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The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1863-06-05
Anecdotes Of Mining Life,

INCIDENTS IN THE "BLACK COUNTRY"
The last number of the Edinbu,y Re-
0ie'c (republished by LEONARD Scorr &
Co.. has an interesting article entitled
"The Black Country" describing life in
the coal districts of England The start
ling revelations of the Parliamentary Com
missions appointed to inquire into the en-
plOyment of women and children in the
mines, the recent terrible disasters in the
pitt, resulting in the loss OF many hundreds
of lives, the general Indifference alike of
proprietors and workmen to any measures
of precautioE, have at last drawn public
attention to the condition of the mining
population, and the writer in the Edinbu,y
sums up the results of late investigations,
spicing the narrative with sundry anec
dOtes.
Familiarity with the perils of the mines
breeds contempt of danger among the
miners. Here are two or three illustrative
instances:
AN OBSTINATE BOY.
The boys in the coal mines are expressly for
hidden to ride on the "draughts," or loaded
tram wagons. which are drawn by horses from
the face of the work to the shaft. If they fall
off severe, perhaps a fatal, accident is the
consequence. One sturdy lad, whose comrade
had lately been killed by fall. was told by the
charter-master, at the Inspectors request, that
if he ever caught him at that work again he
would strap" him. "Then thee must strap
me, reckon" was the cool reply. The young
Spartan was turned out of the pit as the only
means of saving him from the consequences of
his obstinacy, and as a warning to others. But
punishments and warnings avail little. At last
another accident happens. 1t is reported that
young such one is badly hurt; the old story
-nObody's fault but his own; the father comes
up with the big tears vast ing or rather blOtting
his begrimed face, and takes rueful comfort
in telling the manager how he has chidden and
beaten the boy for the same offence scores of
tlmeS-and what is to be done? 1t is not easy
to prevent young gentlemen who are trained
we may presume, to greater docility than the
rude collier lad, from sliding down the banis-
ters; and in all classes of life youth will in
dulge in pranks in which no enjoyment can be
discovered except the zest of disobedience and
the excitement OF danger.
CASE OF WOUNDED PRIDE.
''Not yet" seems to be the delusion which
keeps them working on, moment after mo-
ment, in situations of peril, till at last they
stay one moment too long-and all is over.
One day last year man was engaged in draw
ing the wood from an abandoned working.
He was furnished with long bar to knock
away the props at safe distance-the roof
hitherto had proved sound. and b preferred a
pOrters an overwhelming rush of 'clunk" or
fire clay fell upon him and buried him in an
instant. Help came too late. On one occa-
sion the charter-master saw man working
without the usual prop of timber at his back
he demonstrated on the danger of such careless
ness, and, bringing a tree" as it is called,
fixed it in its proper place. There was some
thing in this proceeding that offended the mans
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1863-06-05

Black Bridge, expecting an attack there,
instead OF strengthening an important
point like Jackson.
There are no Notifications here, except
some feeble efforts made BY Gov. Pettus
last winter, which are SO situatedsth an
attack on them would involve the destruc-
ton of the city. The citizens here are
very loud in their denunciations of Penn
berton and declare that he has sold the
State of Mississippi to the enemy.
IN JACKSON. r
We arrived in Jackson at about three
o'clock this afternoon. The citizens were
very much agitated lest we should burn
their town, ravish their women, and do
such other deeds as can only be conceived
in the heart of detested Yankee. We
found large number of tents pitched
where the rebel camps had been, officers
baggage in large quantities, etc., showing
all the evidences of precpitate retreat !;
also, five Parrot guns, and about twenty
gun-carriages, caissOns, etc.
jackson is a very pretty city, built on
aristOcratic principles, and inhabited by the
class OF people always to be found at State
Observation-Disclosures, politicians, law
yers, and other metropolitan t'inevitables. I"
Under ordinary circumstances it would do
for me to devote some space to descrip-
ton Of the town, but three battles in two
weeks have eclipsed such minor matters,
and furnished enough gunpowder material
for my letters.
CONGRATULATORY ORDER.
Gen. Mcpherson issued the following
order to-day:
HEADorARRERs 18TH ARMY CoRPs,)
DEPARTMENT OF THE TENNESSEE,
JACKSON, Miss, May IA, 1861
GENERAL ORDERS, NO. 18.
Soldiers Of the Seventeenth Army Corps:
Your General cOngratulates you on your
noble endurance and heroic bravery.
Your long and tedious marches through dust
and heat borne without a murmur; your un-
hlnching courage and victorious onsets at Port
Gibson, Raymond and jackson, driving the
enemy at every point, prove youworthy your
noble ancestry, and have made you heres in
American history.
Your General is proud of you. Your coun-
try hOnors you, and will remember you and
your deeds with gratitude and exultatiOn.
The enemy is still active though defeated.
Let us press him and crush him, till one ma
tionality is owned, and one flag alone-the fac
of our fathers-foats over American soil and
protects American people.
JAMES B. MCPHERSON,
Major General Commanding.
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VOL. XIV.-NO. So.
From the Evening Post
A mOTHER'S PRAYER FOR HER
CHILD.

