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The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1863-01-02
The Louisiana Congressmen

A correspondent of the New York Her.
aid, writing from New Orleans, on the
10th December, sketches the qualities of
Messrs. FLANDERS and HAHN, the two new
ly elected members of the House from the
first and second districts of Louisiana:
The United States transport Cahawba,
Captain J. P. Baker, leaves to-day for
New York, carrying the mails and heavy
freight for the United States government,
and the two recently elected representa-
tives to Congress, Messrs. Flanders and
Hahn.
This election is one of the hapriest and
strongest commentaries on the successful
and beneficial rule of General Butler that
can be deduced. While New York and
other Northern States have sent to Con-
gress men of questionable loyalty, New
Orleans, which, few short months ago,
was almost entirely Joined to the idols of
secession and treason, sends to Washing
ton two men whose Unionism is as thor
oughly unconditional as that of the Presi-
dent or the patriotic commander of this
department.
Benjamin F. Flanders, who represents
the First district, is Northern man by
birth, but for twenty years resident of
this city, first class lawyer by profession,
is man Of undoubted ability, and in the
election polled much larger vote than
was polled by the candidate elected from
the same district in 1859. Since the oc-
cupation of this city by the national troops
Mr.. Flanders has held the laborious and
responsible position of Chairman OF the
superintendent ofsupplyng the thirty five
thousand poor people whom Gen. Butler
has kept from starvation for nearly eight
months. No man is, however, better pre-
pared to enlighten the country, through
Congress, On the salutary effects of the
administration of Gen. Butler.
Michael Hahn, the representative elect
from the Second district, is of German des-
cent, but has lived in New Orleans from
childhood, and is thoroughly identified
with its interest and people He is
young lawyer, of large and lucrative prac-
tice, and by his intelligence and upright
ness OF life has raised himself to an envi-
able prominence and prosperity among his
constituents. In his district there were
over twelve thousand votes cast, of which
ne gained clear majority OF two thousand
over his principal opponent. Mr.. Edward
II. Durrell.
A marked feature in the Congressiona
| election in New Orleans is that it is 50 en-
tirely an expression OF the citizens who are
strictly voters by the laws OF the State Of
Louisiana, the Commanding General hav-
ing entirely prohibited any interference in
the elections by any officer or soldier in
the army, and thus secured to the legal
voters Il clear field to give an honest inli-
cation Of their sentiments and an opportu-
nifty to elect the man OF their choice No
compulsion was used but every man was
left to act as his conscience dictated, or. il
he preferred it, TO remain away from the
polls
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1863-01-02
Singular Fidelity of a DOG On the
Battlefield.

AS Hon. John Covode, in company with
a number of officers, was passing over the
battlefield beyond Fredericksburg, their
attention was called to small dog lying
by corpse. Mr. Covode halted a few
minutes to see if life was extinct Raising
the coat from the mans face, he found HIM
dead The dog, looking wistfully up, ran
to the dead mans face and kissed his silent
lips. Such devotion in small dog was so
singular that Mr. Covode examined some
papers upon the body, and found it to be
that of Sergeant W. II. Brown, of Com
pany G, Ninety-first Pennsylvania.
The dog was shivering with the cold, but
refused to leave his masters body; and as
the coat was thrown over his face again he
seemed very uneasy, and tried to get under
it to the mans face. He had, it seems,
followed the regiment into battle, and
stuck to his master, and when he fell re-
manned with him, refusing to leave him or
to eat anything. AS the party returned,
an ambulance was carrying the corpse to
a little grove of trees for interment. and
the little dog following, the only mourner
at that funeral, as the hero's comrades had
been called to some other point.
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1863-01-02

