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The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1865-07-07
Burying she Dead I'm the Wilderness.
A FizzEe..Verdict agreed upon In the
CousrfRacy Case.

WASHINGTON, June 29.-The force detailed
for rsburying our dead commenced the 10Th
instsnt and continued without interruption I'M
til asst Saturday, when their sad duty was com.
pgted They commenced operations on the
sxtreme right and worked round to left. All
bodies which had not been properly buried.
were reburied, and In all cases where the graves
could be identified new headboards painted
white were placed over them, with name and
regiment inscribed upon it.
The Commercially Washington special SAYS
the meeting called here last evening to protest
against the recently appointed provisional Gov
ernor OF Alabama was complete failure. only
two loyal Aabamians being present.
NEW York, June 29.-The Posts special says
the military commission met at II o'clock this
morning in secret session, and the members
agreed upon their virdict in the Conspiracy ca
ses. The nature Of the verdict Is not known.
VIII be made known as soon as the President
acts upon 1t.
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"A SHOOTING CASE.

BowMAsv1LLE, C. W., June 29.-Miss Nun
son, school teacher, accompanied by another
young lady, while driving out, called at the
house of James Kerr at Orono, five miles from
this place, and asked him to take drive with
two o'clock in the morning, Miss Munson
shot Kerr with revolver, MORALLY wounding
him. She is now in custody. There are
varions rumoEs, but the cause is not known at
present
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1865-07-07

The names of all the Cadets now at the
Military Academy at West Point, are pub
];shed elsewhere. The names of those
found deficient are not included in the
lists. The only name from Minnesota in
the list is EDGAR W. Bass, of st. Paul, son
of J. W. Bass, Esq, who stands number
six, in c lass of fifty-six
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1865-07-07

OIps VS.. ToD.-1n the matter of the
suit of Epson B. OIDs VS.. DAVID ToD,
late Governor of Ohio for damages caused
by reason of his incarceration, the Su-
preme Court of Ohio decided, on Tuesday,
that the law OF Congress providing for the
removal of such cases to the District Court
of the United States is constitutional and
valid.
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1865-07-07

\ The General Land Office has submitted
te the Secretary Of the Interior, for bis
APPROVAL, lists of lands solicited by Mime
sofa under the Swamp Grant of Novem-
Der, 1Ss3. The lands are located in the
Observation-Disclosures:
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Promotions.

Sergeant HRzsKIAH N. BAYIEss, First
Heavy Artillery, to be Junior Second Lieu
tenant of Company N.
Sergeant OR1N G. DAVIS, to be Senior
Second Lieutenant of Company K.
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1865-07-07

The Winona Republican comes to us this
week in an enlarged form. 1t is good news
paper and ought to have large circulation
among the Republicans of Southern and Gen.
trail Minnesota Although differing in politics
we have always regarded the Republican as the
ablest Administration journal in the State.
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1865-07-07

The rebel General Lee has been offered
several farms in Virginia by his friends, but
declines them, and has gooe to live for the
summer on small place in Cumberland Co.
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1865-07-07
Second Minnesota.

A dispatch from Louisville, of the 30th,
which we find in the Chicago papers,
states that on the Goth, Major General
LOGAN issued an order for the mastering
out of the Second Minnesota, Col. @. 8.
UIINR. .-, +''
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1865-07-07
Ti,le to ss.eaul.
The following item is gong the rounds
of the Eastern papers, and Us created
.nx;otv among absent owners oflots.

anxiety among aosehS o"ifeie oiRts:
The title to the land on which v. Paul,
Mimi. is built, is in dispute. The Ness, of
that city, says that on Saturday last Mr.. Nriah
Lamprey left at the Registers office Nuit
claim deed given to him by Louis RobHts
amounting to $s5 goo: me lat. Geeo gun s; Sa
Paui proper was originally located. The claim
is reported to be based on an error IN the orig
inal survey.
The deed of Mr.. ROBERTS to Mr.. LAM
ueY covers only nineteen lots, instead OF
eighty acres, and there is no dispute about
the title to majority Of these. We trust
the journals which have given circulation
to the above item, will do st. Paul the
iustice of correcting it.
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FROM FORT SMITH, ARKANSAS.
Treaty OF Peace with the Chocsaw
Indians...GrandC Council of Twenty
Tribes...An Hostilities against the
United States 20 Cease.

