davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
, 1863-08-05

n HUSBAND LosT.-Johu Kidd, with wife
and child, from Rock Island county, were
,naking arrangements to leave on the Mchi-
gan Southern train last evening. Mrs. Masg
Kidd lost her husband, and chlld somewhere
in the city, and afterwards lost $50 from her
pockea- The Kidds can get together BY In:
quiritg at the Central Police Station.
, 1863-08-05

sEEUS-F0F T74tfHE there 1s a falF 1nqUIry, but
lctwcen buyers and sellers. 4 few enan lots nave
:s?ssee naaas s. M hean 9t 1,s a e.
q The aqs, =; :; sales
s1T-DoMEs11o Is quiet at y 10 for Saginaw and
Opontlags. There IL nothing doing In Foreign. We
quotc:
toGEs11o-o onondaga Fine. $21e@....
Saginaw: Eirc. ....................2 ana -.
-, Coarse: 2l0@o....
Ground Solar. a10Gs....
Dairy, u It'll sackB ....~...... 41a4 -.
Dairy, without eackH. Soo@,,,.
.FoREIax-G. A. snck Of 40 ns-.....,.., IfMa ~.
Turks Island, p bu In bulk.....,, 4oGl11
T0BACC0-IEAr Is without change at 3E@65c for
Connecticut. and sass for New {9lk: State y dui'
Etandard sumsner-worked brnnds Of s., 1c md Y rs
are in steady den,and at 6S9ssc. Good Bright Lumps
arc steady at 13CGS$1 90.
CCT-K mther G1jet With q dQHpHasd tendency He
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1863-10-02
The Defences of England.

A writer in the London Times, discuss
ing the national defences, says England is
by no means as well provided with ord
nance, either for ships or forts, as is gen.
orally supposed. While we use 15-inch
guns, England has only S-inch. The wri-
ter thinks something should be done to
remedy this, remarking:
What are other nations doing? The federal
and confederate Americans are fighting battles
and destroying iron clads and forts in man.
ner that astonishes Europe with monster can
non, the majority of which are manufactured
in England q am now speaking of rifled guns
the Blakeleys and Whitworths) while Russia
is in the market. offering contracts to English
manufacturers for the supply to her of four
thousand Blakeley guns, none under five tons
weight.
England is left in the midst of this hurry
burly of war with only her old sixty eight
Founders, and with this cver-present image of
a hitherto faithful but now Gillette servant she is
arming her new works of coast defence. No
other nation is now spending so large a sum
annually as England on guns, ships and fixed
Notifications, and no other nation exhibits so
meagre result in comparison with the sums
spent
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1863-10-02
S A IN P A q L.
THE NEWS.

There is nothing definite from ROSE
GRAMS. Further rumors that he has been
reinforced are given, and it is stated that
he is fortifying and is not in fear of an
attack. Arebel telegram says he sent two
flags of truce to BRAGG, asking permission
to bury his dead and relieve his wounded,
which were rejected.
The most startling news to great
majority of the people of the country, is
the announcement that, in consequence
of the late reverse in Northern
Georgia, the Government is about to Or
der another draft, which will probably be
for 600, 1000 men. OF this number, under
new instructions, and probable reduction
of physical disabilities, the government
hopes to get 100000 soldiers. The pres
emit draft is acknowledged a comparative
failure, as the government will not get
$4,000 men from it, while many put the
number as low as so, OOO-which is a less
number than it took of veterans from the
field to enforce it.
Gold was up to AZ yesterday in New
York, but subsequently receded little.
All the "bulling" in regard to the late
battle seems to have been Intellectual in
financial circles.
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1863-10-02
Thc bounty on ScaIps.

Gov. RAMsEY's tender of bounty for
Sioux scalps, has attracted attention in
Europe. NJ. CHEvAL1ER, French pub
licist, in his recent pamphlet on France
and the Confederacy, attempts to expose
the hypocrisy of our abolition theories,
which he regards as " ferocious exaggera-
tons of our love of liberty" and adds:
Honest and intelligent menare no longer to
be duped by these coarse Devices and Mr. Lin
coins abolition cry finds no echo in France.
If there be skeptics on this point, let us re-
mind them of the Lynch law which prevails in
the North Of tie woy IN which the Indians are
stUhunted down; of the decree published but the
other day By the Governor Of minnesota, olfeer-
ing q Teward Of twenty-five dollars for ere
yy Indian scalp. These are disagreeable
things to happen among the people who pro-
fess to be fighting for the abolition of slavery
and were that people to triumph the poor ne
groes would find their way to liberty a path of
thOrns
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1863-10-02
Further Reputation of Minnesota
COpperheadism.

