The weekly pioneer and Democrat., 1864-09-23


gratitude of all will be accorded to them.
ISAAC NEWTON, Commissioner.
The good old frigate Brandywine is
no more. She accidentally, it is supposed,
caught fire at the Norfolk Navy Yard Sat-
urday morning, Sept. Sd, and burned until
she was destroyed and sunk on Monday.
There were GOO men on board, all OF whom
were taken safely to shore. The loss to
government is heavy, as she was full
| freighted with naval stores. The Brandy
wine was built at the Gosport Navy Yard
in 1924, and was put in commission in the
year 1927, by Hon. James Monroe, then
President of the United States, to carry
the Marquis do Lafayette from this country
to France.
The Chicago correspondent of the
New York Herald says: "Never before
was man placed in nomination SO COM
pletely independent and unpledged to any
person or faction as Little Mac No per-
son pretended to speak for him or bad the
remotest idea of making any promises in
his behalf.
An ingenious mechanic of Salem,
Mass, has constructed an autOmaton ci-
gar smoker. It is in the figure of man,
seated in chair and holding a cigar in his
mouth. The cigar lighted and the ma
chinery set in motion, the thing putfS
away as regularly as any old smoker
would
Besides Vermont the following States
hold their annual elections before the
Presidential election: Pennsylvania, Oct.
IL; Ohio, Oct. 18th; Indiana, Oct. 18th;
Iowa, Oct 18th.
Vermont is the only State in the Un-
ion which does not show positive adj
vance in population during the last ten
years. By the census returns it appears
evident that she is very slow. While
every other State has increased she re-
mains substantially stationary. In 1850
her population was 314, ,120 while in 1860
it was 3l5,09S. In the same time Con-
necticut has increased from s7O,792 to
46O,147 Rhode Island from from 147,-
545 to 174,62O. Political features remain
stationary in slow States. Vermont is
cursed with dominant radicalism. If
she ever changes her politics it will be by
convulsion.
Senator Richardson says of McClel-
lan's much talked of arrest of the Mary
land Legislature in 1861:
l have heard great deal said about the ar
rest of the Maryland Legislature. don't know
whether they ought to have been arrested or
not. But [ do know that the Legislature
changed its position from the capital establish
ed bv law, and went to the nearest point in
MARYLAND inside the rebel lines. 1 don't know
interfere with him, as o military leader, he
ought to have arrested them, and did right to
arrest them. Applause.
The editor of the Schenectady Star,
an independent paper, but which Aas gen.
orally sustained the Administration, speaks
of Mcclellan, from the knowledge of per-
sonal acquaintance, and calls him "a jack
son in firmness-a Douglas in all that is
strictly just between the North and the
South; )" and again, "the superior of Abe
in craftsmanship, in military ability, and
in that natural dignity which should al
ways be attached tothe Office of President.
The largest meeting ever held on the
Pacific coast was held in San Francisco
Ou Guo oVouluS vi Cuo jul, responsive u
the nomination of Mcclellan. California
is sure for him.
The Orleans IN. Y } Republican tells
story of snake, about foot in length,
being entrapped by aspider in that village,
which wound it's web around the snakes
head so that it could not open its mouth,
and half lifted it from the floor by sue
i've attachments of spider threads to its
body, forming little cable strong enough
to hold the snakes weight.
On the 18th of July, 1861, in the
debate on bill for increasing the Regular
Army, Mr.. Pendleton avowed the princi-
pie which would govern and has governed
his votes. After declaring his faith Gin
our brave and noble volunteers" and
their readiness and ability "to do the
work now to be done," he proceeded to
say:
Twill do what is fairly necessary to give the
Administration poaCer to MAINTAIN, the Gorern
nsext and prevent disaster to its flag, and en-
force obedience to the obligations of the Con-
stitution and the laws passed in accordance
Herewith.