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The Nevada Democrat., 1862-07-10
A. $. HAILIDIE. II. 4. GRAVEs
A. S. HALLIDIE & CO.,
Wire Suspension Bridge Builders,
And Manufacturers Of
TENT WIRE ROPE.

WIRE SUSPENSION BRIDGES or
w any span aud capacity erected, and material
furnished
Having been constantly engaged in the erection Of
Wire Suspension Bridges and Acqueducts for some
years past, we are fully prepared TO do such work
PERMANENCY.
Parties who are about erecting bridges will find II
greatly to their advantage TO give us a call before
deciding to build wooden structures as the recent
Hoods throughout the state have proven them to be
wholly unsafe and unreliable. number Of olir tcf,e
suspensions drenoici in different through.
out ne State no one of i0hich has been in the least af.
fected By The freshets.
WIRE ROPE, for mining and ferry purposes, man.
ufactured OF any length and size REQUIRED. being
cheaper and better than hemp.
Scales ofweights and strength with prices annexed,
furnished, on application to the manufacturers.
Send for circular. A. S. HAIIIDIE & co,
april 3m. 4l2 Clay street San Francisco.
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The Rebel Murders In Georgia.
FLAG-SHIP Hartford, }
PCnsacOli Ray. Oct. Is. 1862.

CAIRO, Nov. 2O.-A letter received here
this morning from Corinth says John K.
Porter, company G, Twenty-first Ohio,
and W. Alan, company G, Thirty-third
Ohio, had arrived at that place from At
lanta, Georgia They broke Jail, with
twelve others of the Andrews party, sent
out by General Mitchell last summer.
They give the following account of the dis
position of the twenty-four men: Capt.
Andrews, citizen spy George D. Wilson,
Second Ohio Marion Ross, company A,
Second Ohio P. G. Shaddock, company
K, Second Ohio William Campbell, citi-
zen, cook of company X, Second Ohio ;
John NJ. Scott, Company F, Twenty-frst
Ohio; Samuel Slavers, company E, Thirty
third Ohio Samuel Robinson, company
G, Thirty-third Ohio, were tried at Knox
vile, and hung at Atlanta, Georgia, on
June 18th. The following broke Jail
Robert Buffum, Twenty-first Ohio, whom
they have caught again (; Captain D. Fry,
Second East Tennessee VIM. Pittinger,
company G, Second Ohio; E. H. Mason,
company K, do; VIM. Knight, company
E, do; Mark Wood, company G, do VIM.
Rensinger, company G, do; N. j. Hawk
ins, company A, Thirty third Ohio d. A.
Darsey, company H, do; VIM. Il. Red
wick, company B, do; and Jacob Parrott,
company K, do.
They do not know what became of these,
as they scattered as soon as they got out of
confinement. They Overpowered the
guard, but an alarm was Immediately Civ
en-, and the whole city turned out to catch
them. They were twenty-five days in
reaching Corinth. Their account of their
treatment and suffering in the South is
horrible.
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1862-11-28
More Indian Troubles.
From the Missouri Democrat.

From the Missouri Democrat.
The Florence has arrived from Sioux
City, bringing large freight and many
passengers, among them Capt. 7. G. Will
lard and others of the American Express
and Mining Company, who are from the
gold mines Of Deer Lodge, w. 7. This
party, eighteen in number, had desperate
fight with about 800 Indians of the Sioux
tribe near Fort Bethold, on their way
down in mackinaw. They were fired
upon by the savages when near the camp,
and were followed by the band some twen-
ty-ive miles, the battle lasting seven hours.
The eighteen brave mountaineers escaped,
losing none Of their men; but two only
were wounded-they killing number of
Indians and wounding many. Their bra
very is unprecedented in the history of In
dian warfare. Other parties passing be-
fore them were molested and robbed of
every thing they had. This party thought
rather than to submit to their commands,
and be left on the bank and to starve and
freze at this season of the year, they would
fight, conquer, or de-" They won the
battle honorably, and arrived safely in
Sioux City in time to take the steamer
Florence.
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1862-11-28

