The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1865-02-17


three thousand soldiers, gathered from the
various camps throughout the Northwest,
where they have been doing fatigue duty,
have passed through that city to join their
respective corps since Sunday. Most of
them were for Sherman army.
Thomas W. Milestone, a member of
the Ohio Legislature from Hamilton coun-
ty, was among the killed by the recent &C
cident on the Marietta railway.
The New Jersey Legislature has not
decided to consider the constitutional
amendment. The Governor enclosed a
copy of it to the Senate, when a motion
was made to refer it to the Committee on
Federal Relations, with instructions to re-
port on Thursday last.
According to the records of the U. S.
Medical Department, fraction over 3d.
600 sick and wounded men were in the
hospitals on the 31st of December. The
hospital accommodations comprise 100, 900
beds. "a. w.. $500.
General Dodge has ordered the dis
charge of all the inmates of the st. Louis
famale military prison, and has sent all
but few to Memphis, to be sent throug h
the rebel lines. Hereafter, all rebel wo-
men convicted of disloyal practices are to
be sent South.
The case of a contested grindstone,
worth possibly six dellars, has, after long
litigation, been decided in the Superior
Court at Hartford, and the expenses of
the suit are three or four hundred dollars
-Aong Shaw Loo, native of Burmah
and a graduate Of the University of Lew
isburg, in Pennsylvania, is now delivering
lectures in Oil City and Titusville, on the
oil wells in Burmah and the process in use
there to secure the oil, of which they have
long made great use. ..
The Erie Railroad Company, on and
after the 9Th of February, will charge
three and a half cents per mile, besides
the government tax, but discount of half
a cent per mile will be made to passen-
gers who procure their tickets at the off,
ces of the company.
Hon. Fernando Wood intends to leave
for Europe soon after the adjournment of
Congress, accompanied by bis family. BE
proposes to travel through the Continent,
and also to go to the Holy Land.
The Chicago Post says private let
ter, written by soldier in Sherman's
Army, January 21st, to friend, contains
an item of news which has not appeared
in the dispatches. He says: "The 18th
army corps left here three or four days
ago for Charleston, and when they got into
the rice swamps the rebels opened the
food gates upon them, and put them in
about ten feet water, some below it and
some above it in tops of trees. There
they now are, those in trees without arms
or rations, and how they are to get away
is more than / can understand"
Some years ago there was bill intro
duced in the Georgia Legislature to lay
tax of ten dollars year on all jaokass-
es. Some appreciative member proposed
to amend it so as to include lawyers and
doctors. The amendment was accepted
amidst much POPULARITY, the bill passed.
Several efforts have since been made to
repeal it, but in vain, and to this day all
iackasses, lawyers and doctors are obliged
to pay a yearly tax.
The darkies generally are acting as men
who know their rights, and knowing dare
maintain them. There has been a Con-
vention of "the colored people of Ohio
in Xenia, which, after remaining in ses-
sion two days, brought forth string of
resolutions on the subject of their relations
to the rest of the world. One of the re-
solves is as follows:
Resolved, That the safety of the Republic de.
mands that, In the Territories, in the rebel
States, when reorganized, and throughout the
entire nation, colored men shall exercise the
elective franchise, and be otherwise fully cloth
ed with the rights Of American citizens
1t is alarming to think that we will not
be at all safe as Republic until the ne
groes shall exercise the elective fran
chise. --.r
The rebel army of Tennessee will pro-
badly winter at Tupelo and Saltillo.
Major Harry Gilmore, the noted que
rilla, was captured near Aoorefeld, Va,
on the 9Th inst.
The Brazilian government has issued
decree excluding the privateer shenan-
doah from the poras of that empire.
T. The Secretary Of the Interior aska