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

-Brigadier General Charles P. Stone,
of Massachusetts, whose arrest and con-
tinement by the military authorities ex-
cited so much attention, and are now ac-
knowledged to have been unjust, was re-
Gently married in New Orleans.
The editor of the Cleveland Herald,
who lately attended the opening of the
Supreme Court in Washington, writes as
follows of the Chief Justice:
Chief Justice fancy is of that class who dry
up in their tracks. He shrivels gradually,
year by year, and is, apparently, the feeblest
man ON ear h who has breath in his body.
He sits doubled up, and his voice cannot pene-
trate three feet.
General George S. Greene, of General
Geary's division, 18th corps, had his teeth
blown out and his jaw shot away at the
battle of Wauhatchee, and is now at home
in Washington; and at the recent battle
of Ringgold, in the final assault, Captain
Charles Greene, his son, and Assistant
Adjutant General of the brigade, had his
leg cut completely Oft by shell which
passed through mis- horse, going out on
the revere side. Capt. Green's leg was
thrown far into the air and fell on the
ground close by his side.
"A correspondent of the Chattanooga
(Marietta) Rebel, writing from Gen. Lees
army, November 10, says:
Soon after our arrival at camp the first snow
storm of the season commenced, and it was ac-
companied by phenomenal appearance-ot-
ten spoken of but seldom seen-l allude to
so called shower of blood. This reddish sub
stance fell over a spot about four or five acres
in extent scattering the tents with large
splashes of q fluid resembling pOkeberry juice
in color, and collecting in considerable quanti-
ties in the cups of dead leaves, &c.
There was singular appearance in the north
at the same time. resembling the ''silver rain"
of the pyrotechnists and which lasted but a few
minutes. These facts can be attested by hun
dreds of persons, officers and men, and en-
close you some of the leaves clO;ted with this
peculiar red substance.
The statement that Gen. French has
been relieved from command aud under
arrest is not founded On fact. Maj. Gen.
French has not been relieved from his
command; neither has he been placed un-
der arrest.
The Richmond Wing, concerning jeff.
Davis message, says: cit seems that the
President did not anticipate war. 1t is
strange that he should not have done so,
at least when he ordered Gen. Beauregard
to open on Fort Sumter. Perhaps the
country may be charged with the same
want of foresight"
The press reporters gave complimentary
dinner to Speaker Colfax in Washington. 1t
was pleasant and harmonious gathering.
Samuel Wilkinson presided, and at the cOnclu-
sion of bis remarks proposed sentiment which
elected from Colfax brief appropriate, elo-
quent and patriotic speech, in which he said
the House of Representatives had chosen news
paper men for Speaker, Clerk and Postmaster
good share for the profession, and in the
Senate it was nearly the same way, Vice Pres-
dents Secretary Forney, and Sergeant-at-arms,
Brown, coming in for the highest honors.
About one o'clock on Saturday morning,
one of the larges: of the brick machine shops
belonging to the Chicago, Burlington and
Quincy Railroad Company, at Aurora, caught
fire accidentally, and was burnt nearly to the
ground.
Six correspondents of Republican journals
have been appointed to clerkships under the
new regime of the House and Senate as follows:
House librarian, Winslow Reid, Cincinnati Ga
eette; clerk to committee on elections, D. w.
Bartlett, New York Evening Post; clerk in Office
of House, Noah Brooks, Sacramento Union J;
clerk to committee on printing records OF
Congress, Ben. Perley Poore, Boston Journal ];
clerk to committee on military affairs OF the
Senate, Horace White, Chicago Tribune clerk
to Senate committee on agriculture, j. B.
Mccullough, Cincinnati Commercial.
"A large part OF jeff Davis message is de
| voted to the denunciation of the blockade kept
on the coast of the beloved Southern Confed-
eracy. He insists upon it that the blackade is
paper. This paper blockade has captured one
thousand and .forty.fce 6lockade-rumners, of
which 547 were schooners, 179 steamers, 131
sloops 80 briggs, 26 barques, Is ships, and III
smaller craft.
The London Times, in an editorial on the
great fight, says that "Heenan was game
throughout He tried to crush his antagonist
| by dashing him to the ground. Kings tactics