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The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1864-05-06
LIFE MISUNDERSTANDING of the ben

LIFE INSURANCE. of the ben
efits of lite insurance might be multiplied,
probably, by the testimony of each reader, for
every one may know of some instance where
the love of husband and father has provided
amply for the wants of his wife and children
after his death, through wise investment IN
policy of life insurance. The subject is not a
new one, for life insurance companies have
long been held as among the most reliable
financial institutions of our own as well as other
countries. Among the Oldest companies in this
country is the New England Mutual Life Insur-
ance Company, of Boston, of which MIR. s. S.
Eaton is the agent in this city. In looking
over its twentieth annual report, issued at the
close of last year, we notice it has paid to sur
viving families and parties interested, the sum
of 81, 451, 800 on ISL claims on 400 deaths Of
these deaths, 81 occurred by accidents, which
removed the stay and hope of families sudden
ly. In many cases. probably, there was left no
other provision for their families but the insur-
ance upon their lives. The expenses of the
company, aside from losses On policies, in the
year past, were a fraction more than nine per
cent. of the receipts. With this twentieth re-
port was made the fourth annual distribution of
surplus accumulations. The policy-holders,
being members on the mutual plan, re-
ceived On this distribution, in the
aggregate $74S,0C0, amounting TO near forty
per cent. of the premiums paid in during the
five years. This one distribution, at ages Of
twenty and twenty-five, is equivalent to an adj
dtional insurance, amounting to more than
the premium actually paid in, at thirty and
thirty-fve, to nearly that sum. The gross re-
ceipts of the Company for nearly twenty years,
have amounted to nearly six millions of dol
lars. The sum of 81 PAT 900 has been return
ed to members in cash, in the four distribu-
TONS while the losses have amounted to near
81 500. 600. In this time the accumulated cap
ital of the Company has been steadily increased
to So, 200, 600. In the same time the name of
the Company has appeared upon court records
but three times under claims for loss, being
about one in seven years. The report presents,
as whole, the strongest proof of the substan-
tial character of the Company and the safety
of the plan upon which it is conducted.
Our remarks upon this subject were suggest
ed by request to publish the following, show
ing the promptness with which claims are set
tied by the Company named
ST.. PAUL, April 90, 1861.
Received of s. s. Eaton, Agent of the New
England Life Insurance Company of Boston,
the sum of $4,000 in full satisfaction for the
loss under Policy $780, by the death CT my
husband Thomas NJ. Saunders, and embrace
this opportunity to acknowledge the prompt
payment of the same.
MARY B. SAUNDERS.
We are informed also that Capt. Saunders
had paid but one premium of $110, on which
he had received dividend Of $21.
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Working GUHs by AteaHs
From the st. Louis Union

From the st. Louis Union
Last Friday, by invitation of the inventor.
Major Gems. ROsecrans and Pleasanton, Brig.
Gems. Ewing and Gray, and ten other officers
of the army, accompanied by Commodore
Hull, of the navy, visited the Union Iron
Works at Carondelet to witness the trial of the
steam turret on the iron clad Winnebago. in
vented by Mr.. James B. Eads, proprietor of the
works.
As we are prohibited by general instructions
issued by tie Navy Department, from giving
description in detail of this wonderful machine
we can only state that two 11-inch Dahlgren
guns are completely under control of one man
in it, and a.e handled with as much ease by
him and with almost as much CELEBRITY as pair
of duelling pistols could be. Every movement
of the guns is made by steam. They are run
out of their ports by it, and their recoil is
checked by it; they are lowered into the hold
by steam for loading, and raised again to be
fired, and all these movements are made in as
little time as it has taken to relate it.
One of the most interesting features about
the turret is the smallness of the port holes
into which the guns are thrust. They are only
large enough to receive their muZzles, yet the
guns are fired at an angle between five degrees
of depression and twenty-one of elevation with
equal facility.
The perfect case and accuracy with which
every movement was gone through excited the
admiration of the whole party. Four shots
were aimed by Gen. Rosecrans at target about
three quarters of mile distant, some ten or
twenty feet square, and each one struck it
fairly. The firing from it is much more rapid
than from the Ericsson turrets. The Is and 20
inch guns can be handled in this way quite as
easily as those in this turret When steam is
applied to them-as we doubt not it will soon
be-the officers of the French navy will no
longer be witty with the assertion that Gamer
leans have put large guns in their turrets and
fire them three times an hour"
If worked by steam their value will be
greatly enhanced by the increased rapidity in
firing. These 11-inch guns can be withdrawn
from their ports lowered and loaded and re-
turned ready for firing in sixty seconds. The
horizontal range is obtained by rotating the
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ST.. PAuL.ADril 30 1864


