The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1863-04-17
NEWS AND OTHER ITEMS.

the committee organized to destroy Gen.
Mcclellan, and in view Of the large amount
of official information that has been sup
pressed, asks this pointed question:
"What useful or honest purpose is sub
served by their longer SUPPRESSION"
That journal had commenced the publica-
ton of the report in question, but the edi-
tor declines, for the present, to print any
more of this precious bit of fanatical
pleading, until the testimony shall have
been printed.
The subscriptions to the capital stock
of the Atlantic Telegraph Company, now
exceed fifty thousand pounds sterling
among the bankers and leading merchants
of New York city, and additional subscrip-
tons are being received daily. "The
amount already subscribed in this city and
in London" says the Yew York Journal
Of Commerce, ensures the success of the
great enterprise next year beyond all rea-
sonable doubt
On the 18th of November last, Gen
eral William Preston, of the Confederate
army, wrote letter to his wife at Lexing-
ton, Kentucky, of which the following is
an extract:
If the prescription becomes fierce and intol-
cradle, so that you cannot stay, seek shelter in
Canada. You cannot cross the lines. Do not
think of it. It is impossible. Look for peace
in some happier land, till this cruel war is
If, however, the enemy do not insult or per-
secute you, remain TRANQUILITY at home. While
they even give you imperfect protection, it is
your duty to abstain from every act or speech
that could affront or insult them; and to care
fully refuse to give any intelligence or infor-
nation tending to defeat or endanger them.
Therefore, never put in your letters any intelli-
gence of a military character, but let them re-
late alone to our dear children and our private
interests.
On Friday evening fire broke out in
the fve-story brick building No. IA, on
South Water street, Chicago, opposite the
Massassoit House, and before the flames
could be subdued, destroyed large amount
of property, on which, unfortunately for
the owners, there was but little insurance.
Among the sufferers were II. Newell, the
owner o. the building, Messrs. Burke &
Co., who lost groceries worth $4,000; L.
Bradley, agent for Peoples line of steam
ers; E. G. Wore, groceries, and S. W.
Maushur.
"A gentleman who accompanied Adj
miral Porter up Steel's Bayou reports,
having seen immense quantities of grain
and cotton in the interior. The rebels
burned $4,000 worth of the latter, and
the federals $4,000 A prisoner says
that the confederates destroyed grain
enough to support an army of 100000
men for six months.
Asparagus, tomatoes, green peas and
new potatoes were in the San Francisco
markets as early as the 10th of March.
Dick Busted is no longer soldier.
Congress dropped -" him and he has re-
turned to his law Office. ..
AUGUSTA.
"IacedI regina!,'
Handsome and naughty pa comment that
From lips which were never accustomed to
malice;
4 girl with a presence superb as her name,
And charmingly for love-in palace!
And oft have wished (for in musing alone
Ones fancy is apt to be very erratic)
That the lady might wear-No! never will
A thought so decidedly un-democratic =
But If 'twere coronet-this III aver,
No duchess on earth could more gracefully
wear it;
And even democrat thinking of her
Might surely be pardoned for wishing to
share it Knicher5ocker.
81 went to hear - last night, said
Nicodemus; she has wonderful voice
he spoke the deepest bass | ever heard
but | couldn't exactly catch the tenor of
his discourse" "How," said Quilp,
"could you expect to catch the tenor of
his discourse, when, as you say, the man
spoke bass?''
1t is given out that Pensacola was
evacuated because it was not worth keep
ing, and also because we hadn't troops
enough to keep it.
The Marquis Of Harrington, the Lon
don 'swell' who exhibited cockney man
ners in Fifth-avenue drawing-room, has
been made junior Lord of the English
Admiralty, with plumber to the amount of
$4,000 per annum.
Somebody writing "reminiscences of
the cold Park THEATRE in the N. Y.
Leader, tells good anecdote of our old
friend Blake, the treasurer. 1t occurred
during the famous first engagement there
of Fanny Elssler, the danseuse. 1t will be
remembered that she was accompanied by
male dancer, Monsieur Sylvan. Blake,
seeing him walking up and down the lobby
one morning, waiting for Miss E., thought
it would be politeness to accost him. To
this questionable end, Blake brushed up
his French-his task was light, for he had
little and addressed the Partisan in his
yernacnlar. Monster looked at him mo-