progress to arrest the immense number of
deserters now scattered through the coun-
try, and to hold them to the seyerest
penalties prescribed by military law for
their offence. 1t is the determination OF
the authorities to make examples which
will cause every soldier to consider seri-
ously before exposing himself to the
chances of an infamous death as the
penalty of deserting his standard. Many
Of the men now absent are deserters from
the army in the field, and not few ofthem,
lured by the bounty, have enlisted in the
new organizations, but their re-enlistment,
as they will be taught, is no excuse for
their desertion; and all officers of the re-
Gently raised regiments knowing such de-
serters to be in their ranks and not send
ing them back under guard to their old
commands will be held responsible. 9th
ers of those now absent are men where
discharged from hospitals to return to their
regiments, but who have skulked to their
homes. All of the above classes are de-
serters and will be punished as such.
But there is yet another class, and one
to which no mercy will be shown, namely,
those who joined new regiments recently,
receiving the enormous bounties given,
and then deserting before their regiments
had been placed in the field. The country
has suffered deeply from this latter class,
various States having paid bounties for
their full quotas, while their effective force
reported at the headquarters of the army
is still short by many thousands of the re-
quired number.
1t is said on high authority that the
President on being recently shown by the
Secretary of War and General-in-C Chiefthe
immense lists of deserters and roll calls of
absentees, sternly pledged himself hereaf-
ter to pursue the most rigorous policy with
these offenders, and thus by executions, dis
missals, ball and chain labor for the whole
term of their enlistment, and other of the
severest penalties.
He is resolved to deprive the rebels of
the great advantage they have hitherto en-
joyed over us In the means to preserve
discipline and prevent the crimes of strag-
Cling, absenteeism and desertions. In
view of these facts, the hope is expressed
that the public will constitute itself great
moral police to expose and shame back to
duty all officers and men who cannot prove
incontestibly that they have the authority
required by army orders and regulations,
for their absence from their commands.
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1862-11-28
Terrible Disaster at jackson. Wiss.
FORTY YOUNG GIRLS KILLED.

The Memphis BnAetin of the 9th inst,
records the destruction Of the cartridge
manufactory at jackson, and comments On
the disaster as follows
From a gentleman of this city, who was
in that place on business at the time, we
learn that the explosion was not in the
powder magazine, where several thousand
pounds Of powder were lying, but in the
cartridge manufactory, which is very near
the magazine. 1t was among the powder
taken into the manutactOry to be made up.
The immediate cause of the catastrophe
can never be known. Girls were kept at
work making cartridges, in the same way
they formerly did at the corner of Third
and Monroe streets in this city. From
sixty to one hundred girls were usually
employed; it was seen by the telegram
that the full set of hands were not at
work on the day of the explosion. After
the explosion the building burst into
flames, and, shocking to tell, nothing
could be done to aid the sufferers, or res
cue them from the fearful ravages of the
fire that ragged furiously through the
building; for, among the finished work
packed away to send off when called for,
was a considerable number of shells. AS
the fire reached them, the awful instru
ments of warfare exploded, sOmtimes one,
sometimes two, three or more at time,
scattering masses of iron in every direc-
ton. No one could approach the fatal
spot-the firemen stood far off with the
engine idle, unable to lend their aid. The
roaring flames pursued their devouring
work uninterrupted, reducing to cinders
the bodies of forty young girls, protected
in its horrible fierceness by the exploding
shells which appeared to be making war
on their own account. The sight was hOr-
rible, but there was another scene still
more arrowing, if that was possible, than
the work of death--it was the sight of
screaming women and maddened men
calling about for their children! The
loved ones had left them at the noon meal,
rejoicing in their youth and in the attrac-
tions of beauty like holocaust of maid
ems, offered in impious sacrifice to the Mo-
lOch of war.
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1862-11-28
.Bagging Ye Island.

When We awful gun-bOats thundered,
Thundered down ye Mississippi,
Thundered round We rebel Island
Number Ten," with all its stronghOlds,
Till We rebels, killed and wounded,
Cut and run and did skedaddle,-
Then there came We mighty war-man,
Great to write reports of battles,
Greatest Of We war reporters,
Greater than ye famous Russell,
Or ye writers of We Tribune.
Came he with ye epaulets on;
Came with sword, and staff, and powder;
Came with many bags and paper;
Bags to put We prisoners all in,
Paper much to write reports on.
Straight to work he went and bagged them
Bagged them all, except the others,
Bagged rebel army that time.
Then with ink-horn and yc paper,
Ever ready to report on,
Writ he straight how he had fought them,
How he conquered, how he took them.
True, it was, ye gunbOats whipped them,
Yet it was We Pope who bagged them;
Bagged, as he said, full six thousand;
Bagged them as they bag We pigeons;
Bagged them as they bag We wild quail;
Bagged them as they bag ye blue jay!
Straight-way on his bosom glistened
Two bright stars-ye Major General!
And ye papers all resOunded
With ye praise of ye great Bagman!
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L I /.
Ye Sack of Corinth.

