The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1865-05-26

LATE NEWS ITBHS.
The inundation on the lower Mississippi
covers an immense area Of country, and the
los 70 stated to be beyond calculation.
u. Z. johnson, one Of the wealthiest men
IN the South, died on the 18th, at his home
near Edentown, North Carolina. he disin.
herited all his relatives, because they identified
themselves with the rebel cause. His property,
to many millions, he left to a few
personal friends.
Maj. Gen. Franz sigel has become copns-
Cd as leading publisher and editor, with tlo
daily and weekly Baltimore Wecker, staunch
ana vigorous German Republican newspaper.
The new firm is Sigel & Schnauffer.
-Ihe Houston Telegraph, of April 25th, pub.
lished speech of Gen. Nagruder at a war
meeting the day previous Magruder said he
saw nothing discouraging in Lees surrender. if
the people of the trans Mississippi would keen
up determination to fight it out. He closed
by saying, Come what may, shall stand BY
my country, and never be slave to Yankee
power. l had rather be Camanche Indian
chief than bend the knee to Yankeedum. 7
will only add that we have neighbors near at
hand. don't reel at liberty to say ANYTHING
further concerning the matter at present: but
1t may be that we have aid from source un-
expected, and at time when we least dream
OF 1t. Therefore, let US stand by our leaders
and all will yet be we'll"
On Monday, the 10Th inst, John N. Bax.
ter, lawyer, residing at Lima, Ohio and who.
during the past week, was attending court at
Napoleon, Henry county, committed suicide
in Toledo. About 8 P. M. he entered the shop
OF MIR. Kelly, blacksmith, Summit street. and
borrowed knife with the avowed object of
mending his wagon; he rushed from the shop
in state of excitement, followed by Mr.. Kelly
and another man, who noticed his strange an.
pearance; he plunged the knife into his heart
before his pursuers could overtake him, crying
out at the same time, "You are too late" and
then threw himself into the river. Boats were
at once put out, but when the unfortunate man
was taken up life was extinct.
Three burglars broke into the dwelling of
Isaac Causer, farmer in Exeter township.
Berks county, Pennsylvania, on the 18th. AT.
ter severe struggle Geo. Makes, a son-in-law
of Causer, stabbed one of the party, who was
found near the house dead this morning. The
man killed has been identified as Peter Schit-
ter, desperate character of Reading. Some
women who were in the house were severely
beaten with clubs.
The New York Post says editorially it has
information from trustworthy official source
that dispatch in cipher was found in Booths
pocket. A paper in cipher had previously
been found in jeff. Davis house in Richmond.
This paper was not supposed to be of impor-
lance until the one in Booths pocket was COM
pared with it, and by the use of it was read.
The note proved that Davis was in communi-
cation with two of the men in Canada. for
whom rewards have been offered. The SUBJ
ject OF the correspondence was the proposed
assassination, which it is distinctly asserted
Davis favored.
Major General George H. Thomas, in pass
ing through Cincinnati for Louisville, stopped
long enough to be presented to the Chamber
of Commerce. In response to a welcome from
Hon. Benjamin Eggleston, the General said
that the compliment was entirely unasked for,
and more than he, simply man of the people,
trying to do his duty to his country, should ex.
pect. he was received with hearty enthusi-
asm, and was attended to his hotel by large
number of our leading citizens.
The Times says Gen. Ripley, of Rutland.
Vermont, has in his possession an ingeniously
constructed torpedo, made exactly to resemble
q large lump of coal, which was sent to him
from Richmond by his son, Brevet Brig. Gen,
E. d. Ripley, and found in the private cabinet
of JEFF. Davis after his flight from the city.
"A most shocking affair occurred at Indian
apolis on Friday morning. A drunken gam
bier by the name of Pat Flynn was walking in
Circle Park with loaded pistol in his hand.
which, as he Gays, he fred at tree. Unfortu-
nately, the ball struck young boy named
George Halford, one of the carriers of the Jour-
nal, who was coming down to his mornings
work, and passed through his temples, killing
him instantly. Flynn has been arrested and
confined in Jail. The community generally is
much incensed against the gambling fraternity.
-Brigadier General Gabriel r. Paul, oASt.
Louis, who received wound at Gettysburg
that deprived him of the sight of both eyes,
has removed his quarters from Washington
city to Newport Barracks, opposite Cincinnati.
Business at the public armories has re-
ceived sudden check by the close of the war.
From fifteen hundred to two thousand hands
have recently been discharged from the Spring.
field armory, and received their pay, some
100000. About two hundred men are dis
charged daily. There are now 33S, 900 muskets
at the armory.
Major Taylor, son of ex-President Taylor,
has been paroled for ten days in Louisville, in
order to enable him to leave the United States,
he having refused to take the oath of allegi-
ance.
AN order of the War Department. recently
issued, directs that ''all company and staff Off
GERS of volunteer regiments, absent from their
commands on account of physical disability or
by virtue of leaves of absence, on their return
to loyal States as prisoners of war, will be