The daily Minnesota pioneer. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1854-1855, 1854-05-08


To CATCH RArs.-Take your bed and place it on
the floor where the rats are the most troublesome
then place bits OF cheese, sweetmeats, &C., the
pillows and cothes get in bed and blow out the light
and lie still; the rats will make their appear
ance, and when they get fairly at work the cheese
&c., make GRAB!
The Valley Wing says that after the oath of April.
there will be two trains daily each way between Rock
Island and Chicago. This will obviate the necessity
Of tedious detention, at both ends Of the road,
which has been small bore to travellers since
that road was opened.
a coin of the denomination of cent. 1t is to
be Of white metal resembling silver in appearance,
with round and slightly raised edge, about 8 1-Olhs
of an inch in dameter-larger than quarter eagle,
and less than twentyfv cent piece. There Is not
to be hole in the coin, as has been suggested by
some of the papers. 1t may be readily distinguished
from other coins Of the same size.
A NOBLE SAvENGER.-Senor Mota, formerly
Lieutenant Colonel Of the National Guards at Chur-
ubsco, having expressed his contempt for the dicta-
Santa Anna has been arrested and imprisoned by
his order, among the vest bandti and cut threats,
with whom he is chained, and compelled to
sweep the streets Of the city of Mexico.
0G-Two former New England Senators died at
their respective homes in Rhode Island and Massa.
chusetts, on Wednesday. The first Nehemiah r.
Knight, who died at Providence, r. L., served 81
successive years in the U. S. Senate from Rhode
Island. The second John Davis, who died at Wor-
cester, Mass, was prominent in later times as a
member of the same body from Massachusetts,
He held many high public positions in his day, and
in all of them Won the esteem of many thousands of
his countrymen.
AT one time tea and coffee were considered as poi
sons, and it is stated that in one of the northern
countries they made trial of them three time IA day
on two criminals, whose lives were spared OH con-
diton of their undergoing this terrible ordc,l. The
result was, that the cuprt who took the tea, lived
TO be 10, and the other 80.
There are few men who do not love. One takes
to pretty Calico another to bad gn another to long
mines, fourth to dogs and horses, and SO on That
a man must have something on which to plant his
affections is inevitable.
DISASTERS AT SEA.-Thc dangers of coast nav
'gat'on have been fearluy augmented by the recent
succession of storms, and the loss of life at sea du
ring the last four MONTHS exceeds the usual average
Tor year The total number persons who per-
ished in the Powhattan, including the officers
and crew, is at least two hundred and TWEEN
ty; on board the Tayl wrecked in the Irish Chan
mel, three hundred and scveny-two; on board the
Strafordshre, wrecked off Care Sable, one hundred
and eighty; and on board the steamship San Fran
cisco, one hundred and ,hiry-making in these dis
asters alone, grand total loss of nine hundred hu-
man beings. The long delay of other vessels Gre
ates strong fear that the above does not include the
whole number who have persisted in the last few
months.
Charles Henderson, Esq, of DanviIlc, Ky, has
emancpatc1 twenty-five of his slaves to 60 to Libe-
ria under the direction of the Kentucky Colonization
Society, in the May expedition from that State He
has also purchased the husband of one of his wo-
men servants at the price of 8 900. He gives to
them all full outfit, and to the Kentucky Colonial
Society $500.
DIDN'T CONE ORA prize fight was to have
taken place at Point Abina in Canada, on Wcdnes-
day last. About two hundred persons went up from
Buffalo, paying two dollars each for tickets for the
excursion and fight. Upon the arrival of the boat
at the place where the combat was expected to come
off, the sporting men, of whom there was quite a
number in attendance, went through the motions Of
driving the stakes and extending the cords for ring
Within this circle, Jim Parker, the pugulist trained
by Sullivan, took position and waited until O'Clock
for his adversary, who did make his appearance
The upshot of the affair was, that the two hundred
individuals from Buffalo, who had paid their money
to the sport didn't it after all and were
consequently ''diddled'' out of two dollars apiece
SorvoI thon, rioht