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The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1862-12-26
McClelian,s Letter TO Porter.

The Cincinnati Gazette makes the patri-
otto and touching letter of MCCLELLAN to
Gen. PORTER the target for singularly
malevolent criticism 1t asks uhy No
CLEILAN needed to appeal in such man
ner to his friends in the army to rally round
PopE and the New York Vo,'M replies as
follows:
The Gazette in its zeal affects ignorance
of a fact notorious in Washington during
the dark days of the Pope campaign, that
President Lincoln himself, affected to tears
by the news of the disasters which he had
brought upon the Army of the Potomac by
the removal of Gen. Mcclellan and the
abandonment of his plans, sent for that
officer and besought him to write some
thing which should make the Army of the
Potomac fight under an incompetent brag-
CART as well as they had fought under their
old brave and skillful leader The state
ment was never denied, and we believe the
letter to Porter, for which Mcclellan is
now cursed, to have been the result of that
request.
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1862-12-26
Payment of the ThirdiRegiment

The following letter was received yes
terday by Gov. RAMSEY If the matter
was attended to as promised the funds
must arrive in few days:
WAR DEPARTMENT. !
WASHINGTON CITY, ID. c., Dec, IS. 1862. !
His Excellency Alex. Ramsey, Governor of
Minnesota:
SIR:-1n reply to your telegram, dated Dec.
9Th, to Senator Wilkinson, requesting that the
Sd Regiment Minnesota Volunteers be paid be-
fore leaving the state, the Secretary of War di-
reefs me to say that he ordered Major Fry, Act
ing Paymaster General to furnish the necessa-
~ funds and instructions without delay. Ma
jor Fry reports as follows:
son receipt of this order, there being no
funds in hands of Paymaster at st. Paul, the
senior Paymaster at st. Louis was telegraphed
to send the funds to st. Paul. He replied that
he had none left to send. The Secretary of the
Treasury was then requested to pass the requi-
sition in favor of Major Phinney, (the Paymas-
ter at st. Paul ) and has promised to do so to-
day. 1t will therefore be impossible to pay this
regiment till the funds reach St. Paul from this
place Very respectfully,
"Your ob't serv't
&c: 2. BUCKINGHAM,
Brig. Gen. and A. A. g."
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1862-12-26
The Telegraphic News.
llrtUEsDAYy.ilJU 5iiil

@EFF ATUESDA4.4 50 X *' f'
The space occupied by our Special and
General dispatches, this morning, obliges
us to omit our usual summary of intelli-
gence. 1t WILDE seen that the President
has declined to submit to Senatorial dicta-
ton, and that SEWARD and CHASE are, to
retain their positions: while HALLEoK IS
status is getting to- be mighty uncertain.
Among our special dispatches, there is
news here, in advance ofour contemporaries
of the rebels having possession of seventy
miles of the Mobile and Ohio railroad-o
their capture of two hundred prisoners,
and government stores at Trenton, Tennes-
see, creating great CONSERVATION through
all the western portion OF that State with
other interesting and important items,
for the particulars of which we refer the
reader to the heading of "Our Special Dis
patches"
WEDNESDAY.
The most important item of information
brought by the dispatches last night, is that
foreshadowing a conflict between the Le-
gislative and Executive branches of the Co.
vernment. That faction in Congress has
striven, for more. than year past, to mon
opolize all the functions and powers of
Government, has been apparent to all who
have kept watch of the progress of events.
The considerations involved in such an an
tagonism, however, are too weighty to be
treated of in hasty paragraph. We
merely call attention to the fact now, pro-
missing to recur to it hereafter.
The President, it will be seen from our
special dispatches, keeps stiff upper lip
on the emancipation question.
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1862-12-26
THE WEEKLY WEEKLY PI PIONEER AND DEMOCRAT "a

the President AT any rate, he is not to
go off with the first batch. 'atS F" =
The following is the order of the Presi-
dent to Gen. SIBLEY: cats,g, ,.it t,.t
..t st EXECUTIVE MANSION, is 4
WASHINGTON, December 6, 1862. :
Ordered. That of the Indians and half-breeds
sentenced to be hanged by the Military Com
mission composed Of Colonel Crooks, Lieuten-
ant Colonel Marshall, Captain Grant, Captain
Bayley, and Lieutenant Olin, and lately sitting
in Minnesota, you cause to be executed on Fri
day, the nineteenth day postponed until the
the 26th] Of December instant the following
named, to wit:
Here follow all the names Of the above.
The other condemned prisoners you will hold,
subject to further orders, taking care that they
neither escape nor are subjected to unlawful
violence 81 ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
President of the United States.
Brig. Gen. II. H. SHELLEY, st. Paul, MINI.
There will, doubtless, be an immense
assemblage of people to witness the exc
cutiOn
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1862-12-26
ADVANCE IN SUBSCRIPTIONS.

