The daily Minnesota pioneer. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1854-1855, 1854-09-21

A violent storm took place at Charleston,
on the 9th inst, which lasted nearly forty -eght
hours, and did immense damage to property in
that vicinity. The water overfOwed the ware
houses and stores, and vast amount of prop
erty was injured, the loss on the wharves alone
being $25O,OOO. In the interior of the city,
gardens and houses were flooded, the occupants
in some cases being saved in boats Fears
were expressed for the inhabitants of Sullvans
Island, and for the interior of the country.
At late sitting of the Academy of Scien-
ces, NJ. CAsTETs, manufacturing chemist at
Puteax, presented scaled paper containing a
description of the discovery which he has made
of the artificial production of quinine. Should
the pathological qualities of his compound be
found satisfactory, the discovery will be an i'm
portant one.
Amongst the curiosities to be transmitted
from India to the Great Exhibition in Paris,
next year, is carpet of ivory Tt is twenty
feet long by six broad, and made of long strips
of ivory, plated like mating. The price fixed
upon is 93O0.
The Portage County annual Agricultural
Cattle Show and Fair, will be held on Friday
and Saturday, the 9th and 18th of October.
The cholera still continues it's ravages at
Fall River, Mass. The number of deaths dali
| ly is said to be as many as twenty.
Col. WEBB, of the New York Courier and
Enquirer, writing home to his paper, says that
the present will not only be the greatest in ex-
tent, but the most productive wheat crop per
acre ever grown in the United Kingdom.
In many parts of Missouri, the cattle, in
consequence of the extreme drought, are dying
of what the farmers call dry murrain-a|ais-
ease induced by excessive and long continued
thirst.
Hon. A. LINCOLN and STEPHEN T. LOGAN
are the Wing candidates for the Legislature,
in Sangamon county, Ill.
The Know Nothings have carried the AL
ton city election-electing all their candidates
by considerable majorities.
In reference to the formation of Know
Nothing Lodge in New York, the Boston Pr
lot of last week, says: The Protestant Irish
have Orange or Know Nothing lodges in all
our large cities.
The Buffalo Express says that three persons
have been arrested in that city, charged with
having been connected with the robbery of the
American Express Company at Cincinnati
few days since.
Donnybrook Fair, in Ireland, once so noto-
rious for its revelries, commenced on the Goth
of August, but has now become an extremely
dull affair.
We see it stated that forty-one of the trav-
Cling preachers connected with the Methodist
Episcopal Church South, have died during the
past year.
Mr.. j. L. ROBINSON, one of the wealthiest
men in Exeter, n. H., fell from the barn floor
to the bottom of cellar underneath, on Sun
day, and was so much injured that his recove-
ry is extremely doubtful.
The Hon. JAMES BLACK, for many years a
member Of the United States Senate, from the
State of Mississippi, and late of Louisiana,
died in Winchester, Va, On the 29th ult
The New York papers quote the Lead mar
ket as inactive, with no variation in price for
for some time past
The Boston Times notices the sale Of thirty
bushels Of potatoes in that city, on Monday
last at the enormous price of $2.l0 per bu.
The Cincinnati Times learns that serious
frauds have been discovered in an Insurance
Company, involving in amount some forty
thousand dollars