The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1861-06-21

been accepted by the government. The
Herald of Sunday says it has, and publishes
the papers to show it. 1t also adds that
the Excelsior brigade now numbers 5000
men, and is quartered at Camp Scott, one
of the finest points on Staten Island. When
all the companies. now being raised for it
in different parts of the country have arr
rived there, it will comprise force Of s.
600 men, probably one of the finest bodies
In physique and discipline that any city in
the Union has turned out for the war.
The latest order promulgated in Vir-
ginia was one commanding every male be-
tween the ages of 16 and 60 years to enter
the rebel service on or before Thursday,
the 18th.
The Administration has resumed the
diplomatic relations with Peru, which were
broken off by the last administration, and
has appointed Christopher Robinson, of
Rhode Island, minister. Other diplomatic
appointments have been made, as follows
Charles A. Washburne, of California, COM
missioner to Paraguay; Edward Joy Nor
ris, of Pennsylvania, minister to Constants
nople; Henry T. Blow, of Missouri, minis.
ter to Venezuela Charles II. Riotte, of
Texas, minister to Costa Rica ; and Samuel
Whiting, of New Jersey, consul at Nassau,
n. P.
The Hon. John Cochrane, late mem.
Der of Congress from New York, has been
authorised to have mustered for immediate
service regiment of infantry, to be COM
manded by himself as Colonel.
The King of Prussia has given per-
mission to officers in the Prussian army to
offer their services to the government of the
United States during the war for the MAIN
tenance of the integrity of the Republic.
The Secretary of War has addressed
letter to the Surgeon General in which he
says;
During the present war the force being made
up chiefly of volunteers, the public sentiment
and the humanity of the age require that the
services of women as nurses should be made
available in the general hospitals, where, ex-
! cept in very humble departments they have
| been excluded. As many carefully selected
women are in training in the various cities of
the loyal States, it is the order and wish of the
| Department that women be adopted or substi-
| tuted for the men now in the general hospital
whenever it can be effected, and that only
| such women as have received previous train
| ing for the purpose be accepted as nurses, eX-
| cept when these can no longer be had. And
| it is ordered that none be received except
hO hovo thpi mi liz f1On
! to a lady appointed by the Department to pre-
| side over the volunteer women nurses, and
| who shall have sole authority to select and &C
| cept nurses, who are required to be above the
age of 30, with certificate of character and ca
| pacity.
Miss Dix has been appointed Superin.
tendent of women nurses, with the exclusive
charge of accepting such as she may deem
properly fitted for the service. The trans.
portation, subsistence and wages of such
nurses as may be accepted by her to be paid
from such moneys as would be expended in
the wages and support of men nurses, or
are derived from the usual resources of hos
pital service.
The Postmaster General has issued the
following order, disseminating the post Office
at Nashville:
The postmaster at Nashville, Tennessee, hav-
ing refused to obey the laws and the regula.
tiOns issued from this Department, and having
resigned his Office, it is ordered by the Post.
master General that the Office be discontinued
until further orders, and that all mail matter
directed to that Office be forwarded by all
postmasters Immediately to the dead letter of.
flee at Washington, to be disposed of accord
ing to law. JOHN A. KASSON,
First Assistant Postmaster General.
The State of Missouri has been added
to the military department, consisting of
Ohio, Indiana, Illinois and portions of
western Pennsylvania and Virginia. Ma.
jor General Mcclellan will extend his COM
mand accordingly. The headquarters of
the department of the west are removed
from St. Louis to Fort Leavenworth, Kan
sas.
The newspapers received at the dead
letter Office are distributed among the sol.
diers at the capital. The mails for the army
are very large.
The permanent constitution of the
Confederate States has been ratified unan.
imously by the North Carolina convention.
The army worm is making sad havoc in
portions of Kentucky and the southern part
of Indiana. The Louisville papers say that
even the court house yard in that city is
covered with them. They attack all the
growiagcrop and literally strip the fields.
The New York Tribune of Monday
says that Madame Beauregard, wife of the
ubiquitous General of that name, was in
that city on Sunday, and attended Mr..
Beechers Church ia Brooklyn, in company
with an attache of one of the New York
papers.
The Mesilla Times, of May'l1, contains