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The nuder WIN be paid It's fun value By leaving Il at 4Oi
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nR. COBBKTr. 20 CENTRE STREET, BETWEEN
~ Chambers aud Rcade streets be consulted with
sonaaenee on diseases Of pirate character rssiss Of
three OF which In the Hospitals OF New
York and London. enables rip 10 treat VIII ncIy22s
and general debility ne vcsi q p5slii0a Can can ID
SAde b-See DR. g diplomas. This oilee, as mem
~ OF the New York University Medical College and College
81 Surgeons. London,
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1864-11-18
The Horrors of War.

A man, unless he happens to be devil
incarnate, very soon gets tired of killing
those whom he can see. Even the sur
geon who is dissecting a corpse covers up
the face of his subject. Those orbs have
sunk the fire into the abyss of death, but
they are still human eyes. To mark the
death-gaze Of the slaughtered, the poor
fellow who never did US harn-to feel
our feet slippery in his blood-to have his
blood squirt on to our hands, and his hot
brains brash into our face-this kind of
business very soon sickens and revolts the
bravest soldier. When You have seen a
few men smashed or shot to death, my
Christian friend-my melodious poet, with
your sing-sODg about the tented field +"
and the "embattled strife my melli-
fuous pastor, with your high-sounding
eloquence about the "God of battles -
you will think as do. and mayhap you
may come to acknowledge how compare
lively tender and merciful are the men in
shoulder-straps whose trade it is to kill,
and how often the gorge of their souls
rises at their dreadful calling.
Turn 10 the Book of Maccabees. and
read that one tremendous pregnant pas
sage-that one line: "And Nicanor Law
dead in harness." When you have seen
him thus, lying stark and stiff, his brave
clotes all dabbled in gore, his mouth wide
open, grinning, awful, the bloody foam on
his lips dried into purple crust, and the
camp tollower-the Thenard of the army
creeping up to rifle his pockets, and
draw off his boots, and cut off his ring
finger, and smash his jaw for the sake of
the gold setting to his false teeth, and you
may form some idea about tie romance
of war, very different from those you have
previously entertained. -Sala, in the Lon
don Iele0rdph.
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Aiming OF the Negroes by the South.

From the N. Y. Evening Post Republican,
1t is officially announced in the Georgia
Confederacy that arrangements are max
ing at Richmond to arm, for the spring
campaign, three hundred thousand slaves,
whose masters are to be compensated by
the Confederate government. The slaves
thus armed are to have their freedom and
fifty acres of land each, which insures
them permanent homes in the South.
From the N. Y. Commercial Advertiser (Repl
Viewed in every aspect, this new expedi-
ent is of the utmost consequence =
If found to operate according to the
hopes of the rebels, it will materially pro-
long the rebellion will call for immense
further sacrifices of blood and treasure
on the part of the North, severely test
ing both its temper and resources and
will place Us in the unwelcome attitude
of hostility against class who have
been no party to the war, and in whose
behalf the struggle is practically waged.
Hitherto We have considered ourselves
safe against the possibility of having to
fight the slaves, on the ground that sooner
than do battle for their own perpetual en-
slavement, they would desert en- nesse to
our side, thereby making the rebels the
easier prey. This reliance, however, is
apparently unsettled by the consideration
that the conscripted slaves are to be prom
ised their freedom and a homestead offifty
acres of land. The rebel government out
bids us, by not only offering to the slaves
the freedom that We should assure to them
but also an amount of property that would
afford means for their future subsistence.
This latter consideration would be likely
to be regarded as great boon by class
who have always groaned beneath gall
ing servitude, and have been denied every
species of proprietorship.
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FROM NASHVILLE.
The Situation at JohnsOnville..HOod
IN Communicable Enemy 10000
Strong.

