The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1862-04-25

that he might leave rs tor dead. "Oh,"
said she, "if all the Yankees were one man
and l had sword here, would like to cut
bis throat ~
And she said it with vim, too. We
told her we would take good care OF young
Lieutenant White, and see that Miss Flor-
rill had an opportunity to change her name
afer the battle was over, hoping for an in
vitation to the wedding, and as she had
called me the "Divine," Chaplain of the
regiment, I proposed to marry them.
"Never," said she. 81 hope be will come
home dead before you shall take Yorktown.
l would wade in blood up to my knees to
bury his body"
She spoke of poison in q glass of water
we drank, but l replied zone look OF her
angel face, one smile from her lovely fea-
lures would be an antidote to the rankest
poison" EYES," she replied, "and to your
hatred of tine South, too?
The filtration nearly made her in favor of
Union and US the more SO. But we had
rot gone far when we observed a company
Of soldiers approaching, who brought with
them the "lovyer" a corpse upon litter,
returning to his sweetheart.
He had been shot while trying to avoid
the quick eyes OF our sharp shooters, near
house upon the Y ork river shore, where his
father had resided, and where a negro in
formed the soldiers that bis mother and
sister were at the house where We had been
in conversation with the ladies, one of whom
was his sister, and cur soldiers had, alter
receiving orders, carried him to be buried.
We did not mar the sorrow of the rela.
tives by stopping to witness the reception
of the body.
This morning a rebel threw down his
gun, when finding himself too near to es.
cape, and sung out "deserter," but it came
too late, ball went complsty through his
heart.
A deserter, wounded while coming in,
and now in cur hospital, says our sharp
shooters are the principal terror OF the reb
els, having picked off a very large number
of their gunners--ki!ling seventy six in ali
and wounded nearly two hundred. Hestates
that they lost thirteen in the fight on Sat
urday, and thirty six wounded. Seven OF
our men were wounded yesterday.
A correspondent of the Philadelphia In
quirer writes from fort at Ship Point, for"
merly occupied by the rebels, and which is
eight miles from Yorktown, on Wednesday
evening, April 9th. He says that there
are four forts which were constructed by a
Polish officer named Zulaskoski, and his
men, the l4th Louisiana. He had great
ability. and constructed the forts scientiti
cally, but made bis men work so hard that
he became unpopular, and he afterwards
resigned The correspondent writes
DESCRIPTION CT FORTIFICATIONs.
The one on the right was built for ten
guns, each of the Others for but one gun
the works are scientifically laid out, and
the soil admirably adapted for making a
fort. is hard, tough clay a trench twelve
feet wide, filled with water, in front of the
whole line, which is mile long, makes it
impossible for it ever 10 have been carried
in front by storm. Around the embrasures
the banks are covered with turf eighteen
inches thick the banks of clay are from
fifteen to twenty feet wide; around all the
embrasures are "rat holes" for men to crawl
into to avoid shells; the powder magazines
we're also under the trenches.
THE ARMAMENT.
In the latter part OF November, three
heavy siege guns were mounted, but about
New Years they were hauled away towards
Yorktown, and since then they have had
nothing but field artillery.
THE MATERIAL AND STYLE.
The huts are of logs, brick chimneys, ard
single roofs; all the timber, &c., cut in
the woods not halt mile from the camp,
a saw mill, short distance off, furnishing
boards out of which panel doors have been
made. The huts have good windows in
them; the horse stables lave single roofs.
The ColoDel's headquarters were with the
men in his hut is handsome stable, made
from pitch pine. 1t is now occupied by my
friend, DIR. j. Howard Taylor, Brigade Sur.
geon. Many of the buildings have fancy
boards along the caves. The Quartermas.
ter's store is two story concern.
COMFORTABLE QUARTERS.
Our troops look upon them as godsend
and are nestled in them, huge fires blazing
upon the hearhs, and the wind bowling
through the pines as though it were the
depth Of winter.
GENERAL MAGRUDER's BOAST.
The house we are now writing in was but
a short time ago, used by General Magru,
der, this being his headquarters. When be
left be informed them that the Yankees
were coming down here, but he would make
"eueyy house between Hampton and Rich-
mond hospital and euery felda graveyard
before they reached their Capital: He has
not done so the first twenty-five miles
what he will do Tor the next seventy re-
mains TO be seen.
The peach trees are out in blossom. An
other week will give US pasture for our
horses, and the trees will be out in leaf.
The roads are in an awful condition, but
day or two will remedy that, as the soil is
sandy loam.
There is no great wealth around here
The man who owns thu place from which
we write, informs us he has about 200 acres
and a dozen slaves. Before the war he
thinks it was worth about fifty dollars an
acre. He has family Of about nine, and
his only son is in the rebel army. He never
had anything to sell. 1t took all he could