The extraordinary advance of serenh,-
.fce per cent. on printing paper compels us
to advance the subscription price of the
PIONEER. t..:
The rates to which We have advanced,
although considerably higher than hereto
fore, do not bear any comparison to the
increased price of white paper; so that in
reality the publishers will have to bear the
largest part OF the additional expenditure.
TRI-WEEXI.Y PIONEER
One copy, by mail payable for any time lin
advance) at the rate FER year Of. So. 90
Clubs OF five to one address, each .... $50
Clubs of ten, to one address, each .. 400
WEEKLY PIONEER
One copy one yeir. .......... ........ 500
Five or more copies each one year. w 1.75
Ten or more copies each, one year. ....... 1.6O
Twenty or more copies each, one year. :. $50
All subscriptions payable in advance.
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1862-12-26
'4lTIIF
A FfnaneiaF Exhibit.

The Secretary Of the Treasury, in an
swer to resolution of the House, has sent
a commmicationIto the Speaker, in which
he states that the,requisitions of the Sec
rotary of War for money for the payment
Of troops have always been promptly met
at the Treasury, when an absolute want of
means did not prevent. He says that since
the LIST of July last the sum of $66, 1854, 281,
has been paid on such acquisitions as fol-
lows: 'F ""j a' -4.t9
For bounties on enlistmcnts, -. 81, 500. 900 90
Recruiting, collecting, drilling and
organizing troops. .1O,173,3 800 Al
OiuAH"iy pay %, SS1. 9Zl rs
The amount of the acquisitions of this
description now in the Treasury Department
unpaid is SOS, 100000. These unpaid re-
QUESTIONS are about equal to the amount
required for pay during one bi-monthly pc
Rod. When the resources of the Treasury
became inadequate to the demands uponit,
the Secretary of the Treasury communica-
ted the fact to the Secretaries of War and
the Navy, and requested them to designate
the particular acquisitions which they re-
garded as most urgent, to the amount of
about one million dollars daily To this
extent acquisitions are daily met from Gus
toms, from internal revenue, from the pro-
ceeds OF conversions Of temporary loans,
and from new issues of United States notes.
These resources, though large, as Congress
has already been informed, are inadequate.
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1862-12-26
Board Of Auditors, Certificates

The State Treasurer is now paying the
certificates issued by the State Board OF
Auditors for expenses of the Indian War.
|" First come first served" we believe is the
motto and those who hold certificates of
course will need no further hint to induce
a rush for the money.
THE lack of intelligence from Banks ex-
petition indicates that it is not co-operat-
ing in the movement on Richmond, and
that the policy, inaugurated by Mcclellan,
OF frittering away our force in coast expe-
ditions, which can bring no adequate re-
suits, and thus weakening the army at the
decisive points, is still continued Gazette,
DecembeE Is, 1852
Here, directly in front of this army, is
the heart of this rebellion 1t is here that
all our resources should be collected to
strike the blow which will determine the
fate of the nation. All points of secondary
Importance elsewhere should be abandoned,
and every available man brought here. -
Mcclellan TO HaOech, Berkley, "a, Aug.
4, 1862.
The Cincinnati Commercial in relation to
the above says: ''The reader can deter
mine for himself, from these extracts,
whether the trittering away of our force in
fruitless coast expeditions, is part of the
policy of Gen. MCCLELLAN. The Gazette
stultifes itself in its malignant hatred of
the late commander of the Army of the
Potomac"
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1862-12-26

GENERALS AND PRIvATEs. "A recent
letter of Gen. Mcclellan, responsive to a
vote of thanks from the Philadelphia Com
mon Council, contained this sentence ::
'The events of this war have shown that
tho fighting qualities of our private soldiers
may be relied upon by the Government,
and that if military failures occur, their
causes must be looked for in defects of
organization, command, or plans" The
New York Times endorses this and adds I:
''It is the Government at Washington, and
not the people of the country nor the pri-
vate soldiers ofthe army who must be held
responsible for our military failures"
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1862-12-26
From the Daily Pioneer of Tuesday.
Important News Arrangement.

