The weekly pioneer and Democrat., 1865-08-11
LATE NEWS ITEMS

AAA1 NE WS ITEMS
"A European dispatch says the shore end
OF the Atlantic Cable was landed at va,on.;.
Bay on the 22d ult, and the connection moda
with the shore instruments in the presence of
large concourse of people. Speeches were
made and sentiments given in honor of oueen
Victoria and President johnson.
AN arrangement has been made bv which
controlling interest in the Union Pacific Rail
road has virtually passed into the hands of the
PennsylVania Central, Ohio Central and LITTLE
MAMA Railroads. R. M. Shoemaker. late of
the Dayton and Michigan Railroad, is now ac.
ting as Superintendent.
The Bulletin says: We learn that yes.erdav
at the bathing house at Cape Nav. several
heavy robberies were perpetrated. and the
thieves escaped. 1t is said q boarder at Con.
gress Hall lost $4,000 in money and jewelry
Col. Fenlin, proprietor of the " Cottage bv the
Sea" was robbed of 81 1000 in cash. Another
gentleman, visitor to the Island, was robbed
of 81 200. The proprietors of these robberies
cut the telegraph wires and made their escape
from the Island.
An order has been issued from the War
Department discontinuing, by direction of the
President, of the following army corps as or.
CARNATIONS: The I'd, from June %; 4th, from
August 1st; 9th, from July 9th; 14th, from
August 1st; 18th, from August LIST and the
oath from August LIST.
The soldiers at the camps near Indianapo-
Lis are becoming unusually .disorderly while
waiting for the paymaster. On Monday even
ing one of them assailed citizen in one of the
most public streets of the city and was shot
dead by the latter
Eastman, who absconded from Brooklyn,
after having, as was alleged, perpetrated swim
dies to the amount of nearly 81, ,OOO, ,O0O has
been found in lunatic asylum in England.
Judah P. Benjamin, Gen. Kirby Smith,
Ex-Governor Thomas Reynolds, and Captain
A. F. A. Beauregard, have arrived at Havana-
Benjamin from Nassau and the others from
Vera Cruz.
Gen. o. o. Howard has been breveted as
major general in the regular army Gen. Au.
ger has received the brevet OF brigadier in the
regular service.
"A steamer flying the American flag will
leave New York for Southampton and Bremen
Saturday next the first of the kind, with that
ensign in over four years.
The census of Massachusetts,. as far as re-
ported, reveals the fact that of twenty towns
and cities, twelve have decreased, while only
eight have increased, in population, since
1860.
Governor Brough. of Ohio, continues very
Ill. Governor Crapo, of Michigan, is recover.
ing. Ex-Governor Dimon, of Rhode island,
died on Tuesday.
Captain Thomas, commissioner for the
State of Tennessee, has returned to Nashville
from New York having invested the captured
specie of the bank of Tennessee in United
States 7-30 bonds. The amount Is something
over 100000.
General Joseph G. Swift, a well known
and prominent citizen of Geneva, New York,
died in that place on Sunday last. at the ad-
Vanced age of 81 years. General Swift was
graduate of West Point, and civil and mill
tary engineer of much distinction. He bore q
conspicuous part in the last war with Great
Crowds are gathering at Hearts Content,
Newfoundland, to witness the landing of the
Atlantic cable The Great Eastern was to have :
left Valentia on the oath ultimo. The yacht
Clare Clarita arrived at Aspy Bay recently, and
will proceed Immediately to underun and re-
pair the telegraph cable across the Gulf of st.
Lawrence.
The official statement of the public debt
on the 31st ultimo shows the total amount to
be $2,757, ,253, 1855, on which the interest
(both in coin and paper) is s139, ,264. 46s. %.
The amount of legal tenders in circulation is
1856, ,236, 800; of fractional currency, $25, $780,
600. The treasury contains $s5, 1896, 900 in coin,
and $S2, ,402, 900 in currency.
-Four men employed in the Hubbard coal
mine, near Cleveland, were caught by freshet
and came near being drowned. By taking
refuge in the highest part of the mine, however,
they kept dry. but were in imminent danger of
starvation. After four days of Imprisonment
in the bowles of the earth, the waters allayed,
and the famished individuals were rescued by
their friends.
in letter written from Lexington, w., on
dingy, dirty brown paper, with no fly Leaf, by
John Letcher, who signs himself "Ex-Gover-
nor of Virginia" he begs Secretary Seward to
furnish him copy of the laws passed BY the
United States Congress since 1850. as not a
copy can be found in the county IN which be
resides. The request was referred BY Secreta-
~ Seward to Secretary Harlan, of the Interior
Department, who has directed fhat copies of
the laws be forwarded to Letcher, as request
ed. He Is not entitled TO them as q right, be-
ing simply private citizen, but under the Pc
culiar circumstances of the case, and being de-
sirous to enlghten the citizens Of the rebellious
States as to what laws have been passed by our
Congress during the period these States were
under the control of the jeff. Davis usurpa-
tion. Secretary Harlan has exercised the dis
cretiopary power vested In him In such causes,
and sent the books.
The Florida Union Gays the afflicted father
of PAYNE, the would-be murderer Of Secretary
Seward, has been making Q visit TO jackson.
vile, in that State The Union says: "Tbe
father of Payne called on Us one day this week.
He resides on q plantation three miles from
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