The Democracy of Steele county met in
Convention at Owatonna, on the 18th of
September, for the purpose Of nominating
legislative and county candidates. They
adopted the ROBERTSON resolution, which
was rejected by the State Convention, and
added thereto their unqualified repudia-
ton Of the State Democratic ticket and
platform, in the following terms:
Resolred, That the Democracy of Steele county
do hereby repudiate the action of the so-called
Democratic State Convention, which assembled
in st. Paul, August Goth, 1863 and further de-
clare that we will not be bound by either the
platform there adopted or the ticket there nom-
mated, believing, as we do, that in neither the
one nor the other, they represent the true De.
mOcracy of the State, and that in both respects
the minority in said Convention, composed of
men designing, INSCRIPTIONS, and of doubtful
loyalty by trickery and fraud overruled the
honest sentiment of the majority, and thus
placed the true Democracy of the State in
false position before the people; and we fur
Their respectfully call upon the nominees on
said ticket to withdraw their names as candi-
dates for the respective offices, and by this
means furnish a preteXt to the State Central
Committee to issue call for another State
Convention and thus enable the true DemOc-
racy Of the State to place themselves right up
on the record.
On this platform, they nominated Hon.
AMOS CoGaswELL for Senator; the same
gentleman who was selected by the Cop
perhead Central Committee as the success
sor on TIE State ticket for Secretary of
State, Of the gallant and patriotic WEIGH.
We have no idea that, after having thus
been placed by his neighbors and friends
before the people on loyal platform, MIR.
CoGeswELL will tolerate the use Of his
name on the Copperhead State ticket
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1863-10-02
WfnOna Nominations.

The Republican nominee for State Sena-
tor is Mr.. THOMAS SIMPSON, but we notice
in the Republican that Hon. DANIEL S.
NORTON has been nominated by the people
at large, and we understand that ne has
consented to be candidate in opposition
to Mr.. SIMPSON The gentlemen who
are active in this movement say: "The
support of either of the tickets already
nominated, by the Republican and Demo-
cratic Conventions, respectively, must
necessarily involve more or less of parti-
IAN feeling, and we confidently propose
this, as a ticket upon which all Union
men can unite, and SO come together,
and, untrammeled by party ties, work har-
moniously for the best interests OF the
country"
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1863-10-02

unable to raise ten thousand armed men in the
whole department of his commands. Brapg's
force is routed and demoralized mob. which
has for the past three months been deserving
the whole line in military point of view we
may say that the left acing and centre ofMe re-
bel grand army are completely broken. It only
remains to crush the right, which is Lees ar
my, in Virginia. This done, there will only
remain the kind of minor operations which are
now being carried on west of the Mississippi.
and those which General Rosecrans will inau-
gurate in Georgia and the centre zone. Re-
garded in this light, are we sanguine in claim.
ing that the close of the third year of the war
will witness the close of the rebellion?
We copy italics and all. What COM
ment on this are the daily kilograms that
tell of battles of q thirty thousand cas-
ualty; that tell Of the retreat and defeat
of RosEoRAN's army that seem to dash
the high expectations entertained of this
campaign! The object which was in view
was the capture of Atlanta, Georgia,
which would, as it were, round off work
but partially achieved by the capture of
Chattanooga. Here, in the citation from
the New York Times, we see that under
rating of the rebel strength which has
been an radical sin of the deepest dye.
OF course "a routed and demoralized mob
never turned back the army of heroes,
who only require fair play to be victorious;
and the fact appears in the terrible news,
that the enemy have been massing their
forces until they were more than a match
for RosEoRANs' veterans.
The same suicidal policy of dividing our
forces, that was the parent of the disasters
OF the Army of the Potomac, has occa-
stoned this check to the Army of the Cum
berland. Let it be hoped that by speedy
concentration, our Generals may yet
achieve the very important result of the
capture of Atlanta.
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1863-10-02
NIiscalculatiOns.

