The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1862-05-23
News and Other Items.

the james river show that the Galena suf.
fered severely, but no mention is made o.
the Monitor. The best face is put on the
T repulse, but from the fact that the fotilla
retreated to jamestown Island, seventy nine
miles below Richmond, we conclude that il
must have been severe and decisive.
Richmond papers assert that South
Carolina has now in the field 1924 SOL
diers, $4,000 of whom are in the war. But
nobody hears of them, and doubtless if ever
that last ditch is discovered, it will be hud-
died full of skuIking, retreating Palmettos
who, after inaugurating a horrible war,
have shown the most cowardly selfshness
10 the conduct OF it. Valiant souls a
horse pond, and not the honor of halter,
is what they merit, every individual Pal,
metto ian of them, Rhett and Pickens in.
elusive.
Judge Thomas, of Massachusetts re-
piled to one of Thaddeus Stevens scurril.
lous speeches, the other day, in good style,
concluding with the following:
may say. Mr.. Speaker, and hope within
parliamentary rules, that for any fair, consti.
tutlonal argument, however honest and sin
| cere may be the conviction of the person who
utters 1T, however deep may be his sense of
the value of the doctrines to the country, and
however strongly he may feel that, in strug.
| gle and crisis like this, those who are seeking
| TO enforce the laws must obey the laws, those
| who are seeking to maintain the Constitution
| must be faithful to the Constitution for a
| quiet and firm recognition of that fidelity to
which we are sworn; for loyalty to that SUI.
preme law upon which depends to-day the
lie OF the country the gentleman from Penn
| sylvanla has often nothing but coarse ridicule
and antique jokes. Not so, in my humble
| Judgment, are the great issues of the hour to
be solved and our solemn duties discharged.
The Philadelphia Press says the DEM
ocratlc members of the Military Commits
tee in the United States Senate, Messrs.
Latham, of California, Nesmith, of Oregon,
and Rice, OF Minneiota, who spent five
days in and about Yorktown, return to
their seats fully cor inced that the rebel
leaders have placed themselves outside the
limits of civilized warfare, and should be
dealt with as offenders against the laws of
God and man.
No paper has uttered more patriotic
sentiments, or expressed mere sensible
views of public affairs during the past
twelve months, than the Newburyport,
(Mass.) Herald. Here is a paragraph
from late number of that journal worthy
of golden frame:
Let the Constitution stand mistaken and un.
weakened, like an immovable and everlasting
rock lifting it's head in mid ocean, and always
to be seen above the foam of the highest
waves and through the mists of the darkest
storms. Slavery is an institution of a day; it
will pass away; other questions will come.
possibly to agitate the country as much and
more and thus with the generations coming
and going new topics of discussion will pre-.
sent themselves, new parties will form, and
new phases of politics and religion too will
appear and fade away, but the country will
abide and that one people may possess it,
and move on to greatness and power, to purer
life and greater liberty, the Constitution
should abide, respected, honored and obeyed
by all.
Colonel Green of the Wise Legion,
who surrendered to General Burnside, and
was captured by Colonel Kurtz of the Mas
sachusetts 23d, solicited the privilege of
presenting to Colonel Kurtz pet stallion,
worth $4,000, as token of his esteem for
the kind and courteous treatment be receiv>
ed at the hands of his captor. The beauti-
full animal reached New York Saturday
night.
The Richmond Examiner of MAY 3,
has the following short but suggestive
items
DIDN'T ARRIvE.--A great number of people
went down in the direction of Rockets YES
terday to see the nine hundred Yankees arrive
who ,cere reported to have been taken in the
engagement at Williamsburg on Monday.
The prisoners did not come.
The Charleston Courier advocates put.
ting the rebel troops on vegetable diet,
and suggests the tomato as excellent and
cheap. The Courier's opinion that some.
thing to save them is needed, is generally
entertained elsewhere.
Over nine thousand shell were thrown
by the fleet in the bombardment of the forts
below New Orleans. Most of them were
13.inch shells, which cost, with their filling,
nearly 500 each.
"A letter to person in Brandon, from
Ship Island, says that Vermont private
on guard there fell sick one night and was
taken to the hospital, where the soldier gave
birth to child. The soldier and the young
recruit are doing we'll.
"A soldier in General Mitchell's divi~
sion at Huntsville writes as follows:
The rebels telegraphed up here as more of
our men had arrived, to know if it would be
safe to send prisoners through here to Rich.
mond, Va.-they did not know our men had
possession of Huntsvle--and General Mitch.
ell telegraphed back that it would be perfectly
safe ; SO they sent up train full of our men
that they had taken prisoners at Pittsburg
Landing, and we got them back to the surprise
of the rebels.
- Fifty-four men of Colonel Scrolls
engineer regiment at Beaufort, have been
sent to Key West and thu Dry Tortugas