; why President LINCOLN did not
invite ANDY JOHNSON to the Cabinet. in March,
1862, as Mr.. w. thinks he should have done.
Mr.. GREELEY Gays:
Mr.. johnson had supported the Nebraska
bill and the Lecompton Constitution. He had
supported JEFF Davis's ultra pro.savery re.
solves of the session of 1880, which had for
their manifest purpose the reading of Senator
Douglas out of the Democratic party because
of his adherence to Popular Sovereignty
with regard to slavery in the territories. He
had supported John G. Breckenridge for Presi-
dent In the presidential canvass just termi-
mated.
Had the Tribune charged this of any Demo-
crat, hundreds of Republicans would have
rubbed their spectacles in horror, and ex-
claimed what damnable record"
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Saint Paul, Friday, June 2 1865.
The Amnesty; Proclaim alicD.

The Amnesty Proclamation of Presi-
dent JOHNSON is very far from being as
liberal as that issued by President LINCOLN
March 8, 1868 The former excludes four
teen classes, which emil race vast numbers
of people, while the latter excluded only
six classes, as follows:
/. All those who are or shall have been mill
tary or civil officers or agents of the so-ca!led
confederate government.
2 All who have left judicial stations under
the United States to aid the rebellion.
3. All who are or shall have been military or
naval officers with the rank OF colonel in the
army or like rank in the navy.
A. All who left seats In the United States
Congress to aid the rebellion.
8. All who resigned their commissions In
the army or navy of the United States, and
afterwards aided the rebellion.
6. All who have engaged in any way
treating colored persons or white persons in
charge of such. otherwise than lawfully as
prisoners of war. and which persons may be
found in the United States as soldiers, SER
geants, or in any other capacity.
The proclamation of March 20, 1854, is
merely explanatory of its predecessor, and
excluding the class then in military, naval
or civil confinement, or custody, or under
bonds, or under parole of the military and
naval authorities.
We should have been better pleased with
tbs proclamation of Mr.. JOHNSON if it had
been less sweeping. 1t would be difficult
to assign good reason why a partici
pator in the rebellion worth $4,000 Ii
excluded from it's benefits, while one thai
is worth $40, 900 is relieved from all the
pains and penalties attached to the crime
of treason, or why. prisoners Of war now
in custody are excluded.
1t is not likely that many persons Of the
excluded classes will suffer condign pun
ishment. The sentiment of the world
would revolt at its infection. But all viii
be made to feel that it hangs over them i,
serrorum, and that the only sure way O.
escape is by special application to Presi
dent JOHNSON for pardon. which, to many
will be as humiliating as death on the gal
lows. 1t will give ANDY JOHNSON more
pleasure to break the spirits Of the chival
ry than their necks.
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The Presidential estimonial.

President JoHNsoN's declnation of q
coach and span Of horses, rendered by GER
tain citizens of New York, is highly COM
mended by all the leading journals. The
World says" it is in accordance with two
very marked traits, which have always
been observed in Mr.. JOHNSON by those
most in bis intimacy. Among all the men
who have been in public lite for the last
twenty years, nore has shown more vigor
of will in opposition to all the devices by
which venality is made to appear venial
aud no man has kept more steadily to the
republican simplicity which, in a public
officer, is the best safeguard of probity"
We give the Presidents declination in full
WASHINGTON CRY. May %, 1865.
Aessrs. A. A. Lou Phelps, Dodge 8. Co. Hoyt
Brothers; J. s. Schultz and others:
GENTLEMEN: am 10 receipt of your very
complimentary note, dated New York, May
IL. 1865, wherein you request my acceptance
Of q coach, span OF horses, harness. &C., as
token Of your high appreciation of my public
course.
While fully appreciate the purity of your
motives in thus rendering to me such substan.
tial evidence of your regard and esteem, 1 am
compelled. solely from the convictions of du-
ty have ever held in reference to the accept.
ance of presents by those occupying high Off.
cial positions, to decline the offerings Of kind
and loyal friends.
The retention of the parchment conveying
your sentiments. and the autographs of those
who were pleased to unite in this manifesto
ton of regard, Is o favor would ask and as.
sure Won, gentlemen, shall regard 1t as one of
the highest marks of respect from any portion
of my fellow citizens.
Trusting that shall continue to merit your
confidence and esteem in the discharge of the
high and important duties upon which have
but just entered, ard with the best wishes for
your health, &c, Individually,
I am, gentlemen, yours truly.
ANDREW JOHNSON,
The donors in submitting the cores
pondence to the public, express their graf
ification that the President is governed by
such lofty views of duty.
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Surrender or Kirby smith.