FoRr SMITH, June 24.-Ex-Governor
Wade, of the Choctaw Nation, has arrived
here from Dooksville, to confer with
Gen. Bussey, commanding the District of
the Frontier, for the return to their homes
of all the Ohoctaw Indians who have been
engaged in the Confederate army. A tenn
porary treaty of peace was effected with
the Choctaws at Dooksville, on the 18th,
by Col. Matthews, of the 99th Illinois in
fantry, who was sent as commissioner on
the part of the United States. The In
dams agree to cease at once all hostilities
against the United States, and return to
their homes and resume their former oc-
cupation. Gov. Wade brings the resolu-
tons adopted by the grand council of
twenty tribes, who met at Armstrong
academy on the 18th, which declare thew
will Immediately cease all acts of hostility
to the United States, and will send dele
cation Of five from each tribe to Washing
ton to negotiate permanent peace. The
Indians appear very friendly to the United
States, and anxious to resume friendly re-
lations The grand council is to meet
again September LIST. Gen. Bussey has
issued an order inviting the Indians to re-
turn to their homes, and assuring them
that they will not be molested BY the
United States authorities 30 long a. thew
faithfully keep the temporary treaty Of
peace entered into. He has also provided
for the payment for all cattle procu,ed
from the Indians for United States troops,
and provided for protecting pro,erty.
Gov. Wade gives assurance that 40 far
ther trouble will be occasione6 By the
Choctaws.
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The following shows the receipts for
eleven months and three weeks Of the fis-
cal year ending June 80: arl..
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1865-07-07
3. l282. l33. 32l

The total receipts from the above will
probably be about $3.50, 100000. The re-
ceipts from customs, compared with last
year, show decrease Of 81, 600, 600, while
those from internal revenue and sales of
public lands, are largely increased. g~
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a M1NNEsor1AN took the first prize
awarded to the members Of the Dane
Law School Of Harvard University. It
was given to GODFREY SMeUR THAIER, Of
Saltwater, for two dissertations entitled,
" By what means and to what extent o
common carrier may limit his liability"
The examining committee consisted of
Chief Justice POLAND, of Vermont, Judge
PUTNAM of Massachusetts,, and the Hon.
WILLIAM BELGIAN of Boston. 49,
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The Commissioner of Internal Revenue has
decided that where person keeps horse, the
use Of which Is necessary to the prosecution of
bis business, the expense and keeping of the
horse. including feed, DC, may be deducted
from the income. Where horse is used part
ly for business producing income, and partly
for pleasures, 90 much Of the expense for keep
ing as is clearly referable to productive labor,
may be deducted.
Major General Edward NJ. McCook, while
proceeding to Washington with his Illinois
bride, was recognized and halted at Philadel.
phia, where, the Inquirer says, he was greeted
with the highest marks Of appreciation, and
forced into brief experience of 10 usual
American hand-shaking ordeal.
Mr.. Clay, our minister to Russia, has sent
information from st. Petersburg that the Rus
sian plague is spreading fearfully, and moving
westwardly. he urges that antj-sanitary meas
ures be taken throughout the United States to
prevent its introduction. go. 81
Gen. Sherman met with an enthusiastic
reception in Cincinnati such Is has seldom
been given to any one visiting that city. He
made brief speech from the balcony of the
Burnet House, in which he said that General
Grant and himself year ago, in one Of the
rooms Of the Burnet House, laid out the maps
and studied ont the campaign which lhas since
ended the war. He had been war man for
four years, but he was now . peace man, and
all of Sherman's "bummers were peace men.
He didn't want to hear of war again for fifty
years.
says: eve learn that proceedings win next
week be commenced by our government,
through the Hon. Daniel g. Dickinson, U. g.
District Attorney, for the recovery from Bepja-
min Wood, of this city, Of tie SUN of twenty.
five thousand dollars, the property of the late
Confederate government transmitted through
our lines, via Canada, by Jacob Thompson,
late Canadian agent Of the rebel authorities,
and the receipt of which by Wood has recently
been proved by his signature on the back of
the check-the Hon. A. D. Russell, City Judge,
and George Wilkes, of the Spirit of the Times,
being the Witnesses to his handwriting"
I'm speaking Of the arrest Of John Mitchell,
the Charleston Courier of the 22d ult, says -
"At this juncture of affairs the South does not
want any man to 60 North and advocate the
doctrine Of sectional rights. This is o matter
which has been tested and settled. The South
now needs peace and harmony, and this fact
Mr.. Mitchell should have considered" III
The extensive building known as the Buff
falo Iron Works, embracing the rolling mill
and nail works of Messrs. Pratt & Co., situated
between Upper and Lower Black Rock, were
destroyed by fire on Tuesday, with all their
valuable machinery. The loss is estimated at
$175,000, upon which there is an insurance of
600, ZOO. Three hundred workmen are
thrown oat Of employment by this disaster.
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Texms:-DAHY PIONKRR-By mail. 81. 90
pr annum, OF $1.00 per month, inv0siobls IN I'D.
TH.WKRK1Y PIoNRER-s7 per annum $3.50
Tor ok months; $l.76 for three months; 0cents
for one month. =
WEEKLY PIONEKR-One copy, one year, $3.50;
Hx months 11.95; climbs Of four copies, one year,
oftwenty copies. one year, $4,000: and TO The latter
club. one COPY extra to the person ordering Il: ~
dreGs. PIONEER PRINTING COMPANY
Weekly Trinity journal., 1865-05-13

