The daily Minnesota pioneer., 1854-10-21
NEWS ITEMS.

tained a proposition to sell Cuba TO the Oni.
ted States.
Gen. Sam. Houston is announced to deliver
one of the lectures of the anti-slavery course to
come off at Boston this winter.
Nicholas Dean having refused the nomina-
ton of the Reformcrs of New York, for the
Mayorality, they have nominated Daniel +.
Tiernan.
The total deaths in New Orleans for the
week ending the 7th instant, were 42O, incud-
ing 2G9 Of yellow fever.
The total deaths in New York last week
were 80 decrease of 90 on the week previ-
ous Forty died of cholera against Al the
previous week.
A man named Simonson died in Cincinnati
last week, from inhaling the nOxiOus gases ola
vault into which he accidentally fell, through
a rotten floor.
The Wings of the 18th District of New
York have nominated Rufus III. King for Con-
grcss.
Thompson's Bank Note Detector says the
bills of the Ellsworth (Me) bank have been
refused.
1t is said that Sir Edmund Head will rot
assume the duties of his Office until January
next, having obtained leave of absence till that
tme
Lord Elgin was received at Toronto lately
with an address from the Common Council and
other tokens of respect
The Hamilton Journal advocates the Maine
Law, and thinks a majority of the people are
in favor of it.
VIM. Mears was crushed to death under the
sill of house he was moving at Province
town, Mass, one day last week. 1t took 30
men to raise the building so as to get out his
body.
Reed Brothers & Co., large dry goods deal
ers in Philadelphia, have failed for large a.
mount.
Daniel s. Dickinson recently delivered a
speech in the interior of New York, defining
his position, advocating the election of Bron-
son, and ridiculing the Softs. lie was down
on the Administration.
The number of animals slaughtered for food
in New York city last quarter, was 2l9,6l2
for the nine months of the present year 7OO,-
IA, about an average of two year for eacl,
inhabitant.
1t is said that out of 200 sailors on board
the United States ship Saratoga, on hop trip
to Japan, only seventeen drank drop of IL
quor.
Mrs. Fitzwilliam, the actress, died in Lon
don on the 1lth, Of cholera. Her maiden name
was Fanny Copeland, and she was born III
London in 1912. She visited the L. $. in
1898. and played star engagements in the
principal cities
The English Admiralty have received a let
ter from naval officer in the Pacific, dated
August L. 1854, reporting that he found three
vessels under American colOrs at the uninhab-
tied island of AvOs, il lat. Is deg. 40 min. 40
sec. north, and Ion. 63 deg 3G min. west, and
one day sail from St. Croix, shipping guano
of which he says there is about 100000 tons
on The island, and slightly inferior to the Pc
ruvian.
The Emperor Of Russia has presented to
Charles II. Haswell, ESD, New York Eng
ncer, a magnificent diamond ring, worth some
81 800, in consideration Of his professional Ia
bors in the furnishing of drawings for steam
machinery, including the engines of the steam
er POwhattan, which Mr.. Haswell designed for
the u S. n.
The Chicago papers deny that Mr. Charles
Taylor, of that city, is dead, as was at first re-
ported.
1t is said that Arrison, the Cincinnati tor.
pedO assassin, has at last escaped from Iowa
where it is supposed he was for some time con.
cealed.
Miss Amos, the only granddaughter of the
celebrated Fisher Ames, was married at Cam.
bridge, Massachusetts, on Saturday last, to
Francis Rowland, young lawyer of New
York city.
The Rev. DIR. Lee, recently elected Bishop
of Iowa, has accepted the honor, and will be
consecrated to the holy duties of his Office on
the 10th inst.
Of the eight or nine members composing
the editorial corps of Savannah at the com
mencemcnt of summer, only one remains at his
post. One is dead, and the rest have beer
compelled by the unhealthiness of the city tc
leave it. As
A branch from q pear tree, In a thrifty con