The official dispatch Of Secretary SrAH-
TON announces the surrender of KIRsY
SMITH and all the rebel forces west Of the
Mississippi, including the rebel navy.
There was some reason to fear that igno-
rant OF the disasters which have crushed
ont every spark of armed resistance in the
east, the Texans would prolong the con-
test, vainly imagining that their great ter.
ritory, and its lack of cultivation, would
offer insurmountable obstacles to the forces
of the United States. But these fears are
happily removed. There is now no armed
opposition to the government from Maine
10 the Rio Grande; and we feel, with
Gen. SHERMAN, that if peace and security
and the return to law and justice does not
speedily follow, it will be for State reasons
beyond QUE comprehension.
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1865-06-02
The Troops to be Discharged.

It will be seen by the following tele-
gram that all Minnesota troops now in
service, except the veterans, are to be
discharged:
WASHINGTON, May 80, 1865.
Hon. Stephen hitler, Governor of Minnesota:
Referring to my telegram CT May 18th,
have the honor to inform you that the order
for muster-out of volunteer white troops, ex-
cept Veteran Reserve Corps, whose terms of
service expire prior to October LIST next, has
been extended to include all armies and De-
artments. THOS. NJ. VINCENT.
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The Freedman,s Bureau.

Gen. o. o. HOWARD, late of SHERMANs ar.
my, has been assigned to the bureau of refu
gees, freedmen, and abandoned lands, with the
following assistants, who will report to him
-Brev. Maj. Gen. George R. saxton, South
Carolina and Georgia Brig. Gen. j. w.
Sprague Missouri and Arkansas; Brig. Gen.
C.'B. Fisk, Kentucky and Tennessee; Major
Whittlesy and Maj. 7. Osborn, Alabama Capt.
o. Brown, Assistant Quartermaster for the
State of Virginia; Capt. Horace James, North
Carolina; Capt Thomas Conway, superintend-
ent offreedmen, department of the Gulf. Gen.
Towards first bulletin is as follows:
FRKEDMAN's BUREAU, !
WASHINGTON, D. c., May 16, 1866. {
CIRCULAR LETTER.-In accordance with
General Orders of the War Department, No.
81, enter Immediately upon the duties of
Commissioner of Refugees, Freedmen, and
Abandoned Lands. The bureau contemplated
In the order, will be located at the corner of
l and Nineteenth streets. All commissioners,
however appointed, who have charge of freed
men, are requested to make o report rs soon
as possible OF the character and extent of their
work. The commissioners or superinten.
dents in Virginia, South Carolina, and Louis
lana are requested to report direct to me
under supervision for their use. The de-
partment commanders in the insurrectionary
States will do me the favor of transmitting q
copy of the different orders issued by them
selves or by their district commanders relating
to the government and employment of freed.
men. While 1t shall be my Objebt to secure
as much uniformity as possible in the matter
of employment and instruction Of freedmen /
earnestly solicit cooperation from all officers
and agents whose position or duty renders i,
possible for them to aid me. The negro
should understand that he is really fee, but
on no account, if able to work, should he har.
Dor the thought that the government will
support him in idleness.
o. o. HOWARD, Major Gen.,
Commissioner of Freedmen's Bureau.
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The st. Louis Republican, speaking of
historical discrepancies, says it is fact
that the country accepted for long time
the story, which never had any foundation,
that when President LINCOLN passed
through Baltimore in 1861, he went dis
guised in Ga Scotch cap and long military
cloak" Gen. PRICE was greatly ridiculed
all over the country for a certain perform
ance at Boonville, when, in point of fact,
he was in another county on the day of the
battle at that place. 1t is said to be a
maxim in State affairs that ga lie which
the public can be induced to believe for
the space Of three days will answer as vel.
as the truth" We have no doubt it would
be exceedingly difficult at this day to get a
general acquiescence in the fact that Mr..
LINCOLN Gid not go through Baltimore as
q canny Scotchman, or that Gen. PRloE
was not in possession of "reliable set of
bowels |" at the battle of Boonville.
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All Volunteer ARTILLERY to be Dis.
charged.

Col. AvERILL yesterday received thief
lowing dispatch:
WAR DEPARTMENT.,
WASHINGTON, D. c., May 80 1861
Cox. John r. AveriU, Chief Mastering Officer,
Slate of Minnesota:
An order has been issued directing that oil
Volunteer Artillery in the Armies of the Poto-
mac. Tennessee and Georgia be discharged the
service.
To this end General Order 81, current series
from this Office, has been amended to allow the
said troops to be sent to their resi- ec,ive States
there to be mustered out under the directions
of the Chief Mastering officer.
Please arrange accordingly, and acknowledge
receipt of this by telegram.
By order Of the Secretary IF War.
THOS. NJ. VINCENT, A. A. G.
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Minnesota State Sabbath School As.
ISOLATION.