Two worlds there are. To one our eyes we
strain--
Whose magic joys we shall not see again:
Bright haze of morning wells its glimmering
All, truly breathed we there
Intoxicating air.
Glad were our hearts in that sweet realm of
NevermOre.
The lover there drank her delicious breath
Whose love has yielded since to change or death;
The mother kissed her child, whose days
are DER.
Alas too soon have fled
The irrecainlable dead!
We see them, visions strange, amid the
NevermOre.
The merry song some maiden used to sing
The brown brown hair that once was wont
to cling
To temples long clay-cold: to the very core
They strike our weary hearts,
As some v,xed memory starts
From that long faded land-the realm of
NeyermOrc.
1t is perpetual summer there. But here
Sadly we may remember rivers clear,
And hare-bells quivering on the meadow-hoor.
For brighter bells and bluer
For tenderer hearts and truer,
People that happy land-the realm of
upon the IrOntler O1 TINS S1ladOWy land
We, pilgrims of eternal sorrow, stand:
What realm lies FORWARD, with its happier
store
OF forests green and deep,
OF valleys hushed in sleep,
And lakes most peaceful? IT'S the land of
EvermOre.
Very far off, in the marble cities seen--
Very far Off-beyOnd our sensual dream
Its woods unruffied by the wild winds roar :
Yet does the turbulent surge
Howl on its very verge.
One mOment-and we breathe within the
EvermOre.
They whom we loved and lost so long ago,
Dwell in those cities, far from mortal woe
Haunt those fresh woodlands. whence sweet
carrOlings soar.
Eternal peace have they:
God wipes their tears away.
They drink that river of life that flows from
EyermOre.
Thither we hasten through these regions dim {:
But 10! the wide wings of the Selaphilm
Shine in the sunset! On that joyous shore
Our lightened hearts shall know
The life of long ago:
The sorrow -burdened past shall fade for
Evermore. + D0bhn University Meg.
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1863-01-02
SSeil, 1{fis:,T!i,

Gen. Nathan Kimba!l, reported; 10 have
been wounded in the first battle of Fred
erickshurg, ranks with the best officers of
the army. He was among tie first Indi-
anians 20 volunteer his services 20 his
country. He served in the various cam
paigns in Western Virginia as Colonel of
the 18th Indiana, the remainder OF which
IS still in his brigade. and Was. doubtless
III the earliest part OF the engagement or
Saturday. Gen. Kimball's regiment. after
the battle OF Greenbrier, a year ago, was
transferred TO Gen. l.ander'5 corps, and
remained in the vicinity OF Cumberland and
Paw Paw tunnel till after the death o
that lamented General, when it ati-
Vanced with the army 10 Winchester
The battle OF Winchester, which SD glori-
ously opened the campaign Of 1862 in East
ern Virginia, and in which Stonewall
Jackson was So thoroughly whipped, was
fought almost Immediately under the per
sonal direction OF Colonel kimbal. then
acting as Brigade Commander. His
services in that battle secured him "A
long merited promotion. Since then,
General kmball and his lighting brigade
have been constantly on the march or in
battle. 1t was engaged at Port Republic,
ami after that was transferred to the Pen
insula, where it passed through the seven
days battle in front of Richmond. We
believe it was not in any of the battles
along the Rappahannock aud at Bull Run,
but it was constantly moving, and formed
part of the army when it advanced upon
Frederick City. The brigade took part in
the battles of South Mountain and An
tietam, suffering severe loss, almost ami
hilation Now, the little band OF as brave
men as Indiana or Ohio ever put in the
field, is placed in the front of danger, and
10 doubt distinguished itself by the same
gallantry that has carried it so triumphantly
through so many deadly encounters with
the enemy.
General kimball is q faithful officer he
shares the privations and suffering incident
to war with his men, and is universally adj
mired and contided in by them. While
other Brigaders and Colonies were at Will
lard's, the General bivoucked with his brig
ade, never leaving them so much as an
hour, and always enforcing the strictest
discipline. He deserved the honors of the
battle of Winchester, but, as usual in such
cases, the laurels were bestowed upon
heads that deserved them much less
Gin. Conn.,
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1863-01-02

According to the statements of Gov.
Buckingham's message to tae Connecticut
Legislature, the d1uf has proved great
failure in that State. Of TIN 1912 men
drafted in the different towns, only 76
principals ond 142 substitutes have been
mustered into the service of tie United
States. Of the remainder, 81 deserted
after reporting at camp, 623 hare been
exempted by surgeons and selestmen,
166 were unaccounted for on the 18th
inst, 10 had previously volunteered, and
81 were not subjects of military duty.
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1863-01-02

