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The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1861-01-18
A Graceful Compliment to wife.

The following neat and beautiful reply
was made by the late Daniel O'Oonnell, in
response to a toast given in compliment to
bis wife, who was the object of his long and
affectionate attachment. 1t was given at
a political meeting. The English language
could not furnish any thing more touchingly
tender and graceful @o
There are some topics of so sacred and
sweet nature that they may be compre-
hended by those who are happy, but they
cannot be possibly described by any human
being All that / shall do is to thank you
IN the name of her who was the disinter-
ested choice Of my early youth; who was
the ever cheerful companion of my manly
years, and who is the sweetest solace of that
oscar and yellow leaf age'"' at which have
arrived. In her name I thank you; and
this you may readily believe; for expert
epce, think, will show to US all that man
can not battle and struggle with the malig-
nant enemies Of bis country, unless bis nest
at home is.warm and comfortable-unless
the honey Of human life is commanded by
had that he loves.
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1861-01-18

John Anderson, our 10, John, &.
& When trouble first began,
The people scarcely knew, John,
H That there was such man; 4 IA
But now thou'rt known and loved. John.
iza From Maine to Mexico; ,ed u bl1
And heart doth vie with heart to praise
John Anderson our 10. i4t
John Anderson. our 10, John,
Thou art q gallant fellow;
Thou stsndest firm and true, John,
While bulls of Bashan below;
And should they make a dash, John,
We're sure you'd let them know
The stars and stripes still float above,
John Anderson, our 10. r..n
John Anderson, our 10, John,
Long may that banner wave,
Ger every land and sea, John,
a, And every home and grave;
And when thine eyes look last, John,
Upon its azure flow,
May all its stars return the gaze,
John Anderson, our 10. -
ST. PAUL, January 8, 1861.
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1861-01-18
A DAY DREAM.


A day dream by the dark-blus deep; Qi
Was it dream, or something mores less
sat where Posilipo's Steep, :
With its gray shelves, o'erhung the shore. 4
On ruined Roman walls around o
The poppy fsunted, for9twas May;
And at my feet, with gentle sound, III
Broke the Light pillows of the bay. sl
/ sat and watched the eternal fiow
OF those smooth pillows toward the shore;
While quiyering lines of light, below,
Ran with them on the ocean floor.
TIL, from the deep, there seemed to rise
White arms upon the waves outspread, Zee
Young faces, lit with soft blue eyes, - ai,'
And smooth, POUND cheeks. just touched
Their long fair tresses, tinged with gold,
Lay Heating on the ocean streams, s.r
Aud such their brows as bards behold,
Love-stricken bards, in morning dreams.
Then moved their coral lips; strain
Low. sweet and sorrowful ] heard,
As II the murmurs of the main
Were shaped to syllable and word.
"The sight thou dimly dost behold,
oh, stranger from distant sky!
Was often, in the days of old, 49,
Seen by the clear, believing eye.
"Then danced we on the wrinkled sand,
Sat in cool caverns by the sea,
Or. wandered up the bloomy land.
To talk with shepherds on the lea.
"To us, in storms, the seaman prayed,
And, where our rustic affairs stood,
His little children came and laid
The fairest flowers of field and wood.
"Oh woe, long, unending woe!
For who shall knit the ties again -
That linked the sea-nymphs, long ago,
In kindly fellowship with men9
"Earth rears her flowers for us no more.
A half.rememberedd dream are we.
Unseen we haunt the sunny shore,
And swim, unmarked, the CLASSY sea.
And we have none to love or aid,
But wander, needless of mankind,
With shadows by the cloud.rack made,
With moaning wave and signing wind.
"Yet sometimes, as in elder days,
We come before the painter eye,
Or fix the sculptor's eager gaze,
With no profaner witness nigh.
And then the words of men grow warm
With praise and wonder, asking where
The artist saw the perfect form
He copied forth in lines so fair"
And thus they spoke, with wavering sweep
Floated the graceful forms away;
DINNER and DINNER, through the deep,
Isaw the white arms CLEAN and play.
Fainter and fainter on mine ear
Fell the soft accents of their speech,
Till I, at last, could only hear
The waves run murmuring up the beach.
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1861-01-18
Aevolting Assassination In Kentucky
..Three Brothers Murdered in Cold
Blood:

