The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1863-03-13
THE NEWS.

Dom, with heavy force, attacked, fought
and captured large portion of four Fed
eral regiments, with most of their commits
stoned officers. The affair was at Spring
Mills, about twenty miles directly west
from Murfreesboro.
An attempt in Detroit TO lynch ne
gro who had been convicted of outraging
white girl, produced 4 terrible riot, in
which ten or fifteen persons were killed.
The military fired upon the people, and
the dwellings of negroes were sacked
The white g!rl whom the negro outraged,
was only nine years old, and was entioed
into the den of the gorilla, where it is
said, others had been similarly dealt with.
-Minnesotians viii be glad to see the
name of Gen. DANA in the list of twenty
nine Major Generals sent to the Senate for
confirmation ~ the President. Most of
the nominees deserve the honor-but there
are one or tEo of whose services in the
military lin, there is as yet no record,
save in thai- grandloquent reports of tn
fling skir,aishes in which they were en-
gagged
The attempted mobbing OF SAM.
MEDARY's Crisis at Columbus, Ohio, the
other night, has produced retaliation on
an Abolition newspaper in that city. There
was no serions damage done in either
case, snd the indications are that the
law and order" citizens, Of both parties,
will prevent serious outbreak.
Fort McAllister, according to rebel
reports, still holds out against our iron
ciads. We trust the next news may not
deny the reported destruction Of the Nash
vile.
A London correspondent says that fifty
blockade runners, heavily laden with arms
and ammunition, are afoat If the British
would stop this kind Of business, they
would be rendering better service TO the
country than by passing buncombe resolu-
tons endorsing the Presidents ernancipa-
ton proclamation.
Gold has had I. tremendous fall N
New York. The premium was only 50a
50! yesterday, and the excitement is re-
ported greater than ever before known.
The tax laid on dealings in gold is suppos-
ed 70 have been the prime cause Of the de-
cline
There has been (, great reaction in
England in f2voc Of the North :. letter
from Mr.. CoBDEH says the feeling is 50
strong that no Cabinet could live that
should recognise the South. If the senti-
nent has force enough to prevent the fit
ting out Of any more Alabama's, it would
be hailed with still greater satisfaction.
All the emancipation bills failed Of
passage in Congress.
A girl named LEvISA N. EsGALL, cap
tured by the Sioux at Yellow Medicine,
has been ransomed and taken to Fort
Laramie. It is stated that bands Of the
Mississippi Sioux and 100 lodges Of Yank-
tons were encamped at Painted Wood on
the Missouri river.
Col CARRINGToN, U. S. A., in Indiana,
issued an order against the Knights of the
Golden Circle, declaring them public
enemies 1t is stated that q recruiting
officer was driven ont Of a town in Iowa
by the members of this order
A post mOrtem examination on the
bodies of Mrs. Fraser and children, sup
posed to have persisted in the destruction
of house by late fire, in Buffalo, n Y,
has revealed the fact that all had been pre-
viously murdered. The Rev. Mr.. Fraser
is missing, and ii is feared that be has been
murdered also.
Guy Richardson was shot dead, and
a man named Clapp, was seriously wound
ed last week, in South bingham, Mass,
by Souther The latter gave himself up,
stating that he was defending his house
from the two men, who, st q late hour,
persisted in attempting to enter it.
- Gen. Mcclellan, in a letter from
Washington to the City Council, at Balti-
more, declines r public reception. He
says he appreciates the compliment, but
has already declined all public delnonstra-
ton.
The charter election in Geneva, New
York, resulted in the success Of the entire
Democratic ticket majority about $50 on
an average.
The ship Jocob Bell, from Canton to
New York, which was captured by the
privateer Florida, had cargo Of $4,000
packages of tea, $500 rolls of mating,
5000 boxes of fire crackers, 400 boxes of
fans, 5000 mats of cassia and 21O boxes
of camphor, the whole being valued at
about million of dollars, upon which the
United States Government lost over $l75,-
600 or 5000, 900 in revenue, as that would
be about the duty on the goods aboard.
The Polish insurrection il assuming