The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1862-07-11

| ming OF the I5u instant, by some unknown
villain, who approached the field where be
was engaged in harvesting his wheat. and
at the distance of twenty five Or thirty PAGES
from him shot him through the heart. The
murderer is supposed to be one Of band OF
horse thieves who have for the last twelve
months been conducting their thie7ing
operations in St Francois and Ste. Gere-
We've counties.
-General Fremont is the second Maior
General IN the regular army, and outranks
| all other officers but General Mcclellan
General Banks is the senior Major General
Of Volunteers. General Mcdowell is
Brgaaier General in the regular asmg, and
his commission as Major General of Vol.
unteers dates anterior to that CT Genera!
Pope. Thus the latter who, before the
war commenced, stood the thirteenth Cap.
tain land that by brevet) in the Second
Corps Of Typographical Engineers, row
overtops three senior Major Generals. This
is certainly distinction to which few mills
tary m:n are enabled, By personal favori;ism
or By extraordinary services, 10 attain.
Henry Ward Beecher, in discourse
delivered on Sunday last, 10 Brooklyn, said:
81 DO not believe you vii! ever get supersti.
ton enough in New England congregation
to do any harm. It is az much as be a
Yankee can do to revere his father and
mother. 1t is as much as a Yankee cau Go
to bow down before God Almighty"
"A maiden lady named EuDice An
drews, aged Al, living in chester, Connect
icut, committed suicide lew days age. She
Tiled ner apron with stoGes, walked into tie
shoal water of the river to the depth of
three eet. sat down and thgew herselt over
backward, under the water and was
drowned.
Mr.. Rufus King, I married man,
eloped with daughter OF tue Rev. John
Jones, from Pelham, Massa .haaatts, last
week, and took refuge in New York.
? The correspondent OF the Cincinnati
Commercial, writing from A'cC CLANS camp
only three days before the las greet battles,
thus pleads for reinforcements
General Mcclellan does need more disciDlir-
ed troops. Every company which can be
spared from other fields should be forwarded
at once. Fifty thousand men sent here in
time may save thousands OF human lives. II
IS not now question whether Richmond can
be taken, but 1t IS question OF human life
and human suffering. Why murder SO many
Of your sons and brethren when our great OBJ.
ject might be better achieved without such
bloodshed. l am no alarmist, no blind devO-
tee of any chieftan. pray you listen to the
deep and earnest convictions of one who has
devoted himself to the study Of this field, and
who assures you with profound and solemn
earnestneSs. that to properly accomplish the
great task before it, the army of tie Potomac
most surely needs added strength.
Surgeon Hayes is completely eyoner<
Grated from blame in regard to his condact
to the wounded under bis charge, and the
Secretary of War is accused OF seeking q
little cheap applause in dismiasing him from
serv:ce without hearing.
--General DanaiS brigade sufera5 severe
ly in the battle OF last Wednesday. Que
Of bis regiments, the l9lh Massachusetts
lost over fifty men.
threat blame is attached to Gen. Ben,
ham Tor our defeat at James Island. and he
is DOW in New York under arrest. The
tact that General Hunter and al tn ether
Observation-Disclosures Stevens, Wright and
Wliliams--c0ncur iu his cOn!emnat ton, and
that this is the almost universal sent nent
OF the inferior officers and the eojiers, COW
s;itute case that will be vel, nigh impos
sibe for the incuipated Genera to get over.
WIN. W. Hawkins was executed in
New York last Friday for numbering the
captain of a ship, be being D sailor thereon.
The Tribune says:
His conduct during the previous night was
digniiied and calm. He wrote several letters
to his friends. retired to bed for four hours,
got up and wrote letter to his sister, took
breakfast and prepared for the execution.
When under the scatfold he made speech of
about ten minutes, expressed his gratitude
fer all tie kindness he had eXpei fenced at the
hands of the officers, offered prayer for the
country, the downfall of the rebellion and of
Slavery, and hoped that he might meet the
spectators vi Inc eAeCu-iCu WnSle tneft WOuIu
be more parting. He shouted an eXUltant
" Farewell friends!' and died without strug-
gle.
.-General Blenker thus explains the mys.
terry enveloping the storage of toe Govern
ment property recently discovered and seized
by the Provost Marshal OF Washington:
The Sth New York Volunteer Regiment, as
all other Regiments of Blenker's Division, left
the camps at Hunter Chapel with three days
ratons, leaving behind, according to special
orders, all officers trunks aud property Of the
men.
These trunks, as well as the private and
public property of the men. not being sutti
GENTLY secured in the tents, have been stored
in this city, the officers trunks in the house of
Mr.. William, Pennsylvania avenue, the clothing
and other property of the men in a storehouse
rented for that purpose.
Now this property is what the Provost Mar.
shall seized, and what by error or malice was
stated to be property abscOnded or stolen from
Government, l.. BLENkER.
Brigadier General.
"A private at the battle of James