The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1861-05-24

MILITARY MOVEMENTS NORTH AND SOUTH.
The people Of Richmond have begun to
comprehend by the war prices of provisions
Potatoes cannot be obtained under 81 per
bushel; butter brings so to 60 cents per
pound sugar, which used to be sold at
from to 10 cents, now readily brings from
20 to Is cents per pound, and half water at
that sides of bacon are worth from % to
% cents per pound, and hams readily sell
at from rs to ~ cents. All these articles
are in very small supply. Wheat -four is
sold at from So to $40 per barrel but as
a good deal of this article is manufactured
on the spot, it is not so very scarce. Bush
ness is altogether suspended. An ordinary
spool of cotton, usually worth one or two
cents, cannot now be had under from ten
to twelve cents. Most of the stores keep
open from nine till three o'clock. Every
body is enlisting and going to drill. Fod.
der is very scarce, and the authorities are
making every effort to obtain it. Hay is
worth two dollars per hundred. Shell corn
sells at one dollar per bushel, and corn
meal at one dollar and half. Chickens
and half grown hens readily command a
dollar apiece. Prices of horses and cattle
are very high.
The arrival of the First Regiment of
Vermont in New York, to the number of
eight hundred and forty, created sensa.
ton. As soon as it was known they had
arrived, the depot was surrounded by anx-
ious hundreds, whose threats at once be-
came full of musical enthusiasm, and cheer
after cheer rang through the air in honor of
the hard listed, stalwart lads, drawn up in
the line with musket to shoulder, and bay
onet brightly glistening in the efalgence Of
May morn's sun. To say that every man
of the First Regiment of Vermont Light
Infantry is the exact type Of soldier, is
nothing more than what is justly due them.
They are slashing, dashing, brawpy, well
knit fellows, with very deep determination
stamped on every lineament OF their counte-
nances. The field and staff officers are Col.
j. Wolcott Phelps; Lieutenant Colonel,
P. T. Washburn; Major, 81. N. Worthen;
Adjutant, Hiram Stevens Quartermaster,
E. A. Morse; Surgeon, E. K. Sanborn;
Assistant Surgeon, Willard Chile; Ser
geant Major, @. G. Chandler Drum Ma
jor, Thos. r. Clark; Fife Major, Martin
j. McManus; Chaplain, Rev. Levi 81.
Stone.
The complete pacifcation of Maryland
may now be proclaimed. Moral suasion
has done 1.-THE moral suasion of an over
whelming and still accommodating military
force. This irresistible sort of argument
has convinced the people of Maryland that
their true position was within the Union,
and they cannot get out of it. The same
logic will produce the same results in Vir-
ginia. Gen. Scott has now every thing
working to bis hand, and when be orders
the United States troops to move across the
Potomac, we are confident that he will
clear the roads through and to Richmond
of all rebellious resistance as efectually as
has been done through Maryland.
Governor Harris of Tennessee has
seized $74, $50, IS, chiefly in Tennessee bonds,
held in trust by the United States for the
Indians, and deposited with the Surveyor
of the port of Nashville, for the convent
ence of paying interest, and stealing. As
secession stops payment of debts, Tennessee
has made what fishermen call water haul
by stealing her own bonds.
"A great pressure is brought to bear
on Gen. Scott to induce him to order an
advance of troops into Virginia. Even
members of the Cabinet have been exerting
themselves to some effect, but the sagacious
old hero will not move on Richmond until
be is quite ready.
- Capt. Lyon, of the Second Infantry
who captured Camp jackson, at st. Louis,
was born in the State of Connecticut. he
entered the service as I'd Lieutenant, July
l, l841. He has been once breveted, and
be received his captains commission Aug.
20, 1847.
A worthy minister of Cleveland,
day or two since, handed revolver to
captain of one Of the city companies, with
the following remark" If you meet
secessionist, and have time, pray for the
unfortunate mans soul; but if you haven't
got time for praying, don't fail to shoot
ham,"
Letters from Galveston, Texas, have
been received up to the Both of April,
stating that provisions were scarce and
becoming every day dearer. Theirsupplies
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