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ken more, but the men we're SO enper for
The fray, that few were disposed to do any>
thing else thnn fight.
THE cAPITULATIoN OF FORT poNELsos.
Late Saturday night the inte Iligence was
received that the enemy had received large
re'niorcements, and wonld renew the attack
The next day in numbers five to one. A
council at war was Immediately held by
Gems. Pillow, Buckner and Floyd, and Il
was determined that they should surrender
rs our troops were wearied and worn out
for want Of sleep and rest, and the lubors
Of the four previous days. Accordingly
Sunday morning, the 18th inst, at o'clock
n. m, Gen. Pillow and Staff crossed the
river, and proceeded up to ClarksvIle on
horseback. Soon after, Gen. Floyd and
Sn0 of his brigade took the steamer Ander.
sun and went mp TO the same point, leaving
Gen. Bnckn-r behind to make the surren-
der. On Sunday the mere semblance of
resistance was made by the forces at the
fort: few guns were fired and the capitu.
la,'on made, nearly the whole army, some
l2'Ooo strong, falling into the enemy's
hands. Gen. Buckner, and Gen. Hrimnrl,
with portion Of their own, FIoyd's and
Pillows brisades, are among The prisoners.
II was reported ut Nashville that 1900
OF Gen. Buckner's command, being unwil
ling to surrender, had cut their wny through
the enemy's lines and escaped This, how
ever, is n mere rum0r. Col. Forests CON-
mand escaped with loss Of about so men,
mud when last heard Of, Were ten miles be.
low Clarkesvilc.
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HYMENEAL.

Married, on the 25th Of February, 1862,
at Oak. Lawn, Cabarrus County, N. G., n,
the residence Of Edwin r. Harris, Esq, by
the Rev. J. l.. Kirkpatrick. ID. d Rev J.
n. CRAIG, Of Lancaster, s. G., to Miss
LYDIA B. HARRIS.
Married, on the 10Th ult , at Lancaster
vile, by Rev. Mr.. Walker, the Rev. A n.
Wells, Of the South Carolina Conference,
and Mr.. Ann y. Tiptnn
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WAR NEWS.
NEWS FROM TENNESSEE.
NEW CABINET APPOINTMENTS.

RICHMOND, Feb. ga despatch receiv-
ed to day from Bristol, Tennessee, states
that the enemy occupied Nashville on Sun.
day. The number of Confederate prison
ers taken at Fort Donelson was about 1000
We had besides, 500 killed nnd 500 woun
ded. The enemy admit their loss to have
been between 5000 and 10000 killed and
wounded.
despatch received here from Chatta.
nooga, reports that the encmy's gunboats
reached Nashville on Tuesday morning
released captive from Roanoke Island
says tina. 2440 men and officers were releas
ed on parole, and sent TO Elizabeth City on
steamers. The men made their way TO
Norfolk, and II portion arrived in Richmond
to-day by the other route. The \. G.. troops
went across the country to Warrenton.-
The result Of tho battle was as follows
Killed, l3. Mortally wou nded (and since
died), 3. Slightly wounded, 81. All are
doing well in the Hospital at Elizabeth CT.
ty, ind will soon return home.
THE NEW CABINET.
The proceedings of Congress to dav
were unimportant. The President has n OF
yet sent in his appointments for the new
Cabinet The opinion obtains in well in
formed circles, that an entire re cast of the
Cabinet ~ i'll be made There is n stropo
outside pressure in favor Of Tooubs for
the Secre,aryship of War. 1t is said that
the Presidents desire is to divide the Cabi.
net appointments among the most promi.
nent and capable men Of the former poli,i.
cal parties. Edward ii. Ewing, Of Tsnnes
See, is mentioned as likely to be called to a
place in the Cabinet. Tho following is
generally considered here to be the most
probable cast Of the new Cabinet.
Secretary of Sta,e-Mr BENJAMIN, of
Loui siana.
Secretar. Of War.-Gen. Lee, of Vir
ginia.
Secretary Of the Navy-Mr Randolph
Of Virginia.
Secretary of the Treasury.-Mr Mem
minger, Of South Carolina.
Postmaster Gcnersl-Mr. Henry, of Ken.
lucky.
Attorney General.-II V. Johnson, OF
Georgia.
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HEADQUARTERS.

