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

80 AN0 OTABA ITEMS
They have got up 9 dressmakers' COM
pany, or corporation, in London. The OBJ
!ect Is NOT 90 much to make money as to
suaoe me evils which assail the sewing
h %Umen o. mat metropolis. Over 800 LADIES'
lave lave subscribed to it already. They pro-
pu s1 W pay good prices to the seamstresses.
ana no5 overtask them with late hours or
severe labor. The idea is an excellent one
The old flag of Fort Sumter. the verv
one that fioated over it when dbarIeston
nred the first hostile gun. ia aoa;n IN it,
place. Ii it is terribly riddled. The r;dd 1
is one that the Oonfederacv can . na";,e
read.-LOuisviAe Journal '"n easily
The Royal Astronomical Society bsve
awarded, Tor the first time to an Emeri-
can, its highest honor. viz, the cold medal
OF the society, to Professor George p
Bond, lately Director of the OBSERVATORY
OF Harvard University at CAMBRIDGE for
bis eminent services in the advancement If
astronomy, and especially for bis maanif;-
cent volume on the great comet of 1858
The Cincinnati Times saws that tho
experiments now being made at the Gin.
ton paper mills, Steubenville, to manufac-
ture printing paper from corn husks. by
the Austrian patent, are progressing very
favorably.
Seek society. Keep your friendships
in repair. Answer your letters. Meet
good will half way. All good men excite
each others activity. Better things are
said, more decisive, more wit and INSIGHT
are dropped in talk and forgotten by the
speaker, than get into books.
No less than eighteen archbishops and
bishops have now pronounced against the
government and for the Pope in the mat
ter OF the Encyclical. Of these, three,
the Archbishop of Besancon Cardinal
Matthew and the Bishops of Poitiers and
Moulins, have defied the government
openly, reading the Encyclical aloud to
their flocks in their cathedrals. The rest
have only addressed letters in strong Ian
guage to IN. @. Ministre."
Among the real estate transactions in
Boston last week, was the purchase BY the
Old Colony and Newport Railroad Com
pany from the South Cove Corporation, of
about 68, 600 feet, or nearly an acre and
half OF land, at cost of five dollars per
foot, making total of $500 paid for
for the land.
Mrs. Richard Nevens, daughter of
the late Samuel Medary, of Columbus,
Ohio, after long and anxious preparation
by reading, instruction and fervent PRAYER.
was received into the Catholic Church last
Thursday week, in the Franciscan Sis
tiers of the Poor, in Cincinnati, by the
Most Rev. Archbishop Purcell.
The statistics of military prison life
on Johnsons Island, where It'll rebel
prisoners have been received during the
last two years, show q mortality of only
ZIG, or little more than q per cent. The
per centage of deaths among our prisoners
confined at Salisbury, N. O., was more
than nine times greater. That is, it reach.
ed to about one-fourth of the entire num-
Der.
"A letter from Paris to the New York
Times says: Gen. Mcclellan is here now,
stopping at the Hotel de l'Empire, but is
to leave, understand, on Thursday for
Rome. He breakfasted at Clarsment,
while in England, with the entire Louis
Philippe family, consisting of twenty two
persons, and was also invited to the house
of the Prince of Wales. At Paris his time
has thus far, believe, been occupied in
sight seeing with Mrs. Mcclellan, who is
in Europe for the first time.
Gov. William Cannon, of Delaware,
died on the I'd inst. after a short illness.
He was elected on the Union ticket in
1863, and had yet two years to serve The
Legislature is Democratic, and has Just
refused to indorse the constitutional amend
ment.
The following important and encour-
aging information has been obtained from
an authentic source: On the 9th day of
February, 1866, $685. men were enlisted
into the service. The average number of
men mustered daily for the last three days
of February is 1896 If recruiting be
kept up, the army will be speedily rein.
forced to the extent necessary to put an
end to the war.
The Leavenworth papers publish
list of residents of Leavenworth, with the
amount of the incomes with which they
are charged on the United States Assess
sor's books. The largest income, $50, 842,
is set down to Thomas O. Stevens. Mr..
Stevens is partner in the business of
Gov. Carney, whose income is stated at
$40, 900. N. McCracken for over $17 900;
W. @. Loebenstein, $4,000.
The Dayton Journal says: In the
breach Of promise case of Anna Saum vs..
Clinton Myers, the jury rendered q YER
dict, on Thursday, for the plaintiff of
$4,000. This is the heaviest verdict ever
given in case of this character in Mont
gomery county. A motion for new trial
will be made.
Gen. Grants reasons for declining the
services of one-hundred day men are Get
forth in the following letter to Secretary
Stanton, dated February 81:
do not think favorably of Governor Fen.
toms proposition. The value Of one hundred
day-men is more than absorbed in getting
them to where they were wanted, ard in
transferring men relieved by them to where
thew will he needed and AGAIN in reliou