The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1861-10-04
All Sorts Of Items.

Governor OF California, is native of Troy,
New York, the son of Josiah Stanford.
j. S. Potter, agent for factories at
Seneca Falls, Guilford, and Laconia, Massa.
chusetts, has received contract for million
pairs of wooden socks for army use.
The rebels have formally taken posses.
sion of Arizona, in the name of the " Con-
federate States of America"
-Motley's History of the United Neither
lands has reached its fourth thousand in
England.
"A camp Of rebel Kentuckians has
been formed on the Memphis, GAINESVILLE
and Louisville Railroad, just on the southern
kentucky line, which has been appropriately
named Camp Breckenridge.
"A little child was nearly killed at
washington, few nights ago, by an over.
dose OF " Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup"
The medicine proved so soothing that it was
only after great difficulty that the little one
could be brought out of its stupor.
The Nashville Crennessee) papers are
beginning to talk ABOUT the detences of that
city as being utterly insufficient to offer any
resistance should they be attacked.
There are 5,590 boats belonging to the
Erie Canal, of which 1886 are of greater
tonnage than the vessel in which Columbus
discovered America; and it may be added
that the aggregate cargoes these boats can
float in a season, from the lakes to the ocean,
would load the combined fleets of the world.
The New York Journal of Commerce
says that about one thousand colored per-
sons have emigrated to Hayt since January,
and that emigrants are now coming forward
in much larger numbers for that destination.
Some are going from Canada.
David Agnew, of Boston, submarine
diver, lately went down near Seal Island to
a depth of $50 feet, in search of a schooner
called the Neptune's Bride, which foundered
there about one year ago. This, we believe,
is the greatest depth to which a diver in ar
NOR has yet descended, and rivals the feats
of the famous Green, so well known on the
lakes.
"A man named John Hill from Central
Ohio, while at the Dayton fair, on the 18th,
visited one of the side shows" which al
ways infest such place, and while anus.
ing himself, concluded to try the temper of
rattesnake by putting his hand in its cage,
when the reptile bit him on the finger, and
infused into his system such virulent po-
son that the unfortunate man died in ten
minutes
"A young man named Clark, and
young lady named Tompkns, of Chatham,
New York, were riding along the highway,
where it ran close to the railroad for some
distance, when the horses, frightened by the
cars, became unmanageable, and threw the
riders out of the carriage. They fell imme-
diately in front of the train, and Miss Temp.
kins was rolled under the cowcatcher and
under the locomotive, and instantly crushed
to death. The young man yet survives.
A son was born to the 9th New York
regiment, in camp, the other day, aud they
named him Abe Lincoln" with great Ger
emoniousness. Father Tissot, the Chaplain
performed the ceremony, while Lieutenant
Colonel Burke and Captain Cavanah stood
godfathers, and the Surgeon, DIR. O'Meagh-
| er, sponsor. The natural father was some
| where in the crowd.
The secesh were awfully scared by tie
bombardment of Fort Hatteras. A young
North Carolinian who saw something of the
affair from the Sound, writing to his mother
a letter which appeared in the Richmond
Dispatch, says:
| The bombardment lasted day and half,
| and never was a scene of greater grandeur and
| horror presented to the view of man. Above,
below, around, thousands of kissing bombs
| sailed through the air, plowed up the ground,
| and bursted in the water, threw up columns
| twenty feet high. Only imagine eight hundred
| men crowded into a small fortress covering
! scarce quarter of an acre OF ground among
| whom bombs were falling at the rate of fifty
| minute.
Frank Blair refuses to accept his re-
lease from arrest, and demands an investi-
cation. The order of release made it ap-
pear that he was released as personal fa>
vor to the Postmaster General. Hedeclines
to return to the command of his regiment
till the charges against him are investigated.
The Frankfort Commonwealth thus no.
| tices Gen. T. S. Crittenden, lust placed at
the head of the Kentucky militia
His name has become identified with the
! proudest annals of our country's history
through his illustrious father and his own
exploits as volunteer aid to Gen. Taylor IN
Mexico, attest that he is without fear and
above reprOach. The bearer of the lac0nlc
answer of the old hero to Santa Anna that
General Taylor never surrenders," cannot
but bear himself so CALAMITY that all the MEM
bers of the State Guard. under the impulse of
his example, will rush to the field in defence of
the honor of Kentucky, and efface the last
suspicion which has SO unfortunately been at.
tached to them. kentucky and the Union,
| now and forever" will be the WatchWOrd of