From the Daily Pioneer of Tuesday.
Important News Arrangement.
We have great pleasure in informing
the readers of THE PIONEER, and the pub
lie, that we have effected arrangements for
the receipt of news, which will place our
paper far in advance of our contemporaries
here, and make it equal, in this respect, to
any Eastern or Western journal.
The Associated Press dispatches, as
summaries of news, have long been unsa-
tisfactory to enterprising newspaper men.
These dispatches are prepared by the
agents of Eastern journals, and to suit
an Eastern taste and market. They
comprise great deal Of matter, therefore,
that is unimportant to Western readers.
while they have frequently bearing preju-
dicial to Western interests. To remedy
this, and to provide their readers with
information that is interesting and i'm
portant for them to know, few of the
Western papers, employ their own cor
respondents at the principal news points
at the West and East, and have their
news gatherings transmitted by telegraph
in the shape of Special Dispatches, De-
termined not to be outdone by any West
ern publishers, we have adopted the same
system; and give to our readers this
morning the first instalment of THE
Pioneers SPECIAL DISPATCHES. In order,
however, not to be lacking in any news
respect, we continue, as heretofore, the
dispatches of the Associated Press.
We undertake this system of Special
Dispatches at an expense which, even two
years back, would have been regarded as
absurdly extravagant for all the editorial
and news expenses OF all the spapers pub
lished in our city. Our present engage
ments for Special Dispatches, exclusive Of
the news of the Associated Press, amount
to over Five Thousand Dollars year and
we have negotiations in hand which will
increase this expense some Twenty Five
Hundred Dollars more. This is an outlay
for news never gone into before by any
paper printed on the frontier and the like
of which is sustained by but few papers
printed in cities of quadruple the size of
Saint Paul. We have not hesitated to
take the risk of this expenditure because
we have always found that, with our intel
gent people, enterprise attracts patronage,
and that our safest investments have been
those used in improving the quality and
value of our journal.
We would mention, rather for the bene-
fit of our contemporaries than the public,
that our arrangements for Special Dispatch
es are exclusive only in the sense of being
our own property-prepared and transmit
ted at our own expense, and for publica-
ton in our paper; but that the wires
are ready to transmit all correspondence
that the Press and Union can get agents
to supply, and money to pay for; needing,
as they will observe, only the proper de-
gree of intelligence, enterprise, and nerve,
to insure for their readers like advantages
with those to be enjoyed by the patrons
of The PIONEER.
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1862-12-26

The Providence Journal states that
the bids for the loan of six hundred thou
sand dollars, advertised for by the State
Treasurer of Rhode Island, amounted to
about sixteen hundred thousand dollars.
1t was awarded to parties in Providence.
Boston and Worcester at 26.1OO premi-
um and upward
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1862-12-26
@iAppointments i'm the Army.

We are informed by special dispatch
from Washington that THOMAS M. NEwsoN,
Of Lake Como. J. WESLEY BOND, of St.
Paul, and NJ WHEELER SARGRANT, of Wi
mona, have been appointed, by the Presi-
dent, Quartermasters in the army, with the
rank of Captain, respectively.
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1862-12-26

The New York fund for the relief of
the English operatives now amounts to
$4,000.
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1862-12-26

1t is said that Gen. Mcclellan and
wife contemplate an early visit to Boston.
North Branch democrat. [volume] (Tunkhannock, Pa.) 1854-1867, 1862-11-19
| 60O.0CN MALE F. or SrT FEMALE AGENTS

100000 MALE Eo or srEE FEMALE AGENTS
LLoYD'S NEW STEEL PLATE COUNTY coll
ORED MAP OF THE UNITED STATES, CAN
ADAS, AND NEW BRUNSWICK.
From recent snrvsya, completed Aug 10, 1862 /;
cost $50, 90 to engrave it and one years time
Superior to any $40 map ever made by Cotton or
Mitchell, and sells at the low price of fifty cents
3700C0 names are engraved on this map.
1t is not only County Map, but it is also
COUNTY AND RAILROAD MAP
of the United States ard Canadas combined in one
giving cry railroad station and distances between
Guarantee any woman or man SO to S5 per day
and will take back all maps that cannot be sold and
refund the money
Send for ST worth to try.
Printed instructions how to canvass WELL furnish
all opr. agens.a
Wanted-Whoesale agents for our maps in every
State, California Canada, England, France and Gu
ba. fortune may be made with a few hundred
dollars capital No Competition.
). T. LILO YD, No l64 Broadway New York
The War Department uses our Nap of Virginia,
Mary land and Pennsylvania, cost 100000, which
is marked Antietam Creek. Shaipsburg, Maryland
Hights, Williamsport Ferry, Ehorersyille, Noand s
Ford, and all others the Potomac and every other
place in Marylund, Virginia, and Pennsylvania, or
money refunded
TOPoGRAPHICAL MAP OF hENTCCKY,
OHIO, INDIANA, and ILLINOISA
is the only authority for Gen Buell. and the War De
partment Money refunded to any finding
ror nit. Price 80 cents. ....
From the Tribune, Aug. 2.
"LL0YD'S MAP OF VIRGINIA, MARYLAND
AND PENNSYLVANIA-This map is very large /;
ITS is but % ats, and it is the best which
be purchas, d..
LLOYD'S GREAT MAP OF THE MISSISSIPPI
RlVER-From Actual Surveys by Capts. Bart and
VIM. Bowen, Mississippi River Pilots, of ST. Louis,
no, shows very mans plantation and owners name
from St Louis to the Gulf of Mexico i $50 miles
eiery sand-bar island town. landing, and all places
20 miles back from the river--colored in counties and
states Pri e, 81 in sheets 50, pocket form, and
81 80 on linen, with ro ers. Ready Sept 90
NAVY DEPARTMENT, Washington, Sept. II, 1862
J T. LLoYD-Sr: Send me your Map of the Mis-
sissipp River with price per hundred copies. Rear
Admiral Charles II. Davis, commanding the Mssis
sppi squadron, is authorized to purchase many as
required for Of that squadron.
GIDEON WELLES, Secretary Of the Navy.
North Branch democrat. [volume] (Tunkhannock, Pa.) 1854-1867, 1862-11-19

