The weekly pioneer and Democrat., 1863-02-06

be q success, as the rlver Is hiSh enough
to pour a flood through it.
In the Federal Senate and House the
Niger was the centre ofattraction, and the
subiect of discussion. In the Senate to
emancipate him, and in the House to
make soldier of him.
Tho alleged interference with BURN
slDEs plans, is to be made the subject of
investigation by the Senate Committee on
the Conduct of the War; and BURNSIDE
has been called to testify before it.
lit is reported that Gen. FRANKLIN is to
be court-msrtialled, at his own request.
The arrest Of the editor of the Phiia-
delphia Ecening Journal, by General
ScHENoK, and his removal from the State,
is creating intense excitement. Our Spe-
cial dispatches give accounts OF the judicial
proceedings had III reference to this last
outrage of the brute STANTON.
"A Union victory near Savannah,
Georgia, is reported on the authority Of the
rebel General Pryor.
Gen. RosRCRANs has been largely re-
inforced, and his army is reported in good
spirits and ready for fight An important
victory has been achieved over AoRGAEs
cavalry st McMinnville.
"A negro in ST. Louis, who ran away
from rebel master and was arrested un-
der State law, has been unconditionaliy
discharged by Judge CLOVER OF the crimi-
nal court, according to the provisions OF
the confscation act.
An expedition has gone up the
Ogeechie River, about twenty miles
south OF Savannah, to capture the Nash
vile. but the result is not known.
Gov. STANLEY, of North Carolina.
has resigned.
The rebel guDboat Cotton, up the
Teache river, Louisiana, has been blown
up, and General WErrzEL anticipates the
dispersion of the rebel land force.
Gen. BANKs wants entrenching tools
to reduce Port Hudson by siege, rather
than by storm. Why don't the radicals
set up q howl about spading and ditching?
The capture of the budget of rebel dis
patches to their foreign agents, has created
q great sensation IN Richmond. They say
from them we learned more Of their affairs
than we could get from their newspapers
in fifty years, and fear the effects abroad.
--Sambo appears to think the procla-
nation trap to get him into Brudder
Beecher's "blacl. brigade" as food for
powder-and since the first of January
many of the woolly heads have seeded"
or skeladded back to Dixie, it is said.
When Gen Wadsworth reported there
was not gun on wheels for the defence
of Washington, there were one hundred
apd nine artillery pieces in order for ac-
tion
Speaking of the unsuccessful attempt
to obtain an appropriation for day po-
lice to guard the Presidential mansion
from the repeated robberies committed by
visitors, the Louisville Journal don't see
why the White House should be singled
cut; why not include all the Departments,
and see if something cannot be done to
prevent peculation, .iobbing, and extortiOn
throughout All the ramiticatOnS of the
Government.
During a financial debate in Congress,
a few days ago, Mr. Sheffield, of Rhode
Island, while denouncing the undue ex,
pansion of currency, stated that he held II
his hand prornissory note Of the State Of
Massachusetts, Bay, issued i'll 1880, which
had never been redeemed. Upon Mr.. Ell
lot of Massachusetts, making an enquiry
about this, Mr. Sheffield said: "The note
is signed by the geutleman's own grand
father, and by another Of his kinsmen,"
probably alluting to Richard Cranch Or
Thomas Dawes 81 will redeem, it SIR"
said Mr.. Elliot, in the honesty of his heart.
"Ah, " responded Mr. Sheffield, "itwould
take more money to redeem it than the
gentlemanhas got; for it carries interest,
payable semi-annually in coin; and am
afraid, when he came to count it up, he
would find the amount too large for him. ;"
1t was payable in Spanish milled dollars.
Major General Fitz-John Porter is to
have sword presented to him by citi-
zen of Boston. The weapon, which is
now ready, is straight one, the blade
being richly and appropriately engraved.
The cross-piece represents an eagle with
outspread wings, lowering over and pro-
tecting the shield of the Union. The hilt,
heavily wrought, and bound with helices
of gold, has no guard; but ends in he'll
meted head of exquisite Workmanship,
and is connected with the cross-piece by
a rich chain. The scabbard is finely gilt,
has chaste ornamentation of peculiar