The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1865-02-24


Tas Army and Macy journal say.:-
"Gen. HA1Lsm is Chief of Staff Of the
Army, under the direction Of the Secretary
of War and the Lieutenant General com
manding. In matters coming within the
control of the Lieutenant General com.
handing, he acts as Chief of Staff TO Gen.
GRANT, and in matters of higher iurisdic-
ton he acts as Chief of Staff to the Score
tary of War, who, as executive officer of
the President, is de facto Oommander-in-
Chief of the Army. The position is some.
what anomalous in our service, but we be-
lieve it has the sanction of law, if not Of
precedent r., .n
Washington A. Bartlett, formerly an
officer in the United States navy, and
father Of the young lady whose marriage
a few years ago to Senior Oviedo, of Cuba,
was known as the diamond wedding, -
died in New York on Monday, aged 40
years. In 1861 he was actively engaged
in fitting out naval brigade, but subse-
quently left the service. @
lin Peoria, ILL.,, on the night of the
18th inst, the Rock Island railroad freight
depot, the Fayette mills, and several other
buildings were destroyed by fire. The loss
exceeds $4,000. 4
"A Democratic Mayor has been elect
ed in Lancaster, Pa. by 275 majority-a
Democratic gain of 70 over the November
election. 4. ~
"A Washington dispatch of the 18th
says: "The Secretary of the treasury has
commenced paying the troops. Gen. Scho-
fields army has already been provided for,
and to-day the Secretary commenced sign
ing warrants for the pay of the Army Of
the Potomac. 1t is expected that all the
other armies will be paid as rapidly as it
can be done with safety"
The motion to strike out the word
"white in the definitions of the qualif-
cations Of members of the Missouri legis-
lature, has been defeated in the constitu-
tional convention of that State, by vote
of twenty ayes to twenty-eight nays. A
similar motion to strike out the same
word and insert others, so as to permit
colored persons to vote and hold office,
was lost by 10 ayes to 80 nays. W
The following named officers consti-
tute part of the staff of Major General
Pope, now commanding the new military
division of the Missouri 81 sa.l'1
Brig. Gen. 7. C. H. Smith, Chief of Staff.
Lieut.. Col. Ed. Myers, Quartermaster.
Col, c. A. Morgan, A. d. c., Inspector Gen.
era1.
Major. J. F. Meline, A. A. A. General. |...
Capt. NJ. Norton, A. A. G. t.0 ''h.
Capt. Edward Haight, A. A. d. G. a.
Not long ago Hon. Abbot Lawrence,
of Boston, gave to Harvard College, in aid
of scientific education, the sum Of $780,
600, besides the services of q professor,
altogether considered equivalent to an en-
dowment of about $15O,0O0. The Boston
Advertiser adds: ~ a
At this juncture Mr.. James Lawrence comes
nobly forward, and at once serves the cause of
education, and maintains the honor of his
fathers name by the gift on the first of Janu-
airy, 1865, of fifty.two thousand five hundred
dollars-twenty.five hundred to be expended at
once in the equipment of the laboratory, and
the balance to endow equally the chemical and
the engineering departments. .,.-
Rev. F. Il. Boykin, a Methodist Epis-
copal clergyman, was brutally murdered
by some one at present unknown, in Nor
folk, Va, 7th inst. Mr.. Boykin was a
member of the Virginia Conference of the
Methodist Episcopal Church, but for
long time has had charge of one of the
Methodist churches in Norfolk, per order
of Gen. Shepley.
"A letter to the Philadelphia Press,
from the Army of the Potomac, says of
the late battle:
1t is now probable that the loss of General
Crawford will fall under nine hundred and,
as these are all killed and wounded, some idea
may be formed of the fighting of the division.
1t is now thought that our total casualties at
Dabneys Mills will not exceed thirteen hum
dred, number which that of the rebels will
far transcend.
Drake DeKay, Captain Fourteenth
United States Infantry, formerly aid on
McDowel's staff, has been brevetted Ma
jor for gallant services at the battle OF the
Wilderness, in August, 1854, and Lieuten-
ant Colonel of the regular army for gal
lantry at Spottsylvania.
From gentleman who lately travelled
through many of the Western and
Southwestern counties of this State, we
learn that the farmers fear that the dry
winter has so badly injured the wheat that
there cannot be over half crop, even
if considerable rain falls. There is q large
breadth of land sown, and early in the
fall the prospect for fine crop was unusu-
ally good. How it is in the Northern and
Southern portions Of the State we have
not learned.-Leaoen,oorth Times.
"A distinguished member of Congress
a day or two since, made the following re-
mark:
/ see the newspapers, especially OF New
York, have become 90 insolent, Hbelous and
calumnious, that If we venture TO differ from