The daily Minnesota pioneer. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1854-1855, 1854-10-24
NEWS ITEMS.

Since the crusade commenced by Cincinnati
brokers against the Indiana Free Banks, their
circulation has decreased $4s1, OOO-this a.
mount Of their bills having been returned to
the Auditors Office and destroyed, and the
stock represented by them withdrawn and
sold.
Among the many uses to which beet-root
can be applied is that of making pasteboard.
A mandatory has been established at Foul.
rim, France.
The object, it is said, of Prince Albert's
visit to France was to offer the French Empe-
ror the garter vacant by the death of the king
of Saxony.
The export of ice from Boston during Sept
was 1882 tons, making total this year Of
92,l93 tons.
There are 724 slaves in Cecil county, Nd,
assessed at sl37,sOO.
During the quarter ending June 80, $685.
eO7 worth of public lands was sold at Du-
buque
1t is in contemplation to establish compa-
ny in Belleville, Canada West, for the manu-
facture of locomotive engines, wheels, axles,
and cars. The capital of the company is to be
100000.
On Thursday of last week the house of one
Samuel Reynolds, of Kingston, New York,
was entered by means Of false keys and Mrs.
Reynolds killed by the administering of chic
sOco ob1 -, bolo T.
dian doctor, named Richards, is suspected of
the crime.
The ladies of Rochester, including the wives
of fourteen clergymen, twenty physicians, and
some $50 citizens, have addressed letter to
Governor Seymour dcnouncing his veto of the
Maine Law.
Smith O'Brien is in Belgium, having arriv.
ed there about Sept. l. So says the Dublin
Ne,cs, though it adds that John Mitchell is
trying to persuade the public that he is still in
Australia.
The population of ireland, by famine and
emigration, has been reduced from seven to
five millions. A punster calls it the most ex-
traordinary instance of ex-pat-riation now on
record.
Valentine Mott, Jr., NJ. D., son of Profes-
sor Valentine Mott, of New York, fell vic
tim to yellow fever on the Goth ult. in N. O..
The deceased was 80 years of age, and had OBJ
tanned high reputation as medical practi-
tioner.
The Rev. Mr.. Chas. Kingsley, author of
Alton Locke is expected to arrive ut New
York, says the Post, in few days, on his way
to Philadelphia, where he is going to assist
at the conservation of new Episcopal
church. .,5 ss...
Gov. Slade arrived in Albany, New York,
on the 10Th ult., accompanied by twenty-five
young women, on their way to the Far West,
as teachers under the patronage of the Educa-
tional Society. They are appointed to Missis-
sippi, Arkansas, Indiana, Illinois, &c.
There were two large failures in Boston on
the Both ult.-one Of large clothing house,
the other firm largely engaged in the Aus
tralian trade.
The Germans of Troy have formed Sey-
mour Club, to aid his reelection to the Gov
ernorship.
A surgeon writes from the gold fields of
Australia, that he has now quite discarded the
lancet, and opens the veins with pick-axe.
One druggist in Boston has bottled 5000
gallons, $4,000 bottles) Of cod liver oil this
season. .-'- e. "a - sss .-r
The Ohio Small Note Law went into ope-
ration on the I'd inst. It makes it a penal Of.
fence to pass bills on the banks of any other
State under the denomination of ten dollars.
The receipts of grain at Buffalo from Satur-
day to Tuesday inclusive, was half million
bushels. ..... !. g., .. p = - E
The four Coroners of New York City held
BAL inquests during the quarter ending on the
3Oth September, for which they received S.
400 SO. -'a -..
Seven counterfciters are on trial at Boston,
among them Heard, a wealthy man, whose
daughters signed the bills. .y's
A mill has been started at Skaneatles. New
York, for the manufacture of coarse paper from
straw and corn stalks, according to the new
process. ~.
+, A young man, Charles Bourseui, now at
Paris, has been making experiments on the
electric transmission of the voice. He thinks
from the success which has attended his efforts
that people may talk by telegraph. ~ -