The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1862-11-07


version of the funds, took the Common
Council so much by surprise, that, at last
accounts, they had not determined what
to do with the Generals recommendation.
Il must tell an incident which occurred
when President Lincoln recently visited
the scenes of the battle. In the Gap, at
the sMountain House," an old farmer was
turning an honest penny in selling apples
and cider to the crowds of visitors to that
locality. 'sMr. President" said the I'M
sophistical genius, ''won't you have glass
of cider?" "No, sir, l thank you," re-
piled Mr.. Lincoln.
"But it's real good prime Union CIDER"
els it? Why, my friend, then I will
try it" said the President, and which he
did, with much wryness Of face, vast fame
to the farmer, and great glee to General
Mcclellan and Staff, who accompanied the
President.-Cor. Philadelphia Inquirer.
in letter to the Philadelphia Press
of the 26th, Parson Brownlow says:
have canvassed the entire North in defence
of the. Union cause, and in vindicatiOn of the
present administration, and now propose to
recanvass the whole, in order to expose the vii
lanies of its army officers, paymasters, swind-
lers, and upstairs, who are eating up the sub
sistence of the government.
The INSCRIPTIONS friends of General
Buell. are endeavoring to link his name
with that of General Mcclellan. They
never attempt a defence of Buell., but
they couple his name with McClellan's,
and seek to make it appear that the as
sailants of one are the enemies of the
other, and that their cause is one. There
is very marked and most important
difference between Generals Buell. and
Mcclellan. It is the reputation which they
enjoy with their men. Buell. is hated and
distrusted by his men, while Mcclellan is
the soldiers General
The greatest energy is being display
ed in the execution of the navy orders for
iron-clad vessels to be built at the port of
New York. The Dalamater works en-
ploy 1000 men /; Greenpoint, 1000; Jer-
sey City, 1900; Dry Docks, 500; Webbs
Yard, 5OO.-Total, $500 men. In addi-
ton to this number, some 1000 workmen
are engaged at wood work in the Brook
lyn Navy Yard, on other wooden vessels
probably about 5000.
Col. Thomas G. Lamar died in Charles
ton on the 18th ult. He commanded the
Confederates in the battle of Secessionville,
near Charleston.
John Brown, jr., has located himself
in Put-in-Bay Island, near Sandusky.
In West Avon, Connecticut, on Tues
day night, a Miss Woodford came very near
killing Joseph Lincoln, Of the Twenty-fifth
Connecticut Regiment, to whom she is en-
gagged. Remarking that he might as well
be shot there as in battle, she brought a
pistol, pointed it at him and cooked it, not
supposing it to be loaded During the
playful struggle that ensued for its posses
sion it went of, shooting him through the
hand and grazing his side under his clothes.
Among the incidents related of the
Wisconsin troops at the battle Of Antietam,
is that of sergeant of the Second Regi-
ment, whose leg was shattered by a cannon
ball. After falling, he very coolly exam
ined the leg, and, finding that the wound
was mortal, deliberately drew a revolver
and shot himself through the head, rather
than linger along in misery.
The acquisitions on the Government
for horses, are enormous. Over thirteen
thousand have been issued to the army of
the Potomac since the first of September.
The demand continues and the daily issues
are very large.
General Meigs has resolved not to
purchase any more Sibley tents, ON ac-
count of the expense, but to use the COM
mon cheap tent instead. AS the latter
furnish no facilities for providing the
warmth necessary during the winter, this
is regarded as equivalent to declaration
that the army will not go into winter quar-
tiers.
"A correspondent writing from the
battlefield at Corinth, says 1T is here
now well known that this battle was fought
as General Rosecrans had supposed and
planned. He was fully informed by his
scouts of the approach. He, as well as the
enemy, knew his weakest and their best
place of approach. He said to an uneasy
friend, who saw them coming on in such
terrible array, while his fire slackened until
their eye-whites were perceptible. "Dont
be alarmed, I am working upon the wild
hog plan Of batting them inn They were
baited in, and dreadfully beaten out.