The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1864-09-16

S~o HAOPAN0AOA GA 0NOASVAASe $780, "-o~
larly enough, an accident did occur, by
which Mr.. Harris himself was nearly killed.
The incident is one, an exchange remarks,
(which will increase the faith Of Grand
Rapids people in whisky several per cent. :"
--McClellans Report is one Of the best
campaign documents to be had. Every
Democrat ought to have one for reference.
Gen. Grants order announcing the
treatment and privileges to be extended
to deserters from the rebel army, is already
having good effect, bringing in, accord
ing to the correspondents, score or two
daily, who concur in reporting that deser-
tons will be numerous as soon as the
terms of the order are generally known
among the privates of their army.
-Cabmen can't cheat in Paris They
are paid by the mile, and dial moved by
one of the carriage wheels registers the
distance.
There is less than thirty miles staging
now between St. Louis and Kansas City,
and the Pacific railroad will be completed
between the two points by January next.
"A furious storm passed over Ohio on
Friday the I'd, which, in the neighborhood
of New Carlisle and Tppecanoe, inflicted
great damage. Trees, houses, fences and
stacks were alike carried away by the whirl-
wind. Farmers living in the region visited
by the hurricane say that similar storm
passed over nearly the same track some
fifteen years ago, but it was not near so
violent and destructive.
One hundred and forty-fve rebel pris-
oners passed through Pittsburg last week
for Columbus, Ohio. According to the
Pittsburg Chronicle, they were, in con-
versation, livery flippant about the hero
ism of the Southerners, their resolve never
to give up and determination to fight it
out to the last rather than surrender.
Prof Goodwin Smith, of Oxford Uni
versity, long known as one of the few in
tellectual leaders of England who do not
favor the secession of the South, is about
to visit this country.
The new tradegy of "Fantine," dra-
matized by young man named Howard,
of Detroit, from Hugos great work, ''Les
Miserables," was presented in theatre at
Detroit last week, and met with great
favor from an immense audience.
The Chicago 1ri6une's dispatches
from Springfield, at the time of the meet
ing of the Democratic State Convention
last week, contained the following para
graph:
The soldiers last night were busily engaged
looking for delegates to the Copperhead Con-
ventiOn, but no Une would acknowledge that
he was delegate.
The Richmond correspondent of the
London Times says that Grant lost more
men at Spottsylvania and the Wilderness,
ethan Mcdowell did at Fredericksburg. "
As Mcdowell lost no men at Fredericks-
burg, probably the English readers of the
Times are as much as usual enlightened.
Some sixty children of poor families
in Liverpool, England, were recently pois-
oned by eating Oalabar beans, which they
had gathered from a pile of rubbish from
the hold of vessel from Africa. The
Calabar bean is pleasant to the taste, but
is deadly poisonous, and is used only for
dyeing woolens.
M. II. Carpenter, of Milwaukee, the
best orator in Wisconsin, who has acted
with the so-called Union organization in
that State, declines the Republican nomi-
nation for Congress and will support Nc
Clellan.
"A circular recently issued from the
War Department directs that officers of
the army, upon receiving new commissions,
shall be sworn and mustered into the SER
vice for the term of three years, without
regard to the time the recipient of the
commission may have already served I'M
der similar obligation. A lieutenant, for
example, who has served two out of three
years for which he enlisted, upon being
promoted to captaincy, must, upon &C
cepting his new commission, be mustered
in for three years from the date of the last
commission.
The telegraph informs us that Hunter
has been relieved of his command in West
Virginia. Undoubtedly great many wo-
men and children felt relieved at the same
time.
The fractional or postage currency
has been increased within month, by new
issues, about 81, OOO,OOO The total amount
now in circulation is $24,OOO,O0Q
"A call for another convention of the
Unconditional supporters Of the National
Government" to nominate candidates for
President and Vice President, has been
published. The convention is to be held
at Cincinnati on the 28th of this month,
and it is supposed will try to get Lincoln
and Fremont both off the track in favor of