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The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1862-11-21
CAPTURE OF THREE BRITISH
VESSELS.

WASHINGTON, Nov 15.-The Navy De-
partment has received voluminous dispatch
es from the Gulf to-day, stating, among
other things, the United States gunboat
Sycamore, on the 28th, captured the Eng
Gsh schooner Tricedof, from Nassau, with
a cargo Of 1000 bags of salt and miscella-
neOus articles.
On the 2Sd the same gunboat captured
the English schooner Francis, Of and from
Nassau, with salt, powder, gin, &c.
The schooner Rachel Seamon, on the
9Th, captured, off Sabine Pass, the Eng
lish schooner Dart. The steamer Kings
ton recently captured an English schooner
attempting to run the blockade off the
caost of Texas.
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1862-11-21

We clip the following Washington
telegram from the Cincinnati Commercial,
Of Thursday:
The President received telegram, costing
the Government $400, on Monday evening,
from Gen. Pope, giving the jaw-breaking
names of three hundred Sioux who have been
condemned to be executed. The President re-
be sent by mail. 1t is not probable that the
wholesale execution which is proposed will be
sanctioned by the President.
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1862-11-21
The War in Tennessee.
Skirmishes with Guerilla Bands.
DEATH OF GEN. vILLIP1GUE.

New YORK, Nov. 15.-The Herald has
the following special dispatch:
NASHVILLE, Nov. 12.-Major General
Lew. Crittenden and staff have arrived
here. Part of Gen. Crittendens corps,
under Gen. Matthews, and Gen. Woods
division, entered Lebanon, Tenn, on the
10th inst, driving out Morgan's rebel cav
airy. They captured large amount of
flour, bacon, wheat, boots and shoes,
a few mules, and some prisoners. Next
morning Morgan made a dash on Gen.
Woods camp, eight miles from Lebanon,
and captured thirty men.
On the morning of the 9th inst, Park
er's brigade entered Gallatin, and encoun-
tered 800 of Morgan's men, capturing
twenty of them and one piece of artillery
All of Morgan's cavalry joined Gen.
Breckenridge at Murfreesboro, and it is
supposed that they left with him for Chat
tanooga, whittier large rebel force is 60
ing. 1t is reported, upon undoubted au-
thOrity, that an immense amount of rebel
arms and supplies are collected opposite
Chattanooga, and that they cannot be
moved across the river for want of facilities
for transportation. The latest reports
place Breckinridge's force at 20, OOO Gen.
Cheatham's force Of rebels is said to be at
Tullahoma.
Advices from Lagrange, Tenn, dated
the 18th inst, say that five regiments of
rebel cavalry, on the preceding evening,
advanced from Larkins Mills to within two
miles Of Holly Springs. Skirmishing COM
menced Immediately and continued some
time. The enemy lost six killed, and two
commissioned officers captured.
The rebel General Villipigue died at
Port Hudson, few days ago, Of pneu-
monia.
Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1862-08-14
GEo. II. RAYMOND, I Scots
Il. Ii. CUAIMINs, "

Mucm of tho secession feeling originates
in feeble minded snobbishness, and thou
sands Of mothers who wear red and white
roses in their bonnets would 60 stark mad
with JOY at the proposal of duke or an
Earl, or Count, to marry one of their
daughters. These things should incite the
poor young men of the country and all
those whom fortune has placed in the hum
bier walks Of life, to stand boldly.up for our
democratic institutions, which open the
paths of preferinent, not to fine dressing
and wealth, but to talent and industry and
to resist the first encroachments of that
spirit Of aristocracy which has been the
curse Of SO many nations. Young men,
have you, though poor, an honorable am
bitiOn to serve your country and to rise in
the world Father, do you wish to leave
your children the blessings Of free govern
ment7 Then place yourselves, not on the
side of those who sheer at rising poverty,
Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1862-08-14
POETRY ,,1t...
Written for the Smyrna Times"
THE HOME I LOVE BEST.
BIT o, r. SIMPSON.

