The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1862-10-17
NEWS AND OTHER ITEMS,

at Perryville, Kentucky, is brother of
the Gen. McCook who was murdered by
the rebels at Salem, Tenn
On Monday Of last week, DR.. John E.
Wright, OF Prairie du Sac, was killed by
the accidental discharge of a gun.
"A letter dated Reconsideration
England, September 18th, says Several
| large steamers are building here to run the
blockade. These are the Maacca, Louisi-
| ana. and several others whose names for
| get. They are heavily armed, and will be
ready for sea in about a month. hope
the United States government will be able
to capture them, for they would be valua-
bic prizes. They are three hundred and
twenty five feet long, and carry engines of
two thousand horse power each"
Col. Charles E. Hovey, thirty-third
regiment Illinois Volunteers, has been ap-
pointed Brgadier- General of Volunteers
Col. Hovey is Of Bloomington, ILL.,, and
was lately President of the State Normal
| University. At the outbreak OF the re-
bellion he recruited the thirty third Illinois
regiment from the schOOlmasters of the
State, and has been in constant active ser
vice ever since.
Eight New York regiments are organ
izing for the Corcoran Legion. The gen.
eral headquarters are at Camp Scott, Sta
ten Island. where portions of seven of the
regiments are now quartered, numbering
| in the aggregate more than four thousand
men, All the volunteers Of the Corcoran
Legion are enlisted for three years or the
war. In the course of fifteen or twenty
| days. at turthest, the General will be able
| to take the field, with large proportion
of his command.
! The London correspondent OF the Chi
| cago .J0u,,nH says Il can remember
the time when Englishnen We're to be
found who really desired to see the estab-
lishment of the supremacy of the North
now, should not know where to look for
one who would avow. if he secretly enter
tanned such a desire
A letter from Louisville says that
General jeff G. Davis is in close cOnfine-
ment at the Gait House. not being permit
ted to leave his room.
A trial was made at West Point on
the 9Th inst. of Stafford's proiectile, a new
invention intended to penetrate iron-clad
ships. The target of six Monitor plates
was set on an angle of 434 degrees, the
shot going through and completely chang
ing ends with the whole target weighing
$500 pounds
-Advices dated the 4th inst. have been
received by Gen. Davidson from Green
vile, Missouri, conveying reliable intelli-
gence that all the texas troops under the
rebel Gen Mcbride, have been ordered to
return home forthwith, in consequence Of
a so called "Black Republican victory at
at Marshall and Shreveport - in Texas
The troops thus referred to are estimated
at about two thousand in number.
According TO an order just issued from
the War Department, it is made the duty
of every officer commanding a district or
post containing hospital or brigade of
troops to inquire into the fitness, efficiency
and qualifications of the cLaplans of hos
| pitfalls on regiments. and 10 muster out of
service such chaplains as were not appoint
en- in conformity with the requirements of
law, and who have not faithfully discharg
ed the duties of chaplans during the time
| they have been thus engaged.
Richard G.. Mccormick, now chief
clerk Of the department. of agriculture,
was nominated by reclamation as the
! Union candidate for Congress from the 1st
district of New York
! The Quakers of Indiana are to be
subject to the draft, and those who are
drafted are to tau in or pay the sum of
5000 each.
The Madison (Wis) Journm says that
I Col. Harris is now under arrest for refus-
ing to send his men to bring in cotton pur-
chased as the private property of his SUI
perior officers. This will probably bring
about an investigation into the rumored
cotton speculations of officers high in COM
mand in Arkansas.
The Baltimore american complains
that prisoners on the eve of departure for
Fortress Monroe to be exchanged, are first
fitted out in that city with every thing nee
essary to their comfort, and re-enter the
rebel army completely equipped-so far as
clothing can do it-for service the coming
winter in the rebel camps Baltimore is
thus made the depot for rebel supplies to a
considerable extent.
The Richmond Dispatch, of the 4th
instant, says: Among the latest arrivals
of Yankee officers is Daniel Ullman, for
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