The daily Minnesota pioneer., 1854-11-08
NEWS ITEMS.

veying Expedition, has been deemed incapaci-
tated for duty, on account OF mental aberra-
tion, and is now bound for home on board one
of the storeships of the squadron. He is a
brother of the gallant Major Ringgold, who
fell in Mexico. The China Mail says that
Capt. Rodgers, of the Vincennes, succeeds to
the command Of the Surveying Squadron, in
place of Com. Ringgold.
The Louisville Journal states that letter.
mail from the post Office in that city to Colnm-
bus, Ohio, was stolen one day lately from the
Jacksonville cars, and rifled of its contents
The bag was found next day in the vault of an
clubhouse, in Edinburgh, Ind. No clue has
yet been ascertaincd as to the perpetrator Of
the act.
The capital stock of the Free Banks Of In
diana is $32,OOO,OOO-th circulation is 81
425,O69.
A famine unparalleled in the history of the
world is said to be prevailing in the land of
Judea.
There has been q decrease in the receipts of
tolls on the Erie Canal OF $203,451, up to the
present time, as compared with those of last
year.
In the Court of Common Pleas at Worces-
ter, Mass, three bugGlarS were sentenced to
the State Prison fos Life, recently.
In the Harvard College department there
are $50 students-Divinity, 25; Law, l4O !;
Medical, Ill The Freshmen class consists of
SO.
III. Cummings, Postmaster at Harrison Val
ley, Pennsylvania, was arrested in Detroit a
few days since, for robbing the mail, and taken
to Pittsburgh for trial
howaru Uolege, at Marion, Alabama, WAS
burned ON the 29th, and two boys killed and
twenty wounded in jumping from the win
dows.
"The Tartar" who brought the news of the
fall of Sebastopol, has not been heard of since.
People are satisfied with the one they caught
when they swallowed the story.
The produce OF the silver mines of Mexico
for the year 1850, it is said, exceeds that of
the whole world besides by Sl,OOO,OO0, the
yield being S33,OOO,OOO.
A very strong excitement in the city Of
Wheeling was occasioned rece tly by threat
cned connection of the Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad with the Central Ohio Railroad, at
Benwood, four miles below Wheeling. Should
the connection be made the people threaten to
tear up the rails and destroy the depot of the
Bait. & Ohio Co.
The Rev. E. W. Philips and family (says
the Watertown Wis. Chronicle) left this city
last week for Minnesota. He designs locating
about seventy-five miles west of ST. Paul, in a
fine opening country, with plenty Of good wa
ter. His family will winter either at St. Paul
or Sparta. Mr.. Phillips has been resident
of this town for the past five years, was a
most valuable citizcn and it is with regret we
part with him.
The following paragraph in the style of a
well known writer, appears iu the Madison
Democrat!
"This morning two horsemen might have
been seen ascending the slight elevation which
leads into the city from the northward, who
proved to be e. z. r. James, ESD, the great
novelist, and ex-Gov. Doty."
DR.. Thayer has been indicted for murder in
the second degree. An intemperate man named
Lesan, fantastically dressed, rode up to the
doctors house, near Belfast, Maine, and began
to taunt him upon some domestic matters
Or. Thayer having married Lesan's wife after
she had obtained divorce-when the doctor
pulled him off bis horse, breaking his thigh, of
which he died. ~
The work of rebuilding the Western Rail-
road bridge over the Connecticut River was
commenced on the lst of July, and is now fin
ished. 1t isl l,26O feet long, and has been en-
tirely renewed, at an expense of about S40,-
900, using up in its construction about 45O,-
600 feet OF white pine lumber, procured at AL
bauy, Troy, and further west, aud one hundred
tens Of iron.
A riot in a. colored church in ST. Louis took
place lately. 1t seems that the congregation
wese incepsed at their pastor for habitually adj
dressing to them all manner Of offensive epi-
thets, and on given evening they all collect
Cd, armed with pistols, sticks, &C., and inter-
rupted his hatangues by general riot, The
next day the passOn and a number of tho flock
were arrested. ..