Amorvin Bacon, soldier who has been io'
f,ur months conGao n the army hospital at Harris
hpr, was brought home last week, by hi| brother
u Bacon of Eaton. in such an enieeblul con IL
t,on that it necessary to carry him from f'''''h
= distance of twenty miles, streatcher or cot
bed, hv hand This task was performed 10y >
Bacon and another brother Of the patient with three
other men, in abou. ten hours including stopp"ge>
for rest and delays He is represented as in truly
terrible condition, having long lain in bed that he
i covered with sores that the slightest jar gives
him intense pam. His disease was originally one OF
the feyers. incident to life in camp.
1t is sad to reflect how many Of he victims OF THIS
cruel and unU ecessary are now lanEu'si'n@ ana
diving in ami around the hospitals for want OF broth
ers care.
North Branch democrat. [volume] (Tunkhannock, Pa.) 1854-1867, 1862-11-19


PetcrsOu's Magazine.--Ne are III RECEIPT ''
his popular I.aly's Magazine for December. 1t Is
a splendid number. The title page !or 1853, con-
tanning portraits Of the chief contributors, is very
handsome.
Peterson " viii he greatly imgorcd in 1863. 1t
will contain 10t'G pages Of double column reading
matter IA steel plates y c,Iorod steel fashion
plates; II colered patterns in Berlin WORK, embroit-
CIV or crochet. aud oG0 wood cugrayings -1'roPor-
tiona.ly more Than a.y 5her periodical girss It's
stories and novelets are by the best writers In 1863
-Four Original Copyright No,e'cts VIII he given
Irs FAsnfoss ARE AtvtYs TIE LATEST AND pref
TEST Every nc'ghboraood ought to make up Il
club Its price is but Two DOLLARS year, or dol
Jar les. an Magazines Of its class. IT ia TEE MAG
AIxE FOR THE TINES! To clubs, it Is cheaper silI:
vi, three COZ les for s. five, for $3.50 or eight for
$40 To every person getting UP club the pub
Usher will send an extra copy gratis, as premium
or large sized me. >otiat for framing, "B0'yan
parting .trompts Rltnd Chad i' prtscf. Sreci-
mems sent (f written for) to those wishing 10 get W
clubs.
address Post Paid
CHARLES J. PETERSON.
BOG Chestnut Street, Philadelphia.
North Branch democrat. [volume] (Tunkhannock, Pa.) 1854-1867, 1862-11-19
WVNINW NUM- IT.
ave NV York from foot Of Cnurtlard

~" These Trains connect at Great BEND with the
Night Express Trains both East and West on the
New York and Erie, and at Scranton with Trains on
Lacfawanna and Bloomsbury Railroad, for Pittston
Kingston and Wilkesba RE aud the Train moving
South connects Mt Junction with Trains for Bethle-
hem, Mauch Chunk, Reading and Harrisburg.
Passengers to and from New York change cars a
Junction. To and From Philadelphia, via B. D. Il.
r.. leave take at Hope.
For Pittston, Kingston and Wilkes Barre, take l..
& B. r. r. cars at Scranton.
For Jcssup Archibald and Carbonate, take Omn-
bus
North Branch democrat. [volume] (Tunkhannock, Pa.) 1854-1867, 1862-11-19
Poor Tiffany

