The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1864-01-22
LATE NEWS ITEMS.

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mocracy.
MIR. J. F. Mollere, of Louisiana. who came
into our lines from Richmond some time ago
with important information from Richmond
and has since been confined in the Old Capitol
prison, was recently hOnorably released upon
representations from General Banks and others
in Louisiana of his loyalty and usefulness to the
Union cause.
! Mrs. Sarah Waters died at Hoosick Falls
on the 9TH instant, at the age of one hundred
and one years. The husband of the deceased,
who died twenty-four years ago, was soldier
in the Revolution, and his widow received
pension up to the time of her death.
Rear Admiral George w. Storer died at
Portsmouth, N. H., on Friday, the 9Th instant,
having served his country faithfully for over
half a century. He has left behind him a host
of warm friends and admirers. He was born in
New Hampshire, but was appointed midship-
man in the navy from the State of Maine.
-Four London surgeons are ready to swear
that Heenan was chloroformed during the
recent fight. Heenan's brother has returned
home. He says Tom Sayers was drunk while
acting as second to the ''Benicia Boy
MIR. j. B. Kellogg, Secretary of the Cham
Der OF Commerce of Milwaukee, reports the
stock of wheat in store in that city on the LIST
inst. to have been ,134, 400 bushels and of oats
| $1,000 bushels. The stock of wheat is larger
and OF oats smaller than was generally esti-
mated. year ago, January 1, the amount of
wheat in store there was ], AL ,6O1 bushels.
| ic in
years old last April, raised by John W. Cope
man, in Cayuga county, and fatted to its pres
ent enormous size by A. B. Benham of Dry
den, Tompkins county, New York. This hog,
in May 1868, weighed 1,12O pounds In Sep
TENDER he weighed 1 ,249 pounds. In October
1875 pounds. In December he weighed $40
pounds, and has since been growing rapidly.
and will probably weigh 1,4OO pounds to-day.
His breed is cross of Leicester and Suffolk,
with slight cross of Berkshire.
The total number of colored troops now
in the service of the United States is stated at
10000, with quite as many negroes, not armed,
in the service of the quartermaster, commissary
and engineer departments. The total number
of negroes, of all ages and conditions, which
the rebels have so far lost by the wor, is esti-
mated at Washington to be at least half mil
lion.
"A dispatch from Oshkosh, Wisconsin,
states that another victim to the cold of JAN
uary LIST has just been discovered in the person
of Mr.. Grignon. He started for his residence
on the Fox River, ten miles from Oshkosh
Thursday night, but fell and persisted in the
storm when about quarter of mile from his
own house. Mr.. Grignon was one of the pio-
neers of Wisconsin, and acted a conspicuous
part in the Black Hawk war; and has had the
credit of being the captor of Black Hawk near
Crawford, His age was sixty-fve.
The ex-United Postmaster General, and
now rebel Senator from Mississippi, Mr.. Aaron
V. Brown, lately concluded fierce speech in
the Confederate Senate as follows:
When the spirits of all the long list of mar
tyrs who have fallen in this war, and the untold
thousands who shall hereafter tall shall cover
this Capitol as with cloud, and demand to
know the authors of all this mischief he, for
one at least meant to say: / did not do it;
shake not thy CORY locks at me-"
This, it will be remarked, was the frenzied
speech of the murderer and usurper. Macbeth.
We may conclude that rebellion has seen its
Banquo.
The endurance of a colored regiment on
the march has been put to the severest test.
Gen. Wistar, commanding at Yorktown, a
short time ago sent one of the colOred regi-
ments on raid through Matthews county, Va,
accompanied by white cavalry regiment. The
black troops marched distance of sixty miles
in forty hours, and seemed to endure the
fatigues of tramp considerably easier than the
mounted white men.
1t is rumored that Secretary Usher is
about to be appointed United States District
Judge for Indiana, in place Of the late eX-Sec-
rotary Smith, In such an event. Superintend-
ent of Public Printing Defrees, also ofIndiana,
is mentioned as Usher's successor. Exon
gresham Mckee Dunn is also mentioned for
the vacant Judgeship.
| On the 1st instant the mercury at Fort
Smith, Arkansas, was from 10 to 10 degrees
below Zero
| Admiral Lee set out on the Sd instant to
inspect the blockade runner Bendigo, which
was recently beached near Wilmington, N. G.,
when the rebels opened fire on our men;
whereupon the Admiral retired to proper
distance. and opened IRE Oh the benoHo, rio'
ding and destroying her.
Connecticut has filled her quota, and has
surplus of 500.
The Richmond Examiner of December 81,
in a review of what it calls "the gloomest
wear of our struggle" drops remark from
which our military authorities might take
valuable hint:
Another daring Yankee raid has been carried
out with comparative impunity to the invaders,
and timorous capitalists may well pause before
they nibble at eligible investments in real es-
tate situated far in the interior. That interior
has been fearfully narrowed by the federal
march through Tennessee, and, owing to the
deficiency of our cavalry service, Lincolnis
sque7rons Of horse threaten to be as Immersed ter
gunboafs qcere some months sance. 8
The annual rental of pews in Plymouth
Church, Brooklyn, CHenry Ward Beecher),
took place last week. The choice of seats
were sold at auction. The New York Tribune