The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1862-07-04
News and Other Items.

| Governor-Addison G. Gibbs, Democrat.
| secretary p. May, Republican.
| Printer Harvey Gordon, Democrat.
| COngress-John r. Mcbride, Republican.
Mr.. Mcbride is the first representative
chosen to the Thirty eighth Congress, which
meets in December, 1868.
Colonel Cahill, of the Ninth Connecti.
cut Regiment, who has had but 700 men
until recently, writes home that be has filled
his regiment to the maximum standard
(IO4O), by recruiting loyal men of New
Orleans. The Thirteenth and Twelfth
have also received additions in the same
manner.
The Toledo Commercial gives the fol-
lowing good retort: "The other day as
number OF rebel prisoners were being ship.
ped for Sandusky, for the traitors home on
Johnson's Island, little German made him.
self quite prominent with his noisy remarks
about the secesh. One Of them brawny
Six footer, turned savagely upon him and
said. I'VE eat Dutchmen down South
IVY den you no eat Sigel p was the instant
retort. Secesh had no reply to give, bat
passed on"
The amount Of sugar destroyed by the
New Orleans mob is now estimated at
twelve hundred hogsheads and the guam
tity left in the city when the rebel forces
fed, now to be shipped North, is equal to
NINETY Thousand hogsheads. It is also
stated that in course OF time more cotton
than was supposed to exist there will be
brought forward.
~Sach is the present activity OF the
| Government, We shall, before the end of the
present year and probably before the re-
hellion is completely crushed, have larger
and more powerful iron'c!ad navy than Ell,
ther France or England, or than France
and England combined
! We'll founded claims against the Gov
eminent for the seizure or destruction of
individual property have already arisen to
the amount Of hundred millions, and will,
before the close of the war, be swel!ed to
an immense amount.
MIR. Representative Oln hos asserted
| in debate that "there has never been Con.
| gress assembled with which be has bad any
acquaintance, in which it was more easy to
thrust through Measures without considera.
ton, without debate, i'll advised and to the
prejudice of the best interests Of the coun-
try than the present"
Mr.. WadswortE, g member of Congress
from Kentucky, stated on the floor of Con-
gress "that it appears by the assessors
books Of the State of Kentucky that over
| 80 per cent. of the slaves of that State are
owned by Union men, whose blood has been
shed upon every battle field since Kentucky
entered this war"
A Mormon woman passed through st.
Joseph recently, en- route for Salt Lake, hav-
ing with her, in small iron chest minety-
ssUen thousond dollars IN gold.
"A correspondent with the army before
Richmond, writes:
To show what man our Brigadier General
| Patterson is, will describe him. He dresses
| even worse than our own privates, though in
| the same kind of clothes and wears an old felt
| hat. You are certain to see him any and eve
| rywhere, on horseback, with long rome
around his horses neck; always has kind
| word for both officers and men and can be
| frequently seen in the centre of group of SOL
diers, laughing and chatting with them. In
| very recent skirmsh. the General rode over
| and asked an officer what he meant bv leaving
his post and was informed by the officer that
the enemy had got their range and was firing
at them. Said the General, That what you
| came here for, to be knocked out of your sad
| dies. Don't you leave again until ordered to
! do go. fyon do l will send you back to
| Pennsylvania. Let them fire, they can't hurt
any one; and turning to his Aid remarked,
"Well, this is as good as wedding
"A special dispatch to the Herald from
Nashville, dated June 28th, says that at
special conference of the cergymen before
Governor johnson, all declined to take the
oath of allegiance. Most of them were sent
to the penitentiary prior to being sent to
General Halleck to be exchanged for Ten
nessee prisoners. The Catholic divines be
ing loyal, were not disturbed.
The various amendments and substitutes
were offered and rejected, when the amend.
ment substituting the Senate bill was con.
Cured in by yeas 10, nays II, and the con.
6scation bill then passed, yeas %, nays Is.
--Gen. SCOTS wife died in Rome on the
10th Of June, aged II years.
Senator Browning, of Illinois, has
made another telling speech against the con-
fscation bill. The Washington CORES.
pondent of the New York E0enin g Post
| radical Abolition paper) says:
Some of his friends represent that he speaks
the views of the President because he is known
l to be very intimate with him. The speech was
| the ablest yet made on that side of the ques-
ton. 1t was very decidedly against oil legis'
latye confiscation. The only confiscation he
iustifies is that done at the point of the bayo.
net. He was somewhat severe upon Mr.. Snm.
| ner's coniscation speech delivered several
| weeks ago.
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