The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1862-11-14
NEWS AND OTHER ITEmS.

NE W. AND OIhEH AEEmS.
The New Bedford Standard says that
Claude Greenache of Marlboro, a men,
Der of Company l, 9th Massachusetts regi-
ment, accidentally fell from aloft on board
the steamer Mississippi, on Thursday last,
and was killed. He had long been con-
nected with circuses, as an /" original Sam
son." stone-breaker, &c. His body was
left at Holmes Hole, and was brought to
New Bedford in the schooner Relief, on its
way to the residence of his friends.
On Friday morning last, Tas the Port
land Maine Adoertiser was going to press.
Mr.. George W. Wilson, pressman, went
under the machine to do something to re-
gulate some part of the machinery. He
asked the young man who was the feeder
of the press to throw off " the impress
sion and start the press. In the confl-
sion among the newsboys who were wait
ing, the feeder did not understand the d.
rectiOn given, but let the impression go on
The hand of Mr.. Wilson was caught in the
cam, or goose-neck, and literally crushed
to shreds.
John Beck, freight brakeman on the
HOusatonic railroad, was knocked from the
cars by the bridge near Lenox furnace on
the 18th ult., and killed, the cars run
ming over him and cutting his head entire
ly from his body. He was the successor
of Mr.. Fuary of West StOckbridge, who
was killed on the road a few weeks ago.
Beck leaves wife and child.
The operations of the draft present
some singular freaks of "luck." AS a
general thing it appears to run in streaks, -
and not to be generally distributed accord
ing to justice and equity. The following
remarkable cases are mentioned as occur
ring in Mercer county, Pa:
Some little neighborhoOds escaped entirely.
while Others were nearly depleted. Some poor
men with large families drew the unlucky bill
let while their near neighbOrs, perhaps rich
ucIl Will uOuSc ltll vi Ildruy SOILS, all I'LL IOr
soldiers, entirely escaped. Again, two or three
brothers would be drawn out of the same
family. One friend OF ours, with three sons in
the army, had his fourth and only remaining
one drawn Another case was where the hus-
bands of four sisters were drawn; and yet an
other where a man was drawn who was forty
five years old the day preceding the draft, and
in the brief interval could get no chance to claim
exemption.
"A writer in a recent number of the
Monthly Aagozine, published in England
discusses what he calls the ratification of
the boundary of British America This
writer anticipates q speedy war between
Great Britain and the United States, in
which, as a matter of course. the former
will be victorious. The Columbia river
should then form the southern boundary
Of the British possessions on the Pacific.
The whole State of Maine and the northern
portion of Vermont and New York are to
be relinGuished and annexed to Canada.
A Mr.. Yeaman has been elected a
representative to Congress from the first
district Of Kentucky, in place Of General
James S. Jackson, who resigned to enter
the army and was killed at Perryylle.
Mrs. John G. Fremont has turned au-
thor, and has written book entitled
''The Story OF the Guard a Chronicle of
the War;" which viii soon be published,
and will contain certain letters relating to
General Fremont and his men The profits
of the work will be devoted 10 the support
Of the widows and orphans Of officers who
fell in General Fremont's Missouri battles.
The military commission of which
General Hunter is president, is to be char
ged by the Secretary Of War with the duty
OF investigating many important matters
in the war, such as Balls Bluff, the PENN
sular campaign, and numerous charges
against Fitz John Porter, and the destitu-
ton Of the army of the Potomac.
The Commissioner of Pensions has
made the following additional appointments
of Examining Surgeons:
DR.. William D. Burch, Manchester, N II.
DR.. Samuel A. Fisk, Northampton Mass
DR.. Foster Hooper, Fall River, Mass.
DR.. w. II. BurieiSh Lawrence, Mass
Dr. John Fl. Maebie, New Bedford Mass.
DR.. Hiram H. Atwater, Burlington. VT
DR.. Seim Newell, st. Johnsbury, Vt.
DR.. Horace Powers, Morrsville, VT
DR.. John c. IIupp, Wheeling, Va.
Dr. Homer C.. Hitchcock, kalamazoo. Men.
DR. Erastus L. Ellis, Grand Rapids Mich
Dr. Elias Fisher, Richmond Ind
DR.. Harvey Pettibonc Crown Point, Ind
DR.. Samuel Wiley, st. Paul. Mimi
DR.. John d. Ford, Winona, Mimi
DR.. j. E. Stevenson, Kittanning Penn.
DR.. Hugh Campbell, UniOntOwn, Penn.
Capt. Edward Venuli and Lieut.. Juan
Juiz Castillo, late Of the Thirty-seventh
New York Regiment, have been natural
lied, thorugh the Circuit Court for the
District of Columbia. These are believed