The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1865-03-17
LATE NEWS ITEMS.

-Brigadier General E. D. Brown has been
relieved of the command OF the Rolla district,
Missouri, and ordered to report to Gen. Candy,
at New Orleans Col. Beveridge, of the 18th
Illinois cavalry, is in temporary command of
the district.
Gen. Ewing, the popular commander of
the st. Louis district, has resigned, and will
become partner in law firm composed of his
father, Hon. Thomas Ewing, of Ohio, Senator
Cowan, of Pennsylvania, Senator Harris, of
New York, and Britton A. Hill, of st. Louis
"A dispatch from Wilmington, North Car
DINA, under date of the LIST, says: major
General Couch has assumed command of the
22d army corps and district of Wilmington, to-
day. By his order all business is resumed, and
citizens here have permission to sell what
stores they have on hand, but any contraband
trade will render all stock liable to confsca-
ton. A large stock of Medical supplies was
discovered to-day secreted in an old warehouse
There were $15, 600 worth in one invoice, in.
Guiding $1,000 worth of quinine. Yesterday
100 bales of cotton came down the river Col.
Heaton, custom house agent, is expected to
"iAVO SO-Woilo"s WhCu hl1 sIOIcS,
cotton and turpentine will be shipped North"
Col. Nicholas Smith died at Utica, NY,
on February &c, at the age of 81. He was the
Oldest inhabitant, having been a resident of
the place sixteen years longer than any person
known. His father and mother were scalped
and murdered by the Indians He moved with
his uncle to Utica in 1888, and lived four
months in hut made of the branches of trees.
while their house was being constructed-the
house being the first frame building put up in
Utica. He served in the war of 1872.
Among the first acts of Secretary McCul-
loch. in his new position, is his conclusion to
tranship the Savannah cotton, now at New
York, to England. The treasury will be large
ly the gamer by the transaction.
-Amboy, Lee Co., ILL.,, was visited by de-
structive fire on Thursday night, consuming
several buildings in the business part of the
town, among them the agricultural implements
store of Mr.. Mingle, and the harness establish
ment of Leake & Co.
The Senate has confirmed the nomination
of Samuel Hoard, Esq, as Postmaster of Chi
cagO.
The following are the comments of the
Richmond Examiner on Presidents Lincoln's
inaugural: Another Emperor, Abraham the
First of that name, issues his manifesto His
inaugural will be found in another place. 1t
reads like the tail of some old sermon, and
seems to have no particular meaning of any
kind, at least, if any meaning turks in it we
fail to perceive it. The whole affair presents
singular contrast to the French Emperor's ad-
dress to his Chambers. The letter is at least
the utterance of national and educated ruler
to civilized community. The fsrmer is
harangue eminenty fit to be made by Abraham
Lincoln to the crazy people who were parading
on that day through every street in the North. -
The Michigan democratic state convention,
which met at Detroit yesterday, resolved to
make no nomination for judge of the Supreme
Court, in compliment to Judge Christiancy,
the republican candidate for that position, for
his recent decision on the soldier-suffrage
question.
An exchange says that Miss Julia Cobb,
sister of sylvanus Cobb, committed suicide, in
Wisconsin, few days since, by hanging her.
self in her fathers cellar.
The Supreme Court of the United States
has decided, in one of the Red river cotton
cases, that there can be no seizure as q prize of
private property, by the navy, on the inland
waters of the United States or on Land.