The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1861-12-27
Our News Summary.

line command OF lne regiment vi SudrP.
shooters, raised by Mr.. Berdan, is to be
given to Captain Cuvier Grover, of the
United States Infantry, who distinguished
himself when Oh the Utah Expedition with
Captain, now General Marcy. He is COM
missioned as Lieutenant. Colonel, but it is
understood that he will soon be placed in
command. The Minnesota boys complain
bitterly of the treatment to which they have
been subjected since they joined Col. Der"
dan. They have rot yet been furnished
with either clothing or rifles.
The letter published in recen. Rich.
mopd paper, purporting to have been sent
by Mrs. Greenhow, now in close confne-
ment here by the Government as rebel
spy, to the Secretary of State, was never
seen by him or heard Of, until the copy of
the Richmond Wig, containing it, was
received.
"A wager of $500 has been made be-
tween q member Of Congress and one of his
constituents, as to whether or not the army
of the Potomac winter within its present
lines. The Congressman bet that they
would not, and then offered to bet another
$500 that a victory is won in Virginia
within thirty days. No taker.
The special messenger of her British
Majesty's Government, bearing dispatches
for Lord Lyons, the English Minister at
Washington, relative to the Mason and
Slidell affair, arrived at Boston on the 18th,
in the Europa. He is the Hon. G. G. Sey~
mour. He was received on landing by the
Marquis de Lousada, the British Consul,
and driven il close carriage to the Con-
sulate Office III State street. He was SUBJ
sequently the guest of the Consul, and left
in the evening train for New York.
American securities have experienced
a great depreciation in Europe. They came
down with rush when the Trent news was
received, and continued falling. The fol-
lowing shows the decline for three days
preceding the sailing of the Jura:
Nov. q, Nov. 80.
United States Five per cents. y dis.
Virginia Six per cents. .46 423
ere shares. ..'.'..ss.......'.2l3 70
Erie preference. ............ 5U 40
Illinois Central .............. .409 dis. Al dis.
New York Central. ...........7l 67a
Mr.. Trumbull has reported back to the
Senate Hale's bill to abolish the Supreme
Court, asking to be discharged from the
further consideration Of the same. That is
an end to that foolish measure.
Col. Cavanaugh, of New York, who
is recruiting regiment called the Marcy
Rifles, and who says be has six hundred
men in camp, is in Washington. The com.
plement of New York troops, which is
ninety regiments, having been filled, the
Department declines to receive him, but be
received an intimation from the Secretary
of War that his regiment should be accept.
ed when new draft should be made, which
it is probable will be done in short time
perhaps in less than ten days-for two
hundred thousand men.
The press of France and Brussels are
almost unanimous in their opinions on the
Trent affair. All the leading Paris Jour.
nails have spoken out plainly in favor of
England, and against the action of the caps
tain of the San Jacinto. The Constitutional
is particularly explicit. But the latest ac-
counts by the Jura, dated the 9Th of De-
cember, state that " the tone of reserve of
the French press increases" Several lead.
ing Paris papers blame the English gov
eminent for having yielded to the pressure
of public opinion, as represented merely by
Manchestre and Liverpool, and for having
acted so hastily in the Trent affair.
The Richmond Examiner announce
that ID. Q. Burnett and Judge Monroe, of
Kentucky, were sworn in as Delegates to
the Confederate Congress from that State.
Burnett is member OF the present Con-
gress, and before leaving Washington last
Summer sold his claim for pay and mileage
at the present session to John q. Rives OF
the Congressional Globe, who is disguised
to find that the Secessionist swindled him.