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The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1865-04-07

From the Daily Of Wednesday s#
REoRuITINa.-Eleven men were MUSTER
ed at Capt. Keiths Office yesterday for the fol-
lowing organizations:
Engineer Corps. 4
Let Infantry. 4
substitutes ......... ..... .............. 3
.H.. II
Drafting was suspended yesterday, and
quiet time prevailed generally.
Thirteen men were mustered at Rochester on
Monday.
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1865-04-07
Milwaukee Markets.

MILWAUKEE, April 4, 1862 r. 4.
WHBAr-Firmer
GOLD- Buying at 140@143Is.
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1865-04-07
City Government for 1866.

MAYOR,
JOHN 8. PRINCE.
CITY ATTORNEY,
ISAAC V. D. HEARD.
COMPTROLLER,
HENRY SHEFFBAUER.
CITY TREASURER,
CHARLES T. WHITNEY.
STREET COMMISSIONER,
JOHN DOWLAN.
CITY JUSTICE,
A. McELRATH.
ASSESSOR,
j. w. McCLUNG.
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1865-04-07
MARRIED..

At Knuckbee, County Cork Ireland. on the 9th of
March, BY Rev. VIM. Wasley, Mr. ROBERT BRY.
AN. OF st. Paul, Minnesota, to Miss JANE JEN-
NINGS.
Mr. Bryan is no on his way home with bis bride
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1865-04-07

The prominent features of the month were
its extremely low temperature and the large
amount of snow deposited. On the morning
of the 4th at Z A. M. the mercury stood at 26e
below zero. and at an earlier hour, in various
parts of the city, at from 39a to 33a below.
The following week was one of continued cold,
and on the mornings of the 10th and 18th
each, the mercury reached 13a below zero.
This protracted term reduced the mean tenn
perature of the month lower than it has been
for nine years, and, perhaps, for longer pc.
Rod. The mean temperature of February was
only half of degree more.
The unusual fall of twenty-one inches of
snow encourages the hope that the long and
trying drouth of two years has terminated,
and that the seasons of this country are re-
turning to their normal condition. A full
river, of which there seems now fair prom
Use, will give immense relief to every class in
the community, chsapening freights, opening
market to millions of bushels of wheat and
replenishing our empty lumber yards.
Thermometrical observations gave the fol
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1865-04-07

Maximum of the month, (30th). ..57e
Minimum do (4thl .......-26e
Highest daily mean (30th). ...43e
Lowest daily mean (4th). -1Xe
Greatest daily range (4th). ..36s
Least daily range (20th). ....... 90
Range of the month .83e
Mean temperature of the month .24o93
Mean cloudiness of the month .......... So
Mean force of the wind. .............2.
Rain fell on two days and snow on nine TO
the amount of q inches), yielding 2.1O inches
of water.
The prevailing winds were from the g. E.
and N. w.
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1865-04-07
THE PRODUCE MARKETS.

ST. PAUL, Wednesday, April s, 1916.
We have but slight changes to note in the Produce
markets since last week. The bad roads haye pre.
vented farmers from coming In, and hence, while
prices would have declined under more full supply.
they remain comparatively firm at nearly our las
weeks quotations. We quote:
BARLxx-$1. 20 q bushel.
BEAks-$2250a.1 50 y bushel; Nav, $500.
BKDwAx SOC y h.
BH1 CAr1Ls-$A50 0s 90 y cwt., live weight. &.
Bxu7By the quarter 7@1Oc q h. .
BuzTEs-29c y b. for 6rkin: csc for best
table.
CoRN-Ear, 81 90; sheled, S1.l0 .sl
CoaN MEAL-Wholesale, s.. 90; retail, $3.50.
Esas-27c dozen.
FLOUR- Who1eaaLe RAkaa
SuPernne ....!,........$60c S1t0
'''''.................... I.W !tO
H11-Timothy. siSoi7 y ton naisS SIC. '
o. H%.s, Green, e; Dry, 1oc; Green oif
HoHsI--Prime new, ssosse vn.
LAlD-20023c . h.
Murros--611e I. b. live weight. 81.
OATs-68c 9 bushel.
ONuons-sa7t0s00 y baehel.
PoRx-$1I o001s 90 = cwt
PoULdHY-2tc = b. .
PofAIons-760S0c q buehSl ... - .s.
RrH-t1.10 y bushel 49,.
TALLow-10c . H. '.
WHIAF-900S6c Y bushel l 1-
WooL-4S9soc y h Unwashed, onethird oG.
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1865-04-07
From theiD Daily Of Tuesday.
RsoRUrnNa.-Eighteen men were mus.
tered at Capt. Keith's Office yesterday, as fols
From the Daily Of Sundsy.

