The daily Minnesota pioneer. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1854-1855, 1854-09-14
NEWS ITEMS.

For the last six MONTHS there were 20 steamers
sunk or destroyed by fire, besides upwards of
$50 barges, coal boats, &C., valued at $2OOO,-
600. The loss of life is estimated at $50 souls,
though in many instances the exact numbers
lost by these accidents are unattainable.
DR.. BEALE, of Philadelphia, has sued the
proprietor of the Philadelphia Register for Ii.
BEL in asserting that he was charged with hay
ing attempted the violation of the person of q
lady, under the influence of chloroform.
Capt. CnILDE, of the Lancers, who was
madly in love with the Queen, and who thought
his passion returned, and the union with Prince
ALBERT was only sham, has been found by a
commission of lunacy of unsound mind and in
capable of managing his affairs.
1t is stated in one of our exchanges that
among the snlartest of the crew on board the
U. S. sloop-of war Cyane, is brother of the
celebrated songstress, JENNY LIND. lie COM
manded one of tho guns at the bombardment
of Grcytown, and exhibited much skill and
dexterity in the performance of his duties.
While the cholera is passing away on every
hand, we regret to notice that the yellow fever
is becoming troublesome. AT Savannah there
were IL deaths on the oath ult., and IL new
cases reported on the 25th.
Sentence of death was passed on JOSEPH
UURAN, at Belleville, ILL.,, on Friday last, for
the murder of ANTOINE BoIscAN. The sen
tencc goes into execution on Friday the ODD
inst, provided the Supreme Court does not stay
proceedings, to which tribunal an appeal has
been made.
We see the sale of tickets for the opera, on
the first appearance of GRlsI and MARIO in
New York, reached S25, 900. $3.50 was the
greatest price paid by the greatest fool for the
choice of Seats
Secretary GUTHRIE has issued an order for
the immediate redemption of S3,o5O,OOO of
the national debt. 1t will tend to relieve the
money market, as some Of the stocks have
twenty years to run.
On Saturday last, the morning express train,
on the Great Western Railroad, left Detroit
two hours behind time, and arrived on the Sus-
pension Bridge in timc-making the run of
229 miles in six hours and thirty minutes.
The London Tines story in regard to the
imminent danger which the Emperor N1CHo-
LAS ran of being captured whilst cruising off
Cronstadt in small steamer, has blown into
the air. There seems not to have been a sim
gle element of truth in the thundercr's "Baltic
Legend"
JOHN HERRIcK, of Libertyyille, in Illinois,
recently shearcd pair of French Merino
sheep which produced thirty-seven pounds of
wool-buck 26 IL pounds. eve 10 IL pounds
all of one years growth. He also shearcd
125 Spanish ewes that averaged tfife over
five pounds per head, we'll washed and of supc-
rior quality.
A water spout descended at Charlottesville,
Va, on Friday last, by which lady and
horse were washed away, and the lady drowned.
1t is said that LOLA Monies, Countess of
Iandsfeldt is about to leave California and
take another professional tour through the
United States.
EBENEzER LANDoN died at Sharon Springs,
on the 23d ult., aged 81 years. He had seen
and copyersed with Gen. WASHINGTON, and
witnessed the execution of Maj. ANDRE.
The folks in Memphis, Tenn, including the
press, are in quandary as to whether they
shall accept or reject the navy yard of that
place, given by Congress to the city. There
! is considerable excitement in relation to the
matter.
The New York Herald says that Mr. JAS.
HARPER has been waited upon by the commit.
: tees from two organizations, stated to be the
8 Temperance Alliance, and the Know Moth.
ings and requested to accept the nomination
! for Mayor, and was to give answer in few
days.
A California editor lately received head
: of lettuce, two feet in diameter and six feet in
circumference, and it was said to be as closely
packed as drum-head cabbage
f The Pennsylvanians are on the march to
|. Kansas. a party of 200 emgrants will leave
' Crawford county for the new territory on the
5 26th inst.
The Troy Wing understands there is not
water enough in the Champlain Canal to float
the boats, and this has been the case for more
/ than q week.
n The apple crop in the western part of the
u State of Ohio is said to be very large. Good
= apples are plenty there at from thirty to forty
cents bushcl.