re sack OF COr1nth.
When, at Corinth, We proud rebels
Scorned to look upon ye Yankees,
And, like sulky landlords, left home,
Rather than to meet their guests there
Fled as thieves flee in ye night time
Fled like serpents from ye fire,
Fled like feas meath thumb of Paddy
Then We great reporting General
Greatest of reporting Generals,
Greatest of ye warrior Bagmen--
Strait pursued ye fleeing rebels;
Chased them with ye epaulets on,
Chased them with ye shining stars on,
Chased them with ye bags wide open,
Ever chasing ye scared rebels
Over hills and dales he chased them;
Through ye swamps and quagmires chased
Through ye cypress swamps and jungle,
Ever chasing and pursuing,
Chasing, catching. killing rebels
Caught We rebels by ye thousands
Caught and bagged, and bagged and caught
Bagged them till ye bags ran over;
BagSed them all, and slew the others
Then while rebels lay in bags tied,
Piled as high up as ye Pine tops,
Squirming like five million tom cats,
Tied in bags for ready drowning,
Quick, on telegraphic wires,
Flew report unto ye people,
In we cities and yc small towns,
In ye highways and ye byways,
How We greatest warrior Bagman
Captured twenty thousand rebels,
Who, in balloons, he would send home
Then strait to ye great reporter
Brought they paper and We ink horn;
And with flourish of ye goose quill
Ifnot goose quill, perhaps gold pen
Quick explained he how all happened,
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1862-11-28
Horrible Outrage in st. Cloud.
MRS. SWISSHELM CARRIED OFF BY A
"BIG INDIAN"

From the ST. Cloud Democrat
On last Sabbath evening, between seven
and eight O'Clock, as two ladies went out
of the door of their residence in Lower St.
Cloud, they were caught by a large In
driver was seated, and the cutter was rap
idly driven off. No general alarm was
given; but Mayor Evans quietly got on
their track, and before midnight returned
the captives to their homes.
P. SIT might be well enough to add
that the captives were ourselves and little
daughter, the captor Tanner, the celebra-
ted civilized Chippewa, who came by ap-
pointment, and took us to his sons we'd
ding-the first Indian wedding in St.
Cloud. The ceremony was performed by
Judge Evans at the American House,
where the bride had been making her
home, and the feature of the occasion was,
that Immediately after the ceremony, the
bridegroom turned, led his bride up to his
father and said, in clear distinct voice;
''Father, mother and guardians, l have
taken this young lady to be my wife, and
We come to ask your blessing"
In response, Mr.. Tanner made short,
earnest and eloquent address, presenting
the young couple with Bible, and urg-
ing them to adopt its precepts as the rule
of their life, and assuring them that by so
doing they would ensure the best riches.
At the close of his address, he placed a
band upon the head of each and in his
own name, and that of his wife and the
guardians of his bride, pronounced a SOL
emn and final blessing. 1t was impressive
and beautiful, reminding us forcibly of the
parental blessing to which so much impor-
tance was attached and of the many 9TH
er proofs that the North American Indians
are descendants of the lost tribes.
Mr.. Tanner has long been Chippewa
interpreter, and has lectured on Indian af-
fairs through our eastern cities, and is a
large, powerfully built man.
At the close of the ceremony we all pro-
ceeded to the residence of the bridegroom g
father, ate supper and were sent home,
very well pleased with having been carried
off by ''Big Indian"
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1862-11-28
VOL. XW.-NO. "a.
aie ,5reat Geueral Repe.
4 POEM.
BY YE NIAWATUA.

