The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1862-06-27

number Of vessels now receiving cargoes is
about one hundred. A few days ago, there
we're one hundred and thirty loading, but
several have just sailed. Last week no less
than sixteen large ships left port, carrying
an aggregate Of nearly l 100000 bushels.
Mrs. Anson Burlingame sailed for
Shanghai, China, in the steamer Fire
Cracker, which left New York on the eth
inst. She goes to join her husband, who is
United States Minister to China.
"A breach of promise case, which has
excited much interest in Middlebury, VT,
in which Miss Ross, aged forty,six, sued
a Mr.. Morton, aged fiftyssix, for $4,000
damages, has just been decided by the jury,
giving the fair plaintiff damages in the sum
of $40.
One of the Baltimore visitors on Wis
it to Chicago, Mr.. A. D. Shuttle, visited
Camp Douglas on Saturday, and acciden.
tally discovered his son among the prison.
oners. They embraced each other most
cordially, and both burst into tears. al
am glad to see you, my son." said the faith
er, but sorry to see you here" The son
went to Alabama few years ago, and this
was the first the father knew of bis where
abouts.
-Vanity Fair has a comicaI picture of
"Governor Andrews school for the Mas
sachusetts Soldier" 1t represents the
doughty Governor, spectacles on, in the act
of commaDding-trampling on the consti-
tuition, and fnging up his plumed cooked
hat, with" now boys, three hearty cheers;
two for the niger, and one for the Union"
It's capital-and as just as it is good.
Captain Coles is to receive s25, 1000 in
cash, and $500 for every cupola brought
into the British naval service for the next
fourteen years. In plain words the Erics~
sion, taken up and passed off by Coles as
bis own, is thus literally paid for by John
Bull. Now let our Government be equally
liberal with Ericsson.
--Telegraphic dispatches have been re
ceived, announcing the death, at Fond du
Lac, Wisconsin, of Colonel D. E. Wood, of
the Fourteenth Regiment, wounded at the
battle of Pittsburg Landing. Col. Wood
was brave soldier and noble man.
Mrs. Leggett, wife of Lieut.. A. Leg
gett of the Eighth n. Y. Cavalry, was left
in Winchester, Va, during the late Rebel
occupation of that place, her husband hav.
ing retreated at short notice with his regi-
ment. She has since returned to Rochester,
after having enjoyed several days. inter.
course with the Rebel chiefs, and she says
Jackson's force cannot have fallen below
10000 men. 1t was all day in passing
through Winchester on its retreat, when it
had every reason for economizing time.
The wife of General Robert E. Lee,
who has been for some time under guard in
the house where she was found upon the ar.
rival of our troops, in the neighborhood of
Hanover, has been at last released, and
sent over the lines to rejoin her husband.
Shs has been closely confined, and no COM
munication has been allowed with her or her
family. She was placed in charge of q
charge of cavalry, and in close carriage.
with her two daughters, crossed our lines,
and is now safe in Richmond.
Lieutenant Commanding j. P. Hall,
US. n, has arrived in New York for the
purpose of relieving Captain Porter, of the
Essex, in the duty of experimenting the
construction of the new gunboats 1.-THE Fort,
Henry, Choctaw, and another) now on the
way at Carondolet.
-" The Confederate authorities" say the
southern papers, have found it necessary
to convert the Institutions established by
Mississippi for the deaf and dumb, and the
blind, into hospitals for sick and wounded
soldiers" A cynical friend remarks that
those are just the places suited to the whole
Confederate army.
The Washington correspondent of the
Springfield Republican says state what
know to be true when say that General
Mcclellan today has 10000 less troops in
his command than he had when he stood
before Yorktown. I do not of course mean
to reckon any of his late reinforcements in
this account. The peninsula campaign has
already cost the nation 10000 men-not
their lives, but their services.
The New York Legislature at its late
session imposed upon the people of the
State new system Of military organization,
very cumbrous and enormously expensive,
the mere cost of organization being some-
thing like $5,OOO,OOO, besides about ST.
100000 per annum for its subsequent mains
tenance. And this whole scheme was foist.
ed on the people so ingeniously, that even
the Legislature itself appears to have been
almost unconscious of its purport.