Father, lowly on my knee,
l, supPliant. come to Thee;
Such the anguish of my mind,
Scarcely words for prayer find.
Father. grief hath made me wild
Spare, oh, spare my darling child!
Thou hast power to stay disease;
Thou hast power to give him ease;
Free his little limbs from pain;
Still the thrObing of his brain.
LOwly bending on my knee,
Father list my prayer to Thee.
Thou didst give him to my heart
OF my inmost life part;
Grant him life; to health restore;
Rack my bleeding heart no more.
Can l watch his agony?
Father! give him back to me.
Bring the color to his cheek;
Give him strength-so wan and weak;
Light again with smiles his eye
Father! to thy throne on high,
Morning, noon and night shall rise
Grateful praise and sacrifice.
But oh, God! shouldst thou deny
Answer to my anguish cry,
Bear me up. so faint, so weak,
Let my burdend heart not break;
Make me feel, with Thy dear Son,
Not my will, but Thine be done.
II. G. s.
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fusion Of Thought, Loss of Memory, Irritable
Temper, Gloomy ApHrchensions, les
ponieucy and Melancholy, which

end III Loss of Reason
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for the mutual benefit Of myself and the sick who 9TH
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"Esn HIhEEr LINE leaves Harrington Avenue at 72l
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a, 10 EtN NlLBoAD LINE leaves Harrington Avenue
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AA
w causes OF the ills or f eblcress of hdIem and
often times If adults IS the great quantity OF lNrkS-
TIN AL WORMS.
CO8BY'S WORN DESTROYING syrup,
will he found pert city safe and very efcacious rem
edy 1t not only the worms, bat tie causes Of
their qneat increase, and in all greatly improve
the general health Many certificates could be publish
ed from mothers who believe ii h.s saved the lives of
their chi dien and the improvement in health after
using this medicine
full description of the symptoms of worms accom-
pany each bottle. rr ce 25 cents.
B. CoRBIN. Gulliord, Conn, Proprietor. Sold nv
Druggists and Merchants generally. dtwly aurl
E2AKBR'S RHEUMATIC AND NEIT-
a. hAhiGlC PLASrERS very rightly Recommended
a. aspsc! ipr these painful Affections: t. be annie
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- VI BUSH CO., 81 Front street
TT iMS INVIGORATING SPIRIT
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R. IL. ED DY,
SOLICITOR OFT PATENTS,
Late Agent of T. S. Patent Office, Washington (andeY
the act OF lo3i.l
40 State ST.. opposite Ki.by ST., BOstOn.
After an extensive practice of upwards Of twenty
years. continues 10 secure Patents in the United tatesi
also, IN Great Brltain France and other foreign coun
tries Caveats Specifications lionds, Assignments and
terms ana with dispatch, Researches made into Amer
can and Foreign works, to determine the validity ut
rendered in all matters touching the same Copies OF
the claims of any Patent furnished by RENTING One
Dollar. Assignments recorded at " ashingtOn.
, Ihe Agency Is not only the largest in New England,
Patents ascerainng the patenabiity of inventions
unsurpassed by if not Immeasura5ly superior to, any
which can be offered them elsewhere. I'M Testtnon
ais below given prove that none is MORE SUCCESS
FUL AT THE PATENT OFFICE than the subscriber
and his SUCCESS Is TIE BEST PROOF OF ADYAN.
TAGES AND ABILITY, he would add that he has
other Office OF the Kind are the charges for professional
services so moderate. The immense practice the
accumulate vast collection Of specincations and of
fetal decisions relative to Patents.
These besides his extensive library Of legal and me-
chanca works, aud full accounts If patents granted
the United States and Europe render him able, beyond
question, to offer superior facilities for obtaining Pa
Ali necessity of Journey to Washing ton to procure
patent and the usual great delay there are here saved
inventors
TESTIMONIALS.
81 regard Mr. Eddy as one Of the most capable and
int ssgrs F'l'''''' CHARLES MASON.
Commissioner Of Patents.
81 have hesitation in assuring inventors that they
cannot employ person more competent and rust
w0rty and capable Of putting their applications in
form to for them ary and favorable consid
GRAFTON al the Patent Office"
EDMUND BURKE.
Late Commissioner 81 Patents.
.Ir. r, II. Ebay has made for me THIRTEEN appli'
catons on M but ONE OF which patents have been grant
e. and thdt Is cG pending Such urlnistakeabe proof
l great talent Oh his paIt leads 20 recommend al
INVENTORS TO apply hin: procure their patents
may may hH suT' oi Hayng the most faithful attention
bestowed O hett cases and reasonable charges
nj, JOHN TAGGART.
During eight months the subscriber in course Of his
Ige practce made tsice rejected applications Six
Ei-.' ~ IAiS, EVERY ONE Of which was decided
Ill ass 'aV0r'Dj the Commissioner OF Patents.
r,..o, To-, , ,oeo K. Ii. EDDY.
oOs'On'0 al l. loo9' deodly jail
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ID TOR C.. A. HILL
No. 8 Dorrance Street, Providence, r. I.
DR.. HilPs Female Regulator,
The Greatest Remedy Of the Age.

