The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1861-08-09
THE WEEKLY PIONEER AND DEMOCRAT.
All Sorts Of Items.


within fifteen days. So the contract reads.
The Missouri State Convention has re-.
ceived report from the special committee
of seven which was appointed to consider
the condition of the State, recommending
that the offices of Governor, Lieutenant
Governor and Secretary of State be de-,
clared vacant that these vacancies be filled
by the Convention, and that the officers So
appointed shall hold their positions until
August, 1862, at which time there shall be
a special election by the people.
Mrs. Col. Richardson, of Michigan, is
spending her honey moon in camp. The
wedding took place just before the regiment
left home. She was in the late battle dis.
tributlng water and other comforts to the
weary. She will do for a soldiers wife:
Miss Augusta Foster, daughter Of the
Second Maine regiment, from Augusta,
Maine, was upon the battle field on Sunday,
had her horse shot from under her, and
walked all the way from the scere of action
to Alexandra, where >he was ministering
to the wounded at the hospitals.
Mr.. Reuben Dale, we'll known citi.
zen of Hart county, Kentucky, who was
eighty seven years of age on the 18th of
March, has joined the Home Guards in his
county, avowing his determination to de-
vote, if necessary, his few remaining days
to the defence of the honor and interity of
republic which is nearly four months his
junior.
"A marriage has been celebrated at
Bristol, England, under singular circum-
stances, the bridegroom being upward of
ninety years, and the bride fifty years old.
Neither of them had been married before.
They are both in receipt of parochial relief,
the man being cripple, and the woman
blind of one eye, and asthmatical.
On the 4th inst, the receipts of lead
ing Saratoga hotel were $87, against l,4OO
last year.
Vanity Fair says the opinion of the
Trojans is that it is not on the cards for
Gen. Wool to be worsted.
Captain Thomas Francis Meagher was
slightly wounded in the leg. His conduct
was truly brave. He marched at the head
ofhis company. When near the enemy he
shouted" Irishmen, remember Fountenoy."
With a hurrah, the men followed, and
wherever the fight was the thickest there
Captain Meagher was found.
There are fifty.seven cities in the world
which contain from 100000 to 100000 in
habitants twenty-three from 100000 to
100000; and twelve which contain above
100000.
The Providence Tool Company have
made a contract to manufacture $4,000
muskets of the Springfield pattern, for the
government. They will begin their prepar.
ations at once at their large workshop in
that city. They will proceed Immediately
to construct the required machines, and will
as soon as possible begin the manufacture of
the muskets. They have able and expert
enced men to supervise the work. Colonel
Colt of Hartford has contracted to make
$4,000 muskets also. Two other parties
have contracts to furnish the government
with $4,000. Thus these four contracts are
for 100000 muskets.
A Rochester New York; merchant
left bis house on Thursday evening to "cor-
rect an error in his trial balance" His
wife followed him, and found that it required
a carriage to find the error. She took a
vehicle likewise and pursued to "deep hol-
low" There the driver of the first car
rage was hailed to stop-the wife ran to
its door, and opening it, found the handsome
and richly dressed I" error" inside. The
account was Immediately squared and the
balance struck.
"A correspondent from the war says
"Our soldiers are charmed every night with
the lays of the nightingale" The Boston
Post says they would be good deal more
charmed, probably, with the lays of hen.
There is a rumor current that the
Rothschilds instructed their agent in New
York, Auguste Belmont, to take one bali
of the $250,O00,000 loan.
The secessionists in all of the blocka-
ded ports are ambitious of going extensive
ly into the Internal machine line. Secession
itself is one of the most Internal machines
ever invented.
The Charleston folks are trying to pre-
pare machines for blowing the blockad:ng
ships into the air. That would be sum-
mary plan of "raising the blockade"
-tAhe Hon. Joshua W. Jewett, late
% 4essman from Kentucky, departed this
life at Shelbyville, on Saturday last, in the
forty-ninth year of his age.
"A letter from Fort Pickens says that
the British war vessels have engaged all the
coal to be had at Cuba, and that it will be
impossible now TO keen the United States