The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1865-11-03
LATE NEWS ITEMS.

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The indications are that Wade Hampton
ia e,ec,ea Governor of South Carolina.
~Thankspiying in Maine is appointed fol
Nov %. in New Hampshire for Nov. 80.
The War Department has decided with the
.,,r-oval of Gen. Grant, not to restore the con
6scated estate OF Henry A, Wise. The house
10 now used as freedman's school, of which
the daughters of old John Brown are teachers
Theodore Jones' the well known Cincin
natl artist, rescued from o watery grave, las
Sunday, q young woman who had jumped into
the Ohio river Mr.. Jones came near being
drowned himself. but nevertheless brought
the unhappy woman safe to land. Her name
and her secret are both unknown.
The Cleveland Herald gives as an evidence
of the rapid growth of that city, that the total
number of new churches, stores, dwellings and
manufacturing establishments, erected since
January 1st 1866, including those commenced
at that time and not completed, as taken by
the letter carriers is six hundred and thlrty'sX.
The Davenport Gazette says DR.. Z. Z. Par
~ has completed the preliminary survey on
which canal can be successfully constructed
to connect the Upper Mississippi and Lake
Michigan. Some additional facts, however,
relating to po,t ton of Rock river, remain TO
be ascertained and collected. 10 secure this,
DR.. Parry has gone to Springfield, ILL.,, to ex'
anime the plats of survey made some twenty
years ago by the State. public meeting
will shortly be held q Davenport to appoint
committees and put the matter in shape for
Congress.
The Vincennes Qnd.) Sun states that on
Thursday night OF last week number OF citi-
zens of Crawford, bordering on Dubois county,
arrested a couple of men suspected OF having .
few nights previously attempted to break into
several houses in that vicinity. They failed
to give q satisfactory account of themselves to
the mob-did not deny their guilt or affirm
their innocence-and refused to give their
names The citizens then procured rope and
hung them to a tree, to compel them to d.
vulge, which they persistently refused to do,
and after hanging and letting them down sew
eral times, without eliciting any information,
they were found to be dead.
"A Cincinnati dispatch reports that Chief
Justice Chase is soon TO be married to Miss
Virgins, of that city. Mr.. Chase is now in
New York, for the purpose of assisting in the
reorganization OF the Christian Commission.
"A corener's jury, at Detroit, has returned
verdict Of wilful murder against young
Farman, for The shooting OF Captain John 2.
Ward. . .....
The President is daily in receipt OF memo
rails in behalf OF Jeii. Davis. A few days ago,
Judge Phillips, OF Alabama, at the request OF
the petitioners, presented one signed by nearly
five thousand ladies OF Georgia, and on Mon
day an ANONYMOUS communication, eight
pages long, apparently written by female, was
received. appealing for mercy for Davis on the
ground that he had rendered valuable service
to the country in various public positions, As
cabinet officer, and fought bravely in the Mexi-
can war that lie was no more criminal than the
others who figured in the rebellion, and who
have been pardored.
The Lawrence (Mass.} Republican tells .
story of the marriage in that city of couple,
the bridegroom being from Wisconsin, and the
bride q resident of Lawrence. Immediately
after marriage the lady told her newly welded
husband that she was unworthy OF him, CIV
ing reasons which emphatically proved the
statement; said she loved another; that she
was coerced into the marriage and would not
live with ner husband, and the two thereupon
parted the lady meantime being formally dis
owned by her parents.
Some Of the papers announce that MIS-. Car
III. ne fNrA ffAr a
in the horse-car, Saturday, found that there
was diamond ring in her pocket. She re-
members tisshy chap sitting at her side, and
As her pocket-book, with few notes in it was
gone, it is supposed the ring accidentally slip
ped from his finger when abstractiDg it. The
ring is stated to be worth $3.50.
Secretary McCulloch is of the opinion
that If the War Department shall place its es-
Inmates for the next fiscal year proportionstely
a. low as those of the Navy Department. the
expenses of the Government tor 1856 will be
about e100 0O0, 600. exclusive of the interest on
the public debt. which is now S65, O0O, 600.
Il Is claimed that the internal revenue will
meet the total sum of expenditures. to say no.
thing of the revenue 10 be derived from Gus
toms.
Hon. Caleb Cushing leaves for England in
Wednesdays steamer, on special legal mis-
sion connected with the State Department.
Thus far his business is kept confidential, but
it is very clearly surmisei that it has reference
to an adjudication of claims for damages made
by this Government on Great Britain for dep
relations of the Alabama on American COM
merce. It's believed that the Government has
accepted the proposition of Earl Russell 70 APP
point q commission to settle such claims. Mr..
Adams, our Minister, was mistaken in suppos.
ing this Government would decline to appoint
a:commission.
General Grant, after consultation with the
President and Secretary of War. has decided
to recommend the immediate mastering, out
of the whole Veteran Reserve Corps, and an
order to that effect will be issued in day or
two.
GEN. II. w. SLocUM, in letter to the Alba
ny Erening Journal, vindicates himself from
the charge of fraud in connection with certain
transactions at Vicksburg proposing to an
swer in full any questions which may be asked
either in reference to his official course in the