The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1861-09-06
All Sorts OF Items.

privateers, carefully kept, the Journal of
Commerce finds that sixty. nine vessels, of all
descriptions have been taken, valued at
81 100000. In the same time the cruisers
employed by the United States have taken
less than fifty prizes.
"A Washington correspondent of the
Newburyport Herald writes" 1 hear that
General Butler is not particularly well
pleased with his experience in Fortress
Monroe-says he has been keeping negro
boarding house for Government.
The London Tines in an article on the
Income Tax says : In all Great Britain
there are little more than twenty. five thous-
and persons receiving $500 year, or more,
from trades and professions!
Speaking of collisions between pickets,
the Washington correspondent of the Phil
adelphia Press says: -" l am pleased to inS
form you that our Colonel McCunn and
Captain Jones of the first regiment Virgins
ia cavalry, have agreed to avoid shooting
at each others pickets. The proposition
came from Captain Jones. Since the agree
ment the pickets of the two camps have
been within talking distance of one anoth.
err"
AT recent meeting of the Maine
Grand Lodge of Masons, it was stated that
the order in that State, since 1910, has dis
bursed one hundred thousand dollars for
benevolent purposes.
The press of South Carolina are bitter
against the JEFF Davis government for not
pitching into England, France and the other
European powers, for their dilatory conduct
in not recognizing the Southern Confeder-
acy. They seem to think that, in addition
to whipping us of the North, they can an
initiate all Europe
IA letter from wounded member of
the Michigan First, at Richmond, says -
I'VE have excellent attention and good
treatment, both by the doctors and the Sis
tiers of Charity, who devote all their time
to our comfort"
AT the end of June, 1861, there were
eight hundred and sixteen thousand paupers
in England and Wales, an increase of four
per cent. upon the same period in 1860.
"A Croton ice pump has been placed in
the Central Park at New York. The pipes
for ninety feet are iced, and supply fluid of
the most frigid kind.
"A London Judge has just sentenced an
employee in tobacco mandatory to six
months Imprisonment for taking home four
ounces of tobacco for his own use. Hard
labor was added to Imprisonment, and the
judge promised to give the next man who
might be convicted of the same tremendous
crime whole year with similar aggrava-
ton. Tobacco is dear in England.
Rev. Mr.. Mather, minister, had a
set to" with Mr.. Goldsworthy, on High
street, in the city of Mineral Point, Wis
consin. With some assistance the preacher
came out ahead. Cause of the muss-poli-
tics.
Mr.. John Morgan, of lion, New York
State, has invented gun for which he
claims the efficiency of whole battery. 1t
is a repeating cannon-loaded from cham
bers worked by very simple machinery, and
kept cool by novel application of air and
water. 1t fires shell which is calculated
to explode at three different times.
If any persons who are obliged to take
offensive medicine would first take bit Of
alum into the mouth, they could then take
the medicine with as much ease as though
it were as much sugar.
George D. Prentice, of the Louisville
Journal, has been dangerously i'll with cry,
sipelas, but is now much better. The Union
cause in Kentucky would suffer an irrepars
able loss by his death.
The ship Sewall, OF Boston, arrived at
Philadelphia few days since, with cargo
af 1000 hogsheads of sugar from Sagua.
The first intimation the house in Philadel.
phia had of the shipment, was when the
captain presented himself with the invoice
and bill OF lading. The recent rise in sugar
will yield net profit on this cargo OF about
100000.
Crops IN IREIAND.-Tbe Northern Whig