The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1863-09-04

Bonaparte at the battle of Austerlitz,
where he took 10000 prisoners. General
Grant took 31,277 at Vicksburg. Napo-
Icons spoil at Austerlitz was $50 pieces of
artillery; Grants at Vicksburg was 339.
Captain Hunter, of the 10th Ohio
regiment, Provost Guard of Cincinnati,
was accidentally shot by ball from !is-
tol in the hands of a brother officer on
Wednesday, and died Immediately.
-Ex- Governor Levi Lincoln, of Wor-
cester, Mass, has been elected Secretary
of the State Guard The old gentleman
has passed the bound of ",hree score years
and ten :"
Tho New York Jounat Of Commerce
says, "some people suspect the large
number of troops in town, disposed through
the city, are not here simply to look after
the rioters. AS many of the soldiers are
veterans, and have their camp equipage
along, they are supposed to have another
destination"
The Manchester american says that
the trustees of Dartmouth College, at
their recent meeting, made no choice OF
President. They chose James NJ. Beebe,
of Boston, a trustee, and elected Professor
E. D. Sanborn, formerly in the depart
ment of Latin, recently of Washington
University, to the chair of Oratory and
Bellies Lettres, and Charles Young to the
chair of Mathematics.
Governor Curtin has just been pre-
sented with a gold-headed cane by the
173d Regiment, Pennsylvania militia.
The cane was made from piece of wood
taken from the rebel iron clad Merrimac
Hon. Fernando Wood has sailed from
Portland for Halifax He expects to visit
Quebec and Montreal on his return, and
may go up the St. Lawrence to Niagara
Falls.
Maj. Gen. Buell., in note to Gen.
Thomas, dated at Saratoga, Aug. 5, states
that the expedition which left Huntsville,
Ala, in April, 1862, to destroy the COM
munications on the Georgia State Rail-
road, between Atlanta and Chattanooga,
originated with himself, and not with the
late Gen. Mitchell, as has generally been
supposed. All that he had to do with it
was to furnish the men from his command,
and Gen. Buell. intimates very strongly
that had he compiled with bis instructions,
and sent six men, as he was told to do, in
stead of twenty-five, the chances Of sue
cess would have been greatly increased,
and several valuable lives would have been
spared. 1t will be remembered that sew
eral of those who started on this expedi-
ton were captured and hung as spies,
while others were treated with great Sc
verify, and several escaped after suffering
untold hardships.
Miss Flora Hotchkiss, aged seventeen,
the daughter of a prominent professional
gentleman residing at Glenallan, Canada,
recently eloped with her fathers servant
man, who was of the staid age of fifty-five
The love-sick swain, Darwin by name, is
described as a thoroughbred English gen.
tleman, who, for some cause, has been re-
duced in circumstances, and came to DR..
Hotchkiss' house for home last winter as
a man of all work. The couple had full
days start of the exasperated father in the
chase, which he instituted as soon as his
daughters folly was discovered; but he
seems to have overtaken the runaways at
Toronto, and the young woman was in
luced to go home. Darwin was taken be-
fore the Police Court on the charge of
stealing a gold watch belonging to the
mother of the girl; but the evidence
showed that he was guiltless of the theft,
and be was discharged.
Baron Taylor has lately made an
effort to obtain for the world chef
d'eurre, lately composed by Rossini at
his villa near Auteuil. This composition
is a musical mass. The Baron hoped to
give it certain publicity by asking Ros-
SIM to allow it to be executed on Saint
Cecilia's Day for the benefit of the Musi-
clans Association. But the composer has
refused to do so in the most positive man.
ner. He has, however, consented to allow
some friends to perform it in Madame
Rossini's saloon in the presence of few
artists whom he will invite. NJ. Gounod,
the composer Of "Faust," will be included
among the performers.
Official returns show that the India
European population is much smaller than
many suppose. Exclusive of the army
and the wives and children of soldiers, it
would not fill thriving English town.
At the census of 1861, the British born in
all India were s4,O53 officers and men of
the army, 22,556 civilians, and 1906
women and girls. A certain number of
soldiers marry Indian wives; and the
children of the races, known as Eurasians,
or half-castes, amount to considerable
number. At the census of 1857 they ex-