The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1864-05-13
LATE NEWS ITEMS.

| 1t is reported that Gov. Seymour has been
notified that call will be made on his State
for all the effective militia regiments of the
State, for three months service or less-such
call to take effect on the 10th of May, at which
time the regiments called out are to be ready
for service 1t is stated that some of the brig
AIDES have already been notified.
One Thousand seven hundred and fifty
| shares of capital stock in the Great Western
Railroad Company, owned by Leroy NJ Willy,
a noted rebel, has been confiscated by order of
Judge Belts, of New York. Willy is an old
man. He owned, it is alleged, ten million dol
lars worth of property, partly at the North.
He entered heartily into the rebellion, supply
ing the rebels with men whom he raised with
the means he possessed, and is now, according
to last accounts, somewhere in the southwest.
There is other property in New York city al
legged to belong to him.
The editor of the Richmond Dispatch, the
most ferocious of the rebel papers, is said to
be Oliver P. Baldwin, formerly q resident of
Cleveland. Twenty-Five years ago he was a
law student in that city, but subsequently
studied divinity and went to Virginia, where
he became editor of literary weekly journal.
Baldwin was distinguished as u line scholar,
and a handsome but not very forcible speaker.
He is now the bitterest rebel in rebeldom.
The Courier des Etats Unis states that there
is no disagreement between the French and
Federal authorities in regard to the Richmond
tobacco question. NJ. de Maribault, who COM
mands the French vessels in the James River,
had orders from the French Minister in Wash
ington and from Admiral Reynaud, to return
with all his vessels from City Point to Fortress
Monroe, on the 23d instant.
"A New Orleans letter reports that the evac-
uation of Texas by our troops has begun, and
also report has reached New Orleans that the
rebel General Polk is at Camp Moore, ninety
miles from New Orleans, with Is, 600 to 10000
men, to move at once on Port Hudson or Ba-
ton Rouge.
Marcus j. Cole, a thrifty citizen of Pocas-
set, Mass, fearing pecuniary ruin, shot himself
a day or two ago in the following ingenious
manner. Selecting retired room in the attic
OF his house just at the head of a flight of
stairs, he placed loaded gun upon the stairs
in an inclinec position, but the first discharge
sent its contents through the side of the house.
Upon the second discharge the bullet passed
through the body close to the heart
The army consumes so many onions that
Wethersfield is looking up. Whereas onion
seed in that lively Connecticut village sold be-
fore the war at forty-two cents per pound, it
now commands three dollars.
1t is reported that E. Clark Ingersoll, of
Peoria, Illinois, will receive the Union nomin-
alton in the Fourth district, to succeed the late
Owen Lovejoy. Mr.. Ingersoll is war Demo-
crat, and was the candidate at large in 1862
against Jas. c. Allen.
Rev. Israel Washburne, well. known
Methodist minister, died at Middleboro', Mass,
| on Sunday last, aged g. years. He enlisted as
private in Massachusetts regiment in 1862,
| and was very active in raising troops, and was
afterwards commissioned as chaplain of the
| Twelfth Massachusetts regiment
The Mayor of the city of Newport has
taken the commander of the Naval School to
task for alleged exaggerations of the immoral
| ity of that place. Commander Fairfax replies
that he meant to say that the Midshipmen were
too ford of the society of an Objectionable class
of females, but he intended no reflection upon
| the better class of the people.
| Anna Dickinson repeated in Boston, in the
Music Hail. on Wednesday, the speech she
made in New York last week, denouncing
Gen. Banks without stint. The Boston Post
remarks that her sentiments did not seem to
meet with universal approval, but Miss Dick
enson scolded those who Kissed, so vehementy
that they were fain to keep quiet"
The marble and stone-cutters of Pittsburg
propose to offer handsome monument which
will cost several thousand dollars as premium
| to the county in Western Pennsylvania West
Virginia or Ohio which shall make the largest
gift in money or farm products to the Philadel-
phia Sanitary Fair. The monument is to be
erected within the limits of the successful
county, and to be inscribed with the names of
the soldiers from that region who have been
killed in the war.
An interesting bit of personal history rela-
tive to the carly life of George Peabody is told
by Newburyport paper thus:
1t Is rather uncommon in this day for per-
sons to render invoices of their taxable prop
erty. The assessors advertise for them, but
| since it is understood that they will not doom
| ANYBODY, no notice Is taken thereof; and prob
ably not half dozen year are rendered in
NewburypOrt Formerly it was not so; and
in looking back to 1914 we find the following
from George Peabody, the celebrated London
banker, whose wealth and generosity are
known the world over:
Invoice of all the taxable property of the
subscriber on the first of May, 1911
| Zone Poll -
Personal Property. 5000.
| GEORGE PEABODY.
"Newburyport, Oct. 26, 1814.-Sworn to
before Samuel Cutler. Oct. &C. 1914"
1t appears from the above that George Pea
body in 1914 arrived at manhood, and took his
oath that he was possessed of but two hundred
dollars taxable property, which was just
enough to make him voter; and if he had
lost one dollar of it the day before he would
not have been voter that year.
| VIM. s. Thayer, U. 8. Consul General for
Egypt died in Alexandria, on the 10th of
| April.
| The House, by unanimous vote, passed
the bill reported by Mr.. Schenck, from the MIL
itary Committee, raising soldiers pay to SIG
per month, corporals to- $1s, sergeants to $40,
orderly sergeants TO 1924, and sergeant majors
| to 1926.
d "A train of cars from Louisville to Nash
vile, on the Sd instant, with the 34th Ohio in
! fantry, met with a sad accident ct midnight,