The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1862-05-16
News and Other Items.

the risk of pursuing the same tactics at
Fort Wright as at Island No. 10 is too
great. They would have to cope with
earthworks and the rebel aotilla at once. If
our boats were disabled, Cincinnati, st.
Louis and other river cities would be at
the mercy of the rebel Aotilla. They were
always ready for the enemy's fleet alone.
1T is understood that the Senate Mill.
tary Committee who have returned from
Yorktown, after full examination, exoner.
ate General Smith from charges of intoxia
cation.
On the 9th ult., the following brief
address from Beauregard was published in
the Memphis papers:
To Planters South
The casualties of war have opened the Mis-.
sissippi to our enemies. The time has. there
fore, come to test the earnestness of all elias.
ses, and call on all patriotic planters own.
ing cotton in the possible reach of our enc.
mics to apply the torch to it without delay or
hesitation. P. G. T. BEAUREGARD.
The Fifth Michigan Regiment at the
battle of Williamsburg, had 20 killed and
lis wounded.
The Boston papers announce that
George B. Emerson, LII. D., is the gentles
man nominated by the Fellows of Harvard
University as the successor of the late Pres.
ident FELTON,.
Charles Sumner has not offered pc.
tition for the abolition of slavery for two
days.
"A Washington letter says the PROPOSE
ton to issue twenty-five millions of small
denomination Treasury notes-ones, twos
and threes-meets with much favor there,
where every conceivable kind of currency,
wild cat, red dog, aud the like, is forced
upon the people. Western members very
generally favor the issue of the small notes
by the Government.
-"Old Brains," is the significant but
somewhat disrespectful title bestowed upon
General Halleck by his troops.
The Empress Eugene has invented
new style of petticoat, and elaborate descrip.
tions of it are publishedIin the fashion pa
pers. 1t is made of cambria muslin six
yards at the widest point, and is Aounced,
frilled and hemstitched like pocket hand
kerchief, so as to put it out of the reach of
sewing machines and render it exclusive.
"A letter from Washington says the
city is actually swarming with negroes, a
ragged and homeless multitude. The poor
house, supported by the city, is full to over.
whelming, and scores of them are daily
turned away from that temple of relief.
The sale of the furniture, jewels, plate,
&C., of the courtezan, Anna Deslions, in
Paris, realized upwards of 100000.
In letter to the President of the
Manchester Chamber of Commerce, dated
April 10, Mr.. Golden, while arguing in
favor of important changes in the code
which governs the conduct of beligerents at
sea, gives the credit to the government of
this country of having been the first to pro
pose to other nations the adoption of what
he urges as the most beneficial improves
ment that can be made in the code.
Mr.. Golden proposes three great re-
forms in the international maritime law:
l. The exemtion of private property from
capture at sea during war by armed vessels
Of every kind.
2. Blockades to be restricted to naval arse.
nails, and to towns besieged at the same time
on land, with the exception of articles contra
band of war.
3. The merchant ships of neutrals on the
high seas to be inviolable to the visitation of
alien government vessels, in time of war as in
time of peace,
When the battle of New Orleans was
fought, January 9Th, 1915, the news did not
reach New York until the 11th of Febru-
airy, and even this was deemed speed quite
remarkable in those days. The intelligence
was thirty-two hours in reaching Boston
from New York. The Columbian Sentinel
of February 9th says: We have nothing
later from New Orleans than January 9Th"
Two days afterwards the same paper states:
"News of battle of New Orleans received"
"A malignant and alarming disease has
broken out at Grinnell, Poweshiek county,
Iowa. In letter to the Davenport Gazette,
Hon. j. B. Grinnell describes the symptoms
as loss of pulse and a spotted appearance
of the skin for Sew hours previous to death.
1t is presumed to be malignant typhoid.
Five deaths have occurred in the town with.
in four days from this disease, the victims
being Mrs. N. Whitney. DR.. Pulsi6er, Mrs.
Schoonover and little son, and Miss Sears.
Some of them died after few hours sick.
ness.
William A. Buckingham was re in
augurated Governor of Connecticut at New
Haven, on the 9TH inst. In his message to
the Legislature the Governor reviews the
record of the State for the past year. Com
necticut has sent into the field 1904 in.
fantry, 518 cavalry, and a battery of light