SsASn&5s
NASHVILLE, Nov. 6.-But little firing
took place at Johnsonvlle yesterday, and
the enemy were engaged in burying their
dead. Our loss is small The rebels
were trying to cross the river yesterday
about five miles above Johnsonville, but
up to last accounts had not succeeded in
crossing any considerable force, although
some previous intelligence leads me to be-
lieve that small body got over and are
depredating in the country around about.
In my letters from this point assume that
Hood is in person with that portion of the
rebel forces which is demonstrating oppo-
site Johnsonville, but l cannot say that
this is definite. Il is ascertsined to be
the case, whoever commands the enerny,s
army there, that it is considerable in num-
bers and strong in artillery They have
batteries above, below, and opposite the
town of Johnsonville, and camp fires
showed force of at least 10000 strong.
Since the destruction of our transports
and gunboats, another feet of the latter
is coming from Paducab, and has made it's
appearance. Reinforcements in consider
able numbers have left this city for the
threatened locality, and the town is con-
sidered safe. 1t is very doubtful in my
mind whether the rebels will cross there
or not. / think their demonstrations there,
as at Decatur, is feint, and that they will
move On down the river.
Intelligence from Florence indicates
that Beauregard, with a portion of the
rebel army, has moved towards Oorinth.
He was out of rations, and he was taking
everything he could find in the country,
and was threatening to march on Mem
phis.
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Bursting Of Clouds.

A sad affair recently occurred in Ne
vada Territory, on the eastern slope of the
Sierra range OF mountains, near the line
81 California. A party consisting of Mr..
A. W. Glen, bis wife and three children,
bis father, Mr.. P. H. Medley and wife, and
Mr.. George Weston, left the town of -Au-
rora on the 25th of July, for a trip to
Bridgeport, where they expected to arrive
at P. NJ, and where a portion of the
party were to attend ball in the evening.
They started in wagon drawn by four
horses. The morning was fair and beauti-
full, but rain commenced falling. At three
O'Clock the team was travelling I'D a gorge
or gulch in the hill about twelve miles
from Aurora. At this moment a cloud
burst at the head of the gorge, and ernpti-
ed itself into it, filling it to the depth of
fifteen feet almost instantly.
When the party saw the deluge coming
they jumped out of the wagon and at
tempted to escape. The vehicle being
covered delay ed them some. MIR. Glen, Jr.,
succeeded in reaching the side OF the hill
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| the reward of service in our army. +hot
here the field of labor is omen - Ill.,, a'
while it is closed in the United States n-o
believe that the tide of desertion woul5
set strongly in our favor.
We are not prepared to say that this
measure is demanded by our present ex-
haustion. We do not believe it is. But
the future must be provided for-and it
must be apparent to every sensible man
that the drain upon the population of the
Confederate States which this war has
made must eventually exhaust those States
unless something is done to supply this
drain from other sources than the white
population. The CONSUMPTION law cannot
be extended to any greater age, and the
execution, however much improved, can
not find the men to supply the losses as
fast as the campaigns create them. Shall
we permit the enemy to use the negroes
against US, or shall we make use of them
for our defence
Every man should watch well this ques-
ton, and disconnect it altogether from the
subject OF slavery, emancipation and other
matters. The negroes have their places
in this fight, and whether their places be
found in our ranks or those of the enemy
will be for the Confederate Congress to
decide. They are already in the fight,
and against us. Shall we sit idly by,
chattering about slavery and emancipa-
ton, while Minnie balls from muskets in
negro hands whistle. around us! Had We
begun this war with our slaves as well as
with their masters, Lincoln could not now
boast of his "two hundred thousand COL
ored troops" The past cannot be reme-
died, and the future may be provided for.
Reorganize the army, consolidate the re-
giments, organize the negroes and peace
will soon follow. Leave affairs as they
are, and there will soon be neither army
nor negroes, nor Confederate States.
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1864-11-18

