The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1861-08-23
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want of freedom of speech in Dixie. He
writes that he received two hundred lashes
recently for hoping the Union would be
sustained.
There were seventeen rifed and eight
smooth bore guns lost in the battle of Man.
assas by the United States troops. This is
officially reported, the guns lost being spe-
cited. The southern letter writers and off.
GERS persist in the statement that they cap
tured sixty guns.
The Providence Journal says it is cur.
rently reported that Governor Sprague will
not accept the Office Of Brigadier General,
which has been rendered to him, but will
retain his seat in the gubernatorial chair.
Rev. DR.. Cross. Chaplain in one of the
regiments of the rebel army, has written
letter to the Nashville Christian ADVOCATE,
dated from the camp at Fredericksburg,
Virginia. 1t begins thus:
SERENE DOCTOR The Lord grant you good
ance from Lucifer and Lincoln.
They have just arrested a notorious
forger in New Jersey who states that few
weeks since be was apprehended by two
policemen who took from him $26 900 in
counterfeits, and he gave them $1,000 in
good money, for which be was allowed bis
liberty,
New Orleans papers say that one street
there was completely blockaded few days
ago by poor women seeking city relief, but
there were no municipal funds for them.
The Philadelphia Gazette says that
Mr.. Holt of Kentucky will no doubt be
rendered one of the vacant seats on the
Supreme bench. In the Cabinet is where
he should be.
General Mcclellan has made himself
unpopular with the Washington ladies, Ar
abella Smith says, because be will not let
the officers spend their time in the city as
they have been used to do. She writes,
"they often used to be -. Well, I've
seen them when three of them together
had scarcely strength to stand up"
If talking of ones self is egotism, talk
ing OF ones wife is sem-egotism, and should
be done sparingly. There is a good deal
of wisdom in the request which the lady
made to her husband: Don't talk of me in
public. If you speak well of me nobody
will believe you are sincere and if you
speak i'll of me nobody will think you are
jesting."
1.-The committee who have been acting as
judges upon the question of national
hymn, have reported that they received
twelve hundred manuscripts, and that al.
though some of them have a degree of po-
etic excellence which will probably place
them high in public favor as lyrical compo-
sitions, no one of them is we'll suited for a
national hymn. They, therefore, make no
award
"A letter from Gorham, N H., states
that the White Mountains Carriage Road
was open for travel by carriages through
its entire length to the door of the Summit
House, on Thursday, the 9th inst:
"A Memphis paper, annoyed at DR.. Rus
sells revelations, calls "our own dishonest
knave and pensioned spy. Fighting
language.
-Paymaster Randolph B. Marcy, father
in-law of Gen. Mcclellan, who, when cap
tain in the Utah army, won great credit by
an expedition to Mexico in the dead of the
winter, has been appointed Inspector
general of the army, with rank OF colonel.
The Boston advertiser (Republican)
and the Boston Transcript (ueutraD are ad.
vocatiDg the abandonment of all party lines
and distinctions during the continuance of
the war.
The New York Times says: "Prince
Napoleon's experience with the rebels at
Manassas does not appear to have given
him very exalted opinion of them. His
accommodations while there do not appear
to have been of the most desirable charac-
ter. He only, of the entire party, could be
accommodated with bed-hs suite beng
compelled to sleep in their carriages-and
be had out one good meal while there. The
rebel soldiers, be says, have no tents, but
sleep anywhere under the hedges and trees,
and are miserabIy fed. He thinks Beaure-
gard very much of gentleman, but very
little of soldier while Johnston is both
soldier and gentleman. His impression of
the rebel army on the whole was bad.
Immense quantities of provisions and
other supplies are being despatched to the
different camps near Washington. Nearly
all movements of troops are now made by
night, instead of under hot monday sun,
as heretofore, a wise measure, which must
contribute much to the comfort of the troops