The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1862-08-08
Horace Greeley, in discussing the mile.
age question with our member OF Congress,
Hon. Qvrus A ldrich SAVE.

It is impOrtant-I grant you-that the next
Congress should be Republican; it is further
important that it should be honest and frugal,
War -Debt-gigantic Expenditure-enorm
TRANSFORMATIONS of arduous struggle to
avert National bankruptcy-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 thoroughly devoted to Public Economy
and the cutting off of every needless, the cut
ting down OF every inordnate 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, II, C.
The Charleston Courier of O recent
date contained the following intelligence
from Texas
An order has been extended for every fami.
| ITO leave Galveston, it having been deIermin.
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 Federala
| take the city. all those guilty of this treason
were taken cat Immediately and hung.
Yet these are the people who talk of re-
talatiDg on General Butler for hanging the
man who violently tore dowo 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 in a
sp ech calling tor volunteers for Colonel
Charlie Anderson s Gegimcnt:
That cid Abe mus! wake I'D and change his
I diet; he had boen !east;ug too long on prairie
chickens and sWseiEeats. lie must eat more
wildcats AMI builpUps, sud less snail soap.
ana that would at.eugtlen his spinal column
and that fooy would c mo Gown that we reed
50 much about, which hiss been 10 SO loac
LCAecro and IauZhtar.l
Capt. 1ichim, Jha A-sls;u4t QIartet~
master General il Boston, lis 1-eu 4uthor-
lied by the Government to .sN ID public
auction ihe bells which were seq "a in New
Orleans BY zen. Butle., aud seat to that
port n the ship North AmD;c2. They
| range in weight from eight to fourteen Luno
dred and fifty pounds, aud many Of them
are fne toaed and suitable ior Churches aud
other public buildings.
---Gov. Andrew Of Massachusetts, 10 his
letter to tie committee OF oae hundred and
! fifty, who had invited him to dtliver an adj
dress upon Boston common, made the fol.
lowing hopeful statements
This enlistment is nobly going on. We shall
not fall nor even delay. Occasionally some
Que suggests a draft. But never. for one in.
slant, have | entertained the thought. No
! ConScrlp'lOn 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, il peace and in war. in
lite and in death, because We understand the
worth OF her liberty. and the priceless value
OF opportunity, freedom and q fair field for all
citizens. Und rstandiDg our country. her in
sttutionS 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 outshine
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 gueriIias Col.
Gavin anG DR.. Wir'z were slightly wounds
ed Lieutenant Rruden of the 7th indiana,
is supposed to be killed. They were coming
after supplies.
--General Lewis Partridge of Norwich,
Vermont, was arrested lew days since by
United Stats 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 duriUg 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
Buchaaans admin traitor.
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 tie provisions OF
the act into etf ct coud 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
gation 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, niuety.fve miles above
Ficksburg. she was fired upon from a rebel
masked battery of six l2.pouuders, and by
large force of rflemen. She received in 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, u 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
met the DeSOtO bound down and warned her
of the danger, she, however, kept on, and
fears are entertained that she has been cap
tured.