At the meeting of the Ladies Branch of the
Sanitary Commission in this city, on Wednes-
doy last, the following letter was read before
the association. 1t is now published. in the
hope that the patriotic ardor of the Ladies of
Winona VIII serve to stimulate the Ladies of
st. Paul to redoubled eXertions. Shall it be
said that st. Paul yielded the palm, in most
noble and benevolent enterprise to one of her
primeval towns?
WINoNA, April 10Th, 1864.
DEAR MADAM-In a communication received
from you today by Mrs. E. 8. Youmans, of
this place, we are requested to become branch
of State Sanitary Commission, to be located
in St. Paul.
Since reading your letter, have looked over
the Treasurers account of our Society, and find
that we have expended for the benefit of the
soldiers. since the 18th of November, 1862, ex
actly $2,6Io.2o. Our Society was organized
ne date our years in this way. Now. while we
do not boast Of this and, indeed, consider it but
a small amount compared to what we
nsiqkt have done, and what it was our iutv
to do, yet we do not choose to become trim,
tary to Society located in a place CONTAINING
more than three times the number of inhabit,
ants that Winona contains, but which has not
sent one dollars worth of Sanitary supplies for
the past two years, as the published reports Of
the Northwest Sanitary Commission will show.
The whole of the above amount has been con.
tributed by the citizens of Winona, except
about $3.50, as we have not endeavored to form
societies, trusting to this until after the receipt
of circulars issued by the n. W. Sanitary Com
mission, about the first Of March, asking for
vegetables, few of which you enclosed in your
letter. We have now some thirty auxiliaries,
and are receiving and shipping at the rate of
fifty bushels per day We are also busily en-
gagged for the Mississippi Valley Sanitary Fair
will have q box worth $780, and, as contri-
button from Southern Minnesota, are maturing
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BAY.
From the Springfield Republican
We had a call on Saturday from Mr.. Samuel
III. Solomon, young man who formerly resiC-
ed here but who has been at the South ever
since the year before the war; lie has been To-
Gated at Mobile, but his business has call, d
him to every principal city of the Confedera :
cy. For time after the rebellion broke out
his alienage exempted him from military SER
vice. When the foreign cOnSulS We're driven
out lie had no longer any protection, and sent
a substitute into the army. By and by a change
IN the law compelled his substitute to serve in
| the army on his own account, and young Solo
mon was compelled to put another soldier
into the field. His investment in substitutes
altogether was s., 900. Recently, when the law
was SO changed as to call out every white man
between Il and 30 years, he made up his mind
to leave his business and the Confederacy.
matter OF the utmost difficulty to accomplish.
Eight weeks ago he succeeded in mystical
manner in getting pass to go forty miles
from Mobile, the extreme limit for which
passes were granted under the most urgent cir
cunlstances. Thence he passed through the
lines, occupying two weeks in getting forty
eight miles. travelling principally by night.
He eventually reached Holly SPRINGS and then
| came up the river via Memphis.
Mr.. Solomon reports Mobile so strongly de-
tended as to be regarded as almost impregna-
bic. He thinks it to be vulnerable only to a
| force coming from Pensacola. The bay is de-
| tended by two rams, One the Tennessee, very
| formidable, four iron clads and two floating
batteries Every white man is a soldier in
some capacity. There is considerable peace at
| any-price sentiment in Mobile, but the majority
OF the people look hopefully to ultimate indie
| pendence. In the country regions tiercer de-
termination to fight to the last is manifested
There is no scarcity of provisions in Mobile
| the inflated currency only making the prices
sound high. AS all kinds of wages have gone
up with the currency, little hardship is felt in
consequence except by the soldiers and their
families, the Government pay being unchanged
and hardly sufficient to keep the men in shirts.
lie gave 81, 500 in rebel currency for 800 in
gold. Greenbacks are clandestinely taken, the
rate being one to eleven. Trade was very ac
tive and many people were making money
Blockade running had fallen Off some since
Farragut appeared at Grants Pass. During
| recent visit to Charleston he found the result
OF the bombardment less serious than he had
been led TO expect.
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sufficient to more on Richmond south of the
James, and perhaps, as preliminary, take the
important city of Petersburg, it would seem
preferable to hazarding another Fredericks.
burg affair. The moment that Richmond or
the Railroad below it is seriously menaced.
Lees position on the Rapidan becomes ticklish.
and he must fall back, and if he il not wiser
than Pemberton, he may discover at last in the
Notifications of Richmond, another Vicksburg
trap.
If Lee persists in remaining on the Rapidan,
and divides his forces, the Army of the Poto-
mac, stripped as it is for rapid marches, and
guided by the man who handled the troops in
Mississippi last summer. will find way through
some mountain pass or unguarded ford to the
flank of the famous rebel army of Northern
Virginia, and force battle on fair terms
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A DISTINGUISHED VISITOR. - General
HENRY SANFORD Minister Plenipotentiary to
Belgium, arrived in our city yesterday, and is
Stopping for few days at the International.
L will be remembered by some citizens that
General Sanford visited Minnesota in 1910, and
once in 1916. None will forget the praise
he bestowed on the acts of our gallant First
Regiment, and the regard he has ever enter
tanned for our soldiers, our citizens and our
State. His munifcent gift of three guns that
are now on their way to this city, from
Washington, entities him to warm recep-
ton, not only at the hands of the military,
but at the hands of the municipal authorizes.
We feel sure that the gallant First will not
forget him, while we feel equally confident
that his visit will be duly appreciated by the
public generally
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st. Paul Produce Market.