The Seventh Annual Session of this Aasocia-
ton will be held in the Congregational Church
at Lake City, commencing on Tuesday, the 18th
day Of July, 1865, ct eleven o'clock in the fore
noon.
This time has been fixed upon by the Gen.
trail Committee, after consulting with brethren
active in the cause, with the hope of thereby
securing full representation from all portions
of the State.
The growing importance of Sabbath School
Instruction demands O cooperative work by all
evangelical denominations of Christians and
1t Is exceedingly desirable that at our coming
session there be full rel orts from our whole
Held, and free discussion upon practical points.
1t would be well for those designing 10 at
tend: to prepare, from their own experience,
brief synopsis Of difficulties met and of success.
full plans adopted to overcome them.
collection to defray expenses Is requested
from Sabbath Schools of the State to be for.
warded by delegates - the Convention.
Arrangements have been made with regard
10 fare. as follows:
By Steamboat, (either La Crosse or Duplelth
linel full fare to the Convention will entitle
delegates To q free return on presentation of \
certificate Of attendance signed by the President
OF the Association. 1t will not be necessary to
20 and return by the same line.
Same arrangement by the Minnesota River
boats.
BY Burbank & Co.'S Stage Line, two-thirds
fare-tickets for going and returning to be pur-
chased in advance.
Friends OF Sabbath Schools in Minnesota:
Remember your State Association, aud let our
next session be an era ic our work.
ID. w. INGERSOLL,
ID. ID. MERRILL,
K. EGGLESTON,
H. NJ. KNOX.
g. w. PRESCOTT,
State Central Committee.
ST. PAU, Nay Is, 1865.
Papers throughout the State will please
give the above place, and pastors of churches
will please call particular attention to it.
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Senator Summers Letter.

The following Is the letter of Senator Sum-
SER of Massachusetts,, in reply to one from GER
tain colored men of North Carolina asking "a
few plain di ec,ions" as to the proper stand
for them to take in the matter of re-establish-
ing the State government:
WASHINGTON, May 10, 1865.
GENrLEMEN-I am glad that the citizens of
North Carolina are ready to take part in the
organization of government. II is unquestion'
ably their right and duty.
see little chance of peace and tranquility in
any rebel State uBless the rights of all are re-
coguized without distinction Of color. On this
foundation We must build.
The article on reconstruction to which you
call my attention proceeds on the idea OF slav.
cry that persons Tltn w1 stsk skn arc
As you do me the honor to ask ne the prop.
er stand for You TO make I have no hesitation
In replying that you must insist, on all the
rights and privileges of . citizen. They belong
to YOU. They are yours; and whoever under
takes to rob you of them Is o usuRPER and an
IMPOsTER.
Of course you will take part In any primary
meeting for political organizations, open to
citizens generally, and will not miss any oppor-
lunity to show your loyalty and fidelity.
Accept my best wishes, and believe me,
s '' CHARLES SUMNER
What if President JOHNSON decides that the
privilege of suffrage shall not be at once given
TO the blacks7 1t is tho opinion ex-senator SUM-
NER that be is "a usurper and an imposter y
The radicals are making desperate efforts to
transform Mr.. JOHNSON into q negro wor'
shipper, and if they fail, as we are sure they
will, he will be bitterly denounced.
Since the above was written President JoHN'
SON has declared that negroes shall not vote
in North Carolina for members to the Consti.
tutional Convention nor members Of the Legis.
h,ure! He is therefore, according to SUMNER,
a nsu,per and an imposter!"
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THREE moREl INDIANS KILLED.
FROM FORT WADSWoRTB.
From Our Regular Correspondents.

FORT WADswoRrH, D. T., May IA, 1866.
To the Editor o. the Pioneer:
On the 18th inst. eight hostile Sioux were
discovered by the lookout scouts stationed at
the head of the Coteau. under Charles Craw.
ford. The discovery was made in the morn.
Ing, after the scouts had gone out on duty.
consequently Crawford could raise but five
men beside himself, and with that force he
started in pursuit The chase was q long one
as the Indians put their best foot foremost.
lhey were overtaken about e miles from tile
70 eau, when a running fight commenced that
"S'eo several hours. The horses of the scouts
were IN very low condition, a2d after making
aoou' zen miles from the camp were abandon.
Gu ano tne riders continued the pursuit on foot
70 Inc Colts Hill, distance of 25 miles from
the Coteau
Owing to the distance between them and the
camp TO which they had TO return before oh
talning 1000, the fatigue they had endured, and
tne expenditure OF their supply of ammunition.
the scouts here abandoned the chase, having
Killed three OF the hostile Indians. one being
the brother OF the great scoundrel Black I.eps
This noted murderer of the whites in 1867
headed the party but unfortunately escaped,
This makes ten hostile Indians that have bi,
the dust In this vicinity during the presen,
month, pretty fair record this far, and affords
evidence that the scouts have been judciousl,
located, and are prompt in the discharge O
their duties.
Capt. Renville returned last evening from
tour to the stations of the scouts, and repor
that no further signs of hostile Indians hay
been discovered. Yours. &C.,
g. HARNIN.