The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1862-08-08

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ags auestioo with our member Of Congress,
Hon. CyruGS Aldrich, says:
! IT is important Il grant you-that the next
Congress shoald be Republican it is further
important that II should be honest and frugal.
ME-Debt- Expenditure-enormous
avert National bsnkruptcy-such is the pros.
| poet before us. Retrenchment and frugality.
always desirable. have become indispensable.
No orthodoxy in politics can save from down.
fall any party ascendency that is not heartily
and the cutting of Of every needless, the cut.
ting down OF every fnordinate outlay. If the
Republicans do not realize this necessity, the
sceptre will fall from their hands. That they
may be so wise as to be honest. is the earnest
prayer of Yours, H. G.
The Charleston Courier of recent
date contained the following intelligence
from Texas
,; An order has been extended for eyerv fami.
| iy to leave Galveston. it having been determin.
ed, as in the case of Vicksburg, to defend it to
| the last. This order has been complied with
| except by some seven families. The parties
| being suspected, their homes were searched,
| when the Stars and Stripes were discovered,
intended to be hung out should the FederaIs
| take the city. All those guilty of this treason
were taken out Immediately and hung.
Yet these are the people who talk of re-
taliatiDg on General Butler for hanging the
man who violently tore down the Union flag
when first raised by loyal bands in New
Orleans.
A correspondent OF the Cincinnati
Gazette says that General Hendricks used
the following very "heavy" language 10 a
speech calling for volunteers for Colonel
Charles Anderson regiment
That old Abe must wake up and change his
diet he had been feastiug too long on prairie
chickens and sweetmeats. He must eat more
wildcats and bullpups, aud less snail soup,
and that would strengthen his spinal column,
and that foot would come down that we read
so much about, which has been up so long.
[Cheers and langhter.l
Capt. McKim, the Assistant Quarter
master General 10 Boston, has been author
lied by the Government to sell at public
auction the bells which were seiz.tl in New
Orleans by Gen. Butler, and sent to that
port IN the ship North America. They
range in weight from eight to fourteen huns
dred and fifty pounds, aud many of them
| are fine toned and suitable for churches and
other public buildings.
| Gov. Andrew of Massachusetts, 10 his
letter to the committee of one hundred and
fifty, who had invited him to deliver an adj
dress upon Boston common, made the fol.
lowing hopeful statements
oI;o
not fail, nor even delay. Occasionally some
one suggests a draft. But never. for one in.
slant, have entertained the thought. No
| cOnscripfi0n is demanded in order to bring the
! people OF Massachusetts up to the full standard
of every duty they owe to their country. We
| here serve her cause, in peace and in war, in
| life and in death, because we understand the
| worth of her liberty, and the priceless value
| of opportunity, freedom and a fair field for all
citizens. Und rstandiDg our country. her in.
| stltutl0nS and her cause, and the significance
of this contest into which We are called. this
| people will sustain every burden and perform
| every work of duty, with generous confidence,
always hopeful and serene, until assured vic-
tory shall restore peace, order, Union and lib.
erty. shall perpetuate national honor, and
shall make the glory of the later days outshne
the glory of our past.
Colonel Gavin 10 coming from Web.
ster county, Kentucky, to Henderson, on
the 25th, with tour in the party, was am
buscaded by party of forty guerilIas. Col.
Gavin and DR.. Wirtz were slightly wounds
| ed. Lieutenant Rraden OF the 9TH Indiana,
is supposed to be killed. They were coming
after supplies.
General Lewis Partridge of Norwich,
Vermont, was arrested few days since by
United States Marshal Baldwin, on the
charge of treason, and taken to Windsor,
where the United States Circuit Court sits
next week. His trial is expected to take
place during the coming session of the
| court. The evidence against him is said to
be very strong. General Partridge was
United States Marshal for this State under
Buchanan's administration.
The operation of the Tax bill has been
postponed by the Secretary of the Treasury
until the lst of September, the law having
given Mr.. Chase that power. The machi-
merry necessary to carry the provisions of
the act into effect could not be put in work.
ing order by the LIST of August, and hence
the postponement.
The following dispatch from Cairo,
Goth, shows the dangers attending the navi
cation of the Mississippi, below that point:
The Wilson has just arrived from Vicksburg,
which place she left on Friday last. She start.
ed with four empty barges in tow, and when
at Princeton Point, ninety.fve miles above
Vcksburg. she was fred upon from rebel
masked battery Of six l2.pouuders, and by
large force of rifemen. She received ip all
| forty-eight shots, eighteen of which were from
artillery, and to effect her own escape was
obliged to cut loose from the barges. Fortu.
nately no one on board was injured, though
| some narrow escapes were had. The steward
| lay sick in his ROOM through which dozen
| balls passed under and over him, smashing the
furniture and completely Kidding articles of
| clothing hanging about the room D. shell
burst directly under the boiler, the boat in fact
is completely riddled with rifle and cannon
! shots, and it is a most singular coincidence
| tina. no one on board was injured. When
| about sixty miles above tie Point, the Wilson
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