The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1863-01-09
NEWS AND oTHER IxERurs.

terfering Senators, was this" Gentlemen,
you seem to be far more anxious to get a
Cabinet to suit yourselves, than one that
will please me-" whereupon the dictators
were silent. If things continue as they
have commenced, the next caucus will be
held by the House Of Representatives,
who may call upon all the Senators who
are not handsome, to resign.
The river iron-clads Fort Henry and
Choctaw, building at St. Louis, are nearly
ready for service. The Fort Henry is the
nearest done. Her proportions are more
symmetrical than any of the iron clad
fleet, and seems terribly grand and effec-
tive, as ram and as battery. Her ma
chinery is in place, the smoke stacks up,
and a very few days will suffice to put her
in fighting trim The Choctaw is not SO
far advanced, but will no doubt be ready
early in the year. ,e .,a-. -'
There is Tribune at Chicago with less brains
but more venom than its namesake in New
York.-Albamy Erening Journal.
What can the Eoehing Journal expect
Of Tribune conducted by ex-pedagogues
of the tribe described by Goldsmith
And still they gazed and still the wonder grew, etc.
During recent fighting in North Caro-
lima, a Chaplain of one OF the Massachu-
sets regiments, who was on the field, see
ing one of the men of Battery B, Third
New York Artillery, being borne off
wounded, said to him, "Were you sup
ported by divine inspiration ?" MOI" was
the reply, Eve were supported by the 9th
New jersey" ora
Gen. Jim Lane, of Kansas. who was
for blasting out the rebels with lightning, "
has taken the earliest opportunity to vault
from his saddle into his place in the Sen
ate and its $4,000 per administering the
blasting to be doue by somebody else.
"A private letter from person attach
ed to the Mississippi gunboat fleet, written
only thirty miles above Vicksburg, on the
Sd ult., states that the gunboats were to
be concentrated at the mouth of the Yazoo
river, twelve miles below ''Island 1OO,
while the army were to mass at some point
above, and march across the country to
Yazoo city, which place is but few miles
back of Vicksburg, so as to make the at
tack simultaneously. eve left" says the
writer, cat Helena, about fifty thousand
federal troops, besides large force at
Memphis.
Grace Eldridge, wife of Mortimer D.
Thompson, (''DoesticksJ and daughter of
"Fanny Fern" died in New York City a
few days since, aged twenty-five years.
The N. Y. Post, in reference to the
Fredericksburg battle, says it wishes its
own conclusions could be as favorable as
those expressed by the President in his re-
cent address to the army.
The WestlicAe Post, OF St. Louis, a
German Republican paper, in its issue of
December 9th, says:
If this cabinet don't intend to quit, and if Mr..
Lincoln-the claims of public opinion notwth-
standings so weak as to keep them still in
office, then there is left no other way but the
rule prescribed by STANDARDIZATION.
The Vicksburg expedition, which left
Memphis on Tuesday, the 23d ult., under
command of General Sherman, embraced
the immense number of one hundred and
fourteen steamboats, of all kinds. Such a
fleet was never before seen on the waters
of the Mississippi. The number of troops
is calculated at about fifty thousand. Sew
en- gunboats accompanied the fleet as con-
voys, although others had preceded the
fleet several days previous. The expedi-
ton viii sail only by daylight and lay by
at night. Its progress also by day would
be quite slow, in order to guard against
possible accidents, so that General Sher-
man would probably not arrive at Vicks-
burg before the beginning of this week.
1t is not improbable that our next intelli-
gence from New Oorleans may come by
way of the Mississippi.
Mr.. Abraham Musgrove, a wealthy
gentleman residing near Leeds, England,
who died few weeks since at the age of
eighty-four, left fifty thousand dollars to
each of five benevolent institutions in
Leeds and Bradford. .lt..o
Rev. Jefferson Wagner, living seven
miles from Nashville, was murdered on the
Goth ult. in his house, by o gang Of scoun-
drels, who first robbed him OF all his mo-
ney, and then brutally shot him. Mr..
Wagner was an old man, and preacher
of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church.
On Wednesday night some trouble
was occasioned in sleeping car on the
train from New York to Washington by5a
negro applying for berth. Vice Presi-
dent Hamlin and other Republicans on
board insisted that he should be accommo-
dated with a bed, but others objected, and
a debate ensued, resulting unfavorably to
the negro. siea mead seI a9aa
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