The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1863-04-10
NEWS ANDl OTHER ITEMS.
Six brothers who enlisted in the same
company at Manchester, VT, have all been
killed or died.


company at Manchester, VT, have all been
killed or died.
The following is SUMMARY of Nor
gan's exploits in the six months, begin
ming 4th July, 1862, and ending 4th Jan
uary, 1868 Between IL, 900 and $4,000
prisoners and $4,000 stand of arms cap
tured; and So, 500, 900 worth of stores de-
stroyed; 1896 men raised within the en-
envy 3 lines, and armed and EQUIPPED by
himself, he having received but 200 sad
dies from the government Charleston
Mercury, March It'll.
The New York Heraldsays the steam
er yesterday took out the answer of the
Secretary to the various propositions which
are said to have been made to him by the
representatives of foreign capitalists Mr..
William A. Aspinwall and his son, Colonel
Aspinwall, were among the passengers,
and the street suspects them of being en-
trusted with powers by the Secretary.
Delaware has repudiated lotteries. A
bill to legalize swindler under that name
was recently defeated by decisive major
ity.
The proprietors of a building in St.
Paul's church yard let their window ac-
commodations on the day of the Princess
arrival in London for $475O.
The Syracuse Journal says that the
physicians of the late General Sumner are
of the opinion that his death was fastened
by the development of disease contracted
while serving on the Chickahominy.
Arkansas planters have begged the
President to suspend the proclamation for
that state, or the northern counties at least.
The President replied by telling them a
story about Peter the Jew. On the same
day a delegation of Quakers waited upon
the President with a view to obtain in
some way exemption from the draft. The
PRESIDENTS reply is not given, but it is
likely that he told them story, also.
Suffering for want of food is so great
at Fredericksburg that even the wealthiest
citizens there are drawing provisions from
the rebel commisSaries.
In consequence of the extraordinary
rise in the price of quinine. the medical
department has determined to commence
the manufacture of it at laboratories in
New York and Philadelphia. Since the
war began the price of this drug has gone
up from two dollars to four dollars an
ounce.
The Richmond Wig publishes the
following, from farmer in Nelson county,
Virginia, dated March 10:
All impressment systems, the world round
now and heretofore, amount to little more than
the plundering of the agriculturists, for the
benefit of all other classes and it must be so in
all time, as they are ordained to be the chew
ers of wood and drawers of water" for man
kind Yet, to crush them right away: to cut
open the goose for the egg is cm bono 2 The
consumers, government and Others, may, in
their might, take what l have now for nothing,
but Id if they can make me make more
rig as they may.
Leading bankers in Baltimore and
Washington, Of secession proclivities, are
said to be in possession of intelligence from
the rebels in Richmond, showing that the
rebelliun is rapidly "caving in. These
facts, it is stated, have been communicate
ed to the administration by persons of con-
sideration in possession Of the intelligence.
The Savannah Republican, of the
10th ult., contains the following, which is
another item of evidence going to show
the alarm on the food question prevalent
in the South:
To the officers and Members of the General As
sensbly:-I am satisfied that developments have
clearly shown the necessity for further legisla-
ton, at an early day, to secure the use of all
our productive labor this year, in the cultiva-
ton OF our lands in grain and other articles
necessary to sustain life, and not in cotton, to-
baccO or like productions, and to prevent the
destruction of food by distilation.
AS the public exigencies do, therefore, in my
opinion, require the General Assembly to con.
vene at an earlier day than fixed for your meet
ing when you last adjourned, issue this, my
proclamation, requiring you. and each of you,
to assemble in your respective halls in the Cap
itol, in this city, on Wednesday, the 18th day
of this present month, at 10 o'clock A. NJ.
Given under my hand and the great seal of the
State, at the Capitol, in the city of Milledge-
vile, this 18th day of March, in the year of our
Lord 1868. JOSEPH E. BROWN.
By the Governor:
N. C. BARNETT, Sec'y of State.
1t had been all settled that Burnside
should 20 to North Carolina. But one
evening President Lincoln sent for him and
said: owe shall never pacify those long
legged Kentuckians till the rebels have
once been soundly whipped on their
bloody ground Now take your old ninth
corps and give us victory-at least put
an end to these cries of rebel invasion in
Kentucky!"
In the following paragraph, the Rich
mond Enquirer hints at serious divisions
among the Southern people, and a loss
of confidence in jeff Davis:
Absolutely, we do not believe that theaP resi-
dent we have elected, and the man who has
thus far led the nation with dignity, safety, and
glory in its new and perilous path, is malig-
nant knave or capricious tyrant. we do not
believe it. Perhaps he does not satisfy every
body; perhaps he does not crafty every officer
and politician with place equal to each man s
of h;c merit bT1t this lie