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The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1863-08-07
Receiver of State Property.

STATE OF MINNESOTA EXECUTIVE DEP'r.,e
ST.. PAUL, July 26, 1868. !
In pursuance of the authority vested in me
by law, I, Henry A. Swift, Governor of the
State of Minnesota, do hereby authorize and
empower Hon. s. Finch, to take into his pos
session all property of the State impressed, or
that otherwise came into the possession of the
military authorities in the recent operations
against the Sioux Indians, and that has been
settled for by the Board of Auditors of War
Claims, and all civil and military authorities of
the State are requested to render him every
assistance in their power.
HENRY A. SWIFT, GOVERNOR
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1863-08-07
Save the union.

William Whiting, U. S. Solicitor, main
tains in letter, that the negro is the on
ly genuine Union man in the Gulf States
In this letter, addressed to the fremont
Union League, this official says:
The military organization of colored troops,
removing all danger of insurrectionary move
ments, will regulate, control, and utilize the
physical force of the only genuine Union
mem in the Gulf States. The greatest war
power of treason will become the most efficient
defence Of the Union, and while it will smoth-
er rebellion, it will destroy the curse that
caused it.
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1863-08-07

1.-Major General George B. Mcclellan.
MAJOR General John c. Fremont.
3.-Major General Benz. F. Butler.
4.-Major General Joseph Hooker.
5.-Major General David Hunter.
6.-Major General Don Carlos Buell..
Major General Irwin Mcdowell.
8.-Major General William B. Franklin.
9.-Major General John A. McClernand.
1O.-Major General Samuel r. Curtis.
1l.-Major General George Cadwallader.
12.-Major General Geo. w. Morell.
13.-Major General r. II. Milroy.
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1863-08-07
How Morgan was Captured.

CINCINNATI, July 27.-The following
dispatches were received to-day at the
headquarters of Gen. Burnside:
SALNEvILLE, ONO, July z6.
Mai. Gen. 4. E. Burnside:
After forced march yesterday and last night.
with almost continued skirmishing, we sue
ceeded this morning, about eight o'clock, in
pressing Morgan to an engagement about one
and half miles from this place. After more
than one hour Of severe fighting, we scattered
his forces in every direction. The following is
the result of our engagement: 20 to 80 killed,
about 80 wounded, 200 prisoners, $50 stand of
arms and $50 horses. Our loss was very light
Our horses are very much jaded, but 1 shall
follow as quickly as possible. My force was
from 200 to $50 strong.
(SigneO W.B. WAY,
Maj. Cong Detachment LIST Mich. Cav.
The above dispatch was received about
noon to-day, and shortly afterwards the
dispatch of Gen. Shackleford.
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1863-08-07
Indian Hunters.

We learn that Adjutant General MALM-
RIOS has addressed letter to Col. JOHN B.
SANBoRN, now at Vicksburg, asking him to
purchase, on behalf of the State, twelve
bloodhounds, Of the best breed that can be
found in that vicinity, to be used in hunt
ing down the hostile Sioux on our frontier.
1t is stated that bloodhounds were success
fully used in hunting Indians in Florida,
during the Seminole war, and that our au-
thorities believe they will be equally SER
viceable here. We may expect, from the
Eastern sympathizers with the red muir
derers, energetic foundations of this
mode of "taking off" their friends; but,
if the experiment proves successful, our
own people will not question the propriety
of any means which may be used to accom-
plish this object a 4 5'
II 1t. Paul and Winona Railroad.
The Winona Republican says-the survey
of the St. Paul and Winona Railroad is
progressing finely. The engineers who are
engaged in this work have reached Lake
City on their way to Winona, and have
TO und remarkably easy grade on the en-
tire distance, = In regard to the prospects
of railroad beyond Winona, the New
York Tribune states that at meeting of
the Board of Directors of the Chicago and
Northwestern road, held in that city on the
oath ult., strong feeling was evinced in
favor of building the road from GAINESVILLE
to Winona on the Mississippi River, form
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1863-08-07
Discovery and Pursuit of Indians on
the Upper Minnesota.

