The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1865-09-08

ScOttS WnoeTty WAS puDLS0cQ Dy Mr.
Thomas, as were numerous other valuable and
popular works.
Hon. Orlando Kellogg, Representative elect
from the Sixteenth District of New Yort, died
at EizabethtOwn on August "a. Mr.. Kellogg
was born in Elizabethtown in 1909, and was
therefore ffty-five years Of age at the time Of
his death. He was by profession lawyer, and
first represented his district in the Thirteenth
Congress. He also served in the Thirty-eighth
Congress, when he was member of the COM
mittee on manufactures, and also of that on
militia. Mr.. Kellogg was eminently sound
| and able. He possessed the confidence of men
Of all parties to remarkable degree. Ha
The Worlds Washington special says the
order relative to passports for paroled rebel
prisoners is the signal for general emigration
OF prominent rebels, led by General Lee, who
VIII go to London and there finish his history
OF his military campaigns. Among the others
preparing to go are Generals Longstreet, Ew-
ell, Beauregard, D. b. Hnl Wheeler, Malone,
Buckner and Gardner, and it is probable they
VIII be accompanied by hundreds of others of
lesser rank. h ss u aleEfT Nv
The rebel Gen. Wade Hampton has made
an application to the President for pardon.
He, it will be remembered, declared to his
troops that he never WOULD ask or accept ex.
ecutive clemency. Fl 1853 1887
Five thousand Indians, at Last accounts,
had collected in the vicinity of Fort Gibson to
meet the United States commissioner for a gen.
eral treaty. $4,000 win be present. On
"A stage coach was attacked near Gibson
Ferry, Montana Territory, on the 4th of July,
by robbers, who killed four passengers and
wounded three others, and stole SEC, 900 In
gold dust The coach was on it's way east
ward. The names Of the murdered men are
A. s. Parker, A. j. McCausland, David Oman,
and W. 8. Myers. Charles Parks was wound
ed, it is supposed MORALLY. /. F. Carpenter
received slight injuries. a.'
Indianapolis, Ind, is suffering from an ir-
ruption Of the sawbones fraternity. There
are already three hundred practising physicians
in the city, and more are coming. Every army
surgeon settles in Indianapolis as soon as mus
terted out. =,
Rev. Edward Collins, q well.known priest
in Cincinnati, and for thirty-three years in
the priesthood, died on on Saturday, and was
buried on Tuesday with distinguished honors.
Archbishop Purcell, Bishop Rosecrans, and
forty.fve priests OBLIGATED.
MIR. James NJ. Hildreth, of Southampton,
N. Y, died of lockjaw on Monday last, aged
sixty-three years. While crossing the cow
yard, about week since, he ran fish.bone
into his foot. but being slight wound thought
no more about it. In few days the spot be-
N fnefn Nuho fho
minating his life on Monday. @ ,r
Colonel A. D. Streight, whose escape from
Libby Prison gave him a great reputation, is
about become the editor of the indianapolis
Sentinel, the State organ of the Democrats of
Indiana. ln a-N DO ~ -
-RepOrts received at the department of az
riculture warrant the statement that the pota-
toe crop this season will be one of the largest
crops ever grown in this country
lin the case Of the Commonwealth versus
Holbrook, which was carried up to the Su-
preme Judicial Court of Massachusetts,. on the
ground that the defendant had the right to sell
liquors under license from the United States
1.-The Court decided that the payment to the
United States OF license and q revenue duty
or tax does not exempt the defendant from re-
liability for violating the criminal laws OF the
commonwealth. s,
"A whaling bark sailed from New London.
Connecticut, on the 9TH Of June, for Hudsons
Bay, and on the 14th instant she was heard
from at st. Johns, with cargo of bone and
Oil, worth $15O. 000-aflording net profit of
100000. This is said to be the most success
fnl whaling voyage ever made.
"A committee of the veteran reserve corps
have waited on the President with petition
asking the mastering out of this corps. The
President received the committee kindly, and
is understood referred the petition to Gen.
Grant, with the request that the corps be dis
charged, if no detrimental TO the interests of
the service. number of officers of the corps
disapprove Of the mastering out movement,
but, as the regiments have become greatly de-
pleted in number, they favor consolidation
of the regiment we've
We have some further particulars of the
great paymaster swincie at Norfolk. 1t seems
that Colonel Binney, in violation of orders, ex.
changed $8 ,000, 600 of treasury checks for 30s,
pocketipg the percentage allowed BY jaw
Cooke on the sale, and paid the soldiers in
the bonds. On attempting to dispose of them.
they we're compelled 70 submit TO shave Of N
of per cent. All the paymasters engaged in
the swindle are under arrest.
President johnson has decided against the
establishment Of separate Bnrean for par.
dons. ra-
The Pennsylvania, which arrived on Tines
day from Liverpool, had on board the laroest
number of eInigrants eSer brought by sineie
stesmer-1,0 88.
-Garrsrd, the Democratic candidate for
Treasurer of Kentucky, is elected. His ma
jorityin all the counties, except Wolfe, the re-
turns from which win not be counted }or ire
galarity, is l6s: Last fall the Democratic
Democrats 70 AZ Unionista The Senate e tied.
but II. as 70 stated, Lieutenant Governor Jacobs
WIN vote for the constitutional amendment.
the measure will have one majority IN that
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