The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1863-12-04

tis Mill property adjoining, are advertised by
John Hawxhurst, w. F. Boleman, and G. F.
Watson, COMMISSIONER to be sold for un-
paid taxes &C., under recent.acts of the Con.
gress of the United States. The tax due on
the Arlington estate is $92.O7; penalty $500
on the Mill property, s9.45.
Surgeon w. w. Myers, of the United
States steamer State of Georgia, who was cap
tured on the 14th of May last, in North Caro-
lima, and for long time closely confined as q
hostage, has just made an official report to
Secretary Weles. For long time, he says,
he had access to the hospitals where Union
prisoners were confined, and, since the battle
at Chickamauga the number of deaths av.
eraged some fifty per day. Lately they have
increased alarmingly, caused by bad food given
as rations. insufficient clothing and shelter.
The cases coming from Belle Island to the hos
pital, all argue starvation. Ten per cent. of the
prisoners are sick. Corn bread and sweet DO
tatoes form the only food given 10 the sick,
and very little of that. In one instance the
ambulance brought sixteen to the hospital, and
during the night three died.
The problem of cheap living seems to have
been solved in the suburbs of Boston. Among
the houses advertised for rent in the daily pa
pers We find such announcements as these
neat place in Medford, with garden and
fruit trees. for $130 year, a house in Cam
bridge for $15O, and another for 5000 places in
Brooklne for $3.50; and one place for sale for
5000 - tbo ;,;,,
seven rooms.
The Attorney General has made decision
adverse to the claims of the widow of Aaron
Burr for pension money since his death. They
were married in 1888, were divorced in New
York in 1885, and he died in 1886. The stat.
utes OF New York Gas held by the Court of
Appeals of that State) provide that the wife
shall not lose rights to this husbands estate
where the divorce was decreed for his conduct :;
but Attorney General Bates decides that said
statutes are not law in the case for the action
OF the General Government, but the case must
be adjudged upon common law principles
Albert II. Gallatin, N. A., NJ D., grand.
son Of Albert Gallatin, has been appointed to
the vacant chair Of Natural Sciences in Nor
witch University
Capt Massey, British swell who elopsd
| with one of the Toronto MacTavishes last
| Summer, has married her in Scotland, whittier
love led them.
The Common Council OF Richmond has
voted $50, 900 to buy house for Gen. Lee.
Mrs. Alice Shailer the wife of Gen. judi
son Fitzpatrick, the noble cavalry division off,
of <hn h. s>l -
| New York last week. She was quite young
woman, had only been married little over two
| years, and leaves one child to mourn her loss.
General Fitzpatrick had been telegraphed to
| relative to the delicate state OF his wife's
health, but owing to his being in the advance
of the army, and, that in motion, the news cid
not reach him in time to enable him to see her
alive
"A resolute movement, it is said, will be
made this session for the passage by Congress
| of general bankrupt law. The attempts to
this end at the last session amounted to but
little A considerable fund, according to re-
port, was raised to pay such expenses as might
be incurred in forwarding the bill. but the
money must have fallen into poor hands, as
little or none OF IL was used Tor the purpose
which the contributors had in view.
1t is understood that the President, in
compliance with the terms of the law of the
last Congress- decided that the Northern Pacific
Railroad shall start from point on the Mis-
souri, river nearly opposite Council Bluffs, in
connection with the Mississippi and Missouri,
and the Rock Island Roads.
General schencks resignation of his COM
mission as Major General in the volunteers of
the United States army has been rendered and
| accepted, to take effect on the 2Oth of Deccm-
Der next Brigadier General Lockwood has
been ordered to the temporary command Of the
Eighth Army Corps, in the Middle Depart
ment, from which General Schenok retires to
I'LL his seat in the coming Congress as repre-
sentative from Ohio.