The ship George Griswold, which was
so generously offered by the Messrs, Girls
void, of New York, for the free transpor-
tation of provisions to the starving opera
tives of England, is now receiving her
freight, and will sail as soon as loaded.
She is 1900 ton vessel, new and staunch,
and it is to be hoped she will be filled to
her utmost capacity.
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1863-01-02

THE man whose whole claim to the
character of Christian lies in the ortho-
doxy of his faith, and who expects to go to
Heaven on that account, will have to plead
his cause5 in some such words as these !:
''It is true, oh, Lord, that l violated all
Thy commandments, but then I held no
absurd or heretical opinions in regard to
them"
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1863-01-02

&C. W. McFlinn, of Burlington, Iowa,
shot dead a man by the name of Hays, in
Esquire Overton's office, in that city, on
the 18th instant. Hayes had seduced
McFlinn's daughter and placed her in a
house of i'll fame.
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1863-01-02
The amOunt tO he maid to II

The amount to be paid to the govern
ment in making an entry under the free
land bill, is the same, whether the quantity
entered be forty, eighty, or one hundred
and sixty acres-the amount being $40.
The fees vary little according to the
number of acres entered, which makes the
cost of 40 acres $1,000; of 80 acres Sl1 !;
of 100 acres $12
Hammond gazette. [volume] (Point Lookout, Md.) 1862-1864, 1863-03-24
Y.
PUT TT THROUGH.

Come, Freemerf Of the band,
Come, meet the last demand,
Here piece of work in hand,
Put it through
Here's log across the way
lie have stumbled on all day,
Here a pioughshare in the clay,
Put 1t ,through
Here's country that's half free,
And it waits for you and me
To say what its fate shall be,
Put it through.
While one traitor thought remains,
While one spot its banner stains,
One link of all its chains,
Put 1t through
Tear our brothers in the field,
Steel your swords as theirs are steelcd,
Learn to WELD the arms they wicld,
Put it through | -
Lock the shop aud lock the store,
Andahalk this upon the door
W eve enlisted for the war !"
Put il through
For the Birthrights yet unsold,
For the History yet untold,
For the Future yet unrolled,
Put it through
Lest our children point with shame
On the fathers bastard fame,
Who gave up nation $ name,
Put it through
Hammond gazette. [volume] (Point Lookout, Md.) 1862-1864, 1863-03-24
A Backwoods Sermon.

The Rev. j. II. Aughey in his Iron
Furnace narrative Of Ills experience
and sufferings in Rebeldom- gives the fol-
lowing report of sermon which was de-
livered by an unlettered preacher in Mis-
sissippi:
My Brethering and Sistern-I air
ignorant man, follered the pillow all my
life, and never rubbed agin marry college.
As | said afore, Tn ignorant; and | thank
God for it. (Brother Jones responded
'Parson, yer ought to be very thankful, fur
yer very ignorant Well, I'm agin all high
larnt fellers what breaches grammar aud
Greek fur a thousand dollars year They
breaches fur the money and they gifts it,
and that's all they'll git. They've got so
high larut they contradict Scripteg what
plainly tells us that the sun rises and sets.
They say it don't, but that the yearth whirls
round like clay to the seal. What nd come
of the water in the wells eff it did? Woden't
it all spill out and leave EN- dry, and wizard
we be? | may say to them as the sarpent
said unto David, Much farming hath made
thee mad
When breaches never takes tex
till | get inter the pulpit; then | breaches
plain sarment what even women can un-
derstand [ never premcdertates, but what
is given me in that same hour, that | seq
Now I'm gwine ter open the Bible, and
the first verse | sees I'm gwine to take it
for tex, (suiting the action to the word,
he opened the Bible and commenced read
ing and spelling together), Man is fear
f-u-l-l-y-fearfully -and w-o-n-d-e-r-f-u-E
wonderfully -mad-(pro-
nounced mad). Well, it's quar- tex, but
| said rs gwine to preach from it, and
I'm gwine to do 1t. In the flst place I'll
divide my sarmcnt into three heads. Fust
and foremost, | show you that man will
get mad second, that sometimes he'll get
fearfully mad and thirdly and lastly, when
thar's lots of things to yez and poster him
he'll get fearfully and wonderfully mad
And in the application I'll show you that
good men sometimes gets mad, for the Pos
sic David bisself, who wrote the tex, got
mad and called all men liars and cussed his
enemies, wishcn 'em to go down quick into
hell; and Noah, he got tite and c,issed his
niger boy Ham, just like some drunken
masters now cusscs his niggers. But Noah
and David repented, and all on us what
gets mad must repent or the deveFn get
u.s."
Hammond gazette. [volume] (Point Lookout, Md.) 1862-1864, 1863-03-24