ST Paul, Wednesday, May 4, 1864.
City buyers were paying for country produce yes
erday as follows:
BARLEY-$1 Is y bushel.
BEANs-$2.25 y bushel.
BEEswAx 40c y tb.
BEEF CATTLE-$S 50(94 90 o cwt
BUITER-25@3Oc y tb. for frkin; sO@3sc for bes,
table.
CoRN-$1@1 10 % bushel.
EeGs-12h@1sc y dozen.
HIDES, &c.-Dry Flint 1sc; Dry Sailed
15c; Green, Sc; Green Sailed, &c, cal
Skins Green, 1O9l2Nc. Sheep Pelts, fresh slaugh
LARD-15@1711c 4eb
MAPLE Sue AR-Dark, c0@21c; refined, qt@sec.
MUTToN-7c y h. live weight
OATs-S1c y bushel,
ONIoNs-$2(92 81 % bushel
PoRK-Dressed $3.50 y cwt.
POTATOES SOc@$1 y bnshel.
PouLrRY-12h@15c % ID.
TA'Low-9c % h.
WHEAr-S5@YOc o bushel.
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THE WEEKLY PIONEER AND DEMOCRAT.

a plan to have each farmer give one or more
bushels of wheat which, in the aggregate, we
hope will make five or six thousand bushels,
and be handsome contribution. We would
suggest the same plan for the northern part OF
the State, that the contributions might be
doubled.
The great reason why it would be impracti-
cable for us to send our supplies to Saint Paul,
is the double tax it would impose upon the
transportation Companies, who are already
contributing an amount scarcely realized.
Therefore, while we rejoice that you have
awakened out of your long sleep in the SANITY
we prefer to remain an individual organization
striving to equal you in your efforts, and to ercet
you if we can Respectfully,
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A STEAMBOAT IN THE STREET At S