! ask no home amid the cities motley throng,
Where tinslcd fopperics conceal world of wrong,
Where wealth's proud pageantry alures the dazzed
eye,
and vice, in virtues garb, deceves each passsr by.
No castle dim and grand, with proud heraldrc dome,
Whose massive, time.wOrn walls and lofty turrets
CLONE;
Where Golden Sorrows" sit demure in purpled
grief
And lavish wealth to fsstring cares brings relief
Nor yet for me- srsooth, that than humble shed
Where want e'er sits-a household God-with via
sage dread;
Where povsrty denies what competence would give,
And the needy victim finds it misery to live.
For me the simple cot which cumforts full afford,
Where sweet contentment reigns and plenty spreads
the board:
Remote from stern ambitions arbitrary sway,
To live by honest toll, and cheer each opening day
Here the glad circle gathers round the genial hearth
Hero quarrels come and discord has no birth;
Where loving hearts in charmed unison are bound
For here, add here alone, may happiness be found.
Camden, Aug. 9th, 1862.
Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1862-08-14
The Disguised Traitors.

AT the great war meeting in Washington the refo-
tuition most tumutuOusly applauded was that which
declared that treason at the National Capital should
be instantly denounced, and that the dsloyal mea
and women of the District should be compelled to
prove their fidelity to the Government or to forfeit
its protection. At Baltimore the loyal City Council
have requested General Wool to administer the
oath of allegiance to the whole of the citizens. Al
indianapolis the Grand Jury have taken measures 10
suppress disOya secret association. At Harris
burg the editors and publishers of a Democratic
paper at whose Office disgraceful, false and dagger.
Gus placard printed, to be used for mischeVous
purposes, have been arrested and sent 10 Fort Nc
Henry.
These and other vigorous measures show that the
Government is determined to put up no longer with
the various forms of treason that fnger among US,
receiving the protection of the Government that they
aiming to destroy. The warm and hearty man
in which the people hail such energetic proceed
ings should encourage the Government to 90 on In
the good work. There is a wide field and an i'm
mcnse number of subjects. Many of the Democrat.
ic politicians who suffer themselves be guided by
Mr. Salisbury, and the precious appeal in favor of
slavery are really disloyal as he, but they aros
so bold in speech. There scores of genteel
traitors all about, who do not hesitate to express
preference for jeff. Davis Government over 'sths
Lincoln Government" as they snecringly call It
and who ought to be made 10 take the oath of ale
glance or to go beyond our military lines and obtain
the protection of The Government they prefer.
Some ofthe people who have shown such preference
for the rebel patients in the hospitals should be call.
Cd ,.ka 81 L. al
South In fact the Government authorities cannot
be too vigant in their search after traitors. They
in various DISCUSSES but they all be detected.
and the sooner they exposed and punished, the
better will it be for the eoGIary. q
Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1862-08-14

that all who will not bow down to it in the
midst Of a war which it alone has caused,
shall be branded as abolitionists, and hunted
down by our armies. In other words, in
stead of fighting the rebels in arms at the
South, we are to call home our armies and
declare war against all mankind who believe
that slavery is blessing.
AS these men are anxious to do what they
can in the North to create a diversion cal
culated to be beneficial to the South, let the
whole population of the North be made to
feel exactly what the war is. Let million
of men be drafted, if three hundred thou
sand is not enough, and, after trying their
hands at fighting the South with rose water
and compliments, they will learn the true
state OF the case
Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1862-08-14
The Freed Men of South Carolina.

If it were not for the all-absorbing inter-
est of the war, the problem which the black
freedmen of Port Royal are working out,
and regarding which the official reports and
newspaper correspondence keeps us well in
formed, would receive the attention it de-
serves as one of the most interesting and
important in the whole range of ethnologi-
cal and social inquiry.
Probably the only men WHO will not be
greatly surprised at the capacities for volun-
tary labor developed by the free blacks at
Port Royal, and the respectable amount of
mental and moral faculty they display, are
the Southern shareholders. They never be-
lieved the CANNON they have contrived to
circulate for the last quarter of a century,
as to the brutishness, bestialty, incapacity
and hopeless degradation of the hapless in
heritOrs of the "curse of Canaan" But il
has been profitable gospel to preach, and
hence they have done their best to make il
an article of popular faith, and to give it the
force of scientific theory. And if there
ever was a melancholy spectacle, it is that
of science prostituted to the base uses tc
which it has been put bysthe pro-slavery
school of saeaas. r. t.Ts ~
Contemplate though fl1e ealunries are
which the Southern aristocrats and theil
ethnoltigie prophets have heaped on the
Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1862-08-14