ARREST or A FEMAbE.-Miss Antonio J.
Ford, by whom, it is alleged, COL Slough
ton was betrayed into the hands of the Con-
tederates at Fairfax Court House, Va, has
been arrested at her residence in Fairfax
BY the government detectives and brought
to Washington and committed to the Old
capitol prison. In her possession were found
her commission as Honorary Aid-de-Camp
to General Stuart, dated October, 1861,
and important letters, showing that she was
% the most intimate relations with other
Confederates of note.
Hammond gazette. [volume] (Point Lookout, Md.) 1862-1864, 1863-03-24

A New GUNpowDER.-It is said that an
agent of the government has been sent to
Prussia to obtain the secret of manufactur-
ing new kind Of gunpowder, lately discoy-
cred BY German chemist, and reported to
De IN several respects far superior to the
powder now in use.
Hammond gazette. [volume] (Point Lookout, Md.) 1862-1864, 1863-03-24

"sAMBo, why is a chimbley sweep de
happiest man alive Y'-"Cos he knows de
lows oh be Preside. Mo-; try again, Sam
be-" Cos none oh de ladies', rich or poor,
can do without them. No; try again.
-"Gib it up Well, because he j. al
ways we'll sooted (suited)."
Hammond gazette. [volume] (Point Lookout, Md.) 1862-1864, 1863-03-24

MASSACHUSETTS, CoLoRED REGIMENT -
The Massachusetts, colored regiment now
numbers some three hundred men. Meet
ings in aid of the regiment have been re-
Gently held in Providence, r. l., and 9TH
er eastern cities.
Hammond gazette. [volume] (Point Lookout, Md.) 1862-1864, 1863-03-24

GENERAL SIoEL. 1t is said that the
alileulties which constrained General Sigel
% tender his resignation have been adjusted,
aud that he will withdraw his resignation
and return to his old command.
Hammond gazette. [volume] (Point Lookout, Md.) 1862-1864, 1863-03-24

THE SENTIMENTS OF True SOLDIER
The following extract from letter written
to n lady by q recent inmate of one of our
hospitals, while it speaks the feelings Of
true soldier on returning to duty, indicates
the effects of the sympathy shown by our
citizens at the hospitals:
The warm grasp of the hand and tho
fearful goodbye told me that we were all
returning to the dangers and duties of an
other campaign, with share of your best
wishes Rest assured that your efforts
have not been vain; for. If there be any
thing that will nerve the arm and strength
tn the determination in the performance Of
duty beset with discouragements and dan
gers, it is to receive the treatment and err
couragement that We did at the Fourth and
George-strccts hospital
In this terrible contest we have duty
to perform. We, who have the bone and
sinew TO endure the marches, and to meet
the enemy, are ready to act faithfully our
part It is no less thing Of honor and
support to our country, that 80 many noble
women of the land seem to know their Pc
cular sphere, and with heart and hand
labor in 1t. / trust we may soon see moro
encouragement in the general aspect of az
fairs As Patrick Henry told the cautious
"old fogies" of 70, ''that the only way to
Judge the future, is by tho past, " SO we may
adopt the maxim, and, CHANGING back over
the grand struggles for the right in other
times, trace parallels to our cnbarressmonts
in this-in treason and incapacity where
least expected, in disgraceful defeats and
financial difficulties, and in impatient aud
senscless elamors of a powerful but unsuccess-
full party. Remembering that human nature
is the same now as ever, let us, then, take
courage in the ultimate success of our cause.
ASTOUNDING RoBBEEY Prentice laughs
at the heading " Astounding Robbery"
which frequently appears in connection
Hammond gazette. [volume] (Point Lookout, Md.) 1862-1864, 1863-03-24