The following statistics, relating to the
internal condition of China proper, are
taken from the statistical chart of new
work, by Mr.. r. Montgomery Martin, late
her Majestys treasurer for the colonial,
consular, and diplomatic services in
China, and member of the Legislative
Counsel at Hong Kong, entitled "Ohina,
Political, Commercial and Social" In
China proper it appears there are 367,-
632,9O7 inhabitants, and in the dependen-
cies of Mantchooria, Mongolia, Turkistan,
Thibet, etc., about 10000, 900, making a
total of oo,50O,O 900 of people under one
government. The population on each
square mile is 2S3, and the area in square
miles is 1897, 999. The quantity of land
is estimated at $50. 1929, 100 English acres,
of which al, ,743 is under cultivation.
The land tax realizes 27,854, 1923
taels of silver the salt revenue 4,61S.-
1884 taels; and other duties 991 ,O92
taels. The total fix ID revenue of the prov
inces is 35,O16,023 taels, of which sum
22,445,573 taels and 3, 429, 1855 shin of rice
"a shin being about 160 lbs. averdupois)
are transmitted to the imperial treasury,
whilst 5,569,329 taels remain in the prov
inces. The standing army and militia
number 1,232,OOO men. The table from
which the above statistics are taken is pre-
pared from various authorities, the greater
portion having been furnished in China,
and translated from the official records.
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How Bodies are Em bal med.

A correspondent of Philadelphia paper
writes from City Point, Va as follows:
Among the curiosities in the rear of our
great armies, none more attract my atten-
ton than embalming tents, and the amount
of business they do. The process of en-
balming is very simple and easily compre-
herded. When the subject is laid upon
the operating table, slight incision is
made in the neck, from which as much
of the blood as can be is withdrawn, and
then an inclsion in the femoral artery ad-
mits the metal end of rubber tube,
through which, by force pump, the pre-
serving fluid is driven into the entire arte-
rial system, and thus into the venous sys-
tenn, expelling in the course of its progress
what blood had yet remained in arteries
or veins. The materials used, the en-
balmers attempt to conceal 1t is said
that arsenic is principal one. This is
specially important in warm weather. AZ
ter the process is completed, the form of
the face and general expression of the
countenance remains unchanged, except a
good deal dark. ming in color. At the end
of few months, an embalmed body would
not be very different in appearance, per-
haps, from the Egyptian specimens, though
less repulsive.
If the embalming is deferred till the
third day after death in summer time, it
cannotbe performed with success except in
rare cases. Upon the second day success
is quite certain; "and when we get the
body within few hours of death, =" said an
embalmer to me, 1--WE make very pretty
cases" And he exhibited some which
seemed beautiful to him.
learned Of DR.. J. W. Bunnell, City
Point, who is engaged in the business,
that the whole cost of the coffin, embalm-
ing, and expressing the body home to the
Northern States, will range from $50 to
$3.50, which must be paid here before the
body leaves.
Upon the desirableness of having a
friends body embalmed and taken home,
am strongly in the negative. If he falls
in fighting for sacred principle, his body
will help consecrate the soil, and make it
truly sacred dust; and we will then re-
member him as be appeared when he left
his Northern home, nor have our recol-
lection OF bright and beautiful face for
ever marred by the vision of his deoaying
but embalmed corpse. Such would be my
advice to any friend. Still, if you must
see and bury with your own hands, that
loved dust, the embalmer will enable you
to dot.
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THE NEW PIRATES.
The Privateer Olustee at Sea.-.Capi.
Semmes again Afioat in the steamer
Sea King.
New York Evening Post, 9Th.