ANTHoNY.-In hurried visit to st. Anthony
yesterday, we were interested in witnessing the
movement of the steamboat Enterprise, now
being brought around the Falls. She has been
drawn up the bank to the street and moved
short distance down the stream on blocks and
rollers. in the same manner and by the same
power as houses are often moved through our
Streets The distance from where she was
hauled out of the water to the point where it is
expected to launch her again into the river, is
about one mile. 1t will occupy about twenty
days to move her that distance, and to
put her safely in the water again. Before be.
ing taken out on dry land, the engine, boiler,
wheel, and all weight that could be spared was
taken off, leaving only the bare hull and cab
ms The Enterprise is 1928 feet long by % feet
BEAM was built in 1858 and made her first
trips from st. Anthony to st. Cloud in the fall
of that year. In 1859 and 1860 she had good
business above the Falls, but since that has
been laid up. Her hull is considered to be of
superior model for combining strength and
light draft with speed As she was intended
to ply in a swift stream her engine was unusu-
ally powerful for boat of the size, and it is
thought she can hold her place as one of the
fastest of our low water boats. Her draft,
light, is little less than II inches. The Enter
prise was built under the superintendent OF
Capt. Young. who is now charged with the
work of bringing her down to navigable water,
and who will have her thoroughly fitted up as
good as new, ready for the summer trade of
this port. She is the property of Capt Da-
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LOCAL AFFAIRS.
meteorological Notes for April, 1864.


The observation of last month has to be re.
peated, that very little progress has been made
towards spring. The grass is hardly greener
on the last day of April than it was on the first,
and the buds on the forest trees are just CON-
mencing to swell. The season has been re-
tarded by the continued absence of rain, and
by the prevalence of winds from the North. 1t
blew steadily from that quarter for the first
twenty days of the month and with four Or
five exceptions ice formed every night. We
must have rain soon, and that in large abund-
ance, or the crop of the State will not more
than suffice for its own consumption, and the
low stage of water will so enhance freights
that the expense Of living will be very serious.
ly increased.
The first boat through the Lake arrived on
the 18th. The same event occurred last year
on the 9th. But at this writing, the season if
fully three weeks behind that of 1863
Observations of the thermometer resulted rs
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Foreign Market.

LoNFos, April -.
WHEAT-Dull and rather lower
FLOUR-Neglected
fEEADsIUFfs-Du and tending downward
CoNsoLs-9ll, and 5Ss I'd for money
LIVERPOOL April y.
BEEADs1UFFs-Dul snd tending downward.
PRovisIoNs-(luiet and steady.
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SECOND SHARPsHooTERs-REoRUlrs.-
Sergt Folsom, of the Seventh Regiment, on
duty under Gel. Brydolf at the Recruiting Rem
devious, went down the river on Sunday in
charge of six recruits for the Minnesota COM
pany of the Second Sharpshooters on the Po-
tOmac
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MAJOR SIMEON SMITH, who has been con-
nected with the Pay Department of this Dis
trict ever since the war commenced has been
ordered to Lcavenworth, Kansas. Major
Smith has won troops of friends by his ccur-
tesy to all with whom he has beep brought in
contact in the discharge of his official duties
and their kind regards will follow him to his
ew field of service.
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MORE WOODEN MANUFACTURE AT ST..
ANTHoNY.-David Lewis has just returned
from the East bringing carding machine,
two spinners and two looms. Mr. Lewis, it
will be remembered, lost carding mill by fire
at the time of the burning of Scott & Morgan's
foundry and machine shop. The location is
not yet decided, but it is contemplated that Mr.
Lewis will put up his new machinery in the
second story of Barnard's furniture factory on
the mainland.
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MUSTERED OUT.-The line officers of
companies and E, First Regiment, Captains
Coates and Davis and Licuts Davis and Marty,
with the men of those companies whose term
of service has expired, were yesterday paid off
and mustered out of service
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A CHANCE FOR A BARBER.--.
IA The well known stand under Martins Photo
graph Gallery kept for years by the undersigned
with good run of custom, Is, on account OF SICK,
ness, offered for sale. If not sold soon, good hand
is wanted as help. Inquire on the premises OF
ap29-d&w1w G. BOLLAAN.
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COMM H ISSTAI-
New York Market.

