The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1862-02-14
News and Other Items.


tory. His phys icians have ordered him for
the present to avoid all undue mental exer-
else, and he is not allowed to engage in any
of the public plans, or business even of
the simplest nature consequently be is
living with his family in the utmost quiet at
the Fifth Avenue Hotel, New York. He
still bears with him careworD look, and it
is feared he may never recover from the
strain which was made on his vital energies
at Sumter.
The military telegraph line now has
near twelve hundred miles of telegraph
wire in operation, and one hundred and
thirty operators, and several hundred re-
pairers and builders in the field. A sepa-
rate Bureau will be made of this branch of
the military service, at the head of which,
we learn, Captain Aaron Stager, the pres
ent Superintendent, will preside. The tele'
graph has proved to be of immense value to
the Government, and the more the army
officers learn of teIegraphing the more they
value it. Millions of dollars have already
been saved by its use.
1t is gratifying to learn, especially
through rebel source Savannah Repubh-
CAM, that we have captured Cedar Keys,
Dade county, Florida). The chief value
of Cedar Keys consists in the very excellent
timber they produce for ship building pur-
poses. Some of the best vessels in the
United States Navy are built of that tim
Der, and it is of the first Importance that
this source of supply should be secured.
With the Tortugas, Key West, Cedar
Keys and Fort Pickens in our possession,
there is not much of the State OF Florida
lett worth having.
"A contractor from Cairo came a few
days ago to get some money, and the Pres
ident being in Secretary Stanton's at the
time, asked him if they had not been paid
any. "No, SIR" the contractor replied;
"none of the bills contracted there have
been paid anything" "This is very strange;
we have spent near five hundred millions,
and l cannot find man who has ever got
a dollar of it." The contractor finally ad
mitted that be had received .tev thousand
dollars but that it was hardly worth speak.
ing of.
The Jacksonville undiana) Railroad
Company have, during thu past few months
transported thousands of Philadelphia and
other Eastern made wagons to Kentucky.
Among these, hundreds have been discover
ed to have poplar hubs, which are just
about as good as no hubs at all.
The Republicans and Democrats of
New Hampshire having made party nomi-
nations for the State election in March, a
third convention has been called "without
respect to party" at Concord, on Thursday
the 9th instant.
The Rochester, N. Y, Democrat says
that the citizens of Brockport are consid
erably excited by an alleged abortion case,
resulting in the death of a married lady,
and in which affair hitherto respectable
and prominent resident is implicated. No
particulars are vouchsafed.
From the time of the occupation OF
Hilton Head by the Federal forces to the
9Th of the present month, 124 deaths have
occurred, of which 38 were of congestion,
rs of typhoid fever, % of diseases of lungs
and air passages, 10 of varioloid and mea-
sizes, S from gunshot wounds, 9 from dis
eases of the digestive organs, 4 from remit
tent and from typhus fever, and 8 from
other causes.
Judge Arad Stebbins, of Bradford,
Vermont, committed suicide by hanging
himself in his own barn, on the 18th ult.
His age was so years, and be leaves large
family. He has been Representative in
the Legislature, Judge of Probate, Trustee
of the Academy, Selectman, and guardian
of many orphan children, aad proved him
self an honest and capable officer.
Reliable returns OF the personal census
of the British North American Provinces
show the following result:
Canada. :.:.:...................2,506,755
New Brunswick (Over).. 100000
Nova Scotia. $4,000
Prince Edward Island. ............... 80,857
NQWfnnn6IAn0.
Total. d, Z7O, Z5O
The population of the United States
when they became nation was scarcely so
great as this. In 1870 it had not reached
100000.
Rev. J. s. Kalloch is quite successful in
his new charge in New York. At last &C.
counts his church was enjoying revival.
Meetings were held daily, and with prom