The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1864-08-26
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NEWS FROM PETERSBURG.
Kftcct Of the Bonnbardm entAsA bsencs
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topic The last approximate to sensation was
that we had mined prominent position Of the
enemy and made some attempts to explode the
magazine, but from meunkn0wn reason, the
thing would not take, and up to last accounts
the experiment had proven failure. II this Is
true, it is probable that the enemy Slapped the
gallery and poured cold water on the maya
zine. ~ ss-a ,5frlsy.s >fs.,,.., $50 - -.
only accumulated bricks and other building
materials in the streets, without seriously hurt.
ing anybody. Now and then o house is fired,
and the light affording target for the gunners,
shells are rained in upon the fire to prevent its
extinction and to extend the confiagratiOn.
The fire department has worked nObly, not
withstanding the danger to which it is expos
ed, and in no instance has it failed to restrict
the fire to comparatively ordinary limits. As
the position of the enemy's right enables them
to command full view Of nearly the whole
city, and to- Judge with sufficient correctness
the range of their shells, there can be no i'm
propriety in saying that they have done con-
siderable damage to the property of the citi-
zens. 05r+ 4s..s
Some two or three hundred shells of differ
ent calibres and characters have been sent
whizzing through many richly decorated par
lor and tidily kept chamber, smashing into
,smitheneens stout cornices and fragile orna-
ments, making all furniture mess of frag-
ments, and stripping the walls to the lattice
and joists, of their polished cement and plain
plaster, to smother up the wreck and complete
the destruction. Parties have been invaded,
and unmercifuI crashes sent breaking and ring
ing through piles. of crockery and rows of jars,
whose precious contents still swim or stick in
sweet ruin upon the indented floors and caved-
In shelves that mark the scenes of the disaster.
Libraries, too, have shared equal fate with
smOke-houses; and while children of the lar
hmm f,Oy,7 of IN,
tellectual pabulum, the lesser can cry about
for the more substantial meet, which last seen
was in the air, or flying into a state of savOry
nothinguess inside the blaZes of q cODfiagra-
ton. Owing to these and Similar events, the
city has become almost deserted. To as great
an extent as possible, it has been the aim of
General Lee to move no troops through it
none are kept in it at any time. They are all
in the trenches, where they may be found by
the enemy wheneverit behooves the latter to
come out and look for them. ~ A., --a.5r ~
As to the positions Of the enemy nothing
could he more agreeable, in q military sense,
to our Generals. Whether it is because there
is no water to the south of the city, or whether
it is necessary to keep the army in q petty
status, the better to secure the protection of
Washington or not, we cannot confidently tell !;
but it is quite certain that the enemys line of
battle before Petersburg is from some necessity
or other extremely short. 'ShOrt is the
word for it, for although the Federal lines ex-
tend across to Deep Bottom, that part which
lies in front of Petersburg, instead of being
the main body in appearance, as it is in fact,
is more like the bobtail of the bushy kind. The
Federal lines commence on the AppOmattOX,
just about a mile below, the city, upon o bluff,
which is the location Of battery No. l. COM
handing partial view of all the lower part
of the city. ~ k1S "a sAse'Sa b54idaIoJ / -
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From the Bristol Gazette. .lil2ii' is3sa % 80
The Federals in Knoxville are carrying
things with a high hand, as usual, ..treasuring
I'D wrath for the day of wrath"
They are continuing their ldastardIy course
toward the Southern women, whom the for.
tunes of war have left in their hands by reason
of their occupation of East Tennessee. 1t is
homes the wife and daughter Of Brig Gen! j.
G. Vaughn, and have consigned, them-to the
walls of one of their many bastileS, whilst all
the females of Judge Van Dykes family have
been, like their aged and venerable father, torn
from their hearthst0nes and spirited away to
some unknown prison, without the shadow Of
o trial, or even the Formally of an accusation.
Be Mrs. DR.. j. G. M. Ramsay, and her, daurh.!
ter Mrs. Bruck, arrived here under flag of,
truce from Knoxville a few days since q They,
were accompanied by Miss Carrie Law. who
has for more than three months past been held
without any charge whatever against her
as close prisoner, during alt which time she
has been treated with much rigor and severity
the inhuman Officials not suffering her clothing
to besent to her, OR even allowing her change
OF raiment for five weeks. - 1-f+-'
It is reported that q large number of wound
ed Yankees are being transferred from the rear
of Shermans army to Knoxville, one account
being that 5000 have already reached that
point. A large number have been sent to
Athens, Tennessee 9 A37g7ii9a aAstaH ~
The work of plumber and fapine continues
to go on through all lower East Tennessee, nm
der the immediate eye of Yankee officers, who
are inspired 70 commit their bloody atrocities
by the furious Trades of the infamous Brown
low, who weekly urges them to kill, murder
and destroy Southern men whenever and
wherever found. often designating by name
dozens of individuals personally obnoxious to
him, whom he calls on Union soldiers to shoot
!, Brig. Gen. Sam. Carter defends himself over
his own signature in q late number of Brown
lows paper for having arrested one of Billy
Heskell's negroes who was, with a pistol in
hand, hunting his former master for the pur-
pose of killing him.
into school-rooms for niggers. Upon special
application to- General Curtis, the negro
wench who acts as head schoolmarm, was re-
Gently placed in full possession of the old
Strong mansion on Cumberland street, as q
residence for herself Gen. Brooks and family
being summarily elected to make room for her
noble majesty. Yet the low-lived dogs who
have come under the Federal despotism by re-
manning in Knoxville, tamely submit to such
acts, with but here and therea word ofremon-
STRANGE. 80.
Fort Sanders has been greatly enlarged and
strengthened and now covers several acres of
srgun0.o Sl a3h gas.el an3 ~
There have been few deaths among the old
residents and but one marriage TO the invad-
ers since Lieut.. Bakers Niger girl united her
destiny with the Yankee Lieut. New lliams.
The old tories of the town seem to fear the
contamination ais they are sending Off their
marriageable daughters to Cincinnati, Potts.
neld, Lexington and other points, under pre-
text OF placing them at school. ,s.,,e o.s.f -
/. SANITARY SuPPI1Es. - Colonel JAMES, X
BAKER. Commanding District of St. LOUIS;
No., requests that all Ainnesotaorgani
tionsin the Southwest requiring supplies
will forward their acquisitions to him, and
hewillsee that the necessary articles are,
promptly forwarded. a9 ssog els
sI-a.Tweuty seven oladiesI of New Redfbrfo