brigade, in presence of the commanding
officers OF the regiments comprising such
brigade, from the military forces of the
State In his brigade, organized, uniformed,
&c.
In case such draft shall require a lumber
equal to one regiment, Ito a brigade) it is
to be determined in the same manner.
In case such draft shall require larger
number than the whole number composing
the military force of such brigade, such ad-
ditional draft shall be made of an equal
number from the military roll of the ununi-
formed militia of each town or ward, filed
with the city, village, or town clerk, &c.
When such a draft is ordered, all males
residing in regimental districts are compelled
to enroll themselves; the enrolment is then
to be filed lin cities) in the county clerk 5
office. On the day appointed supervisor,
in presence of the regimental commander
of the district, draws by. lot from this list Il
number of names, i'll accordance with the
number called for by the draft. Any male
thus drawn may provide an able-bodied man
as a substitute, who is then taken in his
stead No persons of the required age are
exempt from this drafting, except clergyInen
and those incapacitated by reasons Of bodily
ailments.
Physical disability is a good ground of
exemption, and should, In all cases of doubt,
be established to the satisfaction of the en-
rolling officer by physicians certificate, as
well as affidavit of the party.
The following imperfections are proper
causes Of disability: Wounds of the head,
which impair the faculties, or cause convul-
sions; serious impairment ofhearing, speech,
or vision anchylOsis, or active disease OF
any of the larger joints the presence Of
pulmonary disease, or organic disease ofthe
heart; irreducible hernia; fistula in ano
large hcmOrrhOids; large aud painful varis-
cell or varicose veins which extend aboveth
knee the loss of a limb, or the thumb and
torcfnGer on the right hand, or Of any two
fingers on either hand the loss of the grea
toe any marked physical imperfection
which would unfit for active service.
Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1862-08-14
Rev. Ezekiel Fletcher Cooper
Tmos. J. SHArI.cRoss, Sec'y.

The Philadelphia Conference has lost by death an
other of her young and popular ministers, being the
fourth since its recent secession. Rev. E. L. Cooper
died in holy triumph at the house of his kind friends
Mr.. and Mrs. Rogers, in Galcna, Kent county Mary
land, on the % ult., about two o'clock A. NJ.
He was born near Willow Grove, Kent county
Delaware, on the 18th day of May, A. b. 1880
lie was sobor-ninrcd, thoughtful, and upright from
his earliest youth; his principles and habits had
been fixed, by the teachings and example of his
pous parents, in Methodistic truth and righteous.
ness. .'t
The deceased was the youngest son Of Samuel b
and Mary Cooper. and sccond.nephew of the late
venerable Ezekiel Cooper, of the Philadelphia Con
ference He assisted his father on the farm until
Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1862-08-14

black bOndsmen, these calunnies haye not
failed largely to impregnate Northern opin-
ion and probably there never was any sub
ject coming within the range of common
experience ON which current opinion was so
largely made up of the barest fallacies and
talsehoOds as that respecting the nature and
capacities of the negro race. And hence it
is that the repOrtv of the experiment at Port
Royal will come to many with all the force
of a new revelation. 1t will be something
new to them to learn that the freed blacks
and even their white teachers were sur
prlsed-are as industrious, and more so,
and do as much work and more in the con-
dltlon OF treemen, and under a iudiciOns
system OF day wages, than they formerly
did under the stimulus of the lash that they
take readily and shrewdly to trade; that they
have the stuff in them of good soldiers that
they show no incOnsiderable intellectual APP
tltudes and that, though their manhood is
blotted and blurred by lifelong bondage,
they yet respond to the same motives and
aspirations which effect other men. These
facts, now fully demonstrated, will be new
only to the people of the NOrth--they have
always been perfectly well understood at
the South. The experiment at Port Royal,
which has developed them, is not only in
terestlng in an abstract sense, but it has vast
practical bearings, and the future Of Ameri-
can Slavery is largely bound up with the
trial now being made in the Sea Island re-
gi0n of the South Carolina coast
We do not entertain any very ideal no.
tons of the negro race but we trust we are
equally free from that low, gross material
ism that would shut down a brazen firma-
ment around any, the most degraded, that
share our common humanity, or that can
look without hope and sympathy to their
hard struggles towards light and lite.-Ne,,
| York Times. .
Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1862-08-14

