The daily Minnesota pioneer. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1854-1855, 1854-12-27
NEWS ITEMS.

r~Thomas p. Cope, merchant Of Philadelp ha,
died at his residence in that city, Friday, the 22d
of November. lie was the originator Of Copcs line
of Liverpool packets, and was supposed TO he worth
$7O00,O0O. He quaker, and commenced bus
mess a tUbaccOnist.
The steamer IIndoo, from St. Louis to New Or
leans. struck snag the 9th inst short distance
above Cairo, and sunk to her boiler deck. The boat
and cargo estimated to be worth $3O,O00, about
hall Of which is covered by insurance.
On Thursday night last the barn belonging to the
City Hotel, Rockford, destroyed by fire. There
were eleven horses in the barn at the tme nine of
which persisted in the flames. The Female Semna-
ny at the same place discovered to be on fire on
Sunday evening last, but the flames were promptly
exinguished before much damage had been done.
The Governor Of Michigan has pardoned Wells,
who attempted the life of the Teller in the River Raj
sin Bank, will. intent of robbing the Bank, also, and
who sentenced to twenty years Imprisonment and
hard labor some ten years ago. He shot the Teller
three times, but neither wound proved fatal. Look
out for him.
The New York Times advocates Secretary Dob
bins recommendation of an increase of the Navy
1t very plain to that fifty vessels of war, all told
entirely Inadequate to protect the commerce Of
the second maritime power earth.
Mrs. Thayer, of GAINESVILLE, New York, while
under mental alteration, selected white dress and
other suitable grave clothes, which, spreading upon
her bed, she went to tie wool shed and hung her.
self.
Mr.. Macauey has just returned to England from a
protractcd visit to Switzerland. The London Athe-
cum says we will have two more volumes of his his
tory during the winter.
Charles Lever coming 10 the United States
in the Arctic, the trip that she was lost, and was
persuaded y his wife to defer his visit Of
a very remarkable presentment that she possessed
against it.
Miss Jenny Rusk, the young American songstress
is said to he making quite sensation at Leipsc,
whether she has gone to perfect herself in her art,
at the Musical ConseI vatory.
The Rock Island Republican says that majority
of the Legislature of Illinois. just elected, is avora
bic to the passage of law prohibiting the traffic in
Intoxicating liquors.
The execution of William Dairy, at Buffalo, FOR
the murder of his wife, took place on Friday, the
lst inst.
The Boston Journal says that $500 copies of Ida
May were delivered by the publishers on the 22d, the
day Of publication.
There are now $500 miles of teegraphc wires in
operation on the peninsula of Hindoostan.
The receipts of the Illinois Central Road for No
vember Ss5s,ll6, not including the portion of
the Chicago branch, operated by the Michigan Cen
trail Company.
The State Legislature of California, meets on the
3D. of January next. United States Senator is TO
be elected.
The Rev. Thomas Marsh Clark was consecratcd
Bishop of Rhode Island the 9Th inst.
A few DAYS snce passenger on of the night
ra;ns of the New York Central Railroad left box
charge Of porter at the station at Amsterdam
which on being opened, was found to contain the re-
mans of a human being, so dissected that It could
be recognized. 1t is suspected by many, though
probably without much reason, that the contents Ct
tie box were the remains Of Miss Moore, who re-
cen-'I disappeared from Rochester,.
We infer from the accounts that the health of the
country generally is excellent For the week ending
November 9th, there were but fifty three deaths in
the city OF Boston. The fact Of good health is of
far more value to the country than bontifu curren.
cy. The better the appetite, the more abundant our
rations.
On the 18th inst, Wendell Phillips appeared in
the United States District Court, and gave bail in
the sum of 81 5000, to appear to the charge
of resistance to the United States Marshal, in the
Burns fugitive slave case.
The recent foreign papers brought news Of the
death Of the celebrated and phianthropc Lord Dud-
ley Stuart, Of England. He died at Stockholm