PEA SoUr.-The United States soldiers
are to have pea soup Jacob Amos, OF
Syracuse, New York, has just been award
ed the contract for furnishing the govern
ment 10000 bushels of split peas at S2,39
per bushcl
Hammond gazette. [volume] (Point Lookout, Md.) 1862-1864, 1863-03-24

1t is again stated that General Butler
will resume his old command at New Or.
leans within fortnight
Hammond gazette. [volume] (Point Lookout, Md.) 1862-1864, 1863-03-24

!, FIVE thousand men arc now employed at
Tie Brooklyn nayy-yard.
Hammond gazette. [volume] (Point Lookout, Md.) 1862-1864, 1863-03-24
i ASTOUNDING Ron nEgY. -

ASTOUNDING RoBBEEY.-P Prentice laughs
at the heading " Astounding Robbery,
which frequently appears in connection
with some fraud on the government He
says, he occasionally secs cases of astound-
inb honesty, but robbery no longer az
tounds
The daily Green Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1861-1865, 1863-03-05
Too Much Reading.

In an amusing article upon the Physicians
aud Surgeons of BY gone Generation
foreign journal describes AberDe,hy CONVEX.
sing thus with certain patient | opine,
SAID he, That more than half your illness
arises from too much reading' GA my an.
swerlng that my reading was chiefly history,
which amused while it instructed, he replied
That is 10 answer to my objection. At your
time Of life young fellow should endeavor
to strengthen his constitution, and lay IN
stock Of health Besides, too mach reading
nereT get mads an able man. 1t is not so
much the extens and amount of what We read
that serves US, as what We assimiiate and
make our own. 1t is that, to use an illus.
traton borrowed from my profession, that
constitutes the chyle OF the mind have
always found that really INDECENT men, men
of what would cal! fabby intelocts, are
great readers. 1t is far easier TO read than
to think, to reflect, OF to observe and these
fellows, not having learned to think, cram
themselves With the ideas or the words Of
others This they call study, but il is not so
have observed IN nay own profession that
the greatest men we're not mere readers, but
the men who observed who reflected, who
fairly thought out an idea. To learn to re-
Feet aad observe is great desideYatum for
a young man John Hunter owed to his
power of observation that fine discrimination,
that keen judgment, that intuitivepess which
he possessed IN greater degree than any Of
the surgeons Of his time
The daily Green Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1861-1865, 1863-03-05

repress the passions of the people apd defer rebel,
hon to season more opportune in itself and dis,
tant enough to allow OF their preparations beiro
completed. But the rage and despair Of those
marked out for enlistment would hear of no do.
lay. Step by step the leaders, who fer couple n.
years had stimulated rebellion, were dragged in.
to premature outburst by their too doeile dise.
pies. As the masses congregated in the forests
it appeared unadVisable to leave them to be-
slaughtered by the foe. The destruction of a
couple of huRdred would have hardly changed the
original Intentions Of the committee at The head
1t may be said, o the nation but the loss of
considerable numbe- OF ardent potriots might
nave gone far to serve the Russians turn and de.
ter the people from engaging in another cam.
pagn soon after the failure of the first. Gradual,
ly, though not willingly, the leaders of the secret
organization were constrained TO countenance
what at first was 20 be regarded as an exodus
rather than an Instruction. Arms began to be
distributed among the PATRIOTS and leaders skill.
ed IN military science were placed at the head OF
their rowing columns. BY The good services Of
the committees agents, they are kept informed
of what is going on IN the neighborhood the
peasants supply them with provisions, the priests
lend thsm their aid, and the mNltiiarious resources
OF the decade system are turned to account in
their behalf In troops varying from 200 to 1000
men, they scaur the country with view 10 en-.
courage the formation of other bands, to fatigue
the enemy, and to prolcng, it possible, the guer.
rlIla war until the spring, and the expected com.
motion in Russia proper"