The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1864-09-16
that it is pure invention, and that Othello
has never been played at all on the Island


has never been played at all on the Island
of Hayti.
The Missouri Republican mentions
that on the I'd inst, when the thermome-
ter on northern wall stood at 1O1 deg.
F., pears exposed to the rays of the sun
"were absolutely cooked-done brown
by the heat Of the sum-"
The whole number of National Banks
at this time is five hundred and eight, with
total capital Of eighty-three millions
three hundred and sixty-four thousand
dollars, and a circulation of forty-four
millions four hundred and twenty-eight
thousand, two hundred and fifty dollars.
The Newburyport (Mass.,) Herald,
Republican sheet, says "The Democratic
papers say there have been political
changes in their favor since Mr.. Iincoln's
letter demanding the abandonment OF
slavery before peace, and we believe that
this time they tell the truth"
An attempt was made to fire gov
eminent warehouse in st. Louis recently
by an "infernal machine" The machine
exploded, but prompt discovery of the fire
enabled the watchmen to put it out. The
warehouse contained over 100000
worth of army stores.
The Sandwich islanders are in trouble
Their King wants to establish State
church of which he will be the recognized
head, which the people oppose, and he
annuls their constitution more formally
but not more plainly than King Lincoln
has annulled ours.
The propeller Scotia was struck by
the propeller Arctic on Lake Erie, at mid
night of Friday, the I'd, and sunk in few
minutes. Two passengers and six of the
crew were drowned.
"A Republican paper says: cit is
roughly calculated that within the next
year there will be three more drafts" To
which the Providence Post responds:
eve should say that it was rough"
The Canadians have been specializing
largely the past two years and are now
fearing a financial crisis, and a general
break down. The banks are curtailing
their business to the great discomfort of
their borrowers.
The Journal of Commerce points out sin.
gular error in the Presidents last proclama-
ton for troops, in ordering that the draft
should take place Immediately after the 9th
of September, 1864, being fifty days after the
date " of his call. The official copy of the law
under which the call was made requires that
sirty days shall be given for filling quotas under
the call, and accordingly the draft should have
been ordered for the sixteenth instead of the
sixth of September. This error may account
for the present delay in commencing the draft.
The copy of the law published by most of the
newspapers of the country contained the same
error copied by the President in his procla-
nation.
The rebels confined at the prisoners camp
at Elmira, N. Y, have frequent religious SER
vices, at their own request, and themselves Sc
lect the clergyman to officiate, from among
those resident in that city. Their devotional
spirit is supposed to be strengthened by their
confinement. Some of them profess to be
Union men, forced into the rebel service
many are anxious to take the oath of allie
glance and not be exchanged.
The number of Americans going to Cana
da is increasing daily. The Milwaukee papers
mention party of the Canada sneaks" going
to an Office to purchase tickets for Canada.
When asked to what part of Canada they
wished to 60, one of them answered that they
didn't "care d-n, only SO they got to Can
ada."
The Chicago Times accounts for the neg
lect to open the first days session of the Ma
tional Convention with prayer, by a statement
that the clergyman invited to officiate on that
day declined, because, as he said, his church
was largely Republican. and his vestry wholly
so, and he was fearful that compliance by him
with the invitation would make trouble in his
church."
Jesse D. Bright has sold oil his Kentucky
possessions, freed his negroes, given them
each sum of money sufficient to commence
the world with, and has, with his family, gone
to Europe, there to remain until after the war
"A Republican newspaper in Ohio seems to
be in bad fix. One of its proprietors has run
away to Canada to escape the draft or the sher-
if, and its foreman has eloped with the female
cOmpOsitOr.
The Hudson Gazette relates that on the list
instant a colored woman living at Chatham
Four Corners, New York, put up her son at
auction, at her house, as substitute. and sold
him to the highest bidder. me lad, who was
a good looking robust young darkey, was
started at 5000 and ran up to 81 1000, at which
price he was knocked down to lawyer of that
village.
The Union officers, prisoners at Charles
ton, s. c., according to letter from one Of
their number, are better satisfied with their
treatment there than anywhere they had been
in the Confederacy, both in regard to their re-
ceiving more to eat and their being more
kindly treated. Six hundred of them are con-
fined there within range of our guns, but not
feeling themselves in any danger.
1t is reported that another extraordinary
mineral discovery has been made on Lake Su-