At meeting of tldHbasscngcrs held Au-
Fairy, during an excursion trip from Smyr-
ma Landing to Philadelphia, the following
preamble and resolutions were unanimously
adopted:
WHEREAS, The community in general,
and agricultural anti fruit-growing portion
i'll particular, have suffered great incOnveni-
ence and detriment by the removal of steam
boats from the waters of Duck Creek, which
has caused great deal of anxiety and APP
prehension, for want Of sufficient convey
ance for their products to Northern markets,
therefore, be it
Resolved, That we, the citizens of Duck
Greek Hundred, duly appreciate the accom-
mOdating spirit and liberal enterprise of our
worthy tellOw-citizen, Edwin Wilmer, Esq,
in furnishing daily communication from
the town of Smyrna to the city of Philadel-
phia, for the transportation of fruit and other
produce by the steamboat Fany.
ReSoh'ed, as the sense of this meeting, That
the trip so successfully made by the steam
er Fairy, on Tuesday, the 9Th of August,
from Smyrna Landing to Philadelphia, de-
monstrates the practicability of so improv-
ing the navigation of Duck Creek, by cut
ting through several long bends, as to give
speedy, convenient and pleasant access,
which is so much needed and earnestly de-
sired with Philadelphia.
Resolved, Further, as an appropriation has
been made for the above named improve
ment, and Commissioners appointed, who
have made a survey and reported, in part
favorably, we think they should now pro
coed at once to make such improvements a,
have been i'll part agreed on, and Others
which we believe absolutely necessary, OF
resign their trust, SO that others may be APP
pointed who will.
Resolved, That we sincerely feel our in
dcbtedness to Edwin Wilmer, Esq, for hi
kindness and Gberallty in affording us til,
privilege of a very pleasant excursion on tn,
} Eliy to the city of Philadelphia.
Res0Lred, That the thanks of this mectin!
are due and hereby rendered TO Captain TIN
and crew of the Fury for their kind attcn
ton and skillful management of the boa
out of the Greek and TO the place of desti
nation.
Speeches were INDUCED in at some lengtl
by Rev. J. L. Ayars, DIR. VIM. Cummins
} John NJ. Voshell, VIM. Johnson, Il. ii
Cummins and Edwin Wilmer, all of WHOM
were fully convinced Of the practicability Q
Steamboat communication from Smyn
Landing to Philadelphia, and urged the i'm
portance and necessity of at once straight
ening and otherwise improving the Cree
! navigation. J. NJ. VOSIIELL, Pres
DIR. WIN. CUMMINs, Woo p-oa
JACOB WILLIAMS, ''o reS'
1 GEo. II. RAYMOND, Scots
X. Ii. CUMIINs,
Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1862-08-14

The National Republican states that Mr. Fay,
late American Minister to Switzerland, who 10 homo,
urges the Governments fit would prevent foreign in
PREVENTION and enlist the sympathies Of Europe, V
proclaim emancipation,
Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1862-08-14

and who would give offices to none save
the owners of vast estates, but on the sides
of the independent middle class, who pos
sess the moral and physical strength of the
nation.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1862-03-13
The Great Naval Victory.

The telegraph brings, has already brought us the
news of how the great iron-clad marine battery, the
Merrimac" re-cbrisened the Virginia., did, on Sat-
urday and Sunday last, sink Federal Fr9ate, the
Cumberland carrying an armament OF "a guns of the
heaviest cabre, being generally and IL inch Dahl
grers, with possibly some few 10 inch Columbi-
ads bes des running ashore and capturing another
heavy frigate the Congress- rated at fifty guns. The
Congress was subs quenty burned. She also engaged
the vas and powerful steam!rgate Minnesota, running
the Minnesota aground to prevent her going down, as
the Cumberland did. The celebrated Ericsson iron bate
ry made its appearance in the Reads Sunday and the
Virginia tackled it, the fIht continuing four hours
During tbe conflict, the Virginia, for time, got
aground and the Ericsson circd around pounding her
with l28 pound solid shot, at about forty feet, but with
out Effect Finally the Virginia got afoat and pitched
into the Ericsson head foremost, and sent her bowling
towards Fortress Monroe, with all hands at the pumps
The Virginia then amused herself by peppering the
Minnesota at long taw the channel being too shallow
to admit of her engaging at short range The Mime
sofa is total loss and has been burned She also on
Saturday engaged the Newport News batteries, and,
with the assistance of the Patrick Henry and the James
town, silenced them all but one.
Thus then, the Virginia, in part of two days, des-
troyed the two first and disabled the last of the three
vessels of the following tonnage and armament
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1862-03-13
From the Richmond Enquirer.
Cen Il .Innnann Fe1It9reNx.


