The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1865-05-26
LATE NEWS ITEMS.

The column was entirely unencumbered with
wagons.
Major General Howard, who has accepted
the appointment of head of the new bureau of
of freedmen's affairs, did not seek the place.
He was selected from host of applicants on
account Of his ability to manage SO compli.
Gated question, and has finally consented to
take the place.
The Heralds Richmond correspondent.
mentioning the difficulty between Gems. Sher-
man and Halleck, says the rupture between
the Generals, it is understood, grows out of
General Hallecks order countermanding the
orders of General Sherman to his subordinate
commanders during the truce with Johnston.
General Sherman wrote to General Halleck
yesterday, stating that in the future all inter-
course between them was forever at an end
"A banker by the name of Bruce at Keith
burg, Mercer county, Illinois, has absconded,
taking with him $4,000 of his depositors'
money.
Richmond ought to be well ruled at pres
ent, from military point of view at least. The
Wing of Tuesday contains three columns of
military orders, emanating from two major and
three brigadier generals.
Rufus Wheeler, an old resident of Buffalo
and for many years connected with the Buffalo
press, died on the 14th. Also John Bowles,
for many years connected with the New York,
Albany and Buffalo, and the Western Union
Telegraph companies.
Intelligence from Arkansas announces
that Gen. NJ. JEFF. Thompson surrendered on
the 18th, on the same terms offered by Major
Gen. Dodge, being the same as offered by Gen.
Grant TO Lee.
"A fashionable merchant tailor, of Indian
apolis, by the name of Scholtz, was pretty
badly whipped on Monday in fight with the
proprietor of Titles Hotel. The dispute
arose about some matters of rent, when
Scholtz losing his temper, called the hotel
man an insulting name, when the latter went
in and demolished the gentleman of the yard
stick. 1t created considerable excitement for
q time.
Gen. Fremont has purchased the elegant
mansion of Gen. James Watson Webb, on the
plank road, three miles below Sing Sing, and
intends to make it his permanent residence.
Rev. DR.. David Magic, for forty-four years
pastor of the Second Presbyterian church in
Elizabeth, N. j., died in that place yesterday
morning.
Gen. Rhett, captured by our troops in
North Carolina has taken the oath at Fort
Delaware. He is son of the original seces-
sionist." Robert Barnwell Rhett, and brother
of the editor of the Charleston Mercury. Out
of 700 rebel officers in the Fort all but IS took
the oath.
Orders have been issued for a material re-
duction in the expenses of the Medical Depart
ment of the Army. No more supplies are to
be purchased until present stocks are exhaust
ed. Thus the work of retrenchment goes on.
"A letter to the Cincinnati Commercial
It is due to Sherman to testify that, from
what could see on my ride through North
Carolina, meeting with citizens and soldiers of
all ranks, Sherman seems to have conquered
so effectually that those spoke with had al
ready coupled a name so hated by them with
sincere honor and reverence.
Milton Brown, President of the Mobile
and Ohio Railroad, has asked permission of
the proper authorities to reopen the road
from Columbus, Kentucky, to Mobile. The
work can be accomplished in two weeks, and
telegraphic communication can be resumed in
three days.
There is a brisk competition between Bar
mum and some Chicago gentleman for the pos
captured, the latter parties desiring to secure it
as an attraction for the Sanitary Fair.
"A judge in Baltimore has charged grand
jury that persons sitting on military commits
sions, for the trial of citizens not connected
with military or naval service, are liable to
Indictment.
"A good many people will not be surprised
to learn that the proprietors of the distilleries
seized in Dubuque, Iowa, for defrauding the
revenue law, are all rampant Republicans. If
this war has shown one thing more forcibly
than another, it is that professed philanthropy
and swindling are not in the least incompati-
BILE.
Gov. Brown of Georgia was arrested on the
night of the 9th at the executive mansion at
Milledgeville, by Capt. Kneeand and Lieut..
Bayfed, and proceeded to Washington under
charge of the latter.
-Callicott, who betrayed the New York De-
mocracy in the Assembly, in 1868, by going
over to the Republicans, thus giving them the
legislative organization, was not long after
wards appointed Supervising Special Agent of
the Treasury Department at Nashville. He
has recently been dismissed, and j. R. Dillon
appointed in his place.
Miss MULCH, well known in this country
as the gifted author of John Halifax" Life
for Life" Christians Mistake, and other
popular works, was married at Bath, England,
on the 2sth of April, to Mr.. Craig of Glasgow.
This gentleman, who is much younger than
Miss MULCH, was year or two ago the victim
of railway accident, by which he lost leg.
When taken to hotel he was insensible, and
the people finding about him the address of
Miss MULCH, sent for the lady, who, recognize
ing a youth whom she had know as boy,
nursed him tenderly. The result is wedding.
Within week five Methodist churches
have been burnt in New Hampshire and Yer
mont in the vicinitv of ohonon- oooh at