From the DAILY OF EuHdsy.
Saturdays are dull days
for enlisting. Yesterday but four men were
for Hancock's Corps. We had hoped that the
towns in this district would have filed their
quotas without further draft, and il seems
almost . pity that the small number of men re-
quired to i'll up the quotas of tho delinquent
towns, q List OF which, together with their de-
fciencies, We publish this morning, could not,
be obtained by enlistments. Drafting will be
resumed according to notice heretofore given
on Monday, to fll the quotas of the delinquent
towns in both districts. 80
There were 136 men mustered at Captain
Keiths office during the past week against 154
the week before. They were distributed as
follows:
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1865-04-28
Clean Your Cellars.

If not already done, thoroughly purge this
subterranean story of your house. Every de-
cayed onion, cabbage stump, potatoe vine or
tuber, turnip, pursnip, carrott and all the dirt
they have made, all straw and rubbish, rake
them up and out with them. The cellar is no
place for them at any time of the year. If you
still retain a few potatoes for table use let them
be picked over and ali decayed ones removed.
One of the best housewives of our acquaint-
anee, greeted US not long since. with an invita-
ton to come and see her cellar. Il have swept
down every cobweb, whitewashed the walls,
swept up the floor, and sowed it with salt"
Decayed vegetable matter is q fertile cause of
disease; and there is enough OF it out of doors
in this country without heaping it up in the
cellar fof-the special purpose, it would almost
seem, of breeding fevers. Whi,ewash the
walls, for lime purifes as well as beautifes.--
Rake down the cobwebs, they are the infalible
marks of a slattern. Salt destroys worms, &c.
If your cellar is very dry and sandy. you may
use salt without detriment but if too damp it
will make the matter worse.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1865-04-28
The Revolutionary Effects orthc War L pom
the Country,

No one can question that q gfander develop
ment of this nation is to flow as a direct result
from the war we have just passed through.
Wars for national life and d great cause always
develop, invigorate and inspirit people, how
ever small their power may be; and If they are
finally crushed by such wars they go down
better ond greater people than they were when
the war began-a people higher in the social
scale. But when war is waged on so stu
pendous a scale as ours has been, and by peo-
pie with SO much intellectual aad moral force,
so much capability OF growth, it cannot be but
that the changes and progress that it must in
duce will be such as to belittle all the examples
of the past and to revolutionze completely the
present.
We believe that the influence in that way
that the war is to have upon the country will
amount to scarcely less than Il new organlza-
ton of our national life. Through all the fu-
ture we shall be a different people from that we
have been. We have sloughed away in these
few terrible years the forms of the older life,
and already we are taking new ones with an i'll
stinctive sense of what we are to be. Our ma
tional character grows larger in the contempla-
ton of what we have done and by contact with
great events. In the seventy years past Amer
leans showed that the rudimentary freemen OF
the revolutionary days, developing all the arts
'Ol peace, COulu ue SlSdtSl uiSChaHlNSi lhNSu'-
ors, traders and sailors than any other men
and now we have 81 own that Americans, taunt-
ed for their success in those arts and their love
of the almighty dollar" are possessed also of
the grander manhood that succeeds in war I;
that they make also better soldiers than any
other men, and that they can carry war to the
same high pitch of development that they have
carried so many other arts. The consciousness
of this influences the national mind and char
acter, and will stamp with large and noble
spirit the literature, history and philosophy
that will grow out oft.
Our national industry any commerce will al
so feel this revolutionary effect, and vastly i'm
proved and enlarged commercial and financial
systems will be the result. The undaunted
spirit of the navy will communicate itself to
mercantile marine that will make our flag fa-
miliar on every sea, and the world will derive
new wealth from the fact that the attention of
this people has been for the first time ixed up
on the great question incident TO the national
finances Industry. assuming a thousand new
forms, will give us the full benefit of the un-
told resources of this great continent, and we
shall be richer, more prosperous in all ways,
more happy and more free than we ever were,
or than any other people ever were. From the
memorable epoch Of the closing of this war the
great revolution in our national life begins, and
we take fresh and glorious start.-M Y.
Herald.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1865-04-28
The IIcroism of an A ssn uIt.

