The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1861-09-27
All Sorts OF Items.

from Salt Lake City only three days old. 1t
came by pony one hundred and fifteen miles,
and was thence sent by telegraph.
In Scotland when the word corn is
used it is universally understood to signify
oats in England it means wheat and in
the United States maize.
Mr.. Ellsworth, father of the late Col.
Elmer E. Ellsworth, called at the Paw.
master Generals Office, few days since,
and received an order fo- S123.43, which
had been due his son for seventeen days,
services.
An idea of the patronage bestowed on
the low concert halls on Broadway, New
York, may be gathered from the fact that
one of the female dancers testifes to re-
ceiving 500 weekly.
Prince Sahu,Sahu is to be made a
Colonel of cavalry.e He was cavalry
officer in the Schleswig. Holstein war, and
made some of the most brilliant charges
that were ever recorded
The first railroad in Oregon has Just
been built on what is called " the transit
across the cascades" The road is of sub.
stantial construction, is three and three
quarters of mile long, and most of it is on
tressel work of dizzy height.
The little city of Wilmington, in the
slave though loyal State of Delaware, has
subscribed 100000 to the new 7.3O per
cent. government loan. Of this sum 5000
Was subscribed by the banks, the remainder
by individuals in sums OF $50 to $4,000.
81 don't miss church so much as you
may suppose said a lady to her minister,
who called on her during her illness, L" for /
make Betsy sit at the window, as soon as
the bells begin to chime, and she tells me
who is going to church, and whether they
have got on anything new"
- There are now in the United States
navy ni1e captains, fourteen commanders,
and thirty>seven lieutenants from the Sc
ceded States. They are loyal to the CORE
Eleven captains, thirty commanders, aud
elghty.One lieutenants have gone over to
the traitors since tie rebellion began.
- 1t is stated that George Patterson,
Esq, living near Sykesville, Md, has re-
Gently enclosed check Tor 81 900 to JEFF.
Davis, and promises grand dinner to the
Confederate officers at the Eutaw House,
upon their arrival in Baltimere-George
should be looked after.
The Sharps Rife Company, at Hart.
ford, has been running its works twenty
hours day, and has turned out five hum
dred finished rifles week. The establish
ment commences this week on twenty-four
hours time, which is about as much as can
be "got out of" one day, even in Con.
| necticut.
The Grand Jury at Wheeling, Virgil.
2ia, from the 9th to the 1lth inst, had re.
turned seventy-six indictments for treason,
and wholesale business in this line has
been transacted at Clarksburg Two Cir.
cult Judges of the Court, three Senators,
several members of the Legislature and
Convention at Richmond, and sundry law
yers are among the persons who have been
indicted by the Grand Juries at Clarksburg
end Wheeling.
Mrs. GAULT, wife of a farmer at Cald-
wells Prairie, Wisconsin, while making
pickles on the 14th, spilled some alcohol on
the stove; this blazed up and frightened
her, and she dropped the vessel containing
the alcohol, scattering the fluid upon her
dress and upon the floor, and she was almost
enveloped in fame. She rushed out of the
house and threw herself upon the ground.
Her screams called her husband from the
field, and he placed her in a tub and pumped
water upon her. He put out the fame, but
the woman had been so much injured that
she died that night.
THERE is no little chatting" between
opposition sentries when within ear shot of
each other, and the following dialogue oc-
Cured the other day:
SECEsH--When are yer coming up ter
take the hill?
MICHIGANDER--Oh, after yeou is man
ners when are yeou coming to take the
capitol?
SEcEsH Reckon yer don't like the Bull
Run route to Muunasser
Wall. we kalkate ter 60
next time by the way of Hatteras!
The President has made the following
appointments for new Kentucky brigade
about to take the field: First Regiment,
w. 5. Wood, Colonel Jno. HI. Word, of
Bowling Green, Lieutenant Colonel James
B. Carlisle, Major. Second Regiment, E.
H. Hobsop, Colonel; John Carlisle, Lieu~
tenant Colonel; VIM. H. Hobson, Major.
Third Regiment, Wade Valegas, Colonel /;
z. q. Edwards, Quartermaster; j. D. VIII.
liams, Commissary.
The accident on the Ohio and Missis-
sippi railroad proves to have been worse
than at first reported. -Four passenger cars
went into the creek one box car and one