From the Louisville papers we learn the
particulars of three horrible murders perpe-
trated in the vicinity of that city, Monday
night, which are scarcely paralleled in the
history of the Ozark and Bloody Ground"
The Jouenol says:
Three persons, Jesse, William and Rus
sell Hill were assassinated at their homes
In the vicinity of Lost Island, six or seven
miles from this city, on Monday night last.
The assassins, supposed to be five or six in
number, committed the first deed of murder
at the residence of VIM. Hill, the first at.
tack having been made on Jesse Hill. whose
body was literally riddled with bullets: and
TO make the assurance of the murder doub1y
sure, the corpse was horribly cut and mu.
tllated with knife. An attack was then
made upon VIM. Hill, who was in bed at
the time with an invalid wife, and he. too.
was mercilessly murdered at his wife's side.
Inc party then repaired to the residence of
Russell Hill, in the same vicinity, and sue.
ceeded, after considerable manouverine in
getting him into their power, and be, too,
was sacrificed to the rapacious appetite for
blood. William Hill was thirty-three
years OF age and left family. Russell
Hill, a brother of VIM. Hill, was about
twenty-five years of age, and also left a wife
and child. Jesse Hill, the first victim, was
single man, about twenty-five years old.
and cousin to Russell and William Hill.
1t is generally known that q feud has
existed for some time between the Hills and
certain other persons 10 the neighborhood.
and that there had been more titan one
hostile meeting recently between the parties,
1t is presumed that the terrible tragedy of
Monday night is the sequel to former
troubles, and individuals connected with the
recent affrays in the vicinity are supposed
to have been active participants 10 the
horrid tragedy detailed above. Last evening
Jefferson Rogers and Hercules Walker, the
latter a city policeman, were taken into
custody by officers Bligh and Scay, by order
of Coroner Buchanan, on the charge of
completely in the murders. Others are
implicated in the affair and will no doubt
be arrested to-day. .@''
Many of our readers will remember that
occurrences of similar character took
place in Garrard county, Kentucky, about
eight years ago, between the Hill and Evans
families, in which the latter family was very
nearly, if not quite, exterminated. We are
informed that the victims to the assassination
of Monday night were of the same families
OF Hills who were rendered so famous in the
warfare against the Evanses in Garrard
county.
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1861-01-18

A LABoR1sa man, in Toronto, cut his
throat, Sunday week, because his wife and
foar children were On the brink of starva-
ion, and he could get no employment.
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1861-01-18
How and why Major Anderson moVedhis Troops

The Night Of December ssth, 1860.
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1861-01-18

THE ROW ACROSS THE HARBOR-THE FEDERAL
GUNS AND THE CHARLESTON STEAMBOATS,.
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1861-01-18
AN AUTHENTIC ACCOUNT
\ CHAPTER OF AMERICAN HISTORY.

EVACUATION OF FORT MOULTRIE.
The national Republican., 1861-03-28
EXTRA SESSION OF THE SENATE.
Wednesday, March 27, 1861,

