The Minnesota pioneer. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. Territory) 1849-1855, 1851-01-02

revoly or at him as he retreated, alter insulting
her. His wounds are probably mortal.
. Oberlin College, Ohio, has recently
awarded diplomas to eight young women, one Of
whom was colored. The degree of A. b. was
conferred upon eleven gentlemen and one lady;
that of A. NJ. upon nine gentlemen and one lady.
Three gentlemen and two ladies completed the
Theological courSe-one of the latter expects to
devote herself to pulpit labors.
Under the item in the general appro-
priation bill appropriating $4,000 for the survey
of the delta Of the Mississippi, the War Depart
ment have detailed Major Long and Capt Hum
phrey as Typographical Engineers, together with
Charles Elliott, for Civil Engineer. They are in
structed TO report fully on the subject, at the
lest moment.
A panther eight feet long. was killed
near Granada, Miss. few days ago.
/ The file factory at Weayerton, Nd,
has not been able thus far, to Gil more than half
the ordels for their files.
The Adirondack Steel Company,
burnt ont forty-seven days ago, at Jersey City,
are again in operation.
The new furnace at Knoxville, Wash
ington county Nd, is now turning out pig metal
at rapid rate.
The price of tobacco in New Orleans
from the 9th to the 18th inst, had advanced cts.
per h., with large sales.
Capt. III. E. McCulloh has been au-
thorized by Gov. Bell to raise a company of Ran
gers for the United States service.
GOO, 900 passengers are said to have
passed over the Hudson River Railroad since it
was opened, some nine months ago.
Hay is so scarce in Ohio, that it is al
ready selling at Cleveland, at from SIG to SIS
per ton.
The citizens of Pittsburg wish Gus
tom House in that city, and public meeting is
called TO indnce the Government to build one.
Mr.. Britain McClendall, of Edgefeld
District, S. c., was murdered on the 18th inst.
By bis step son, Hip s:a1a55urt.
Oxford University. it is said, will not
be backward in its expression of hostility to the
late movement of the Pope in England.
Collins says that in less than five years
he will have a steamer running, that will do the
distance between New York and Liverpool in
week.
Before tree was cut upon the ground
now occupied by Cincinnati, Boston was large
city. Cincinnati, in point of population, Is tread
ing rapidly upon Boston's heels.
An Irishman being told to grease the
wagon, returned IN about an hour afterwards, and
said 'I've creased every part Of the wagon but
the sticks where the wheels hang on.''
The pension of the Duke of Cam
bridge, the Queens cousin, would support four
hundred laboring men and their families, at the
present rate of wages earned by that class.
The citizens of Charleston were highly
grattied on receiving the recovered statue of the
late John c. Calhoun. The City Council, on Fri
day last, entertained the gentlemen who accom-
panied it, with n splendid dinner.
Rev. Thomas II. Stockton, formerly
of Philadelphia, but at present of Cincinnati, is
about to take up bis residence in Baltimore, hay
ing accepted cali from St. Johns Methodist Pro-
testant Church, in Liberty street.--IN. Y. paper.
According to the Worcester Tribune,
w. p. Neal, of that city has discovered process
by which fruits, vegetab es, meats, &c, may be
preserved perfectly fresh FOR any length of time
Application is TO be made for a patent.
The Bigbee river, Alabama, is said to
be so very low as to be fordable by COWS ten miles
below Jackson, and only fifty miles from the juno
ton. Such thing has never been done at any
former period.
A Naval Commission is ordered at
fnaOeIpnG lOf tue tnlfu MOHuay III DECEMBER.
for the examination Of the merits of various con-
densers for supplying the boilers Of marine engines
with fresh water.
The appraisers of the personal prop
erty Of the estate Of Mr.. McDonough, valued his
whole wardrobe at THIRTY DOLLARS, and the
whole Of the movable property in his house at
$I4O0.
Mrs. Simpson. widow of tho late A.
n II NJ
ly died several months ago from the effects Of
poison, alleged to have been administered to him
by her, has returned to Fayetteville and deliver
ed herself up. She was placed on trial last week,
and acquitted
Mr. Kingston, of Babylon, Illinois,
was struck by lightning few weeks since, and
left dead, to all external appearances, but his
wife, shrewd woman, took bucket Of cold
water, and poured it on his breast, when he re
vived, and is doing well.
1t is contemplated to erect, as monu-
ment to the celebrated George Stephenson, sin
gle stone, several feet longer than Cleopatra's
Needle.
One of the results Of the late election
in California, was to fix the Capital of the State
at Vallejo, city on the Bay of San Francisco,
about twenty five miles from the city of San Fran
cisco.
The Detroit Advertiser notices the
arrival in that city of FIVE stage coaches, from the
Concord, N. H., Mandatory, built for J. Frink
s Co., of this city.
They are designed for the California trail, cal
cuated to seat Jour passengers, and provided with
a., me appurtenances for gong down the sieefs
which Nature forgot to grade.
The North Carolina Newbernian no.
tees the death of Ex-Governor Spaight, in the
9th year of his age. In politics, he was demo-
Graf, and in private life he was greatly esteemed
for his kindness of heart.
Harvey Young, formerly postmaster
at Andrew, Iowa, committed suicide lately by
taking strychnine, at Lawrenceburg, ny. He
left line stating that the act was committed in
consequence of his failure in business, and
cause of which he said his wife was aware. He
is SAID TO have been Incorporate.
The following advertisement recently
appeared in Irish paper Wantcd--A young
woman to act as household in small private
family; also, mich cow--must be Of the esta5-
lished church"
The Postmaster Generals forthcom-
ing Report, it is said, will show that the number
of letters which have passed through the various
nost off;ces If the limited States during the mast