The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1861-06-14

| corps OF German SharpshO0ters are ordered
to march to Virginia on Wednesday next;
the German Yagers and French Lafayette
Guards are to follow soon. 1t is said that
Jefferson Davis will surround himself with
the German troops as body guard, but it
is generally believed that they are to be
used in the most dangerous situations"
Mrs Hook, an Irish woman, was ar
raignea at Chicago last week for whipping
her husband. Probably she thought there
was no harm in batting her HOOK
"A report is current in Albany that a
person, formerly resident of that city, and
now residing at New York, has been ar
rested at Washington on charge of trea-
son, the evidence duplicating him being
derived from certain Geographic dispatches
seized by the government. The Statesman
says that the party referred to stands high
in the confidence of the Republican party,
and now holds State office in New York
city.
Brig. Gen. Mcdowell, who has been
detailed for the command of the new mill
tary department just laid out by the War
Department, is comparatively young Off
Ger, having originally entered the service in
July, 1888. He is native of Ohio, and a
graduate of the Academy. His first com.
mission was filled for Brevet Second Lieu
tenancy in the Second Artillery, and bears
date the 3lst of March, 1856. His NV
command, geographically, will embrace that
portion of Virginia lying east of the ALE
ghanies and north of James River, except
Fort Monroe and vicinity. There are now
eleven departments of the army.
The splendid steam lrigate Colorado,
now for commission at Boston, has been re.
ported ready fer sea. She is 3,400 tons
burden, and will carry about 43 guns. The
Colorado is comparatively new, was built
near her present berth, in 1855, and rates
with the Wabash, Minnesota, Roanoke,
sc. She can throw broadsde of 1,4l4
pounds, and her armament cost $83, 240.
She never cruised in foreign chimes, having
only acted as flag ship of the home squad
ron, in which capacity the Roanoke reiev-
her. Her crew, or great part of them,
have been told off on board the Ohio; and
the marine guard is in process of concen-
tration.
Theodore r. Warrington, q merchant
at Killawog, Broome county, N. Y, has
committed forgeries to the amount of about
$4,000 on his father-in-aw and other citi-
zens. He made an assignment of his stock
of goods, some $4,000, and sloped.
Governor Olden, of New Jersey, has
appointed an Episcopalian, Presbyterian,
Universalist, Methodist, and Roman
Catholic as Chaplains to the five regiments
from that State. The Roman Catholic
Chaplain is the Rev. George III. Doane, Of
Newark, son of the late Bishop Doaue.
The number of prizes taken in Hamp-
ton Roads since the enforcement of the
blockade, is about forty, and their aggre-
gate value is estimated at about one million
dollars The schooner Haxall, captured by
the Minnesota, had cargo of manufactured
tobacco of superior quality, valued at
100000.
On Sunday four brick stores and two
barns were destroyed by fire at Marshall,
Michigan and three stores in an adjoining
frame building were torn down to stop the
progress of the conhagration. Two of the
brick stores were owned by III. j. Perrin,
banker, and one of them was occupied by
L. Halsey, flour and feed store; the two
others were owned by Brown and Van Ar
man, one of them occupied by Mr.. Hart,
dry goods, and the other by MIR. Champion,
boots and shoes. The upper stories were
occupied by Brown & Greenough's law of.
fee, Miss Wilbourn's millinery shop, and
Dewhain's Daguerrean rooms. The losses
reach from $4,000 to $4,000 partially
Insured.
"A letter has been received from Com
modore Bell OF the Mediterranean squadron.
He says the Susquehanna left Naples on the
5th of May for New York. The Iraquois
was to sail from Spezzia on the 18th for
New York, and the Richmond was to fol-
low soon.
The New York Times denies the state
ment that the government will call out one
hundred thousand more men. There are
now two hundred and fifty thousand men
in the pay of the government, and under
arms. The government originally called
for seventy five thousand, and then for forty
thousand. In reality it has accepted three
times the number originally called for. 1t
has no necessity Tor any more troops, having
already in the field five or six to every one