The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1862-07-11
MIR. Firman McIlvaio, son of Orvi!Ie

was most cruelty assassinated on the eve.
ming of the 23d instant, by some unknown
villain, who approached the field where be
was engaged in harvesting his wheat, and
at the distance of twenty five Or thirty PAGES
from him shot him through the heart. The
murderer is supposed to be one of band of
horse thieves who have for the last twelve
months been conducting their thieying
operations in ST. Francois and Ste. Gene.
We've counties.
General Fremont is the second Major
General in the regular army, and outranks
all other officers but General Mcclellan,
General Banks is the senior Major General
of Volunteers. General Mcdowell is a
Brigadler General in the regular army, and
his commission as a Major General of Vol.
unteers dates anterior to that OF General
Pope. Thus the latter who, before the
war commenced, stood the thirteenth Cap.
tain land that by brevet) in the Second
Corps of Typographical Engineers, now
overtops three senior Major Generals. This
is certainly distinction to which few mills
tary msn are enabled, by personal favoritism
or BY extraordinary services, to attain.
Henry Ward Beecher, in a discourse
delivered on Sunday last, 10 Brooklyn, said:
81 do not believe you will ever get supersti.
ton enough in New England congregation
to do any harm. 1t is as much as be a
Yankee can do to revere his father and
mother. 1t is as much as Yankee can do
to bow down before God Almighty"
"A maiden lady named EuDice An
drews, aged Al, living in Chester, Connect
icut, committed suicide few days ago. She
filled her apron with stones, walked into tie
shoal water of the river to the depth of
three leet, sat down and threw herself over
backward, under the water and was
drowned.
Mr.. Rufus King, married man,
eloped with daughter Of the Rev. John
Jones, from Pelham, Massachusetts, last
week, and took refuge in New York
The correspondent OF the Cincinnati
Commercial, writing from Nc C!elans camp
only three days before the last great battles,
thus pleads for reinforcements
General Mcclellan does need more discipline
ed troops. Every company which can be
spared from other fields should be forwarded
at once. Fifty thousand men sent here in
time may save thousands of human lives. 1t
is not now question whether Richmond can
be taken, but it is a question of human life
and human suffering. Why murder so many
of your sons and brethren when our great OBJ.
ject might be better achieved without such
! blOodshed. am no alarmist, no blind devO-
tee of any cheftan. l pray you listen to the
| deep and earnest convictions of one who has
| devoted himself to the study of this field, and
who assures you with profound and solemn
earnestness, that to properly accomplish the
| great task before it, the Army of the Potomac
most surely needs added strength.
Surgeon Hayes is completely exoner-
Grated from blame 10 regard to his conduct
to the wounded under his charge, and the
Secretary of War is accused Of sesking
little cheap applause in dismissing him from
service without hearing.
General Danas brigade suffered severe.
ly 10 the battle of last Wednesday, One
of bis regiments, the 10Th Massachusetts
lost over fifty men.
--Great blame is attached to Gen. Ben,
| ham for our defeat at James Island, and he
| is DOW in New York under arrest. The
| fact that General Hunter and all the other
Observation-Disclosures Stevena, Wright and
| Williams--cODcur 10 his condemnation, and
that this is the almost universal sent nent
of the inferior officers and the soldiers con-
s;itute case that will be well nigh impos
sible for the inculpated General to get over.
WIN. W. Hawkins was executed in
New York last Friday for numbering the
captain of ship, be being a sailor thereon.
The Tribune says:
| His conduct during the previous night was
dignifed and calm. He wrote several letters
| to his friends, retired to bed for four hours,
| got up and wrote a letter to his sister, took
| breakfast and prepared for the execution.
| When under the scafOld he made speech of
| about ten minutes, expressed his gratitude
| fer all tie kindness he had experienced at the
! hands of the officers, offered prayer for the
| country, the downfall of the rebellion and of
| Slavery, and hoped that he might meet the
spectators of the execution where there would
be no more parting. He shouted an exultant
Farewell friends" and died without strug-
| gle.
General Blenker thus explains the mys.
terry enveloping the storage of the Govern
ment property recently discovered and seized
by the Provost Marshal of Washiugton:
The Sth New York Volunteer Regiment, as
all other Regiments of Blenker's Division, left
the camps at Hunter Chapel with three days
rations, leaving behind, according to special
orders, all officers trunks and property of the
men.
These trunks, as well as the private and
public property of the men, not being sufti.
GENTLY secured in the tents, have been stored
in this city, the officers trunks in the house of
Mr.. William, Pennsylvania avenue, the clothing
and other property of the men in storehouse
rented for that purpose.
Now this property is what the Provost Mar.
shall seized, and what by error or malice was
stated to be property absconded or stolen from
Government. l.. BLENkER,
Brigadier General.