The daily Minnesota pioneer. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1854-1855, 1854-10-11
NEWS ITEMS.


CHARLES J. ALBRIGHT, editor of the Gucrn-
sey (Ohio) Times, has been nominated for Con-
gress by the anti-N cbraska Convention in that
district.
An experimental trip has been made over
the railroad from Montreal to Quebec, in
eight hours. The road was to have been
formally opened for business on the 4th of the
present month.
Monseigneur BEDINI, who recently visited
the United States, now at Rome, has been APP
pointed Nuncio to Portugal, in place of Mon
scigneur DE PIErRo, who is recalled to receive
a Cardinals hat.
The Postmaster General has appointed Mrs.
HENRIETTA d. PEUGH, postmistress, at Go
shem, Montgomery county, Nd, vice MICHAEL
l.. PEUGH deceased.
A French gardener has discovered that, by
painting his lighthouses with gas tar, the i.-
sects so destructive to plants and fruit die.
A jeweler Of Paris intends to exhibit, at the
Grand Exhibition, next year, q silver statue
Of the Emperor Napoleon, as large as life.
Depredations to the amount of $4,000
have been committed in the Augusta (Pa.)
post Office by negro, who has confessed his
crime, and restored most of the money.
Last week, 5000 emigrants arrived at New
York, in % vessels.
A plan is on foot for organizing three new
territorial governments in the Indian country
south of Kansas, to consist sevcrally of the
Cherokees in one territory, the Creeks in an
other, and the Choctaws and Chicasaws in
third.
A man has lately been tried at the London
derry Assizes, for burning copy of the Scrip
prisonment.
A child was stung on the cye-lid, by wasp,
near Wheeling, Va, q few days since, which
caused Inflammation Of the brain, and death
cnsued within thirty hours.
The State Geologist of California says in
his report that gold is inexhaustible in that
State
S. D. KING, Surveyor General in California,
under the late administration, is set down as
defaultcr to the amount of $4,000.
Lieut.. JOHN HEATH, patriot of the Revo-
luton, aged SO years died recently at Wind
sor, Broome county, n. Y. He was at the
battle of Bunker Hill
Capt. HALLEr, of the barque Robert Mills,
at New York, reports that on the 10th ult.,
he caught bird, with a piece of leather at
tached to him, marked" Ship Richmond
from New Orleans from Boston,"
The whole amount contributed in Portland,
Maine for the Waldboro' sufferers, reached
the sum of S2,726 IL.
There have been only 285 arrivals at San
Francisco, this year, which is falling off of
299, compared with tho same period last
year. This is great decline in the trade of
that port, which is attributed to the stagna-
ton in business, and IN over-crowded market.
PRESLEY Ewing, member of Congress from
the Second District, Ky, died of cholera, at
Mammoth Cave, a few days since,
WIN. c. ALLEN, an eminent artist of Louis
vile, died at Milliken's Bend, La, on the 23rl
inst, of yellow fever.
The Southern Railroad steamer Southern
Michigan, met with strange accident short
time ago. in losing off one of her wheels. She
went to Detroit for repairs.
No less than eighteen thousand dead letters
were forwarded, on the 18th ult., from the
Cincinnati office, to the general dead letter Of
fee, at Washington City.
The st. Louis Democrat, of the 10th ult.,
says that, towards the close of the hot wealth
er, a number of cases of yellow fever occurred
in that city, The change of weather proba.
bly, saved the city from seourge.
The United States Express Co., through
their agent, in Cincinnati, have Unidentified all
losses by the late heavy robbery of one OF
their agents.
The most extensive musical library in the
country is to be presented to the Icarian Com
munity, at Nauvoo, ILL.,, by Mr.. Ii. ALBRIGHT
a member of the Germania Musical Society.
This valuable collection contains SIS works,
in Cos volumes.