WedneSddy, March n, 1861.
The Chair laid before the Senate the follow.
ing communication from the President of the
United States:
To The Senate Of the United States.
l have received copy Of the resolution of
the Senate, passed on the twenty fifth inst, re-
questing me, if in my opinion not incompatible
with the public interest, to communicate to the
Senate the dispatches of Major Robert Ander.
son to the War Department during the time he
has been in command of Fort Sumter. On ex.
animation Of the correspondence thus called
for, have, with the highest respect for the
Senate, come to the conclusion that ut the pres.
ent moment the publication of it would be in.
expedent. ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
Washington, March 26, 1861.
Mr.. Breckinridge moved that the Senate take
up the resolution which he introduced yester.
day, advising the withdrawal of Federal troops
from the Confederate States. He would make
no remarks now, having expressed his views
yesterday. He merely asked for the yeas and
nays, wishing the vote to be regarded as test
question.
Mr.. Fessenden supposed there would be no
objection to that but reminded the Senator
that a quorum was not present.
On motion of Mr.. Hale, the Senate went
into an Executive session.
When the doors were again opened,
Mr.. Breckinrdge moved to take up his reso
luton. An incidental debate followed, in the
course of which,
Messrs. Breckenridge and Douglas said that
Fort Pickens, as well as Sumter, should be sur
rendered. The latter was, however, for retain
ing the fort at the Tortugas.
Mr. Rice said the resolution was too sweep
ing and he would never consent that the last.
named defences should be given up, as they
we're not within the limits of Florida.
Mr.. Wade was for full discussion. He said
that seven States have gone out of the Union.
The people there have no voice in the Govern.
ment, which is military despotism. If they
had the power, they would call upon us to vim
dicate their rights, and the Constitution clothes
US with authority to do it.
Mr.. Bright thanked the Senator for his zeal
and honesty in expressing his views, and argued
that the Senate should advise the President
what to do in the absence of that body.
Mr.. Nesmith wanted something to carry to
his friends on the Pacific coast he wanted TO
tell them as to whether the policy of the Ad-
ministration was to be peace or war. He did
not believe he could make any man his friend
by thrusting a bayonet into his stomach.
Mr.. Collamer briefly argued that they had no
power to thus advise the President. They could
only, by the Constitution, advise him in relation
to appointments and treaties.
Mr.. Ten Eyck maintained similar views.
Several attempts we're made to go into Exec.
utive session. but no quorum voted, and finally
the Senate djourned till tomorrow.
The national Republican., 1861-03-28
PREMIUM TRUNK,
SADDLE, AND HARNESS

MANDATORY,
499 Seventh street., opposite odd Fellops Hall,
WASHINGTON, D. G.
Silver Medal awarded by Maryland Institute of
Baltimore, November 7, 1860.
Also, Medal by Metropolitan Mechanics Institute,
Washington D. G., 1857.
7 AM CONSTANTLY making and have on
L hand, of the best material, every description
of
Fine Sole Leather, Iron Frame,
LADIES' Dress, Wood Boz,
And Packing Trunks,
Carpet and Canras Travelling Bags,
School Satchels,
Saddles, Harness. Whips, de-, de-,
AT LOW PRICES
Superior Leather and Dress Trunks also, Ce-
dar Trunks, flor keeping Moth out of Furs and
fine Woolen Goods,) made to order.
Repairing, and Trunks covered, neatly and
with promptness.
Goods delivered in any part of the city, George
town, and Alexandria, free of charge
mar 22-y JAMES s. TOPHAM.
The national Republican., 1861-03-28
OFFICIAL.
TREASURY DEPARTMENT,

