The daily Minnesota pioneer. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1854-1855, 1854-09-22

NEWS ITEMS.

The San Francisco papers say that the I'M
seriously contemplated. 1t certainly would
pay, as -four is now but seven dollars per bar
rel at San Francisco.
The organist in a church in Boston, on Sun
day last, in endeavOring to draw music out of
the organ, was nonplusscd when he came to
the E fiat and natural. He found the E
very fat and the extremely unnatural. The
cause, which was discovered next day, 10y look
ing sharp,) was, that the rats had built nest
at the bottom Of the pipes.
The keeper of a museum exhibiting skull
as that of OLIVER CROMWELL, concerning which
lady observed that she could not have ex.
pectcd CRoMwEIL's skull to have been so
small, the learned conductor replied, that it
was divers skull when he was young.
There is in existence piece of Egyptian
darning. unfinished, with the wooden needle
stuck in it, begun before ABRAHAM was born,
it is thought, and unfinished yet.
President WooLsEY, of Yale College, was
recently married to Miss SARAH II. PR1rcII-
ARD, of Boston.
The Howard Association of New Orleans,
which accomplished such noble service last
year, has commenced taking charge of yellow
fever patients in that city.
Mr.. NICHOLAS DEAN has been unanimously
elected President of the Harlem Railroad Com
pany.
WIN. Z. SILL; Esq, has been chosen Presi-
dent of the Bank of Geneva, n. Y, in place
Of A. Cook deceased.
The Secretary of the Interior has written a
letter stating that no more lands will be with
drawn from entry, on account of proposed rail-
roads, until after the grant shall have been &C
tually made.
Rev. WIN. CH1rTENDEN, a clergyman of the
Presbyterian denomination committed suicide
at Watertown, n. Y, on the I'd inst. He is
represented to have been of unsound mind.
Mrs. ELIZABETH FISH, widow of Col. MICH
oLAs FISH, and mother of Gov. FISH, died at
her residence in New York on the 9th, at the
advanced age of so years. Mrs. FISH was de-
seconded, in direct line, from Governor SrUY-
vEsANT.
1t is said that company has been formed
in New York for the purpose of manufactur
ing engines to be moved by the power of cleo
tricity. A model machine is now on exhibi.
ton.
Owing to the extreme heat of the weather,
and the scarcity of water in Edwardsville, IL
linois, the Madison County Court did not sit
at that place last week The court stands ad-
journcd until it rains
BY the arrival of the bark Mariel, Captain
WAss, from Zaza, Aug. 22d, We learn that that
port will be closed on the 10th September, and
great excitement prevailed in consequence Of
the slave trade.
It is stated that the insurance losses on
American shipping during the last nine months,
have averaged over one million of dollars per
month.
The Quebec Gazette says that large quaint
ties of grain in that neighborhood are quite
green in the blade. Cold and wet weather
have very much retarded agriculture during
the present month.
Large quantities Of copper have been dis
covered in southwestern Virginia. Iii high
" probable that these deposits arc connected
with the Tennessee lodes.
Mormonism is said to he making immense
strides in Denmark, perhaps because as in the
DAYS of Hamlet, there is something rotten
in that district.
Corn was selling. at Nashville, Tenn. on the
q inst, at Sl.25 per bushci.