The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1864-07-08

-Gen. Candy is taking up all the steamers at
New Orleans, to which point he has removed
his headqua ters from Natchez His troops
are embarking for an important expedition
the destination whereof is unknown.
| -Marmaduke and Price are operating to ian.
late Steele and compel him to evacuate Arkan.
sas. Communication between Little Rock and
Memphis is entirely suspended by the rebel
blockade. On the Oath ult., a Federal gunboat
was captured by Shelby at Clarendon, on White
River; and 1t is believed that fight occurred
| at that point, between gunboats and rebel bat
teries, ON the 26th and 9th, as continuous can
nonading was heard in that direction on those
days.
"A number of the personal friends of Gen.
Mcclellan in Boston recently made him pres
ent of a valuable library worth about $4,000.
The Paris correspondent of the New York
Herald states that most of the prominent reb-
els resident in that city have gone over to Eng
land to take act i've part in a movement calcu
lated, they say. to bring about the recognition
of the Confederacy by En- gland and France.
1t is alleged that Napoleon has assured them
England does. and the rebels have gone to
that country to influence public opinion in ev-
cry manner towards such step. They rely
mainly on a petition to be presented to Parlia-
ment, signed largely by the clergy of the es.
tablished church. These secessionists assert
they have had an interview with Lord Palmer
ston, who said all his personal sympathies
were with them.
BY recent European arrival We have in
telligence that the iron clads just finished at
Bordeaux, France, were to 60 to sea immedi-
ately under the Dutch flag. 1t was said they
would certainly be transferred to the rebels in
some of the waters of the East.
-BrigaGier General Taylor, Commissary
General of Subsistence, died at Washington
last week.
The House Military Committee have re-
ported in favor of allowing Mrs. Joan M. Lam
der, born at Davenport, widow of Gen. Lam
der, $4,750 for her husbands services in sur
veying the railroad from Puget's Sound to the
Mississippi.
"A fire in the village of Sand Beach, Huron
county, Mich, on the Oath ult., destroyed $15,-
600 worth OF property.
I'm Brantford, c. W., on the 26th ult, the
machine shop of the Buffalo and Lake Huron
was destroyed by fire. Loss, $4,000; insured
for $50, 600.
"A substitute broker enticed foolish young
fellow from Boston to Concord. n H., the
other day, where he induced him to consent to
20 as substitute for 800, with the promise
that as soon as he was enlisted, "he should
marry beautiful young lady who was worth
100000" The surgeon questioned him and
detected the fraud, and about that time the
broker was missing.
General Fessenden, son of Senator Fessen-
den, who is now at his home in Maine, is get
ting along finely. His amputated leg heals
slowly, but his general health is good, and he
has ordered new leg, which he expects will
make him all right by next winter.
Ii was not A. T. Stewart who lately gave
$50, 0OO to Yale College, but Massachusetts,
boy, B. M. Z. Durfee of Fall River, a member
of the present freshman class at Yale.
Francis c. Spencer, who murdered Rich
ard Tinker, Warden of the Maine State Prison,
on the 18th of May, 1863, was executed on the
oath instant at Thomaston. This is The trst
enforcement of the death penalty since 1882.
There are eleven other persons under the death
sentence, but whether any of them will suffer
depends upon the will of the Governor
AT recent meeting of the Tamnany So
ciety several gentlemen were elected members,
including Gen. Geo. B. Mcclellan and General
Winfield 8. Hancock. 1t was expected the
first named would be initiated on the Fourth of
July, when the society hold their usual celebra-
tiOns.
Gen. Hancock resumed command Of his
corps on the 9th. His wound having closed,
he is ready again for active service In the Geld.
Gen. Birney, who has had temporary com.
mand ofthe corps, returns to the command OF
his own division.