2lst Reg't. :. c. NJ, Lancaster c. II.
March 3, 1862
GENERAL ORDERS, No. ..
The following named persons are appoint.
ed and will constitute the Reglmrn,a staff,
of this Regiment, and will be oLeyed aud
respected accordingly
DR. RoBERr =. Mellow, Surgeon.
DIR. PETER WyLrE, Assistant Surgeon.
Jas. IL. w. STEVENS, Adjutant.
RoB'T T.. ALLISON, Judge Advocate.
w. NJ CoNSoRs, Paw Master.
J. A. CUSNiSGHAM. Quarter Master.
BINGHAM BLACKMoS, O.. Masters Sergt.
RoB'r NJ. MILLER, Sergeant-Mnjor.
REV. w. +. BRAsINGrnN Chaplain.
JAS. n. WiTIiERSpOON,
Col 2lst Reg't. s. G. NJ.
March 5, At
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CONGRESSIONAL.

RICHMOND, Feb. 27-The Senate ba,
confirmed A. p Hill and J J. Peitigrew
(both Of North CaroIina,) Brigadier Gen.
erals
A resolution was unanimously passed to
entertain no peace propositions excluding
any portion Of tho soil Of The Coo federate
States, and declaring that the war shall be
continued until the enemy is expelled from
the Confederacy.
In the HOUSE,, Mr.. Miles, Chairman Of
the Military Committee. reported a Bill
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Interesting to Planters.

At the recent Cotton Planters Convention,
which met in Memphis on 18th ult, the follow,
ing, among other resolutions, was discussed
Resoired, 1t is the opinion Of this Con-
vcn'ion 'h"t every planter throughout the
Confrderacy in determining the character
aud extent "f his crops to be planted.
should bear in mind that i, is reduced al.
most to Ger, unity. that The armies "f the
C"nfedrra,y are To be supplied almost ex
cluslve'y with provisions from the Cotton
States.
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Notice.

DY Permission Of p. II. Hammond, O. L..
ID d. will sell at the late residence Of
VIM Ross, deed. on Thursday the goth
inst, the whole personal Estate of said
deceased, consisting of one horse, Cove,
Hogs, Sheep, Corn, Fodder, one Horse
Wagon, farming tools, household and
kitchen furniture, and other articles too
tedious to mention.
TERMS-A credit Of months with
interest from day of sale, purchaser to give
note with good security.
JOHN II. McMURRAY, Adnr.
March 5, 1862. at.
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STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA.