Col. MARSH, commanding at Fort Ridg-
ley, writes to Col. WnKIN, under date OF
July 26th, 1868, that
Our scouts have just come in and report hav'
ing surprised party Of five Indians, about two
miles below the Lower Agency. They came
SO suddenly upon them that the Indians fled,
leaving behind them some game which they
were at the time in the act of dressing and pre-
pairing for dinner. a.. CD ...
Our scouts pursued them down the river to
within about six miles of the fort, when they
lost the trail, and returned to camp to report
have despac he'd twenty men, who, hope
may succeed in trapping the scoundrels, and
securing their scalps. "-.a- 81
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1863-08-07
Indian DepredatiOns near Forest City.

Indian DepredattOns near Forest CITY.
,f.4- .. ,,.e.,.. FOREST CITY, July q. b.
To the Editor Of the Pioneer .,.... ..-..: of
Last Thursday night, Mr.. Milton Gorton,
residing but one mile from town, had a
fine two year old colt stolen from his pas
ture by Indians. -.
A party of citizens and soldiers went ir
pursuit, on Friday; a part of the time
following the trail, and part of the time at
random, making a fruitless circuit of over
thirty miles. On Saturday morning an
other small party started out, and follow
ed up Grow river, not quite a mile, when
they came on the ground where Mr.. In
dian ha! camped with the colt and an
other horse shod all round, the day pre-
vious. II So it seems while the first party
were securing circuit Of thirty miles, Mr..
Indian lay all day with his plumber within
one mile Of Forest City, decamping vest
ward when night came on 5dJ a8ob 900
A report has just come in Of the steal
ing of two more horses on Maine Prairie
this morning. Men are now being station
ed at the passes of the river to intercept
the thieves, as they make west with the
stolen horses. What success the boys will
have is yet unknown. s.1
N That Sioux Indians are all around us in
squads of two's, three's and tours, is not
to be questioned. Their success makes
them bold and impudent. os1 Itgoa mis
;19l8i 10 Yours, truly, anu "A, =. SMITH
1rt "A rebel paper expresses the belief that that
not over 90. 600 men Gamble raised under
JeEo Davis'sa recent subscription order.
The Richmond E:can,imes' calls for courts
of inquiry in the cases of Generals Lee and
Pemberton, for their failures at Gettysburg
and Vicksburg.
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1863-08-07
i'm Minnesota Regiments.
THIRD REGIMENT.

.rfr.rs THIRD REGIMENT.
Lieutenant Colonel C. C.. Andrews Colonel,
vice Griggs, resigned.
Major H. Mattson, to be Lieutenant Colonel,
vice Andrews, promoted. fl
to Captain Everett w. Foster to be Major, vice
Mattson, promoted. iej
Lieutenant John C. Devereux to be Captain,
vice Foster, promoted. 80
L. FOURTH REGIMENT.
Assistant Surgeon e. NJ. Cross TO be Sur
geon, vice Murphy, resigned.
Lieutenant Edward w. Russell to be Captain,
vice Young, resigned.
Lieutenant George 4. Clark to be Captain,
vice Patch, resigned, ..,-.--f. =.
Second Lieutenant David L. Wellman to be
First Lieutenant, vice Clark, promoted. ia
T. Sergeant John L., Sampson to be Second
Lieutenant, vice Wellman, promoted. -.
; First Lieutenant Ira N. Morrill,, OF Company
K, to be Captain, vice L. B. Martin, resigned.
Il First Sergent Charles 9. Hunt to be First
Lieutenant, vice Morrill,, promoted. or
u3 Sergeant Charles w. Douglas. to be Second
lieutenant. vice Sherbrooke, killed on 22d
of May. 7.5 a. 81" .'3''.'4S Ky
y First Lieutenant William f. Wheeler of Com
pany /, to be Captain; vice Asa W. White, re-
signed. 49,, -,.,. ....-.--....
Second Lieutenant James w. Drysdale, to be
First Lieutenant, vice Wheeler, promoted.
First Sergeant Adrian R. Norton, to be Sec
ond Lieutenant, vice Drysdale, promoted.
Sorroant Samuel Isaacs to be First Lieuten-
ant, vice Turner, killed in battle
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1863-08-07
The Effects of Indian Alarms in
the Big Woods.

