The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1862-02-21
News and Other Items.

The Louisville Journal says "the ladies
of our city have it in contemplation to pre-
sent flag to each OF the regiments engaged
in the Mill Spring fight. the 4th Kentucky,
10th Indiana, 9th Ohio, and I'd Minnesota.
The gentlemen will of course take pleasure
in contributing the fund for this purpose
when called upon. The design is most
creditable to the loyal women of Louisville,
and the compliment to our noble defenders
will, we do not doubt, be highly apprecia-
ted"
At Cresltne, Ohio, on the 9Th instant,
as Mrs. Graham, wife of an engineer OF the
Pittsburgh. Fort Wayne and Chicago rail-
road, was filing a coal oil lamp, the oil
Caught fire, communicating to Mrs. Ora
hams clothes and burning her and two Of
her children to death. Mrs. Grabam's
mother, al old lady, was also burned, also
another child of Mrs. Graham's. But it is
thought they will recover.
The Richmond Dispatch says that the
local editor of the Richmond Enquirer re-
Gently visited Baltimore, and passed the
federal lines without any difficulty. "His
report of the prevailing sentiment of the
people of Maryland, gathered from reliable
sources, is most encouraging. He repre-.
sents that fully nine teuths OF the people of
the State anu of the city of Baltimore are
earnest sympathisers with the Southern
views"
Mrs. General Lanes $1,000 carriage,
presented by the Chicago admirers of her
husband, was so demolished by an accident
Oh the Hannibal aud ST. Joseph Railroad,
that nothing but splnters could be found
Hon. Monroe Henderson, member Of
the New York Senate from Long Island,
has been sent to the Utica I1sane Asylum.
DR. Watson, the loyal Senator lately
elected in Accomac, Virginia, appeared at
Wheeling, on Wednesday, and took bis
seat 10 the Legislature. He is much Ion
lied in town. He defends the pe Ople of
the Eastern Shore from the charge OF bad
faith tc the Union, and says that they were
overpowered by the personal presence of
Governor Wise. who having made them
vote secession, left military organization
to take good care that they did not revolt
from the Contederacy in his absence.
DIR. Cheever, on t1e invitation of some
forty Congressman, preached last Sunday
in Washington. He likened the Slave
States to Herod's wife, and the Border
States to Herodias, who danced before the
king at the White House, and made him
promise to give what she wanted. Shall
the price of their loyalty be paid ahall
slavery be left untouched were his ques-
tions.
Capt. Gordon, convicted AID sentenced
to be hung in New York, on the 9TH inst,
for dealing in the slave trade on board the
ship Erie, was respited by the President
until the 28th ult From the terms of the
Presidents letter, we conc ude that be will
be executed on that day. Mr., Lincoln
says:
In granting this respite it becomes my pain.
full duty to announce to the prisoner that re.
linquishDg all eXpec tatiOn of pardon by human
authority, he refer himself alone to the mercy
of the common God and Father of all men.
In the various battles ard skirmishes
that took place during the month of Janu-
ry, this year, between the Union and rebel
forces, the following is the aggregate of the
killed, wounded and missing:
Union Rebel.
Killed. As go. 296
Woun3ed