The weekly pioneer and Democrat., 1865-08-18

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THE Winona Republican states that little
boy named Pinkney Hoffman, son of the for
mer City Marshal, was drowned from the
steamer Canada, when near st. Louis, on the
9th of July Mr.. c. F. Buck has entered
upon his duties as postmaster of Wiaona.
THE population of Sibley County, according
to the recent returns, is 4, 1884, an increase of
1875 during the past five years. Henderson
has population of 1,081.
THE Statesman publishes the census returns
of lie Sueur County, which foot up q total of
1919, of which 4,O93 are males and 1896 fe-
males Number of families, 1,491, and num-
Der of negroes 10. Cleveland is the largest
town in the county, Lanesburgh next, then
Waterville, Tyrone and so on. There is an
average, in the county, of five persons to each
family.
THE storm of Monday afternoon was very
severe below. The Red Wing Argus says:
Fences were prostrated and grain seriously
injured, width of two miles and over for
about seven miles Peter Nelson's granary, at
Vasa, was torn down by the wind. sgd. AL.
lyns wheat crop was injured to the extent of
| $500. At Easterlys, in Goodhue. and through
| beat down to the ground. A house at Good
hue Centre was unroofed. Fred. Downing
came in yesterday to get scythes to NOW his
| grain, it being too much beat down for reap
| ing. According to the reports, by this storm,
the grain crop is half lost, on twenty to thirty
farms in the towns named.
THE storm of Saturday carried away bridges
and dams on the Wisconsin side, and hunt.
ing party from Red Wing had q narrow escape
from drowning. They were encamped on the
banks of stream in the night, and we're awak-
ened by an unpleasant sensation of dampuss
and the roar of the rushing water. Logs and
driftwood were crashing through the trees,
and moments observation showed them that
they were surrounded by water, which wns
vet rising. They climbed trees and there re-
mained until the food subsided
| Chief Justice Chase and Negro Suf.
| frage.
The Springfield Republican comments
upon the recent speech of Chief Justice
CHASE at Dartmouth College commence
ment, as follows:
| We were pained to hear the Chief Justices
| plea for ignorant Suffrage plea he would not
| have made five years ago, and will not repeat
\ five years hence for 1t becomes daily more
| and more evident to all thinking men that the
| sources OF power are to be protect' at this
| very point. or our republicanism will degener
| ate into democracy but little more stable and
safe than anarchy ITSELF Mr.. Chase had the
questionable courtesy to say that he be-
leved even the distinguished gentlemen
before him could give no better. reason for
their votes than that they supported The regu-
lar nominations, and he thought there were
among the negroes enough of them capable Of
making up ticket. and the rest would know
dishonorable view of our politics. and if We
| have already sunk to that it should he The
work of such men as Judge Chase to lift US
up and save us from utter degradation and
ruin, rather than complacently exhort US to
stay there. If there is any doctrine trad
tionslly sacred in New England, and con-
irmed by the history OF all previous at
tempts at Republican Government, it is tha,
the only security of free Institutions is in the
intelligence and virtue of the p ople. Taat in-
! telligence and virtue are iuseparable and equal
| ly vital to the national life must we begin 10
argue at this day? Oh no, whatever may be
the present decision of the great problem of
| suffrage we shall have no security for good
| government until free schools have made the
voters of the South and West as Intelligent al d
selfreliant as those of New England Without
this we NAV have the forms Of republicanism,
but the government will be really in the
hands of an Oligarchy,