The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1864-02-12
NEWS AND OTHER ITEMS.


HURLBuT. The first division was com
manded by Gen. FUTILE; the second by
Gen. DoDGE; the third by Ger A J.
SMITH; the fourth by Gen. VEATOu The
Fifth Minnesota is in the second brigade
of the first division.
LOVE sONc-AFTEE MACKAY.
IT love her, yes I love her Ebenezer jenkins,
Would that on me her smiles would shine.
But ali can't discover, EbeneZer Jenkins.
The means to make the treasure mine.
Her eyes are like the slOe, EbeneZer Jenkins.
Her checks are like the rose in May,
Her teeth are white as snow, EbeneZer Jen-
kins!
Her breath as sweet as new-mown hay.
But, all she loves another, Ebenezer Jenkins
Elsewhere her fondest hopes are bent;
The wretch has asked her mother, Ebenezer
Jenkins,
And she has given her consent!
Forever like thorn, Ebenezer jenkins:
Grief in my bosom will remain;
I'm to spectre worn, Ebenezer Jenkins
Suppose we 90 and have drain"
-Ecchange.
The whisky duty-help yourself and
pass the bottle.
The Capitol extension at Washington,
up to this time, has cost 1899, 900.
One of the men belonging to the 4th
Maine was captured at Gettysburg, and
his friends have just received word that
be died at Belle Island, near Richmond,
of starvation.
- A bill has been introduced into the
Legislature Of New York to suppress i'm
moral advertisements in Newspapers. Why
not introduce bill to suppress immortality
altogether?
Branding deserters, as performed at
Castle Thunder in Richmond, is described
as beautiful operation, and as humane as
beautiful. The cul prit is fastened to
large table. with his face downwards, and
large I'D" is SCARED upon his posteriors.
A plain bar of iron, about an inch in
diameter, narrowed down a little at the
point, is heated to incandescence, and
used as a sign painter would use a brush
in lettering, only in very slow and bung-
ling manner. A greasy smoke with
sickly stencil arises, accompanied with
cracking sounds, and the groans of the
victim as the hot iron sinks deep into the
flesh. On pretence of rendering the mark
of disgrace plain and indellible, but in
reality to torture the unfortunate culprit,
the hot iron is drawn many times through
the wound, making it larger and deeper,
until the victim, unable to endure the ex-
cruciatiOn longer, taints, and is carried
away. The operation is always performed
by old Keppard, the executioner of Kel-
logg, the greatest demon in human form
outside of Pluto's realms.
"A gentleman just arrived in St. Louis
from the Idaho country, with 100000 in
gold coin, dust and nuggets, gives glow
ing account Of the mines there, which are
said to be turning out immense wealth."
He says:
In Idaho nothing goes as a circulating me-
dunn but gold dust. Every man carries his
little puckskin pouch, and no matter what his
purchase is, he pays for it in the precious le-
gal tender of the realm, which is weighed out
on scales kept for the purpose, whether the
article bought be cigar, horn of whisky or
something of more utility and value. The
minimum OF values is quarter of a dollar
and the weights are graduated from that sum
up In the region of Sinking Water and Ban
mock the population is about seven thousand
The Hartford Comm Times says:
"The Colts Arms Manufacturing Com
pany are making splendid pair of re-
volvers, designed to be presented to Gen.
Grant. The handles are of black horn,
beautifully polished, and the barrels, mag
azlnes and other steel parts are deliberately
inlaid with pure gold, which is beaten into
design previously cut out of the steel.
The other ornaments, guard, &C., are of
solid gold. The pair are to be enclosed in
handsome rosewood box, lined with vel
vet, and accompanied by all the tools, &C.,
belonging to them-the cartridge boxes,
etc, being manufactured of silver.
In New York the return of marriages
for the past year amounts to only 1922;
OF births, 6,246; and of Deaths, 25,196.
The return of deaths, of course, is accu-
rate; but, owing to the remissness of the
persons who are responsible by law, that of
marriages and births is exceedingly defec.
tive. The death column shows an increase
over the previous year of 1862. No less
than lS, 900 people live in cellars and base
ments in New York city, under conditions
that are constantly provocative of febrile
and epidemic diseases.
In France, the number of suicides,
which amounted in the year 1927 to 1912,
rose in 1860 to 1850. The difference of
sex between the suicides was not noted
Till the year 1885. Since then the crime
has prevailed considerably more among
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