The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1862-11-28
NEWS OF OUR OWN STATE.

The papers in all sections of the State
express very strongly their indignation at
the announcement that the Indians con-
victed by the Military Commission will not
be executed. The St. Peter Tribune says:
The President can rest assured that the doom
of our Indians is sealed, though his clemency
may object to the manner of its execution, for
men will forget sentiment when the sickening
OdOr from the decaying bodies of murdered rel
atives is still detected in secluded places where
death by Indian hands has Overtaken them.
THE Mankato Record saysin some towns
organizations have been effected for the
purpose of visiting summary punishment
on the Indians, and adds:
Our people have been shamefully wronged
and outraged by these savage devils, and moth
ing but their deaths will atone for the lives of
and impartially tried and condemned, and the
people of Minnesota demand that they shall
suffer death. If the Government will not exc
cute them, the people must and woe to the
men or set of men who interpOse between the
people and the savage murderers.
On Saturday last, young man named
Laird, about nineteen years of age, living
several miles beyond Madelia, was shot by
an Indian, disguised in citizens dress The
young man was fencing a hay stack, and
his father some distance from him, plow-
ing.-RecOrd.
THE St. Anthony Neocs, unlike it's less
decent contemporaries here, does not exult
over the removal of Mcclellan, and is by
no means sure that another will be found
McClellan's superior, and imminent peril
to Washington may again compel us to
look to the old friend as still the ablest
of them all. The NeUs says:
We have not doubt that his best energies
have been devoted honestly and faithfully to
the service. The charge of disloyalty we believe
to be the invention of gang of personal and
political enemies, determined to crush him.
We do not forget that General Washington
was the object and almost the victim of one of
the basest cOnspiracies to remove him from the
chief command of the army of the Revolution.
We are convinced that the cruel charges of
treason against Mcclellan are borne of the like
base jealOusies, and deserves as well the scom
and reprobation of all honorable men.
THE voice of the Northern part of the
State is no less strong for the punishment
of the Indian murderers than that of the
Minnesota Valley. The St. Cloud Union
says:
Are the people of Minnesota to see their
friends and relatives murdered in cold blood by
the savages, and then when these savages are
captured and convicted to stand quietly by and
allow them to go unpublished? The Govern
ment at Washington may as well understand
first as last that the people of Minnesota are
determined that summary vengeance shall fall on
the internal rascals whose hands are red with
the blood of women and children. If the Gov
eminent will not hang them the people will
and no power the Government has can pre-
vent it. t g
DEATHS OF SOLDIERS. -When the Iowa
regiment returned to this place from its
excursion to the Indian payment at Mile
Lac, some twelve or fifteen of the men
were left in town, being sick with the ty-
phoid fever. One of these died last week
at the residence of j., S. Hanscomb, and
was buried on Sunday The others were
conveyed to the hospital at Fort Smelling,
this week. s41
Mr.. Younglove, soldier belonging to
Captain Wilson's cavalry company, died
of typhoid fever, at the residence Of Mrs.
Howell on Tuesday. Anoka Republican.
The ducks in this vicinity must have
been slain by the thousands during the
past few weeks. One man from Homer,
sold feathers to the amount of $50, one
day last week, obtained from the wild
ducks which he had shot at the month of
the Trempeleau valley, and brought to this
market for sale Wimona Republican,