The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1861-11-29
Interesting Southern News.

wig in commenting on the message Of
President Davis says we are two people
from this time forward. We are aware that
the Yankees are determined to quit us,
happen what may. II they cannot conquer,
their calculation is that they will be con.
quered by us. They have made up their
minds to submit tamely to their fate. Well
ii we must we must, though we shall have
great aversion for the task Our choice
is alter drubbing them soundly and making
them pay the expenses of the war to turn
them loose upon themselves, a prey to their
own vile passions.
The Richmond papers of Wednesday con-
tain dispatches from the rebel army, the
substance of which is as follows The small
pox, a violent type of the typhoid fever and
the black measles were prevailing, causing
frightful mortality among the rebel troops
near Bowling Green, Kentucky Large
numbers were dying daily.
Gen. Floyd's army have fell back five
miles south of Raleigh Court House, and
the Federal troops have been largely rein
forced.
General Lees command has retired to
Meadow Bluff.
The rebels reported two killed and sew
eral captured in skirmish last week in
Western Virginia.
The roads are in bad condition making it
difficult to obtain supplies.
A dispatch from Manassas in relation to
the skirmish near Falls Church, during the
past week, acknowledges two killed and
three wounded. They claim to have taken
one prisoner and killed five Federals.
The Richmond Wing announces the
death of John Hughes, a delegate to the
State convention from Randolph, who was
killed in the battle of Rich Mountain.
The Richmond Examiner of Wednesday,
confirms the report that the rebel Colonel
Croghan was killed in the recent engage
ment between Floyd and Rosecrans.
A dispatch from Charleston of the 18th,
says the unexpected failure of our shore
batteries at Bay Point, and Hilton's Head
to demolish at least one of the attacking
vessels has sadly shaken the confidence in
the efficiency of our guns against the mon.
ster frigates and iron clad gunboats which
they may have again to encounter, and now
so alarmed are many of the sordid souls
that infest all the Southern cities, that the
effect may already be seen in the longthen~
ing of freight trains which leave almost
hourly for the interior.
In Savannah the panic is even more gen.
eral and decided, whole neighborhoods hav.
ing been suddenly deserted by the exodus of
the wives and children of those who are in
arms at Fort Pulaski and the other bate
ries on the Savannah river.
The Richmond Enquirer OF the 22d an.
nounces that arrangements have been made
for quartering 500 more OF the prisoners at
present in Richmond at Tuscaloosa, Alaba.
ma, and Salisbury, North Carolina. The
first detachment for the former place were
to start on Friday afternoon, composed of
$50, including twenty commissioned officers.
Among them are F. s. Shaffer, First Lieu
tenant Ohio 9th; s. '. Preston, First
Lieutenant Michigan 4th; James Farrar,
Second Lieutenant Kentucky LIST; w. B.
Fletcher, Assistant Surgeon Indiana 9th !;
E. w. Hale, Lieutenant ste amer Fanny.
The Enquirer says the prisoners selected
were generally averse to the trip. A few
were gratifed at the change.
FRIGHT AT NEW ORLEANS.
The Charleston Mercury of the 2lst,
publishes despatch from New Orleans the
20tb, which states that immense excitement
prevailed there relative to the threatened
attack on Columbus Commodore Hollins
had gone there with his fleet and had tele-
graphed for the steam ram Manassas. A
floating battery of 20 guns was going up
that night. All the river pilots had been
impressed. 1900 troops and seventy can.
non were at Columbus.
Government has advjces that Richmond,
as we'll as Savannah, Charleston, Memphis
and New Orleans are in panic. Families
were packing up to be in readiness to leave
when the Yankees approached.
1t was the general belief that the rebel
Government had already commenced NOV
ing its archives to Nashville, so suddenly
made the Capital
Government also has intelligence that the
discount on the Confederate Treasury notes
is already 80 per cent. and that on private
issues must be still greater.