A farmer correspondent in Rockford,
Wright County, gives the following pic
ture of the effects of the Indian scare
which has prevailed in that section for
few weeks past:
The malady, or epidemic, has had a three
weeks run, and the results are, deserted houses,
ruined crops, cattle and hogs running wild and
destroying hundreds of acres of grain and corn.
In this remarkably dry season, when the crops
on the prairies are partial failure, and when
the timber lands would produce very large
crops of all kinds, it looks very bad to see
such useless, foolish waste The cause of this
state of things may be found in the fact, that
almost every person in this vicinity seems in
fected with the Indian mania. Every day
brings some new Indian signs, and those who
wish to attend to their business, are saluted on
every side with reports that one neighbor has
seen an Indian, and another has found place
where they lately camped, and still another has
found a trail or some other sign, until, like
flock of frightened pigeons, the people run
away to st. Anthony or St Paul, leaving every
thing to 60 to ruin. .-... .......
There are a few unbelievers in these stories,
but they spend too much time in investigating
their origin. They run hither and thither at
the nod and beck of every old granny who in
her troubled dreams has heard the cricket's
midnight chirp, or has been frightened by the
nimble squirrel as he leaps from bough to
bough, but are finally forced to come to the
reasonable conclusion that the great Indian
scare in the Big Woods is a stupendous hum
bug. .tr .-
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1863-08-07

The New York Journal Of Commerce
announces that the great ocean iron-clads
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1863-08-07

~ The authorities of New Jersey are
about making an effort to raise the quota
of troops required from that State by vol
unteering. Bopnties will probably be Of
tered, and Governor Parker is confident
that all the men needed can be had without
draft. Representations to that effect
have been made to the General Govern
ment, accompanied by request for an
extension of time in which to fill the quota.
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1863-08-07
THE WEEKLY PIONEER AND DEMOCRAT
The ENROLMENT.

For some time the air has been laden
with rurnors of organized opposition to
the enrolment among our Irish population
who reside in the lower part of the city.
The enrolling officer had avoided this
section as dangerous ground, and many
timid people had worked themselves
into full conviction that when the
enrolment was attempted we should
witness scenes Of riot and bloodshed.
Whether there was any ground for such
anticipations we are unable to say, but it
is only fair to suppose that the Provost
Marshal had good reasons to fear an out
break, from the magnitude of his prepa-
rations to meet it. We are gratifed to
state, however, that the enrolling officer
went through the district above alluded
to, on the 3Oth ult. and performed his duties
without forcible obstruction We trust
that any who have been misguided and
led to believe that they could resist or
evade the law, will remember the penalty
attached to such a course The law pro-
vides: /
Section 20. That if any person shall resist
any draft of men enrolled under this act into
the service of the United States, or shall coun-
sci or aid any person to resist any such draft;
or shall assault or obstruct any officer in maxi
ing such draft, or in the performance of any
service in relation thereto; or shall counsel
any person to assault or obstruct any such
officer,or shall counsel any drafted
of the rendezvous, or wilfully dissuade
suade them from the performance of military
duty as required by law, such person shall be
subject to summary arrest by the provost mar
shall, and he shall forthwith be delivered to the
civil authorities, and upon conviction thereof,
be punished by a fine not exceeding five hun
dred dollars, or by imprisonment not exceed
ing two years, or by both of said punishments.
This is severe punishment and attach
es to any conduct that "cbstructs any
officer in making such draft" such as re-
fusing to give a name, misstatement in
regard to age, &C., as well as to personal
violence. --.
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1863-08-07

We are permitted to copy the following
letter to COL STEPHEN MILLER, announc-
ing the death of his brave son on the field
of Gettysburg:
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1863-10-26
SObriQuetS.

