The Minnesota pioneer. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. Territory) 1849-1855, 1850-09-12
WASHINGTON. Aug. so.

WASHINGTON, Aug. so.
The Hon. Chas. HI. Jenkins, of Augusta,
Ga. was offered, on wednesday, last, by
telegraph, the post Of Secretary of the In,e-
rior. No answer has, as yet, been rereiv-
ed, the late storm having Frustrated the tel
egraph wire.
Mr.. jenkins was formerly speaker Of the
Georgia House, and is a distinguished wing
lawyer.
The gravel train on the Kennebeck and
Portland Railroad was thrown off the track
on the 24lh ult., killing four men and
wounding several others. Timber and
stones had been malciouSly placed on the
track.
The Free Democrat of the 2Sth, publish
ed ut Milwaukee, says there were 80 or go
deaths Of cholera for the previous week,
also many from dysentery.
Provision is made in the Post Route Bill,
for the following routes in Minnesota:
From Point Douglas, by way of Cottage
Grove and Red Rock to St. Paul.
From Saint Paul, by way Of the Falls of
ST. Anthony, Sank Rapids, and the mouth
of Swan river, to Fort Gaines.
From Swan river to Long Prairie and to
Pembna.
From Point Douglas, by way of Saltwater,
Marine Mills, Falls of Saint Croix, and
Pockegoma Lake, to the Falls Of St. Louis
river of Lake Superior.
sFrom Wabashaw, by way of Wahcoota's
village, Olive Grove, and Mendoza, to / ort
Smelling
Flom Mendoza, via Little Rapids, Trav-
erse DIES Sioux, and Little Rock to Lac qu'
Parle.
The fugitive Slave Bill has passed the
Senate.
President Fillmore has removed Mr.. IT.
win, u. 5. Marshal Of the western Dist
of Pennsylvania, for intemperance. If this
system of reform is universally carried out,
our ligour dealers ought to know it and
LIMIT their orders bewlow for whiskey, &C
cordngly.
The president of France goes deal ga
bout town." and some Of his nocturnal adj
ventures are not, it is whispered, of the
most becoming kind. There is a story Of
his having, IA few nights ago, played off a
practical Joke on A rag-gatherer, and OF
having narrowly escaped a sound drubbing
for his pains.
Att meeting of the Sons of Temperance,
Canada, a few days since, says the Boston
pUs,, a young man in addressing the ladies',
said:
Let NE urge you, ladies', one and all, not
to countenance any young man who will
not become a tee-totaler. | would also beg
of you to advise the young men to become
sous; and if you cannot accomplish this,
make fathers Of them'
CONWAY, the Indian, had arrived at Liy-
erpool, on his way to the Peace Congress
at Frankfort. He was much noticed.
At Augusta, Me-, the powder used in fir
ing the funeral salute in honor Of the late
President, was Mexican powder, done up
in the original Mexican bags, being part Of
the large quantity taken by our troops at
the city Of Mexico, and sent to Augusta for
deposit in the L. S. Arsenal there.
A tremendous explosion occurred at
Chicago on the evening of the 9Th, in
the bank of j. III. Burch & Co. The
conclusion was so severe, that the doors
and windows of the building and the
doors Of the safes were blown off, and
the money scattered over the floor. 1t
was caused bysa lighted candle being
inadvertently placed near a crack in the
floor, from which the gas that lighted
the building had escaped. No person
was severely I'M ured.
The steamer Panama arrived at Pa
mama, on the Dist of August, from Cal
itornia, bringing 81 800, 600 in gold dust
The general appropriation bill has
passed both houses of Congress.
The Jenny Lind concert tickets for
Wednc sday, the llth, were sold at auc-
ton on Saturday morning last.
The papers are teeming with accounts
of the late flood in Pennsylvania, which
has been very disastrous. The loss of
property has been enormous all along
the Schuylkill and Lehigh.