The Minnesota pioneer. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. Territory) 1849-1855, 1850-05-02

nished by this list of exports, we have
reason to believe that the CalifOrnians
are determined to sustain all the habits,
tastes, feelings, enterprise, and all the
concomitants Of civilization, in their love
for pork, beans, Connecticut brooms and
sarsaparilla.
HEAVY ROBBERY AT ELKHoRN GROVE.
We learn, from Mr.. Adams, that the
house of Samples M. Jurney, Esq, was
entered ON Tuesday night last, and rob
bed oftwo thousand five hundred dollars.
The thief entered while all the inmates
were asleep, and abstracted the money
from a drawer of secretary, which he
opened with false keys. Some four hun
dred and ninety dollars escaped detec-
ton, being in another drawer. No clue
to the perpetrator Of this daring burgla-
ry has, as yet, been obtained [Ga!ena
Advertiser.
HORRIBLE MURDER IN OHIo.-The
Richland Ohio Shield gives an account
IF horrible murder and robbery COM
united in Planktown, in that county, on
the 18th ult.:
Mr. Hall, a grocer, had his house en-
tered by two men in the night, while he
was engaged in tying up groceries,
One of them, with au axe, struck him
over the head. He rceled off, advan-
cling several feet, and was then knocked
down by several blows on the side and
back of the head with a heavy bludgeon,
and then grappIed at the throat by the
murderer until life was extinct, the marks
of whose thumb and fingers were plain
! ly left upon his unsuspecting victim.--
The body was then dragged by the feet
to the end Of the counter, and there left.
! The store was rified Of all the money,
but how much cannot be ascertained.--
1t is supposed the murder was committed
in the early part of the night, or between
g and - O'Clock Two men named
Daniel Myers and Thos. M'Carvy, half
brothers, the former living in Planktown
and the latter in La Fayette, have been
arrested on suspicion and committed to
Jail for trial at the next Court.
A DISASTER AvERrEp DISCIPLINE.
The steamer Alex. Scott had a narrow
escape from destruction by fire during
her last trip to New Orleans. She had
among her cargo LOT of baled hemp,
which was stored in the engine or deck
room. Just below Naschez, deck pas
senger, either designedly or by accident
set the hemp OH fire. The flames spread
rapidly, and the cry Of fire caused the
utmost CONSERVATION among the passen-
gers. The Captain and his gallant crew,
however, did not waver for an instant.
The boat was headed for the shore, and
the passengers and others, with whatev-
er vaIuables they could collect, were or
dered to the bow Of the boat, to be ready
to leap on shore. In the meantime, Mr..
Mcfarland, the Mate, called the crew to-
gether. The beds were stripped oftheir
blankets, and each of the crew seized a
blanket, and with their mate at their
head, rushed into the midst of the de-
vouring flames, and with the blankets
smothered the fire, and in few moments
had it entirely subdued.
Thus, by the GOODNESS of the officers
and the perfect discipline and obedience c
of her crew, a perhaps terrible disaster
was averted, and the Scott escaped un-
injured. The author Of the accident W as
put ashore at the next wood yard, and
when the boat arrived at New Orleans,
the accident was forgotten.- Louisville
Journal.
INTERESTING INCIDENT-J. G.. CAL
iHouy.-The Hon. MIR. Holmes, of S.
Carolina, in announcing the decease OF
Mr.. Calhoun, in the House Of Repre-
sentatives, stated the following personal
incident:
With the commencement of MIR. Polk S
administration, he retired once more from
public life, but he retired voluntarily.
.. MIR. Buchanan (for might as well relate
the fact) called upon mo, took me to the
embrasure of one of these windows, anC
said: Il am to be Secretary Of State
the President appreciates the high tai
ents of Mr.. Calhoun, and considers the
= country now encircled by danger upor
( the Oregon question. Go to Mr.. Cal.
D houn and tender him the mission to the
2 Court of St. James-special or general
t as he may detcrmine--with transfer o
e the Oregon question entirely to his
y charge Never can forget how the
n muscles of his face became tense, how
d his great eye rolled, as he received the
= terms of the proposal made him. No
G sir-nor he replied. If the embassie'
: of all Europe were clustered in one,
e would net take it at this time. My coun
S try is in danger; here ought to be thu
# negotiation, and here will stand Sir
n he retired to his farm; but the President
: in his inaugural, had indicated so strong
= ly his assertion of the entirely Of th'
a Oregon treaty, had inspired the peopl'
- of the west almost to madness. and il
), like manner dispirited the merchants o
S the east, and Of the north and south
G that presentiment Of great danger stol
!, over the hearts Of the people, and wa
9 seemed inevitable with the greatest nava
l. power of the earth. spelled by thei
d apprehensions, the merchants sent
If message to Mr.. Calhoun, and begge'
/, him again to return to the councils Q
~ He prpIecaSsor upDprouSl