Let any old resident of California or
Washoe recall the memory of the crimes of
every hue, from murder downward, which
have been committed within his ken, the
desperados whose depredations have
scourged the land, and who have either
met the felons doom, fallen in bloody con-
fict or who still pollute the atmosphere,
and he will be struck with the fact that in
almost nine cases out of ten, these pests of
society are known by some flash sobri-
quet." In California, in the ancient days,
their name was legion. Redbank Bill,
Texas Jack, Tom Bell, BooGack, Jimmy
from Town, Lucky Bill, and hundreds of
like nicknames were the popular and in
most cases the only names by which their
several owners were known, and an in
dictment, which did not give from one to
a dozen aliases to the accused, was the en-
ception and not the rule. The fates of
those we have mentioned is part ofhistery;
they were various, but none of them died
in their beds. They are but few among
the band whose nicknames were familiar,
and who have one by one, passed to their
bloody and dishonored graves. Many of
the old stock still survive, and many others
have grown up from boyhood or fallen
from responsibility and have adopted a
non, de gaerre to fill the thinned ranks of
ruffanism. To these, the several towns of
this Territory have become cities of refuge,
and day after day we hear of their exploits,
reminding us of the days of yore. A short
time since young man in his very prime,
fell, wounded to death in fierce brawl
that concluded brutal prize fight. The
slain youth was well known in the COM
munity as Muchacho"; how many in
every hundred that knew him Familiarity,
could have called him by his proper name
of Maldonado: A few days afterwards
"Sugar-foot Jack met his bloody doom
on B street: how many of all that knew
him, knew him by any other name >.
Saturday last added still another to the
blood despatched catalogue. Within
fifty yards of where Sugar-foot Jack"
met his death, "Eldorado Johnny" well
known in the community, was shot to
death by Langford Peel better known as
Farmer" There seems to be fatality
attending these nicknames for which men
ola certain class have such peculiar taste.
1t seems as though such appellations were
a sort of brand, which Fate had placed
upon them marking them as doomed to a
life of crime and death by violence.
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1863-10-26
THE NEWS.

Our Geographic dispatches: from the
East are interesting. A great Union
demonstration had taken place in Mary
land, and BLACK Republican" speeches
made for the first time on the sacred
Southern soil. Sdvices from Washing
ton contradict the report that Meade had
been removed, or was likely to be. jeff
Davis has grown mighty in his wrath
against "PerRdious Albion" andbanishes
from the Kingdom of Cotton all Her
Britannia Majesty's Consuls. Reports
from France deny any probability of a
recognition of the Confederaey by that
power. The rebel rams in the Mersey
are under a marine guard, and their
destiny uncertain. The war steamer
Narrasansett has arrived at the Bay.
Geo. Lloyd the hero of many street
fights, was killed on Saturday night at
Aurora.
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1863-10-26
The Advertising Question.

kAc AuieEtiSluS SSucStlOHs
The Union very properly acknowledges
its error with regard to the law governing
sales of mining stock for assessments.
Having found the right law, it becomes
disguised with it, and talks about " tape
lines" etc. 1t says:
This statute is very loosely and i'm
perfectly drawn. A very strict construc-
ton of it might compel mining secretaries
to provide themselves with tape line and
carefully measure the distance fromi the
office of the company to the various news
paper offices in this city, to determine
which wac nearest. Where two news
paper offices were located in the same
building,.it would be a nice question as
to distance between the first and second
stories, etc. We are afraid, however,
that our enterprising neighbor of.the Gold
Hill News will not derive the exclusive
benefit from this law whichiit anticipates,
for two-t thirds, if not more, of the Gold
Hill mining companies have their offices
in, Virginia, and those who have not, and
wish to give their notices extensive pub
hcity, can easily establish an office here.
The lawreqrires publication in the paper
nearest to the principal place Of business of
Incorporation, and not the mine ITSELF"
Where the "looseness and imperfec-
tons" of the law is, we, looking through
spectacles of different tint from those of
our neighbor, fail to perceive. 1t says:
"Notice of each: assessment shall be given
to the stockholders personally, or shall be
published once a week in some newspaper
published at the place designated as the
principal place of business of the corpora
ton, or, if none is published there, IN
some newspaper meaareSt to such place an
the Teyritory;" and that "no sale shall be
made except at public auction, to the
highest bidder, after a notice of thirty
DAYS, published as above directed in this
section"
1t occurs to US that nothing could be
more explicit than the foregoing require
ment that those companies whose places
of business are at Gold Hill, or at any
place nearer this town than to any other
where paper is published, must adver-
tise their notices of assessments and sales
at Gold Hill. That is all we ever claimed,
and that we were correct, the Union now
admits. 1t, however, sees way by which
the News may be deprived of such patron
age, which is decidedly novel and exceed
ingly simple. 1t is, that the mining COM
panies in this and neighboring districts
shall at once rensore their Offices to Tir-
oiniat In the terrible anxiety under
which all our citizens must be suffering
to patronize the Union, at whatever pecu-
mary sacrifice to themselves, this course
will undoubtedly be adopted. We see
now in our mind's-eye, long procession
of teams from Gold Hill, Devils Gate,
Dayton and Palmyra Districts, loaded
with books, safes, chairs, desks, tables,
and other office furniture, winding up the
steep and dusty street leading to Viz
ginia and on the doors of every office
heretofore occupied BY mining company,
a huge placard bearing the legend: "To
Let-Enquire at the Office of the Virginia
Union"
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1863-10-26