The CoLrsA AssAssNATIoNIsrs.- cores
pondent of the San Francisco Flag, writing from
Camp Union, thus speaks of the Colusa traitors
Last evening six NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. of the
valorous set of Chvs who proposed firing sa-
lutte at Colusa in honor of the assassination of
the President, but who, owing TO the near prox-
unity of Henry's repeating rife in the hands
of a Yankee mudsill, concluded that discretion
was the better part of valor. and desisted-ar-
rived in camp under cavalry escort from Com
pany F. and were at onre escorted to the gnard
house, where they protested against the indignify
in very strong language, shooting their mouths
of az random until gentle reminder from
Captain Starr (whom I suppose they consider as
possessed Of very little of that element known
as the = milk of human kndness''), brought,
them to their senses. and they now as mild
as SO many whipped ours, or gentle as sucking
doves, though they are as villainous looking
set of scoundrels as ever went Vnhung and it
is a consummation most devoutly TO be wished
that General Mcdowell will proceed at once to
test their capacity as pack animals in the sand
business at Alcntraz
Weekly Trinity journal., 1865-05-13

The FIRST VERSE IN THE BIBLE.-This simple
sentence alone gives denial to the creed of the
Atheist-for it assumes the being of God. 1t
denies Polythism. and. among its various forms,
the doctrine of two eternal principles, the one
good and the other evil for il confesses the one
eternal Creator. 1t denies Materalsm, for it
asserts the creation of matter. 1t denies PAN
theisn, for it assumes the existence of God be-
fore all things, and apart from them. 1t denies
tataliSm for it involves the freedom of the Eter-
nal Being. Ii assumes the existence of God for
1t is He who in the beginning creates Il as
sumes dis eternity, for He is before all. things
and as nothing came from nothing He himself
must have always been. 1t implies His omnipo-
tence, Tor lie creates the universe of things 1t
implies His absolute freedom for He begins a
new course RI action. 1t implies HIS infinite
wisdom, for kosmos, an order of matter and
mind. can only come from being of absolute
intelligence. 1t implies His essential goodness.
for the sole eternal, almighty, all-wse and all
sufficient Being, has reason, no motive and
no capacity for evil it presumes Him to he be-
yond all limit of time and place. as He is before
all time and piace.-Prof. Murphy
Weekly Trinity journal., 1865-05-13

FARMING or LARGE ocALE-Uu rtIuay last
we visited he Murphy Ranch, portion of which
is titled the present year by Professor Gates, of
the San Jose Institute. One would suppose that
the Professor would have his hands full to carry
on iiTst-class educational institution, with
nearly two hundred students. and three thou
sand acre farm, at and the same time but
with competent assistants, and his business thor
oughy systematized. he manages the whole with
the regularity of clock-work. He has on his
ronch twenty-five hundred acres of grain, be-
sides several hundred of hay. Some o. his ear
lier sown grain stands at least three and
oue-half feet high, and is as rank and thick as
il can grow. One field of a thousand acres
would astonish the optics of any New England
farmer. lie estimates that bis entire yield will
not fall much short OF 20, 900 sacks of 100 pounds
each. To prepare this immense tract for seeding
required the services of about thirty-hve men,
and eighty horses and mules. for three months
1t will require sixty to do the harvesting.
The work is all done by improved machinery.
For instance, there are on the ranch no less than
nine gng plows, twenty-five wagons, three
headers, five mowers and reapers, one splendid
steam thresher, and other farming implements
without number. To form some idea of the ex-
Pense attending the securing of this inamense
crop, we need only mention that the sacks alone
will cost about $40 900. We believe il is the
largest tract of land in the State titled by one
mau.-S1n Jose Mercury.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1865-05-13

Oh the long Northern twilight between the day and the
night.
When the heat and WEAKNESS of the world are endej oute
When the hills grow dim Dreams and the crystal river
Like that River of Life from Throne where tho
blessed walk in white.
the weird Northern twilight which is neither night nor
day.
When the amber wake of the ong-set sun still marks his
Western way;
And but great golden star in the deep blue East ar
Warns Of sleep and dark, and dnght-of oblivion and
decay.
Oh. the calm Northern twilight when labor is all dome
And the birds in drowsy wtter have dropped silent one by
And nothing strs or signs in mountains water skies
Earth seep-but her heart waketh till the rising of the
oh the sweet twilight before the time Of rest
When the black clouds driven away, and stormy
winds suppressed:
And the dead day smiles bright filling and heaven
with light
You would think twas dawn back again-but the light
isin the West
Oh the grand solemn twilight spreading peace from pole
pole
Ere the ruins sweep the hse and the waters rise and
roll
In the lni and the calm o angel with the palm
In the still Northern twilight be the narrng of the soul
-NIcmilldns Magazine.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1865-05-13

FEMALE CLERKs.-There are about seven hun
dred female clerks employed in the Treasury De-
partment. and selected from almost all the States
IN the Union. Many of them have been rich hut
Row are poor. Many of them young ladies'
some few are married. Their chief business is
cutting and counting legal tender and National
oank-noes. and counting and destroying old
ones Their pay is S7lO per a9nnm each, for
about six hours close work per diem The sit
uatlons are very pleasant. and theGovernment is
quite right in giving on: this of work to wo-
men instead Of men. The Superintendent COM
plain we believe of too much talk. which if it is
not ungallant to say, must be put down as an in
FIRMLY of the sex.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1865-05-13
WEEKLY TRINITY JOURNAL.