March 22, 1861.
SEALED PROPOSALS will be received at
this Department until twelve o'clock, noon, of
Tuesday, the I'd day of April next, for eight
million dollars of the stock of the United States,
to be issued under the act Of Congress of the 9Th
of February last
This stock will bear interest at the rate Of six
per cent. per annum, payable semi-annually, on
the first days OF January and July 10 each year,
and will be rembarsable in twenty years from
the first day of January last.
The proposals should be endorsed on the en-
velopes, Proposals for loan of 1861" and be
addressed to the Secretary OF the Treasury,
Washington, D. G. They will be opened and
decided at the time above stated.
No offer can he accepted for any fraction of
one thousand dollars, nor will any offer be con-
sidered unless one per centum of its amount is
deposited with any Depositary of the United
States, subject to the order of the Secretary of
the Treasury. The certificate of such deposit
must accompany each proposal. All offers for
stock under this notice must be unconditional,
and contain no references to any other offer.
The offers must state the sum offered for each
hundred dJllars of the stock.
Bidders for this stock whose offers shall be
accepted, must deposit the amount offered and
accepted with the Treasurer of the United States,
or with the Assistant Treasurer at Boston, New
York, Philadelphia, or st. Louis, or with the De.
positary at Cincinnati, on or before the fifteenth
day Of April next. Should any successful bidder
desire to deposit at any other point, his request
TO that effect will be duly considered.
Upon the receipt, at this Department, of GER
mentioned, certificates OF inscribed stock will be
issued to the successful bidders or their assigns
In sums Of one thousand, FIVE thousand, and ten
thousand dollars, at their option. Inscribed
stock SO issued will carry interest from the date
of the deposit of the money as above stated, and
will be transferable on the books of the Treasury
agreeably to the regulations of the Department.
Should any successful bidder desire certificates
of stock with coupons of the semi. annual inter-
est thereon attached to each certificate, they
will be issued in sums of one thousand dollars
each, with attached coupons of interest from the
lst day Of July next and such coupon stock, in
stead of being transferable on the books of the
Treasury, may be assigned and transferred by
the mere delivery of such certificates. The in
terest on such coupon stock from the date of the
deposit of the money therefor, until the first day
Of July, will be paid on that day to the accepted
bidder, or his attorney, by the Depostary with
whom the principal was deposited.
The preliminary deposit of one per centum re-
quired from all bidders under this notice will be
included in the final deposit of principal of sue
cessful bidders, and will be directed to be imme-
diately returned to unsuccessful bidders
8. P. CHASE,
Secretary of the Treasury,
mar 23-dt3aprif
The national Republican., 1861-03-28
NATIONAL MEDICAL COLLEGE,
Medical Department Of Columbian Colieqe,)
WASHINGTON n n

Sf~''''NS'ss
WASHINGTON, D. 9.
TNHE Fortieth Annual Course of Lectures in
L this Institu ion will commence on Monday.
October 81, 1861, and end on the lst of March,
1862.
THOMAS MILLER, M. D.,
Emeritus Professor of Anatomy and Physolo-
gy, and President of the Faculty.
JAMES j. WARING, NJ. D.,
Professor Of Obstetrics and Diseases of Women
and Children.
JOHN G. F. HOLsToN, MD,
Professor of Principles and Practice of Sur
gerry, and Clinical Surgery.
JOHN G. RILEY, M. D.,
Professor of Materia Medica, Therapeutics, and
Hygiene.
NATHAN SMITH LINCOLN, M. D.,
Professor of Anatomy and Physiology.
A. Y. P. GARNETT, M. D.,
Professor of Clinical Medicines.
GEORGE M. DOVE, M. d.,
Professor of the Theory and Practice of Medi-
cine.
GEORGE c. sCHAEFFER, NJ D.,
Professor of Chemistry.
WILLIAM E, WATERS, MD,
Demonstration OF Anatomy.
FREDERICK SCHAFHiRT,
Naturalist, Janitor and Curator of Museum.
Daily Clinical Lectures will be delivered by
the Professors of Clinical Medicine and Surgery.
IN the wards OF the Hospital, under the same
roof with the College.
FEES.
The entire expense for a full course of Lectures
by all the Professors is...................,.S9O
Practical Anatomy, by the Demonstration. 10
Matrlculatllp fee. Dayabla nnlv
Graduating expenses. .................... 25
No charge made for Clinical Lectures.
FOR circulars or fuller information, address
:, JNO. G. RILEY, NJ. D., Dean,
NO. 4S9 l4th street, Washington, D. @.
mar 22--
The national Republican., 1861-03-28
PURE COUNTRY MILK.

