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

physiOgnomy, until the latter collapsed from
exhaustion. The affair was over in twenty
four rounds and thrty-fve minutes. There
appears to have been little science on either
side, but it was, nevertheless, fair stand up
fight Tom Savers was one of Hccnan's sec
OndS."
William III. Graham, once proprietor OF
Graham's .Haga=ine. of Philadelphia, which
Subsequently passed into the hands OF his
brother, George r. Graham, died in new York
last week at the age of forty years. 1t APP
peared from evidence before the Coroner that
Mr.. Graham died from the effects of Intem-
perance and exposure
England was visited about two weeks ago
with terrific gale, and the disasters there
from were numerous and severe. The loss in
human life, too, it would seem was terrible to
contemplate. In one place, Holyhead, fifty-six
bodies having already loated in, while nearly
a dozen more have been seen upon the surface
of the waters drifting with the tide towards the
shore.
A repetition of the Chesapeake affair has
occurred on smaller scale in the capture of
the schooner Joseph L. Gerety, which left
Matamoras on November 16, with cargo of
cotton and six passengers. When one day
out the passengers, armed with revolvers, at
tackled the captain and crew, confined them
for eight days, and then put them in an open
boat, telling them to find the land as best they
might. At err two days and nights at sea they
landed at SisaI, and there obtained passage to
Havana. The captain states that there are
four other parties waiting opportunities like
this, and they are sure to get them.
Captain Alden Clifford, a well known ship
master and agent of underwriters. died sud-
denly last week in Boston.
Com. Gershom Van Brunt died at Dedham,
Mass. on Thursday, the 18th inst, at the age of
60. He entered the navy in 1918, and served
forty-tlve years. He commanded the Mime
sofa at the reduction Of Hatteras, and was for
some time on the blockade at Hampton Roads.
At later period he was entrusted by the Gov
eminent with the supervision and equipment of
General Banks New Orleans expeditions, and
at the time of his death was acting under the
orders OF the War department as Inspector of
Transports for the New England District. In
his death the Navy, no less than the nation,
loses valuable officer and citizen.
The capture of DR.. George r. Peters, who
killed the rebel General Van Dorm has been
mentioned. He was carried to Meridian Miss,
and subsequently brought up, on writ of
habeas corpus, ON the 25th of November. After
a hearing he was discharged.
"A person lately arrived at Memphis from
the South reports that the people are not dis
couraged by the recent disasters to their arms;
that the soldiers are'well clothed. and that food
is abundant everywhere.
MIR. Justice Wayne has delivered the opin-
ion OF the Supreme Court Of the United States,
dismissing the writ Of error sued out by Judge
Roosevelt, of New York, in the legal tender
case, on the ground that, the decision of the
State court of New York having been in favor
of the constitutionality of the law, the Supreme
Court has no jurisdiction to revise that deci-
sion. The only mode, therefore, in which the
question can come before this court is by APP
peal or writ of error from the judgment of an
inferior court of the United States
Joe Johnston has been app inted to the
and Bragg has accepted the position OF chief Of
his staff
"A correspondent of the Oshkosh wis.,
Courier, writing from Big Creek, Nevada Ter
ritOry, under date of November LIST, says:
have four men to work for me, carpenters and
masons. to whom am paying ten dollars per
day. Common hands l nave to pay five dol
lars. Greenbacks dom: go here. have a few
left to remind me of old times ANY man that
is competent to make a respectable living in
Oshkosh can get rich here.
1t has been enormously stated that all let
tiers to members of Congress must be prepaid.
The transmission and receipts of mail matters
continues heretofore, under the franking
| privilege, namely, free. All correspondence,
however, addressed to any Executive Depart
ment must now be prepaid, excepting official
communications written by some officer of a
Department, or any officer under its control or
| responsible to it, and in such cases under the
words, Official Business, on the envelope, the
officer must sign his name with official desig-
nation.
C. w. Blunt says, in letter to the Euem-
ing Post, that not single steamer sails under
the American flag between our country and
Europe; but there are now running from New
York to Europe forty-one foreign steamers
whose aggregate tonnage is 81, 26S, averaging
1926 to each steamer, which is equivalent to a
tonnage moved by sails of 273,5OS, or one
hundred and twenty-five ships of 1925 tons.
&-Gen. John A. Dix has written letter to
Gen. Curtis, favoring union of the Mississippi
and Missouri and the Cedar Rapids and Mis-
souri, Railroads at Des Moines, Iowa. Gen. Dix
takes the ground that two roads through the
State, west of Des Moines river, and SO near
each otter as these two roads, will not pay, and
that the two should be consolidated into one
grand national route.
The death of Gen. James Allen is an
nounced in the Canton (Ohio) Repository. He
died at Washoe, N T., on the 3Oth of October.
He raised and commanded company in the
war which resulted in the independence of
Texas. For many years he las been resident
of California.
William Dennison, the father of ex-Gov.