The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1862-05-23
-TMAr.S p z. Christy, the well known
proprietor and originator II Christv,s Min.

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proprietor and originator Of Christy's Min
stfels, attempted to, and nearly succeeded
in, committing suicide in New York last
Friday, BY throwing himself from his cham.
Der window. He had amassed property
of about 100000, but for some time has
been laboring under an alteration of mind.
being at times greatly depressed and fear.
ing that he should come to want. The idea
! firmly possessed him that the South would
: be successful in their rebellion against the
| Union, and that Southern armies would
overrun the North and render his property
valueless. No efforts of his friends have
succeeded in graduating this impression
from his mind.
William L. Smithgon, banker, of
Washington CONFINED in Fort Lafayette,)
and the Rev. Peter Whelan, from Key
West confined in Fort CoIpmbus) have
been released by the Commissioners APPS
pointed to investigate the condition of State
| prisoners. ., -.......r ..-.......-.
y The barracks at Leroy, Genessee coun.
ty, New York, will be put in order imrne.
diately for the reception of one thousand Of
the Fort Dcnelson rebel prisoners. -..'
Eleven hundred dollars in cash has
been collected in st. Louis for John Davis,
the man who sat On the powder to keep the
| sparks from falling into it. ., o. sersE
We fear there are some chaplaius in
our grand armies that would pass orchard
cases" in any community The Corinth
correspondent of the New York Times has
met some of these. He says:
Morals change as well as property. A year
| ago heard refreshing eXhortation from a
Praise-God Barebones in an Iowa pulpit to.
| day, up in the camp of an Iowa regiment, |
| heard fellow cursing a comrade in a STYLE
that would put to blush the most profane of
Capt. Marryatts creations. l turned at the
sound, and in the long.haired. drty-looking
individual. recognized the pious, clerical son
| OF the HaWkeye State. A chaplain in Ger.
| tain division, not far now from the extreme
right Of the Army of the Tennessee, drives q
lucrative business in stealing horses and
mules, with which he is stocking his farm in
| Western State. This morning, a gentleman
who was last Fall elected member of trans
| Mississippi State, as temperance candidate,
got dlsgustingly drunk, disgraced himself, and
| in consequence was sent out of the brigade by
| the commander, with whom for some time
| past, the honorable gentleman from - has
been staying as guest Another parson of
| my acquaintance is now very drunken, very
profane captain in the - Regiment of the
Third Division. $3.50
General Mitchell has Joined Halleck,
bringing with him as the fruit of his
Northern Alabama trip, about $500 pris-
oners Tt is said that many OF Beaure-
CARDS men from the border states are
leaving him. .a a.., ... ae 1oa
-Gen. Butler has proceeded to business
in New Orleans in workmanlike manner.
He has arrested and imprisoned the Mayor
and Aldermen, and placed censor in each
of newspaper offices. His proclamation,
with news from New Orleans up too the Sd
inst, via Memphis, will be found elsewhere.
Representative Lovejoy's bill, which
has passed both Houses, establishes de.
partment of agriculture with commits
sioner's salary OF $4,000 per annum, as
chief executive officer. 1t is separate and
distinct from all other departments, exclu,
sively devoted to agriculture.
| The following is the answer of Mr..
Dawes of Massachusetts, to that part of
Mr.. Cameron's late speech, where Mr..
Dawes spoken of as ga little prosecuting
attorney, living somewhere in Massachu-
setts:"
WASHINGTON, D. c., May 8, 1862.
| s. NJ. FELTON--DEAR SIR: l am in just in
| receipt of yours of yesterday, in relation to
| General Cameron's recent public state ment in
! Harrisburg, of the motive which he supposed
| prompted me in the discharge of what l DEEM
| have only to say that did not know, until
| he announced it, that one dollar of the stock
! of the Philadelphia, Wilmington and Balti-
more Railroad is, or ever was, owned in Mas
| sachusetts, and only know it now from his :
| statement. l have no occasion or desire to (
otherwise alude to his speech. and to do this .
only in acknowledgment of your letter. g /
/ Yours, truly, II. l.. DAWES. f.
The following is dispatch from Nc
Clellan, of the 18th, announcing the pro.
gress of the feet up the James River: !
| To Hon. E. NJ Stanton: . .... l.. !.
| Commander Rogers writes me to day that he,
with the gunboats, yesterday passed Little
Brandon. Everything quiet, and no signs of
| the troops crossing the river. He found two
batteries Of ten and twelve guns each on
| the south side of James River; one opposite
the mouth of the Warwick; another about !
southwest from Mulberry Point. The upper
battery, on Hardin's Bluff. has rifled pieces.
Between the batteries lay the jamestown and
Yorktown. Commander Rogers offered battle i
but the gunboats moved off. He silenced one
battery and ran past the other. Z
Signed, GEO. B. MCCLELLAN, (
| 5000 "@<: -ej Maj Gen. Commanding. .
Mr.. Wicklife,E of Kentucky, when /
Lovejoy introduced his resolution Of thanks
to Gen. Mcclellan into the House the other
day, boldly alluded to the conspiracy which
had been at work during the whole session
to crush him, and not one word of reply did
any of the conspirators undertake. Un.
,doubtedly, at the moment, discretion, with
them, was the better part of valor. Mr.. /
Wicklife said: s1. ..-l. 49,, - .