The Minnesota pioneer. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. Territory) 1849-1855, 1853-03-24

| The Jail in Portsmouth, ". H., is empty
| A company of nine persons have left Wooster. Q.
for Australia.
| The different trades of Cincinnati Ohio, are on a
strike.
The laboring men of York, Pa, have recently held
ten hours meeting.
! The jouIn ymen carpenters OF Cincinnati have de-
manded an advance on their wages OF twenty five
cents per day.
| The coal diggers Of the Pittsburgh, Monongahel IA
and YOu5hiogheny mines strike for higher
wages.
! THE LATE AARON DURR.-Thc quiet erection
OF a tombstone his unmarked grave in the
Princeton yard, has called to mind the of Aa-
ron Burr. Near fifty eyentiu years of our country
history have come and gone since his strange and
brilliant career was run; during which time many
things have occurred to call his memory from oIliyi-
on; but scarcely breath of ar--certainv not a re-
g,ettul sish-has borne it from the tomb. His was
not one of the lew Immorta! names that were not
born to die; at least for the present. The world has
agreed to forget him. Possibly it no reelection
thereby. 1t has also forgotten the !anented John
Wells, Jacob Van Vecthen, and Elisha Williams, his
brilliant competitors AT the bar. Even Hamilton his
target victim, is no longer remen bered.
As for Burr, there arc many reasons WHY he should
have been so soon forgotten. Tradition and legend
have handed down his name blackened by every
crime. Long before his death, even when roor,
wretchcd and alone in the void, he stemmcd mis-
fortunes tide the world had resolved to forget HIM
| No spoke 10 him, nor seemed to notice him, rs
engaged IL the active duties o arduous profession
he walked the populous streets of New York. Ii
met IN the stage coach, addrcs sed him; if on
the ferry which conducted him to the solitary island
home, he was rot recognised. Ii cases che
have been because of his threadbue coat in others,
hike all men, he naturally forgotten, when h ;
1 lost. he nc IA Ci,a nj
once brilliant light no longer attracted the fitting
moth but II cannot be disguised that those had for
gotten, who should have remembered him; he was
summed in the street: his friends did not know him;
II pSinted out at distance, it was as one who had
the accused mark of Cain upon him.
We do not know a subliner picture than that ure-
scented by this celebrated man. in the last hours Of de-
clinIns !lie His early course had been peculiarly
successful. lie soldier Of the revolution, dis
tinyuishc for courage and skill, and activity his
reputation had been high at the bar, as n trustv
counsellor and able advocate; he had been success
ful politician, admired for his tact and loaded with
the avors of the people, he had also been Vice Pres
dent of the United States, and presided over the
Senate with mpartiality and dignity as he conclud-
ed his farewell address, there not dry eve in
the chamber Added to all these public honors, hap
py domestic relations the GROWING Jewels Of his
happiness. He was proud of his descent from two
of the best stocks the country he was the favored
scion Of the houses of Edward and Burr He had
the choicest education that could be conferred, and
bis proficiency was such as TO make his nearest and
ondest relations rejoice. He had also been happy
in his marriage, the fu. Of which was daughter,
Of whom any father mig be proud She was beau
ttu in person, intelligent IN mind, and gifted with
lively fancy. and a brilliant imagination. These nat.
ural gifts had been cultivated by the careful ed.
ucaton. The conversation of the daughte when a
child, was the delight of the father; when matron,
his pride. Given TO the Of her own and fathers
chose, who also stood high in his native State, as
gentleman, scholar and successful politician she was
the mother of a beautiful son, not more the parents
Joy than the grandfather pride This little pledge
that the family should not die and become extinct,
also bore the name Of Aaron Burr, Thus happy in
his public relations and domestic circle, connected
with the past by proud and glorious remcmb,ances;
with the future by golden link, what was wanting
to I'LL up the cup of his happiness! Nothing. per-
haps, save that right judgment of Scion, who count
ed the poor and obscure, but pous Athenian the hap
picst OF men, in preference TO the proud and wealthy
Lydian King.
In moment, in the twinkling Of an eye, all this
happiness fled from him, was melted down and be-
came dross-thc golden realities that already
reached through three generations, became as a vision
that had passed. A fearful renooatre drove Aaron
Burr, the soldier, the statesman the outlaw from the
land price was set upon his head. He was hunt
ed from town to town, city to city. He fed in dis.
guise fiom the face of man. He was tried for trea-
son and his fair fame bIackened forever His small
fortune gradually vanished-hc a wanderer and
besgar upon the face Of the earth His daughter ON
her way to visit him and soften his woes was seized
and ba,barously murdered by pirates. His grand
child was down and wied in death-relativcs
disowned him. With all this, Aaron Burr sank not;
he walked erect at eighty years Of age amongst those
who despised him. 1t was Lear facing the storm.
A Revolutionary Soldier aged l04 years, arrived
in Cincinnati few days ago, from visit to his
friends out West, and was his return to his home
in Richmond, Va. He is said to be remarkably ac.
tive, and has never been sick but once in his life
The Cincinnati Times says that during the revolution
he fought in all the principal battles in North and
South Carolina. He lost eye at the battle of the
Cowpens, under General Morgan, and received two
wounds at the battle Of Brand ywine under Washing
ton and Lafayette. He at the battles of Trenton
and Princeton, where the brnve Col Mercer was shot
He saw Gen. Warren fall at Bunker Hill, while
cheering his troops to victory andto sum up, he
fought in sixteen battles in New York and Vermont
under Generals Gates and Arnold.
NEW PRINTING TYPE.-A company is at pres.
in the Of formation for the purpose of car
ryng into operation remarkable patent, which has
for it's object the manufacture of type by process of
die sinking, in metal of harder material than the al
10y of lead and antimony at present employed in cast
ing type in a mould.