The daily Minnesota pioneer. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1854-1855, 1854-08-09

The brig Glamorgan, which was seized on
the coast of Africa for being engaged in the
Slavc-trade, and brought into the port of Bos-
ton in charge Of the United States Officers,
was sold at auction to-day, by EDWARD RID
DE- at tie Navy Yard, for S4,7OO. She was
purchased by parties in Boston.
On the 18th, near Rome, Adams County,
Ohio, Mr. JOIN BENNINGTON was killed by the
falling of limb of u tree
GrsrAy NovDsrAM and ISRAEL TENsMAIM,
Russian seamen, were drowned at Boston on
Thursday. Rum!
ErnRAIM HARRINGTON, Esqr., President of
the State Mutual Insurance Company of Bos-
ton, died among the White Mountains, on Mon
day.
The Baptist Church of Daricn, Ga, has re-
ccivcd an accession of forty-sevcn members by
baptism.
REV. WIN. II. KING, of Athens, Pa, has
accepted call to the pastoral charge Of the
Baptist church in Owego, n. Y.
Three brothers named BAKER are under ar
rest in Pittsburgh, charged with cruelty beat
ing STACY GREGG.
Mr. BoLrON, an Englshman, went to New
port last Friday, and while there ate cucum-
bcrs and drank ice water. lie died the same
day.
Quarantine regulations on all vessels arriv
ing from the West Indies, Gulf of Mexico,
Spanish Main, Brazil, etc, at the port of Nor
folk, are to be strictly enforced.
An Englshman, by the name of Hughes
lately walked in San Francisco, for so hours
in succession without stopping. He made some
S2UUU by the feat. AT the close, his legs and
feet were drcadiully swollen, and his friends
were obliged to allow him to sleep only in short
snatches of 10 to ID minutes, else it was fear
ed he would sleep the sleep that knows no wa
king.
On the night of the 9th ult.. the Cholera
broke out in the Massachusetts States Prison
at Charlestown, and up to noon on the 18th,
seventy prisoners were attacked, but there had
been no deaths.
Jacob Little the great 'bcar' of Wall ST.
New York, is reported to have pocketed over
half a million of dollars by the recent decline
of stocks.
In Cornwall, Ca the Cholera has been very
destructive.
The Washington Monument is the recipient
of IA block from Bremen.
The Rev. SAMUEL DUNwoDy, one of the old
est members of the South Carolina Conference
of the NJ. f. Church, South, died at his resi-
dence in Cokesbury, on Sunday the 9th ult.
. A new work is about to appear from the pei
of Miss MARTHA II. Butt, of Norfolk, Va.
-. Commodore SHUBR1CK has left Washington
S for few weeks sojourn at Capon Springs
Va.
The suspension bridge at Wheeling will b
: ready for the passage of carriages in day o.
two.
y Twenty-six sea going vessels were at Jack
" sonvlle Florida, at last advices, loading Will
lumber.
, A little daughter of Mr.. BARKER, living il
the lower part of Washington county, Virginia
was killed few days since by panther.
! The Clinton Hotel, New York City, ha
G reduced the price of board from $500 to 81 81
n per day. 1t will still be kept as a first clas
E hotel
n Attorney General CUSHING in disposing o
v a question recently, arising in connection will
l. the Government property at Harper's Ferry
8 has decided that Officers of the Government
G or other persons, residing on land coded by an,
of the States to the L. S., are not subject to b.
!, taxed by the authorities of the States, and arr
not in general, amenablc to the State laws o.
municipal regulations
: The St. Louis, new steamship of 1900
: tons, for the Pacific Mail Steamship Compa
: ny, has just made successful trial trip a
d New York. She makes trip to Havre, il
place of the Franklin, recently wrecked.
Hon. JOHN WENTWORTH recommends the
removal of the Distributing Post Office from
s both Dubuque and Galena to Rock Island.
The town council of Marion, Alabama, have
: raised the price of license y retail liquor to
$4,000. The Council at first fixed the price
at $500, but hearing that it would be paid
. they concluded to double the sum.