The Minnesota pioneer. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. Territory) 1849-1855, 1850-10-24

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Gor'EM.-Barnum has procured for exhlbi
ton the wings of imagination and has now gone
10 Providence with the soul of song
Gov. Dewey, of Wisconsin, has postponed the
execution of the two Indians, who were tried and
sentenced to be hung at The September term of
the Circuit Cour held ut WiIlowriver, 81. Croix
County. They were TO have been executed on
the 35ih inst
The Menonioaees are allowed until the frs, Of
June next to get ready for their home west
of the Mississippi 4 he surveys Of the ssNew
Purchase will be commenced in January next
Potatoes are selling in New Orleans for So so
per Dbl. Would it not pay for some Of our Min
nesota farmers to ship them Il few occasionally!
The Louisville Courier says that the Captains
of the mail boats that ply between Cincinnati and
Louisville, have prohibited gambling and card
playing on their respective boats.
| PRETTy FAR GoNE.--During a heavy fall of
-aln, fellow who had taken "a drop too much,
happened To deposit himself under a water spout.
He thus, lying ''alone in his glory" exclaimed,
''not drop more, gentlemen; not drop more. "
, DIsTRIBUrING Posi- OFFICE DIscoN
UED--We learn, that orders have been received
from the proper Department, to discontinue the
Post Office here as Distributing OEce. We
have no knowledge Of the reasons which have
governed the Department in this step. Did we
know them, perhaps they might be satisfactory.
-[Gaena Adv.
| APpoINTME Campbell, late Con-
sui at Havana; {. S. Todd, of Minnesota. and
Col. Temple, Of Tennessee, have been designated
a Committee to join the boundary survey, and to
/ with tha Tudi.nS IN tho cf,h -,
RADIO for their lands.
! ga CREvAssE IN THE WING PARTY" is
the appropriate title given TO the split OF the wings
of New York, at their late State Convention.
| The following was handed in as an advertise
ment; but in order to give it greater publicity,
we have transferred it to our local columns:
! WANTED.-A person TO write poetry for n
penny primer. 1t is to be illustrated by cuts,
representing cats and dogs, Il monkey, Sc, and
the services OF MIR. L. have been secured for
that department OF the work. IL was intended
to have had the elephant in it, but Mr.. lie
says he cannot make 4e trunk, his entire inge
nuity being displayed in making the appendages
which project from the opposite extremity Of the
animal. This work is designed 10 supersede the
use of Mother Goose's Melodies and the Comic
Almanac. For further particulars, enquire at the
| Chronicle office.
! The Captain of the steamer Atlantic, says that
the most agreeable gale which he ever experience
ed in crossing the ocean, that which accom-
panied him from Liverpool on his last trp-,he
| Nightingale.
! stranger went to Evansville, Ia, for work.
lie was set to digging grave. He finished it,
went to his lodgings, took sick, died and was bu-
ried in the grave he dug!
! A SANCTUARY MAYoR.-The Mayor OF
Pittsburgh, on Tuesday night, ordered the ARES,
of portion Of the city councillors and that they
be sent TO jail. They were Immediately dis
charged BY the Judges on the habeas corpus act
The next day Mayor Barker threatened to hang
the Judge, councillors, and editors, and committed
the parties TO Jail. They were, of course, again
discharged writ of habeas corpus. The
councillors met, and took the regulations Of the
city night watch from the Mayors hands. Mr.
Barker threatens to imprison them all once more,
together with all the Judges. The greatest ex-
element prevails in the city in consequence OF
these singular proceedings of the chief Magistrate
PITrsBURGH. Oct. 10.
A MAYOR IN LIMBo.--The Mayor Mr.. Bar
ker, has been arrested and held to bail. Various
charges Of assault and battery, false inprison-
ment and misdemean0rs are preferred agalnsthln.
Nightly riots occur between the citizens and his
! night police, who are composed Of the worst Kind
of rowdies. Mr.. Barker is said to be insane.
MINNESOTA COMA gentleman Just from
! Minnesota, has laid on our table several ears OF
corn grown in that Territory the past season. Ii
is equal to Ohio; ears large, grains plump and
sound [Cleaveland True Dem.
/ The telegraphc lightning in its race from New
! NNrt-t Ill AL
beat old Father Time about 80 minutes, having
Orleans at | III. 45m. The news was published
at the same hour by the papers in each city.
| News FROM THE WHEEI-BARRow MAN.
The latest news from this interchangeable individ-
ual, was that he had arrived at Sacramento City
in safety. He left his wheel-barrow at Fort Hall,
and attached himself to a company; thinking
very correctly, that however easily he might get
along on the broad and level prairies, the Sierra
Nevada might prove an ug y customer.
I In the L. S. Senate, Sept 2lst when the Civil
and Diplomatic Appropriation Bill was under dis
cussion, the following proceedings were had:
"Mr. Walker--I move to amend the bill by
adding the following, ut line 1885;
| "For the salary of John Catlin, as Secretary
and Acting Governor OF Wisconsin Territory
/ itVu TIC tVil VI lOtC, W TIE 4tii ia V
of March, 1919, being eight months and twenty
two days, at the rate Of i 500 per annum, +
S2s IT,
| The amendment was agreed to, and Mr.. Catlin
gets pay as Governor of the now Minnesota Ter
ritory.-[ Wisconsin.
! ILLINOIS CoNGREssIoNAL NoMINA-
TIoNs.-The Democracy of Illinois have COM
pleted their Congressional nominations for the
| campaign in that State. An array of talent and
patriotism is presented in the persons of the nom-
nees, which can no where be cxcelled, and will
be seldom equalled. Col. Bissell stands at the
head of the list. He will be supported by both
parties, as he deserves to be. The Sixth District
VIII surely return MIR. Campbell, Of Galena, in
stead of the present misrepresentation, Baker.
MIR. Campbell received the unanimous vote Of the
Convention by which he was nominated. There
is no division Of feeling in his district, the dem
ocracy Of his district being united one man in
his favor. Although bis opponent is Street, his
taste will be forgotten at the ring of the Camp
bell. The other candidates are, for the Second
District, Willis Allen; for the Third, Orlando b.
ficklin; for the Fourth, Richards $. Molony; Fifth,
VIM A. Richardson, and Seventh, II. l.. Harris.
The two latter are members of the Git Congress.
They have shown their devotion to the MON nd