The daily Minnesota pioneer. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1854-1855, 1854-10-06
NEWS ITEMS.

In the Court of Appeals, at Lewisburg, Va,
few weeks since, the judgment in the case of
Parish & Co. Us. Reggie coming up from She
nandoah, was affirmed. Reigle was injured by
the upsetting of one of Parish and Co.'S sta
ges, and brought suit for damages, which were
fixed by jury at between 80 900 and $4,000
Parish & Co. took an appeal from the decision
of the court below, and brought it to the
Court of Appeals, which sustained the Circuit
Court, thus imposing upon Parish & Co., not
only the payment of the original damages, but
the cost of the suit, making in all but little
short of Sl1 200.
Receiver MCKINNEY, of the Brownsville
land office, informs the Dubuque Express, that
during the six weeks succeeding the opening of
that office, he received over fifty thousand dol
lars This shows that the country about
Brownsville is being rapidly settled, and that
it is such country as to command the atten-
ton of emigrants seeking locations in the
West.
r. HUTCHINSON has been convicted at
Nashville, Tenn, of robbing the mail, and
sentenced to the penitentiary for ten years.
The deaths by cholera, in Pittsburg, on
Thursday, the 2lst September, amounted to
100. Those of Friday, 40. We believe the
mortality by this epidemic, in Pittsburg, cx-
cecds that of any other city in the Union.
The ship Somerset, 1000 tons burthen was
burned at Boston, on the 2lst September.
Loss, 100000.
The citizens of Pittsburg are organizing a
Howard Association, for the relief of the suf-
ferers by cholera in that city.
The party that left, recen ly, for Kansas ar
rived there in good health and spirits, in seven
days from Albany, N. Y.
AT colliery explosion, near Barnsley, Eng
land a bricklayer, who was working in the
Shaft, was thrown 80 feet in the air.
The Universalist Convention, which has
just closed its annual session at Philadelphia,
adopted strong resolutions in opposition to
slavery, and the repeal of the Missouri Com
promise. 1t meets next year at Middletown,
Connecticut
One hundred dollar bills, on Shoe and Ieath-
er Dealers Bank altered from ones, beautifully
executed, and calculated to deceive, are in cir
culation in Boston.
The Oswego Times, of September 10Th.
says: "Thrce fugitive slaves came in on the
underground railroad yesterday, and shipped
direct for the land of freedom, on the other
side"
During four days of last week, about eight
thousand acres of land were sold at Chillicothe
(Ohio) land Office, at twelve and one-half cents
per acre, under the provisions of the new law of
Congress.
The receipts for the National Washington
Monument, during the month of August last,
amount to $2,6O2, and the expenses S2,2le.
A young man named EDWARD McDouGAr1.
was accidentally shot in the woods, at Fort
Fairfield, Me-, on the 10th ult., by comrade,
WHO SuppoSeu nlm u pe Deaf.
JOHN RUSSELL, of Exeter, Me-, was danger
ously stabbed, in an affray at camp meeting,
on the 23d ult. The ARRAY grew out of some
insulting remarks about Bussell's sister.
A monument is to be erected at Chicago,
over the grave Of Casper Lauer, the police
man who was killed there while performing
his duty.
Mr.. HOWE, editor of the Iowa True Demo-
erat, is announced as candidate for the Uni
ted States Senate, in place of Gen. DODGE,
tie present incumbent. Some half dozen are
in the field.
ExGov. WooD, of Ohio, who has for some
days been lying dangerously i'll in New York.
is cOnvalcseent.