From the New York Evening Post, 9Th.
The schooner Antelope, Capt Dobson,
from Matanzas, arrived here yesterday,
bringing the crews of three vessels de-
stroyed by the rebel privateer Olustee.
These vessels were the bark Empress The
resa, and the schooners A. J. Bird and
E. F. Lewis.
Capt. N. O. Walker, of the bark En-
press Theresa, of and for Baltimore, from
Rio Janeiro, in ballast, reports that on the
1st instant, in latitude $500, longitude
74:1O, his vessel was boarded by the rebel
privateer Olustee, Lieut.. W. Ward COM
manding, who told US We were prize to the
Confederate States, and ordered US to get
our clothing and go on board the steamer,
which we did; when they Immediately set
our bark on fire, and went in chase of an
other vessel which was in sight. Night
coming on, the pirates failed to find her.
We were kept on board until the Sd inst,
when, in latitude 1919, longitude "a, we
came up with the schooner A. j. Bird, Capt.
French, of and from Rockland, for Washing
ton, D. O., with cargo of lime, laths, &c.
The crew were ordered on board the
steamer and the schooner scuttled; there
was also in sight at the time the schooner
E. F. Lewis, Captain Lee, of and from
Portland for Philadelphia, with general
cargo, which was disposed of in the same
manner as the Bird. The Olustee then
ran for another schooner which was close
by, and which proved to be the schooner
Antelope. Captain Dobson, from MAINTAIN
zas for New York, and to which vessel we
were all transferred, twenty EIGHT in num-
Der, after signing the usual parole. Capt.
Walker had his wife, child and sister, and
also two passengers, who we're all served
alike. The pirates took possession of all
the nautical instruments and everything
else of value that they could get their hands
on.
The Olustee is an iron screw steamer of
eleven hundred tuns burthen, one hun
dred and twenty feet long, schooner rugged,
two smoke stacks, two screws, and is very
fast; she is painted white, and ran out of
WILMINGTON, N. O., ON the night of the
3Oth ultimo. In passing by the gunboats
on the blockade she received shot in her
bow which went entirely through her but
did no other damage. Several of the
captives in conversation with the crew
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learned that there are at present four
steamers of the same class on the coast.
all of which ran out of Wilmington. NO
but are of English build.
sEMMRs ATLOAr IN TIE srRAuzp GA
The following has been received by the
government in reference to the new nj.
latlcal steamer to be commanded by
Semmes.
UNITED STATES CONSULATE, !
.S;r IT,, Li,w,kRrooL, October 10, 1861
K;no -! ne English screw steamer, Sea-
Rone Sb Jun. az Gasgow in 1868, cleared for
instant n a.t odlleu from London on the 9Th
nf WIN large quantity of coal. fiftv toms
ol lnetai, ana crew Of forty-seyen men in
command OF Captain Goblet Mr. Sison
United States consular agent Mt Dovor CO. ~,
mas reliable Information that Canta;n So1,,oa NC
is to have this vessel. From what - I,nlLl,.s
at this office about the Sea King $4,000 nuUmn
ent OF the information of Mr.. Sisco I hauo
not the least doubt she is the vessel the stearov
Laurel is to meet, and that Captain Semmns
WIN the officers, men and guns taken Out II,
the Laurel will be transferred to her. Their
pace OF meeting is not known to me-
Inc Soaking is very fast strongly built
ana nue. looking screw steamer, bull of wood
with eiron frame, and coppered abent one
thousand tons burthen, and two hundred and
twenty-five feet long, one funnel, three bright
masts' shlp-rlgged with wire rigging, heavily
spared, machinery abaft the mainmast No
doubt her name will be changed.
1 am, SIR, very respectfully, your obedient
servant.
THOMAS. K. DUDLEY, Consul
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THE WhtMG.Y PI NEEK AND DEMOCRAT

and clung to some bushes until the torrent
went by, leaving no water in the gulch.
Mr.. Medley threw his left arm around his
wife, and supported her until the resistless
torrent tore her from his grasp, and her
body was afterwards found lodged in tree
six feet from the ground. Mr.. G. held up
his little girls, five and eight years old,
until he was dashed against mass of rocks
and stone, when both were lost and Glen
narrowly escaped. Mrs. Glen was the last
to leave the wagon. She jumped for the
side of the hill, having child eighteen
months old in her arms. Weston, who
was at that point, seized her and attempted
to drag her up, but her dress giving way,
she was swept away and drowned with
her child. The body of the mother was
found near the spot but the children were
a mile down below. The impetuous tor
rent bore along in its course large trees
and rocks weighing ton. The wagon
was dashed to pieces and the four horses
killed or drowned
The locality of this occurrence is from
five to seven thousand feet above the level
of the sea, and the papers from which this
account is condensed express the opinion
that the cloud which burst either came in
collision with another cloud or with the
top of the hill. At sea when there is dan
ger of their eugulphirg ship they are
burst by means Of cannon. A singular
case occurred a year or two since in the
coast range of mountains, near Los Ange-
los, California, where two or three per-
sons persisted. The historians of that
st"te made frequent mention of cloud
bursting. In Wilson's beautiful sketch,
entitled "The Baptism" in Lights and
Shadows of Scottish Life, an occurrence
of this kind is noticed in "some brutal
soldiery who had come to arrest or MUIR
der OOvenanters were swept away.
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Execution of a Member of n Union
Tennessee Regiment at Richmond
as q Rebel Deserter.
rom the Richmond Dispatch, Nov. L

