The Minnesota pioneer. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. Territory) 1849-1855, 1850-03-20
.MeIanch0lU Suicide.-This morning a

merchant tailors, Old State House 5uilding,
left his home, telling his wife that he was
going to the store for the purpose OF writing
a letter, which he said it was impc;rtant for
him to attend to at an early hour. Two or
three hours elapsed when Mrs. S. became
anxious in consequence Of his not having
returned. A message was sent to the store,
but it proved that 10 one there had seen him
during the morning. His family and friends
were now quite alarmed cOncerning.his safe
ty, for he was well known to have been pre-
disposed to insanity. 1t was but Saturday
morning last that he arriv ed in this &ity from
California, where his fortune had .been to
secure very handsome share of tie riches
of that country. A general search was
therefore entered upon in every quarter of
the city, and the result was that about 10 o.
clock this forenoon the dead body Of Mr..
Stckney was found in the back bay. 1t
seemed that he had proceeded from his res
idence out on the Providence RAILROAD, and
or arriving on the bridge, took off bis over
coat, tucked it under the timbers, plunged
himself into the bay, and was dros svned.-
The body was conveyed to the deaf v-house,
and Coroner Smith will proceed to hold an
inquest over it. Mr.. Stickney has left be-
hind an amable wife, who has not yet been
IuIOItuCO VI Idtc. IL Will OC u pau tuiC
to her.-B0ston Times.
Mortality in Proridence.-Of seventy
three deaths in Providence during the month
Of January last past, thirty-nine, or over
oue-half, were of diarrh9a, and fifteen of
consumption.
Sixteen persons who originally went from
New England, are now in the workhouse
Of the second municipality Of New Orleans.
Eight were born in Massachusetts.
SUICIDE OF AN ARMY OFrIcER.-Lieu-
tnant H. Neal, of the u. S. Dragons,
committed suicide last month, by cutting
his throat, at the camp in Hamilton's Val
ley, Texas. Insanity is supposed to have
been the cause Of the act.
MEHEMEr ALI PAcHA has bestowed a
snuff box set in diamonds, worth $500,
upon Colt, the inventor of the revolver, as
an evidence Ofhis appreciation of that death
dealing weapon.
ONE OF 'EM.-The Boston Post tells a
story of man who after taking into his
employ female servant, sat down in his
parlOr one evening with Il couple of eigh-
bors and his wife, to a civil game of whist.
The next morning, the new ''help' Oh
served 'that card-playing must be put a
stop to, or she should be obliged to leave,
as she didn't approve the practice, and neu-
er attOWed 1T in families where she lived :"
JOHN C.CALHoUN.-Thise eminent States
man, at the last accounts from Washing
ton, was still dangerously i'll though thought
to be improving. Many Of his friends fear
that he will never be able to resume an ac-
tive participation in public affairs; hia age
70 years, rendering his complete restoration
to health, after such a severe and protract-
ed illness, hardly possible.
VERY NAUGHTY.-The Boston Herald
heard all abolitionist say, the other day
"that he wished the Lord would raip down
the gun cotton preparation on the; cotton
fields of the South, let it dry in, aid then
send down a shaft of lightning to blow
up the whole country to glory!"
10 An account, which appears td he au-
thentic, states that the sum total !Of gold
that has passed. across the lsthmus ior1 the
1st of October to the LIST Of January,
amounts to $9,S62 ,s44,O4. f!
90 An iron jail was shipped Jon the
steamboat Belle Key yesterday, foi some
place down in Arkansas. 1t was manufac-
turcd here out of bars of iron, and when
put together it will have the appear
ance of an enormous cage.-[Lou. Cour.
| CIGARS BY MACHINERY.-A machine has
been put in operation in Cuba for the man
ufacture of cigars. 1t rolls them SO fast
that one machine can give occupation to six
men in the way of tipping and clipping
them.
SAD ACCIDENTAL few days since, three
young ladies, two of them daughters of
Henry Seely, and one the daughter if VIM.
More, all of Stark county, lIlA were
drowned in attempting to ford Spool, rivor
in two horse wagon. The yourfg man
capped by springing on a cake of floating
ice. The horses swan on shore. The
bodies Of the young ladies were aferward
recovered.
DocToRs AND LAWYERS CALIFORNIA;
A friend writes to the New York Express,
that very small bed room, upon the out
skirts of the town, cost him $50 month.
For an office, 8 by 10 feet, he will have to
pay 81 900 month. He is a physician
but says that doctors are focking to Cali
fornia by the cargo, and thinks that the
gold pills Of the mines will pay better
tudu TIC Uiuc phi Ot TIE uIUXgISt. w uISO
see it stated that a Baltimore bricklayer is al
work in San Francisco, with a Baltimore
lawyer carrying the hod for him.
I ~- According to the late Lady Blessing.
ton, who should have been well informed
on the subject, no woman who is formed
to excite general admiration is capable o
comforting individual happiness.
90 A negro boy in Louisiana, duiing the
cholera, hearing his father say that lhe dis
ease would soon be along that way, left hi
) work and betook himself to the woods
Being found by his overseer fast asleep, h.
; excused himself OH the ground that no, be-
ing 'prepared in mind to die" he had gon,
to the woods to "meditate." But said tn,
, overseeer, show was it that you Went Il
sleep? "Well, | don't know, massie, how
dat was 'zacly, but speck orer4prayet
myself"
AN ITEM.-The largest subscription t,
the fund for the construction of a church il
California was given by gambling house
namely, $4,000. :
! Boston, the celebrated race horse, died a
' his stable in Kentucky, few days 81 ince.
artificial Oysters.-Take young greel
corn, CRATE it in dish; to one pint sof thi
add one egg well beaten, small tea: cup o
, flour, half a cup of butter, some SILT an
r pepper, and mix them well together.t A ia
: ble-spoonful Of the batter will make The siz
= of an oyster. Fry them a light brown, an