The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1863-12-11

the draft and the burn; but the marriage set
tied him.
"A letter from Chattanooga thus refers 10
frequent military executions in the army OF the
Cumberland:
Military executions are the order OF the day
in portions of the army; but. as we whoiiy
disprove of these events we 40 not IKE 70
chronicle them. We have yet 10 De convinced
of any good that is apparent e Mf 70 t the
latter. Desertion is an objectionable crime.
and not at all to be winked at; but we would
like to see some other punishment than death
attached to the crime. We do not question the
offence, we only object to the mode OF punish
other day: one is to suffer next Friday and
another in a week thereafter.
Peter E. Slocum, a former employee of the
Bath Hotel at Long Branch, N. j., was exc
cuted in the Monmouth county Jail, at Free
hold last Friday, for the murder of his wife,
by shooting, in last July. The wretched man
made a long and illiterate speech from the gal
lows, denying his guilt, but expressing him
self resigned to his fate, which he met with re-
markable fortitude. 1t was proved on the
trial that he was in love with his wife's sister,
Alcine Chase, with whom he had been on
terms of improper intimacy and this was the
suppose motive to the murder.
An active letter writer at Washington re-
cords that the enthusiasm for Grant begins to
be Wild and says it would be a Justification of
current history to suppress the fact that thou
sands name him as the next President In the
sudden supremacy of grateful and exultant mil
itary feeling this is natural; but one reverse or
one disastrous interference would consign Grant
to the neglect which other equally brave and
talented officers are now suffering The pub
lie caprice is merciless.
The Pacific Railroad enterprise for
mally inaugurated on Wednesday last, by the
breaking of ground on the west bank of the
Missouri river in front Of Omaha, Nebraska.
Speeches were made by Gov. Saunders and
George Francis Train. Telegraphic dispatches
were received from the President, through his
private secretary, Secretary Seward, Governor
Yates, Mayor OpdyIe and Gen. Dix.
The Springfield Republican is one of the
few Administration papers that is blessed with
"a few grains of common sense, as witness the
following which contains more wisdom than
will be found in the Trij.se for q whole year
There is a GENERAL lubilation in the Republi-
can papers over the assumed death OF the DEM
ocralic party They had better not take that
for granted. party that has just thrown
more votes than ever before in every State ex-
cept Massachusetts,, /" and has been
beaten only by the most extraordinary effOtrs
can hardly be considered quite dead.
The moral OF the political situation of the Re.
publican leaders is that they have no such eX.
cess of strength as TO make it safe for them to
l,ar laE,n 70, mao onIYn
that they are still on trial before the Ameri-
can people Us to their ability and integrity in
the conduct of the government; and that they
can only hope to obtain a renewed lease of
power by demonstrating that they can and will
nsc it for the general welfare, rather than for
private and partisan ends
Mr.. F. C.. Tobcy. citizen of Barnstable
county. Massachusetts,, while in Boston about
ten days since, WAS taken early one morning
at the Parks House where he lodged with a
Sudden and profi!sc bleeding at the nose 1t
was soon found that no ordinary remedi.s
could bc successfully applied for his relief, and
having bcd for nearly two hours, medical
sistance was procured, and a painful operation
was performed upon Mr.. Tobcy, giving him
relief, and making him sufficiently comfortable
to be removed 10 his h,}ne after The lapse of
another day. He died Thursday morning
at an early hour.
The Boston Commercial bulletin relates the
following amusing experience of Mr.. Beecher:
When the steamer Asia. on her last trip over,
reached Halifax, and the crew had begun to
break ont the portion OF the cargo which was
to be landed there (bpt which it afterward be.
came too evident was to go much further south),
Henry Ward Beecher and Il few Others got
ashore to stretch their legs by walk on the
pier. The first case of goods came hard, and
the force on the fall and tackle WAS increased
by the voluntary offer of the Rev Henry Ward
Beecher whose additional muscle on the rope
speedily brought out the case, bang, Oh to the
wharf. He WAS somewhat agllist, however, to
find. as his friends gathered about to examine
it, that he had "lent hand" TO hha u case Of
s.uskrt. jar he Southern Cmttderdcy.'
A physician Of Wheeling, n. Y, has for
some time past been attendin. young girl
who has been sadly deranged. The other day,
To see what effect it would have. he poured
about q pint Of water upon her head. The girl
was then permitted TO 70 into another room,
where she conducted herself very quietly. The
doctor was about leaving the house when the
girl, who was standing in the door of the room,
beckoned for him TO come to her. She stepped
back into the room, and as the doctor was
about TO come III she threw bucket of water
upon him. remarking that his face needed
washing as well as hers did.
The Anti, Shtcesy .Sia.'Lssd. among the
most radical papers in the United States makes
the following honest confession: SLAVERY
would not be allowed to stand in the way of %
settlement on the basis of return OF; The re-
volted States IL their allegiance. At this mo-
ment the war could not te continued for the
purpose of putting IN end to slavery, after the
territorial unity of the nation could be had.
Perhaps few months more may bring the ma
ton up to this point