The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1863-04-24
THE WEEKLY PIONEER AND DEMOCRAT

their losses in many of their battles. No gen.
eral report has come to us of the number who
have died in their camps from the effects of ex-
posure and hardships, or who have gone home
only to die there from disease contracted in the
army. At all these points, however, where
OF time the extent of their burial places indi-
Gates a fearful mortality. Philadelphia En-
Quirer.
This statement is very true, and it is APP
plicable to either of the hostile sections.
Except in a few instances, we know little
of the losses actually sustained in battle or
from disease. We can only Judge from
statements like this, that since the war be-
gan applications for pensions for $4,000
widows and H. 900 invalids have been re-
ceived at Washington. Both sides have
suffered terribly in blood and treasure,
and it would be no shame for either to
own they are heartily tired of fighting, and
would be glad to come to terms if any
thing could be agreed upon mutually &C
ceptable. Here is the rub.
"A servant girl, Maria Bemhardt, has
recovered, in Brooklyn court, $4,000
damages against former employer, for a
breach of marriage promise.
Gen. John Cochrane, in recent let
ter, states that the ORDER No. of General
Burnside, alluded to in the report of the
Committee on the Conduct O.: the War,
dismissed from the service and relieved
of their commands twenty general officers
of the Army of the Potomac who had dis
turbed Gen. Burnside. At the head of
this list stood the significant name of Gen.
Joe Hooker
All Of the parties, nine in number,
who were concerne in the robbery Of
$97, 900 in Government securities from
the safe of the Adams Express Company,
near Baltimore, on the 18th ult., have
been arrested, and are now confined in
Fort McHenry All but $4,000 of the Sc
curities were recovered, either from the
persons of the thieves, or from places
where they had concealed them. The in
vestigatiOn was conducted under the d.
rection of Allan P;nkerton, of Chicago.
The correspondent of the Philadelphia
Press at Nashville writes the following
item of intelligence:
A few days ago Col. Martin wrote an order
suppressing the circulation of cOpperhead
newspapers in this city, and sent it to General
Mitchell, who signed his name to the docu-
II fto1 To
who declined to approve of it, stating as his
reasons, that he had no legal right to NEEDLE
with journals that were permitted to be pub
lished by the President and the people.
The London Times says it is satisfac-
tory to find that the friends of the Presi-
dent of the Confederate States are anxious
to free him from the charge of having
been an advocate of the reputation which
has now been practiced for quarter of
century by the State of Mississippi, and
the following letter, addressed by Mr.. Sill
dell to a personal correspondent, will COM
mand attention -
My DEAR SIR am inclined to think that
people in London confound Mr.. Reuben Davis,
whom have always understood to have taken
the lead on the question OF reputation, with
President Davis. am not aware that the lat
ter was ever in any way identified with that
question. | am very confident that it was not
agitated during his canvass for Governor or du-
ring his administration. The Union Bank
bonds were issued in direct violation of an eX-
press constitutional provision. There is wide
difference between these bonds and those Of the
Planters Bank for the reputation of which
neither excuse nor paliatiOn can be offered l
foa1x fhnf Toffn nox-ic
or justified that reputation. What
may have been his private opinions of the re-
fusal to consider Mississippi bound to provide
for the payment of the Union Bank bonds,
do not know. JOHN SLIDELL.
"A young man named Charles Noll,
together with his betrothed, Wilhemina
Stuben, were last Friday, found in an in
sensible state, from the effects of lauda-
mum, at their residence in the New York
Bowery. Noll died soon after, but the
life of the young girl was saved. 1t APP
pears that the young man lately enlisted
in the army, but becoming tired of the
service, deserted and came to this city.
Fearing, however, that he might be arres-
ted and sent back, he coolly proposed to
his betrothed that both of them should |
commit suicide. She agreed, and they
partook of a large dose of laudanum, and,
lying down on sofa, calmly awaited death.
A eoroners inquest was held this after
noon, when a verdict in accordance with |
the above fucts was rendered.
The officers of the Mozart Regiment
of New York, now attached to Birney's |
Division in Virginia, have adopted resolu-
tons denouncing the disloyalty of Fer
nando Wood, who has son many occa-
sions boosted Of his paternity of the regi-
ment." One of the resolutions says:
We Indignantly repudate any claim of Fer
nando Woods to our sympathy, our Obliga-
tons or our respect. We declare that he never |
furnished q man or dOller for our benefit !
whatever; that the stand of colors presented |,
to us at Yonkers, before our departure for the
seat of war, in July, 1861, and which Fernando
Wood assumed the credit of presenting from
his own means, were paid for by the citizens of |
New York, and never cost Fernando Wood one |
cent: that we have no sympathy with his prin-
cples, no respect for his character, and hope
the day is not far distant when such traitors
will be Stunned as leapors and outcasts