For the use OF Single or Married Females
may be Justly ranked as the most sue
cessfG} ana invaluable specific for all
derangements, distractions, and Private
difficulties peculiar to the E'emdle seq,
now before the public. DIR. Hin, the
senior in Especial Diseases, during his
years and upwards, mas made the
~ Delicate and Difficult Disorders
and Diseases, arising from the construc
ton and functions of the Female Sys
ten, his particular subject OF attention
and study, in which department Of his
practice it mas been his aim to bring to
a Thorough test and issue the different
gSy Botenlc and Indian Agents OF the
ducing a Convenient. Safe and Certain
Remedy for all cases of Irregularities
Suppresslons and distractions, and their
affections of the female system, and the
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NNORMS-t of the most prevalent
w eau.es of the ills or f ebleress OF thidIen and
often times If adults, the great quantity OF lNrkS-
Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1863-10-10

At Nashua, all trains connect with the trains OF
concord K Il where passengers take tue and from
the Northern the PassunpSic the boston, Concord and
Montreal, and Vermont Central Railroad.
At GrCton junction. trains ect directly with tina
Trains u the stony Brook Railroad and also with rap9
Of the Fitchburg Railroad With the exception of the frat
train from Boston; at FchOnrg with trains Of the
Vermont and Massachusetts and Cheshire Railroads.
For further particulars and connections with othe
loads, Pathfinder Railway Guide for the Now Eng
land States @. W. BENTLEY, Sup't.
Worcester, Oct lS. 1852. DIFF
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TO MARRIED LADIES

SCHENCK'S PUt MoNIc SYRUP
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1863-09-03

For the Journal.
Killed, Wounded Missing 6Ist N. C. Il. a,
Charleston, up to August 2sth, the 50sh Dny OF
Bonn ba rdment.
binson. MORALLY, James EcCaop; Privatss + Dowd
MORALLY; @ Newton, arm.
Co B-Kiled-Cerp'i E s Mount.
Wounded-Corp'l s g Owens; Private Baasey.
Missing-A Johnson
Co D.-Kiiled-W Farley.
WOunded-B Wicker, arm amputated; Hill, Corpl
Rollins. Mangum Perry, B Noah
Captured by the enemy,-Lt Cotton, Corls M G Ell
more, ii Strsughn, F Andrews E Ausley, W l. Bark
Crawford, 7 Campbell, Clark, D Cummens, K
Dowdy, G Harmon, Lloyd. A Mcdaniel, M Names,
Pilkenton, D Poe. W Self M G Thomas, M webster j
Williams, L J Wright.
Co e --Kilied-W Littletou.
Wounded.-J stokes, WEIGH, r Grimsey.
Captured by the enemy.-Lieut JOS Kinsey, who was
commanding the company Sergts q Dae, Hines, H
Frzze; Corps Moore, Grmsley; Privates Byrd,
Blizzard, W Britt, Barnett J Frizzle, Hines,
WI Weieh. rSSf0e' II N''''S' l. "AnHsf' II SKINNER
Co. F.-wounded-Capt Moore in arm; !CorpI A J
Davis, J W Owens.
Killed.-Cerp'I B Davis.
c.. G.-Wounded-Lieut Keith, commadng Co slightly;
Privates Ely Bay Boney, Ciareny.
Killed-Sergt K Freach
Abram Blanchard, M l. Crawford, Clareny, Ennis,
Herring, j g Mahn. Moore M Powell, a Rivenbark
Rivenbark, Smith Skipper, Stokes, Fl Tread
Co. I-Kiled-E Roberts.
Crowse, W Mains D Richardson, c Higgins.
Co. K -Killed-EN Loftin.
is feared that several of the captured of Co. D.
other companies wounded. They all taken in the
rifle pits ia front of Battery Wagner.
Respectfully
W. B. JONES,
at
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1863-09-03
WILMINGTON, Sept. lst, 1868.
81 A4iCi1Ittlr ct 0HRrG DdTS.'

