The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1864-08-05
LATE NEWS ITEMS.

Moses Taylor has been appointed Assistant
Treasurer at New York, in place of Mr.. Cisco,
resigned.
The local" column of the Richmond
E.raminer. furnishes the following facetious
item:
For the first time in our varied experience
we saw on Tuesday barrel OF flour hauled up
Governor street in hearse The public did
stare, but the driver drove on. When we came
to recollect that flour was five and six hundred
dollars a barrel, and that the struggle for bread
was one of life and death, we better apprecia-
ted the connection between the hearse and the
barrel of flour.
Auditor Benton of New York, in circular
to the collectors on the Western division of the
Erie Canal, says the water on the Eastern divi-
sion, for the want of copious rains, will not
carry boats drawing over five feet and six inches
of water. which is six inches less than boats are
permitted to draw. The Auditor says he has
no authority to change the draft of water, but
he advises forwarders that if they load down
their boats to the limits of the law, they take
the risk of stopping navigation entirely.
Authority has been granted to the State
authorities of Pennsylvania by the Secretary of
War, to organize new regiments OF volunteers
for one wear under the last call OF President
Lincoln for 500, 900 men. The Governor will
issue his proclamation to this effect as soon as
orders and instructions are received from
Washington. Full companies of volunteers for
one year will at once be received.
The Commissioner of Internal Revenue has
decided that clerks and agents selling goods
by sample, do not require license, il the firm
for which they are engaged has a dealers Ii
cense Clerks travelling on foot or by wagon,
and selling goods, must have pedier's license.
Clerks travelling by railroad, steamboat, &C.,
and displaying and selling goods at hotels,
stores, or other places, must have dealers Ii
cense. Jewelry pedlers, or pedlers selling dry
goods by the original piece or package, must
pay fifty dollars for their license.
The Edinburgh Scotsman Oh July 10th says:
1t is quite true, we have reason to believe,
that Mr.. Chase, Secretary OF the treasury at
Washington. had lately an offer from Holland
of a loan of e2O, 600, 000 but on condition of
the custom duties of Federal ports being pedg-
ed for the payment of interest. This condition
the Washington government regarded in the
light of an Insult, and the negotiation was
broken off.
"A young married lady travelling few
DAYS since from New York to Syracuse, and
suffering from consumption, had been laid
carefully on pillow in the cars by her hus-
band. while her little girl remained by her
side At Little Falls she fell asleep, and the
child commenced tanning her, saying, Man,
ma is sleeping" A passenger, however, MOTTO
ed the peculiar whiteness of her lips, and, on
looking closely at her. discovered that she was
dead.
A complimentary dinner to Hon. Salmon
P. Chase was given at the Parker House re-
Gently by some of our most influential citizens.
He will be the guest of S. T.. Dana, Esq, at
Nahant, for a few days.-Boston Transcript.
The financial state of the country and the
high rate of foreign exchange operate very in
juriously upon the operations of the foreign
missionary societies, and the American Board
Of Foreign Missions has been obliged to issue
a circular calling upon the churches for addi-
tional subscriptions to the amount of 100000
The financial year ends August 81, and the
Board and its friends feel great anxiety lest the
wear should close with heavy debt upon it.
The wounded prisoners taken from the
Alabama. and treated in the French hospital at
Cherbourg, are, it is said, about to be set at
liberty, under French law which DEGREES that
all prisoners of war are absolutely free on
touching the soil of France. Capt. Winslow
demanded that the men be handed over to the
Sacramento when the Kearsarge left Cher
bourg, but his application was denied.
The Democratic Congressional nomina-
tons in Indiana, thus far, are as follows: LIST
district, VIM. E. Niback; Sd, Henry W. Har-
rington; 9TH, Daniel w. Voorhees,; 9th. Dayid
Turpis; 10th, Joseph K Edgerton; 18th, Jas.
F. Mcdowell. The conventions in the 4th and
Sth districts were held recently, but we have
no intelligence of their proceedings. The I'd,
9th and 9th districts hold their convention in
Auruct