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

The mother Of Mrs. Admiral Farragut died
at Norfolk, Va, last week.
-Brigadier Gen. Wager Swaine, cousin of
Justice Swaine of the Supreme Court, was
wounded by shell at the storming of the
bridge over the Saltkahatchie, during Sher-
MAIDS advance, compelling amputation of the
leg above the knee. He was taken over rough
roads distance of sixty.five miles to Port
Royal, where ne is now doing well.
The President has ordered the release of
all but one of the merchants lately convicted
by the military commission in Washington of
blockade-ruuning. He has done so, it is said,
on the legal ground that the military commits
sion which tried them had no jurisdiction in
the case, special act of Congress requiring
their trial. before civil court, and also on the
ground that the prosecuting witness, one
Pardon Worsley, was utterly unreliable and
Enthusiastically in his evidence.
The dwelling house of Mr.. Amos, resid
ng in Quincy, Olmsted county, Mimi, was de.
stroyed by fire on the 18th inst, together with
all its contents. The fire caught from guam.
tity of fax which Mr.. A. was dressing, and it
spread with such rapidity as to almost endan.
ger the lives of the occupants. Loss about
81, 1000.
John L. Freeman, Company G, Tenth
Minnesota Regiment, died at Louisville last
week.
The latest reported present to Mrs. Gen.
Grant is fine piano, valued at 81, 200, in o
rosewood case. 1t will form a part of her fur
nitAre in her Philadelphia mansion.
The negroes who followed Gen. Sherman
in his march through Georgia and South Caro-.
lima, are being organized into regiments at
Hilton Head. 1t is estimated that one of the
effects of shermn's movement will be to add
from $4,000 to 1000 loyal blacks to our
army.
BY order of the War Department, ration
of fish, viz: fourteen ounces of dried fish, or
eighteen ounces Of picked fish, win be made
hereafter to troops one week in lieu of the
fresh beef ration.
The Tr;6unes Washington special says it is
estimated that Charleston and Fort Anderson,
together with the certain capture of Mobile,
will Hberate $4,000 men from the navy who
can be organized into corps for offensive op-
erations.
Gen. Singleton has left for Richmond again
accompanied by Judge Hughes. Of Indiana.
Opinions are conflicting as to whether he has
gone on peace miesion, or on private bus
mess.
lex. Gen. Roger A. Pryor has arrived at
Washington from Fort Lafayette. on parole,
and is stopping at the residence of Col. Fomey,
Secretary of the Senate. He had an interview
with the President last night. What trans
pired Is unknown.
Now that the rebels announce Gen. Thorn.
ass movements on the Alabama river, it can
not be contraband to say that his entire army
is now at Vicksburg, making preparations for
grand movement.
The Baltimore papers contain an account
Of the robbery Of United States Paymaster at
Eutaw. On Friday, Major Underwood, accom-
panied by his clerk, arrived at the hotel, with
some $19, 900 in his possession, which he de-
posted with the clerks. During the evening
an officer, to whom an amount was due for
services rendered, called upon the paymaster,
who removed the funds to his room and liqui.
dated the claim, after which he left. During
his absence some thief, probably an accom-
plished hotel thief from the North, contrived
to enter the room and carry of, unperceived,
the treasure, all of which was in Government
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