F1-NtNV . y II VNJUINITTI Nf1N VI BEN,
COLUMBIA, February 20, 1861.
'NHE following resolutions. adopted by
i the Governor and Council, have been
ordered to be published
Resolrea, That The Chiefs Of the Treasu.
ry be- directed TO ascertain the amount of
gold and silver plate belonging to the citi.
zens OF this State. with view of hereafter
taking and melting such portion thereof as
may be necessary TO constitute the basis of
future circulation 10 provide means for the
public defence, " such shall be deen ed
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MUNICIPAL ELEcrroS.-The following gentle
men were on Monday last, elected Intendant
and Wardens Of the Village Of Lane aster for
the ensuing year
ISr,SDANr.-Dr. s. l.. Straite,
WArDENs.-Capt. John d. Cousart, Jones
Crockett, VIM. Stevens, John N. Crockett.
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creating nm office Of commanding General
Of the Confederate Army, during the war.
The indications are strong that the bill will
pass. Pending its adoption tho House
weEt into secret session.
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We have not published the communication
from Camp Hampton, sigued "Orderly" be,
cause, in the frat place, the writer does not
send us his name and srcondly, because there
are portions Of it, which for the sake OF the
cause which Orderly" doubtless has at heart,
it would be better, at this particular time, to
omit.
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COLUMBIA, S. C., FEBRUARY, 1862.
BY virtue Of the authority vested in the
Chiefs Of the Treasury Department. under
a resolution adopted by the Governor and
Council, YOU nre directed to ascertain the
amount Of gold and silver plate belonging
TO the citizens Of your District or Parish /;
and for the purpo.e Of effecting this object,
You are instructed to require each tax pay.
er in your District to make n return to You,
on oath, Of the number Of pieces of gold
or SILVER plate, the weight of the said plate,
and it's actual valnc, as near as can be as-
cerlained-the said return to be made at
the same time and place that the annual
State tax return Is made. Upon the refusal
or neglect Of any person TO make return
OF gold and silver plate, according to the
terms OF this order, you are required TO re.
port 10 this Department the names Of the
persons so refusing or ncglcctlng, as soon
as your books are closed, and the ordinary
return of the State taxes is completed
The method Of proceeding will be. to
put TO each taxpayer, or the party offering
TO make return Of tho State taxes, the
following questions
What number Of pieces Of gold or silver
plats do you, or those you represent, own /!
10 'hc tHe shlu pihte, nS
certained by actual weighing the same, or
according to your knowledge and belief I
What do you consider the true value Of
the said plate, as n marketable article or ar.
ti:Ics
You will procure suitable book for re.
corting the rsturn Of gold and silver plate,
separate from the 'ordinary tax book for
which you will be paId-and insert the name
OF each tax payer, with the number of pieces,
weight and value of the plate, opposite his
name. Opposite the name of each tax pay.
er who refuses or neglects to return plate,
The words, Refuses to return Plate" or
"Neglects TO return Plate" rs The case may
be. Upon completing the return. and clio.
sing your books, you will forward it to
this Department, signed by you as Tax
Collector of your District.
BY order Of the Governor and Council.
WM. II. GIST,
w. II. HARLLEE,
Chiefs Of Treasury Department.
Feb 2S, 1t.
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Taxes.

We are requested by Mr. James r. Hunter
to discontinue the publication of his advertise
ment in relation to the collection of Taxes,
aud to state that he will not be able to get of
from the army in time to meet his appoint
men,s. The public will be notified soon OF
whatever arrangement is made.
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Another large cargo Of arms, (says the Cher
lesion Mercury, 2sth ult.. has just reached one
Of the Southern ports. These muskets come
Just in the nick of time.
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STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA,

EXECUTIVE COUNCIL CHAMBER.
Columbia, Feb. 25, 1862
NOTICE is hereby given tina, all per
~ sons having any arms suited for pub
lie service, or any lead, powder, saitpetre o.
sulphur, are earnestly requested t. report
the same to the chief of the Military De-
partment, or to agents appointed bv him,
md that fair prices will be given for them
for the use Of the State.
BY order Of the Governor and Council
f. !. MOSES, JR., Secretary.
Feb %, 1862. 4-3t.
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Notice.

Notice.
7 HAVE LOST TWO NOTES. one on
1 F ID. Green, for SI2s 90, dated March
l2tn, 1861 and one on james r.. Cureton.
for 100000. dated Gas well rs | rcmember)
on the ist of February, 1861. All persons
ara warned against trading for the above,
as they will be renewed after this ndyer.
t'sement. r. NJ. SIMS.
DeS. 10Th, iSIl, 46 .-3m.
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OBIrUA AIRY.

Died, on the 10th of February, 1862. in
this District Mrs. Nancy 4. 8ELK, consort
Of w. l.. Br!k, in the 2!d year,of her aye.
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THE LAST DAYS BATTLE.

