The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1865-10-20
NEWS AND OTHER FIRMS

NEWS AND OTHER ITRms.
I'm the Tennessee Legislature, just assem-
baed, Mr.. JAS r. Hood, from Chattanooga.
and I'VE other members, are preparing articles
OF impeachment against Governor Brownlow,
upon the ground that he has illegally appoint
ca justices OF the Peace and other officers con-
wary to the laws of the State. The action of
mi. Hood and his colleagues will doubtless
,e"a 70 an interesting and exciting discussion
IN the legislature.
symonds, of Maiden, Mass, whose
Au00ano returned home from the war safe and
' TWO months ago, has just received a
e'e"n uoM Washington, stating that he died
s nnoo.sonshie prison, and that two hundred
o'iials oack pay was subject to her order.
.neca', OF course, will not be repre.
seu.eu III 'ne next Congress, (says the Boston
Poal as no delegates from people who r.fn.e
negro votes, according to the M. chsr,os
summer, can be recognized At Washington
Exchanges from the Far West go, -,
that Hon. G. D. Smith, seerstarv ~ g..
some time acting Governor of Idaho TERRITORY
recently dropped dead at the village Of Roctv
Bar. He was native of New York. and ha
fore receiving the appointment held at thu time
of his demise, he served as chief clerk infhe
Office Of Attorney General Bates, at WASHING.
Eton.
The Fitchburg (Mass.) Reuei1s says: At
the September term Of the Probate Court the
will Of Luther Carter. late of Berlin, in Wor.
eester county, was presented, and objection
was made to its allowance on the ground that
it was dictated by spiritual medium" The
objection was admitted by the Judge and the
will disaAowed.
| Col. Mclean, Democratic candidate for
delegate to Congress from Montana, has been
elected.
Gen. Horace T. Sanders, formerly Colonel
of the 18th Wisconsin, died Of consumption at
Washington on Friday last. His remains will
be brOught to Racine for interment.
Gen. Heintzelman has been ordered to re-
port to Gen. Vessels. at Hare Island, where
his regiment, the TIN Regulars, are stationed.
1t is stated that Secretary McCullech will
| urge upon Congress contraction of currency.
MIR. Ingraham, sister to General Lee, has
taken the oath OF allegiance, for the purpose,
first, of securing pardon, and second, securing
her property which has been confiscated.
Il. D. Huston, the secession preacher, re-
Gently arrested at CoVington, KY, and taken
| to Nashville by order of General Palmer, and
afterwards released by order of General Grant,
returned 70 Covington and preached there last
Sunday, but without producing any excite
| ment.
A al Haoh CoA
net have determined, after full consultation, to
sustain the President in sending fleet and
troops to San Domingo, to put down the in
surrectiOn in that island.
| The Mississippi election has resulted in
the success of Humphrey, rebel General, for
Governor, by about ten thousand majority. 1t
is said that Humphrey was not candidate by
his own consent. Geo. L Potter, anti negro
testimony candidate, is elected Judge of the
High Court of Appeals. in the jackson Dis
trict. by 5000.
The County Commissioners and Treasurer
Of Lawrence County, Western Pennsylvania,
have been committed to Jail for contempt of
court, by Judge McCandless, of the United
States District Court, in that they had refused
to pay interest due on railroad bonds issued by
the county, several years since, and now re-
pudiated by the people. A similar action of
court, it will be remembered, brought around
the Allegheny County Commissioners several
years since.
The Rev. Herman Hooker, D. D., died in
Philadelphia on the 25th ult, in the Gath year
of his age. He was the author of several re-
ligious works, aud an extensive publisher of
standard t'o'osy. For many years his
Church Bookstore has been the general head
quarters OF the Episcopal clergy of Philadel-
phia.
The Hsralds Washington special says
with the exception of Colonel Fisher, chief
signal officer, and single aid all the officers
of the signal corps of the army who have been
on duty east of the Mississippi. are honorably
mustered out of service. There are twenty
five officers on duty with Sheridan, Pope and
Halleck, west of the Mississippi. These are
all that remain of corps of one hundred and
forty officers selected during the war on ac-
count OF bravery and mental capacity, for the
performance of the most difficult and impor.
tant kind of staff duty on the battlefield. The
| corps goes out of service bearing a good re-
| coio N the army from the War Department