The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1865-01-13
LArR news ITEMS.

-Gov. Yates message to the General A.
;SemDy o. Illinois. Is probably the most yolum.
inous 9ocumens ever communicated to a leois-
mHve o0ay makes nearly twelve columns
vi .a sne Cnieago 1nbuas. Rather hard on the
'eaoers as wen as the printers.
The valuable trotfing horse Garibaldi "a.
SsGG LILLY purchased in Maine by MI Nathaniel
recenfI,, u h East Boston, for $4,000, was killed
shaft Of the bn s9., run into by another team, the
hinu inc shoulder. entering the horSa oue . Va
nan deet. Mr.. Mckay Would not h,v uae to Hnu
SiooVO lor him. He was a snlend;J on i.ncu
ana , mas n 'rotted this summer in S.ss o.os
n Philadelphia paper says Mr.. W. Moro.
head has recently disposed Of the Pine Grove
Iron Works, situate in Penn township tn nc
South Mountain Iron Company. for al 5oO onN
Within year this estate was sold bv WiIliam
NJ. Watts. Esq, to Jay Cooke & Co. of PbiIa.
delphia, for the sum of $225, 900.
The Lieut.. General of the United States
army was walking ont the dock at Citv Point q
and with the inevitable cigar in his moth
when negro guard touched his arm. SAVING
"No smoking on the dock, SIR" /" Are thesss
your orders ?" asked the General, looking mn
Yes, sir" replied the negro courteouslv, bpt
decidedly. "Very good ORDERS" said Grant.
throwing bis cigar into the water.
Seven soldiers buried from the Universal
list Church. Roxbury, Mass, within two years.
were followed to the grave by weeping widows.
husbands, and the seventh will change her
state of widowhood before New Year.
"A writer in the Northeastern Church, an
Episcopalian weekly, advocates praying for
the dead. insisting that it was the practice of
the primitive church. that all the great divines
of the English church maintain it. and that in
the present Episcopal prayerbook there is at
least one instance of it.
-Advices from Richmond are of such tenor
as to induce the belief among certain officials
that the rebel Congress has already in secret
session passed bill giving JEFF. Davis or Gen.
Lee the authority to call on for detail not
less than sc, 600 slaves for service in the army
as soldiers. ,--
Capt Wise of the Naval Ordnance Bureau,
has determined to withdraw the 100 FOUNDER
PARROTS from service, and the feeling among
naval officers induces the belief that this view
will be sustained by the Examining Board and
the Department.
When Gen. Shermans march through
Georgia was determined upon. the Secretary Of
War Informed him that the President desired
that Gen. Hooker should be appointed second
in command. Gen. Sherman replied express
ing his preference for Howard he was again
informed that the President particularly de-
sired the appointment of Hooker; Gen. Sher
man answered that bis resignation was at the
Presidents disposal. when the Secretary wrote
to Sherman, "appoint whom you please"
The New York Central Railroad has a
paid capital stock of ~, 2o9 600 and funded
debt Of ola, us, 648. Nearly three millions of
passengers have been carried over the road for
the year ending October l, and the total earn.
ings were $1O, 897, GIL. The rate of passenger
fare on the central road is restricted by law to
two cents per mile, and several attempts to get
It raised have failed. The company will peti-
ton the next New York legislature for an ad-
vance, and strenuous efforts will be made to
secure it.
During the year 1864 four thousand eight
hundred and nine vessels arrived at the port
Of New York from foreign ports-a decrease
of two hundred and seventy-th from 1868.
This decrease is very slight when the natural
effects Of the war are taken into considera-
ton. But few OF these vessels carried the
American flag. One hundred and ninety. eight
thousand three hundred and forty-two passen-
gers arrived, the most of them emigrants who
have settled in this country.
"A letter from the Army of the Potomac
gives the following description and opinion of
the Dutch Gap Canal: 1.-THE earth was emf
away as much as possible. Galleries were con-
structed under the remaining earth, and six
tons of powder placed in them. The concus-
sion was very slight, and was not as successful
as expected. The earth must be dredged out.
The rebels have twenty cannon bearing on the
upper end of the canal Much work must be
done before our gunboats can ascend the river
above the canal"
B. 8. Osborne, o naval reporter of New
York. has been arrested by order of the Presi-
dent, and ordered to be tried for furnishing to
the public press and requesting the publica-
ton of the details Of the Wilmington expedi-
ton, thereby causing the enemy to reinforce
their works at Federal Point.