The Minnesota pioneer. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. Territory) 1849-1855, 1850-11-14

| The people of Don Anna desire to be
attached 10 fle state of Texas The desert Of Jor-
nado del Muerto, ninety miles wide, separates
them from Santa Fe, aud included in that terri
tory they will be completely isolated sar as the
government is concerned.
The New York Tribune of the 18th,
says: ss'rhe demand for Land Warrants Is good
at $3.50 to SI35. The inquiry is from the west
for location. The quantity on the market is lin
tied.
The Milwaukee Democrat says that
over 900 tons Of railroad iron have arrived there
within the past week. The lioad Is lined with
laborers, and the work is being pushed forward
with great energy.
In Chicago, no one has yet been
found who will accept the appointment Of Com
missioner to carry into execution the Fugitive
Slave law.
/ The London Punch announces Jenny
Lind as "ihc first Queen Of America"
A Lady who had exhausted the vo-
cabulary of names for her numerous daughters,
named the last ''Aun-so FORTH fat t
= The Deseret News gives the particu-
lars Of an Indian fight at Yellow Creek, on the
9Th of June. The Utah Indians burned six bod
les Of the Snake Indians, killed seven men and
four squaws, and captured five Indians and forty
horses. The prisoners were for sale. a-' :,
Attorney General Crittenden's opin-
/ ion of the constntionality of the fugitive slave
| law was published in Washington on Wednesday
lie says there is nothing in any part of the act
that suspends the privileges of writ Of habeas cor
pus, and that the whole act is not only eonstitu-
tonal, but is necessary for the proper enforcement
ofthat provision Of the constitution which declares
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claim being made for them. 80 g
| The first essay Of the new Marine
Railway at Algiers, La, a few days since, proved
successful A steamboat Of 400 tons, was drawn
up on the ways to have some Slight repairs effect
ed. The machinery, Of the simplest description,
was put in motion by to mules. The second trial
was made with vessel of 90 tons--the machin-
cry however, gave way. The cause of the acct
dent was afterwards discovered to be deep flaw
in the large cast iron cog wheel. This railway
is the first of the kind ever undertaken in the
State. f... .,I-.s.,...t- .s D.. ..,..,.tt ...
! Mr.. Edward Whidden was killed in
Pdrsonheld, Me-, on the l4th inst, under peculiar
circumstances He was, in company with anoth-
er young man, engaged in obtaining fruit from
neighbor's garden, when they were shot at, and
he was almost instantly killed, and the other Sc
verey wounded.
A Mr.. Howes, of Boston, has discov-
| cred process by which daguerreotype Of mini
allure size, may be magied tire size Of life, or
larger, and reflected upon canvass, or any 9TH
er fiat prepared substance, SO that artist may
seat himself before it and paint i. ii appears.
A Singular discovery has been made
in Madagascar. Fossil eggs of an enormous size
have been found in the bed of a torrent The
shells are an eighth of inch thick, and the Gil
conference of the egg itself is feet inches
lenghwise, and feet inches round the mid
die. .1H Hs #. o.. 1i-s'
Murders and ARRAYS have become
quite numerous at San Antonio. The Boundary
Commission had arrived there, when one of their
teamsters, named Turner, stabbed George Ten
nen, of the District of Columbia, causing instant
death. 80
| Much apprehension Of an Indian war
is entertained in Texas. Near Silesia they have
p>rpetrated several outrages. Two daughters OF
Il German, residing near there, had been carried
away by them.
| The crop of Sugar and Cotton were very pro-
missing. San
! Captain l. II. Moorehead received
telegraphc despatch from Paducah, last evening,
stating that the fine Tennessee river packet
Greek Slave, bound for Florence, from this city,
was scuttled and sunk in the Tennessee river on
"Wednesday night, by Charles james, hand on
the boat. Capt. W. c. Francis has offered re-
ward Of $50 for the arrest Of James The Greek
Slave left this port last Saturday with cargo of
assorted merchandise belonging to planters and
others along the Tennessee river.
The Greek Slave was insured $40, 900 in three
Offices in this cy.-[ Louisville Courier.
Mr.. James Smith Rhctt, who recent
| ly made himself notorious by urging the immedi-
ate withdrawal from the Union Of such Southern
States as were ''not lost to all sense of shame Of
ruin and disgrace" received one hundred and
ninety four rotcs in the city of Charleston, where
he candidate for Congress.
The Liverpool Mail, in an article COM
meu,ing upon the Lind excitement in America,
among other very silly things, has the follow
ing
''But this pride or national inlirmity, was more
fully shown in offering reward Of $500 for Il
poet to write something about ''Hail Columbia, -
&C., for Jenny TO sing. And what was the result.
Seven hundred poets rushed into the plutusian
tt-yard to contend for the prize. Seven hundred
song writers in a country which has not vet pro-
dnced one poet, indicates sudden and immense
flood of inspiration"
/ AT the Westboro' cattle show was ex-
hited Holstein COW called ''Jenny Lind" with
a bull calf by her side named s'Barnum'
The Merchants and Manufac tures
Bank of Providence, r. |. was enjoined on the
10Th ult, and its affairs passed into the hands of
a receiver. The cashier, Albert W. Snow, is u
dcfhultcr TO the amount of $40 900 or $50, 900
/ He has been arrested and held 10 BAIL
The twenty and thirty thousand dol
Jar concerts of Jenny Lind in this country, have
already induced some of the best foreign artistes
in opera and ballet, TO mnlitate her example and
try the country which has made California a land
ofgold.
Advices from Texas state that two
thirds of the people of Western Texas are in ia
vor of the Compromise bills passed at the last
session of Congress. They ridicue the idea of
going toyvar with the United States about abstrac-
tons.
The Legislature Of Texas, by an
overwhelming majority, has voted TO take the
boundary provided by Congress, with the sugar.
coating of $40 ,O00,0 900. Texas never meant to
do anything else.
s.. LATEST NEWS.
On Monday night, the Minnesota arrived