The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1865-07-07
LATE NEWS ITEMS.

/, ,rnt a short distance below Little Rock.
I've. The rebel pirate Shenandoah has LEFT Aus
.r.,;a. and it is supposed it has gone to Maur.
titus, exactly on what kind OF mission is not
made known. 49,
: = Frauds to an alarming extent are being
nracticed upon the government by an ingenhs
method of celebrating cancelled marks upon
internal revenue and postage stamps.
= The officers of the transport Kentucky,
which recently sunk in Red River, have been
acquitted of blame by military commission.
Another investigation, however, has been or
dered. AZ rs sf.,s.g g
p Two cases of Asiatic cholera occurred at
st. Louis on Friday, both terminating fatally.
The steamer Mississippi, which arrived at
Cairo on Saturday, brought 1000 bales of cot
ton-she largest single consignment ever re-
ceiyed at that point. 4 at 2FItg =
2Da-The spurport Of General Dix's mission to
g Canadals to inform the Governor General that
abuses of the right of asylum must be reformed.
General sullys expedition against the In
diansleft Sioux City on Thursday last. 81
"A train of sixty wagons, belonging to Nor
p mons who have seeded from Brigham Young
4 dom, is expected to reach Council Bluffs
shortly. - -. -. :.
turned. in, the United States, Circuit Court for
Indiana, against Bowles, Milligan, Hebron.
Humphreys, Horsey, Bingham, Ristine, Athon
and other prominent ''sons of Liberty" in
that State. .trsr..s. :.
i Gen. Grants monthly pay, income tax de-
Quoted, is $1,O62.7O. This sum is exclusive
of communication of rations, etc., which amount
. to nearly as much more. 81
= Dispatches from North Carolina bring
glowing accounts of the gold mines about
, Charlotte. The negroes are making from two
to three dollars per day washing with the pan,
and nuggets weighing several ounces are often
3 picked up. ....s. r,,
Tho correspondence between Earl Russell
and Acting Secretary of State Hunter, touch
ing the assassination of the late President Is
published in the English press. "Historicus
Is writing in favor of lenient treatment to the
rebels.
A private letter from Cyrus w. Field says
the Great Eastern will leave the More, July 9TH
and Valencia, July 10th, and that everything
connected with the laying of the cable is pro
crossing favorabIy and satisfactorily.
--Mosby has been paroled by Halleck on the
= terms granted to Lee.
Colonel Jennison, of Kansas, has been dis
honorably discharged from the United States
service upon the charges of arson, robbery,
&c and the sentence has been confirmed by
Gen. Dodge. .a.
Colonel Ould, the rebel Commissioner of,
Exchange, and Major Darlington, one of his
assistants, have been released from custody,
having been found not gully of misappropriat-
ing money and goods sent to Federal prison
ers. Other parties connected with the rebel
Exchange Bureau, who are now in confne-
ment are shown to have been responsible for
such abuses. atfb
The Solicitor of the Treasury has confirmed
the decision of the Internal Revenue Depart
ment, that certified checks are to be treated as
currency and taxed accordingly.
The Saint Louis Democrat claims that the
vote on the proposed new constitution of Mis-.
souri, shows majority of 1000 in the afirma-
tive.
AN Illinois brigade, under General Stoll-
brand, has arrived at st. Louis. 1t win prob
ably be sent to the plains. Several thousand
of Sheridan's cavalry were at East st. Louis
on Sunday, understood to be destined for the
West. ----------z-------.-'--
-General Sterling Price and the rebel ex-
Governor Reynolds of Missouri-the former
I of whom is in Texas, and the latter in Ar
kansas, are anxious to return to their homes.
Capt. Geo. A. Bennett, of the Union Light
Guard, which was raised in Ohio as body
guard for the late President, and which has
been retained to act in the same capacity for
President johnson, and who was court mar
tailed for appropriating forage belonging to
the United States to private use, has been dis
missed the service, with loss of all pay and al
lowance. ~
The Tri6une,s Washington special has the
following =" The War Department has for
several weeks past been engaged in preparing
q list of brevet promotions which, when com
pleted, will be published in general orders.
The number receiving brevets is very large and
is intended to embrace officers of all grades
who have rendered meritorious service to the
Government during the war" o.
A letter has been received at the Custom
House, New York, addressed to the State De.
\ partment by our, Consul at Port Mahon, an
nouncing that the Russian plague is extending
westward more rapidly than is generally sup
posed, and advising Mat all cargoes arriving
from Russian or Turkish posts be rigidly scru-
tinized before landing. 2he disease is said to
be the same as that which visited London a
century ago.
The horse which left Boston at sunrise on
the 2Sth, to accomplish one hundred and six
teen miles to Portland, Maine, Aefore sunset,
on a thousand dollar bet. fell and ded six miles
from Portland, having made no miles consid-
erably inside of time.
The Hon. Fred. s. Martin, of OleaA N. Y,
died on the 2Sth ult.
Mrs. JEFF. Davis has taken up her residslce
pro tenn at Savannah, Georgia. She is repe-
scented as being in very destitute condition.