V1NHE subscriber delivers Pure Country Milk,
L morning and evening, as usual to his Gus
TONERS. Strangers commencing housekeepiug in
this City, who desire Milk, can have their orders
promptly attended to by applying at this office.
mar l3-tf DAVID MILLER
The national Republican., 1861-03-28

NAvAL.-The Navy Department has dis.
patches from Commodore Pendergrast, dated
Flag ship Cumberland, Hampton Roads, 23d
instant" in which he states that the ship Mace.
donian, Captain Glynn, was off the Island of
Sacr6cios at the date of the Cum mberland's de-
parture, twenty y.seven days previous. The
Pocahontas, Lieutenant Commanding Murray,
and the Powhatan, Captain Mercer, left for
Hampton Roads on the 22d and 23d of Febru.
aIry, and have probably stopped to coal at
Havana. OFF Sacrfcios, he left two English
steamers, two Spanish steamers and brig,
and u French steamer and brig.
The national Republican., 1861-03-28

DJ- Mr.. Milligan, of Tennessee, confirmed
yesterday as judge in Nebraska Territory,
is highly complimented by the Star.
The national Republican., 1861-03-28

pJ. The N. o. True Della describes the
Louisiana State Convention as made up of
"the .fithy dregs Of erery loathsome faction,
from blear.eyed Federalism to rufian Muggery."
The national Republican., 1861-03-28

Day Hon. W. r. W. Cobb, of Alabama, is
in the city, and had an interview yesterday
with the President
The national Republican., 1861-03-28

DJ" Mr. Holloway was yesterday confirmed
as Commissioner of Patents.
The national Republican., 1861-03-28

most excellent advertising medium.
COMBINATIONS BY THE SENATE.-LucusC c.
Chittenden, Of Vermont, Register of the Treas.
ury.
David X. Cartier, Minister to Bolivia.
Frederick Hsssaurek, of Ohio, Minister to
Ecuador.
William H. Corwin, Secretary of Legation to
Mexico.
George W. Van Horn, Consul at Marseilles.
James Leslie OF Pennsylvania, Consul at
Lyons.
William II. Carpenter, Consul at Foo.C .Choo.
R. W. Shufeldt, Consul General at Havana.
Willie P. Mangum, jun, Consul at Ningpo.
John d. Arnold, Consul at Odessa.
Il. B. Lawrence, Consul General at Flor
ence.
Mark Howard, Consul at Messina.
Richard G. Parsons, Of Ohio, Consul at Rio
Jeneiro.
William H. Fry, of New York, Secretary of
Legation at Turin.
The officers for the' new Terrtories-the
names of whom have heretofore been given
were confirmed.
Hiram Barney was confirmed as Collector for
New York.
There we're other combinations. of Collectors
in several parts Of the country.
George Sandee was confirmed as postmaster
at Abingdon, Virginia, and Alexander McDon-
aid at Lynchburg.
D. P. Holloway was confirmed as Commis
a;onar of Patents and Massrs S;laa TT HoIoas
of Vermont, George H. Harding of Pennsylva.
MIA, and Thomas c. Thesker of Ohio, Examin-
ers.in.chief.
The national Republican., 1861-03-28

The Charleston market is well supplied with
beef, at $500 "a $3.50 p cwt., and IL (g l5
cents, retailed. lot of Virginia cattle, Fri
day, was driven off unsold, the holders asking
$ll 2 hundred pounds.
The national Republican., 1861-03-28

pa" Ben. Mccullough is reported to be at
Richmond, making contract for ten thousand
arms for the Southern Confederacy.
The national Republican., 1861-03-28
Thursday, March 90, 1851.

