The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1863-05-29
THE WEEKLY PIONEER AND DEMOCRAT.

lIAuoo AdV0 LID LIOucy, DIS uo was ouICiluS
for the necessaries of life. "Money!" re-
piled the trustees, "you preach for money?
We thought you preached for the good of
SOULS" "Souls!" responded the rever-
end 81 can't eat souls-and If could,
it would take thousand such as yours to
make a NEAL
Gen. Devens, of Massachusetts,, who
was wounded in the foot in the battle near
Chancellorville, is now at Washington,
and will return home on short furlOugh,
after undergoing the amputation of two
or three Of his toes. Although this brave
officer received his wound early in the &C
ton of Saturday, he remained on the field
TOR an hour afterwards, rallying broken
regiments of the Eleventh corps, and by
his personal exertiOns succeeded in saving
several pieces of artillery which had been
left behind by another division, and which
would have fallen into the hands of the
enemy but for his efforts. Gen. Devens
was the conservative candidate for the
Office Of Governor of Massachusetts last
fall, but was beaten by the little fat
boy" John A. Andrew, one of the most
consummate demagogues the old Bay
State ever produced.
The Mobile Register of the 18th, is
informed that the new British Consul is
on his way to Mobile, and savagely de-
mands that his presence be not tolerated.
1t denounces the British Government in
unmeasured terms, and declares that Lord
Lyons is an Abolition minister of an Abo-
lition Government, sent to the Abolition
Lincoln administration, and charges the
British Government with double-dealing
and hypocrisy.
An affray occurred on the train re-
turning from the Democratic Convention
at Gosport, Indiana, recently, in which
Thomas Mccoy, of Cloverdale, was shot
through the body by Otto Allen, of Green
castle, inficting a very serious wound,
from which his recovery is doubtful.
There are conflicting accounts regarding
the difficulty.
About o'clock Wednesday morning
another of the small buildings connected
with the Austin Powder Works, near Ak
ron, Ohio, exploded, killing Mr.. I. J. Luce,
an employee of the Company, and severe
| ly burning Patrick O'Neal, who, in charge
of cart containinga quantity of powder,
was near the mill when the explosion took
place. The Beacon says the loss of prop
erty was small.
The Springfield Republican says;
Occasionally we get hint that some
thing is going on down on the Peninsula,
and the probabilities are that the next
| move on Richmond will be from that di
rection, as it appears that large reinforce
ments are being sent round now for that
purpose. This route has great many adj
vantages over any other; and if too many
troops do not have to be left for the de-
tense of Washington the Potomac army
may yet win glory and victory on the old
ground of McClellan's failure"
1t is announced that Capt. Samuel
Fisk, of the Fourteenth Connecticut, "was
shot from his horse on the Sunday battle
at Charlottesville, and his body has not
been recovered" Mr.. Fisk was graduate
of Amherst in 1856, and Congregational
minister. He left pleasant parish and a
lovely wife and child, at the beginning of
the war, prompted by the hottest impulses
of patriotism. To the reading world he
was known as "Dunn Brown, for series
of genial and able papers published by him
in book, under this soubyiqnet, and con-
tinued during the war in the Springfield
| Republicdn Peace to the memory of the
brave and noble man.
"A recent letter says: Gen. Hooker
enjoys the confidence, it is believed, of
Secretary Chase, and he has also the sup
port OF Senators Wade, Sumner, Chand-
Ter and Wilson, all of whom are in Wash
ington, lending him their support. Unless
those who are believed to possess the con-
fidence of the Administration are greatly
mistaken, Gen. Hooker will return to his
command with his plan of campaign ap-
proved, and will at once recommence OPP
erations.
The following are the circumstances
of the brutal murder of Capt Howard
Dwight, by the guerillas of Louisiana:
Capt. Howard Dwight, Adjutant General on
Brig. Gen. Andrews staff, died suddenly on the
9TH inst. Capt. Dwight was Boston boy, a
brother of Brig. Gen. Dwight, and formerly a
Captain in the Missouri Union Cavalry. His
funeral took place at New Orleans, on the 9th
inst, and his body was placed on board the
steamer George Peabody, to be sent to his IA
Their in Boston. The manner OF his death is
thus described in the Era: He left the head
quarters of his brother, Gen. Dwight, on the
morning of the 4th, with dispatches for Gen.
Banks, and was proceeding rapidly along the
road from Alexandria to Franklin. On reach
ing Courtableau he was hailed by three rebel
guerllas. He stopped and asked them who
they were, when they presented their revOlvers
and asked him to dlsmount. AS there were
three te one and the Captain was unarmed, he
was forced to comply, remarking, 9 cannot
help myself and therefore surrender" But the
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