The daily Minnesota pioneer. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1854-1855, 1854-11-03
NEWS ITEMS.

press. visited number of the bcreavcd fami-
lies Oh Wednesday and Thursday last. 1t is
impossible to realize the agony experienced in
many of these late happy households, especial
where hopes were high of speedy family re-
union among long separated friends. Some
of the city clergymen have spoken of their
duties connected with this calamity-as the
most painful they have ever been called upon
to perform.
1t is stated that S. p. Moses, late Collector
of Olympia, Washington Territory, is de-
faultcr to the amount Of all he received. At
the time of his appointment about $4,000 was
advanced to him to enable him to put his Of
flee in operation, and neither for this sum nor
the duties he collected, did Inc ever render any
account
A newspaper correspondent says that u bass
viol has been constructed ut Vienna, thirteen
feet high, provided with pedals, to act upon
the finger-board. This, however, is nothing to
the great violin in Germany, which was so
large as to require two horses to draw the
bow, and one stroke produces sound that vi
brates six weeks.
Capt West, of the Atlantic, has said that
twelve days is as short time as any of the
ships now built can safely make the passage in
ordinary weather; and that, except in uncom-
mon cases, every hour less than that is gained
by serious risk 1t must surely now appear
to be duty to abandon this wicked reckless
ness, and to regard safety as more necessary
than that extraordinary speed, which covets
victory over rival ship by five minutes from
Liverpool to New York.
The Executive Board of the Illinois State
Agricultural Society passed a resolution, that
they deemed it due to the industrial classes
which they represent, to enter their protest
and express their disarprobation of the course
Of psIsseA parties. III taking advantage of our
annual jubilee and school Of Dor, to occupy
our time and distract our attention by the
public discussion of questions foreign to the
objects Of the Society
The Normnns contisue to make great pro
grcss in Europe. AL over Eugtaad they are
making converts, andtthc London Times thinks
thcir religious services ought not to be pro-
tected by the laws The British army in Tur.
key c0atains several branches of the church.
At Hamburger the authorities have prohibited
their meetings. The Mormon emigration of
next year to the United States will doubtless
lie large.
The brig Horace Greeley, Captain Smith,
which sailed from Georgetown, S. c., on the
9Th Of September, for Philadelphia, was upset
during the gale of the 9th Sept. and all hand,
were lost. The wreck drftcd on Pauleg's Is
land, twenty miles north of Georgetown, on
the 10Th ult., bottom upward, with portion
of her cargo, which consisted of timber and
naval stores, in her hold. Capt. Smith and
his mate were natives of Boston. The Capt.
leaves Family.
The return lately made of the Prussian in
come tax shows that there is in all Prussia
only three persons enjoying an annual income
OF Sl5O,OOO; while in England, by the last re-
turns, it is shown that there are twenty-five
persons who enjoy an annual income of more
than S25O,OOO. We believe the Duke of
Sutherland's income is estimated at one hun
dred and Fifty thousand pounds sterling per
annum.
The Hartford Times says =" We have ncv-
err seen, during the past eight years, such fine
potatoes as have appeared in this market the
present Fall; and the flavor is superior to what
it has been for years. We notice also that the
crop is superior as well as abundant, all round
Us, except in few isolated cases, where there
are always failures, owing to soil and cultiva-
ton, not to the season.
1t appears from the report of the New York
Cattle market, that the price of beef there has
gone down within the past week from four to
Eve shillings per hundred. A few weeks since
prices we're carried up so high as to induce
owners to send their stock to that market, and
the consequence Is large supply, and fall
in prices.
An investigation was recently made into the
affairs of the New York & Erie Railroad
Compauy which is said to have resulted highly
satisfactory as to the capabilities of the Road.
The gross income for the year is stated to be
sufficient to get the Road out Of its financial
difficulties, with proper management: