The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1863-11-27

which any farmer can estimate for him
self.
LATE NEWS ITEMS.
DIR. Charles II. Ray, who for many years
has been the active editor of the Chicago Tri-
bune, has sold out his stock in that company,
and has retired from all connection with the
paper.
John Moffat, the patentee of Moffats Life
Pills and Phoenix Bitters, died on the 9Th inst,
in New York City at the age of seventy-six.
The Richmond Enquirer tells us that Gen.
Lee ''flls the eye" of the people of the South.
But who will fill their mouths?
The richest mineral region yet discovered
in Colorado Territory is situated in Nevada
Gulch, near Nevada City, in the centre of the
Gregory District, portion of which is owned
by the Colorado Mining Company of Boston.
"A little child was run over by the street
cars in Cleveland, day or two ago, and in
stantly killed. A mob commenced stoning the
cars, and would have murdered the conductor
and driver Oh the spot, but tor the interference
Of the police who locked them up in the city
prison, for their personal safety. Subsequently
the mob tore up large portion of the track.
Warrants were issued against the conductor
and driver upon the complaints of the parents
of the child, and they were held for examin-
alton.
Rev. John Kenneday, q distinguished
Methodist minister, died in New York last
Saturday.
-Seventy-fve divorces, says the Press, have
been granted in Hartford county, Connecticut,
this year.
A cosemporary discovers two more sure
signs of hard winter-the largo number Of
marriage licenses this fall, and the great num-
Der Of ladies buying furs.
Mr.. Charles Muir, a conductor on freight
train on the Chicago and Northwestern rail.
way, was instantly killed on Friday morning
about one o'clock, mile and q half north of
Milton Junction, by falling from the door of
the caboose upon tho track, the cars passing
over his body. 1t is supposed that the unfor
tunate man, in endeavoring to pass from the
side door of the caboose to the top, slipped,
and in falling caught hold of the edge of the
car, at the bottom of the door, which swung
his legs and part of his body under the car, as
his lower extremities were horribly mutilated.
Wendell Phillips made speech in Boston
last week, and avowed that his preference for
the next President was Fremont. He said that
the President told him in January last that the
Proclamation was . grand mistake, but he
concluded that Mr.. Lincoln had changed his
mind since. Secretary Chase, according to Mr..
Phillips, was man of no principle, and his
American people in this crisis. He denounced
Secretary Seward as ''the marplot Of every
policy. tho unbelieving Judas, the only rosk
ahead of the Ship of State, the nucleus around
which gathers everything disloyal, everything
timid, everything selfish everything base, in
the nation.
"A number of tie principal merchants and
other residents Of New York have presented
General Harvey Brown \ handsome service Of
silver as an evidence of the public appreciation
of his prompt and efficient conduct in the sup
preston of the riots in July.
The deputy quartermaster general in Bes-
ton invites proposals for bootees for the color
ed regiments, which are to he of the extra sizes
Of mines to nfteens. A these will average
about twice as much leather to the pair ~ are
required for the fives to elsvens, 1t follows that
the cost Of shoing negro regiment will be just
double that Of white ono.
About seventy of the Buckshets" rioters
have been arrested at Maush Greek, Pennsyl-
vania, and sent to Reading. The murderer of
G. K. Smith has also been arrested and identi-
ed. The Tenth regiment Of New Jersey vol.
unteers Il now stationed in the district where
the disturbances wore, and other rioters have
been arrested.
The securities OF Edward w. Stands, for
mer Collector Of the State and county taxes,
for the county of st. Louis, Missouri, have
Of twenty-five thousand dollars, and that they
are expected to make it good.
Colonel Isaac F. Shepard, Of the Third
Missouri Volunteers, recently commanding the
colored troops in Northeastern Louisiana, has
received the appointment Of Brigadier-G General
Of Volunteers. His appointment was strongly
recommended by Brigadier-G eneral T. Kilby
Smith and Major Generals Grant, Steele, Sher-
man and others, for military ability and dis
tinguished services in the Southwest. His
rank predates his commission.
Among the treaties to come before tho
Senate for ratification, is one made last summer
BY the Commissioner of Indian Affair.", with
the Chiefs of the Greeks, by which those who
Joined tho rebels are permitted to return to
their allegiance, but are to bs forever disquali-
fed from holding offices Of honor, emolument
or trust among the Indians; and the treaty
engages to abolish slavery as tho Cherokee
nation has done already, and to colonize freed
men on land belonging to the Creeks.
Lord Palmerston, in speech at the
Lord Mayors banquet, deplored the Ameri-
can war. He said: ENGLAND would have
interfered, but for the belief that it would
have been in vain. She therefore would
yield neither to Establishment nor menace,
but would remain strictly neutral" Re-