While in conversation with 4 lady, q
few evenings since, on the subject of
Poetry, the talk turned upon the merits of
LoNGFELLows versification in the poem of
Hiawatha. The lady contended, with
much argument, that no other style Of
versication possessed equal capabilities of
expression; and that so great, indeed, were
its facilities in this respect, that the writer,
upon indulging in this peculiar measure,
finds himself surrounded by a species of
poetic afflatus, which watts him, insensbly,
into the sphere of the heroic; and that
the commonest theme must soon be trans
formed into the most grand and poetic.
She even asserted, that, she doubted
not but all which seemed so lofty and
transcendental in the poem of Hiawatha,
was justly attributable to this peculiar style
alone; and that, had LoNGFELLOw attempt
ed the same theme in any of the old and
familiar measures, his great Indian, Hia-
watha, would have turned out to be no
more than any other "big Indian, like
HoIE-IN-THE-DAY, or LITTLE CRow-who,
she said, ought to be hanged as soon as
possible.
To illustrate her view, she said she
would show with what facility she could
write in that style, herself; and, accord
ingly, dashed off the following poem, in
the style of LoNGFELLow only adopting as
a substitute for {" the, the ancient "ye',
which is obsolete; but which. therefore, as
she said, was the mere appropriate to the
hero of her poem !-EprroR PIONEER.
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1862-11-28
Stringent Army Regulations.
WASHINGTON, Nov. Is.

WASHINGTON, Nov. Is.
THE DUTIES OF OFFICERs-ABsENTEEs.
Gen. Halleck has resolved to adopt the
most stringent measures for compelling Of
ficers to pay that attention to their duties
which natural pride and sense of duty
would seem, in many cases, unable to en-
force. Delinquent commissioned officers
are to be taught, by prompt and inexora-
BILE punishment, that their superior rank
and higher intelligence, it should agree,
will only be regarded as aggravations of
every fault they may commit, it being re-
solved that the soldiers and nOn-commis-
stoned officers of our armies shall have no
reason to complain of being held accoun-
table for offences which are committed
with impunity by those who should set
them examples of strict subordination and
discipline.
Provost Marshals, policemen, and mill
tary police, and officers especially detailed
for the purpose, are being sent to all the
principal cities, and over all the lines of
railroads throughout the country, to COL
lect the names of officers absent from the
armies in the field and garrison, and all
OluCcIS 81 Ioullu stoScuI, NlluOuG Vic pIO-
per and specific authority prescribed in
General Orders of the War Department,
will be either Immediately and ignomin-
ously dismissed the service, or will be
placed on trial for desertion while in the
presence of the enemy.
1t is understood long list of names for
dismissal has already been prepared, and
that numerous dismissals for cause will be
made in few days. Indeed, the rumor
prevails, and there is reason to believe it,
that more than 1000 commissioned Off
GERS are now absent without leave, and so
reported; all of whom will be dismissed
under circumstances attaching disgrace to
their names, and leaving them no possibi-
lity for return to the service, or any other
employment under the National Govern
ment.
One of the favorite subterfuges prac-
ticed by officers anxious to skulk from
their duties has been to quit their CON-
mands on surgeons certificate, or on a
pretended leave of absence signed by some
subordinate officer, Colonel or Brigadier
General, who had no power to give it F.;
and then, if discovered, urge the plea OF
ignorance of the orders and regulations on
this subject. But all leaves of absence, to
be of avail, must emanate from the very
highest source, as prescribed in General
Orders, and all officers absent on medical
certificates must be sure that their certi-
ficate is issued by competent authority,
and that they do not remain absent one
day after being sufficiently physically re-
established to join their commands, even
though not re-established enough for a
full return to active duty. 55.
While these steps are being taken with
regard to officers, measures of an equally
stringent and effective character are in
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1862-11-28
II ". .
Ye Big Indian,-Me {!

