The daily Minnesota pioneer. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1854-1855, 1854-10-18

from New Orleans for Liverpool had lost
three seamen and the cook from yellow fever,
but all were then we'll.
The Wheeling Times says -" The heavy
rains of Thursday evening produced a rise of
about two inches in the River. The rise in
Wheeling Creek was just sufficient to set
flock of ducks afoat which had been 4" hard-a-
ground during the last three weeks
The nation is now moving, and almost every
body is coming to the West. Railroads arc
kdoing an immense business, and trains as long
as prairie curve stretch their way over our
"endless chains" Our hotels are full bag
gage piled up in depots, in hotels, and in the
streets-new faces, Saxon, Continental, and
sable, are visible at every corner-and the
West is going right ahead.
The daughter of the Hon. Caleb B. Smith,
at recent County Fair at Connersville, Ind,
received the highest prize IA side-saddle worth
$1,000 as being the best lady-rider of all who
have presented themselves as competitors.
Oliver H. Happ was convicted in Tarboro,
n. c., and sentenced to receive thirty-nine
lashcs Immediately, to be imprisoned until No
vcmbcr Court, and receive thirty-nine again.
Gabriel II. Whitman was convicted of forgery
and sentenced to one hour in the stocks thir-
ty-nine lashes and four months imprisonment.
That's the way they DO things in the Old
North State.
The Know Nothings at the recent election
in San Francisco, poled an average vote of
1890. On ticket with q names, the Know
Nothings selected 20 from the nominees of the
Wing and anti-Broderick conventions, and Z
were the nominees of the Know Nothincs on
! ly. The aggregate vote of the city was about
10000.
Quite an excitement was recently OCCASION
ed in Fredericton, n. b., by the marriage of
French girl to an Indian. Parental opposi-
ton was unable to subdue their love for each
other, and the copper-colorcd aboriginal bore
off his lady-love attired in full Indian costume,
in triumph.
The first Council of Roman Catholic Bish-
ops ever held in the province of New York,
assembled on Sunday, the 9Th instant, in the
Cathedral, Mott street, and was with great
solcmnity inauguratcd.
Rumor has it that Mr.. and Mrs. Cazeneau
have succeeded in their mission to the Domni.
can Republic. The fine port of SANTANA, it is
said, has been ceded to the United States.
The razcc Independence, now nearly ready
for sea, is being placed on thorough war
footing. Daily drills of her crew take place,
and Greytown is her first port of destination.
Wilhelm Schwarz and wife announce in the
papers that" This morning we were blessed
with twins, boy and girl, for the fourth
time
We learn by the steamer America that in
Naples there had been 10000 deaths bv the
cholera since the disease first made its appear
ancc.
All sorts of eatablcs are very scarce in the
New Orleans market. Potatoes bring from
IS to 80 bbl
MIR. Beebe, the anti-Maine Law advocate. is
now holding series of meetings throughout
Indiana. Gen. Cary and others are also in
that State
We learn from the Conneaut O. Reporter that
as the evening train on the Lake Shore Road
neared that place, on Wednesday last, a stone
was thrown through the window of one of the
cars, which struck a lady upon the side of the
head, and filled her face with the sharp frag
ments. One Of her eyes was badly injured, and
she was so disabled as to be compelled to stop
at Conneaut.
The late Samuel Nichols of New York. on
the very day he was killed, was talking of wri-
ting strong article against the folly and mad
ness of attempting to mount the forward plat
form of car while under way and strange to
say, this very act of temerity was the cause of
his death.
A Presbyterian clergyman of Louis county,
(ky.) the Rev. John G. Fee, states that there
are now organized in that State, twenty anti
slavery churches, and that there is an increas-
ing demand in that region for ant-slavery
preachers. ..-..
INDIAN SUMMER.-We are now enjoying
our Minnesota Indian Summer-the most
pleasant period Of the year.
New YORK, Oct I.