AS an illustration of the looseness and
recklessness with which sensation journal
ism has gone on in this war, in treating of
movements involving so much of precious
life, take the New York Iimes-said to
be officially inspired. Only Monday, Sep
TENDER IA, it had an elaborate paper with
the heading, "Decline and Fall of the
Great Rebellion" and these were its
words:
Three months ago there were three great
rebel armies in the field-the army in Virginia
under Lee, the army in Tennessee under Bragg,
the army on the Mississippi under Johnston
nna to exs Johnston today s
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1863-10-02
IS More SUCCESSFULLY

Said Senator SHERMAN in a speech at
Dayton, Ohio, few days since:
A great deal is said about the Presidents
Emancipation Proclamation. My idea of it is
that this war would have been prosecuted more
successfully if the President had not said any,
thing about the negro.
This is fact for soldiers as well as citi-
zens to reflect upon. Senator SHERMAN is
a republican, and Intellectually he stands
at the head of republican legislators.
"This war would have been prosecuted
more successfully if the President had not
said anything about the negro!'
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1863-10-02
Account of the Battle.

On the second page will be found the
first account that has come to hand, other
than the Geographic reports, of the Battle
at Chattanooga. 1t is necessarily imper-
feet in many respects, from the haste in
which it was prepared. A history of
great battle cannot be written in day.
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1863-10-02
TIle English GOvernme nt at last TaIz-
ing Proper Action in regard to the
Fitting out Of Rebel Pirate vessels
in FITS Ports.

The foreign news published under the
telegraphic head, shows the gratifying fact
that the British Government has at last
walked up to its duty in respect to the fit
ting out of armed vessels in its ports, de-
signed to prey upon the commerce of a
friendly power.
Earl RUSSELL, the Secretary for Foreign
Affairs, has ordered the Messrs LAIRD, the
builders Of the Rebel rams, to prevent
these vessels from leaving their yards
without permission of the Government,
and, in the meantime to inform the Gov
eminent of their true owners, their desti-
nation, and the purposes for which they
are to be used. Earl RUSSELL correctly
takes ground, that vessels of the descrip-
ton of these rams could only be intended
for the warlike purposes OF state
or individual If for the former, the
Messrs. LAIRD are bound to state, and sus-
tain such statement by unimpeachable
evidence, what such Government is. If
for the latter, then the ships could only
be intended for piratical purposes. The
dispatch further states that the British
Government will test the soundness of
hese positions in the courts of law.
This version of the British Govern
ment's acts and intentions is derived from
the London Morning Herald; and, if cor
rect, it settles the business for these rebel
rams. That Government has been long
time in arriving at sensible and just con-
clusion; and, from the hesitancy in this
case, and the general unfriendliness Of
their action, we presume this course has
been stimulated rather by the late Federal
successes, and the growing hopelessness Of
the rebel cause, than by the British sense
of justice towards our Government, or
sympathy with our cause.
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1863-10-02

In reference to the repulse of Gen. Ro-
sEcRANs in Northern Georgia, the Pitts
burg Chronicle says that "while the reb-
els are at their old game of concentration,
HALIEcK is at his of scatteration.' Can
any sensible man tell why GRANTS main
army is inactive, or why our best troops
are wasted in absurd and Quixotic expe-
ditions to those dista Mt and God-forsaken
countries, Texas and Arkansas? Do the
vitals of the rebellion lie away out among
the Camauches, or Creek Indians, or in
Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi and Vir-
ginia? We are again hacking away at
the fingers and toes of the rebellion,
while RosEoRANs' spring at its very heart
is turned aside by want of numbers and
concentration. RosECRANs occupies now
the very centre of the Confederacy. He
cannot be driven out, but his stay there
will be of no earthly use, unless HALLEoK
is also willing to cacrifce minor pc nts to
aid him and to keep employed the other
rebel armies. GRANT or BANKS at Mobile
or the Tombigbee, and we warrant JOHNS
TONS army would never have stomach to
go to North Georgia; but BANKS in Texas
and Grant at Vicksburg, and there is moth
ing to Hinder rebel combinations. When
HALLEcK spent whole summer before
Corinth, he was for concentrating the
whole army at that point, but there has
been wonderful change in his tactics since
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1863-10-02
Chicago and Northwestern Railroad
Receipts.

The Chicago and Northwestern railway
earnings for the first three weeks in Sep
TENDER are, viz:
First three weeks in September, 1865, $110,-
642.12.
Same weeks in 1862, $64 ,569.75.
Increase of S46,072.39.
With the water in the Mississippi river
so low that but little grain from Minneso-
ia could be moved, the above splendid re-
ceipt and increase are certainly very cred
liable to the management of this popular
route from and to the Northwest.
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1863-10-02
Col. G.. G.. Andrews.

