The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1861-11-22
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the attack on C0l. Billy Wilson's regiment,
at Santa Rosa Island, is q grand nephew of
Mad Anthony Wayne, of the revolution.
Col. Hayman, of the New York Thirty
Seventh, a cousin of Major Wedges, is also
a grand nephew Of the revolutionary gener-
al.
The official accounts of the killed, wound
ed and missing, at Belmont, is much less
than was first reported. The 7th Iowa
ha 'e met with the heaviest loss, as they
were in the thickest of the fight. All the
field officers and commissioned officers with
few exceptions, were wounded. Sixty
eight of their number are prisoners at Coz
lumbus. Their entire loss in killed, wound
ed and missing, is $50. The 22d Illinois
loss is about 100. These two regiments
were most exposed to the enemy's ire, and
the men acted bravely.
The cash operations of the Treasury De
partment for October were nearly ninety
three millions. Same time last year, nine
and a half millions. Over four millions
were paid over the counter at Washington,
during the last three days of the month.
ADvICEs from St. Louis state that Major
Finney, whs left Springfield Mo-, with Gen.
Fremont, brought away military chest
with about 100000, having failed to pay
off the loops. The money has been secured,
and the Major has been arrested and return
ed.
A LARGE warehouse at Lodi, on the Ga
lena and Chicago Railroad, was destroyed
by fire on Thursday. 1t was filled with
grain, and owned by Hezekiah Ford. Loss
about 100000, and no insurance.
The news from Europe at the State
Department is understood to be eminently
satisfactory. Official dispatches corrobor-
ate the impressions given by the Geographic
reports already published in the newspapers.
Unofficial communications from loyal citi-
zens of the United States, residing in Paris
and London, say that in France Prince
Napoleon has cast off all reserve, and de.
clared that the instruction cannot prevail,
and the other letters say that secession is
dead in France, or at least that it gives no
signs of life.
PARsON BRowNLow has been forced to
suspend the publication of his paper, the
Knoxville Uenn.) Wing. He gives his
readers farewell address, in which be says
he will neither give bond to keep the
peace, nor will be take an oath to support
the JEFF. Davis confederacy, and be informs
the authorities that be is ready to 60 to
Jail on moments warning. He has been
indicted by the Grand Jury for treason.
OVER nine buudred men are now employ.
ed in the United States Arsenal at West
Troy. Every workshop is crowded to its
utmost capacity, and the scene of labor is
continued both night and day. In the lab
ratory, where the employees are engaged
thirteen hours out of every twenty-four,
there are employed two hundred boys in
putting up cartridges. On an average each
boy puts up 800 per day. This arsenal
now turns out per week more work than
any other in the country. While vast
amount of army necessaries are daily being
sent to the seat of war from this place,
enough is retained to meet at any time the
requirements of Northern frontier army.
News from Mendoza, the scene OF the
late disasterous earthquakes, announce that
violent upheavings of the earth had again
occurred, banishing all hopes of the possibil-
ity of the occupation of the site of the late
City. OCNoi al OuHuiuSo LOU UCCu UCkUu,
but they will doubtless be removed. De-
structive fires had ravaged Tucuman. The
Oriental Republic had stationed force of
of two hundred men on the borders of La
plata and Uruguay to protect its interests.
The city of Baltimore, out of 2l,O69
votes, pretty full vote for Baltimore, has
just given an average vote OF l7,722 for the
Union, and the Union majority in the State
will be somewhere near 10000. This tells
the story for Maryland but it is clinch-
er for Baltimore. 1t shows that all the &c
cession plots, outbreaks and troubles of that
city have been the work of two or three
thousand Bloody Tubs, Plug Uglies. Fejees
and other voracious savages and Migrants.
DIR. BELLOWS, President of the Sanitary
Commission, has forwarded to the State
Department detailed account of visit to
the rebel State and war prisoners in Castle
William. He says that when first brought
there, when 10 preparation had been made
to receive them, iIi-clothed and sick from
the voyage, there was, no doubt, more or
less Inconvenience suffered. Their wants
had been supplied with alacrity, and the
prisoners were better supplied and led than
many OF our own soldiers in the field. In
conclusion, DR.. Bellows states that it would
be great consolation to believe that our
own prisoners were treated half 80 well.
Hon. E. D. Morgan, Governor of the
State of New York, is now receiving
$4,000 year salary as Governor, and up
wards of $1,000 year as Major-General
U. S. A. Happy Morgan.
TWELVE ladies 10 Europe, and twelve on.
~, are eligible to the hand of the Prince of
Wales. The requisites for the honor are
royal birth, professionalism and youth. A
princess of Denmark is talked of as the
most probable future queen of England.
A PRIVATE letter from gentleman who
knows of what be writes, says that "the
Prince Napoleon, since bis return from
America, makes no disguise in expressing
both in public and in private, his decided
conviction that the North is not only abun.
dainty able to whip the shareholders, but
that it will do it and ought to do it, and
the sooner the better. From the general
course of the press for the last fortnight it