LAW AND LAw1NG.-Messrs. Aud &
Beebe, Lawyers, No. rs, Jones & Co.'S.
New Brick building, B street Virginia,
(whose Card can be seen in another col
'mn,) give notice to the people of Storey
county, and those of Gold Hill in par
ticular, that they are prepared to practice
in all the Courts. We have known Mr..
Aud personally for a number of years, and
know him to be gentleman of reliability
in his profession. People who have
trouble on hand, can now "get even," at
least and, perhaps, little ahead.
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1863-10-26

THIS COMPOUND has undergone the
IL examination of the most competent
Chemists in France and England, and has
bean pronounced all over Europe the BEST
ARTICLE ever found for removing Scales in
Steam Boilers, this great evil for industry.
The main qualities of this Compound are:
that it remoUeS the scales of any boiler in a
,fcV days, no matter hO,O old, and 1t does not
HyUe the metal IN the least. The raising Of
steam is made easier. 1t Sares fuel and cork,
and prerents all danger of explosion.
The Compound has now been in use for
three years, and the great success obtained
in the Old World induced the undersigned to
introduce it on this Coast, being confident
Of the patronage of this enlightened and in
duStrious country. Il. FENARD,
627 Front street, San Francisco.
DIREcTIoNs. Apply. through Man-Hole
or Safety-Valve. Use four ounces per horse
power every fortnight for machine running
night and day, and when running for less
time, reduce the quantity in proportion.
APPLY in Virginia City to LOUIS FEUSIER.
Gold Hill to DENNY BROS.
October 26, 1868.
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1863-10-26
GOLD HILL DAILY NEws.-We hav

GOLD HILL DAILY NEws.-We have
received the first number of the above
named paper, published by Messrs. Lynch
Il Mundall, formerly of the late Placer
'Gowier. 1t is Union to the core; and the
ability displayed in its editorial columns
will render it one of the most interesting
papers published in the Territory. Its
typography shows conelusively that prac-
teal printers have the control of it. 1t is
well filed with local advertisements,
which is an evidence that the people of
Gold Hill are determined to sustain local
paper that is loyal in sentiment and devo-
led to their interests. We heartily wish
it Suecess.--EmeraldG Star.
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1863-10-26
" A Loyal Constitution,

Under this head, the Virginia Union of
Saturday last, has an article suggesting
that our Convention insert into the Con-
stitution of the proposed State of Washoe
an especial direct recognition of the
paramount sovereignty of the Federal Gov
eminent" 1t occurs to us that if that
Convention were authorized to over
haul, revise and reconstruct the Consti-
tuition of the United States, the sugges-
ton would be eminently sound and proper,
but as they are not it is wasted patriot
ism. The sovereignty of the several States
and their relative position to the general
government is fixed by the Federal Con-
stitution, and any provisions in State
Constitution relating thereto would be
gratuitous gas. The loyal sentiments ex-
pressed by the Union, are couched in stir
ing and most eloquent language, and we
respond thereto most heartily; at the same
time, we dissent from the proposition of
our loyal neighbor to incorporate the spar
amount sovereignty" declaration into the
instrument, which moments reflection
will decide is no place for it. The Con
stitution of the other States of the Union,
no matter whatever of sovereignty and
States rights bombast they may contain,
provide no excuse for treason. The
paramount sovereignty" of the Federal
Government is fixed by the Federal Con-
stitution, and acknowledged by the peo-
pie by their every act, word and deed
and the copperheadism which masks its
treason under the cloak of estate Rights"
is receiving its rebuke in every contest,
both on the field of battle and at the polls.
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1863-10-26
MARRIAGES.

ARMSTRoNG-MACKAY.-At the res
idence of the brides fathe, near Virginia,
Oct. 25th, by the Rev. Mr.. Rising, Mr.. VIM.
H. Armstrong, of Gold Hill, to Miss Mag
gle ]. Mackay, Of Virginia.
Accompanying the above came sundry bot.
ties of sparkling Montebello. in which bump
ers were drank to the lifelong happiness of
the blissful pair,