The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1862-11-28
NEWS AND OTHER ITEMS.

The bark Restless, sailing craft of
our navy, has made no less than seventeen
captures of prizes English and rebeD since
the 14th of February last. She is COM
manded by Lieut.. Edward Conroy. Among
her recent captures are the British steam
ers Scotia and Anglia, which were caught
while attempting to break the blockade of
Charleston.
Gen. Jackson said to friend at the
Hermitage, Il short time before his death:
The abolition party is disloyal organization.
Its pretended love of freedom means nothing
more or less than civil war and dissolution of
the Union. Honest men of all parties should
unite to expose their intentions and arrest their
progress.
We see it stated that DR.. Holmes will
re-appear in next months ANoatic The
subject of his contribution will be the
search he lately made to find his son, after
the battle of Antletam, in which encounter
his gallant boy was shot in the neck The
title of the Doctors article is, 'My Hunt
after the Captain" Mr.. Longfellow will
break his protracted silence with poem in
the next atlantic, the subject of which is
to be national one-the loss OF the Cum
berland sloop-ot-war.
The London correspondent OF the
Philadelphia Inquirer gives the following
account of the killing of Captain Andrews,
of the Confederate steamer Sumter:
The Confederate vessel Sumter was, on the
18th of October, the scene of friohtful crime.
The following facts, not yet published here l
have received from an authentic source
When Captain Semmcs quilted the Sumter she
was left at Gibraltar in charge of the first Off
Ger, named Andrews. Soon after n fellow
said TO be from Charleston, South Carolina
named Hester, but who had been serving on Il
British vessel, came on board of the Sumter,
and produced such favorable impression that
he was made second officer. What led to the
act that he committed is not known, but it APP
pears that on the day mentioned he deliberately
walked up to the first officer, Andrews, as he
was lying in his berth in the cabin, and shot
him dead with revolver. He was of course
arrested and is now in prison at Gibraltar.
The New York Tribune gives the fol-
lowing account Of the recovery of large
amount Of stolen property
Our readers will recollect that MeSsrs Riggs
d Co., day or two ago, offered 4 reward OF
1900 for Il missing box, which was taken out
OF the Bank OF America Immediately after il had
been deposited there. The box contained pa
pers valued ut S133, 262, and certificates of
stock amounting to about 5000, 900. On Mon
day, between one and two o'clock, Detectives
kelS and Radford reported themselves to Ser
geant Young with the box, containing all the
missing property, except Si00 worth OF post
age stamps. The detectives had watched the
place frequented by the suspected thief several
days, finally fearing the receiver might destroy
the box and its contents, they pounced upon
the house, and secured the property just in
time to save the documents from the flames.
Hon Thomas Ewing, of Ohio, is about
to publish pamphlet, exhibiting the true
character of the proceedings at the Peace
Convention in Washington, in the early
part of 1861.
Hon. John I. Clark, some years since
State Engineer of New York, died at
Utica, last week. His name is identified
with many Of the public works of New
York.
"A report lately obtained circulation in
many of the newspapers that General Tay
lor's plantation near New Orleans. was
sacked by the soldiers of the Vermont
Eighth regiment. The officers of the reg
iment contradict the statement in YER
mont paper. They say that before the
troops arrived at the plantation the over
seer had run away, taking with him every
thing valuable belonging to the estate
The negroes OF the plantation had, after
their master left, taken possession of the
wines and some trinkets which had been
removed by the overseer, and had taken
them to their shanties. When the troops
arrived the grounds were strewn with pa
pers, which the negroes had taken and
opened.
Greeley, who has abused President
Lincoln as the cause of the non-electiOn of
Wadsworth, by his official neglect in not
making war fast enough, now occupies a
column with the brilliant record of a years
hostilities against the South, and says, Z" it
is absurd to say the Union arms have made
no progress" That is precisely the 7ri-
bune's consistency.
If the people of Missouri have en-
dorsed system of gradual emancipation,
we are glad OF it. Missouri is substantial
ly Free State, and she consults her own
best interests by taking measures to re-
move negroes from her midst. In this she
follows the example Of New York and all
the other original States. The place to
discuss emancipation is in the legislatures
of the Slave States, and Missouri, very
properly, takes the lead. The place MOTIF
discuss emancipation is in Congress, and
we hope the agitation ofthe subject will be
RENTED to the proper tribunal.
ID. A. Mahoney, just released from the
Old Capitol prison, was enthusiastically re-
ceived in Dubuque. A large number of