After the capture of Little Rock, Ark,
Col. G. @. ANDREWS, of the Third Mime
sofa infantry, was appointed commander
of the post. This is high compliment
to Col. ANDREWS, and evinces the estima-
ton in which he is held by his superiors
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1863-10-02
First Minnesota in the Front AGAIN.

A private letter states that the First
Minnesota joined its old command on the
18th inst, and is now doing picket duty
on the Rapidan, and near the Cedar Noun
tains. The letter further states that Gen.
MEADE's army is going through Virginia,
as GRANTS went through Mississippi, in
extreme light marching order, and that
we may hear very soon that it is south OF
Richmond. They will flank Richmond and
come up in the rear, capturing everything
in their way. At least such is the infor-
nation our correspondent gets from an in
telligent officer who stands high in au-
thority, and who ought to be posted in
regard to the present movement OF the
Army.
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1863-10-02

1t is stated that the wheat crop this
season in the rebellious States will foot up
59,69O,5OO bushels, which will be an ex-
cess over the crop of 1860, as stated in
the census, of 28,273,6OO bushels. The
crops, it is said, have been gathered in
good order.
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1863-10-02

The troops which were detailed for
service in New York and Brooklyn, du-
ring the progress of the draft, have been
ordered to the Potomac army. General
Dix thanks them for their unequaled dis
cipline while in the metropolis
single complaint of ill-conduct having
been brought to bis notice.
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1863-10-02

Mr.. URIAH THOMAS, formerly editor of
the st. Anthony Neps has been transfer
red from his clerkship in the War Depart
m ert at Washington, to Assistant Special
Agent of the Treasury Department for the
District of North Carolina.
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1863-10-02
Second Minnesota.

In published list of casualties in the
late battle, we find the following:
SECOND MINNEsoTA.-Captain Milburn, B;
Lieut. Tommeny, E; Lieut.. Coverdale.
These names we cannot find in the list
Of the Adjutant General, and they are,
doubtless, incorrect.
The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1863-07-22
"a ..reat = Z, pI.asler. -AeknlowllLearea.

i.
Great Disasters Acknowledged.
The Richmond Enquire, Of She 18th,
in an editorial says; ,snb...
The fall Of Vicksbufg, the retreat Of
Bragg, the repulse Of Lee, and the ad-
vance on Charleston are all serious dis
asters, the most serious that have Attend
ed our arms since the commencement Of
the war.
The Wig Of the Och says:
TIE intelligence from Gen. Lee falls
short Of the promise Of the despatchss
published yesterday, and will prove
grieYous disapppintmept 10 the high
wrought hopes Of the public Saperad-
ded to the calamity AZ Vicksburg, il
casts a aouibre shadow over our affairs;
but we. must constantly bear ih mind
that il is in sdVersity that true greatness
is revealed in its noblest attributes.
What is most to be feared as the im :
mediate result Of the fall Of Viekeburg
I is The conversion Of the great army IN
den Grant from a stationery iDtb mo-
wing force. Erom its organization, al
most, it has been confined 20. the work Of
taking that city. II is now free TO ope-
rate elsewhere. This "a the evil against
which the Government 10 now ca led 10
snake the most energatic pre- paraton. IL
is not difficult 70 imagine in what diree-
tion Grant will move, nor 70 estimate the
effect OF 30 powerful an army coming
mon fhe field with no cOrrespon ding ao-
oession. on our side. This 40 the danger
,bst nresents the most serious grounds
! for alarm. ItwOuld be blindnesp not TO
see ii and imbeoility not to put forth the
most strenuous exertions TO guard against
II. We can only pray chat those IA
whom the management Of st1irs is en-
trusted may be equal 70 the crisii.
The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1863-07-22

