The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1863-12-18
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clothes near Mine Run during the recent on
gagement, and is now in the hands of the
enemy. rtr ajsE@| 1877
In Massachusetts, the pay of q volunteer
under the bountes offered by the National and
State governments, for the full term of three
years, amounts to two dollars and sixty.uine
cents day, and no deduction on account of
sickness, medical attendance, medicines, &c.
BY the terms of our treaty with Great
Britain, we have but one vessel of war on the
lakes. We have the Michigan. The follow
ing from the Cleveland Len,2er will be read
with interest:
The United States revenue cutter the
steamer Michigan, has, within the last few
days, received her new armament, consisting of
thirteen additional guns. and is ready for any
land all of the gunboats from Montreal that are
coming this way. ShcnOw carries four twelve
pound howltzers, four ten-pOund PARROTS four
thirty-pOund PARROTS, a sixty-four pound bow
gun, and her old stern gun, which has for
many years been her only artillery. She has
also been thoroughly overhauled and repaired.
ana Is IN excellent trim. Her new cannon
look finely. She will winter at Sandusky.
-Herschell ". Johnson has been elected by
the Legislature of Georgia to represent that
State in the rebel senate at Richmond. Robert
Toombs was also q candidate. Toombs made
speech denouncing the mismanag cement and
incompetency of the Richmond government
and johnson made speech supporting jeff.
Davis and his policy throughout The election
of johnson may, therefore be taken as an ind.
cation that the Georgia legislature is ''sound
on the Richmond goose"
Partial returns of the recent election in
Idaho didicate that John NJ. Cannaday. Demo.
crat, is elected delegate to Congress by a con-
siderable majority. The first report of the
election indicated the success of Wallace Re.
publican
Cyrus II. Hunter, a deserter from the al
Maine Volunteers, was executed last Friday
near General Birney's headquarters.
BY general orders just out, it appears that
Smithson, banker lately sentenced to five wears
in the penitentiary by court-martia, for treason.
wrote letter under an assumed name. and di-
rected in cipher to one of Beauregard's officers
at Manassas, in December, 1861. The letter is
filled with information regarding the DISPOSE.
ton OF our troops, and the measures being
taken by government to put down the rebellion.
General Sigel has delivered to General
Cadwallader, at Philadelphia, sixty men who
were concerned in the late outrages in Carbon.
Pa. These sixty men were the worst and most
dangerous Of the rioters. The rest, about forty
In number, will be kept at Reading. The pris-
oners are charged with conspiring against the
government, murder, arson, and rioting. Some
of them are implicated in the murder of Mr.
Smith, at Summit, and various acts of incen.
diarism.
"A gentleman from Erie, Pa says the trains
were detained in that vicinity last Monday by
snow, and that it fell to the depth of eighteen
inches. At Dunkirk there were about six
inches; at Cleveland a trifle more.
Colonel Francis NJ. Rotch, late New York
Safe Senator from the Twentieth district, died
at his residence in Morris, Otsego county, on
Saturday, the 10Th of November aged forty.
one years. His death was sudden and unex-
pected, having been ill only three days. and till
a late moment not considered seriously so.
The movement for the endowment of
Princeton College On. j. is making gratifying
progress. Money is subscribed by hundreds
and by thousands. New Jersey is doing her
full share of the work. The President of the
Warren railroad, in that State, has subscribed
$50, 900 to endow the Chair OF Prot. Guyot.
300, 900 was the minimum sum proposed TO he
raised
The Catholic Archbishop of Tuam, Ireland
writing to the Chancellor of the English Ex-
chequer, on the subject of the Irish exodus to
America, says :-'' 1t is in vain, then, that land
lords, now changing their tone, besecch their
tenantry to stay; it is in vain that the obseuui-
Gus scribes OF a government which, so long
treated them with cruelty, i'm plore them not to
90. Their resolve appears determined as long
as their just claims are so mercilessly unheeded,
And hence the cool and stern indifference with
which they leave land that has lost for them
the endearing character ola parent, and with it
all the sacred attractions AID security of home.
"A Washington correspondent of the Chi
cago Tribune says:
The prevailing disease in this city is the small
pox, and yesterday it disclosed itself in the
progress OF the disease under which the Pres
dent has been labOring for some days. In his
case, however. it is q mild form of variolOid,
and not really dangerous. AS usual Old Abe
could not refrain from his joke, for he remark
ed to his physician. There is one consolation
about the matter, doctor, it cannot in the least
disfgure mel"
John C. Breckenridge was serenaded at
Dalton on the2d inst. from which 1t is reason
able to conclude that he was not dead at that
period, as had been reported.
Senator Richardson, of Illinois, will not be
to take his seat at the opening of the present
session of Congress, in consequence of the dam
gerous illness of his wife.
Gen. Polk has been assigned to the COM
mand of the rebel department of North Missis-
sippi, with headquarters near jackson.
Our correspondent at Baton Rouge, says
the Cincinnati Commercial, states that the SOL
diers there have been discussing the question
of the next Presidency. They have come to
the conclusion that it would be a good thing to
re-elect "Uncle Abe" Our correspondent at
the commencement of the war was fiercely pro-
slavery. We call attention to his observations
as one of the "signs of the times.''
u, The st. Louis Republican says: "a letter
from Bonneville states there are two hundred
negro men in that town, brought in by their
owners to be enrolled in the army at $500 per