The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1863-09-11
Corps of Engineers; John Maginness,
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Corps of Engineers; John Maginness,
Ohio, to Ordnance Bureau.
President Spades, of the Chesapeake
and Ohio Canal, has been sent to Fort
McHenry, charged with holding personal
interviews with Gems. Lee and Ewell, du-
ring the invasion of Maryland this sum-
mer.
"A recent letter from an officer of the
blockading squadron off Wilmington,
North Carolina, states that two or three
steamers had run into Wilmington each
day, for five days previous. One large
steamer ran in at ten o'clock in the fore
noon, on the 18th inst. A few mornings
since steamer of fifteen hundred tons
ran in. She was pierced for six guns in
addition to two pivot guns, and probably
would receive an armament and be ready
to proceed to sea within week. She is
larger than the Alabama or Florida, and
appeared to be very fast. The writer
thinks she may be the steamer known as
the Southerner The Nippon and Mime
sofa were the only efficient vessels off the
port, the Iroquios having left in the chase
of blockade runner.
The Commissioner of Internal Reve-
nue. has decided that where party lends
gold coin for period longer than three
days, receiving as security the market
price of the day in currency, the transac-
ton is the same, so far as its liability to
taxation is concerned, as though he bor-
rowed the currency for period longer
than three days, depositing as security the
market price in gold coin.
The Secretary of the Interior has de-
cided that, under the third section of the
pension act Of July IA, 1862, the illegiti-
macy of son is no bar to mothers
claim to pension. Under this decision,
so much of the instructions and forms of
the Pension Office as relates to proofs of
marriage in mothers claims, have been
annulled.
The New York Erening Post pays
the following neat compliment to Secreta-
ries Stanton and Chase: "There are two
things on earth that rest quite entirely on
sufferance, tyranny and paper money"
This, says the New York World, for a
government organ" must be considered
slightly revolutionary.
Government paid out thirty-four mil
lion dollars IN gold, for interest on the
public debt, during the year ending June.
The amount of deEand notes unredeemed
is less less than 100000, hence customs,
which, during the last fiscal year, produc-
ed about 500, 100000, are paid almost en-
terely in specie. Receipts Of gold now
largely exceed the necessities of the Gov
eminent, and are accommodating in the
vaults of the Treasury.
The St. Louis Union reports severe
frosts last week in the interior of Missouri,
materially damaging the tobacco crop.
COL R. N. Hudson, of Gen. Fremont's
Staff, has resigned, having become salts
fed that the General will not be assigned
to another command
"A horrible murder was committed at
Cairo on the Ohio river on Tuesday night
A man named NJ Rose had sold to one
VIM. Henly trading boat or barge. At
10 o'clock Tuesday night Henly was called
Up by Rose, who demanded payment for
his property. Henly refused the payment
Rose then cut the boat loose from the le-
wee, and bloody conflict commenced, the
boat floating down the river. Rose seems
to have been prepared with large butcher
knife, with which it is supposed he killed
Henly. The screams for help and murder
were heard on the steamer V. F. Wilson,
and tug dispatched to catch the floating
barge. When boarded, Henly was found
dead and Rose sitting calmly by his corpse.
1t is supposed by some that the murderer
must have been the victim of insanity.
The Copper Mining Companies oper-
ating on Keetle River, one Of the tribu-
taries of the ST. Croix, are obtaining
splendid specimens of copper ore. One
company had been offered, by Boston men
$4,000 for their chance
That was a brilliant idea of the scien-
tifc gentleman in New York, to connect
his door bell-knob with an electric wire,
and so shock mischievous little boys almost
to death.
Edward Lloyd, a wealthy Welshman,
well known on the London stock exchange,
blew his brains cut recently in despair at
losses by the Confederate Loan.
StantOnia.
A dispatch from Washington states that