MEssRs EDITORS The public mind IS much exer-
cised Just now on the subject OF General-n-C hef-
Pettigrew is the man. The writer has known him long
and well He possesses one OF the finest intelects U
the land aud has exceed in everything that be has un-
dertaken from bis college days till nov"
He graduated with extraordinary distinction at
Charel Hill the year that President Polk and John l.
Mason attended commencement there. His mathemat
zeal attachments were so remarkable that the President
at once invited him the post of Assistant Astrono
mer at the National Observatory In w ashngt0n he
accepted it fer year. and this school boy who hac
never before observatory was soon ranging him
self alongside OF STRIVE the celebrated living as
rODOmer of Europe not Only competing with him ID me
use of the instrument with which lie Russian won bis
renown. but actually improving upon tie IOFinu& OF
that celebrated astronomer.
When his year was up, young PettigTew gave up his
appointment aud went to Europe.
What are you going to Europe for 2" said friend.
To study the military art, was the reply for we
shall have to fight those Yankees yet, and want to be
ready for them"
After an absence of several years. he returned ard
entered upon the study of law with his knsman Petit
grew, the celebrated South Carolina lawyer.
Here bis talents s0oU brought him into notice and be
was sent represent the Cry Of Charleston IN the e-
esature where leading position was at assg bed
him. Feelings at that time were running high upon
the subject Of reopening the African Slave trade Ihe
Governor recommended it in his message, and 1t was
referred to special committee, OF which Pettgrew was
/
LIBERATED report which gave this question its quieus
Soon after this Napoleon III. commenced his Italian
Young Pettigrew immediately FASTENED to France
to Or bis services hoping for al opportunity OF study
ing upon the battle field there those pr1cpes and thai
art which he felt sure soon to be called into play
here
Ia The Fort Sumter afair Pettigrew on the spot
taking active aud prominent part from beginning to
| the end.
! As the plot began to thickeu, and North Carolina
bis native State began 10 be threatened by the enemy
he FASTENED to her borders and raised regiment He
has already for it, among his companions in arms
the distinction of having the best drilled the best dis
cpned and the best cared for regiment in the division
OF the army which it belongs and there fine
officers ard regiments in that army.
Pettg1ew has exceled in every station to which be
has been called and the that cannot be exceled is
the want.
We have several accomplished West Point graduates
that TT Tor thee place. but the selection OF any one
othese might Cause heart-burnngs, which We desire TO
avoid. By Pettigrw s appointment ali risk OF trouble
from that wOu!d be avoided He is of the right
Iage--abOut 80. NORTH CAROLINA.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1862-03-13

THE Newbern Progress Gays that about three O'Clock
on Friday morning, small boat seen to pass under
the railroad bridge the Trent River at that place,
bat it did not stop At four O'Clock light blaze was
discovered about midway the bridge. The alarm was
instantly given but the vile perpetrator of the deed was
not discovered. The guard succeeded ir extingushng
the FIRE, and preventing disastrous confagration
The inceEdiary apparatus was in the shape OF wire
net or basket filed with hemp saturated with spirits oil
turpentine, and fastened to the bridge bya common
drawing chan wrapped with rags, also saturated as
were the timbers of the bridge clear across.
This was evidently deliberately planned and skill
fuy devised scheme to destroy the bridge. 1t shows
the sort Of dangers we have to guard against and ought
to stimulate our rail road guards, authorities and en-
ployt es to renewed vigilance.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1862-03-13

WILL BE REPEATED.-We take pleasure in announ
cling that The thrilling and popular historical drama Of
\ lex OF the Woods" so well performed last week, will
be repeated at the Theatre tomorrow uigh with the
" immense afer-piece of SIasber and Crasher.
The d servtd!y popular Bailey family have volun-
teered their valuable services which, in combination
with the IF Give presentations OF the talented amateurs
will certainly guarane e excellent performance, and
ought TO secure luu attendance.