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


eloquent and most deliberately constructed
prayers ever offered to Washington audience.
HIS allusion to the Almighty rs our special
pilot Is regarded in some quarters us a very
happy thing in the way Of distributing and an
propriating Gods functions.
-Ihe Hudson Times says that q large CORPS
OF civil engineers employed by the St. Croixand
Lake Superior Railroad arrived in that citv lost
week. and are busy at work surveying the line
ciose 10 town. The Railroad Company pro-
pose ~ get out a large quantity of cross ties
ILLS "ihter-enouSh to lay forty miles of the
ROAD, which will be graded and ready for the
iron by the first of next july.
The Washington Star states that ore of tbo
results of the late retrograde movement Of tho
Army OF the Potomac is, evidently, increased
relaXation OF discipline Since their return to
their old quarters on the Rappahannock. nm
comfortable squads of the men have been bnrn-
ing houses right and left, including those Of
some citizens notorious for their steady on,os;
ton to the rebellion
The National InteAgeqcer gives the follow
ing favorable account OF the Clerk of the House
OF Representatives of the XXXVIII Congress-.
The election of Hon. Edward Mcpherson Of
pennsylvania, to the responsible office of CLERK
reflects equal credit on the House and an tho
estimable gentleman who has received this
tribute OF confidence at the hands of hndv
among Whom there are very many who have
nad the best opportunity of knowing his worth
from former associations with him in the puplic
councils. He was, it will be recollected n
member OF the last Congress- in which. as also
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trated the qualities which adOrn the legislator
speaker Colfax, in his address upon taking
the chair of the House, gave the members an
excellent bit of advice well worthy of repeti.
ton, and which will be endorsed by all sensible
people. He said
In this greater than Roman forum. | invoke
you to approach these grave questions with the
calm thOughtfulness of statesmen. freeing your
discussions from that acerbity which mars in
stead OF advancing legislation.
The indianapolis Journal of the 9TH. piyes
the following account of the way they get VOL
unteers in Indiana:
At a Union meeting at Kingston Decatur
county, last week, Colonel Wilder proposed a
collection to raise money for volunteers One
hundred dollars were raised, and man stepped
Forward, signed the roll and received the
.''NhSy' LINING IL up liz edIu, mere Is one
hundred dollars for the next volunteer" An
other came who did the same thing. and an
other, and so on till nineteen men were enroll
Ell, ana the money was then voted to the SAM
tary Commission.
"A veteran officer of the regular army writes
as follows t. the A,my md Nary Journm:
At Gettysburg on the first three days of
July, the regulars, out of 2 OH men. lost 600
by lar the heaviest loss, proportlonately, SUI
Tered by any body Of men in the field And
yet, while every State whose volunteers were
engaged IS TO have a plot for its iustrious
dead, these brave fellows of our old regular
army, many OF whom had served for twenty
years. are TO be buried with the unknown
thrown into a corner ditch because they fought
Dat Voted not-put on Il level with the horses
that fell with them, because their officers were
soldiers, not politicians.
The loss at Stone River among the regulars
was in the same proportion as at Gettysburg,
but no mention was made of it until the official
reports were published
bonner, the Ledger man, contradicts the
report that he returned no personal income to
the assessors. He says he was one of the first
persons in the city to pay his income tax,
which was much larger than that paid by the
publishers of any weekly paper in the United
States.
The Philadelphia Inquirer says of General
Hardee: His reputation has rested on his
suppos Led preparation of work on Infantry
Tactics which he did not translate, but which
was translated for him, and we are informed
that his name would have never appeared on
its title,,page but for the generosity of the pub
Usher"
The Presidents Message was all in New
York city by telegraph, and a part of it in the
hands of the press. a half hour before the read
ing was finished in the House. 1t was at once
pushed forward for all the cities between New
York and Boston, and was all in Boston in one
hour and thirty minutes from the time it started
from Washington.
The Maiden (Mass.) Bank was entered
about noon on Thursday last. A son of the
President was the only person in the bank at
the time. He was murdered and the bank
robbed of nearly all its contents E. E. Con-
verse is the President of the bank The MUIR
dered boy was about seventeen years old
Last Thursday evening George Beattie.
young man seventeen years of age, brakesman
on the Chicago 81 Northwestern Railway. was
killed by collision on that road at or near the
town of Ridgefield, III. The verdict was care
lessness on the part of the engineer
We learn from the Beot (Wis.) Courier
that on the evening of the 9TH inst. near the
village of Sharon, Mr.. Stephen Crooks was
murdered by vagabond named Leander Cof.
man. The murderer asked for lodgings at the
house of Crooks, but was refused. After Coff-
man left, Mr.. Crooks, fearing that he might
steal his horses, went out to look to them. and
proceeded to one of his neighbors to
put him on his guard also. Just before he
reached the house he met Coffman, who put
pistol to his breast and shot him.
-George F. Brott, formerly of Minnesota.
s one of the Directors of the first National
Bank of New Orleans.
General McClellan's report has been trans
nltted to Congress, and is now in the hands Of
he printers at the Government printing Office.
It will be published in few weeks. In the
Secretary Stanton prohibits anv
copy being made of that or anv
other report. Though some may fail to see his
Jurisdiction over matter already in the hands of
Congress-. still he is obeyed by the Supern-
anHapt of Public pr;pf;r.