The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1863-12-25

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unteers, for drunkenness and using profane and
obscene language in the public streets of St.
Louis, and at a public dinner table; not paving
subsistence bills to the commissary department,
ana not rendering returns of public property,
mas been dismissed the service
The New York Tribune has accounts from
IeAaS from prominent gentleman from that
o'''e' containing. among other information,
'hc lollo"lnS: 1t is rumored that in the early
pilr1 Oh October, on Colorado River, in Fayette
anu n'strap counties, thirty-four persons had
peeh hanged-fOur Americans and thirty Ger
mans
WEDNESDAY, December %.
-Ihe Missouri imbroelio has received q
temporary settlement by the appointment of
ueh. h"sEcRANs in place of ScHorIEID, and
Ten. CURTIS for the Kansas department in place
Oh ten. EwING. Knowing the temper of the
Missouri radicals we shall be disappointed if
zen. RosECRANs succeeds in keeping them
quiet for any considerable time.
The Army Of the Potomac is Actually in
winter quarters which fact will doubtless be
tclegraphed every day for months, varied occa-
siohally oy the record of a guerrilla skirmish
lien. kIMBALL, lately in command at Little
Rock, represents that immense Union meetings
are being held in Arkansas, which endorse
without reserve all the acts of the Administra-
tlon Tor the suppression of the rebellion. There
Is no doubt OF the fact that the Union senti-
ment is making extraordinary progress in Ar
kansas. Over seven thousand people have
taken the oath OF allegiance in Little Rock
alone. This happy result is owing in great
degree to the mild and conciliatory, yet firm
and decided administration of General STEELE
and his excellent subordinates, among whom
we reckon our former fellow citizen, Col. An
DREws, of the Third Minnesota
The new government of Mexico has al
ready got into trouble with, the church. The
Archbishop demanded the restoration of church
property contiscated by the Juarez govern
ment, which demand was refused, and the
Bishop accommodated the whole French
army from general down to drummer boy, and
closed the cathedral, but was subsequently
compelled TO open it and perform mass.
There is intelligence from Richmond that
LoNGsTREET is advancing, and that great
battle would probably be fought near Jones
bOro', Tennessee. Jonesboro is on the East
Tennessee and Virginia railroad, eighty miles
east of Nashville. Our accounts place Lone
STREET very much nearer Knoxville and Cam.
berland Gap than Joncsboro is.
To Prevent a repetition Of the Chesapeake
affair no person is now allowed to leave New
York on I'm American vessel without Il pass
port from the Marshal of the district in which
lie resides
The rebel Congress has abrogated the sub
stitute system. and all persons who have put
substitutes iu the field will now have To go
themselves. The rebels are. perhaps, only q
year or two ahead of lis, in aboshing the sub
sttute business. If the war continues that
length of time, we shall have to como to it,
but the money exemption will first be abrogat-
ed. There are, according to Senator LANE Of
Indiana, 100000 men subject to draft at
this time, and on the basis of the receipts Of
the last draft but 426 900 could he brought
into the field. The conclusion is inevitable
that both the substitute and money exemption
systems must, sooner or later be abolished.
A Rebel Prisoners Love Letter.
The Louisville Democrat publishes let
ter dated at Stevenson, Ala December 6,
from which We take the following:
The following epistle of love goes to prove
the fact that schOOlmaster's have long been
abroad in the State of Alabama. 1t is supposed
to have been dropped by one of the many rebel
prisoners who have recently honored our city
with short visit while on their way north:
IL ouE KAAr on BosE KRIoK.
Mi deer Sely Speers talk my pen in han tn let
You no that our boys air all wer. l hav bin sick
with the dyarear, an hope yew an yo C muther air
en'Oin' the same blessin'. Bill Shorter got letter
frum unkle Jabis, an he sed that yew was goin to
git mario tn that GUIDE fur nuthin' whisky drinkin'
Sam barber. Now, Sely, hOap that air amt also
fur yew no an 10 that we hav' lived twogather
wunst an when yew tOald me to jine the rebel kaws
yew wood luv no boldly els. That thar aint far; I've
dun moar fur mi kuntry nor Sam barber an ef yew
bekzm the wyfe CT Sam lie MARI Mase hawkins an
then-that's wots the matter. rite tn me an Eel me
an will kali an sea yOre muther. Ill then farwel
Arb Grimes rt this ere letter fur me he's a brick
fores till the war is Ovar,
Asa was taken i'm before he had chance
to mail his billy dux."
Unemployed Clergy OF New York,
BURLElGH, the well known correspondent of
the Boston Journal, makes some reflections Cd
g the CLOTH" which SAVIOR of irreverence, Hs
says, writing from New York:
One notices in New York large number Of
clergymen who are not employed in their pro-
OF them once celebrated as pas
tors, Professors and Doctors of Diyinity-cele-
brities in their day and generation, but for some
cause have left their charges or their chairs
many OF them are unemployed, and earn a pre-.
carious living. Why they prefer to remain in
and around New York in large numbers. with
only scanty support at best, while the West
is suffering for preachers and offers the induce
ment OF good living is mystery. But to
my knowledge, repeated effort have been made
to start some of these gentlemen West without
success Many are in secular business. and
while they write themselves Rev" appear
on platforms and sometimes in the pulpit they
drive thriving trade among the spectators Of
the day. Bishops from different dioceses spend
q good portion of the year in New York, and
with Doctors of Divinity, can be seen daily in
Wall street where the Bulls and Bears hold
their fierce combat. The novels and light lite
nature of the day, which the fathers w6uJd not
have touched with a pair of tOngs. emanate
from clergymen or clergymen's families.
General Nathan Kimball, having been 70
lieved of his command in the ARMY IF ArL.r-
sas, at Little Rock, is now on a visit to hi,
family IN, I r.