In article of your Journal of the 5ist August you
complain of the shortness Of and lay the blame
witness of commercial wn and seaport complaining Of
what others strive by every in their power 10 OBJ
canpot be depe the provisions these
blockade leave their money and the consequent
of money in the shape of kind OF labor such
stevedores drivers peners and almost
ee!s shop keepers, &c. and finally to host OF menlals
Who these ard times would otherwise have great diff
Guilty sd honest living and would Of necessity be-
crosses, hotel servants, &C., &c Employing almost ex
for the navy Is tn not fair sett OFT for an Increased
price Of provisions except In the eyes of narrow sighted
by far greater charge is the raised that the
rency deprecised thro' blockade running Itls Is
there ksve 80 departures of steamers from
and this port Teh at the o aH PsTe
of the estimated stock in the Conederacy 1t equally
mpors BY the said
the pul question OF few thousand cases of Bran
and have no desire to be poisoned by deleeriou;
Whiskeys. The surplus of all 1mportatons, car
I'd the ourh in ia
ConfederacY importer dream, at the pres
ent exorbitant prices realized to his money RENTED
at exoJbant rstes of exchange such will be pait
for small amounts and fer certain unavoidable purposes
mens gain produce various and sauary effects sucl
keeping up 10 their proper value railway stock Govern
between the wealthy European merchants those of h
Confe which would be highly detrimental to de
sroy Japanese policy Of exclusion can be upheld
times relations thus cemened spread their inf
! tial consequences over years.
Already the threatened interference with this trade thu
anmosty evinced against it, or let call it the want
sympathy for it, and of encouragement, and tn
| threatened prohibition of the export of cotton
which alone can induce continuance OF blockade running
nterferes with the building OF further steamers in
ard the extension the trade well the replace
of vessels captured 1t is this uncertainty which
duces great measure the factuaon in prices OF i'm
ports az paraiizes enterprise. In my humble opinion
stop should be effected, it viii soon but too late to
amended, four that the benefits vastly surpassed tn
Inconvenience of blockade running 1t will certainly
found that had time any Ifuence whatever on tn
currency and its depreciation This is question Of vita
Importance but cannot be treated Qhty in Article
this nature.
sill mention the advantages which the country has de
rved from the blockade runners, such
recently rendered by the Juno at Charleston by others
MESSENGERS and finally trust that in justice to class
to which belong, you will grant place to this repy
| CRpNSTA T.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1863-09-03

FORT SUM- kR TO BE HELD-The Atlanta ConSfederac Y
learns from credtabe that dan lags
tanned by ort SUMTER General Beauregard commits
SION composed of Engineers to examine its
report VIII ether it was capable of defence They proceed
to the Fort and after thorough examination he fort
being 1nd fire at the time reported that suscept
Die OF De- ease for indefinite period. Gener
gard the called for volunteers defend that
To this call there immediate response from more
men ths necessary 1t is impossible estimate too
highly and to attach too warm panegyrc THU, offer of
Vouna ~ service for duty perilous. It will shin.
Ing mar among the numerous gall lntry
b,a ION ed by this
We do trust that an indefinite period g. in this
case something different from what it did when used by
Gene d PEMBERToN regard to the defence of V3oksburg
Ehe place he professed himself able to hold an in
dehn period" It may have been intended deceive
the enemy bat it also fooled and deceived our own
PEG pie, and led them to believe that Vicksburg
wa all safe, and could hold out just long might be
de- amed necessary to await relief The false confidence
TIL rspired endered the blow occasoned By the fall OF
cksburg doubly stunning when it did fall and
anc and depression throughout the land hardly less n1
n Gus to than the loss of Vcksburg ITSELF We
ke the use by military men of these vague general les
ne tendency not the intention of which to mssaS the
? ubllc. Better by far say nothing.
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The RlInlng on Morris Island.

A L, Hammond, Esq, writes to the Augusta Senti,
ne as follows:
In passing along the street this morning my atten
ton attracted to the Telegraph dispatches on the
board 10 front of your Office 1t was there stated that
the euemy were approaching Wagner by mining Nc
school boy of ten years DID, but knows the mpossibty
of this rhe Island is all sander the surface, and wa
ter at the depth of from four to six feet Mining is
therefore out of the question: unless the work is archec
by brick wood. TO do this, if at all practicable
would require from six to twelve MONTHS and then
suit in aiIure-because all approaches would end, OF
open in the moat surrounding Wagner, where there is
from six to eight feet Of water. Let the people be al
ease that score.