The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1864-04-01
LATE NEWS ITEMS.

Tho Worlds Washington special has
q rumor that the entire organized mihtia
of the North is to be called into service Tor
six months, to hold certain points during
the campaign against Richmond which Is
about to commence.
"A couple of females at Youngstown,
near Cleveland, who had seriously Offend
ed by their conduct the feelings of the vir-
tuous women of that community, were
taken by deputation of the offended ones
from their bed, at night, stripped of their
clothing, invested with dress of tar and
feathers, and sent into the streets to startle
the night-walking cats with their extraor-
binary appearance. Much excitement was
created by the affair, and the end is not
yet.
John Redman Coke, distinguished
physician Of Philadelphia, is dead.
Provost Marshal Fry publishes the
decision of Solicitor Whiting, last year,
that any man who leaves his residence and
is drafted during his absence, if the notice
be left at his last place of residence, can
be arrested and shot as deserter. The
Government overruled this decision last
yearbut it seems to be revived now.
"A negro soldier of the 54th Massa
chusetts regiment has written an excel
lent letter from Florida, which is publish
ed in Boston paper. Among other sharp
things he says: "There are no soldiers
in the world who demand more from their
officers than black troops. They must
have courage, they must have education,
and they must have gentlemen to COM
mand them, or the devil will beto pay i'm
mediately. The moment the officer gets
their respect, he's all right. Soon follows
their love, and they are bound to follow
wherever he leads.
AT Detroit, on Wednesday evening,
Mrs. Wetherell, wife of Hon. B. F. II.
Wetherell, Judge of the County Court,
and daughter of the late Hugh Brady,
met with most painful and fatal accident.
She vas filling kerosene lamp. which
exploded, enveloping her in flames, and
so severely burning her that she died ON
the same night, after suffering the most
excruciating pains.
The Frankfort (Ky.) Commonwealth
ministers the following medicinal para
graphs to persons excited about the pro-
posed negro draft:
Fill up your quota by volunteers, in time to get
the bounties, and avoid the draft.
PRODUCE THE PROOF.-Are you opposed to
drafting negroes: Volunteer, and fill the call
upon the State That will be taken as prin,a
f1cie evidence of the fact
The will of the late President Hitch
cock, of Amherst, estimates his property
at about $4,000, with NO Membranes,
all of which be gives to his children. His
collection Of Bird Tracks was given to Am
herst College. The Cabinet of Fossils, EN-.
bracing about half CT the Woods Cabinet,
was given to his son, Charles, who fills
Professorship in that institution.
The facts concerning the release of
the pirates in California, on taking the
oath under the Amnesty Proclamation,
ha- reached Washington, and has been
submitted to the Supreme Court Judges
and the War Department. Itappears that
plot was laid to capture one or more
steamships and take them to the Indian
Ocean, to convert them into privateers
The originator Of the plot went to Rich
mond and secured letters of marque, then
returned to San Francisco, and was nearly
ready to complete the scheme, when he
was discovered He was arrested and was
to have been hung, when he claimed the
right To avail himself of the Amnesty Proc
iamatiOn. and under that was discharged.
On Tuesday last, in California, Mis-.
souri,, two men, named Stout and Sails
bury, got into difficulty, both being some
what under the influence of liquor, in
which Stout cut and butchered Salisbury
in most frighttul manner, with a large
butcher-knife, splitting the large neck vein
some two inches downward, and severing
a large vein Oh the back OF the head, be-
sides other severe cuts. Salisbury was
alive up to Friday morning. Stout was
arrested and confined in Jail.
The Jowy,uuI Of Commerce after read
ing the two ponderous ostavos, giving the
life and correspondence of Theodore Park
er, says:
Before reading the volumes in question, we
had formed the idea that Mr.. Parker was man
Of large parts and decided though mis-directed
ability. After reading them he sinks in our
estimation to a man of but ordinary mental
calibre with something more of self admira-
ton than we have ever seen exhibited IN the
public writings of any individual, while he evil
IDENTITY lacked the clearness of thought, refcc-
ton and judgment which are necessary to make
uniform and consistent teacher OF any sub
ject.
1t. Col SandersOn, recently returned
from the Richmond prisons, AMI who was
afterwards placed under arrest on a charge