The Minnesota pioneer. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. Territory) 1849-1855, 1850-08-08


lieve thar A. v. Flyer, late of Minnesota,
acquired that blanket; Fryer will be remem-
Der ed hers, as sort Of speckie- ator, in fam
cy French Stocks. Like Dr. Berg and DR..
Snow, he left our Territory in disgust
The late gale visited the Western section
Of Vermont, continuing as hours. The riv-
ers overlooked their banks, sweeping away
bridges, and causing immense damage 10
crops. The Vermont Central Railroad has
suffered much in damage Of property and
delay of trains.
The Rock River Union Valley Railroad
Company has accepted the prefer of mil
lion of dollars; rendered by eastern capital
lists, and the road will soon be put under
contract. The entire route has been sur
veyed and found to be one of the most feas-
idle ones in the west.
A large meeting of the people of St.
Paul was held on Friday evening, at
the steps of the American House, to
commemorate the life, services and
death Of our late President, Gen. Zach
airy Taylor. A becoming solemnity
rested upon the audience while they lis
tened to the reading of a set of excel
lent resolutions appropriate to the occa-
sion; which were afterwards most elo-
quently sustained by speeches from
Messrs. Booth, q visitor from n. York,
aud Col. Todd, of St. Paul The re-
port Of the proceedings is SO long, and
was presented to us for publication so
near the time of our paper going to
press that we are unable to insert it.
A tremendous storm ragged over New
York, Brooklyn and Jersey City on the
18th, prostrating trees in the Park
Tompkins square, and other public
grounds, and also in the fashionable
streets of Brooklyn and Jersey City. -
The shipping was considerably damag-
ed, particularly the Quarantine, several
large vessels being driven ashore.
MATHIS Deaih--The death of Rev. j.
N. Matht, the distinguished revivalist,
occurred under horrible circumstances
if we may credit the Mobile correspon-
dent of the Georgia Citizen. 1t appears
that four or five hundred copies of the
New York National Police Gazette
charging him with every Accumulation
incest among others-had been circulat-
ed in Mobile. He was driven from eve
ry pulpit, derided, jeered, insulted when
ever he appeared in public. He was
threatened with a mob, and retired to a
village four miles from the city. Here
he supplied house with all the pen
dant's of an armed castle, learning that
he would be pursued. His sudden fate
then sharply closed his restless and un-
happy life-not. the correspondent bold
ly charges, without his own agency in
the matter. Whether this be so or not
it must have been a terrible thing to die
under such cloud of shame, and amid
the pitiless peltings Of such storm Of
hate.
Twenty-Five shade trees in New Ha-
ven, on the Goth ult, ofthe public green,
which the College students used as d
play ground, were girdled at night ,and
will most or all of them die.
The Telegraph says that from the 4tl
to the lIth ult., six deaths had taker
place from cholera in Burlington, Iowa
No cares on the llth, and both the dis.
ease and the premonitory symptoms are
on the decline.
There is a man in Boston, the father
of two rompish daughters, who attribute
their 'wildness' TO feeding on caper sauce
of which they were excessively fond
He is second cousin to the man no
to prevent his girls from running off Will
the young men, fed them on can't elope
melons.
The New York Herald states tina
the doctors dosed General Taylor witt
quinine and calomeI and after the eff
tects of those medicines had forced hin
into a fever, they bled him. Thus tn,
old patriot, who so often and so fearless
ly met the Mexicans, at last succumbee
to the lancet and caiomel
Hon. Daniel P King, Representative
in Congress from Massachusetts, j:
dead. He died at his residence in Dan
vers. Q
They have a novel way in the interior
Of Pennsylvania, says the Knickerbock
er, of calling the men folks to dinner il
the absence of horn for that purpose
They suspend d piece of strong skin
milk cheese from an upper window
which takes possession of all the atmos
phere to windward; and thus, when din
ner is ready for the workmen, they nos
Il.
The rivalry out West among newspe.
pers is SO great, that one journal ha:
promised to publish accounts of all ter
rible accidents twelve hours in advance
of their occurrence Boston Times.
A leopard, recently lay as quiet as /;
lamb, under a surgical operation, Will,
under the influence Of choloform
There was shower of black flies a
New Orleans, on the night of the 9th
continuing for upwards of half an hour
The physicians say. that when thu
first symptoms Of cholera appear, tbs
patient should lie down on his back an,
remain quiet.
1t is said that the extensive break i,