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

from tno pOckoC Vi TeDel Colonel, killed IN
the recent action near Drainsville, an unfn-
ished report to the colonels superior officer,
narrating the receipt of information that
Gen. Ord was about to move in that direc-
ton, and giving disposition of forces for
his defeat. Now how was this information,
only known to few superior officers and
their stats, thus communicated to the
enemy?
"A letter from Washington, giving an
account of the recent fight at Drainsville,
says:
Our good fortune must have resulted largely
from the formidable nature and position of
Easton's Battery. These hOwitZers, of the
largest class, have bore as large as mans
hat, and throw grape and canister, at short
range, with frightful tumult and effect. They
are undoubtedly superior to all other guns for
close action.
Those large howitzers are great deal
better than rife cannon for field service.
1t is rumored that the Van Wyck
Committee, in their report to Congress,
will set forth that not few Colonies of
Western regiments have stolen $1,000
apiece for transporting their regiments over
certain railroads. Colonies of regiments
who will defraud their country in this way,
ought to be cashiered and disgraced. They
can never hold up their heads at home, if
due proof of these charges is made. 1t is a
crime without name.
Governor Morton, of Indiana, has ar
rived home from Washington, and it is
announced, as the result of bis mission, that
the General Government will take possession
of the arsenal at Indianapolis, and use it for
the manufacture of ammunition for the
Western Army during the war. This vir.
tually, says the Journal, establishes the
arsenal at indianapolis as permanent Gov
eminent Institution.
"A Washington correspondent of the
New York Herald, writes as follows about
the prospect of an advance:
Unless all the signs fail, the armies of the
rebels will be attacked before the middle of
January. 1t will not be an attack upon one
quarter, but upon every assailable point.
People in the confidence of the authorities here
distinctly assert that Richmond will be in the
possession of our troops before the first of
February. The placing of Gen. Ros1encranz in
command at Romney; the c)ncen ration of
troops there; the movements tl Gen. Banks;
the expected sailing of Gen. Burnside's expedi-
ton within two weeks, and the significant pre-
paratiOns in the army in front of Washington,
together with the news we hear from St. Louis,
Cairo, and Green river, all point to a simulta-
neOus attack upon the rebels within very
short time.
- III. w. A. Burleigh, Indian Agent at
Greenwood, Yancton Reserve, Dacotah Ter
ritory, 900 miles up the Missouri, from st.
Joseph, has arrived at Washington, bring
ing tidings of peace and plenty from the
Yancton, Sioux and other neighboring
tribes. Strike Three, the great chief of the
Yanctons, who has eight hundred powerful
warriors, recently visited the Pawnees and
other tribes South of the Missouri, assuring
them that as long as peaceable be would be
friendly, but the moment they raised an arm
against the United Stares he would meet
them in deadly conflict.
The Baltimore American in noticing the
arrival of the Hon. Alfred Ely in that city
from Richmond, says that he was in high
spirits, and shortly after reaching Balti-
more proceeded to Washington for the pur-
pose of attending to some professional bust
ness He states that he was recently visit
ed in the Richmond Jail by the Hon Chas.
Faulkner, for whom he was exchanged, and
had very pleasant interview. He had
not been as closely confined as had been
represented by the Northern papers, but
allowed pretty liberal bounds, and, withaI,
was at liberty to have the best quality of
fare at his own expense. Rations of the
army regulation were supplied daily, but
he would not accept them when be could get
daintier food.
On the occasion of the reception of Mr..
Faulkner, in Richmond, few days since,
be made speech in which he said:
But he was not yet free man. 1t devolv.
ed upon the Confederate Government to say
WnetneT lie SuOulu De, vi uOI. OlceS-s-''1 GU
shall bell Whether he should be compelled
to go back to Imprisonment or whether he
should go free, and dedicate himself to the
cause of liberty..or, as Mr.. Seward expressed
it, to the cause of "treason." He had pledg-
ed his life to the cause of the South, and was
here to seek an opportunity for its fulflment.
The Cincinnati Gazette says that Capt.
F. W. Hurt, of the Ohio State Journal, is
to take Capt. Lieb's place as Quartermas-
ter at Clarksburg, Va, on the first of JAN
uary. Capt. Lieb's fate is dubious.
Mrs. Eustis, wife of Slidell's Secreta-
ry (Hon. George Eustis of New Orleans,)
had arrived in Paris, at last accounts, and
taken apartments to await her husband.
Mrs. SIidell and her daughter were still in
London.
"A special order has just been issued
from the Adjutant Generals office, design.
ed to bring promptly into the field all the
cavalry now in the West not yet forming
a portion of either army there in actual
service against the Rebels. We make the
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