The weekly pioneer and Democrat., 1862-01-31

HEADQUARTERS, DISTRICT OF CAIRO,
CAIRO. ILL.,, January 20, 1852.
Commanders of regiments will report, to
these headquarters, without delay, the names
| of river and seafaring men of their respective
commands who are willing to be transferred
from the military to the gunboat service. See-
ing the Importance of fitting out our gunboats
as speedily as possible, it is hoped there will
be no delay or objections raised by company
or regimental commanders in responding to
this call. Men thus volunteering will be dis.
charged at the end of one year, or at the end
of the war, should it terminate sooner.
By order. U. s. GRANT,
Brigadier General Commanding.
The Portland Advertiser is reliably in.
formed that when the news that permission
had been granted by the U. S. authorities
for British troops to our territory became
known in Canada, it produced an electrical
and profound effect upon the public mind of
the most gratifying character. 1t seemed
to dispel the war frown instantly and we'll
informed gentlemen predict that the effect 10
England will, if possible, be still more happy.
We trust it will prove go; We expect it will.
1t is no use to paw dirt OR shake horns ct
John Bull or any other variety of the Anglo
Saxon race, unless you desire fight. Gene
rous confidence and magnanimity appeal to
the better side of his nature, and he is as
unwilling to be outdone in that direction as
the other. This little courtesy may turn
the whole surrent of feeling between the
two countries into better channel, and
| give il q more natural rational tone God
grant that it may.
A Boston paper has this paragraph:
| A much esteemed Doctor of Divinity preach.
| ed on Sunday afternoon last to congrega-
| tion of seventeen persons. seven of whom
were paid for attending, namely. the sexton,
Organ-blOwer, organist and quartette chair.
| Strange to say, that, among the actual Wor-
shippers, there was seven men to three
women.
The conduct of Pennsylvania soldiers
in the war is thus alluded to by cores
pondent of the Philadelphia Press:
know the boys who fought at Drainsve
| and fleshed their maiden swords under General
Ord, and we'll knew when they met the foe
somebody would die. l must give you an in
cident or two of that fight: Charley Yahn, a
| young man from this vicinity, was shot through
the face, shattering the jaw and knocking out
teeth, making very ugly and painful wound.
| Splitting the blood from bis mouth, he handed
| q cartridge to his next neighbOr, saying IS
can fight yet if l can't bite" And thus he
fought it out, getting his comrade to bite off
the cartridges and he is now recovering un-
der the hands of the surgeon Another was
struck over the eye by spent ball. cutting
| the skin, but not entering the skull. He cool.
| ly picked up the bullet, remarking "thsre is
the secession lead that struck me, and put the
little memento into his pocket. This is the
sort of men Psnnsylvsnis has in the National
army.
-Cassius NJ. Clay has been confirmed
q Major General, and Abnsr Doubleday
q . Brigadisr General.
The Secretary of the Treasury has de-
cided that teas actually on shipbosrd prior
to the passage of the last tariff bill in Au-
gust, are entitled to enter under the old du-
ties. This is an important decision, involve
ing large amount.
The rebel commander in Eastern Ken
lucky killed at the battle of Somerset on the
10Th inst.-Felix L. Zollicoffer--is more
honorably though perhaps less widely known
as the Whig and American member of
Congress from the Nashville, Tennessee
District in the years 1853 and 1859, inclu-
sive. To all the exciting contests of that
eventful period he was esteemed conserva~
tive National man and his record is, for
the representative of Southern constitu-
ency, quite unimpeachable.
The mortar fleet now being built in
New York, under the supervision of Capt.
D. D. Porter, U. S. n, is rapidly ap-
preaching completion-but two or three
weeks may elapse before it will be ready to
take its departure. The mortars, which
are to be placed amidships in each vessel,
each weigh about 1900 pounds and they
are bored for l3 inch projectiles, which are
the most formidable missiles known to mo
dern warfare.
Gov. Todd, of Ohio, in bis inaugural
message just delivered, declares that in put
ting down the rebellion, the object can be
accomplished only by bringing to condign
punishment the leaders of the rebellion, and
satisfying their misguided followers, by a
firm aud generous policy, that we seek, not
the destruction of any of their domestic in>
stitutions but only the maintenance and en-
forcement of the Constitution and laws of
the nation"
"A cattle train from Albany to Boston,
over the Western Railroad, broke through
bridge near Russell, and eight cars, with
their living freight, we're precipitatsd into
the chssm below. The road here makes q
sharp turn, and is, withal, down heavy
grade and the accident was occasioned by
one of the cars getting of the track and
smashing the bridge. The break was re.
paired within twenty~four hours.
Ex-senator, now rebel, Benjamin, is a
noted gambler, and has wasted in his way
the vast income which at one period he de-
rived from his professional practice. On