One reads in the papers of the assaults on
earthworks, Of the repulses, and yet one does
not know what is contained in these words
Assault repulsed' You make up your mind
to assault the enemy's works. You have formed
a line of battle, with second and third lines be-
hind you for support. You march forth filed
with the determination TO accomplish the OBJ
ject yet feeling the magnitude of the under
taking. Two hundred yards brings YOU to the
picket line, and here the operation commences.
You dash across the open space between the
two lines, you lose few men and the enemy's
pickets, after making as much noise as possible,
run back 10 their main works. BY this time
the enemy are sure you are really coming and
open on you with artillery, besides a pretty
heavy fire of mu,i,ctyy. This artillery throws
the shell screaming through your ranks pro-
ducing more moral than physical effect, or
throws shrapne, which, bursting in front, scat
ter myriads of small bullets around. You COM
mence to lose men rapidly. The ball is opened.
Forward, double-quick again and while the
whole line of the enemy open fire from behind
their works, your men, mindless of ths-mind-
less Of the death intensified, the bullets and the
shells-dash on with wild cheers. The abatis
with its intricacy of sharpened branches snares
your line. Tripping, falling, rising to fall again.,
the men struggle through this abatis. You get
through this abatis, though the minutes are
drawn out interminably, and though in each
step are left brave men to pay for the ground.
You get through, part OF you, and still rush
on; the firing grows more fierce, the men grow
more desperate. Your three lines have been
almost reduced to one, and you strike another
line of abatis. In this abais are the palisades,
which must be uprooed by force before a man,
can pass. You stumble, fall, tear your flesh on
these stakes, you must stop to pull them up
stop, when you are already gasping for breath
and here open up the masked batteries, pour
ing the canister into that writhing, struggling,
bleeding mass-so close that the flame scorches,
that the smoke blinds from those guns. Is it
any wonder that your three lines are torn to
pieces, and have to give back before the re-
doubled fire OF an enemy as yet uninjured, COM
paratively? And then the slaughter of re-
treat there Ohentimes it is preferable to lie
down and take the fire there until night, rather
than lose all by falling back under such circum-
stances.
This war has demonstrated that earthworks
can be rendered nearly impregnable on either
side against direct assault. An attack on for
tilted lines must cost fearful price, and should
be well weighed whether the cost exceeds not
the gain. This, then, is what an assault means
"a slaughter-pen, a charnel-house, and an ar
my of weeping methers and sisters at home
1t is inevitable. When an assault is success
full, it is to be hoped that the public gain may
warrant the loss of life requisite. When it is
repulsed, tenfold is the mourning.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1865-04-28

After an extensive practice of upwards of twenty years.
continues Patents In the United States also in
reat Britain France, and other foreign countries. Caveats
Specifications Bonds Assignments AMI all Papers or Draw
patch Researches made into American Foreign works,
20 determine the validity or utility of Patents Inventions
legal advice rendered in all matters touching
the Copies Of the claims Of any Patent furnished by
remitting One Dollar Assignments recorded at Washing
ton.
The Agency Is not only the largest in New ngland but
through il inventors have advantages tor securing Patents
aseertaning the paenabty of Inventions unsurpassed
by II not mmeasuraby superior to- which be OF
ered them The test monias below given prove
that none Is MORE SUCCESSFUL AT THE PATENT or
FICE than the subscriber and SUCCESS is THE BEST
PROOF OF ADVANTAGES AND ABILITY, he would add
that he abundant to believe and prove that
other Office of the kind the charges for professional
services moderate The immense practice Of the subscT-
during twenty past has enabled him to
collection of specifications and official decisions
relative to Patents.
These besides his extensive library legal and mechan
ca works, and full accounts of patents granted In the
United States and Europe render him able beyond ques
tion, to offer superior facilities for obtaining Patents
All necessity of journey to Washington 10 procure pa
tent and the usual great delay thee are here saved In
ventors.
cessfi practitioners with whom have had oicalinter-
COURSE" CHARLES MASON,
Commissioner OF Patents
have no hesitation assuring inventors that they
not employ person competent and trustworthy, and
capable Of putting their applications In form to secure
for them early and favorable consideration at the Patent
Ohce EDMUND BURKE,
Late Commissioner Of Patents
"Mr. r. II. Eddy has made for me THIRTEEN applca
tons but which patents have been granted
that Is pending Such unmisakable proof Of great
talent and ability his part leads me to recommend al
ventors to apply TO him 10 procure their patents as they
may he of having the most faithful attention bestowed
on their cases, and at very reasonable charges
JOHN TAGGART.
During eight months, the subscriber his large
practice made on fpet rejected applications, SIXTEEN
APPEALs, EVERY ONEof which was decided In MS lapOr
by the Commissioner Of Patents. X. IL. EDDY.
Boston, Jan. l, lbO5-ly53
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1865-04-28

