The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1862-01-10
News and Other Items.

post of First Lieut.. in Massachusetts
cavalry regiment, is the son of our present
Minister to England, grandson of the sixth
President, and great grandson Of the second
President of the United States.
The Col. Terry of the Texas Rangers,
who was killed at the battle near Green
River, KY, was a brother Of Judge Terry,
of California, who killed Senator Broder-
lex.
The Down casters are alive to the
fact openly stated in Canadian journals
that on the first outbreak of war between
this country and England, Maine would be
the battle ground, and the Portland papers
are urging on the State and General Gov.
ernments active military preparations, esper
cially to procure heavy Notifications for
their splendid harbor which would be a
empting prize.
The community was startled this morn.
ing by the tidings that Hon. Solomon G..
Haven, one of our Oldest and best known
citizens, was dead. We learn that the sad
event was the result of a paralytic stroke
AS prominent member of the bar, the
law partner of Mr.. Fillmore, and the for1
mer representative of this district in Con-
gress, Mr.. Haven was generally known and
everywhere favorably. Time denies to US
today the preparation of a proper tribute
to our departed fellow citizen. We can
only say further that his loss will be deeply
and fervently regretted. Buffalo CONNER
cial, 25th.
The history of the peculiar institu-
ton" of the Rebel States shows that at the
Christmas Holidays the slaves have planned
all their Instructions. We have already
indications of fearful import, and many fear
that within a fortnight we shall be obliged
to protect the people of the Slave States,
rather than defend ourselves against them.
The following is significant paragraph
from Port Royal letter:
The QUESTION AT IssUE.-We will soon have
peace. 1t is no longer question of whether
the South can "maintain its Independence
that wretched cant phrase of their vile dema-
gogues. 1t is simply question whether the
deluded and unhappy population will make
peace before slavery is destroyed or they are
destroyed by their slaves.
When the slaves arise they will leave an
appalling desolation-burned houses, innocent
families murdered, plantations sacked, every.
thing utterly destroyed and wasted, and then
gaunt famine and starvation among them. We
cannot avert this-it belongs to the operations
of natural causes; it is the retribution that
sooner or later overtakes the wicked.
1.-The following clever hit at DR.. Ray,
one of the Editors of the Chicago Tribune,
who was stampeded at Bull Run, we find in
the Chicago Post:
FAST C0L0Rs, OR, THE POSITION OF THE CHI
CAGO "PREss'D TRIBUNE"
POMP.
Why am it, say,
Dat Massa Ray,
Who run'd away
From Bull Run like de debbil,
Now wants to coax
De colo folks
To fight de s0uthe'n rebbel
CUFFEY.
Yah yah !-'t am clear;
Cause why, de fear
Oh bullets urged him on,
De valiant knight,
Who turned all white,
Wants bracks to fight
Cause de color ,UlI not run
Ben McCull0ch is at Richmond, hav.
ing been summoned there to answer some
charges preferred against him for needlessly
burning property of Southern men, and for
refusing to reinforce Price when the latter
was pursued by the national troops.
The following named parties in st.
Louis, have sent protest to General Hal
leck against the justice and constitutionality
of his assessments for ten thousand dollars,
lately levied. 1t does not include all the
names of the assessed, but only of protest
ants: Samuel B. Churchill, William M.
McPheeters, Louis q. CORNER, George
Kingland, Mrs. Trusten Polk. Erastus
Wells, L. Charles Boislinere, Charles Nc
Loren, Juliette B. Goresche, D. Robert
Barclay, Samuel Robbins, Louis Dorshei-
mer, d. 81. Armstrong, S. s. Harrington,
Robert M. Renick, E. @. Sloan, William F.
ferguson, y. w. Wills, John Wickham,
Robert M. Funkhowser, Daniel H. Dono.
van, Wiley Rudolph, William g. Clarke,
Henry B. Bell, Alexander Royser.
One of the most shocking murders
ever committed in the West, has just been
brought to light in St. Clair county, I'LL.
nois, opposite St. Louis. About one month
ago, Capt. james Ambrose, residing one
mile east of O'Fallon Station, on the Ohio
and Mississippi Railroad, in St. Clair coun-
ty, Illinois, suddenly disappeared. He was
an old and wealthy citizen, highly respected,
and well known in that section. His sud-
den disappearance excited considerable sur
prise, and his continued absence and the at
lending circumstances, finally led his neigh.
bors to suspect that he had been foully
murdered. A search was instituted, and on
the 25th inst, the body was found and the
suspicious of the neighbors fully realized, .
nephew Of the murdered man, named Curry,
having confessed to the preparation of the