The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1862-10-03
Late News Items.

slavery martyr.
General Tlghman, recently released
from imprisonment at Fort Warren by ex-
change, is now at Jackson, Mississippi.
He addressed the citizens of that place,
and, according to a correspondent of the
Richmond Dispatch, stated that at Fort
Warren General Buckner and himself were
thrown into dungeon thirty feet under
the ground, and for four months and a
half were excluded from the light of day
and not permitted to exchange a word
with any living soul.
Gen. Bohlen's son died at Baden-Ba-
den on the same day the General was
killed, Aug. %.
The Cape Cod cranberry crop is be-
ing disposed of at 81 so to 50 per barrel.
in Minnesota cranberries are plentiful at
only 81 per bushel.
The London Morning Her0ld, the
paper Punch calls Mrs Gamp-has an
abominable article on the Corcoran re-
ception. 1t says:
4 quarter of million of persons turned out
in the streets of New York to welcome with
rapturous reclamation an insignificant Irishman.
who is only known to fame having been
taken prisoner tn Bull Rum because he could
not run fast enough. This very absurd person
is so putfcd up by his reception that he makes
a speech to the mob. promising that, soon as
the present little business is settled his high
mightiness will turn his attention to the :" de-
Of TYa1n al il, rDb a f.psn
we should hardly think it necessary to turn
ont file Of policemen for the reception Of him
and his army.
Our Irish friends will feel no more
deeply than the whole country the outrage
Of this cockney penny-a-liner. 1t is fair
specimen of the usual language Of the En-
glish papers when speaking Of Ireland and
Irishmen.
When the Morgan raid was made into
the heart Of Kentucky, portion Of the
guerilla chiefs followers were encamped
for a day or so near Georgetown, under
the command of r. NJ Gano. During
their stay there young Gano called upon
his only surviving aunt, Mrs Ewing. When
presented. he advanced to kiss her. Mrs.
Ewing drew back saying, No Dick. !
can't kiss a traitor | hardly know whetEl
er even to shake hands with you" Com
ing from Mrs. Ewing, one Of the most del
icate and affectionate Of women, this was
acknowledged by the renegade to have
been the severest rebuke he received whilst
n Kentucky.
The small river or creek 50 frequently
alluded to in the dispatches as the scene of
the recent conflicts IN Maryland, is called
Antietam pronounced An-tee- tam). 1t
rises on the line of Franklin and Adams
counties, Pennsylvania, and falls into the
Potomac between Martinsburg and Har-
per's Ferry.
The U. S. Grand Lodge OF Odd Eel
lows, in session at Baltimore last week,
elected officers as follows: J. B. Nicholson
of Pennsylvania, Grand Sire; William H.
Young of Maryland, Deputy Grand Sire;
James L. Ridgley, Grand Corresponding
and Recording Secretary; and Joshua
Vansant, OF Maryland, Grand Treasurer.
Since it has been announced that Phila-
delphia has supplied her quota and no draft
will be made there, the Ledgey says the
rush for houses by persons seeking resi-
dences in the city is enormous, and it has
even given an impetus to building
"A policeman who was recently at
Montreal says he saw there several men
who had enlisted in Boston, and, after get
ting their bounty, had deserted: One man
who was stopping at a first class hotel, and
was spending his money freely, boasted
that he had obtained bounty four times.
"A correspondent writing from the bat
: tie field of Antietam says it is beyond all
wonder how men such as the rebel troops
are can fight as they do. That those rag
ged and filthy wretches, sick, hungry, and
in all ways miserable, should prove such
heroes in fight, is past explanation. Men
never fought better. There was one regi-
ment that stood up before the fire of two
or three of our long range batteries and of
two regiments of infantry, and though the
air around them was vocal with the whistle
of bullets and the scream of shells, there
they stood and delivered their fire in per-
feet order; and there they continued to
stand, until battery Of six light twelves
was brought to bear on them, and before
that they broke. Nothing mortal can
stand a battery of six light Napoleon guns
if there is plenty Of grape and canister in
the ammunition chests.
General Meigs, Quartermaster Gen
eral of the army, has been engaged for
some time in systematizing measures
whereby the trains Of the army may be
materially reduced. The example Of the
rebels, who enter upon campaign and
win imnOrfant ouococcoy 1v;fhout 1OnU h0 o.