/. H".Ha.a.N
EXODUS OF CosTRAnANps.-Capt W.
w. Howe, who was sent as a staff officer
in the march from Grand Gulf TO Vioks-
burg, in A..recent lecture at Clifton, N. Jo
said
/ will net say how many contrabands
we met on the road from Grand Gulf TO
RAymond--perhaps ten thousand--Of all
ages, shades, aud sexes---On foot, on
hoTsoback, on mulebick, in wagons, in
OK carts. 10 was a new exodus, except
that the Egyptiahs were not pursuing,
but were discreetly running in an oppO-
site direction. 49, .....i .al
Where are you g9ilgr was our usual
question TO these sable aquaws.
"Gwine 10 the Gulf" was The inyaria-
BILE answer .A t-'~
To Grand Gnlf they were going the
men 10 enlist, the women 10 work, the
children to tumble in the san, and make
the most delicious mud pies On the leyee.
Phe black babies were carried In curl
Gus ways One old patriarch, i noticed.
bad picked up pair Of SOLDIERS draw
ers, tied up the bottoms Of the legs, put
a baby Ia each, and slung the whole con-
trivance about his neck.
.. ID was impossible noe 10 be touched
by the sight Of sueha multitude Of hu-
man beings struggling through dust and
danger toward freedom, As plants in a
= cellar toward the light some Of them
saDgR song OF . sacred mono'uny, as il
their pilgrimage was a solemn business.
Others, Of more jolly temperament, were
shouting the song Of Old Shadyh-the
old darky, who AZ last has q chance 10
run away and join his family at the
| North atIt l..- f.--
I've got . wife and I've got baby
Way up North ia Lower OAnady,
Wont they smile when they see Old
e. "i shady
Coming, Coming
Hail, Mighty day o.
Good bye, Massa Jef, goodbye, Mas
sa Stephen.
Excuse dis darisey for takiu'. his leAy-
IN
Guoass- bye and bye you'll see Old
Ably
Coming, coming
Hail mighty day.
The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1863-07-22
NO 81
LON .he ~ Yofk f,,.I., rl.,

l..
A Few woEds About gen. Grant.
This seems an appropriate time 10 sav
q few words about Gen 0fahl's habits.
lt has heen asserted again and again by
malicious persons, and repeated by the
ignorant and oredulOus, that this officer
is a druhkard, On several decisions his
onemies tried to ruin him BY making
representations 20 this eject at Wash
ington. We have reason 10 know that
while Gen. Grant was giving ell his ea-
ergies % The country, his feelings and
thase OF his family were deeply hurt by
the repetition Of these ISLANDERS. Bat the
General kept silonue, aud worked only
the more zealoIsly forath Union the
more be was misrepresented. But he
worked and fought with Tie unpleasant
knowledge thAtffhe failed, ell that his
bitteFest and meAnest enemies reported
OF him would be held proved
After the capture of Fort Donolson an
effort was made to effect The disgrace Of
Grant on the charge of diunkenness.
The Secretary OF War deserves credit
for the reply he gave--,thAt he would not
consider such, charge when il was
made against the oAptor Of DOnelsOn.
Since then the firmness OF the President
and Secretary Of War has been tried =
number of tiUes in this mat ter, especial
ly after the battle of Shiloh, : II is be-
lieved that the capture. Of Yicksburg
will silence these ISLANDERS. Z"
We have satisfactory reasons 20 be-
lieve that the charges which have been
made against this our most successful
GeneraL are entirely without foundation
In truth. He does not drink strong drink;
he il not the slave Of that or any other
habit; he is temperate - abstemious
even--and neither at Fort Henry, nor at
Fort Douelson, nor at Shiloh, nor before
Vicksburg, nor At any time since the
opening Of the war, was he ever seen or
known by any one to be under the influ-
cnce Of liquor, .i..l ,.li sat
He is a pure, simple hearted, patriot
ic officer, who has at heart The good of
his country, and that only; who has no
desire for political distinction, has not
endeayored TO make fortune out Of the
war and has therefore been able 10 give
his whole mind and heart and time TO
his duties This accounts IN good part
for bis Successes, and has made him to-
day the General who has taken more
prisoners and gained more fruitful vic
tories than all our Othtr Generals to-
gether.' .'''."" e"''s@' Goo N""'-
1t any one after this, still believes
that Grant is a drunkard, we advise him
TO persuade the Government TO place
none but drunkards in important com
munds iis p s'" ~ F''e
The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1863-07-22
A OopPerhead County.

Tie New Albany Ledger in publish
ing The sordid meanness Of citizens Of
Gettysburg says Adams is an abolition
county II gave majority Of All for
the QopperheAd State ticket last fall
This is the county whore Miss Dix and
lady nurses were refused board because
they didn't want TO be troubled with
bOsTdeisl' - hnliaaapolis Sentinel.
just as might have been expected
Row do the Gettysburg 0opperh6ads
like their Southern brethren" in Lexis
army now