From the Richmond Dispatch, Nov. L
Henry Howell, Company F, Fourth Ala
bama Regiment, was shot yesterday at
Gen. Fields headquarters, few miles
below the city. The charge aginst him
was desertion and joining Tennessee
(Yankee) regiment, for which ne was exc
cuted in accordance with the finding of q
court martial. 1t is stated that after
Howell was informed of his fate he wrote
a letter to President Davis, threatening
retaliation from the Lincoln government
in case he was shot
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TELEeRApH1Na EXTRAORDINARY. - The
longest message that has been transmitted
over the wires since the inauguration of
telegraphing, passed over the wires from
Nevada Territory to Washington, on last
Thursday. 1t consisted of some 1900
words, and cost the sum of SIX thousand
dollars for its transmission. It required
fourteen hours steady work to send it.
ST. Joe Herald.
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IOSludSLcT.
NorE.--The applicant must. in all cases give
his own Christian name in full /; aud when the
Christian name of the payee is known. it should
De so stated otherwise initials may be used.
The Christian names of married women must
be given, and not those of their husbands. For
example, Mrs. Mary Brown must not be de.
scribed as Mrs. William Brown.
Names of parties and places, and the sums,
to be written in the plainest possible manner.
As there are several places of the same name
in the United States, remitters must be careful
to indicate which of them they mean: and the
Postmaster will satisfy himself, before writing
out the order, that the place indicated is the
one intended.
On the back of the application are the rates
of commission as follows:
RATES OF COMMISSION CHARGED FOR MONEY
ORDERS.
On orders not exceeding ten dollars. 10c
Over ten dollars and not exceeding twenty 15c
Over twenty dollars and up to thirty. 800. .2Oc
No single order issued for less than one dol
lar or more than thirty dollars; and no fraction
of cents to be introduced in ON order No Or
ders to be issued on credit
Orders are in this form:
COPY OF ORDER
No, Issued -, 1856.
st. Paul, MINI.
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The Bath ,(Me.) Sentinel states that
within less than two years, about thirty
Bath ships, amounting in value at present
rates of exchange to over 100000 in
our currency, have been sold to England.
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Offices upon any single Office authorized to
transact this business, from one dollar up to
thirty dollars. The following blank. with ex-
planatory notes which accompany it, gives q
very plain idea of the process BY which orders
NAV be obtained:
Application for Money Order.
CTo be filed by the applicant.)
No -. Amount, g..
Date, -, 1856.
Money Order.
Required for the sum of s., PAYABLE at
-, State of --. Payable to -
-, residing at --, State of -.
Sent by ----, residing at -, State
of Entered In register
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Ono, this year, yields one thousand FIVE
hundred to two thousand pounds OF to-
hacco to the acre.
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Pay the person named In my letter of advice
of this date the sum of - dollars and - cents
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HOW TO OBTAIN MONEY ORDERS.
Orders may be given at any of the above
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1864-07-06
MARRIAGES

" - % y :" =
On Saturday evening, July Sd. at the residence Of
the brides Father. by D.. D.. Marvin. Esq. Mr.AUS-
TIN NJ. GSEEN, Miss AURELIA L. FREER. all
of BaEetta.
In Warren, June %, by S. NJ. Carter, Esq. Mr..
JOHN GAsKILL. and Miss SARAH DICE. of
Champion.
In Mecca, on the Is inst, by Elder (. Wakefield.
Mr.. WIN. A. TOMPS0N. and Miss ELIZABETH
SMITH.