consult my own feelings alone, but to give an
account to the whole people. (Applause.)
In regard to my future course | will now
make no profession, no pledges. have been
connected somewhat actively with public af
fairs, and TO the history OF my public acts, which
is familiar to you, refer for those principles
which have governed me heretofore and will
guide me hereafter. In general, l will say
have long labored for the ameoration and ele-
vation of the mass of mankind.
My opinions as to the nature Of popular gov
ernment have long been cherished, and consti-
tuted as l am, it is now too late in life for me
to change them. believe that government was
made for man, and not man for government.
This struggle Of the people against The most
gigantic rebellion the world ever saw has de-
monstraied that the attachment of the people
to their Government is the strongest National
defense human wisdom can devise. (Appause)
So long as each man feels that interest, SO long
us the public heart turns in the right direction
and the people understand and appreciate the
theory ofour Government and love liberty, our
constitution will be transmitted unimpaired.
If the time ever comes when the people shall
fail, the Government will fail, and we shall
cease to be one of The nations Of the earth. Az
ter having preserved our form of free govern
ment and shown its power to maintain its ex-
istence through the vicisstudes of nearly CEN
tury, it may be that it was necessary for us to
pass through this last ordeal of intestine strife
to prove that the Government will not perish
from internal Weakness, but will stand able TO
defend itself against all foes and punish treas
on. (Applause.)
In the dealings of an inscrutable Providence
and by the operations Of the Constitution have
been thrown unexpectedly into this position.
My past life, especially my course during the
present unholy rebellion, is before you. have
no principles to reti act. defy any one to
point to any of my public acts at variance with
fixed principles which have guided me through
life. have no professions to offer-profess-
ions and promises would be worth nothing at
this time. No one can foresee the circumstances
that will hereafter arise. Had any man, gifted
with prescience four years ago, entered and
written down in advance the events of this pc
riod, the story would have seemed more mar
vellous than anything in "Arabsn Nights.
shall not attempt to anticipate the future. AS
events occur and it becomes necessary for me
to act shall dispose Of each it arises, defer
ring any declaration or message until it can be
written paragraph by paragraph in the light of
events as they transpire."
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1865-04-28

A correspondent of the Rural New Yorker
"a. J. W." gives the following directions for
raising cucumbers:
"Take a tight barrel with one head, and
make some eight or ten holes at the bulge of
the barrel, with a small bit-say three -fourths
of an inch-and sink the barrel in the ground
level with the surface of the ground Then fill
the barrel with stone up as high as the holes,
snd put on about four inches of straw then
fill up the balance with good rich loan, and
fill the barrel up with water and plant plenty of
seed so that you can thin them out to six or
eight stalks. In case of drouth put pail of
water in the barrel about once week. I rais-
ed off three barrels, planted this way, over four
barrels OF pickles; and if they are well water
ed, through bearing season, they will bear well
until the frost kills the vines.
One needs a scaifold to let the vines run on:
Say take four poles, ten feet long, and set them
about four feet apart with one end on the
ground, and raise the other some five feet high
with pieces of lath or brush laid across, and I
will insure that you will have no crooked Gu
cumbers,
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1865-04-28