The last days battle occurred on Satur.
day, the 18th inst, and not on Sunday. rs is
usually supposed. The whole Confederate
force at Fort Don-lson on that day wa.
$4,000 men-the snemy's was estimated at
60 600
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THE WEEKLY PIONEER AND DEMOCRAT

of the Bethel tragedy. The rebel force in
front of Us is said to be thirty to forty
thousand, and they are bringing up large
numbers of reinforcements from Norfolk
and Richmond, by boats, and unloading
them above.
The NEXT REBEL STAND BEYOND YORK.
TowN.-Should we drive them from their
line here, they have another at Williams
burg, about fifteen miles beyond YORKTOWN.
A DESPERATE BATTLE PRoBABLE.-We
will have fearful struggle here-a desper-
ate and bloody fight. The rebels will no
doubt make stand which they can be
driven from only with fearful loss of life.
Our siege guns and mortars when opened
upon them may do the work for us; but it
must be done.
FEELING IN THE UNION ARMY.-The men
are willing and eager to charge them at
the point of the beyonet.
HE REBEL SHAREHOLDERS They have
large force of sharpshooters, with rifles
along their front; but our men, so far, keep
them at their distance.
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The Great West.
From the Boston Post

From the Boston Post
Not heart in New England but halls
the Great West with pride. Her charac-
ter is developing its heroism, courage,
magnanimity, grows upon tine world every
day. She warned the South that she was
not 10 be trihed with !; that she had an in.
heritance in the Mississippi, and that she
should maintain it.. She is maintaining it,
and tine memory of her labor to maintain it
will linger forever in the ears OF the South.
When this labor is over, when the Mlssis-
sippi is subjected to its just ard natural
masters, it will be many years before any
other dsIoyal band will attempt to wrast it
from them. The West is making a splen~
did history for herself--she is growing like
great nationality upon the world, and the
future powers Of the earth will respect her
character and her demands. As is sug.
gested, she will stand, more and more, as
she grows in political Importance, between
the fanaticism of the East and the feuda!n
ism of the South. 1t will be her great du,
ty to silence sectionalism everywhere, to
reconcile sections to the sovereignty of the
central power. No man can doubt but
that she will use her power honorably, just
". She is the life blood of Boston, New
York, Philadelphia, Baltimore; these cities
are her brokers between her and the great
Eastern world their wealth must be &C.
quirsd in bringing Europe and the West
together. New Orleans stands in the same
relation to her. Her necessities require
that che should have these two avenues to
the seas, and she will have them. She
never can be divorced from the East, never
can be divorced from the South, and, today,
she shows that she has the power to main.
tain this dual Union against all opposition.
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y GoUKT, SECOND JUDICIAL DISTRICT. AND
John simmons, Plaintiff, against, David L. Fuller,
and Able Fuller and George Fuller, surviving part
MRS of he late firm of Albert Fuller 4 Co owl!
liam h. flaming, J. jay Knox. Z. n Tayler assignee
of j. Jay Knox Albert Armstrong, Mary L. Hall, exec
and testament Of Jonn Mortimer Hall ed MORT.
mer L. Hall, Alice r. Hail, aud Mary T. Hall, minor
children and legatee OF john Mortimer Hail. deceased.
ssihsart, EOsnez:r i Towne,, Win am B. Kendrick.
Joseph W. Dicknsoa, Asa b. Barton. Isaiah Atkins,
Charles W: Willams, Charles H. Willam-, john r.
Williams, John B.. sauborn surviving partner Of the
Bolton, Sherwood D. Gould, Charles N Mackubin,
Erastus 5. Edgerton, Thomas Fdgerton Henry Matby,
Therefore F. Geisse, Will an H. Lane, John Dutton,
William II. Griswold, Benjamin Calender, John T.
f. Brownsoa and James F. oil ey, surviving partners
of the late firm OF Brownson, Di,ley Il Brownson,"
Oscar King Moses Pettngill, EdwardL. Draper John
Ca dwell, A!bet Caldwell, Alfred 3. Bracket. Cham.
cey W; Griggs. George ". Buard, Franklin Steele,
John e. Croker, Sidney B. Morse James l.. stark Jr,
Charles +. Dewey, Thomas A. Hendricks, John Mimi
ger and Is ,sc C. Elliott efendants. ~
The State of Minnesota, to the Defendants above
named
You and each of you are rere5y summoned, and
CURED TO The compl tint in this action which has
Paul. in The county OF Ramsey in the State Of Mlnaeso
Ia and to serve copy of your answer the sail
the county Of Ramsey in the State sfo esaid, within
twenty days after the service of this Summons yOu
exclusive the ay of such service and if you fail to
the said Complaint within The time aforesaid the
Platil in this action will apply the Court for the
VAN EiTEN Il OFFICER,
Plaintiffs Attorneys.
Dated ST. Paul mn Feb l9;h 1862
a. ne IN LIANT IN TINS scinn Sas filed in The oflce Of
Ramsey, ON the l9.h day OF February 1862
VAN EIYEN OFFICER, Pras Amys.
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Pioneer & Democrat for 1862

