The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1865-06-30
FROM WASHINGTON.
i Foote and Faulkner ASK FaidOA.
See. Dana...President SOn"sO"s
Health...A Observation-Disclosures.

New YORK. June 27.-The Times says ex-
Senator Foote and j. Faulkner are the only per-
sons of note who applied for pardon YESTERDAY:
Ex-senator Foote's application is dated
Among the troops that left here to-day for
their homes were the 123d New YORK Voiun-
teers-24 officers and 800 men,.
The Assistant Secretary of the War Depart
ment will surrender his Office to his successor
IN Thursday next, and Immediately start Tor
the West by the way OF New York to assume
the dnties Of editor of the Chicago Republican.
WAsHINGroN. June 27.-The Presidents
health is somewhat improved to-day, though
not sufficiently to enable him to receive vlsl-
tors. He will probably attend the usual cao-
met meeting. c
alias Wallace was recalled by the Government,
and testified that after he left Washington he
visited Montreal where he met Tucker, san.
deIs, Carroll, Westcott, and NUMBER OF
others. -,
They did not know at that time that he had
been before this commission and therefore re.
ceived him with great cordially.
Tucker, while speaking of this trial, de.
nounced Secretary Stanton and President
johnson as scoundrels, and Judge Holt as a
blood thirsty old villain, and added that they
should protect themselves, for, by the eternal,
the day of reckoning would come and heavy
accounts would have to be settled.
Subsequently, when it became known that
the witness had testified here, his life was
menaced, and on several occasions pistols were
drawn with threats to shoot the witness dead if
he did not swear and subscribe to an affidavit
to the effect that he had not testified before
the commission, and that Conover represented
to him that Wallace had testified to tissue of
falsehood:: This, the witness repeated, was
sworn to by him under duress with pistols pre-
scented in his face. He dit it to save his life.
, John Coultney and w. D. Graves, printers,
from Selma Ala, testified to the publication
of article in the Selma Dispatch, advertising
for one million of dollars in order to procure
the death of Lincoln, johnson and Seward.
Judge Advocate General Holt said all the
government testimony was now in. Assistant
Judge Advocate Bingham then read an elabo-
rate argument in reply to that of Reverdy
johnson on the Jurisdiction of the court.
Mr.. Binghman shows that the proclamation
issued by President Lincoln authorizing the
trial of insurgents, their aiders and abettors,
by court martial and military commission, had
been ratified by Congress, and the Supreme
Court had decided this action of Congress un-
necessary.
New YORK, June 27.-The Commercials
Washington special says the Mayors annual
message estimates the funded debt of the city
at $4,000. The floating debt at $257, 900.
This shows an increase of $751;, 900 since 1861.
The 7sibunes' Washington special has the
following:
The Freedmen's Bureau has prepared list
of the abandoned lands in Virginia, and will
submit it to the President for his approval to-
morrow. The list embraces between 80 600
and 40, 600 acres of this character.
Gen. Howard will visit South Carolina on
business connected with his bureau after the
delivery of his Grafton at Gettysburg on the
coming 4th of July.
Gen. Grant returned from Philadelphia last
night and has the pay roll of Klpatrick's cav
airy, now doing duty on the railroad between
Richmond and Raleigh. The command will
probably be paid off within week.