The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1865-06-09

the ankle joint, with all the fleshy parts, eve,
to the skin, had been changed or TRANSFORMED
into solid rock-like substance, and enlargei
to three times its natural size. , .-..
An international exhibition of the product
of fish and fishing tackle, as well as other ar
ticles employed in fishing, viii take place q
Bergen, Norway, from the LIST of August t
the 18th of September, 1866. .,.a'. bias III.
The rapidity with which President John
son dispatches public business Is remarked b,
all who visit the executive Office He takes
hold Of every routine matter in the order In
which It comes up and finishes It at the mo
ment with the aid of but two clerks. II 5ssr
The Fine Arts Exhibition at Paris Is open
it contains 2, 24s pictures and 1911 drawipgs
water colors, statues, engravings, architectural
plans, &c. The grand medal of honor fol
sculpture was unanimously given Mons. PAN
Dubois, the author of Florentine singer o.
the fifteenth century, u turzr .t-a1--
There were on the LIST of March, 1865, e.,
~ officers and 81, $3.50 soldiers In the French
army, distributed thus: Algeria, 70, s26 men
Italy, 1a,o41; Mexico, s0,737; France, ZIG, 51s
There are at the present moment in Paris
five strikes Of workmen In contest with their
employers-locksmitha tailors, carriage build
ers, matters and dyers. ID 2.-.,.- ID. .'' go
Mrs. Olive Wcodman, wife of Capt. E. E.
Woodman, and daughter of e. T. Gardner,
ESQ.,, Of Monroe, Wisconsin, committed sui
eide by shooting herself, at her fathers house,
on the goth inst. Ara. w., who was highly
esteemed by all, has suffered much! from ner.
vous disease, accompanied by those mental
symptoms which lead to insanity. III 49,. -
"A letter from Dresden, Germany, says:
The harbor of Hamburg is now fuller of ves.'
sells than it has been at the same season for
years; and yet there are not enough to take on
board all the emigrants bound for America.
The wharf. here is liped with emigrsnts as far
Is the eye can reach. o. |' . .t1 s..
The cemetery at Richmond, Va, is said to
contain more than 10000 new graves. And
this is but one of the spots where the plough
share of war has turned up the cod to hide Its
victims. % - /. ~ e....-.zr.l lE.iua = 10
--Ol sometimes works wonders. An Irish
servant girl in Venango county, Pa, unable
either to read or write, has fallen heir to for
tune of $500, 900. 1,aI fle... - Is .ra h.l1,.
, Prof. Ueber, Of Columbia College, is OPP
posed to recognizing Gen. Grants terms with
Lee, except as . temporary parole, and pub
fishes long letter in suppor! of the theory
that the officers included in the cartel are still
amenable to the civil laws Of the land. Lt
The Herald says President Johnson has ap-
pointed Breves Brigadier General R. D. Muz.
zey military secretary to the President. Col
William Browning private secretary, and Ed.
D. Neill secretary to sign land patents. These
gentlemen have systematized the labors of the
Executive Office more completely than has ever
before been done, so that business Is quickly
despatched and the vast correspondence of the
Office appropriately attended to without delay,
while record, of easy reference, is kept of ev-a
cry transaction In the Office. ~. taH.-,<
The statue of Horace Mann has arrived in
Boston, and preparations are to be made at
once for placing it on the State House plat the
Legislature having several years since appro-
priated e1,s00 for the foundation, which gra-
tuity was renewed at the last session %
The body of an Italian, named Antonio
Devoti, was found on Saturday afternoon, in
some woods near the depot of the Bath and
Coney Island Railroad Company in Brooklyn,
N. Y. The deceased had been shot through
the back of the head, and the head nearly sew.
cred from the body. On his person we're found
silver watch, gold chain, and small sum of
money, showing that the murder had evidently
not been committed for the purpose of rob
1t is anticipated that the largest wheat
crop ever raised in Pennsylvania win be har.
vested this year. ey IT, nsr da. .'5.aa i
-Perhaps the following extract from the
London Ne,as of May II (alwsys the steadfast
friend Of the United States) affords some indi.
cation Of popular sentiment In Europe: ~
II Is hardly to be expected that govern.
ment which has just reestablished It's authority
should instantly give full pardon to the chief
plotter who organized resistance, and the ruler
who for years directed q civil war. It can
hardly be affirmed that an example of Justice Is
not called for In such . case. But we may at
least hope that Mr.. Davis will escape it. - :.
BY recent report 1t appears that the
Thames shipyards turn out III, 900 tons of iron
vessels annuity. On the Clyde there are 80
yards that in 1868 produced 107 iron vessels.
with an aggregate of 10000 tons. On the
Mersey iron vessels are turned ont to the ag-
gregate Of 80, 900 tons annually on the Tyne
81, 206; on the Wear. $4,000; and on the Tees.
Is ooo-making total annual aggregate Of
1856 tons constructed on the above named