The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1862-08-22
News and Other Items.
The following dispatch is from the Pc.
tersburg (Va.) EuDress of Auouo+ O.

| hCHMoND, august GA dispatch from Gen.
Van Dorm to Secretary Mallory states that the
ram Arkansas, Lieut.. Stephens Commanding.
had been destroyed. She left Vicksburr on
Monday to cooperate in an attack on Baton
Rouge. After passing Bayou Sara, her ma
chinery became disabled. While attempting
to repair her. several of the enemys gunboats
attacked her. After gallant resistance. she
was abandoned and blown up. The officers
and men reached shore safely.
The following order has beer issued
from the headquarters of the military dis
trict CT Washington:
! All soldiers employed as nurses, cooks, at.
| PENDANTS, or in any other capacities in the
| different hospitals, and who are able to join
their regiments, will be relieved of such duty
and sent to their regiments. Convalescents
! will be selected for such duties and no others.
and these cOnvalescents will be relieved as
soon as they have sufficiently recovered to be
tit for active duty.
Amos Green, a prominent lawyer OF
Paris, Illinois, was arrested at Terre Haute
on Friday last, by order of the United States
Marshal. 1t was reported in Terre Haute
that the charge against him was purchasing
arms and ammunition with which to resist
/ the government draft The editor OF the
Democratic Sta@dard, published at Paris
was arrested the same day for reasonable
practices. It is reported that armed or
CARNATIONS exist in Indiana and Northern
Illinois to resist the draft
The remains OF Major F. ". Matteson,
son OF ex-GoVernor Matteson, have arrived
at Springfield, Illinois H was a young.
brave, and accomplished officer, and had
won distinction in several battles. He died
from typhoid fever, near Corlth.
1t was not Major General Richardson
who was dismissed from the army a few
days ago, but Majoc Richardson, of the 7th
Michigan Regiment It seemed rather sil.-
gular that the services OF so gallant an off
Ger as General Richardson should have been
so summarily dispensed with.
"A religious or rather saDctimonious
paper condemns paragraph of ours, and
! inquiries whether we consider ourselves
Christians. We trust We are like some
pleasant stories we have heard Of" too
! good to be lost "--Pyentics.
--George g. Hersey, of bingham, Mas
sachusetts, was hung last Friday in the Ro.
tunda of the Dedham County jail. He was
convicted of poisoning Betsey Francis Tir-
rell, young lady of good family in Wey-
mouth. about year since. He was en-
gagged to be married to his victim, and a
post'mortem examination showed that she
was enciente. A sister of Miss Tirrell,
with whom Hersey was intimate, had also
died saddenly and mysterOusly, as had Her.
sey's wife. The execution took place ct
10 o'clock. He signed a confession this
morning acknowledging the crime for which
he suffered, but denying that be poisoned
his wife or the other sister. His age was
20 years.
The Grand Officers Of the General
Grand Chapter of Royal Arch Masons of
the United States have issued circular
postponing the triennial session of that
body, which was to have been held in Mems
phis, Tennessee, On the 10th of September,
| 1862. 1t has been declared inexpedient to
bold such convocation in the city of Men,
PMS, or elsewhere, in September Dext
Allegheny county, Pa, has raised her
full quota under The call for 100000 volun.
teers, and oearIy half Of the number res
quired by the draft. There will be no draft
in that county 1t is full of fighting men.
and the enthusiasm of the people was never
so high as now.
The steamer Star OF the West, CONVEX.
ted into an irOn-clad gunboat, has come out
of the Yaz0o river, and is now at Vicks~
burg she has been renamed the Richmond.
Parties arriving at Memphis from the vie
entity OF Mobile corroborate the statement
that there is fleet of rebel gunboats at or
near that port. Bragg is sending there ali
the seamen contained 10 bis army.
General Sherman, commanding at
Memphis, has ordered that all negroes who
apply Tor work shall be employed as labor
ers, teamsters, and cooks but they VIII
not be permitted TO bear srma or wear uni-
forms. No influence must be used to take
slaves from their masters, while masters
will not be allowed to recover their slaves
By force or undue persuasion.
IT is asserted that Government is con.
siderng the propriety of drafting for the
nvay, and that such draft will, in all pro-
liability, be resortad to before long. TIE
reasons urged for this draft are first, the
urgent necessity for more sailors; second
the difficulty of enlisting seamen; and third
the number of persons who now represent
themselves as sailors in order to claim exs
emption from military duty.
Quite serious row occurred last Mon.
day at Buffalo, on the dock. The cause of
the disturbance is not clearly stated, but it
is understood to have been caused by Irish
and German stevadores trying to prevent
their fellows from working for less than had