The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1862-12-12
THE WEEKLY PIONEER AND DEMOCRAT.
NEWS AND OTHER ITEMS.

be an administration organ, that the army
of the Potomac should not advance. 1t
argues that disaster in an advance move
ment would be the triumph of the rebel
lion; that therefore we cannot afford to in
cur hazard SO tremendous, and that as
long as the army of the Potomac "cOm-
pels the rebels to keep up their forces and
protects Washington, it does all that it
ought to do under present circumstances. I"
Laura Keene is reproved by the New
York critics for "the immoral tendencies"
of her new spectacle. One of the charac-
tiers promenades the stage in his night
shirt-a performance not considered quite
consistent with the high standard of pro-
priety which prevails in Gotham.
The following item is communicated
to the New York Journal Of Commerce.
It contains pregnant hint
The people of Minnesota are complaining
loudly against the President for renting the
punishment of the captured Indians who have
desolated their frontier settlements.
The people are somewhat in the same predic-
ament that the people of Virginia were in
1876, when the vindictive Governor Berkeley
refused his commission to Col. Bacon, whom
the troops had chosen to command them against
the Indians; but the troops marched under the
command of Col. Bacon, defeated the Indians,
and returned home and disbanded.
Henry Ward Beecher's house in
Brooklyn, N. Y, was defaced by black
pitch being thrown upon it few nights
since by some cowardly bastard who bears
the parson i'll will.
1t is not so easy to pay something as it is to
pay nothing, but it is easier to pay large sum
than larger one-President Lincolns Message.
Sounder than oak. This is another proof
that cold Abe's - head is level; and that
he is sound on the goose
"A new head dress is described as con-
sisting of slender wire, bent into wreath,
upon the front of which is perched bril-
liant little humming-bird, surrounded by a
small court of delicate lace, leaves, small
point, and cherry velvet bows, oddly ar
ranged. At the back there are velvet
bows, and barbes of black lace, which de-
scend upon the neck"
"A Falmouth dispatch to the Philadel-
phia Inquirer, dated December 1st, says:
ga gunboat arrived opposite Fredericks-
burg last evening 1t caused visible con-
sternation in the town.
The Rev. Mr. Beecher, after COM
mentiDg in his characteristic style upon the
condition of the times, last Sunday, ex-
claimed: "That's what's the matter!' by
way Of peroration. Dan Bryant the popu-
lar negro minstrel, should copyright his ex-
pressions, or Beecher will make them so
common they will lose their effect.
of all the criticisms of the Presidents
message we have seen (and they are as
various as the minds of the writers), the
following in regard to its style, from the
Buffalo Express, is the most luminously
profound:
1t is peculiarly not easily defined
subtlety permeatimg the most remarkable SIM
pllclty-a vagueness couched in the very plain
ent in the terSest of Saxon speech.
Precisely so. "a r0gueness couched
IN the Gerry plaieest expressions Of don-
gu0ge," is what is the matter with the
message.
The secret of Banks expedition seems
to have been well kept, unless, indeed, we
believe the original story that twas bound
for Texas, which is not generally credited.
elbow many men will you have on your
expedition, General ?" inquired a curious
visitor the other day. ''Well, replied the
General, pausing, as if going through with
a process of mental arithmetic, ''Well |
shall have-a good many"
The New York Express says the
S60O,00O,OOO per annum for army .jobbers,
contractors, gun men, gun contract men,
ETC., are in a high state of tiutter over any
rumors respecting, or prospects of, peace
The Providence Or. - Press gives
the following mournful paragraph, under
its Newport head:
One of those rare and sad instances has re-
Gently occurred here, in which young lady
was buried on the day appointed for her bridal.
The person alluded to, Miss s., had been in
feeble health for several months, but the disease
was consumption that most deceptive of all
diseases, and her immediate friends, as well as
herself, flattered themselves that youth and
medical skill combined would prevail, and the
object of their affection be spared to them for
many years. All the arrangements had been
made for her bridal but, when the appointed
day arrived, death, the grave, claimed her for
its own, and in her last sleep she was arrayed
in what was to have been her bridal attire
The Washington correspondent of the
Cincinnati Commercial, Repub.) says:
The Presidents proposition for ultimate
emancipation is looked upon as simply imprac-
ticable, and will receive little consideration
There will be tremendous row about ar
btrary arrests, without specifications of
charges against those made prisoners; and the
release OF the prisoners without trial. The
recklessness and imbeciity-the pusillanimous
despotism displayed in this matter, is under
stood to be chargeable upon Secretary Stanton,
and the bitterest denunciatiOns of it that have
heard, have been from some of the rather
radical republicans.
The statement made by Mr.. Moore,