The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1862-10-10
NEWS AND OTHER ITEMS.


Tile following note from Judge Ad-
vocate Turner would imply that the re-
strictions on foreign travel are removed
only in the States where the draft has al
ready taken place:
WAR DEPARTMENT, WASHINGTON City, D.C.l
September %, 1862.
John NJ Andrews, Esq, New York City,
In answer to yours of the 30th addressed to
to military duty, residing in States where the
draft has taken place, and not drafted, need no
permit to leave the United States from the War
Department. Your obedient servant
L. c. TURNER, Judge Advocate.
Passports will, however, be required
from these persons, but no 81 900 bond,
as hitherto. Tie passports are to be OBJ
tanned from the Department of State, as
before the war, The new passport tax of
three dollars will, however, be levied, in
accordance with the provisions of the re-
cent tax law.
"A lady in Milan, Duchess county, N.
V, went upon the stand at war meeting
in that town, a few days since, and de-
livered an address. Sixteen young men
enlisted.
= Let sorrow fall fast, there is joy be-
fore us! We behold upon the troubled sea a
Christ coming to us, walking on the waves!
In his hands are winds and storms Every
hour now moves toward the great day of eman-
cpatiOn. At length the dawn shall bring the
day most eminent in our national calendar.
Amid all the festivities that usher in the year,
there shall be q great JOY, deeper, purer, hOlier
than ever came to us with the New Year. the
JOY of a nation that atterlOng sorrow and shame,
shall cast off from itself the guilt of slavery,
and stand erect before the world, consistent
witness for liberty In. Y. Independent.
Shut off your gas and pick up your
musket ....
The Wheeling L'teNige"ce,' says that
the Ohio river was never so low as now.
1t adds: eff the present ong-continnued
and most remarkably dry spell continues
for any great length of time, and the river
recedes as rapidly as it has for the past
week, there will be no river at all. 1t will
dwindle down to duck ponds.'
The N. Y. Times properly characteri-
yes the meeting of Governors as absurd,
imprudent and reprehensible.
Some idea of the amount of ammuni-
ton required to supply an army such as
Gen. McClellan's, during heavy fight like
that of Wednesday, may be gained from
the fact that thirty eight (36) tons of am
munition were forwarded to Gen. McClel-
Ian on Wednesday, from Washington, via
Baltimore, Harrisburg and Hagerstown.
An eyewitness of the battle states that he
counted at four different times during the
day, the number of discharges from onr
artillery, and found that they were made
at the rate of rs to the minute.
-Gen. Burnside has issued the following
order on the death of Gen. Reno:
HEADQUARTERS or NINTH ARMY CoRPs.l
MOUTH OF ANTIErAM, Md, Sept. 20.
GENERAL. ORDER, No. 1.-THE command
ing General announces to the corps the loss of
their late leader, Major General Jesse l.. Reno
By the death of this distinguished officer the
country loses one of its most devoted patriots,
the army one of its most thorough soldiers. In
the long list of battles in which General Reno
has fought in his country's service his name al
ways appears with the brightest lustrc, and he
has now bravely met a soldiers death while GAL
lantly leading his men at the battle of South
Mountain.
For his high character and the kindly quail
tiles of his heart in private life, as well as for
the military genius and personal daring which
marked him as a soldier, his loss will be deplOr-
81 w knew no dpr
general desires to add the tribute of a friend to
the public mourning for the death of one of the
country's best defenders sells ..s-4t..a
By command of Major General Burnside,
LEWIS RICHMOND, Asst Adj General.
Within the past seven weeks there
have been issued by the City Registrar
Boston one hundrad and four more mar
rage licenses than for the same period last
year. The increase is supposed to be due
in great measure to the marriage Of vol
unteers prior to their departure for the
war. '
in Charleston, South Carolina, on We'd
nesday negro bricklayer was sold for 81 500 in
cash; also seven negroes, aged from six to
thirty-five years, sold for 81 1925, the highest
price ever obtained in Charleston. -., 81. ed
''Cash, in this instance, means Con-
federate shinplasters payable in nothing by
nobody and never. We don't forget our
own glass house, but the fact that this
'$1 800 in cash. would only fetch $500 at
most in gold, and then would cheat the
buyer at least $499, is one to be consid-
cred.