FUTURE HoUsEKEEPERs.-We sometimes
catch ourselves wondering how many CT the
Young ladies whom We meet with, are to per-
form the part of housekeepers, when the young
men who now eye them so admringy, have
persuaded them to become their wives9 We
listen to those young ladies of whom we speak,
and hear them not only acknowledging but
boasting Of their ignorance of all household
duties, as if nothing would SO lower them in
the estimation of THEN friends, as the confess
ion OF an ability to bake bread and pies, or cook
a piece of meat, or disposition to engage in
any useful employment. Speaking from our
own youthful recollections, we are free to say
that taper fingers and lilly hands are very pret-
ty TO look at with young mans eyes, and
sometimes we have known the artless inno-
cence of practical knowledge displayed by a
young miss to appear rather interesting than
otherwise. But we have lived long enough TO
learn that life is full Of rugged experience, and
that the most loving, romantic and delicate
people must live on cooked or otherwise food,
and the house kept clean and tidy by industri-
Gus hands. And for all the practical purposes
of married life it is generally found that for a
husband to sit and gaze at his wife's taper fin
gers and lilly hands, or Tor wife to sit and be
looked at and admired, does not make the pot
boil, or put the smallest piece of food therein.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1865-04-28

The toll imposed by fashion, if imposed by
poverty and necessity would be regarded as
the most irksome thing imaginable. Take for
example, the gay and fashionable bellies Of Pa
risi they work harder than galley slaves. Think,
says some thoughtful writer, OF young mar
ried lady, with rapidly filling nursery, going
out night after night, coming home on Monday
say, at one o'clock, on Tuesday at four, on
Wednesday at midnight, on Thursday at three.
on Friday at four winding up the weeks work
on Saturday by coming home in the broad day
light at seven o'clock. and commencing the
new week with an afternoon concert, dinner
and q soireel
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1865-04-28
For he Vermont Phamr.
LINES TO THE MAY-FLOWER.

Floweret of the early Mayl
OF the fresh and happy time
Wilt thou, here, no longer stay?
Nor behold the Summer prime?
On the threshold of the year,
Pausing like bashful guest;
Art thou not, then, to appear
With thy friends, in Summer, drest2
MOI thou foweret Of the Springl
OF May-day, pure and bright!
Summer suns shall never bring
Ger the earth thy gentle light!
But, where budding branches wave,
Thou dost shed thy soft perfume,
On the confines of the grave,
Mid the purlleus of thy tomb!
There are other forms than thine,
Made like thee of heavenly ray,
That, as soon, must know decline,
And, as early, feel decay
Laughing lip and sun-bright eye,
Rosy tint and golden braid,
Are, too soon, to wilt and die,
And, too early, fit and fade!
But, like one, who, looking far,
Sees all earthly things more dear,
So thy looks most cheerful nre,
Floweret of the early year!
And thus let the glances bsapi,
From the fair ones of our earth
Thus, oh thus! their presence seem
Harbnger of woodland mirth!
Fill the woodland paths with glee,
Like the May-6ower, warm with love!
Cheerful let our Spring time be;
With the hope that looks above!
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1865-04-28

VERY UNFORTUNATE. - A young medical
student from Michigan, who had been attend
ing lectures in New York for some time and
who considered himself exceedingly good look
ing and fascinating, made deadly onset on the
heart and fortune of a blooming young lady
who was boarding in the same family with him.
After prolonged siege the lady surrendered.
They were married on Wednesday morning.
The same afternoon the young wife sent for
and exhibited 10 the astonished student a beau
tiful little daughter aged three and a half
years.
GOOD heavens then you was a widow ~
exclaimed the student.
ayes, my dear, and this is Amelia, my young
est; tomorrow, Augustus James and Reuben
will arrive from the country, and then | shall
have my children together once more"
The unhappy student replied not a word his
feelings were Too deep for utterance. The next
day the other "lttle darlings" arrived from the
country-Reuben six years, James nine, and
Augustus saucy boy of twelve. They were
delighted to hear they had new papa; be-
cause they could now live at home and have all
the playthings they wanted. The "new papa,
as soon as he could speak, remarked that Au-
gustus and James did not much resemble Reu-
ben and Amelia.
"Well, no." said the happy mother; my first
husband was quite different style of man from
my second-compleXion, temperament, the col
or Of hair and eyes-all different"
This was too much. lie had not only mar
ried a widow, but was her third husband, and
the astonished step-iather of four children.
But fortune, thought he, that will make
amends. He spoke Of her fortune.
"These are my treasures" said she, in the
Roman ma,ron style, pointing to her children.
The conceit was now quite out of the Michi-
gander, who, finding that he had made com
plete goose of himself retired TO his farn, in his
own native State, where he could have chance
Of making "hs" boys useful, and make them
sweat for the deceit practiced upon him by their
mother.