The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1862-04-25
News and Other Items.

ington had no Southern troops. His force,
embracing about twenty thousand men,
consisted chiefly of New York, New Jer-
sey, Pennsylvania and New England regi-
ments. Soldiers from the self-same region
are now before Yorktown, prepared to bat
tie for the maintenance of that independence
and unity which their Northern torefathers
won on that memorable historic ground.
General Donphan of Missouri has
taken the stump in favor of the Union, and
is couuseling all men who have suffered
themselves to be caught by the secession
delusion, to abandon that cause, to lay down
their arms if they have been engaged in
acts of disloyalty, and to show their sincera
ity by taking the oath of allegiance, and if
demanded to enter into bonds for their good
conduct.
That Congressional humbug, the Com
mittee on the Conduct of the War, have
divided themselves into sub committees to
teke the balance of the testimony. Messrs.
Chandler and Odell are on Bull Run Mr..
Gooch is on Balls Bluff; Mr.. Julian on
Western Department; Mr.. Covode and the
rest of the committee on the present con-
duct of the war.
The prisoners and property captured
by General Pope and Commodore Foote, at
op5 in tho ,,;o;pitr Cf leland No 10 oro
summed up as follows:
Major General. ......l Privates.. 500
Brigadier Generals. Cannon ..-..... 125
COlOneS. ............l 10 Arms. ....... lO,OtO
Lieutenant Colonies Steamboats, ...... 10
and Majors. ....l5 Floating battery. i
captains. .......... 56 Horses and
LeutenantS .........64 mules, 600
Second Leutenants 81 Wagons. ,0O0
besides forty thousand dollars worth O pro
visions and ammunition unestimated. The
regiments captured were the Fortieth, For.
ty-sixth and Fifty. fifth Tennessee; Third,
Eleventh and 1--WE fth Arkansas; the First
Alabama, and the New Orleans Pelican
Guards.
The Chicago Times says that three or
four thousand rebel prisoners are to be
quartered at Fort Smelling.
President Lincoln has appointed Ed
ward Stanley of San Francisco, Military
Governor of North Carolina. This is
most fortunate selection. MIR. Stanley was
formerly Wing member Of Congress from
North Carolina, but he emigrated to the
Pacific in 1849-'50, and since then has
been one OF the leading lawyers of Califor,
MIA.
Hon. Theodore Frelioghuysen died at
his residence in Newark, New jersey, on
Saturday, the 18th instant, after a linger-
ing illness. His age was Is years.
An iron gun carriage, for five hum
dred FOUNDER gun is in course of construc
tion at the Watertown (Massachusetts)
Arsenal. 1t will be completed in a few
days, and will weigh twenty-five tons.
1t is very well known by this time that
Major General Fremont has been appointed
to the command of the Mountain Departs
ment, with bis headquarters at Wheeling.
Now, in Wheeling paper we find the fol-
lowing significant little advertisement
QUARTERMAsTER GENERALS OFFICE
WASHINGTON, March Is, 1862 I
The Quartermasters Department will pay
for no army supplies purchased by any one not
an officer of the department duly authorized
to make such purchases, in accordance with
the regulations of the AIRY. By order of the
Secretary of War. NJ. q. MEIGS,
Quartermaster General.
This advertisement was inserted on the
first of A pril, just about the time Fremont
arrived there.
The following is the result of the vote
for Governor in Connecticut
William A. Buckingham, rep...........39,S6
James G. LOOmis, DEM. 80 5S7
Republican maj ority. ...............8,27
The Legislature will stand as follows:
Senate. House.
Republicans. ...................2l III
Democrats. ................... %
There was an auction sale in Boston
on the 10th of 100000 pounds of wool. The
sale closed at firm prices, ranging from 43c.
to 48c., averaging 45c. for Ohio and PENN
sylvania fleece and extra Washington coun-
ty fleece.
Colonel Webster, the chief of General
Grants staff, whose desperate artillery line.
ol-batte held the enemy On Sunday night
and saved the army, is, we believe, broth.
er of Rev. Mr.. Webster OF Hcpkinton, Mas.
sachusetts. Few men are more modest, and
so efficient, and none more brave. Minis
ters' SONS are bearing witness to the world
what stuff those ministers are made of who
NEEDLE with politics in the pulpit.
Among the names of the wounded at
the battle of Pittsburg, we find w. B,
CLAYTON of the First Minnesota Battery.
Colonel Daniel e. Sickles has reported
for duty to Adjutant General Thomas,
claiming that never having surrendered his
commission as Colonel of his regiment, the
refusal of the Senate to confirm him as a