The weekly pioneer and Democrat., 1864-04-29
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2ounudnce OF green SauZe. She was
asked politely by gentleman what she
represented. "The sea, monsieur" cat
ow tide, then, madam" The lady blushed
and the gentlemsn smiled.
The New Orleans Picayune says the
chief idea Of the negroes there is unlimit-
Gu license to do as they please, to avoid
WORK, and sell liquor to the soldiers.
The Rome (Ga.) Sentinel complains
.aa' our troops have better bayonets than
.ne reoeis. We expect the poor rebs to
Jake our oayonets very much to heart
Louisville journal.
-Ihe New York Jou1mal Of Commerce
says sit will be a new dodge in legislation
to tack on to every party measure a.
Resolved, that every one who opposes
this plan is an unworthy member. This
is the Colfax radical plan for covering
America -
Captain Even Caldwell, long known
as one OF the most successful shipmaeters
belonging TO Boston, died at Ipswich,
Massachusetts, on the 18th inst, aged 66
years. He commanded the packet shin
Dorchester when she was overwhelmed
by tremendous >ea which swept away
Aer rnasts and nearly filled her with water,
but was sarel from utter destruction by
his skill and perseverance.
"A St. Louis paper notes ii footprint in
a rock which is thus described "It is the
perfect impress of an Indian foot with the
mCccasin or, and was taken out of solid
rock, two and half feet below the sir
face Of the strata, when quarryine the
wharf at Arrow Rock, in Saline county.
The Impression is rough, because there
has been no action of the water upon it.
MI II. G. Miller, OF Arrow Rcck, who
presents it to Us, saw this footprint when
it was ezcavated., When xas the impress
sion made?"
The American Board of Commission.
ers Of Foreign Missions acknowledge the
receipt of one Thousand dollars. from
James Stokes, Esq, to constitute General
and Mrs. George B. Mcclellan honorary
members of the Board
speaking OF rising with the lark, Arte-
mas Ward says he should prefer to rise
with gold
Henry Ward l}eecher llas bought
$500 pair Of Morgan horses at South Roy
alton, Vermont
Thomas Blanchard, Esq of Boston,
died on the 10th inst. lie was widely
known as an inventor, and has always de-
voted his life to mechanical pursuits.
Amcng lis Inventions we're the machine
for turning irregular bodies, such as gun
stocks, lasts, axe-handlss, ox,yokes, busts,
&c. the machine for ,rortising gunst9cks
for setting the locks; tie nachins for
bending timber, called the ''Compound
Bend" and the tuck machine.
---:SGch paragraphs as the follywing f-o.n
Louisville paper are becoming frequent
in our exchanges:
y young. looking soldier Girl who had served
twenty months in an Indiana regiment. snd
participated III several hard contested engage
ments. became tired OF the service and don.
ming female apparel again. crossed the Chic
river recently on her way to her long foisai1en
home. She had received two severe wounds
in battle, which will remain to remind her of
her Jolly TO the latest years of her life. The
reason for entering the service is the old story,
love and romance.
When man discovers an oil well
upon his premites in these days his fortune
is made. Witness these prices recently
paid to farmers IN western Pennsylvania
Among the sales recently made are the
Parker farm for 5000, 900; the Funk farm
for $4,000 the King farm Tor $50, 900;
the Noble IL Delamater we'll and territory
for 100000; the Esbert for 100000
This property is all ON Oil Greek, but the
excitement is not confined to the creek
alone
The printers of Atlanta, Georgia,
having struck" for $l.s7 per thousand
ems, the four journals published at that
place have been compelled to suspend pub
lication. As soon as the printers quilted
work, however, the conscript officers
seized them and marched them off to
camp.
The Washington correspondent of the
Commercial Adcertiser writes to that
journal =" The omission of the Commit
tee on the Conduct of the War to take the
testimony of Major Hay, when it was evil
dent from Mr.. Lincoln's letter that he had
been sent to General Gilmore with inn
portanr verbal dispatches on the Florida
expedition, has done much to ipjure the
reputation of the committee"
"A whole family, named McMann, and
numbering five persons, were burned to
death at Tarport, Pennsylvania. on the sth
instant. Their house took fire at two
O'Clock in the morning, and they were un-
able to escape.
"A few days since one James Rusb Of
Bath, Me-, was so frightened BY the sud.
den discharge of a gun that he was taken
with bleeding at the lungs and. died in 90
minutes. ass f.fres
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