Poor Tiffany IS this wteE close their B" high ca
reer" They 60 out like an expiring taLlow candle
smoking. fuming, splitting, sputtering in the socket
md running down. The untimely end Of these am
mails il attributed by their friends to various causes
which are: wandering ain the woods too long
~bankering' after yenison too strong; paying taxes
too ,hefty :" telling lies about thcm too freely
eating in too close proximity to DO toes, all oi
which taken in connection with chronic atiiictlon
,rbi.b has followed them from the cradle to Baby
,od 70 wifi an over dose of natural tooI-on. the
brain. has completely Frustrated these poor little
babes. and they lie in the deep gloom Of their ma
tive So woods" Rest, sweet scented babes II
ueace
North Branch democrat. [volume] (Tunkhannock, Pa.) 1854-1867, 1862-11-19
Straw.
Auditors Notice.

IS TEE NATTER OF THE ESTATE OF ELISHA HARRIS,
deceased
The undersigned having been appointed an Audit
or by the Orphans Court Of Wyoming County, to ex-
anime and report on exceptions fled to the account
of Rosina Gardner Administrative TO the Estate of
Elisha Harris deceased, and also to the account OF
Silas Suttop Administrator TO said Estate will attend
to the duties OF his appointment at his office in the
Borough of Tunkhannock on
SATURDAY,, Nort0tber lSt, 1862,
at oclock in the afternoon, when and where all per
sons interested are notified to attend.
T. C. ROSS, Aud'r.
T,nLhanrocL Sent d 1862
North Branch democrat. [volume] (Tunkhannock, Pa.) 1854-1867, 1862-11-19
coa, which has r3w become the principal article

roal which has now become the principal article
fuel in this county. has advanced at least fifty per
on, in price The impoet duties, high price OF Ia
,r destruction of tie canals last summer, increased
,,.mand for use of government tc. are among the
reasons assigned for this advance II "ouIq be en-
,irely out of fashion for it or indeed anything e1
ccrt what the farmer produces, to be sold at the OIL
rrce The change" about which the Back Re-
,pblcans have so long preached is now beginning 70
he realized by the people. Very little change, ex
cept change for the worse IS now feit III 'e' l''A
North Branch democrat. [volume] (Tunkhannock, Pa.) 1854-1867, 1862-11-19

-.si.b was held at this place, this week,
- ,, on Tuesday yesterday for want OF h'lsi-
p0u'-.N y. ..sos whatever, we're tried. Two orthree
''' r,. we're found by the Grand Jurg, being cas-
arising from returns Of constables Of the eondi-
g roo,js and bridges, few cases Only' were
,,o.el of on the argument i'9''
North Branch democrat. [volume] (Tunkhannock, Pa.) 1854-1867, 1862-11-19
tsnt. Col. sides, late Capt Sides of the SIT

lent, Col. sides, late Capt Sides of the 5Ith
vl made our town sholt visit last week
/ sides has remained at his post more fa''h'ui-y
~ NEST of the officers connected wi the army y
4 h,. never, we believe, left the regiment, since
-;n, the service, except during short illness
in excellent health and reports his men as also
| ,,,I health. He is proud of, and devotedly at
,.be5 to the men in his Rcgt, and Judging from
[h,. va have heard, the attachment is reciprocal.
North Branch democrat. [volume] (Tunkhannock, Pa.) 1854-1867, 1862-11-19
IocaI and Personal

The farmers during the past week nave
SusS IN gathering their crops, that they nave
90 J 80 hiring in anything for the printer 10 eat
% can live on short rations however Ispeeri a.
'e'' ,a , ars hopeful and constantly LOOKING icf
Bni time coming.
North Branch democrat. [volume] (Tunkhannock, Pa.) 1854-1867, 1862-11-19
REGISTERS NOTICE.

Notice is hereby given to all persons interested in
the following account, Viz.
The account of Laura Garey, Executx of the es-
tate Of Ambrose Carey, late of Windham Township,
deceased, Filed Oct. 20th 1862, that the same viii
be presented to the Orphans Court of Wyoming Co.
TO he held on Monday, TIE 18th day of November
next for confirmation AMI allowance.
Registers Office,
Tunkhannock Oct 2lst, 1862
SINTON WILLIAMS Register.
North Branch democrat. [volume] (Tunkhannock, Pa.) 1854-1867, 1862-11-19

,od.--ur. George Leighton, who has been
'tms enu' time keeping cheap Grocery and proyls-
some | ' IN hi. place, has now removed his est"b'
''o,s ;. Providence, Ehz Co., Mr.. L. is an hon
i.sD; -. =, forwari dealer, and deserving OF sue
= his new location.