The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1862-06-27
THE WEEKLY PIONEER AND DEMOCRAT.
The Richmond correspondents Of tie

The Richmond correspondents 81 tie
Memphis Appeal, published at Grenada
Mississippi, dated June I'd, gives an account
of the great battle. The correspondent
says the First Virginia was annihilated,
bringing only twenty-six men out of action.
He says General Joe johnson was slightly
wounded in the shoulder. He says also
The President, the Secretary of War, Gen.
Lee and Governor Letcher, were all on the
field on Sunday.
need not undertake to describe the ap.
pearance of our city, nor the manner in which
of this trying hour. All business is suspended.
Every house is hospital, and but one thought
occupies the public mind-hOw the brave de.
tenders of the Capital, who are suffering
from the enemy's well directed fire, shall be
made comfortable.
He accounts for the falling back of the
rebels on Sunday as follows:
Our troops fell back last night because Of
the miry nature of the ground, and of the hOr.
rible stencil already filling the air for mile
around the field, from the rapid decOmp osi-
ton Of the unburied corpses under the hot sun
OF June.
The wife and daughter of John Whit
taker, living in Rochester, n. Y, were
burned to death last Monday evening, by
their dresses catching fire. The mother
persisted in the attempt to save the daugh-
ter, whose dress swung into the flames of
portable furnace.
The loyal men of Maryland have shown
their intention to take care of themselves
in the future. The Baltimore Amerjca,a
warns the secessionists of the State that it
is time for them to accept the proofs that
the rebellion is failure, and adds:
Whether they choose to give in or not, the
loyal of the State need ask them no odds in all
the future. The loyal are effectively masters
of the situation, and must be for all time to
come. And when the rebellion with all its
excuses and its disgraceful failure becomes in
the future the loathsome and pitiabe thing it
is destined to besome, it will not be a pleasant
thing for the children of its devOtees here to
find their progenitors branded as traitors to
the best government ever given to man. Let
all concerned hasten to clear their skirts of
any completely with it before it is too late.
The following incident is related in the
New York Times correspondence from
McClellan's army:
When our forces first took possession of the
two houses in Casey's old camp they found
them filled with wounded, both rebel and Un-
ion. The Surgeons of the Fifth Excelsior was
attending to them on Monday morning, and
reports curious conversation he had with
one of them. He was the first Union Surgeon
they had seen. One poor fellow was lying
covered with secesh blanket, with his face
RI 10 W. 10 hi for ha
geon said: "My boy. what tempted you to
fight against us?' II was impressed, Sir"
drafted, were your "Yes Sir. | did mt
want to come, but they drafted me, and | had
no recourse" 'What is your regiment"
''The One Hundredth New York" "And they
are drafted in New York 2" "Yes, Sir" He
had taken the surgeon for secessionst (not
seeing his uniform, } and only realized the sta
tus OF affairs when told that it was tolerable
large lie for even a secessonsts to swallow.
The chagrin of the mendacous coward at his
mistake can better be imagined than describ-
ed: regret that have not his name. Some
folks hereabouts begin to believe in the doc
trine of "total depravity."
In view of the fact, says correspon-
dent of the Journal Of Commerce, that the
journals of England are constantly playing
the pathetic about the dreadful "fraternal
war; in this country, the subjoined partic-
ulars from Thos. PONIES "Common Sense"
are worth remembering: "Thirty kings
and two minors have reigned in that dis.
tracted kingdom since the conquest, in
which there have been no less than eight
civil wars and nineteen rebellions. In short,
monarchy and secession have laid not this
kingdom only, but the world, in blood and
ashes" Paine was borne in England,
and wrote much nonsense, but the above
facts are of course substantiated by the
records of history.
The New York correspondent of the
Philadelphia Inquirer, of the 18th says -
"a wedding in Jewish high life took place
at the Green Street Synagogue, and was at
tended by the creme de la creme of Hebrew
society. The parties were Mr.. Mannheim
Cohen and Miss Sophia Hebron. TIE
building was crowded with the elite and
the display of dress and jeweIry on the part
of the ladies was very fac. More than
fye hundred carriages attended the bridal
party. In the evening there was grand
reception at the residence of the brides
parents"
The New York Journal of Commerce
gives the following table showing the i'm
ports of dry goods into that city for nuns
Der Of years past. The government fiscal
year, it will be remembered, ends with
June:
Eleven months of Imports of drv goods.
1866. so, 723, 432
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1901 of.oI ,Voo
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lS59-6O.. IOA,oVo,lOo
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The foreign trade has suffered more in
proportion in this branch than any other,
and the above comparison is full explana-
ton of this result. Only $34,62O,6l8 in