The PIONEER AND DEMOCRAT, considering
that, in the present condition of affairs, the
cause of the Federal Administration is the
cause of the country and of good govern
ment, will heartily sustain the policy of
the President and his Cabinet, in full faith
that such policy will be marked by the
highest wisdom as we'll as the purest patri-
Otism.
The PIONEER AND DEMOCRAT has been de-
signated by the Federal Administration as
the
OFFICIAL PAPER FOR MINNESOTA,
in place of the Saint Paul Press and the
La,vs Of Congress, Treaties sOith Foreign Powers,
and Public Notices and advertisements,
will hereafter be published officially in all
the editions of this paper. This will add
greatly to the value Of the paper, and be a
special inducement for the people of the
State to subscribe to its issues.
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A glance at the map will show the i'm.
portance of the present rebel positions in
Northern Mississippi and Alabama, and
how utterly desperate their fortunes become
if compelled to retreat. A correspondent
of the Cincinnati Gazette, at Pittsburg
Landing, Tennessee, Gays:
"Corinth, it will be scents at the junction
of the Memphis and Charleston and the
Mobile and Ohio Railroads. From this
point the road stretches northward through
the whole of Western Tennessee to Gums
beland, Kentucky southwark the road runs
through Eastern Mississippi and corner
OF Alabama, to Mobile On the Gulf west.
ward road runs direct to Memphis, and
eastward through Florence, Alabama, Chat
tanooga, Tennessee, ana Atlanta, Georgia,
to Charleston, South Carolina. Corinth.
therefore, commands the communications to
Memphis, the & ulf, and the seaboard sece.
ded States.
Not only so, but this Memphis and
Charleston road is the only railroad con.
nection left the rebels between louisiana,
Mississippi and all Alabama west of Pensa~
cola, and the Southern eeaboard States.
Troops can only be sent east from New
Orleans, Natchez, Vicksburg, jackson,
Memphis, Baton Rouge or Mobile, or to
those points from Virginia, North or South
Carolina or Georgia, over the Memphis
and Charleston road, the only railroad line
now connecting the Fast and West of the
rebellion. Let that road be once broken
and the Southern Confederacy is cut in two
as effectually as ifa Chinese wall were built
between the Gulf and the seaboaad States.
Beauregard, then, is engaged in defend
ing the last connected line of defense the
rebels can possibly adopt. Defeat him here,
and the war throughout the Gulf States can
only be series of isolated struggles, the
end of which no prophet is needed to fore
tell, He has selected the most important
point along the road for his main stand.
West 0! Corinth, is Grand Junction, where
the New Orleans branch of the Mobile and
Ohio intersects the Memphis and Charles
ton road. If defeated at Corinth, he may en-
deavor to make final stand at Grand
| Junction. Lose that, and he has given us
the key to Memphis, New Orleans and
| Mobile"
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New York, April 19.-The schooner
John Roe, at this port, reports that on the
18th of March, off Savannah, she passed a
propeller showing English colors, and after
hauling them down, ran up the rebel flag.
She was steering in the direction of Der.
muda about northeast.
BosToN, April l9.--Messrs. Tunstall and
Myers, who arrived here under arrest, as
announced last night, were not taken to
Fort Warren, but remained in the city on
parole until their case shall be decided at
Washington.
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For Hasting-, Red Wing, Reade, Wabasbaw Wlnona
and La Crgose connecting with the La Croose and
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