The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1865-08-04
NKws AND oraHR ITEMS.

NEWS AND OTHER ITEMS.
Mr.. Stuart formerly Secretary Of the In
terror. made application for pardon on sstur-
Col. L. g. Baker, Chief Government De.
tective, has been promoted to Brigadier Gen
eralship.
Miss Mary Harris. the heroine of the late
trial, left Washington on Thursday
for Baltimore, where she will remain few
weeks with her friends, and will then 60 to
her parents at Burlington, Iowa.
The navy yard will soon be removed from
Mound City, Illinois, to the vicinity of Saint
Louis, No.
The rebel pirate Shenandoah is supposed
10 be prowling around the Pacific, and appre-
tensions are entertained for the safety of the
Wlaling fleet.
=. fire in San Francisco, on the night of
t .S i*h, destroyed the Pacific Warehouse, and
WV 1 r is estimated at $3.50, 200.
ro,s,. 1 s'vemment took formal possession of
cona.o .asaIs; and if, by certain period,
~ snaii,ave made no appropriation for
40 purcnase' WI be restored to its owner.
-,ue Committes on the Conduct of the War
conclude tnen report,n the expeditions against
Fort Fisher as follow. "Yonr committee
would say, from all the testimony before them
mat ,ne aetermlnauon Of qen. Butler not to
assault the fort seems to haV, been fully iusti.
fed by all the facts and circumstances then
known or afterwards ascertained,,
/ "A Rochester On. ~ paper of a A.e date bas
the following: "a colored man by ,he name
of David Cunningham, who resided m the
corner of Spring and Fitzhugh streets, Died of
typhus fever. He was one of the men con-
cerned in the John Brown raid in Virginia and
at the time Of the arrest of the Old Dominion
terrifer, he fled to Pennsylvania. He after.
wards went to the West, working in several
different States, and a few years ago came to
this city, where he has been employed mostly
cooking for the soldiers"
-Mackerel are very plenty this year yall
along the Maine coast, in some cases literally
covering the top of the water. One vessel
from Portland secured 120 barrels last Satur-
day.
Deacon Timothy Gilbert, since the death
of Mr.. Chickering the Oldest living piano-forte
devoted Christian layman-died at Boston on
Wednesday, aged 6s. He was the founder of
the fremont Temple enterprise in that city.
In the northwestern part of South Carroll
ma, where United States troops have not been
during the rebellion, the people, it is stated,
still prefer confederate currency" to the
United States greenbacks. They will find
plenty of their fellow citizens in other and
more fortunate parts of the State willing to
accommodate them in their preferences.
Some audacious thieves, one of whom was
woman, broke into the house of genteel
Boston family rusticating in the country, and
made free use of the cooking utensils, beds
and wardrobe, for three days and nights. The
house was found shockingly deranged and the
meanest sort of garments left in exchange for
the best dresses and coats. The burglars are
still at large.
Maj. Gen. Meade and several other nota-
bles went from Boston to Portsmouth, New
Hampshire, Tuesday, to attend the marriage
of a daughter of Col. Graham, of the United
States Engineer Corps, to Col John Fl. George,
of Concord, New Hampshire, law partner of
Pierce. The bride is niece of
Gen. Meade. After returning to Boston,
complimentary banquet was given Gen. Meade
at the Revere House. He was serenaded, and
made brief speech.
Billy Mulligan the pestilent little gambler
and rufiian, is dead. After long ca
reer of intamy in this city, he ventured back
to California from whence he had been driven
by the celebrated Vigilance Committee of
1856. He has been there several months, def.
antly daring any one to arrest him, but rum
has finished him. On the 9Th instant, in fit
of dslirium tremens, he shot and killed two
men, and was aiming at another, when an off,
Ger put bullet through his head.
"A Cincinnati paper of Saturday states that
o number of counterfeits of the one-dollar
Treasury note have recently been passed in that
city. 1t says: " Excepting the few minor dis
crepancies, the spurious note is an exact fac
smile of the genuine bill. The general ap-
pearance of the bill is also very good. The
green ink is of somewhat lighter shade than
that used on the genuine, and some parts of the
note look scratchy and blurred. The figures
I on the green scroll-work on the lower right
quauter of the note are printed in grren; in
the genuine they are achite. The Ease of Chase,
in the counterfeit, is badly executed.
-" Blind Tom" the negro musical prodigy,
has been awarded by the Probate Court at
Cincinnati to the guardianship of Gen. Bethune,
his former owner.
The 18TH New York Regiment Duryea's
Zouaves(, in consequence OF mutinous con.
duct, have been disarmed and placed under
guard at Fort sumter.
Two hundred applications for pardon were
received on Monday, including one from Duff
Green; and nearly hundred pardons were
granted, mostly of individuals belonging to the
S20, 900 class.
The Government, it is now stated, has pur.
chased Ford's theatre at an appraised value,
and will ask Congress for an appropriation of
the amount required.
-stexvart who was arrested on suspicion