A WORD TO BUSINESS MEN.
This paper has now circulation in this city
larger than all the city papers combined, with
the exception of one, and therefore affords
most excellent advertising medium.
The national Republican., 1861-03-28

tne statement tnat thlS Heet is snort ol proNlS-
ions, it is satisfactory to know that a storeship
with supplies for it left New York on the 18th
instant, and furthermore, that the distance to
Key West, where stores are in abundance, is
only six hundred miles.
The telegram from Savannah, that Govern
ment vessel with supplies for this fleet had been
captured by the rebels, is not true. No vessel,
with the name given, is in the service Of the
Government.
1t is suggested, as probable explanation of
the telegram, that some one of the small craft
used by the hucksters of Pensacola, in sending
fresh meat, &c. down to the fleet for sale, as
had been their practice before the order of the
rebel commander forbidding it, may have been
captured.
How 1T Is DoNE.-In a letter from Pensa.
cola, which we find copied in yesterdays Star,
is the following passage:
"Capt. Austin, of the Warrington Light In.
fantry, killed a man named Garret Durlaud,
for shouting for the Union. Respectable gen.
tlemen, uniavorable to secession, have had to
take shelter on board the steamer Wyandotte,
of the home feet"
We have already had the statement, from an
officer at the Navy Yard, that when the seces.
sion commenced, few persons in Pensacola ia.
vored it, until man cas stabbed for express.
ing Union sentiments. That turned the tide in
favor Of secession, and the same means have
been used all through the Gulf States.
A DEsCRIPTIoN.-Parson Brownlow of the
Knoxville (Tenn.) Whig, is not very choice in
his epihets, but the following description, in his
paper of March 10th, of the state Of things in
the cotton kingdom, is so confirmed by numer,
Gus accounts, that we transcribe it:
"These revolving States are swarming with
desperadoes and assassins, who would be alto
gether happy in bathing their hands in the
blood OF Union men. A more ferocous and
malevoent barbarism cannot be found on Gods
green earth, than that now dominant in this
Southern Coniederacy.' Private worth, pub
lie virtue, age and experience-none of these
can soften or restrain the multiplying and re.
lentless brutality which is engendered by the
mob spirit of this new form Of civilization"
This is description from a newspaper pub.
ished in the immediate vicinity of the locality
described, and the readers of which must be too
familiar with the facts, to tolerate any gross per
version of them.
All dissent being put down by threats, Of the
execution of which by murder, by every species
of violence short Of murder, and by Danish.
ment, we hear daily instances, q "releatless
brutality" reigns supreme throughout the Sc
ceded region. The mob spirit " has the up.
per hand, and will continue to rule, until the
people find that the danger to be incurred in
resisting it, is less than the danger of submit
ting 10 it.
/. is a knowledge of this condition of things
On ;bs Cult, cnnnantly becoming more general
vsieh mstss men in the border States realize
tAas issI' D"n psra1nal aafety requires them to
ksis % " iEs .%csf.l.es of life, and property,
saa ssessY, pE.ch are found in a national
ho"ssanssas, issescSIhy the sayersl members
~ 1,s Ci4sa kcA SssA ait and insarrection.
The national Republican., 1861-03-28

THE TARIFF IMBRoGLIo.-The malign effects
of secession, and of the failure Of the Govern.
ment to collect its revenues at the mouth of
the Mississippi, are already manifest in St.
Louis, where consignment of imported
goods has been received, upon which no duties
have been paid. In addition to fraud upon the
Government, an equal fraud is perpetrated up
on the honest and loyal merchants, who pay
the duties established by law. We rejoice to
learn that measures have been set OH foot by
Secretary Chase to collect the duties on this
particular consignment and to punish the of:
tenders.-Chicago Tribune, March 25.
The national Republican., 1861-03-28

A young man, Daniel Robbins, proposed hon.
orable marriage to q girl near Little Rock, Ar.
kansas, on the 10Th instant and her father
hearing Of it, shot him dead in the street.
The national Republican., 1861-03-28

slhce JahuaFy L.. oIl7sIiSV oo,o4oioIF 4lisoo,lZF
This diminution of imports is not favorable
to revenue, but it indicates that continued
economy of the people, which will soon restore
the old prosperity.
The exports continue on an increased scale.
The following is a comparative statement of
the value of exports, from the commencement
of the wear to March 81: