The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1865-09-15

OUT appended the following protest: 81 pro-
test against this oath as an Infringement upon
religions liberty, and as not demanded by the
exigencies of the times"
-Several of the heretofore hostile Indian
tribes. on the Plains, are beginning to manifest
desire for peace. The Government is anx-
ious to come to an arrangement with them, and
IT one be made, will hold them rigidly to their
agreements. If the attempts at paciacation
shall fail, military movements against the saw
ages will be prosecuted with relentless vigor.
The commapdant of the post at Paducah,
Kentucky, recently issued an order for the re-
lease of certain negroes who had been incarce-
rated in the city prison for violation of munic-
ipal law, Thereup0n the municipal authorities
at once ordered the release of all white prison.
ers, and informed the Governor by letter of
their action in the premises. r
Cotton is said to be pouring into the New
York market in large quantities, and the stock
now on hand is estimated at over loo, 900 bales
The receipts have lately averaged nearly 5000
bales per day, against daily sales of about ,OOO
Prices, of course, recede as the stock accumu-
lates, and middling grades have declined three
cents per pound within week. 81.
1t is very low estimate that the expense
to the government of the fat and lazy negroes
whom it has undertaken to support is $S0, 00O,-
600 per annum. If we add to this the enormous
expenses of the various Freedmen's Bureaus,
the aggregate will approximate to about half
the entire cost of the government before the
war. -,.t ~.,.
The HeralTs special says: Gen. Swayne of
the Department Of Alabama, having recently
issued q general order inviting thejudicial of.
fcers and magistrates of that State to become
agents in the Freedmen's Bureau for the ad-
ministration Of justice in all difficulties arising
between whites and negroes, and having in.
formed such officials that failure to accept the
agency for the purpose designated would be
followed by the substitute of martial law in the
district where such failure occurred, Provis-
ional Governor Parsons earnestly advises all
judicial officers and magistrates to accept the
appointments offered as above and in good
faith do justice and observe the instructions
contained in the order of Gen. Swayne.
The Times special says there is the best
authority that Alexander H.. Stephens and j.
H. Reagan, now confined at Fort Warren, in
writing to their friends in the South, express
the most liberal views in reference to recon.
struction, the negro race. and the future of
the South. They urge that the agricultural
system of the South must be revolutionizeG,
that the negro being large and permanent
element in the population of the South, they
must be so treated as to increase his self re-
spect and manhood, that his freedom must be
cheerfully accorded and the negro educated for
the intelligent welding of that power which
the progress of events promise to put him in
possession of.
"A young lady from Clinton county, Ken.
lucky, who recently gave evidence in the Fer
guson trial, informs the Nashville Dispatch
that between her fathers residence and Albany,
distance of four miles, thickly settled, pre-
sents an unbroken string Of widows, young
and old, all of them made 80 by the independ-
ent warfare carried on in that section on both
sides. As might be supposed, they are all for
the UniOn-of hearts and hands.
There is considerable excitement in the
yachting circles in New York in regard to an
ocean race that is to come off on the 18th inst,
between the Fleetwing, owned by Mr.. Geo. R.
Osgood, son-in-law of Commodore Vanderbilt,
and the Henrietta, owned by Mr.. James G.
Bennett Jr., two of the largest yachts in the
United States. 1t will be the first ocean race
that has ever come off on this side of the At
lantic The yachts are to start at noon on the
18th, from the light ship off Sandy Hook, and
sail to and around the light ship of Cape May.
and back to the starting point. This match Is
to be sailed by the regulations of the New
York Yacht Club, with the exception that no
difference of tonnage is to be allowed, and that
one or two try sails can be used in heavy
weather, if they are required. Immediately
after this race another is to be run on the 18th
inst, between the Restless, very fast sehoon.
er-yacht, and the Henrietta, from Sands Point
to New London. Other ocean races are in con.
temptation.
The election in Vermont for State and
county officers and members Of the legislature
took place on the 5th. The vote is the light
est cast in many years, being not more than
three.fourths as large as last year. We have
the vote for Governor from twenty-five towns,
embracing one-ffth of the vote OF the State.
The Republicans voted for Paul Dillingham;, Of
Waterbury, and the Democrats for c. N. Dsv.
export. of Rockingham. Twenty-Five towns
give Dillingham; 5,O76, and Davenport 1,5H
votes. The same towns last year gave Smith,
(Rep.) for Governor. {, 334, and Redfeld Dem. }
1915. Taking this vote as an indication, the
majority for Dillingham; win be relatively
larger than that Of Smith last year. We have
3 representative vote from forty-eight towns,
all of which go Republican but five.
"A young lady at hotel in Lexington,
Ky., dreamed that q man was in her room
screamed and aroused the house When the
aroused guests began to seek their rooms, q
young married lady went, instead of into the
| arms of her husband, into those of an army
! officer. When she discovered her mistake,
her screams were louder than those of the
dreaming lady.