When ye Indians, on ye frontier,
Far beyond ye Minnehaha,
Far away in Minnesota,
Far off in ye distant Northwest,
Scalped ye white folk and ye women,
Who should all We nation look tO2
Who ye blood of victims cry to3
Look and ask to come with succor,
(Not We nlinoisian Sucker)
To relieve and to avenge them,
But We greatest of reporters,
Greatest friend of ye contractors?
Then uprose We Major General,
Rose up with ye epaulets on,
Rose up with ye double stars on,
And unto ye great Northwest said:-
Ho! 1 come to save and keep you
Then upon ye cars he jOurneyed,
On ye steamboat fast he journeyed,
Towards ye land of ye afflicted,
Ye benighted land, We Northwest.
Swift he hejourneyed, often stopping,
Often stopping, often speaking,
10 report unto ye people
What ye great Achilles came for,
Until coming to Chicago,
Ye great city of contractors,
Where for few days he tarried.
strait ne sent for ye contractors,
Shook them by ye hand and told them,
Told them till they wept with anguish,
How ye contracts fat were coming.
Made them shudder at ye prospects
OF ye green backs soon coming.
Then ye bags with corn were soon filled
For ye war against We Indians.
And, to fight ye Indian foeman,
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1862-11-28
How he chased them, how he took them,
How he took them how he haGred them

How he chased them, how he took them,
How he took them, how he bagged them -
Some in rags and tatters took he;
Some in butternut he captured
Some clad in ye garb of nature
Still, he took them ALL and bagged them.
Twenty thousand motley rebels,
Taken in one grand skedaddle!
But no sooner were they garnercd
In We mighty Sack of Corinth,"
Than ye slippery eels of rebels
Turned themselves all inside Outwards;
And no longer seemed like ''rebels,"
But became motley rabble -
Not worth bags and strings to keep them
While yc bagging is SO costly,
And so scarce to put We corn in,
Better to ye poor contractors
In We city of Chicago,
Give We bags to put ye corn in,
For ye campaign with We Indians!
Then ye papers all did rival
Which could loudest, longest laud him
Ye great Jack ketch of We warriors,
Who made rebels wear We sack cloth,
And yc bags gave ye cOntactOrs-
Greatest hero of reporters!
Firmest friend of We contractors
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1862-11-28
FrfGhtfui Railroad Accident-Mira-
culous Escape of a Passenger Train
--HeroisIn OF am Engineer.
From the Pittsburg Gazette.

From the Pittsburg Gazette.
We have already noticed a serious acci
dent which occurred on the Pennsylvania
Railroad, on Friday night last, of which we
find the following particulars. The ex-
press train which left this city on Friday
afternoon, was detained nearly an hour, in
consequence of the western train falling to
make the connection. Everything went
we'll until they reached Lilly station, eight
miles from CressOn, where the train was
stopped by the announcement that freight
train was off the track some two miles
ahead. The passenger train was drawn
over the mountains by two large locomo-
tives, and in front of the passenger train
was very large freight train standing on
the track on a high grade. 1t was drawn
by a very large locomotive in front, and
another of the same class was pushing it
in the rear Tie front locomotive had been
detached from the train in order to aid the
freight train ahead on the track, and the
rear locomotive was also detached and
taken down the grade in order to shift it
on the other track. While this process
was going on, and when the rear locomo-
tive was entirely down the grade, and in
front of the two locomotives drawing the
passenger train, the engineer on the back
ing locomotice, Mr.. Powell Sharp, discov-
cred that the whole train was in rapid mo-
ton coming down the steep grade on his
locomotive, and the cars filled with pas
sengers. He reversed his engine in an in
slant and rushed up the grade in order to
meet the freight cars and stop their de-
scent if possible. In this he was partial
ly successful, but after slight check of
the freight cars the whole train came down
on the passenger train, demolishing the To-
comotive with which Mr.. Sharp had check:
ed the train, and also the two locomotives
which were drawing the passenger cars.
This occurred about 12 O'Clock on Friday
night, in the midst of the mountains, or
rather wilderness, and the scene can be
easier imagined than described. The pas
sengers in the train, mostly asleep in the
dead hour of the night, were thus sudden
ly aroused and thrown from their seats
violently, and yet wonderful to relate,
few of them were only scratched about the
face. These injuries were mostly sustain
ed from the irons which are placed on the
back Of the seats on which the passenger
rests his head.
Passengers in the train relate that the
destruction of three locomotives was almost
complete, together with large number of
cars.
The passengers on the train drew up a
paper, complimenting the engineer, MIR.
Powell Sharp, for his heroism and skill,
having at the risk of his own life, saved
the train from fatal collision, which
might have resulted in frightful loss Of
life. A collection was also taken up,
amounting to between $500 and 5000 with
which to purchase Mr.. Sharp suitable
testimonial. The paper was signed on be-
half of the contributors, by one man from
every State represented on the train.