The following song was composed by Unior
officer. prisoner who made his escape recent,
rom Columbia, and was set to music by another
prisoner. 1t is now chanted by the veterans OF
heir victorious march through the Carolinas
Our camp fires shown bright on the mountains
That frowned ON the river below,
While we stood by guns in the morning
And eagerly watched for the foe
When a rider came out from the darkness
That hung mountain and tree,
And shouted :. Boys up aud be ready.
For Sherman will march to the sea-"
Then cheer upon cheer for bold Sherman
Went up from each valley and glen,
And the bugles re-eclIoed the music
That from the lips of the
For knew that the stars in banner
More bright in their spendog would be.
And that blessings from Nothland would greet u.s.
When Sherman marched down TO the
Then forward, boys. forward to battle,
We marched on our wearisome way,
And we stormed the wild hills of Resaca,-
God bless those who fell Oh that day,
Then kenesaw frowued i'll it. glory,
Drowned down the flag Of the free,
But the East and the West bore our standards,
And SHERMAN marched On to the
Still onward We pressed, till our banners
Swept out from Atlanta grim walls,
And the bl cd of the patriot dampened
The sod where the traitor flag falls;
But we paused not IL weep for the fallen,
Who slept by each river aud tree;
Yet We Irvine them "a wreath Of the laurel,
As Sherman marched down to the sea.
o. proud was our army that morning,
That stood where the pine darkly towers.
When Sherman said. Boys You are weary
But to-day fair Savannah is ours"
Then sang a song for chieftain
That echoed DER river and lea.
And the stars our banner shone brighter,
When Sherman marched down To the sea.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1865-05-13

READERS AND WRITER'S Reading without pur-
pose is saunterng not exercise More is got
from one book which the thought settles
for degnite end in knowledge. than from LIBRA
ries skinned over by a wandering eye. 4 cot
tage flower gives honey to the bee a kings gar
den none to the butterfly. Youths who are
destined for active careers, or ambitious of dis
tinction require freshness of invention
originality of thought, should avoid the habit
of intense study for many hours at a stretch
There is a point in all tension of the intellect
beyond which effort is only waste of strength.
Fresh ideas DO not readily spring up within the
confines of weary brain; and whatever
hausts the mind not only enfeebles its power but
narrows its scope. We often see men. who have
overhead at college, entering life languidlv
as if they about to leave it. They have
not the vigor to cope with their own generation
for their own generation is young, and they have
wasted the nervous energy which supplies the
sinews of war to youth, in its contest for fame
or fortune. Study with regularity, at settled
hours. Those in the forenoon the best if
they can be secured. The man who has acquired
the habit of study, though for only one hour
every day in the year. and keeps TO the one thing
studied till it is mastered. will be startled to see
the way he has made at the end of a twelve
month. He is seldom overworked who can con-
trive to be in advance of his work. If YOU have
three weeks before you to learn something which
a man OF average qulckHesS Could learn IN
week learn it the first week and not the third.
Business dispatched is business well done, but
business hurried is business i'll done. In learn
ing what others have thought. it is well to keep
in practice the power to think for self;
when an author has added to your Knowledge.
pause and consider if You can add anything to
his. Be not contented to have learned problem
by heart try and deduce from it carrolary
not in the book. Spare pains in collecting
details before you generalze but it is only when
details generalizcd that a truth is grasped.-
The tendency to generaize is universal in all
men who achieve great success. whether in art,
literature, or action. The habit of generalizing,
though at frs, gained with care and caution. Sc
cures, by practice, comprehensiveness Of judg-
ment and promptitude of decision, which seem
to the crowd like intuitions Of genius.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1865-05-13
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Weekly Trinity journal., 1865-05-13

VARIOUS instances have been cited to prove
how lazy man may be and live, but it rem a ms
for Michigander 10 cap the climax. One no,
dag during the heated term last Summer. one
Mr.. L.. Of Jackson county, was observed to
throw himself down on the grass under the
spreading branches of shade tree, and exclaim
emphatically to himself: a. There, breathe if you
want to-I shan't %
Weekly Trinity journal., 1865-05-13

SCHOOL 'Ex.-Having disarmed the people OF
the Sonth, m exchange suggests that we now
send Teachers down that wav TO educate them
No donbt there are plenty of % School marms y
ready and willing to updertake the job of teach
ing the Southern mind, how to shoot that
is, not to shoot at Uncle Sam any more.-Aorn-
ing .CeH