The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1864-01-29
LATE NEWS ITEMS.

Bank, OF Hudson, Michigan, abscOnded on
Thursday with 100000 belonging to the bank
General Heintzelman has arrived and es,
tabli>hed his headquarters at Columbus. Ohio
Tor the new department embracing Ohio In
diana. Michigan and Illinois. He has issued
an order directing all subordinate command
eF' IN his department to report the number,
coholioh, etc. Of the troops under their re-
spcctivc commands,
Inc cavalry forces Of the Department of the
OAio nave been consolidated into a separate
Ups, WIN General Sturgis as its chief.
mere are somewhere in the South at the
pioseiit time 100000 bales of cotton. At
my cents per pound, this is worth about six
hundred millions Of dollars
After deciding that Heenan i No nr:zo
7n'e,' sporting magnates are attempting to
make MIN hght again in Canada He had bet
ter stick to the saw dust
-"eofgm Is re-organziny her militia in
ordef 10 repel our attacks in the sprinp Tho
'iiliilia proper Is to consist of all aLle-bod,ed
lnaies between seventeen and fifty Years Of are
! There are several delegations at Washinr-
ton, representing tobacco, whisky. petroIeum
ana other matters, who will be heard before
Inc committee next week.
-lhc whole number Of cents coined Of tIa
Philadelphia mint during 1868 was "a 300 Ooo.
considering which fact, pennies ought not
10 he very scarce. The value of the gold COIN
co was SSH $50; of silver. S33. 527 80.
nc acceptance by China of the code Of
international Law, and of Wheaton's great
WORK As the exponent of that code. sienaiizes
one Oh The mos remarkable DEVELOPMENTS of
| 'iese remarkable times. 1t is in fact the mos
important step ever taken by that gigantic en-
! pre- towards identifying itself with moder,-
eivl:lzaton, and one of the greatest triumpbs.
100 OF American Influence, says the New York
Times.
The Springfield Republican, wants Mr., Lin
con reelected, but desires new Cabinet. 1t
says: The people have come to feel that it is
a necessity that the War Department shall be
directed by an able military man. and they are
right. There Is no use now in grumbling over
past mistakes and losses, but we must have
some security against repetition Of them for
the next four years We have been told that
1t is not wise to Put new wine into Old bottles.
| The philanthropists who have taken charge
Of Southern plantations are not all saints.
letter TO the New York Tribune saws: Il am
satisfied that the Freedmen in the section
where these abandoned plantations are worked
are IL many cases grossly matreated and
swindled and that if the facts were known q
long record OF imposition would be made
against parties who should have treated them
with humanity and fed anu laid them fairy.
we mast send out some Copperheads " to
protect the negroes from the rapacity of their
friends
During the recent great storm out West
| woman in Chicago whose husband was
recently killed in the war, left her TWO bows.
ageC five and two years. in the house, to 20
and make some purchases. but got drunk On
returning. durin. the night both children were
found dead. On tie floor lay the youngest
c:liid ii heap OF snow: he was frozen stiff
and was Of course dead. The eldest poy lay on
tie bed: he, too. was dead. but not quite cold
He had built fire against trunk which stood
near. and hole was burned in its side another
in the floor and the bedclothes had been on
fire. He had probably been asleep. The door
having been left open. the room was filled with
snow. and on awakening, perishng with cold
/ ht found Ills brother dead. Il tha cosed the
door lit 4 fire on the h..J. -. ...., Gown
benumbed with the cold
The Gothamites are iayin- themselves
OF for the largest kind of 4 Sanitary Fair
\ suitable structure is to be erected and in
order to give tiile ter its completion, the open
ing OF the Fair has been postponed; from the
22d Of February (Washingtons birthday unit
the 10Th of March easter Monday.) Hardly
a man, woman, or child, who las the shelter
of roof IN populous and wealthy New York.
but will be eager to contribute according TO
ability to 4 cause so noble, which touches none
of their prejudices, which opens no sores,
which revives no animosities, but simply ap-
peas to the finer instincts their common hu-
mainly. says the JI'orId.
a correspondent OF the Cincinnati Ga,ette
says of General StoIemano successor: He is
henncr Gaffard Of Cincinnati: born there;
went to West Point; graduated with honor and
credit; has been in the army ever since was in
Texas with his command Cavalry when the
prisoners; was duly exchanged: is about thr
and Jeptha D. Garrard. He has been in sever
al battles, and for distinguished services and
ability at the battle of Gettysburg. was made
Brigadier General. He is Il thorough scholar
and soldier, and has high sense OF moral rec
titude worthy of all honors his country can
give him. He is a grandson of Israel Ludlow,
one of the original proprietors OF Cincinnati.
No man says Mrs. Stowe, in the Boston
Hatchman, has suffered more and deeper, al
belt with dry. weary, patient pain, that
seemed to some like insensibility, than fresl- /
dent Lincoln. whichever way it ends, he |
said to the writer, Il have the impression thatlit
shant last long after it is over. After the
dreadful repulse OF fredericksburg he is re-
norted 10 have said, ''if there is a man out Of
hell that suffers more than l do. | pity him. |
In those dark days his heavy eyes and worn
and weary air, told how our reverses wore I
upon him, and yet there was neyer-failing
fnnd of patience at bottom, that sometimes
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