The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1865-03-17
NEWS AND OTHER ITEMS.

10 AND OTk1ER 1TEmS.
They have got up dressmakers' COM
pany, OF corporation, in London. The OBJ
Ject Is not 30 much to make money a. to
reduce the evils which assail the sewing
hs Ume anS Of mat metropolis. Over 800 LADIES'
n nose ~ subscribed to it already. They pro-
ia W. W pay good prices to the seamstresses,
"mu nos GVertask them with late hours or
severe LABOR. The idea is an excellent one.
Inc old flag of Fort Sumter the very
que tuat noated over it when Charleston
nred the first hostile gun, is AGAIN in ito
place. II it is terribly riddled Tho r;ddIe
Is one that the Confederacy can easily
read.-LOuisviNe Journal VOL easily
The Royal Astronomical Soc;etv bsvo
awarded, tor the first time to an Amer
can, its highest honor, viz, the cold medal
OF the society, to Professor Georoe p
Bond, lately Director of the Observatory
OF Harvard University at CAMBRIDGE for
his eminent services in the adyancement t &c
astronomy, and especially for his magni6.
cent volume on the great comet of 1855.
The Cincinnati Times says that the
experiments now being made at the Gin.
ton paper mills, Steubenville, to manufac-
ture printing paper from corn husks, by
the Austrian patent, are progressing very
favorably
Seek society. Keep your friendships
in repair. Answer your letters. Meet
good will half way. All good men excite
each others activity. Better things are
said, more decisive, more wit and insight
are dropped in talk and forgotten by the
speaker, than get into books.
No less than eighteen archbishops and
bishops have now pronounced against the
government and for the Pope in the mat
ter OF the Encyclical. Of these, three,
the Archbishop of Besancon Cardinal
Matthew and the Bishops of Poitiers and
Aoulins, have defied the government
openly, reading the Encyclical aloud to
their focks in their cathedrals. The rest
have only addressed letters in strong Ian
guage to IN. @. Ministre."
Among the real estate transactions in
Boston last week, was the purchase by the
Old Colony and Newport Railroad Com
pany from the South Cove Corporation, of
about 68, 900 feet, or nearly an acre and
half of land, at cost of five dollars per
foot, making total of $4,000 paid for
for the land.
Mrs. Richard Nevens, daughter of
the late Samuel Medary, of Columbus,
Ohio, after long and anxious preparation
by reading, instruction and fervent PRAYER,
was received into the Catholic Church last
Thursday a week, in the Franciscan Sis
tiers OF the Poor, in Cincinnati, by the
Most Rev. Archbishop Purcell.
The statistics of military prison life
on Johnson's Island, where 7,771 rebel
prisoners have been received during the
last two years, show mortality of only
2lo, or little more than q per cent. The
per centage of deaths among our prisoners
confined at Salisbury, N. O., was more
than nine times greater. That is, it reach
ed to about One-fourth of the entire num-
Der.
"A letter from Paris to the New York
Times says: Gen. Mcclellan is here now,
stopping at the Hotel de l'Empire, but is
to leave, understand, on Thursday for
Rome. He breakfasted at Clarement,
while in England, with the entire Louis
Philippe family, consisting of twenty two
persons, and was also invited to the house
/ of the Prince of Wales At Paris bis time
has thus far, believe, been occupied in
sight seeing with Mrs. Mcclellan, who is
in Europe for the first time.
Gov. William Cannon, of Delaware,
died on the I'd inst. after a short illness.
He was elected on the Union ticket in
1863, and had yet two years to serve. The
Legislature is Democratic, and has Just
refused to indorse the constitutional amend
ment.
The following important and encour-
aging information has been obtained from
an authentic source: On the 9th day of
February, 1866, $685. men were enlisted
into the service. The average number of
men mustered daily for the last three days
of February is 1926. If recruiting be
kept up, the army will be speedily rein.
forced to the extent necessary to put an
end to the war.
The Leavenworth papers publish q
list of residents of Leavenworth, with the
amount of the incomes with which they
are charged on the United States Assess
sor's books. The largest income, $50, 842,
is set down to Thomas @. Stevens. Mr..
Stevens is partner in the business of
Gov. Carney, whose income is stated at
$40, 900. N. McCracken for over 81, 900;
W. @. Loebenstein, $4,000.
The Dayton Journal says: In the
breach of promise case of Anna Saum vs..
Clinton Myers, the jury rendered YER
dict, on Thursday, for the plaintiff of
$4,000. This is the heaviest verdict ever
given in case of this character in Mont
gomery county. A motion for new trial
will be made.
Gen. Grants reasons for declining the
services of one-hundred day men are set
forth in the following letter to Secretary
Stanton, dated February q:
do not think favorably of Governor Fen.
toms proposition. The value of one hundred
day.men is more than absorbed in getting
them to where they were wanted, ard in
transferring men relieved by them to where
they will be needed, and again in reliev.
ing them when their time expires.
u. g. GRANT,
Lieutenant Genersl