NEW YorE May 5.
FLoUR-JC9Iac lower, and dull
WHEAT-Dull, 192c lower: l.69(al.l. Chicago
Spring and Milwaukee Club
CoRN-Dull, l.2o912sI
GOLD-Dull, S7(9SS
WHlsKY-Quiet; 1.22 offered, l.2, asked for Veg
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Sec. WinOna Sol. A. Society.

COUET-MARrIAL-Civil folks are begin
ming to believe there is a great deal of pugnaci-
ty among our military men of this State, which
ought to have an opportunity for exhibition
upon the Southern fields. Otherwise, why is
it necessary to keep general court-martial SO
long in session in this city, to settle, it is ru-
mored, in most of the many cases tried, petty
quarrcls between gentlemen of the shoulder
strap persuasion.
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The Fire Department Association yes
terday appropriated $25 of its interest money
to disabled member. The capital fund of the
Association is to be kept intact, but the inter.
est is to be reserved for such occasions
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JONES AGRICULTURAL WAREHOUSE This
is of the business establishments CT Saint Paul
which indicate the substantial increase of the indus
trial wealth of our State well the metropolitan
character of our city trade. Mr. Jones established
his business here in 1858, and found it to grow so
rapidly that in 1S60-6l he was justified in building
for it the large warehouse with a show room forty
feet wide by two hundred and forty feet deep which
he now occupies on Third street. Probablythere is
one house in the United States where the pratti-
cal farmer, other person interested in agricultural
matters, can learn more of what inventors and me-
chanics have done and are doing to facilitate and
cheaper the labor of farming. They can see here
reapers mowers threshing machines drills and SOW
ers plows cultivators and horse hoes; separators
and tanning mills mills crushers and shelters
smut machines and mill machinery; sugar mills;
steamers; churns; wash and wringng machines
all these and many more kinds of machinery of var
GUS patterns together with all farming implements,
everything from common hoe or churn to tn !.
best of steam or other machirery that may be re
quired in any farm house or on any farm and also
other machinery belonging to the mechanics of
farming country, such barrel and stave machinery
hand looms, &C, &c.
To his large stock hand and facilities for sup.
plying promptly all or any articles usually found in
an agricultural house, MIR. Jones invites the atten-
ton of the public by advertisement in the PIONEER
which contains, it will be seen correct picture of
his warehouse.
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EssONI BILE DGEsEEC

ARRIVAL OF AN INTELLIGENT FOREIGNER -
BOw HE GOT OFF Two RAMS IN MOBILE
BAY.
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From st. Anthony we learn that the
steamer Enterprise has progressed on her over
land voyage, around the Falls, as far as oppo-
site the mill office, this side of the depot.
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Three thousand rebel cavalry are above
Port Hudson, and it is said they intend to lay
waste the limitations cultivated by Yankees
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Total dep. of water for four mos, 1859.
A DISTINGUISHED VISITOR. Genera

Saint Paul, May 2, 1864.
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r ARGE MIRROR FOR SALE-An
IL Elegant Pier Glass, Trench plate.) Size of
glass, 90x26i aches Address Box 2S4, Pc.
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u IG 1T I'll 70 l. NJ T.
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An incident worth narratipg. re.
Gently occurred in Boone county. .bKy.
A wealthy planter, TIE owner Of val.
liable 'schattcls. I" and well known as \
rebel conservative, who intends to
vote for Mcclellan and PendIeton.
had fat and muscular negro who
was conscrlpted. His owner deter
mined to provide Substitute for him,
mounted his horse, rode into Coving.
ton, and for s550.eugsged an Ir;shman
to 60 as substitute, but without in-
forming him triwhom. Taken 70 The
Provost Marshal's Office, sworn in, pro-
vided With uniform and paid of, tho
Irishnan then for the FIRST time, ascer,
tained whom it was he was to repre-.
sent in the army. 1t is said his wrath
and profanity exceeded all bounds,
but it was too late to back out, and he
was sent to quarters. The Kentucky
democratic consas-ss..ssii,seeas ssa-s.sises who oppose
the conscription ofnegroes on this side
of Ohio, who object to arming the ne
groes, evidently value negro higher
than an Irishman. Rather than see !,
negro free they would !. drive the
whole Irisl, population into slaughter
pens"lCin. Com. nt.aa4